| From | Indivisible SF <[email protected]> |
| Subject | Take Action: Final Vote on Immigration Legal Defense Funding on Dec 2nd |
| Date | November 19, 2025 4:29 PM |
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In this issue:
* Take Action: Final Vote on Immigration Legal Defense Funding on Dec 2nd
* Stealth Payoff to MAGA Conspirators Hidden in Shutdown Bill
* Support improved rules to end NOx appliance emissions
* Thanksgiving Boycott: We Ain’t Buying It
* T-Mobile enables Trump: Use your consumer power and boycott T-Mobile.
* Tell Airbnb they need to pay their taxes - and you won’t book there until you do.
* Want to help us do this work?
* Upcoming events: Find them on our Events page ([link removed]) !
** Take Action: Final Vote on Immigration Legal Defense Funding on Dec 2nd
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will take a final vote Tuesday, December 2 to approve a $3.5 million budget supplemental that funds immigration legal defense and rapid-response efforts. This funding is essential to protect immigrant communities facing increased threats and deportation risks.
The measure passed one round but isn’t final yet. Supervisors need to hear strong community support to ensure the funding goes through. Please reach out to your Supervisor before both meetings to urge a yes vote.
Contact your Supervisor and tell them: ([link removed]) vote YES to approve a $3.5 million budget supplemental to fund immigrant legal defense.
** Stealth Payoff to MAGA Conspirators Hidden in Shutdown Bill
------------------------------------------------------------
At the last minute, without consultation or discussion, and without opposition by Schumer (D-NY), Republican leader Thune (R-SD) inserted in the legislation that ended the shutdown a provision that sets up a $500,000 payoff to eight Republican senators implicated in the 2020 "Fake Electors" scheme to replace Electoral College electors pledged to Biden with ones loyal to Trump.
It allows them to sue the federal government (meaning us, the taxpayers) for collecting their phone-call metadata without notifying them. Note that the content of their calls was not subpoenaed, just who called whom for how long. Most observers assume that MAGA Attorney General Pam Bondi will not contest any payoff suit from any of the eight such as Graham (R-SC) so it will be a done deal.
Collection of phone and email metadata has become a standard practice by police agencies. Why should senators exempt themselves (and only themselves) and also allow themselves to retroactively claim damages? Surely the communications metadata of environment defenders, ICE protesters, racial justice advocates, and people like us, are being regularly collected and scrutinized without our knowledge or redress. And quite possibly the same may also be true for Democratic office holders & candidates, and others like those aiding women's access to out-of-state medication or medical services in defiance of local MAGA misogyny laws.
Now that this hidden payoff to eight of the 2020 election conspirators has come to light, there is much bombast and bloviation from the political class and talking-head punditry, but unless the provision is actually repealed the conspirators stand to collect a tidy reward for their effort to overturn Biden's 2020 victory.
Like slime mold, deeds done in the dark die in the sunshine. We should spread word of this legislative atrocity to our friends and community, and raise it in our social media.
Read about it on our blog. ([link removed])
Each of us should contact our members of Congress (MoC) in both the Senate and the House urging them to repeal what some refer to as the "Arctic Frost" provision (from the name of the original investigation).
Contact your Members of Congress and tell them: ([link removed]) repeal the $500,000 payoff to Senators in the “Fake Electors” scheme.
** Support improved rules to end NOx appliance emissions
------------------------------------------------------------
TheBay Area Clean Air (BACA) coalition ([link removed]) is working to support implementation of the Bay Area Air District’s zero NOx (nitrous oxide) appliance standards, Rules 9-4 and 9-6, which are critical to protect our air and health by mandating zero-emission standards for residential furnaces and water heaters. Please join BACA to push the Air District to support adding amendments to ensure affordability and flexibility to the rules, without substantively weakening them.
Here’s what you can do.
* Please submit written comments to Bay Area Air District board members by emailing [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) . The 30-day public comment period is open until November 24, 2025. Public comment works best when you use your own words, but for inspiration, we provide a sample comment at our instruction page ([link removed]) .
* If you can, attend the upcoming Wednesday, December 10 Air District stationary source hearing. Find a registration link here ([link removed]) . We will provide talking points to those that register.
* Join the BACA supporters list to keep up with developments and action opportunities—email [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) to be added to the email announcements list.
** Thanksgiving Boycott: We Ain’t Buying It
------------------------------------------------------------
From the No Kings Coalition and Bay Resistance comes We Ain’t Buying It ([link removed]) : a call to boycott Target, Amazon, and Home Depot over the Thanksgiving Weekend and Cyber Monday. This action is taking direct aim at Target, for caving to this administration’s biased attacks on DEI; Home Depot, for allowing and colluding with ICE to kidnap our neighbors on their properties; and Amazon, for funding this administration to secure their own corporate tax cuts.
From Thanksgiving Day, November 27, through “Cyber Monday,” December 1, we ask that our members do the following:
* Full Black Out: Don’t buy anything from Amazon or from Target or Home Depot stores during this week. Use the time and money to connect with those you love, and rediscover what matters.
* Redirect Spending: Shop small, local, or with businesses affirming our humanity.
* Recruit Your Friends and Family: Boycotts work best when the whole community joins in. For those who want to learn more, send them to the We Ain’t Buying It ([link removed]) website.
** T-Mobile enables Trump: Use your consumer power and boycott T-Mobile.
------------------------------------------------------------
Stop The Money Pipeline ([link removed]) , a climate-focused organization, are starting a campaign to boycott T-Mobile.
Boycotts work—just ask Target ([link removed]) , Disney ([link removed]) , and Sinclair ([link removed]) . If you are a T-Mobile customer, it's time to flex your consumer power again! Below is Stop the Money Pipeline’s call to action.
Not only is T-Mobile siding with a billionaire CEO who supports far-right authoritarian governments around the world, they’ve also:
* Ended their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) program to appease the Trump regime so the admin would fast track approval of two major acquisitions.
* Lobbied for Trump’s disastrous budget bill that will strip 13 million Americans of healthcare to pay for tax cuts for the millionaire and billionaire class.
* Engaged in vicious union busting to stop workers from forming a union.
* Servicing Trump Mobile on the T-Mobile network, ignoring glaring conflicts of interest.
To learn more about boycotting T-Mobile and switching to an alternative, see our blog post here. ([link removed])
** Tell Airbnb they need to pay their taxes—and you won’t book there until they do
------------------------------------------------------------
Indivisible SF supports the Airbnb boycott. Until they stop their greed, we’re booking elsewhere. Sign on here ([link removed]) .
San Franciscans want a city where all of us can thrive, and tax revenue from businesses located here are crucial to funding a budget that benefits all of us.
Yet the billionaires at Airbnb are aligned with Trump and MAGA, NOT with San Francisco values. Airbnb’s co-founder, Joe Gebbia, is working with DOGE to cut vital services to benefit the ultra-wealthy. Locally, Airbnb is suing the city, refusing to pay the $120 million in taxes they owe, leading to large cuts to services right here in San Francisco. Airbnb’s business model is fueling the housing crisis, using loopholes to take hundreds of units off the market, converting them to “boutique hotels” to avoid short term rental regulations.
Indivisible SF has joined with a coalition of unions and community organizations calling for an economic boycott of Airbnb. Now, individuals can join the boycott. We’ll use our economic power to pressure Airbnb to stop their lawsuit and pay their taxes. Join us to create a flourishing future for all San Francisco residents.
Read more on the Airbnb boycott website ([link removed]) .
** Want to help us do this work?
------------------------------------------------------------
We will plug you in where your skills can do the most good to resist this administration.
If you would like to join and do important work with us, we welcome you! Currently we are in need of volunteers to help with the following:
* Making artwork for our calls to action, blog posts, and other projects.
* Maintaining our website, newsletter, and Zoom account.
* Posting our events to Funcheap, Indybay, Broke-Ass Stuart, and other local blogs.
* Maintaining our social media platforms including Mastodon, Bluesky, TikTok, Meta, and more.
* Joining and building out an on-the-ground flyering team. We’re looking to distribute information on our events in the real world. We want people who can print and post flyers around their neighborhood. It’s a great way to get your steps in.
* Publishing our newsletter with MailChimp on Newsletter Night (Tuesdays at 5 PM).
* Making short-form videos to help educate people on our topics in an accessible way.
* Tracking federal, state, and local legislation and working with our state and local legislatures and Mayor Lurie.
No experience is needed; we will train you and provide everything you need. If you would like to help us, please contact us at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) .
Click here for our upcoming events! ([link removed])
** This week’s social media graphics
------------------------------------------------------------
If you’ve seen our newsletter posts on social media, you might have noticed that we include a photo or graphic with each issue.
Today’s graphics are promoting our upcoming mobilizations and calls to action. You can freely use and share these graphics. Tag us on your social media website ([link removed]) of choice!
Keep Fighting,
The Indivisible SF Team ([link removed])
If you'd like to support our all-volunteer team:
DONATE HERE ([link removed])
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In this issue:
* Take Action: Final Vote on Immigration Legal Defense Funding on Dec 2nd
* Stealth Payoff to MAGA Conspirators Hidden in Shutdown Bill
* Support improved rules to end NOx appliance emissions
* Thanksgiving Boycott: We Ain’t Buying It
* T-Mobile enables Trump: Use your consumer power and boycott T-Mobile.
* Tell Airbnb they need to pay their taxes - and you won’t book there until you do.
* Want to help us do this work?
* Upcoming events: Find them on our Events page ([link removed]) !
** Take Action: Final Vote on Immigration Legal Defense Funding on Dec 2nd
------------------------------------------------------------
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors will take a final vote Tuesday, December 2 to approve a $3.5 million budget supplemental that funds immigration legal defense and rapid-response efforts. This funding is essential to protect immigrant communities facing increased threats and deportation risks.
The measure passed one round but isn’t final yet. Supervisors need to hear strong community support to ensure the funding goes through. Please reach out to your Supervisor before both meetings to urge a yes vote.
Contact your Supervisor and tell them: ([link removed]) vote YES to approve a $3.5 million budget supplemental to fund immigrant legal defense.
** Stealth Payoff to MAGA Conspirators Hidden in Shutdown Bill
------------------------------------------------------------
At the last minute, without consultation or discussion, and without opposition by Schumer (D-NY), Republican leader Thune (R-SD) inserted in the legislation that ended the shutdown a provision that sets up a $500,000 payoff to eight Republican senators implicated in the 2020 "Fake Electors" scheme to replace Electoral College electors pledged to Biden with ones loyal to Trump.
It allows them to sue the federal government (meaning us, the taxpayers) for collecting their phone-call metadata without notifying them. Note that the content of their calls was not subpoenaed, just who called whom for how long. Most observers assume that MAGA Attorney General Pam Bondi will not contest any payoff suit from any of the eight such as Graham (R-SC) so it will be a done deal.
Collection of phone and email metadata has become a standard practice by police agencies. Why should senators exempt themselves (and only themselves) and also allow themselves to retroactively claim damages? Surely the communications metadata of environment defenders, ICE protesters, racial justice advocates, and people like us, are being regularly collected and scrutinized without our knowledge or redress. And quite possibly the same may also be true for Democratic office holders & candidates, and others like those aiding women's access to out-of-state medication or medical services in defiance of local MAGA misogyny laws.
Now that this hidden payoff to eight of the 2020 election conspirators has come to light, there is much bombast and bloviation from the political class and talking-head punditry, but unless the provision is actually repealed the conspirators stand to collect a tidy reward for their effort to overturn Biden's 2020 victory.
Like slime mold, deeds done in the dark die in the sunshine. We should spread word of this legislative atrocity to our friends and community, and raise it in our social media.
Read about it on our blog. ([link removed])
Each of us should contact our members of Congress (MoC) in both the Senate and the House urging them to repeal what some refer to as the "Arctic Frost" provision (from the name of the original investigation).
Contact your Members of Congress and tell them: ([link removed]) repeal the $500,000 payoff to Senators in the “Fake Electors” scheme.
** Support improved rules to end NOx appliance emissions
------------------------------------------------------------
TheBay Area Clean Air (BACA) coalition ([link removed]) is working to support implementation of the Bay Area Air District’s zero NOx (nitrous oxide) appliance standards, Rules 9-4 and 9-6, which are critical to protect our air and health by mandating zero-emission standards for residential furnaces and water heaters. Please join BACA to push the Air District to support adding amendments to ensure affordability and flexibility to the rules, without substantively weakening them.
Here’s what you can do.
* Please submit written comments to Bay Area Air District board members by emailing [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) . The 30-day public comment period is open until November 24, 2025. Public comment works best when you use your own words, but for inspiration, we provide a sample comment at our instruction page ([link removed]) .
* If you can, attend the upcoming Wednesday, December 10 Air District stationary source hearing. Find a registration link here ([link removed]) . We will provide talking points to those that register.
* Join the BACA supporters list to keep up with developments and action opportunities—email [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) to be added to the email announcements list.
** Thanksgiving Boycott: We Ain’t Buying It
------------------------------------------------------------
From the No Kings Coalition and Bay Resistance comes We Ain’t Buying It ([link removed]) : a call to boycott Target, Amazon, and Home Depot over the Thanksgiving Weekend and Cyber Monday. This action is taking direct aim at Target, for caving to this administration’s biased attacks on DEI; Home Depot, for allowing and colluding with ICE to kidnap our neighbors on their properties; and Amazon, for funding this administration to secure their own corporate tax cuts.
From Thanksgiving Day, November 27, through “Cyber Monday,” December 1, we ask that our members do the following:
* Full Black Out: Don’t buy anything from Amazon or from Target or Home Depot stores during this week. Use the time and money to connect with those you love, and rediscover what matters.
* Redirect Spending: Shop small, local, or with businesses affirming our humanity.
* Recruit Your Friends and Family: Boycotts work best when the whole community joins in. For those who want to learn more, send them to the We Ain’t Buying It ([link removed]) website.
** T-Mobile enables Trump: Use your consumer power and boycott T-Mobile.
------------------------------------------------------------
Stop The Money Pipeline ([link removed]) , a climate-focused organization, are starting a campaign to boycott T-Mobile.
Boycotts work—just ask Target ([link removed]) , Disney ([link removed]) , and Sinclair ([link removed]) . If you are a T-Mobile customer, it's time to flex your consumer power again! Below is Stop the Money Pipeline’s call to action.
Not only is T-Mobile siding with a billionaire CEO who supports far-right authoritarian governments around the world, they’ve also:
* Ended their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) program to appease the Trump regime so the admin would fast track approval of two major acquisitions.
* Lobbied for Trump’s disastrous budget bill that will strip 13 million Americans of healthcare to pay for tax cuts for the millionaire and billionaire class.
* Engaged in vicious union busting to stop workers from forming a union.
* Servicing Trump Mobile on the T-Mobile network, ignoring glaring conflicts of interest.
To learn more about boycotting T-Mobile and switching to an alternative, see our blog post here. ([link removed])
** Tell Airbnb they need to pay their taxes—and you won’t book there until they do
------------------------------------------------------------
Indivisible SF supports the Airbnb boycott. Until they stop their greed, we’re booking elsewhere. Sign on here ([link removed]) .
San Franciscans want a city where all of us can thrive, and tax revenue from businesses located here are crucial to funding a budget that benefits all of us.
Yet the billionaires at Airbnb are aligned with Trump and MAGA, NOT with San Francisco values. Airbnb’s co-founder, Joe Gebbia, is working with DOGE to cut vital services to benefit the ultra-wealthy. Locally, Airbnb is suing the city, refusing to pay the $120 million in taxes they owe, leading to large cuts to services right here in San Francisco. Airbnb’s business model is fueling the housing crisis, using loopholes to take hundreds of units off the market, converting them to “boutique hotels” to avoid short term rental regulations.
Indivisible SF has joined with a coalition of unions and community organizations calling for an economic boycott of Airbnb. Now, individuals can join the boycott. We’ll use our economic power to pressure Airbnb to stop their lawsuit and pay their taxes. Join us to create a flourishing future for all San Francisco residents.
Read more on the Airbnb boycott website ([link removed]) .
** Want to help us do this work?
------------------------------------------------------------
We will plug you in where your skills can do the most good to resist this administration.
If you would like to join and do important work with us, we welcome you! Currently we are in need of volunteers to help with the following:
* Making artwork for our calls to action, blog posts, and other projects.
* Maintaining our website, newsletter, and Zoom account.
* Posting our events to Funcheap, Indybay, Broke-Ass Stuart, and other local blogs.
* Maintaining our social media platforms including Mastodon, Bluesky, TikTok, Meta, and more.
* Joining and building out an on-the-ground flyering team. We’re looking to distribute information on our events in the real world. We want people who can print and post flyers around their neighborhood. It’s a great way to get your steps in.
* Publishing our newsletter with MailChimp on Newsletter Night (Tuesdays at 5 PM).
* Making short-form videos to help educate people on our topics in an accessible way.
* Tracking federal, state, and local legislation and working with our state and local legislatures and Mayor Lurie.
No experience is needed; we will train you and provide everything you need. If you would like to help us, please contact us at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) .
Click here for our upcoming events! ([link removed])
** This week’s social media graphics
------------------------------------------------------------
If you’ve seen our newsletter posts on social media, you might have noticed that we include a photo or graphic with each issue.
Today’s graphics are promoting our upcoming mobilizations and calls to action. You can freely use and share these graphics. Tag us on your social media website ([link removed]) of choice!
Keep Fighting,
The Indivisible SF Team ([link removed])
If you'd like to support our all-volunteer team:
DONATE HERE ([link removed])
[link removed]
[link removed]
[link removed]
Copyright © 2025 Indivisible SF, All rights reserved.
You are receiving this email because you opted in on our website or attended one of our meetings. This list is used only by ISF and we will not share your contact information with any local or national groups without your permission.
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