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Welcome to another episode of the Doomloop Dispatch, the news show covering the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. On this episode, Kevin and Scot discuss the budget drawn up by San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and passed by the board of supervisors this week. It’s basically a Republican budget, full of cuts to the social safety net but increased funding for police. Does this make San Francisco a Republican city? Or wasn’t it always one?
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Sources
SFBOS passes Lurie’s budget
https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/16/san-francisco-budget-mayor-daniel-lurie-supervisor-vote/
Mayor’s Budget Proposal Sparks Outcry Over Cuts to Police Oversight Amid Law Enforcement Spending Boost
https://www.sfpublicpress.org/mayors-budget-proposal-sparks-outcry-over-cuts-to-police-oversight-amid-law-enforcement-spending-boost/
Increases police, even though what’s needed for crime to drop is Ceasefire-like programs
https://popular.info/p/the-secret-to-baltimores-extraordinary
Great Instagram video on the SF budget
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLi1u7hSaXv/?hl=en
Jackie Fielder on housing the homeless
https://www.instagram.com/p/DL0dIB6BRud/?hl=en
Lurie gets to misuse Prop C funds
https://48hills.org/2025/07/opinion-preserve-the-housing-money-and-stop-the-mayors-power-grab/
No 1,500 shelter beds and now no shelters need to be built
https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/16/shelter-citywide-mahmood-lurie/
Ban on longterm RV parking in SF
https://www.kqed.org/news/12048307/sf-just-voted-to-ban-long-term-rv-parking-what-happens-to-the-people-inside
Budget Cuts 5 Muni lines
https://abc7news.com/post/muni-cut-5-bus-lines-san-francisco-starting-weekend-transit-agency-warns-coming-fiscal-cliff/16784203/
Billionaire Chris Larsen's $9.4 million donation to fund new SFPD investigation center
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sfpd-real-time-investigation-center-upgrade-chris-larsen-ripple-donation/
SF gets Microsoft AI
https://www.sf.gov/news-mayor-lurie-brings-ai-technology-to-san-francisco-government-cementing-city-as-global-ai-leader
Public Housing rally
https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/s-f-public-housing-tenants-rally-at-city-hall-urging-mayor-lurie-to-step-up/
California Forever Wants to Build a Manufacturing Town
https://www.kqed.org/news/12048321/california-forever-wants-to-build-a-manufacturing-town
Welcome to another episode of the Doomloop Dispatch, the news show covering the worst parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. On this episode, Kevin and Scot discuss the budget drawn up by San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and passed by the board of supervisors this week. It’s basically a Republican budget, full of cuts to the social safety net but increased funding for police. Does this make San Francisco a Republican city? Or wasn’t it always one?
Follow Doomloop Dispatch on X: http://x.com/doomloopdisp
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doomloopdispatch
BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/doomloopdispatch.bsky.social
Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@doomloopdispatch
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@DoomloopDispatch
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/DoomloopDispatch
Sources
SFBOS passes Lurie’s budget
https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/16/san-francisco-budget-mayor-daniel-lurie-supervisor-vote/
Mayor’s Budget Proposal Sparks Outcry Over Cuts to Police Oversight Amid Law Enforcement Spending Boost
https://www.sfpublicpress.org/mayors-budget-proposal-sparks-outcry-over-cuts-to-police-oversight-amid-law-enforcement-spending-boost/
Increases police, even though what’s needed for crime to drop is Ceasefire-like programs
https://popular.info/p/the-secret-to-baltimores-extraordinary
Great Instagram video on the SF budget
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLi1u7hSaXv/?hl=en
Jackie Fielder on housing the homeless
https://www.instagram.com/p/DL0dIB6BRud/?hl=en
Lurie gets to misuse Prop C funds
https://48hills.org/2025/07/opinion-preserve-the-housing-money-and-stop-the-mayors-power-grab/
No 1,500 shelter beds and now no shelters need to be built
https://sfstandard.com/2025/07/16/shelter-citywide-mahmood-lurie/
Ban on longterm RV parking in SF
https://www.kqed.org/news/12048307/sf-just-voted-to-ban-long-term-rv-parking-what-happens-to-the-people-inside
Budget Cuts 5 Muni lines
https://abc7news.com/post/muni-cut-5-bus-lines-san-francisco-starting-weekend-transit-agency-warns-coming-fiscal-cliff/16784203/
Billionaire Chris Larsen's $9.4 million donation to fund new SFPD investigation center
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/sfpd-real-time-investigation-center-upgrade-chris-larsen-ripple-donation/
SF gets Microsoft AI
https://www.sf.gov/news-mayor-lurie-brings-ai-technology-to-san-francisco-government-cementing-city-as-global-ai-leader
Public Housing rally
https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/s-f-public-housing-tenants-rally-at-city-hall-urging-mayor-lurie-to-step-up/
California Forever Wants to Build a Manufacturing Town
https://www.kqed.org/news/12048321/california-forever-wants-to-build-a-manufacturing-town