Reporter at @sfstandard. Burrito snob. Formerly @vicenews, @latinoUSA. Tips welcome via Signal at JesseAlejandroCottrell.52.
San Francisco, CA
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I followed 72-year old Debbie from the moment she was evicted for months as she bounced between seedy hotels and living in a car.
Upon reading my first article about Debbie, her family tried to save her from the street. It wasn't that easy.
Edited by @jonsteinberg31.
As a tide of evictions overwhelms the city, one family tries to pull their matriarch off the streets.
📝: Jesse Alejandro Cottrell sfstandard.com/2026/08/29/ho…
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I don’t think you have a dog in this fight but if you did you would have shot it.
I’ll take @ellalangleymsic over Kacey Musgraves any day.
And if I’m choosin’ Texas, I’ll take Ken Paxton over James Talarico.
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Donkey of the Day goes to anyone and everyone who doesn’t prioritize men’s mental health!
Tap in as @cthagod breaks it down 🫏 in #DonkeyOfTheDay, powered by @msllegal. 🐂 #MichaelTheBull #TheBullNYC
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Introducing The Standard's first-ever San Francisco Voters Guide: a nonpartisan, no-BS companion for city voters with a lot on their minds and no time to spare. Get the context you need to make informed decisions, including who’s funding what, who’s endorsing whom, and where the latest polls stand.
Scroll the guide and fill out your own sample ballot: sf.news/4hygHkh
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BREAKING: Mayor @DanielLurie pulls his endorsement of Manny Yekutiel following the @sfstandard's investigation into allegations of sexual assault.
More:
sfstandard.com/2026/10/01/ma…
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When an apartment burns, a “blind spot” in the law leaves residents and landlords without clear answers for who pays what.
📝: @JesseAlejandro
sfstandard.com/2026/09/28/bu…
For working class people in SF, clinging to their rent controlled apartment can be the only way to hang on in a city where the avg 1BR is $4500. So what happens when that apartment burns? The law is very unclear.
My latest. Photos by @Moxie_Manda. Edited by @jonsteinberg31.
When an apartment burns, a “blind spot” in the law leaves residents and landlords without clear answers for who pays what.
📝: @JesseAlejandro
sfstandard.com/2026/09/28/bu…
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New: last fall my reporting found that 9 in 10 domestic violence survivors in San Francisco represented themselves in court. Now that might change sfstandard.com/2026/09/17/st…
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None of Mayor @DanielLurie 's Youth Commission appointees go to public school.
From @Yujie_ZZ :
missionlocal.org/2026/09/san…
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If you’re an insanely rich person and you want to do something cool, you should buy the SF Examiner/ SF Weekly and let me and my crew of journalist hooligans run it.
How cool with it be to have wild ass gonzo shit in print daily/weekly?
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Residents of a fire-damaged downtown building say they were blindsided by an email demanding they clear out by Sunday — with no relocation payments offered.
📝: @JesseAlejandro sfstandard.com/2026/08/21/sf…
“At the time, the tech industry was still very much thought of as, like, the ‘do no evil’ tech industry. We were also really trying to contest some of that image."
My latest for the @sfstandard. Edited by @jonsteinberg31.
Thirteen years ago, their protests against SF’s tech buses made headlines. Now they warn that the AI boom is making things even worse.
📝: Jesse Alejandro Cottrell sfstandard.com/2026/08/16/ga…
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Thirteen years ago, their protests against SF’s tech buses made headlines. Now they warn that the AI boom is making things even worse.
📝: Jesse Alejandro Cottrell sfstandard.com/2026/08/16/ga…
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With a panicked rental market comes a new surge of scams — including one that the city’s watchdogs have never seen before.
📝: @JesseAlejandro sfstandard.com/2026/08/05/sa…
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I, for one, do not want to eat the suspiciously green bananas from the government store.
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Contrary to the bravado present in his content, the online tone of the Tate brothers when they are incarcerated illustrates how much of manosphere politics really centers on an identity of victimhood.
I am in Special Housing Unit (SHU).
My water faucet is broken.
I am not allowed bottles of water in SHU.
I have nothing clean to drink.
My only water comes from the shower, warm and from a brown and filthy faucet.
It has given me persistent stomach problems.
The water I am drinking is not clean, I am an American.
Innocent until proven guilty.
But I am forced to drink poisoned water.
Where are my rights?
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SF supervisors to demand answers from SFPD after our reporting exposed the city's poor record on rape investigations.
" I was so outraged reading her story," said Supervisor Myrna Melgar.
sfstandard.com/2026/07/22/sf… via @sfstandard
