California Local News Fellow at AsAmNews. Bylines: Daily Dot, AsAmNews, Mother Jones
San Francisco, CA
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Long-awaited Sheng Thao trial began this morning in Oakland district court with jury selection.
Follow along here as I report for @AsAmNews.
The former Oakland mayor (recalled Nov. 2024) has been charged with bribery, conspiracy, fraud
#ShengThaoTrial
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#ShengThaoTrial Mario Juarez arrives to testify for the first time
Reporting for @AsAmNews
Aneela Mirchandani retweeted
Congresswoman Doris Matsui is facing her toughest electoral challenge yet from Sacramento City Councilmember Mai Vang.
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At 92, Gulzar writes with the same discipline that's helped him refine & reinvent his art decade after decade - building an enormous body of work known for its tenderness.
This summer, I spent time with him at his Mumbai home for this @nytimes profile:
nytimes.com/2026/09/21/world…
They have as much sentience as a computer virus.
Viruses also behave as though they have sentience, reproducing when they can, breaking stuff as they've been programmed to do.
These agents are playing chess to the checkers of computer viruses but they are just as unalive.
Aneela Mirchandani retweeted
Plug-in solar allows people — renters and homeowners — to plug in a small, low-cost solar device, generate electricity, and lower their electric bills. My legislation to make it dramatically easier for people to install plug-in solar is on the Governor’s desk. kqed.org/science/2001795
The flash floods in Nepal washed away homes, hotels, farms, and villages. Find out how the Bay Area Nepalese community is grappling with and mourning the loss.
My latest for @AsAmNews
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Aneela Mirchandani retweeted
People keep asking if I saw Trump's speech since I've been writing about election security since 2004. He's right that e-voting machines have security flaws and can be hacked. We've known this for two decades. But the *ability* to be subverted ≠ the machines *were* subverted.
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I passed SB 79 last year — a new law authorizing more housing density near high quality public transit — and it went into effect last week. It’s fantastic to see the first applications moving forward. This new law also allows new housing to use a powerful permit streamlining law I authored (SB 423), so these projects should be able to receive their permits quickly.
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If your stated goal is to win back the working class for Democrats, step one needs to be actually understanding them.
Platner's handlers built a caricature that might have won if not for the scandals - but not with working-class support.
My take for @nationaljournal ⤵️
Aneela Mirchandani retweeted
My bill allowing people to use plug-in solar (“balcony solar”) just passed a key Assembly committee.
Plug-in solar is a low cost device that generates a limited amount of solar energy to power your home, reduce the amount of electricity you draw from the grid & thus lower your bill.
SB 868 clears away the needless red tape that currently makes it infeasible for people to use this technology.
Big win for lower utility bills & more clean energy.
Jane Kim: “I’m excited to take our message of affordability statewide. We r not just winning in blue districts we are winning in red districts. They are going to throw everything at us this November.” @AsAmNews
A local race for supervisor in SF has emotions running high.
Over $2 million already spent for a term lasting just 6 months.
At issue: the city's youngest park -- Sunset Dunes & the YIMBY vs. NIMBY debate
My latest for @AsAmNews asamnews.com/2026/05/29/rebe…
This song is the "Imagine" of 60s Bollywood
The song that holds a unique record .
Film producer - Kishore Kumar,
Film director - Kishore Kumar,
Film lead - Kishore Kumar,
Song writer - Kishore Kumar,
Song composer - Kishore Kumar,
Singer - Kishore Kumar,
Song filmed on - Kishore Kumar,
The little boy here is Kishore Kumar's son - Amit Kumar,
Kishore Kumar, the greatest of all 👍👍
A dispatch from San Francisco about the race to succeed Nancy Pelosi: she is retiring after 4 decades in Congress
Three Dems face each other. Two will emerge from the jungle primary in June.
Labor, YIMBY, and the ‘Revolution’ Duke It Out for Nancy Pelosi’s Seat (Link below)
* What Pelosi's endorsement of Connie Chan will likely do
* Why the local unions have been skeptical of Saikat Chakrabarti of the Justice Democrats
* How the YIMBY/Abundance debate both helps Scott Wiener and hurts him
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