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wealth and power reporter @sfstandard. previously @thedailybeast @Independent. words in @thecut @guardian. email: eshugerman@sfstandard.com
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Group chats and infighting: Inside tech elites’ madcap war against the billionaire tax

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By Emily Shugerman 
| The San Francisco Standard
Published Jun. 13, 2026at6:00am The billionaires of California had a problem. It was the fall of 2025, and a proposed ballot initiative to tax 5% of their net worth was rapidly collecting signatures. Crafted with punitive precision by the SEIU United Healthcare Workers West union, the tax would help replace healthcare funding decimated by the Trump administration — while also delivering a blow to the piggy banks of the state’s estimated 200 billionaires.
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Lurie, Curry, Coppola, and Crenn: SF’s biggest stars drop video ‘love letter’ to the city

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By Emily Shugerman 
| The San Francisco Standard
Published Jun. 10, 2026at6:00am For weeks, a mysterious, star-studded video shoot taking place across San Francisco has sparked questions: Why are local legends Francis Ford Coppola, Dave Eggers, and Chris Columbus gathered outside Cafe Zoetrope on a Tuesday afternoon? What can be gleaned from the shoot’s code name, “City of Wild?” And why exactly is a coyote getting back scratches in Dolores Park?
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Sorry, Silicon Valley, it isn’t that easy to buy an election

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By Emily Shugerman 
| The San Francisco Standard
Published Jun. 3, 2026at2:50pm Just minutes after the polls closed on Tuesday night, Matt Mahan — the great gubernatorial hope of Silicon Valley, the moderate mayor and pro-business pragmatist who would swoop in to save the billionaires from the unions and the leftists who have overtaken California — took the stage at a decidedly unglamorous election watch party in San Jose and conceded defeat.
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