Shira Stein
@shiramstein
Future veterinarian. Former reporter for @sfchronicle, @BLaw, and @washingtonpost. @AmericanU alum. Bay Area born and raised. She/her 🏳️🌈
Some big life news: This is my last week at the San Francisco Chronicle and my last week in journalism. After spending nearly half my life as a reporter, I’m excited to pursue a new dream: becoming a veterinarian!
DEVELOPING: California officials are bracing for a potential large-scale Trump funding attack on the state By @SophiaBollag and @shiramstein sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…
California AG says federal cuts are actually helping legal fight with Trump: ‘They can’t keep up’ By @shiramstein sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…
🇺🇸 High-Speed Rail Faces $4B Setback ▫Trump administration pulls $4 billion in federal funding for California high-speed rail ▫@shiramstein ▫is.gd/bIXg0F #frontpagestoday #USA @sfchronicle 🇺🇸
It’s Playbook official 🥲
Some big life news: This is my last week at the San Francisco Chronicle and my last week in journalism. After spending nearly half my life as a reporter, I’m excited to pursue a new dream: becoming a veterinarian!
Also, please send me your Atlanta recs! I'm VERY sad to be leaving D.C., but excited to explore such a vibrant city.
I'll be moving to Atlanta next week and starting my vetmed journey. Hopefully, I’d start school next fall 🤞🏻 I was a science girl before I found journalism, and I’m really looking forward to combining my love of science and communication to help pets and their owners.
JUST IN: The Trump administration plans to pull the plug on federal funding to California's high-speed rail project. sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…
NEW: Natl Association of Deaf files suit against White House Press Secretary, Chief of Staff and Exec office of President. They're seeking court order to restore American Sign Language interpreters to White House events/briefings: Suit: "The White House inexplicably stopped…
Retweets, replies, comments—having my back out loud means more than you know because predators thrive in silence. cjr.org/feature-2/wesl… 4/5
i really need to clean out my comptuer
.@JulianSorapuru was reading about the Pope Leo's Creole roots when a picture of Leo's family gravestone appeared -- and it bore Julian's family name. He wondered, were they related? What came next was a winding tale mixed up in the muddiness of race. bostonglobe.com/2025/05/22/nat…
The Senate just gutted California’s signature climate change policy By @shiramstein sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…
The Senate totaled California’s signature climate change policy — mandating new cars sold be electric by 2035 — in a 51 to 44 vote Thursday morning. sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…
Legislation that would blow a hole in California’s health care spending, disproportionately tax Californians and neuter the states’ ability to regulate artificial intelligence passed the House early Thursday morning. sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…
Some of you have noticed that I’ve been uncharacteristically offline. This is why, and I remain on leave for a few weeks to handle a PTSD relapse. @CJR was dogged in its pursuit of my story, and because of what I do and who I am, I felt that I had no choice but answer their…