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LilMikeSFLilmikesf@c.im
2025-08-31

#OrangeCounty prosecutors opposed judge's 5 yr plea deal for #ThirdStrike #Skinhead with #swastika & SS tattoos arrested for murderous racist #hatecrime threats on pregnant Black woman at bus stop...

#DA appealed lighter sentencing and after a #retrial and six years of litigating won a 27 years to life #California #Correctional #prison term for violent repeat offender

mercurynews.com/2025/08/29/cal #SharedLink #PaywallLft #Incarceration #Racism #PrisonIndustrialComplex #MercuryNews

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LilMikeSFLilmikesf@c.im
2025-08-29

#Newsom plan to #Gerrymander #California #voting districts in obvious overwhelming favor of #DemocratParty finds opposition push from rich #GOP supporting silver spoon #SiliconValley son of a billionaire #BerkshireHathaway exec, who has put up his own $10 million to obfuscate and oppose #BallotMeasure effort.

More than $34 Million has been raised to sway voters so far on either side of ccontroversial #Prop50 midterm #redistricting scheme to add seats to state's already dominant donkey #Congressional caucus.

mercurynews.com/2025/08/29/mai #GiftLink #MercuryNews #SharedStory #YesonProp50 #NoOnProp50

RAISING FUNDS FOR PROP. 50 CAMPAIGN More than $34 million has been raised as of Thursday by three primary committees that are either for or against the Proposition 50 redistricting initiative. The Election Rigging Response Act supporters have raised $24 Million to aid Governor Newsom's rotect Voters First, Ballot Measure $10.1 million sponsored by Hold Politicians Accountable, while Kevin McCarthy 's Stop Sacramento's Power Grab #No on Prop.50 has $6,048 reported Source: Calif. Secretary of State's Office, Newsom's Ballot Measure Committee- The Election Rigging Response Act, Statistics gathered by BAY AREA NEWS GROUP
LilMikeSFLilmikesf@c.im
2025-08-26

New company on #BayFarm island in #EastBay says they have created the “#NextGeneration” of #batteries that are safer than explosion prone #lithiumIon types and will revolutionize industries from small portable devices to #ElectricVehicles.

Many new #batteries use a liquid #lithium-ion core that can leak and combust, while #Alameda based #AnthroEnergy’s solid-state batteries use a patented technology to solidify the core. The developer claims the innovative tech creates a non-flammable, semi-solid battery with 35% more energy density than traditional batteries, and is resistant to leaking, warping and combustion.

They hope to get more investment into their #BayArea plant and begin production of half a million individual battery cells a year.

mercurynews.com/2025/08/26/in-

#MercuryNews #BatteryTechnology #EnergyStorage #Manufacturing

The Mercury News reports Alameda is attracting businesses like Bay Farm Island based Anthro Energy, which is gaining a reputation for fostering innovation. It's also attracting the attention of venture capital investors seeking to get in on the ground floor of Anthro’s 31,000- square-foot facility that will produce half a million Anthro battery cells annually. “What we're doing is building advanced technology that redefines what's possible for lithium-ion batteries,” Anthro Energy CEO David Mackanic said to an audience of employees and investors on Wednesday. “We're building a highly-scalable platform that can respond to rapidly accelerating electrification demands across virtually every industry.”
LilMikeSFLilmikesf@c.im
2025-08-19

#SJ upends #homeless encampments, 2nd largest #CA city govt claims nearly 250 of nearly 400 rousted campers accepted offer of #taxpayer funded #shelter newly built temporary #housing arrangements

bayareane.ws/3JmVVoU #SharedStory #MercuryNews #GiftLink #SanJose

San Jose begins clearing its largest homeless camp, displacing more than 300 people at Columbus Park
LilMikeSFLilmikesf@c.im
2025-08-03

New #WhiteHouse edict targets jurisdictions that are perceived to not be removiving "Endemic #vagrancy" and "drug users" with punitive measures. Specifically mentioned are threats to cut federal funding to cities that do not stop allowing so-called “harm reduction” or “safe consumption” sites for addictive drug users.

1/3rd of all "counted' #homeless people in #USA are tabulated as being in #California, which ranks amongst highest cost of living places in the #UnitedStates. Gov #Newsom issued new policies to remove homeless #encampments and #DJT in #DC has nearly a year to the day, now made similar #ExecutiveOrder against #indigent squalor as new #NationalPolicy called “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets”

statnews.com/2025/07/25/trump-

mercurynews.com/2025/07/28/tru #GiftLink #MercuryNews #MediaNewsGroup

#DrugAddicts #HarmReduction #NeedleExchange #Homelessness

Specifically, the White House order: Discourages funding for harm reduction: The order explicitly states that Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) grants should not fund interventions like syringe service programs, claiming they "only facilitate illegal drug use and its attendant harm". e Challenges harm reduction services: It directs the Attorney General to review federal funding recipients who operate drug injection sites or "knowingly distribute drug paraphernalia,” including needles and syringes, and to potentially bring civil or criminal actions against them. e Prioritizes punitive approaches: The order redirects funding towards states and municipalities that enforce prohibitions on open drug use and urban camping,Chart Showing Stats Of Increased Homelessness in San Bernardino County. 2025 Homeless residents counted Source: San Bernardino County,
LilMikeSFLilmikesf@c.im
2025-07-18

#BigPharma drug maker #Gilead settles with #BigGov for $202m after legal pursuit by 47 state AG's and #DOJ over ethical lapses made wining & dining #doctors to get them to prescribe #pharmaceutical giants' #HIV drug cocktails.

#HQ in #FosterCity CA referred to alleged #Kickback scheme fronted via elegant dining establishments as merely informational sessions "important for #healthcare providers and patients to have the necessary information to make the best decisions...”

Nearly $50 million from the drug mfgr #settlement, including more than $4 million routed back to #California, will go into providing #Medicaid services, which is getting a steep trillion dollar cutback in latest #GOP budget.

mercurynews.com/2025/07/17/fos #GiftLink #MercuryNews

Foster City drugs giant Gilead to pay $202 million over alleged kickback scheme
LilMikeSFLilmikesf@c.im
2025-07-05

After over 130 yrs of providing food to America, ranging from #Pineapples to #Pears to #Peaches to #PetFoods, modern marketing #mismanagement puts #California cannery #DelMonte into big #Bankruptcy blaming "borrowing" binge that led to billions in 21st century debt.

Current company HQ claims they secured another nearly a billion in #loans to keep operating as they seek a buyer.

Once one of the great west coast companies, "Del Monte Plant No. 1" built in post earthquake #SanFrancisco was heralded as the largest #fruit and #vegetable cannery in the world, employing 2,500 people and producing 200,000 cans of Del Monte brand food per day.

Later, it became a subsidiary of RJ Reynolds tobacco, and owner of #SunKist oranges & #StarKist tuna. In 2006, Del Monte became the second largest pet foods corp by purchasing Meow Mix & Milk Bone brands, but since then, HQ moved to suburban Walnut Creek CA and many of the Del Monte operations & brands have been thinned out and sold off. In 2025 brands still include #Contadina, College Inn #soups, and since 2001, a similar subsidiary 100+ yr old #canning brand called S & W and a more recent foray into burgeoning bubble teas.

mercurynews.com/2025/07/02/del #GftLink #SharedStory #MercuryNews

abcnews.go.com/GMA/Food/canned

1927 ad from Honolulu Star-Advertiser in Hawaii •DEL MONTE Files for S el Bankruptcy!
LilMikeSFLilmikesf@c.im
2025-05-29

#DJT expected to quickly run to pals in #SCOTUS to overturn 3 judge panel's ban in US Court of International Trade to resume his chaotic #WhiteHouse wank off of tariff tirades that many experts agree exceeds executive branch authority to push puerile policies purely on whim.

Typically tariffs must be approved by Congress, but naranja nincompoop claims national emergency requires him to bypass longstanding legislative process.

The court refuted the executive branch excess succinctly as "Worldwide and Retaliatory Tariff Orders exceed any authority granted to the President by IEEPA to regulate importation by means of tariffs,” referring to the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

mercurynews.com/2025/05/28/cou #SharedLink #SharedStory #MercuryNews

LilMikeSFLilmikesf@c.im
2025-05-01

#CalTrain deputy director Joseph Vincent Navarro found #guilty of misappropriation of $40k in public funds for conspiring with contractor during pandemic era and converting #Burlingame train station office into secret personal residential getaway with private gym.

Navarro, who now lives in Pennsylvania and previously told the #MercuryNews that his criminal charge was “overstated” and that he did nothing wrong. His co-conspirator #contractor had built himself similar living quarters inside the #Millbrae Cal #trainstation and plead #guilty, turning States #evidence against Navarro.

Navarro , whose attorneys claimed it was not a #secret , that he had given the key to his secretary, allowed his girlfriend to stay there, and the conversion was done with knowledge of his supervisor, still faces sentencing under judge's discretion which could range from actual #prison time, to more likely #probation.

mercurynews.com/2025/04/30/cal #GiftLink #SharedStory #PaywallLift

Joseph Navarro faced one felony count turning a section of the Burlingame train station into an apartment, complete with a bedroom, a gym and a living room, prosecutors said at the trial. After several days of testimony and closing arguments on Tuesday, the jury began its deliberations Wednesday morning and came to a consensus in the afternoon. The jury also found true that the charges were filed within the proper statute of limitations, which is three years of when the crime is discovered or should have been discovered. Defense lawyers had argued that the initial discovery should have meant the charges were filed too late. “We're very pleased that the jury was able to see through the defense and recognize that he had no authorization ."NEWS ~ CRIME AND PUBLIC SAFETY - Caltrain employee guilty of using public funds to build secret apartment 1n train station Joseph Navarro spent $38,000 on renovating the Burlingame station between 2019 and 2021 Picture of Passengers waiting at the Burlingame Train Station in Burlingame, Calif., Friday, March 29, 2024. Joseph Vincent Navarro, 66, formerly a deputy director for Caltrain, is accused of conspiring with contractor Seth Andrew Worden, 61, to illegally remodel office space into a small apartment inside two Peninsula train stations, one being in the historic Burlingame station. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)
Open Source San Joséopensourcesanjose@sfba.social
2024-04-17

The former suburban headquarters of the San Jose Mercury News, then and now, and now in OpenHistoricalMap:

openhistoricalmap.org/node/211

Photo credits: © 2009 Coolcaesar at the English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0; © 2022 Supermicro, CC BY-SA 4.0
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#SanJose #OpenHistoricalMap #ThenAndNow #MercuryNews #Supermicro

While it served as the San Jose Mercury News headquarters, the building’s main entrance featured a portico with dramatic bronze columns resembling the typebars of a typewriter, arranged in a semicircle, and a sculpture suspended from the ceiling. The building was set back from the highway by an expansive green lawn.After its conversion to the headquarters of Supermicro, the portico was demolished but replaced by an entrance with bronze columns in a semicircle, paying homage to the San Jose Mercury News.A screenshot of OpenHistoricalMap showing the building during the 1990s, while it still served as the newspaper headquarters. A reflecting pool surrounds the entrance.
MattHabermatthaber
2024-03-11

Tell me you don't know how inflation works without telling me you don't know how inflation works.

mercurynews.com/2024/03/11/cal

LilMikeSFLilmikesf@c.im
2024-01-05

#ExcessiveForce #Lawsuit Discovery Regarding #TriggerHappy #SanJose #RacistCop #MarkMcNamara Plot Thickens After Judge Irked By City Withholding Names Of Other Officers Involved Still On #PublicPayroll . Rogue Officer Bragged To Co Workers About Shooting An #NWord Male From #Oakland In #WildWest Scenario And Afterwards Threatened to Shoot His N-Word Attorney #AdantePointer.

mercurynews.com/2024/01/04/san #PaywallFree #SubscriberOnly #GiftLink #BayAreaNewsGroup #MercuryNews #CopWatch

The judge rejected the city’s claims that the officers’ names were legally privileged and noted that “the identity of the officers provides important context about the contents” of McNamara’s texts. Cousins added that “it could be particularly relevant” to Green’s lawsuit claims of excessive force and that police culture and training contributed to his shooting. There was no indication Thursday that the city plans to publicly release any of the information disclosed to Green’s legal team. In response to an email from the Bay Area News Group, City Attorney Nora Frimann wrote, “Our office simply responded to the litigation discovery requests in the time frame directed by the court.”In a text message Officer McNamara wrote, “The other day this n— lawyer is like Mr. McNamara, you know we can still find you guilty of excessive force right? I'm like, hmmm yeah then (what) happens?? ... Think I give a f— what y’all n— think?!???? I’ll shoot you too!!!!! AHHHHHH!!!!!” The latter message was the basis of a gun-violence restraining order the police department secured against McNamara around the same time it submitted his name for state decertification to prohibit him from serving as a police officer again in California. The restraining order, which was among the terms of McNamara’s resignation, barred him from possessing 10 rifles, four shotguns and four pistols he kept at his home"
John Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺johnlogic@sfba.social
2023-11-28

Last Sunday, San Jose's #MercuryNews (5th largest of #newspapers in the US) had a 1-page piece comparing #California and #Florida and their governors, who are both presidential hopefuls.

Bars were used to show rankings of the two states, both overall and in 8 aspects, allegedly from U.S. News.

The claims seem dubious, with FL ranking higher than CA in all bars except healthcare. In education, book-banning FL was ranked # 1 but CA (with has at least 2 of the nation's top-10 universities) # 20. In economy, they gave FL # 7 and CA (which is often ranked among the largest nations) # 29.

So, I must suspect bullshit, and perhaps political bias.

I went looking at the paper's ownership, and it now leads back to a hedge fund (Alden Global Capital) that seems to have a history of gutting companies it takes over.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Merc

#FreedomOfThePress

MJ Leesoccermoviemom@sfba.social
2023-03-13

Another #siliconvalley icon now a pariah in Silicon Valley. This announcement in today’s (Sunday Mar-12-2023) edition of the #MercuryNews, formerly known as the San Jose Mercury News. They will no longer publish #dilbert.

David John Chávezdavidjchavez@sfba.social
2023-02-07

It is terrific to see two of our South Bay theatre institutions collaborating on a really solid production. Terrific opportunities for artists have been created by both #CityLightsTheater and #TeatroVision. Their co-production of #MissYouLikeHell does many good things, led by the quality turns of the principals. My review for the #MercuryNews #hellatheatre mercurynews.com/2023/02/06/rev

David John Chávezdavidjchavez@sfba.social
2023-02-03

Nice to be back to #CityLights in '23 for the #MercuryNews #hellatheatre

JeanEvergreenJeanEvergreen@montereybay.social
2023-01-14

#Capitola Village then and now. I lived there for about 6 years, loved to walk down to the Esplanade and wharf, and back up the stone stairs the little house near the ancient tennis court. But wondering if they should just let the wharf go this time? This will happen again. From #MercuryNews
#flood
mercurynews.com/2023/01/14/cap

David John Chávezdavidjchavez@sfba.social
2022-12-09

The good folks at Comedysportz San Jose are ready for their latest and greatest chapter. My feature piece for the
#MercuryNews dives into their history and future plans. A true #SouthBay institution. #hellatheatre #SanJose #theater mercurynews.com/2022/12/09/com

Rick Ballardrballard
2022-12-07

The now has a pretty good summary of last night's disastrous council meeting up. mercurynews.com/2022/12/06/san

David John Chávezdavidjchavez@sfba.social
2022-12-06

I really did love this show. I love Little Shop anyway, but the number of bangers the show produces, a stellar turn from the lead actor, and a fresh concept that brings forth a regional focus is terrific. My #MercuryNews review. #hellatheatre #theater mercurynews.com/2022/12/06/rev

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