The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/09/10/anti-sf-troll-and-san-fransicko-author-michael-shellenberger-now-allowed-into-white-house-press-briefings/Apparently having a Substack newsletter is enough to get you a White House press credential as long as you’re enough of a Trump suck-up, as we now see San Fransicko author Michael Shellenberger in White House press briefings. We have occasionally mentioned the underemployed crackpot Substacker Michael Shellenberger in SFist coverage. He’s the guy who broke into the Tenderloin Linkage Center to rat out that there was sanctioned drug use going on there back in January 2022, and he was one of those alleged journalists who was responsible for the nothingburger that was “the Twitter files,” which Elon Musk commissioned and
Anti-SF Troll and ‘San Fransicko’ Author Michael Shellenberger Now Allowed Into White House Press Briefings

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