A standing ovation for Asna Tabassum, USC valedictorian, and cheers for her “resistance to genocide” minor today at the USC student awards ceremony

“In the most basic sense, the statewide minimum wage is much higher than a ‘poverty wage.’ At the same time, the state’s high housing costs make it extremely difficult for many low-wage workers to make ends meet.”

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom is working on a book about his life - Los Angeles Times latimes.com/california/sto…

Fast-food workers make $20 an hour. California's other low-wage earners ask: What about us? latimes.com/california/sto…

VEEP couldn't even come up with this headline

RFK Jr. says he had a dead worm in his brain. What are these parasites and how common are they? latimes.com/california/sto…

Anger builds over sweeping change in the way most Californians will pay for electricity latimes.com/environment/st…

A small California newsroom wins a big award. “We’re this machine that knows this community, our staff is part of this community, and we’re going to find that out.' latimes.com/environment/st…

Lawmakers grill Newsom officials on homelessness spending after audit causes bipartisan frustration latimes.com/california/sto…

Los Angeles Times' former film critic Justin Chang wins Pulitzer Prize for criticism latimes.com/entertainment-…

I was very pregnant when I reported the Neuralink / Musk stories that won a Pulitzer today.

Reporter moms kick ass.

55 years after Reagan took on Berkeley, Newsom stays in the background amid roiling campus protests latimes.com/california/sto…

.New York Magazine's new cover package, in partnership with the Columbia Daily Spectator, is an intimate look at the events on the ground at Columbia University in the midst of antiwar protests. It is written and photographed entirely by staff at the Spectator. Read more: nymag.com/press/article/…

“At a diner just off the freeway north of Sacramento, a mostly white crowd listened intently as it learned how to “save America” by leaning on the same laws that enshrined the rights of Black voters 60 years ago.”

W/ Sarah D. Wire ⬇️

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Delaine Eastin, pioneering California politician, dies at 76 latimes.com/politics/story…

More than one in four Orange County residents do not think Biden was legitimately elected in 2020, and another 17% are unsure, Hannah Fry reports.

The distrust skews heavily toward Republican voters, so... what does that mean for turnout in November? latimes.com/california/sto…

A Monday in Sacramento

Any woman in this industry will not be surprised by this account of rivalry in the slightest, which was, of course, encouraged by toxic bosses:

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More migrant families with children sleeping in tents on Skid Row test official response latimes.com/california/sto…