Berkshire Hathaway?

Researchers have calculated increasingly high economic costs from the warming climate. L.A. is one of the many building blocks of those estimates. I wrote about the ways in which the fires could ripple through the economy over months and years to come: nytimes.com/2025/01/15/bus…

The TikTok ban is the law come Sunday. Passed by Congress; signed by the President; upheld by the Supreme Court. The Prez's job is to "faithfully execute" such laws. Yet Biden is taking a pass and Trump has signaled his intent to avoid enforcement. So much for faithfulness.

Trump is really going after Native Americans with references to Manifest Destiny, the Frontier, Wild West and erasing Denali’s name. This anti-Indigenous inaugural address sounds like one from the 1800s when presidents deployed the U.S. military on Native Americans seeking rights

Eats, shoots and leaves, DC edition:

The Los Angeles Times caught up with all that California reservoir water released by Trump: "It soaked into the ground." latimes.com/environment/st…

"The newly released water will not flow to Los Angeles, and it is being wasted by being released during the wet winter season."

The SEC will have fun without Bloomberg terminals.

“DEFCON 5 is ‘peacetime normal,’.” — says Military.com.

Journalists are more obsessed than butlers about whether things are on the table or off the table

Black history sites around the country are living with the uncertainty of Trump's order to combat "improper ideology," but their experiences so far show how hard it will be to put historical knowledge back in the bottle. From Clyde McGrady nytimes.com/2025/05/06/us/…

How does a rural county that voted 80 percent for Donald Trump react when a beloved local waitress gets picked up by ICE? How do people reconcile their love for Carol with their support for Trump? I went to Mo. to ask them: nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/…

The Department of Homeland Security just announced it detained Mexican boxer, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.

Reupping my story on today's Arizona special from earlier this summer -- Foxx entered the race as a long shot, but successfully harnessed new and social media to exceed expectations. Lack of independent polling has left some strategists wondering if she can pull off an upset win.

Adelita Grijalva is the front-runner to replace her father in today's special primary election, but she faces an unexpectedly competitive primary featuring a young social-media-savvy newcomer. wapo.st/3GI7h63

Some have compared AZ to NYC bc Grijalva/Cuomo share famous last names and face younger, online opponents. But they are v diff races & it's harder to make the antiestablishment, insurgent pitch against a progressive who hasn't held federal office (not to mention lack of scandal).

Fascinating archival dive into Rep. Gabe Evans' family immigration history -- and whether it matches the congressman's statements. by Chase Woodruff coloradonewsline.com/2025/07/22/u-s…