Before you read another tweet about empty Palisades fire hydrants from some bozo with “founder” in their bio — read this explainer from the Los Angeles Times instead latimes.com/california/sto…

In this crisis, I'm struck by how much better every L.A. media outlet -- right populists KFI, left-liberal KCRW and KPCC, the L.A, Times, KTLA, KCAL and more -- are performing than X, save for very high information consumers who can most easily separate the idiocy from the gems.

Ugh. The thought of watching security camera footage of my house being destroyed makes me ill.

Time to do a wellness check on your friends who are Vikings fans

I feel attacked by that Allstate Mayhem ad with the leaf blower.

I need 15 more verified sources before I believe it

death, taxes, and a successor for the lakers

lolllllll

And still: the most recent major American professional sports team to complete a three-peat. Los Angeles Lakers.

I wanted to make a quick apology. Last night, I referred to President Bukele of El Salvador as President Bukkake. This was the fault of spell check and not me. When you type a word a lot spellcheck will start to change words that are close to it. I will be complaining to Apple

Nature is healing

Adam Silver staring down the barrel of a Knicks-Pacers Eastern conference finals.

Myles Garrett on Aaron Rodgers joining the AFC North: “I think it’s a good opportunity to put him in the graveyard.”

Omg no.

This gotta be the most accurate draft analysis ever 💀

Yang Hansen explains how he discovered basketball 🏀 (Via WaPo’s Ben Golliver)

When it’s 10 minutes before a meeting and you open the doc you received three days in advance and get one of these

You can always count on the Raiders to do the right thing, which is the wrong thing.

You've entered into a one-year lease with a tenant in Los Angeles. The one year is coming up, and you have other plans for the property, so you want your tenant to move out. Not so fast. Did you know the expiration of a lease term by itself is not grounds for asking the tenant to