Artforum Editor David Velasco was fired for publishing an open letter signed by thousands of artists. Here is the back story of how art world money pressured the signatories and took away his job. theintercept.com/2023/10/26/art…

“We are now in a situation where one child is killed every 10 minutes.” washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/…

I'm so grateful for what we got to do at Jez because it filled a void in essential reporting that other (of what's left of) women's media sometimes seemed unwilling to touch. Most recently our coverage of the crises surrounding pregnancy in Gaza: jezebel.com/pregnant-women…

hmmmmmmmmm defector.com/hmmm-something…

LA Times cutting the people who make some of its most interesting, innovative, and essential work is as absurd as it is maddening. Angry for everyone who lost their jobs today and so sad for this city and this industry

NEW for In These Times - encampment sweeps in LA are reportedly destroying naloxone at astonishing rates. In the midst of a historic opioid overdose crisis. One nonprofit is so fed up they have started nailing narcan to trees. inthesetimes.com/article/los-an…

a new episode of #smoglandradio is here, and it's The Sellout, revisited. @lapublicpress went on a field trip to the Huizar sentencing, and we've got on-the-ground recordings of our reactions for you. Sleazy Huizy, who's a bigger sellout than you? lapublicpress.org/2024/02/smogla…

anyway, here's a new story i wrote vice.com/en/article/3ak…

Yesterday, we published a yearlong investigation into fatal police chases around the country. We also made our data public. If you're a local reporter hoping to dig into fatal chases in your community, please - use our data! github.com/sfchronicle/po…

The Long Beach Post staff are forming a union! We are the Long Beach Media Guild lbmguild.org

i got to interview sarah ann from love is blind and yes, i did ask her what she meant by calling herself a “huge patriot” vulture.com/article/sarah-…

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I wrote a thing for Dirt about my secret past as a union organizer, why I turned to writing to escape that life, and the doubts and misgivings that plague me in my lowest moments dirt.fyi/article/2024/0…

Access to UCLA Radio station remains locked by university. Our station was swept in the middle of our news hour, centered around the encampment in Royce quad and yesterday’s horrific events on campus. UCLA is painfully complicit. Limited programming will be available today.

hello good morning. wrote about the pervasiveness of death and why people are seeking out places to talk about it 🙃 latimes.com/lifestyle/stor…

L.A. City Atty Hydee Feldstein Soto sued a journalist for having photos of police officers that the city itself gave him, even though constitutional and media experts called the case absurd. Now L.A. taxpayers are on the hook for $300K in legal fees: latimes.com/california/sto…

It’s funny how much the national vibe right now is exactly like working at a company where you know they’re about to lay everyone off

An incarcerated women died from heat stroke in a central Californian prison this weekend as local temperatures soared to over 113 degrees, according to a release from the California Coalition for Women Prisoners CCWP. Women are reporting headaches, vomiting in their cells.

Loved talking with buy MORE, PLEASE (out now) about her new book, the tyranny of dieting, and the agony and ecstasy of HAVING A BODY latimes.com/lifestyle/stor…