Senator Padilla’s office sends me this video of his take-down and detention at Sec. Noem’s press conference in L.A.

Have already spotted some news orgs echoing the Israeli language of "pre-emptive" strike. Stop and think for one second, and apply some actual journalism to what you're writing. What exactly is it pre-empting?

In June 2024, Gavin Newsom set aside $12 million to spend on reparations legislation. It was a historic move by the state to atone for its legacy of racism and discrimination against Black residents. Here is the update, a year later. kqed.org/news/12044638/… for KQED News

“California is the state with the highest proportion of leases that are month-to-month, something usually seen when there’s no written lease.” buff.ly/jVRBUBd By KQED’s Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí 🫠

Fishnets & Fossil Fuels: Meet 3 Bay Area Climate-Conscious Drag Artists “We can’t be out here just fighting for queer & trans lives if we don’t have a planet to stand on. I want queer & trans folks to thrive for generations.” @kqedscience @kqednews kqed.org/science/199747…

🛶🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Meet the Queer Kayakers Taking on Big Oil on San Francisco Bay “It’s really beautiful to be held not only by the water, but by each other.” @kqednews @kqedscience kqed.org/science/199750…

June you were good to me 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Quick reminder that your library is still serving free lunch for children 18 and under all summer 🍎🍽️

Two headlines from the past 24 hours. See the problem yet?

“If we, as a group, have to dissolve because of this, we will. There’s no way to go back for a team that doesn’t support us.” Great reporting from Tomás Mier on MLS fans protesting as teams stay silent on ICE attacking their communities rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

From his homily in Gaza yesterday

The Associated Press, AFP, BBC News and Reuters issued a joint statement about journalists in Gaza: "We are desperately concerned for our journalists in Gaza, who are increasingly unable to feed themselves and their families. For many months, these independent journalists have

There is a very simple solution to this problem. Allow international reporters into Gaza without an IDF escort and censor. Major news organizations like the Associated Press, BBC, CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post have all repeatedly asked for authorization to

A Chuck E. Cheese employee in full costume was arrested by Tallahassee officers for credit card fraud tallahassee.com/story/news/loc…

A Labubu was left on Karl Marx’s grave.

Since the start of humanity’s first live-streamed genocide, I’ve heard people ask how the footage coming out of Gaza hasn’t yet stopped the world. I wrote about western journalism’s self-regard and the limits of the war photograph, for Los Angeles Review of Books lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-re…

we spoke with Al Jazeera managing editor Mohamed Moawad about Israel killing five of his colleagues. yesterday’s targeted airstrike makes 11 Al Jazeera staff — and 8 more freelancers for the organization — who have been killed by Israel since Oct. 7, 2023. wbur.org/hereandnow/202…

In the interview, Mohamed Moawad called out the media industry for not doing more to protect journalists in Gaza. “It is so sad that we have been calling upon the international journalistic community…to place pressure on the Israeli government to stop targeting journalists.”

(Bloomberg) -- Four former presidents of Peru are now in jail at the same time, a new record for the country if not the world. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

"How Do We Tell the Story of Gaza’s Murdered Journalists? Steven W. Thrasher on Trying to Make Sense of a Slaughter" my latest in Literary Hub lithub.com/how-do-we-tell…