Crowd chanting “shame on you” and “LAPD KKK” as a large number of LAPD officers continue to arrive just outside of the UCLA encampment on campus. Tension building bigtime.

Protestors in the encampment are currently taunting California Highway Patrol officers with strobe lights

A nugget tucked in mine and Richard Winton reporting on police response at UCLA last night.

According to three sources, Mayor Bass had to call UCLA Chancellor Gene Block last night to get the chancellor to allow LAPD to deploy on the campus.

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200+ pro-Israel counterprotestors are attacking the UCLA pro-Palestinian encampment. They started beating on one student and stomped another under a plywood board per Los Angeles Times Safi Nazzal on the scene. Where is UCLA security?

Here's POLITICO's profile of our work on Covid origins:
How a Ralph Nader disciple helped legitimize the Covid lab leak theory. Via Carmen Paun
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A monster Green Flash at Pigeon Point like I have never seen before; and it lasted for nearly a minute The entire sunset was kind of funky with very stratified layers. No color post-processing, just nature's magic. 4/17/2024

Behold San Francisco's Tetris house. Opinions are mixed.

(Photos: Saul Sugarman, Xavi Panneton)
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Registrations of ⁦Tesla⁩ vehicles in #California fell about 8% in the first quarter of 2024 for the second consecutive three-month period, according to data from the California New Car Dealers Association. reuters.com/business/autos…

It is worth watching this CNN video from the moment Emory Econ Professor Caroline Fohlin came across the violent arrest of a protester on campus and asked the police, with shock, 'What are you doing?' That's all that prompted an officer to hurl her to the ground and handcuff her.

WATCH: Assembly Elections Chair Gail Pellerin for Assembly refuses to answer questions after blocking a bill that would prohibit use of NDAs in California’s lawmaking process.

She said she didn’t have enough time to review the bill, despite her record of voting for fast-tracked bills.

Researchers show that it is possible to reintroduce the iconic brown bear to California. Will people go for it?

@ajayorona looks into it. altaonline.com/dispatches/a43…

Remembering the great Ella Fitzgerald who was born on this day in 1917. Sometimes referred to as the “First Lady of Song” and “Queen of Jazz”, she was known for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, timing, intonation and a “horn-like” improvisational ability,

Republican Senate candidate and former baseball great Steve Garvey holds a rare press conference to respond to college campus protests, which he likens to terrorism.

'I believe there is free speech. But I also believe that demonstrations that disrupt the business, the natural

Cal Poly Humboldt said it will keep its campus closed through the weekend, and possibly longer, as pro-Palestinian protesters remain barricaded inside a building.

More here: kcra.com/article/cal-po…