Our family statement about today's ugly and hateful news.

Thread: for 2+ years the State Dept. has been bungling the US visa system. The wait time in New Delhi for a tourist visa is >800 days! Are we supposed to just accept gross government incompetence nowadays? In tomorrow’s The Wall Street Journal I argue that we shouldn’t... wsj.com/articles/the-o…

An hour before she would face the public at today's LA City Council meeting, Council President Nury Martinez says she's taking a "leave of absence" in the wake of the leak of her racist comments.

No one is sitting. Everyone appears to be here except Nury Martinez, Gil Cedillo, and Kevin De Leon. I’m told people can’t get into the building, it’s full. The chants are relentless. Mitch O’Farrell tried to make an announcement but is drowned by the chants.

Statement just in from @CD6Nury: "It is with a broken heart that I resign my seat for Council District 6, the community I grew up in and my home."

As usual the best event of the year continued to be the best. Ty Asian American Journalists LA for getting us all together to celebrate Henry in this way!!!!

Some have begun discussing another, potentially more dramatic step to address the public’s outrage in the wake of the scandal: scrapping the maps of the council’s 15 districts and drawing new ones. David Zahniser 🦅 + I asses the possibility and peril of this latimes.com/california/sto…

CNN Announces “Guns in America” Beat and Team led by CNN Guns and Security Correspondent Josh Campbell with reporting and analysis from The Reload’s Stephen Gutowski, The Trace’s Jennifer Mascia and The Guardian’s Abené Clayton: cnn.it/3eEZvfl

Our latest: L.A. is known worldwide as the capital of single-family-home sprawl. Yet for three decades, it has had the most overcrowded housing among large counties in the United States. That's been a century in the making. latimes.com/california/sto…

THREAD: Los Angeles is known for sunshine and sprawl. But for the past three decades L.A. has been the most housing overcrowded large county in America. In the pandemic, L.A.'s overcrowded areas have suffered. We wanted to understand how it happened (1/16) latimes.com/california/sto…

There was a moment last month when Rick J. Caruso + Karen Bass were tied, according to her own polling. Somehow, Bass prevailed besting a ~$100 million campaign. Read the story of how it happened. w/Julia Wick latimes.com/california/sto…

This is a huge loss for CNN - Brandon's work is essential, he is the best to work with and I will really miss his newsletter in my inbox every week. Whoever snags him next is really lucky!!!

Meet the brothers building massive spacecraft to leverage SpaceX’s Starship cnb.cx/3mI6J5O

In our post-Roe world, questions loom as to the role police might play in enforcing new bans on abortion. To understand what that might look like, consider the LAPD's abortion squad, which interrogated women and arrested doctors for decades before Roe latimes.com/california/sto…

.Jonah Peretti better fully fund Stephanie’s parental leave or I will haunt him for life.

Congratulations to Los Angeles Times. #Pulitzer

The Los Angeles Times has won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for its coverage of L.A. council members making racist comments in leaked audio. The coverage led to changes in the 2nd largest city in the U.S. and the future of city council. latimes.com/california/sto…