Dr. Pat Soon-Shiong Los Angeles Times Why does this comment strike me as poorly timed spitballing by someone who has failed to use his enormous and powerful platform to strengthen the civic life of LA (or the nation?)

"Your beaten-down legacy journalist’s job this week will partly consist of cleaning up after the people with the money." mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-sunlight…

Josie's the greatest and it's heartbreaking to know her family were among those that lost everything in Altadena: gofundme.com/f/support-the-…

Ian James Gracias for rt!

This is the best story yet on why hydrants ran dry as firefighters battled California's deadly fires. By Ian James, Matt Hamilton and Ruben Vives: latimes.com/environment/st…

One of the more heartbreaking aspects of the losses in Altadena is what the community represented: Eaton Fire Devastates Historic Altadena, Displacing Black Families and Destroying Legacies bet.com/article/7a2tc6…

Why hydrants ran dry as firefighters battled California's deadly fires Matt Hamilton Ruben Vives Los Angeles Times latimes.com/environment/st…

This is why you need David Zahniser 🦅 in your life, to make sense of the city's spending beyond the Twitter takes. Did Mayor Karen Bass really cut the fire department budget? The answer gets tricky latimes.com/california/sto…

I dive more into all of this and more in my latest story for Inside Climate News. insideclimatenews.org/news/11012025/…

Trump posted his lie about “turning on the water” at 11:12 PM last night and CA responded with the facts less than two hours later. Can most other Democrats PLEASE learn from this? At SOME POINT? It isn’t 1996. Calling a press conference days later is USELESS. Rapid react!

Trump doesn’t understand California’s complex water network. But that’s not the point Trump is both a master of strategic misdirection and a man who tends to believe what he finds advantageous to believe, facts notwithstanding. Either way, Trumpologists — those who specialize in

Commentary: Does Donald Trump truly believe the nonsense he spouts about California water — the mythical “valve” connecting the state to Canada, or the imagined “half-pipe” that stands ready to soak the Los Angeles area? cal.news/40CGUUO 📝 Robert Greene

So glad I read this today, by Jean Guerrero The better title is "How I Crossed the Border Back to Myself," as it's about much more than "Trumpism." You can read it for free without a subscription. nytimes.com/2025/01/28/opi…

I am the author of this OpEd, which was given a misleading title and from which key lines were cut—lines that made very clear that RFK Jr is dangerously ignorant, has absolutely no business near HHS, and is effectively a mass murderer in waiting.

Dr. Pat Soon-Shiong This is incompetence. politico.com/news/2025/01/3…

The release of water will go to Central Valley farmlands, not cities, most of which need that water in the dry summer months. Not now.

Trump’s water b.s. “is worth examining” because many will accept his claims as true. That’s a problem, because California does have serious water issues, including drought, driving salmon to extinction and choking cities with toxic water Robert Greene calmatters.org/commentary/202…

A really good newspaper editorial. They are becoming scarce just when they are needed most.

After the 2008-09 meltdown, Americans rightly raged that no banking moguls were held accountable. It was complicated. Consolation prize: Congress created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It's reaped 10s of billions from banks in relief & lower fees. Musk is killing it.

STATEMENT: The city of Clarksdale, Mississippi, thinks it knows better than the Founders. Clarksdale asked a court to order a local newspaper to remove an editorial asking why the city was not being more transparent about a proposed tax increase. As a result of the city’s