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Andrea Gutierrez

@andreagtrrz.bsky.social

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Journalist, audio producer, cat lady, native plant gardener ⚡️ Past: NPR, LAist ✨ Bylines: Prism, LA Public Press 💫 🌐 andreagtrrz.com 💌 [email protected]

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Andrea Gutierrez @andreagtrrz.bsky.social · Oct 4

I've been thinking about this for a few months, and now I'm putting it out in the universe: I'd love to get in on the ground floor of a worker-owned media outlet. Are looking for co-conspirators? Let's talk!

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Andrea Gutierrez @andreagtrrz.bsky.social · 2d

Reminds me of this deep cut from LA band Las Cafeteras (I can believe this is already over a decade old) youtu.be/dS0OQ9HP3Oo

Las Cafeteras: This Land Is Your Land

YouTube video by HealthHappensHere

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Jireh Deng @bokchoy-baobei.bsky.social · 12d

My friend and Jewish American reporter Emily Wilder was detained by the Israeli military last night while sailing with the Gaza flotilla reporting for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social. Please help our friend get home safely and call her US reps. bit.ly/ReleaseEm

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Andrea Gutierrez @andreagtrrz.bsky.social · 13d

Kinda hilarious I’m seeing this just as we’re fighting a cat who’s refusing his gabapentin (pill pocket worked great until it didn’t)

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Andrea Gutierrez @andreagtrrz.bsky.social · 14d

Sandhya, I’m losing my goddamn mind

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Andrea Gutierrez @andreagtrrz.bsky.social · 18d

I wish so bad I had a Zuri store near me

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Andrea Gutierrez @andreagtrrz.bsky.social · 18d

My jaw dropped at just how many of them followed him

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Andrea Gutierrez @andreagtrrz.bsky.social · 19d

Please tell me you’re an actual cheesemonger, I’d love this

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Andrea Gutierrez @andreagtrrz.bsky.social · 19d

It says a lot of things that aren’t really my business

Andrea Gutierrez @andreagtrrz.bsky.social · 21d

East. Is. East. Of. THE RIVER.

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Andrea Gutierrez @andreagtrrz.bsky.social · 26d

Now that’s a payoff

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Andrea Gutierrez @andreagtrrz.bsky.social · 26d

Scorekeeping is so impressive to me, mainly because I was a Very Serious Softball Player as an adolescent and it was someone *else's* job to keep score, so I never learned!

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Andrea Gutierrez @andreagtrrz.bsky.social · 26d

Love this - a way for the better funded bigger stations to show solidarity with the smaller at-risk stations

Micah Loewinger @micahloewinger.bsky.social · 27d

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

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Andrea Gutierrez @andreagtrrz.bsky.social · 27d

Deep cut for the 90s SoCal kids

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Andrea Gutierrez @andreagtrrz.bsky.social · 27d

It’s still weird that Jimmy the Sports Guy of KROQ’s Kevin and Bean fame became a late night host that the feds literally tried to censor

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Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · Sep 21

many of us who specifically covered those victims & worked to center those targeted & harmed by people like Kirk and his allies were pushed out of mainstream media in the past few years. it wasn't always a loud public firing, but the stories of how folks who did this work were treated would shock u.

elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · Sep 21

Kirk’s ‘memorial’ getting a live coverage on The Guardian is a great example of how the right gets automatically framed as the default political movement to be ‘understood’ while the victims of that same movement never will never get the same amount of coverage

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Sep 18

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · Sep 15

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · Sep 11

Several people and I sued DHS and Kristi Noem, and won a preliminary injunction. Here’s the meat of the judge’s order:

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · Sep 10

Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentator’s purposes.

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · Sep 11

BREAKING: Federal judge in Los Angeles issues preliminary injunction against Department of Homeland Security to restrict use of force against press, legal observers and protesters.

Judge in LA Press Club v. Noem calls out "surprising savagery" of DHS officers:

"The First Amendment demands better."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Sep 8

Sotomayor on the impact: "The Government, and now the concurrence, has all but declared that all Latinos, U. S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents’ satisfaction."

The Government, and now the concurrence, has all but
declared that all Latinos, U. S. citizens or not, who work
low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken
away from work, and held until they provide proof of their
legal status to the agents’ satisfaction.

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Andrea Gutierrez @andreagtrrz.bsky.social · Sep 8

I dunno, man, it all feels pretty bad! Can’t say I like the idea of me, my friends, family, neighbors, etc, being hunted like animals

Andrea Gutierrez @andreagtrrz.bsky.social · Sep 8

Oh, okay! Easy peasy, no problem! Papiere, bitte!

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is a paragraph Brett Kavanaugh wrote on his little computer and then sent out into the world:

Moreover, as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · Sep 5

Asking for funding is a wildly uncomfortable experience but we gotta do it: this newsletter is reader-funded, and I've got some goals I need your help to accomplish. This month, I'm hoping to reach 50 paid subs to the newsletter.

If I reach 1000 by end of 2026, I'll fly to you and fight your boss👊

Wanna help me reach my goal? [September Subscription Drive]

This month, I’m working alongside over 30 other indie creators to make their own work sustainable through reader funding. Will you help me reach my goal?

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Sep 3

reminder that as trump looks to expand his terror to other cities, shit is still very much going down in LA

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · Sep 3

Photos from last night’s protest in DTLA

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