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Anita Chabria
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Los Angeles Times columnist covering politics, criminal justice and other stuff.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 7h
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
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Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.
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Anita Chabria @anitachabria.bsky.social · 6h
“We can both recognize that it’s ridiculous and also that it’s pretty sinister,” @leahgreenberg told me.

Don't let MAGA turn protest into a crime.

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Don’t let MAGA turn protest into a crime
Large crowds are expected to protest President Trump and his policies at 'No Kings' events. Some on the right are framing them as 'Hate America' rallies.
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Anita Chabria @anitachabria.bsky.social · 9d
Despite the partisan Supreme Court, the reason that we are still holding on to democracy is because the system still works, albeit like a ’78 Chevy with the doors rusting off. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: So much winning. Can Bonta maintain California's legal hot streak against Trump?
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta has secured multiple wins against President Trump's agenda, a reminder that the judicial branch remains a functioning check on the power of the presidency.
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Victor Narro @victornarro1.bsky.social · 10d
Bettina Aptheker, as a student activist at UC Berkeley in the 1960s, fought for free speech after administrators tried to suppress political speech on campus. She sees the same with Trump’s efforts to control speech at universities today.

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Commentary: McCarthyism in a MAGA hat? Trump’s campus deal sounds familiar to her
President Trump offered a carrot-or-stick deal to USC and eight other colleges. On first glance, it may not sound that bad to some. But it is the end of the kind of education that seeks to bend the ar...
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Anita Chabria @anitachabria.bsky.social · 10d
Bettina Aptheker was a 20-year-old sophomore at UC Berkeley when she climbed on top of a police car, barefoot so she wouldn’t damage it, and helped start the Free Speech Movement. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: McCarthyism in a MAGA hat? Trump’s campus deal sounds familiar to her
President Trump offered a carrot-or-stick deal to USC and eight other colleges. On first glance, it may not sound that bad to some. But it is the end of the kind of education that seeks to bend the ar...
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Anita Chabria @anitachabria.bsky.social · 14d
Trump has done exactly what he set out to do: Reduce our alarm at the use of the military on our streets. A recent study from the UC Davis found one-third of respondents (32%) agree that government ‘should use the military to help enforce its policies'. www.latimes.com/politics/new...
Trump. Hegseth. Vance. In a week of chaos, does all of it matter, or none of it?
Trump, Hegseth and Vance gave us another week of the onslaught and overload.
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Anita Chabria @anitachabria.bsky.social · 23d
Free speech triumphs?
It depends on Tuesday night, when we see if Kimmel returns undaunted, or if he has been subdued. Kimmel’s return should be a moment we all watch — a real-time look at how successful our president is at forcing us to censor ourselves through fear.
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Commentary: Please, Jimmy, don't back down. Making fun of Trump is your patriotic duty
ABC announced Jimmy Kimmel will return to the air Tuesday night. For the sake of democracy, let's hope he comes out swinging.
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Lisa Fung @lisafung.bsky.social · 27d
‘Wake up, Los Angeles. This isn’t a Jimmy Kimmel problem. This is a Los Angeles problem… You don’t need to agree with Kimmel’s politics to see where this is going.’

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Commentary: Wake up, Los Angeles. We are all Jimmy Kimmel
San Francisco used to be the MAGA boogeyman, but no more. Trump 2.0 is laser-focused on Los Angeles.
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Anita Chabria @anitachabria.bsky.social · 28d
Kimmel having his speech censored is in league with our immigrant neighbors being rounded up or pressuring doctors into dropping transgender patients. They are all weaponization of government against people.
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Commentary: Wake up, Los Angeles. We are all Jimmy Kimmel
San Francisco used to be the MAGA boogeyman, but no more. Trump 2.0 is laser-focused on Los Angeles.
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Sara Gaiser @akrazia.bsky.social · Sep 15
After media coverage and scrutiny... ARC finally registered as a data broker in the state of California in June. Senator Wyden previously said it appeared ARC had been in violation of Californian law

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Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching
New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.
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Devon Greyson @greyson.bsky.social · Sep 12
THANK YOU @bostonjoan.bsky.social & LA Times!
Folks, please check this out—any analyses taking the these memes as face value is missing the mark. www.latimes.com/politics/liv...
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Anita Chabria @anitachabria.bsky.social · Sep 12
@bostonjoan.bsky.social explains what the writing on the bullets really means: www.latimes.com/politics/liv...
Suspect in Kirk shooting arrested and identified: 'We got him!'
Kirk, a Trump ally and leading voice for the far right, was fatally shot while speaking to hundreds of people at Utah Valley University.
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Anita Chabria @anitachabria.bsky.social · Sep 11
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Commentary: Charlie Kirk's killing is horrific — and likely not the end of political violence
Political violence has no place in American democracy. But in this fragile moment, we can't use that violence as an excuse to curb more freedoms.
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Anita Chabria @anitachabria.bsky.social · Sep 10
Brown people, speaking brown languages, hanging out with other brown people, and doing brown people things now meets the legal standard of “reasonable suspicion” required for immigration stops. Living while brown has become the new driving while Black. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: It's not just Latinos. Supreme Court says all brown people are suspicious
Latinos were called out specifically in the Supreme Court ruling allowing immigration officials latitude to stop and question anyone. But the ruling goes far beyond one ethnicity.
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Anita Chabria @anitachabria.bsky.social · Sep 8
Before we get to the point of having to choose who will go back in time to save Sarah Connor from Skynet and the Terminator, maybe we just don’t go there. Maybe we start with SB 53, and listen to smart, young people like Revanur. www.latimes.com/politics/new...
Column: Tech bros hate this college student. California should listen to what she's saying about artificial intelligence
President Trump wined and dined top AI tech executives last week, leaving little hope that Congress will regulate the emerging technology in meaningful ways. That leaves California — and a college act...
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Anita Chabria @anitachabria.bsky.social · Sep 8
Before we get to the point of having to choose who will go back in time to save Sarah Connor from the Terminator, maybe we just don’t go there. Maybe we start with SB 53 in California, and listen to smart, young people like Revanur.
www.latimes.com/politics/new...
Column: Tech bros hate this college student. California should listen to what she's saying about artificial intelligence
President Trump wined and dined top AI tech executives last week, leaving little hope that Congress will regulate the emerging technology in meaningful ways. That leaves California — and a college act...
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Anita Chabria @anitachabria.bsky.social · Sep 4
The hardest parts of an autocracy are division and fear. It feels lonely and scary to speak out. @CAgovernor has done two crucial things with his social media barrage. www.latimes.com/politics/new...
How caps lock became Newsom’s weapon of resistance
California's Gov. Gavin Newsom has embraced social media to troll president Trump. It's clearly gotten under the president's skin, and also boosted Newsom to a frontrunner for a run at the White House...
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Anita Chabria @anitachabria.bsky.social · Sep 3
There’s still a deep hesitation within media to make this call, but now it’s bordering on negligence. Still, some of us are trying. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Anita Chabria @anitachabria.bsky.social · Sep 2
Commentary: 'What’s to prevent a national police force?' Not this National Guard ruling.

“There’s a chilling effect against pushing back or at least openly questioning any kind of orders,” @rachelv12 , a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, said. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: 'What’s to prevent a national police force?' Not this National Guard ruling
A federal judge ruled that Trump's deployment of the National Guard in L.A. was illegal. But don't expect that to protect us from the president creating a national police force under his control.
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Lisa Fung @lisafung.bsky.social · Aug 31
‘if the University of California capitulates, there is nothing to stop the Trump administration from extorting funds from it again and again in the future.’

Via Erwin Chemerinsky @latimes.com

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Contributor: Why California universities must fight Trump in court
If the prestigious UC schools give in, what’s to stop the president from shaking down every college in the country?
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Anita Chabria @anitachabria.bsky.social · Aug 29
Commentary: Newsom’s cops vs. Trump’s troops: A new showdown on America's streets. Understanding what makes cops different from soldiers — and Newsom’s move different from Trump’s — is understanding the difference between repression and public safety www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: Newsom’s cops vs. Trump’s troops: A new showdown on America's streets
Gov. Gavin Newsom is having teams from the California Highway Patrol begin policing in more cities. Is it a variation of Trump's National Guard deployment, or something else?
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Lisa Fung @lisafung.bsky.social · Aug 28
‘Trump seems intent on creating a new, federal arrest and detention system outside of existing norms, aimed at everyday citizens and controlled by his whims. The death penalty is part of it, but stomping on civil rights is at the heart’

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Commentary: Why Trump's death penalty threat is dangerous to all of us
President Trump said he wanted the death penalty used in all murder cases in Washington, D.C. It's an order that is less about crime than consolidating his control.
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Anita Chabria @anitachabria.bsky.social · Aug 28
Authoritarians love the death penalty, and have long used it to repress not crime, but dissent. It is, after all, both the ultimate power and the ultimate fear, that the ruler of the state holds the lives of his people in his hands.

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Commentary: Why Trump's death penalty threat is dangerous to all of us
President Trump said he wanted the death penalty used in all murder cases in Washington, D.C. It's an order that is less about crime than consolidating his control.
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Anita Chabria @anitachabria.bsky.social · Aug 21
Even if Newsom loses the redistricting initiative in California, he will be able to argue that he fought harder than anyone else to curtail Trump’s power, and have the receipts to back that up.
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Gerrymandering has captured the nation's attention. That's a win for Newsom
The nation's attention has been grabbed by the idea of gerrymandering voting maps for the midterm elections. Whether it happens or not, California Gov. Gavin Newsom benefits from the fight.
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Dr Grace Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · Aug 18
Read this paper after reading this story today got me fired up @anitachabria.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...
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