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Gabriel Kahn @gabekahn.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes the news business just needs a headline like this.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

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Gabriel Kahn @gabekahn.bsky.social · 4d

Oh, it exists, alright. It's called kicking people off healthcare.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5d

Will Smith has a reading foundation and visits public schools. Just so you know the guy who hit that game winning homer has done good things for the LAUSD

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · Apr 19

Daughter comes out of school with a brand new Dodgers hat and I ask her where she got it.

"Oh this guy Will Smith from the Dodgers read us a story at school today"

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Blue Laura @bluelaura.bsky.social · 7d

I think 🤔 I see the problem.

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Gabriel Kahn @gabekahn.bsky.social · 16d

Best headline of the day:

www.latimes.com/california/s...

Wild bear stealthily enters California zoo, is found visiting the bear exhibit

A wild black bear took a jaunt around a Northern California zoo and was spotted visiting its bear neighbors.

www.latimes.com

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 21d

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."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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CrosstownLA @crosstownla.bsky.social · 21d

We made a list of the most dangerous intersections in Los Angeles.
xtown.la/2025/10/15/m...

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CrosstownLA @crosstownla.bsky.social · 22d

xtown.la/2025/10/15/m...
Why is traffic in Los Angeles getting more lethal? These intersections tell part of the tale.

The most dangerous intersections in Los Angeles

Over the past decade, the city’s streets have become significantly more lethal…

xtown.la

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CrosstownLA @crosstownla.bsky.social · 22d

We ranked the 20 most dangerous intersections in Los Angeles.
xtown.la/2025/10/15/m...

The most dangerous intersections in Los Angeles

Over the past decade, the city’s streets have become significantly more lethal…

xtown.la

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25d

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 25d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 24d

www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

Everything is terrorism in Trump’s America
Identifying faceless ICE agents. Mutual aid for jailed protesters. Calling JD Vance a fascist. The war on ‘antifa’ is a war on free speech, and it’s just getting started.

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Gabriel Kahn @gabekahn.bsky.social · 24d

Austin Beutner, former Los Angeles schools chief, deputy mayor and finance bigwig, is running for mayor. He also ran 14 years ago, then backed out. I spoke to him then. lamag.com/news/the-lon...

The Long Run - LAmag

Last month, Austin Beutner quit his job as first deputy mayor to embark on what some regard as a quixotic bid for city hall. Though the election is two years away, the former Wall Street executive has...

lamag.com

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CrosstownLA @crosstownla.bsky.social · 29d

The Los Angeles Police Department has failed to publish its crime reports for the past 19 months. So we are trying to piece together the the crime picture as best we can.

First chart: homicides. There have been 7 fewer homicides so far this year than during the same period last year.

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Gabriel Kahn @gabekahn.bsky.social · Oct 6

Constitutional crisis here we cone!
oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/05/f...

Federal judge bars Trump administration from sending any National Guard troops to Portland • Oregon Capital Chronicle

After Judge Karin Immergut's Saturday order the federal government sought to deploy first California and then Texas troops.

oregoncapitalchronicle.com

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CrosstownLA @crosstownla.bsky.social · Sep 30

Building is returning to the Palisades. Is it happening fast enough?
xtown.la/2025/09/30/b...

Building is coming back in the Palisades

Nine months after the fire, more permits are issued. Is the pace fast enough?

xtown.la

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Gabriel Kahn @gabekahn.bsky.social · Sep 30

@karaswisher.bsky.social Instead of trying to buy the Washington Post, why not make a bid for the LA Times? It’s basically up for sale, still the biggest newsroom on the West Coast and urgently needs improvement.

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Gabriel Kahn @gabekahn.bsky.social · Sep 24

If one of the few joys you have in your daily routine is doing Wordle, Connections, etc., and you need more distractions, I recommend Octordle.

www.britannica.com/games/octord...

Octordle

Put your skills to the test and solve eight word games at once! You have 13 guesses to solve all eight words. A new Octordle available each day to solve.

www.britannica.com

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Gabriel Kahn @gabekahn.bsky.social · Sep 21

Make no mistake: Turning the H1-B system into a tax is an attempt to further cripple American universities. Most graduate programs in engineering, science and other fields are filled with international students who hope to score an H-1B upon graduation. No more. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...

Trump’s $100,000 Visa Fee Spurs Confusion and Chaos

www.nytimes.com

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Gabriel Kahn @gabekahn.bsky.social · Sep 20

The value of a U.S. master's degree in STEM just dropped by $100k.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Sep 18

The WGA’s statement on ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other – to disturb, even – is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.

As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to – painful as it may be at times – is the freeing agreement to disagree.

Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.

The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · Sep 18

Let's reminder that Disney arguably started this wave of media capitulation by settling Trump's lawsuit against ABC last December. And now here we are...

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Gabriel Kahn @gabekahn.bsky.social · Sep 18

At this rate, I will be surprised if MSNBC makes it to 2026.

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Gabriel Kahn @gabekahn.bsky.social · Sep 15

This is the most terrifying document from Trump 2.0 I have seen. Agreeing to this would effectively end higher education as we know it.

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Gabriel Kahn @gabekahn.bsky.social · Sep 14

Oh my God, NYTimes. Also, the sky is blue.

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