NEW: 15 of the best Thai restaurants in Los Angeles, by critic Bill Addison. Thai, he writes, is one of the pillar cuisines of L.A. — read more @latimes.com www.latimes.com/food/list/be...

Food Bowl with the @latimes.com is happening! October 10-11. 🤗 Get tickets here!! lafoodbowl.com

The split in the Democratic Party—between those who can name and respond to what is happening and those who cannot—is growing into a chasm.

Three restaurants in L.A. made the World's 50 Best Restaurants in North America for 2025 — Kato, Providence, and .... 😊❓🐟 Stephanie Breijo reports: www.latimes.com/food/story/2...

Do you like Scotty Boy? 🙋🏽‍♂️Everything you need to know about the chuggiest wines being made in LA right now, loved this profile on Scott Sampler 🍷 www.latimes.com/food/story/2...

Will the Reel Inn rise again? Stephanie Breijo has this update on the maddening saga of the iconic spot burned in the Palisades fire — www.latimes.com/food/story/2...

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

ICYMI: In Chicago, I found the city's population is about a third Latino/Hispanic, with Mexicans the largest group (73%), followed by Puerto Ricans. And in L.A., brown folks are almost half the population, with Mexicans largest (71%), followed by Salvadorans. www.latimes.com/food/story/2...

The @latimes.com holiday cookie bake-off IS BACK! Holidays may seem far off now, but if you have a delicious cookie recipe up your sleeve, now's the time to dust it off, and consider entering the bake-off, in partnership with LA Trade-Tech. 🧑🏽‍🍳🍪🎄 ENTER HERE: www.latimes.com/food/story/2...

The People & Ideas category of my web2.0 blog Intersections (2006-2018). I never moved it, never edited for present-day norms. It's still good stuff. 😜 danielhernandez.typepad.com/daniel_herna... Typepad ceases to exist 9/25. Currently attempting a migration to Wordpress to preserve the writing.

Fascinating study of this Glendale Armenian meat market's "sexy" social media strategy, from the Grocery Goblin, Vanessa Anderson. www.latimes.com/food/story/2...

Typepad is shutting down forever. Never left the platform. My first blog (def. weblog; Web 2.0 online publishing model, archaic) is still there. INTERSECTIONS, 20 years. The Internet is both permanent and impermanent. It runs away from you, dissipates, disappears. A lot of us lived the best of it.

under this language charlie kirk would not have been allowed to speak on clemson’s campus

I remember the first time I visited Chicago I dropped by the National Museum of Mexican Art, walked over to a local market that was selling surprisingly legit Mexican food, and it was confusing to me because I kept thinking...how can this feel so familiar but be 1,700+ miles away from So Cal?

Mi ensayo ... An Angeleno dines in Mexican Chicago. They’re just like us via @latimes.com hapi mexican independence day! ❤️🩶💚 www.latimes.com/food/story/2...

What could go wrong under a new bill to take away passports from Americans who the Secretary of State claims support terrorism? Use our new action center tool to tell Congress to reject this unconstitutional bill.

NEW: The best Mexican and Salvadoran restaurants from the Times Best Restaurants of California list, by critic Bill Addison. Feliz noche patria! 🇲🇽🇸🇻🇬🇹 @latimes www.latimes.com/food/list/be...

NEW: The classic of all classic diners The Original Pantry is reopening with new owners — including all former employees, in a deal pushed by their very shrewd union, Unite Here Local 11. More via @suhauna.bsky.social 🗒️ www.latimes.com/business/sto...

This is not even a question at this point

That tagline

LMAO. I am shocked, shocked I tell you, to find that Brian Tyler Cohen is a key part of this.

Old master painting looted by Nazis spotted in Argentine property listing: share.google/4HM4q1Pv4RY9...

a....camera?

There should be a Latino/Latin American-themed offshoot of @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social but the USA is not ready for that conversation 🤓 (I'm writing a play category for little nieces in Mexico based on their favorite artist — Shakira!)

Jenn Harris: 9 happy hours at high-end LA restaurants that unlock terrific dishes and cocktails at a discount, via @latimes.com www.latimes.com/food/list/be...

Nuestro reporte ... The best wine bars, tiki bars, dive bars, breweries, coffee and tea shops in the San Fernando Valley, by the Food team at @latimes.com 😘 www.latimes.com/food/list/be...

The Supreme Court could give immigration agents broad power to stop and question Latinos

It's year No. 49 covering high school sports, so let's look back at how it started

Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)

Want to cool off? Make this refreshing suero

“Papers, please”

Everyone needs to get comfortable calling this what this is: a military occupation of the nations capital by anti constitutional fascist ground forces.

It’s just a fascist country now. The hour is very late.

“Thank GOD the National Guard is here while I EAT MY PIZZA,” shouts a woman at Red Light on 14th in DC as yet another trio of guardsmen walk by.

It’s wild, absolutely wild, how for EVERY. SINGLE. CITY. Trump wants to militarize I can post data showing how crime is plummeting in all of them without any federal invasion… … and the press KEEPS stenographing the naked bad-faith claims about “fighting crime!” in the headlines. Infuriating.

"Twenty-three Democratic attorneys general now gather on near-daily Zoom calls at 8 AM Pacific, which means the East Coast officials are already on their third coffee. They divide responsibilities and share templates for lawsuits they’ve been drafting since last spring."

There are many reasons I think dictatorship will fail here. One big one is that this is a huge country with so many cities. How many big cities can the National Guard occupy before they start to stretch apart and defect? My guess is 5, max. We shall see, but I bet they’re already in too deep.

I know everything costs a lot more now but at least it's also worse quality

Otherwise known as communism.

BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego has been RELEASED from prison and is headed home to Maryland to be with his family. Judge Xinis has an order in place requiring a 72 hour notice if ICE decides to detain and deport him to a third country. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

“Where I come from—in LA representing Crenshaw and Slauson—when they go low, we squabble up,” says State Assemblymember Isaac Bryan on the redistricting fight. “They've changed the rules of the game, and we've got to meet them where they are. And that's what we did today.”

Powell: "GDP growth has slowed notably in the first half of this year, to a pace of 1.2%, roughly half the 2.5% pace in 2024. The declining growth has largely reflected a slowdown in consumer spending ... higher tariffs have begun to push up prices in some categories of goods."

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

Texas Republicans are forcing a vote on their rigged election maps. If they knew they could win the election — they wouldn’t be stealing 5 congressional seats. This is a blatant, racist power grab.

𝘚𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘣𝘶𝘤𝘬𝘴’ 𝘊𝘌𝘖 𝘱𝘢𝘺 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘨𝘢𝘱 𝘪𝘯 2024, 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘊𝘌𝘖, 𝘉𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘕𝘪𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘭, 𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 $95.8𝘮, 6,666 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺’𝘴 $14,674 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘺. This is authoritarian economics: unsustainable inequality and a politics that is increasingly ruled by the wealthy.

On December 14, 2012, a mass shooter murdered 20 children, ages 6 and 7, and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut. Four days later, evangelical author James Dobson claimed the mass shooting was God's retribution for abortion and gay marriage. He died today at 89.

The damn avocado toast is lethal

Two successive dem-socialist governments in Mexico (AMLO, Sheinbaum) have expanded welfare programs and apparently reduced poverty, confirmed by int'l bodies, I'm reading. Makes ya wonder! 🥲

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