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Some of y’all noticed I’ve been uncharacteristically offline. This is why, and I remain on leave for a few weeks to handle a PTSD relapse. CJR was dogged in its pursuit of my story. Because of what I do and who I am, I felt that I had to answer their questions honestly. www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...

during Ramadan, many Muslims lean into being more nocturnal. A growing crop of nighttime community events in Southern California now draw thousands of people @yusramf.bsky.social reports laist.com/news/los-ang...

THE SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW IS UNION MADE! Shout out to Kendrick Lamar, and all the performers and behind the scenes workers that made this go off without a hitch!

"I want to perform their favorite song, but you know they love to sue" - Kendrick Lamar

I don't want to go to war with Canada just putting that out there

Protesters call for Children’s Hospital L.A. to reverse restrictions on transgender care www.latimes.com/california/s...

A little ray of light in this time of darkness 📬 Story by @yusramf.bsky.social for @laist.com laist.com/news/mail-ca...

There have been so many braindead, obviously wrong posts getting amplified on social media about the L.A. fires. Please get your information from trusted news sources and reporters, like @laist.com and @yusramf.bsky.social:

Looking to try something new this weekend? Check out my write that I did with my colleague @yusramf.bsky.social, where we visited a group of #halal food trucks and stands near DTLA, which features an array of Central Asian and Turkish cuisine: laist.com/news/food/ea...

Terrific watchdog work by Yusra Farzan, Jill Replogle and Nick Gerda to keep pushing for records they were initially told didn't exist.

County records obtained by LAist show officials failed to follow through on recommended precautions ahead of the costly fire, now topping $400 million in claims.

Hossam Shabat, a palestinian journalist in gaza, has been injured in an air strike that killed some first responders arriving to treat people at a house that had been bombed

Course changes at the University of North Texas’ college of education included removing words such as “race,” “gender,” “class” and “equity” from titles and descriptions

Exclusive: After an LAist investigation, a high-profile nonprofit has refunded Orange County $275K in taxpayer funds for work never completed.

The number of red-tagged homes in Rancho Palos Verdes due to land movement has increased from two to 18 after city officials began inspecting properties as part of a buyout program. The inspections also resulted in 34 properties being yellow tagged, meaning they have been moderately damaged.

LA Unified School District president to Trump: “We’re going to fight you, every inch of the way” www.latimes.com/california/s...

Men dominate the news influencer space space by a margin of roughly two to one, the study found. The vast majority of content creators who are shaping our news ecosystem online are conservative men.

As @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social reports, this is not only horrifying and inhumane, it will devastate our country in ways we can't begin to fathom.

If you live in California and want to own a home and have kids, you probably realize you can’t do both with high housing costs.

so how are we using this? Like the bird app?