Just picked a fresh orange off the tree, but it’s so hot out that it tastes like it’s been baked! I know there’s baked apples, but baked oranges? 😬

Worth watching!

Somewhere buried in a closet somewhere is a picture of me and my mom marching outside a Waldbaum's grocery store in Brooklyn when I was maybe 6 years old holding a banner in support of #CesarChavez. I still remember the protest slogan. So upset to learn this about someone I was taught to revere.

@csfrayer.bsky.social Do you want to translate the SEC's latest crypto release for me into English? For something that is supposed to "clarify" things, it's pretty confusing to me. www.sec.gov/newsroom/pre...

Just looking at the Warner Brothers proxy filed yesterday. The headline -- that Zaslav stands to make $887 million -- has already been reported. But the 5 top execs as a group will get $90 million in cash severance. Meanwhile, how many "below the line" folks will be laid off as a result of this?

Every #StPatricksDay, I remember how @graubart.bsky.social forced me to take Metro North into Manhattan with 5,000 drunk suburban teenagers when I was 6 months pregnant!🍀🍀

Buzzfeed (#$BZFD) filed a 100-plus page 10-K tonight. The very first sentence of the risk factors reads: "There is substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern." What else can they say in the other 100+ pages? www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Arch...

Agreed!

SEC Enforcement Director Meg Ryan suddenly steps down after only 6 months in the job. There's got to be a story behind this one? Who here knows it? www.sec.gov/newsroom/pre...

The Friday the 13th version of the #fridaynightdump is now underway. There's already been over 50 8-Ks filed since markets closed 25 minutes ago!

Interesting that the College Board is offering a new AP class in business/personal finance.

For all my fellow mid-to-late career journalists out there. Absolutely worth a read!

Interesting disclosure by #$WYNN about its project in UAE given current situation. "Our project construction has resumed following a short pause. Steps have been taken to ensure the safety and security of all employees working on site." www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

New lawsuit against #$ZTS over the drug that killed my beloved dog, Max, nearly a year ago. I'm one of 19 plaintiffs in LA County. #$ZTS lied to pet owners like me about safety of the drug. More details here. unicourt.com/case/ca-la24...

On Thursday, this gas station was priced at $4.99/gallon. On Saturday, it was up to $5.09. Today it was $5.33.

Important and super interesting investigation from @wsj.com on how American citizens are the primary target in immigration crackdown. www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

There’s still time to enter a pie in @kcrw.com PieFest next Saturday! I’ll be there with my mom’s apple pie recipe!

And they’re charging $1500 a pop for their 3-month residency in LA.

Gas prices have breached $5 in my pocket of LA.

New world headquarters for footnoted just opened yesterday. It’s a longer commute than my spare bedroom, but thankfully still avoids LA traffic!

NVIDIA deleted almost all of its DEI language in its recent 10-K. For the past few years, the company provided stats on its employees including breakdown on male/female (78% to 21%) and talked about what it was doing to change that. Read more here. www.footnoted.com/nvidia-delet...

Playing catch-up on this @anthropic.com report released earlier today and got stuck on this line: "Workers in the most exposed professions are more likely to be older, female, more educated, and higher-paid". Sigh! www.anthropic.com/research/lab...

Gas prices suddenly up to $4.99 a gallon for regular in my corner of LA. Premium is already over $5!

Hamentaschen #fail Hopefully they still taste good🤞🤞

I guess this explains why I'm suddenly getting a surge in French spam (on top of the English stuff I've been getting). Looks like the city of Paris (or at least their adult class site) was hacked.

Here's your M&A math lesson for the day: IAC bought care.com for $500 million in 2020 and is now selling it to a PE firm for $320 almost 6 years later. Look for it to go public again in a few years. Wash, rinse, repeat. www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

There's still time to get your guesses in for how many 10-Ks will be filed by the end of today. Now that markets are closed, the deluge will begin! The person who comes closest gets a signed copy of my book. Respond below or via email: [email protected]

In Paris, a pain aux raisins costs under €5. In Pasadena, it’s $13!

Today’s a big deadline day for 10-Ks. Guess the total number filed today to win a signed copy of my book. All guesses due by 4:30 ET.

Sigh. Hours later and the SEC's EDGAR is still having all sorts of problems!

SEC's EDGAR awfully buggy this weekend. Anyone else experiencing a problem?

Looks like David Zaslav got access to a new G6 in December, according to this amended agreement attached to the 10-K. #$WBD www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

There were more than 400 10-Ks filed today. Deadline day for the largest companies is on Monday.

Both Trump Media (#$DJT) and WarnerBros Discovery (#$WBD) filed their 10-Ks after 5:15 today. Which should I tackle first? #fridaynightdump

Kind of glad my kid isn't the sporty type. Seems crazy to charge $100 for courtside seats for a HS basketball game. Only in LA!

Just posted this to footnoted of the week subscribers. Paid subscribers received this post a week ago.

Alternative programming: the dog park! So much better than what else is on!

New #$PLBY CEO most recently worked at @nationalgeographic.bsky.social and was focused on the company's global media business. But can he revive Playboy? And, perhaps more importantly, is it worth reviving? www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Arch...

We're at 55% of our $25,000 goal to help me launch @lataco.bsky.social investigative news desk. Thanks so much to everyone who has contributed or shared our fundraiser! We're already putting the money we've raised to use 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 Donate here - givebutter.com/la-taco-inve...

Exhibit A: Remember SPACs? Just asked Gemini for some statistics: of the 795 companies that went public via a SPAC over the past 5 years, more than 90% are trading below the $10 price they went public at. Median performance is down 65%-70%. But, yes, let's make IPOS Great Again! (2/2)

SEC Chair Paul Atkins likes to wax about the glory days of publicly traded companies. Keeps saying there were 7800 public companies in the mid-1990s and that number has dropped by 40%. The problem is that more public companies doesn't necessarily mean better ones! (1/2)

Anyone hear from Pam “The Dow is over 50,000 dollars!” Bondi today on current market trends? Am waiting to hear from her on what to do with my kid’s 529.😉

Timeline cleanse: check out the dinner my son made last night. I like to cook too, but couldn’t do this when I was 15!

I gained my reporting chops working for 4 different local papers at the start of my career. They were starting to become shells when I left. Now, it’s sadly even worse. Too few people watching the proverbial store, whether that’s city hall, the local school board or the police.

My hub, who pays close attention to box office numbers just sent me this on the Melania movie. It’s doing particularly well in overseas markets (not!). Under $300k in ticket sales for non-American markets is a joke!

Have long said that if you add up all the things that Americans pay a lot for including childcare, healthcare, college and elder care, it would probably zero out.

Unbelievable! The story about Zuck testifying in open court in LA is in the 30th position on @latimes.com app, just below this riveting story on Hugh Hefner, who’s been dead for nearly a decade! Just sad!

When SEC Chair Paul Atkins uses the phrase "vibe coding", does that mean the phrase has jumped the shark? www.sec.gov/newsroom/spe...

It was a really long time ago, but I still remember the man who told me “Listen up, kitten!”. Why do some men think they can still talk to women like this?

It's deadline day for 13Fs. Nearly 300 have been filed since markets closed at 4 pm. Many more to come! www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/brow...