Esther Tseng
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Food, drinks & culture writer estarla.com
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Wrote about 13 community food solutions amid the Eaton and Palisades fires for
@civileats.com
. Through nourishment of our bodies and souls, we can rebuild. Hope this can be a resource on how we can sustain while we take it day by day to reconstruct what has been lost.
civileats.com/2025/01/22/i...
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In LAâs Altadena Neighborhood, Community Food Solutions Feed Wildfire Recovery
With thousands of acres burned and homes lost, this historic L.A. suburb finds nourishment and solace through local food. Hereâs how to help.
https://civileats.com/2025/01/22/in-los-angeless-altadena-neighborhood-community-food-solutions-feed-wildfire-recovery/
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Sandstone
about 2 months ago
I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
about 2 months ago
in the last 5 days these laid-off VIBE staffers have only made it to 31% of their GoFundMe goal after being laid off. please show them the same support you showed Teen Vogue!!
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
about 2 months ago
those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal â the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in âausterityâ measures
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Melissa Hung
about 2 months ago
In Denver, there is no trace of its Chinatown, which the city demolished in waves during the 1940s and 1960s. Today, a new generation of chefs are reclaiming their heritage, building community, and cooking up tasty dishes. Story by
@estarla.bsky.social
www.cntraveler.com/story/in-den...
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In Denver, New Restaurants Honor a Long-Erased Chinatown
In downtown Denver, a hub for the Chinese American community dating back to the 1880s, the next generation of chefs are embracing their heritage.
https://www.cntraveler.com/story/in-denver-new-restaurants-honor-a-long-erased-chinatown
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Karen Attiah
4 months ago
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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The Washington Post Fired Me â But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America â and it cost me my job.
https://substack.com/@karenattiah/note/p-173531760?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=2bz6j
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Kevin M. Kruse
4 months ago
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Rob Talks Nonsense
6 months ago
Good column by the often wonderful
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social
. And yeah,
@jeffjarvis.bsky.social
gave us gift link so go read it please.
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Nicholas Slayton
6 months ago
This is a great list of some fantastic spots in Los Angeles. Good stuff from
@estarla.bsky.social
. And glad to see the bar I work at made the cut.
www.bonappetit.com/story/best-b...
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The 8 Best Bars in Los Angeles Right Now
Big, national names are building a local audience, while homegrown talent dazzle with their attention to craft.
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/best-bars-los-angeles?srsltid=AfmBOoq8jb53w1rKrLaZIj2AF0BHqPZT3V_2CHnb3S5-RIp9NjKogmCu
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Sophia Babai
6 months ago
My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdaniâs dad (same like âmy stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmatesâ) and apparently the New York Times doesnât understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my momâs people!
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Hyperlexic
6 months ago
documenting what we all knew: Trump was teetering on financial collapse until he won the election, now heâs cashing in (gift link)
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Trumpâs Finances Were Shaky. Then He Began to Capitalize on His Comeback.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/us/trump-finances-crypto.html?unlocked_article_code=1.TU8.SYrR.ye3sOhaUfu-b&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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El Norte Recuerda
6 months ago
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
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Anil Dash
6 months ago
This
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced â itâs the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Blueskyâs limits)
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Mehdi Hasan
6 months ago
How does anyone justify this? Seriously, how?
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74 killed in Gaza as Israeli forces strike a cafe and fire on people seeking food
Witnesses and medics in Gaza say an Israeli airstrike on a seaside cafe has killed at least 30 people in Gaza City.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-gaza-food-c08079f831c44442a19ffd21fcea8de4
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Helen Rosner
6 months ago
As an anti-Zionist Jew, Iâd love advice from progressive, anti-nationalist Christians on how you navigate connection to your religious identity while its most visible & influential face is a faction of racist, empire-seeking supremacists
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Governor Tim Walz
6 months ago
Mark and Melissa saw the humanity in everyone. Letâs honor them by doing the same.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
6 months ago
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.
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đŹđžđ˝Sydette The Dreaded Gorgonđ˝đŹđž
6 months ago
Black people are over represented in deportations, many of the most questionable ones are to the Caribbean and specifically Jamaica I would like to fight
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Peopleâs City Council - Los Angeles
7 months ago
Important coverage of todayâs press conference from
@lataco.bsky.social
. Please share:
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makena kelly
7 months ago
three years ago, Vox Media reached an agreement with its union securing one of the *strongest* contracts in digital media. and now they won't budge on basic protections? shame on management. solidarity with my vox media union pals!!!! i hear they're ready to strike!!!
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Matt da Silva
7 months ago
Seeing a massive divide online between Angelenos of all political stripes who understand that the protests in LA yesterday were mostly peaceful and any violence was ICE-initiated and East Coast establishment liberals lecturing âthe leftâ on how riots just amplify right wing talking points.
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Peopleâs City Council - Los Angeles
7 months ago
FUCK RICKY LINTON! FUCK LAPD!
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Peopleâs City Council - Los Angeles
7 months ago
LAPD FIRING ON US AT POINT BLANK. TAKING MULTIPLE SHOTS AY THE CHEST AND HEAD AREA!! FUCK LAPD!!
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Tina-Desiree Berg
7 months ago
Protesters sitting in front of police chanting peaceful protest
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David Dayen
7 months ago
Just watching on local news now, but there are maybe 100 protesters carrying signs, being blocked by a line of police cars that stretch for three city blocks.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
7 months ago
Rep. Maxine Waters calmly attempts to access LA Federal Building to check on David Huerta and is denied, recalling lawless shabby treatment of mayor Ras Baraka and Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rob Menendez and LaMonica McIver when they attempted to access a NJ ICE facility
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Maxine Waters barred entry to Los Angeles Federal Building amid riots
Rep. Maxine Waters, D- Calif., on Sunday was barred from entering the Los Angeles Federal Building by the National Guard.
https://kutv.com/news/nation-world/maxine-waters-barred-entry-to-los-angeles-federal-building-amid-riots
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Adam Rose
7 months ago
Dozens of journalists were assaulted by law enforcement in Los Angeles this weekend. The press were just doing their job -- a sacred one explicitly protected by law. Press rights orgs will follow up collectively tomorrow. Tonight, I emailed evidence to local/state/federal officials. My sign off:
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Chad Loder
7 months ago
Content warning: blood, serious head injury. A woman was run down and trampled and clubbed by LAPD officers on horseback. She appears to be seriously injured and bleeding from the head as an officer drags her limp body along the pavement.
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Molly Jong-Fast
7 months ago
This seems important from Jake Sherman
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utopia deferred
7 months ago
the national "fell for it again" awards competition has come to southern missouri. big fan of watching people delude themselves that this isn't what they voted for while the guy next to them smiles and speaks the truth: yes you did, you just feel bad about it now.
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bobby
7 months ago
gonna start calling my catastrophic failures âpartially successfulâ
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Ed Zitron
7 months ago
canât take anyone seriously who wears a hat indoors
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Phil Lewis
7 months ago
Southwest Airlines will start charging $35 for a checked bag tomorrow
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Southwest Airlines will start charging $35 for a checked bag tomorrow
Southwest on May 28 will start selling basic economy tickets and charging for checked bags for the first time in its history.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/26/southwest-airlines-checked-bag-fees.html
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Gillian Branstetter
7 months ago
"She was also Gazaâs youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. 'â
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Gazaâs youngest influencer aged 11 among children killed by Israeli strikes
Yaqeen Hammad offered tips for surviving life under bombardment and is just one of dozens of minors who have died
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/26/gazas-youngest-influencer-aged-11-among-children-killed-by-israeli-strikes
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Molly Shah
7 months ago
So a lot of people worked on this that werenât me including
@mamafriend.bsky.social
@ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social
@alexwinter.com
@link.spacelawshitpost.me
@hebagowayed.bsky.social
and a lot of other people- not to mention the hundreds of people in Gaza who entrusted me with their stories â¤ď¸
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i thought the whiskers on catfish were poisonous until i was 25 because my brother told me, when i was 8, that they were so i'd stay out of the way while they were cleaning and scaling their catch
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Eric Michael Garcia
8 months ago
Republican Senators still in office who voted to confirm Hayden: -Barrasso -Boozman -Capito -Collins -Cornyn -Fischer -Graham -Grassley -Hoeven -Johnson -Lankford -McConnell -Moran -Murkowski -Paul -Sullivan -Thune -Tillis
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Elle
8 months ago
the problem with accepting a $400 million dollar jet as a gift is that the IRS immediately takes 50% and half a plane really isn't safe to fly
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Nicole Chung
8 months ago
âLeo also made a plea for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and for humanitarian aid to be allowed to be distributed âto the exhausted civilian populationâ in the territory, as well as the return of the hostages taken in Hamasâ assaultâ (gift link)
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Pope Leo XIV Calls for End to War in First Sunday Blessing as Pontiff
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/world/europe/pope-leo-xiv-address-peace.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GU8.ht2e.XxnM0oEbhzKZ&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli
8 months ago
"My union organized on behalf of me and other international students with so much effort, love, and care." RĂźmeysa ĂztĂźrk đđđĽ°
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Thomas Lumley
8 months ago
Perhaps most important, it should be faster to manufacture than a traditional flu vaccine when there's a new pandemic
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the absolute irony, hypocrisy and lack of education/self-awareness of someone posting, "we'll give up pronouns if you give up fascism" in my fb feed đ¤Śđťââď¸
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Fidel Martinez
8 months ago
New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line
The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/childcare-new-mexico-poverty
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Molly Jong-Fast
8 months ago
Stop taking this administration at its word
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Schooley
8 months ago
To think the other possibility was prison.
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Zoe Tillman
8 months ago
Weekend read: US courts have ordered a stop to President Trump's policies and actions 200+ times. We've been tracking lawsuits from the moment he was sworn in, identifying at least 328 and counting. A deep dive into the data (gift link):
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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In Court, Trump Is Losing More Than Heâs Winning
A Bloomberg analysis of more than 325 court cases involving challenges to President Trumpâs executive actions reveals the stress test on the balance of power taking shape.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-lawsuits-against-trump-administration/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0NjcwMDg1MSwiZXhwIjoxNzQ3MzA1NjUxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTVlhSUVNUMVVNMFgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI1NkY0MDI2RTJDMDU0OTAyQUU5NTQwMkVCODZDREI1RCJ9.n16HCJO6JlEaj__CwuZZfd-lNkyHQnaM8yIqd5bE15Q
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
8 months ago
I hope it is very clear what antisemitism looks like, and I'll tell you what, it's not an op-ed condemning genocide. Consider that while Rumeysa ĂztĂźrk spent 6 weeks in prison for her constitutionally protected speech, the president's friend wouldn't dream of worrying about such a thing.
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Greg Sargent
8 months ago
Just amazing: Trump grew angry over a Biden-era program with the word "equity" in its name, so he ended it. But a key part of the program was sending money to red states to expand internet access in rural/MAGA country. Now they might not get it. New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/1950...
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Angry Trump Kills âWokeâ Programâand Accidentally Screws MAGA Voters
Itâs called the Digital Equity Act. That wordââequityââcaught the White Houseâs attention. So now Trump is moving to nix fundingâbut it could cut off millions destined for red America.
https://newrepublic.com/article/195097/angry-trump-kills-woke-program-and-accidentally-screws-maga-voters
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