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 LAās 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. Hereās how to help.
https://civileats.com/2025/01/22/in-los-angeless-altadena-neighborhood-community-food-solutions-feed-wildfire-recovery/
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Karen Attiah
about 1 month 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 ā But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America ā 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
about 1 month ago
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Rob Talks Nonsense
3 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
3 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
4 months ago
My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdaniās dad (same like āmy stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmatesā) and apparently the New York Times doesnāt understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my momās people!
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Hyperlexic
4 months ago
documenting what we all knew: Trump was teetering on financial collapse until he won the election, now heās cashing in (gift link)
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Trumpās 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
4 months ago
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
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Anil Dash
4 months ago
This
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video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced ā itās the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Blueskyās limits)
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Mehdi Hasan
4 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
4 months ago
As an anti-Zionist Jew, Iād 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
4 months ago
Mark and Melissa saw the humanity in everyone. Letās honor them by doing the same.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
4 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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š¬š¾š½Sydette The Dreaded Gorgonš½š¬š¾
4 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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Peopleās City Council - Los Angeles
4 months ago
Important coverage of todayās press conference from
@lataco.bsky.social
. Please share:
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makena kelly
5 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
5 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 āthe leftā on how riots just amplify right wing talking points.
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Peopleās City Council - Los Angeles
5 months ago
FUCK RICKY LINTON! FUCK LAPD!
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Peopleās City Council - Los Angeles
5 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
5 months ago
Protesters sitting in front of police chanting peaceful protest
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David Dayen
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 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
5 months ago
This seems important from Jake Sherman
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utopia deferred
5 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
5 months ago
gonna start calling my catastrophic failures āpartially successfulā
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Ed Zitron
5 months ago
canāt take anyone seriously who wears a hat indoors
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Phil Lewis
5 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
5 months ago
"She was also Gazaās 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. 'ā
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Gazaās 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
5 months ago
So a lot of people worked on this that werenāt 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 ā¤ļø
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Eric Reinhart
5 months ago
AI art constitutes, as Hayao Miyazaki has put it, āan insult to life itself.ā Hereās why.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The trouble with AI art isnāt just lack of originality. Itās something far bigger | Eric Reinhart
When artwork is invented by a machine, it loses its most important power: to help people connect. In an already lonely era, that is particularly dangerous
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/20/ai-art-concerns-originality-connection
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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
6 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
6 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
6 months ago
āLeo also made a plea for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and for humanitarian aid to be allowed to be distributed āto the exhausted civilian populationā in the territory, as well as the return of the hostages taken in Hamasā assaultā (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 2025" Banditelli
6 months ago
"My union organized on behalf of me and other international students with so much effort, love, and care." Rümeysa Ćztürk ššš„°
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Thomas Lumley
6 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 š¤¦š»āāļø
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Fidel Martinez
6 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
6 months ago
Stop taking this administration at its word
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Schooley
6 months ago
To think the other possibility was prison.
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Zoe Tillman
6 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 Heās Winning
A Bloomberg analysis of more than 325 court cases involving challenges to President Trumpās 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
6 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 Ćztürk 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
6 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 āWokeā Programāand Accidentally Screws MAGA Voters
Itās called the Digital Equity Act. That wordāāequityāācaught the White Houseās attention. So now Trump is moving to nix fundingābut 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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Joshua Erlich
6 months ago
itās not a net loss. itās the cost of a service. I donāt have a net loss with hulu. it costs something and I pay it.
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Nicole Chung
6 months ago
Les Mis principal cast members are planning to boycott a planned Kennedy Center preview performance that is also a Trump fundraiser
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A Trump-hosted fundraiser, a āLes Misā cast boycott and more Kennedy Center layoffs
Patrons can pay $2 million to see a preview of the āLes MisĆ©rablesā and snap a photo with Trump, but they wonāt be seeing the whole principal cast.
https://wapo.st/3GHoBb4
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sarah jeong
6 months ago
Bluesky's userbase tilts pretty far towards liberals (gonna count progs as libs, but apologetically and with all due respec). But to everyone calling this place an outlier / echo chamber let me give you some admittedly unscientific anecdata:
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