Camila Pedrosa, one of The Bee’s most prolific journalists, is taking on a new role covering all things fun in the Golden State.

ICYMI Sources: DOJ investigations into Gov. Gavin Newsom tied to wife’s finances, nonprofits www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

they asked me to write something about the world cup, so here you go www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

McClatchy’s corporate leaders still haven’t made a case for their AI initiative to the public. Internally, they’ve said ~if reporters don’t comply with this AI scheme, we’ll be ruined.~ Unionized journalists believe the opposite is true: Their AI plan is a death spiral. san.com/cc/this-majo...

Freelancing is hard enough already, and inflation sucks. Defector is raising our base freelance rates by 20 percent. Great time to pitch us. Email me or [email protected]

I’ll be on @kalwradio.bsky.social in 10 minutes talking about the CA governor’s race

just fyi this photo exists because i make music, which you can listen to on apple, tidal, bandcamp and lots of other places.

Gavin Newsom said in a speech at CAP today that AI resentment will dominate future elections: ‘The pitchforks are here’ www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

What's gutting about this is that Juniper seems to have had a family who supported and loved her, she was in a community that has been explicitly welcoming to trans people, and a man still murdered her. She was living the life so many trans people can only dream of, and it simply didn't matter.

via @keithlaw.bsky.social, it looks like a reader spotted this fabricated quote in the @nytimes.com on April 15, the day after the story was published & more than two weeks before the paper published a correction notice. hmm!!! bsky.app/profile/iris...

once again i have been snubbed by the failing pulitzer prizes

If there was any justice in the world and we still valued art, hbo would reassemble the early 2010s true detective writers’ room and crank out a whole new series based on the Epstein files to match the ending of s1

Let’s this be a teachable moment for those who refuse to acknowledge that Bluesky is a resistance lib echo chamber

Follow for the latest updates on the race now that Gov. Janet Mills has dropped out, effectively making Graham Platner the Democratic nominee. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/04/30/p...

TheWrap reports today on how a McClatchy corporate executive spoke about reporters with practical and ethical concerns about the company’s new AI article-generating tool. At the Sacramento Bee, unionized journalists are proudly “defiant” because we believe this tool compromises our integrity.

A phenomenal story from @theresagaff.bsky.social about how access to gender-affirming care for adults, like with kids, is shrinking. www.statnews.com/2026/04/20/t...

We've been asked a lot how we got our story about the sexual assault allegations against Eric Swalwell. @demianbulwa.bsky.social wrote about the fundamental acts of journalism, not opposition research, that unearthed this scandal: www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

please don’t give Tiger ideas

Reporters (and editors) know so many more things than they can actually report publicly. Most of it second- or third-hand, through the rumor mill.

Many California Democrats now calling for Swalwell to drop out of the governor's race, including one of his campaign co-chairs: www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

PODCAST: @sacbee.com reporter @liaoffleash.bsky.social was part of the team that broke the news of former Newsom COS Dana Williamson’s arrest last year. We asked about that story, covering the capitol - and about all those tattoos capitolweekly.net/covering-the...

In a story on ProPublica reporters’ fight for AI protections, WaPo highlights Bee journalists who stand against McClatchy’s AI “articles” initiative. I wonder why McClatchy has now twice declined to comment on this AI tool. Internally we have heard corporate executives say they’re very proud of it 🤔

Unionized journalists at the Sacramento Bee stand united against McClatchy’s latest AI “articles” initiative. We have withheld our bylines from these stories because we do not want the public to think this is being done in our name — it’s not. We think it’s disgusting.

“right wing billionaires sell off chunks of longstanding American institutions to Arab oil billionaires” is a plot point in the 1979 Kurt Vonnegut novel JAILBIRD and it probably read a little heavy handed at the time

Busy day in Sac today: First: California intends to reward a $19M contract burnishing its image nationwide to a company that helped Saudi Arabia rehab its image after the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

Lia is a real one! Check out this interview!

PODCAST: @sacbee.com reporter @liaoffleash.bsky.social. Russell covers the governor, and helped break the story of Dana Williamson’s arrest last year. We asked about that story, covering the capitol, and what it was like to cover politics in Maine and Baltimore capitolweekly.net/covering-the...

uh hey idk what's going on with this post (modest tiddy reveal really hitting i guess) but since you're here it would be dope if you went and listened to my album! linktr.ee/chapslovesyo...

C.S. Lewis’s advice on how to become a better writer to a young school girl (per Athenaeum Book Club on Substack)

obviously this story wouldn't have been any less dark if this wasn't true, but I really wasn't prepared for one of the victims to have been Dolores Huerta

Just updating this here with a New York Times investigation published today, documenting years of Chavez's sexual violence against underage girls and even Dolores Huerta:

New: The legal attacks on transgender Americans are moving fast beyond questions of school sports and youth gender medicine. Democrats are getting caught flatfooted, as they're still debating how to respond to the wedge issues @vox.com gift link: www.vox.com/policy/48276...

I wrote about Kat.

Ex-Newsom aide received $62,500 after leaving his office while under investigation by the FBI www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

@lauralippman.bsky.social I’m about to go to a wedding in Nola, any bookstores you recommend? I’m also a former sun reporter 👋

Polyamory seems most appealing when one looks at the state of childcare in this country

As Eric Swalwell aims to fend off attacks over his CA residency, Ben Paviour and I found that he rents a room in Livermore—not an apartment or home— in a home occupied by a family of 3. www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

they’re making sipping an ice cold beer after work illegal

One thing about straight couples who dominate queer bars: they really love singing “suddenly Seymour” at karaoke

'BEYOND THE LAW?' Lexis-Olivier Ray (2025) #ShotOn35mm 🎞

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

what an incredible thing to say www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

Reactionary crank with an axe to grind who gained air time for bungling a study years ago is now writing op eds for the most powerful newspaper in the western world because media literacy is in her flop era and faith in legacy institutions is collapsing? Fork found in kitchen

I read Newsom’s memoir www.sacbee.com/news/politic...

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

i’m very proud of @theverge.com’s ongoing minneapolis coverage. i’m insanely lucky to work somewhere that takes immigration reporting seriously and did so even before trump’s reelection. we took many different approaches to DHS’s operation in MN, maybe they’re not all to your taste. that’s okay!

Gaby del Valle is one of the best reporters I know and the attacks against her on here are not only shocking in their violence and bigotry but also incredibly bad-faith and utterly without merit.

Surest way to get your email deleted or catch a block is to start with “Ms. Russell, why didn’t you do xyz—“

“Looksmaxxers” are losers and freaks, but we let them steer the culture when we adopt their terminology.