Today the Department of the Interior announced they will hold the six offshore lease sales across off of California. I wrote about Reagan’s Interior Secretary James Watt opening up 80 million acres of offshore waters to oil and gas about a year ago. The last offshore lease in California was 1984.

ChatGPT, what's a good name for an AI startup that hasn't been used already? Preferably something grandiose but that doesn't invoke the end of humanity?

Sometimes the news business just needs a headline like this.

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao? TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him. TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

Will Smith has a reading foundation and visits public schools. Just so you know the guy who hit that game winning homer has done good things for the LAUSD

I think 🤔 I see the problem.

Best headline of the day: www.latimes.com/california/s...

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

We made a list of the most dangerous intersections in Los Angeles. xtown.la/2025/10/15/m...

xtown.la/2025/10/15/m... Why is traffic in Los Angeles getting more lethal? These intersections tell part of the tale.

We ranked the 20 most dangerous intersections in Los Angeles. xtown.la/2025/10/15/m...

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Austin Beutner, former Los Angeles schools chief, deputy mayor and finance bigwig, is running for mayor. He also ran 14 years ago, then backed out. I spoke to him then. lamag.com/news/the-lon...

The Los Angeles Police Department has failed to publish its crime reports for the past 19 months. So we are trying to piece together the the crime picture as best we can. First chart: homicides. There have been 7 fewer homicides so far this year than during the same period last year.

Constitutional crisis here we cone! oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/10/05/f...

Building is returning to the Palisades. Is it happening fast enough? xtown.la/2025/09/30/b...

@karaswisher.bsky.social Instead of trying to buy the Washington Post, why not make a bid for the LA Times? It’s basically up for sale, still the biggest newsroom on the West Coast and urgently needs improvement.

If one of the few joys you have in your daily routine is doing Wordle, Connections, etc., and you need more distractions, I recommend Octordle. www.britannica.com/games/octord...

Make no mistake: Turning the H1-B system into a tax is an attempt to further cripple American universities. Most graduate programs in engineering, science and other fields are filled with international students who hope to score an H-1B upon graduation. No more. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/b...

The WGA’s statement on ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Let's reminder that Disney arguably started this wave of media capitulation by settling Trump's lawsuit against ABC last December. And now here we are...

At this rate, I will be surprised if MSNBC makes it to 2026.

Oh my God, NYTimes. Also, the sky is blue.

Solar power in Los Angeles is starting to dim. What's behind the decline? xtown.la/2025/09/11/s...

also great to hear ICE is getting sniper training.

One chart that explains why Trump is attacking both higher ed and mainstream news: College grads consumer more legit news and they vote Democrat.

In Israel, hundred of thousands take to the street opposing Netanyahu's planned military campaign in Gaza City and demanding that he accept the hostage release deal already accepted by Hamas. www.cnn.com/2025/08/27/m...

Some FACTS! At Crosstown, we use data to report the news. You've heard a lot about crime in Chicago. Here are the actual numbers for over 20 years. First chart: Robberies in Chicago from 2021-present.

LA's crime scene, in charts. xtown.la/2025/08/25/c...

This is full on Third Reich. They are subpoenaing the names, addresses and social security numbers of children. Will anyone stand up to this? This ends badly. Very badly. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Thank you, Boston Globe. This is how it's done.

Thank you @newyorker.com

DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man? Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

How in the world, NYTimes, is this your headline??!!

Hey egeryone, it’s National Civility Month! How we doing so far? nationaltoday.com/national-civ...

If parents allow their kids to be themselves and have the freedom to make health care decisions with their trusted providers, everyone wins. Looking for a community of parents of trans & gender expansive youth? Visit: www.hrc.org/resources/pa...

“Death of Stalin”

Gives new meaning to the term "TACO trade"

Check out Leni Riefenstahl’s latest cut!

Wtf?

Elon rn

In understanding the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles, context is everything. So here's some context: A decade of homeless counts.

The administration that's destroying American universities in the name of antisemitism is using MechaHitler as an AI contractor in the Department of Defense. 👍

Has anyone checked Schumer for a pulse lately?