David Wharton
@dwharton.bsky.social
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Former
@latimes.com
journalist. Borderline obsessive fencer.
As the sign on the left says: “Same sh*t, different century”
#NoKings
in West Hills CA
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In West Hills CA, a hateful, violent protest … with crossing guards.
#NoKings
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@latimes.com
"Pets for Profit," a look at the big-money pet industry, has earned 1st-place at National Press Club awards. Congrats to colleagues
@melodygutierrez.bsky.social
& Alene Tchekmedyian -- we put much work & passion into this.
@pressclubdc.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Pets for profit: An in-depth investigation
A deep look into exploitation within the nation's multibillion-dollar pet industry, from the unregulated pipeline of puppies and other animals imported to California, to lax oversight that enables abu...
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-12/pets-for-profit-an-in-depth-investigation
8 months ago
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Honored that our "Pets for Profit" series in the
@latimes.com
was a finalist for the
@ire.org
FOI Award. Congrats to my colleagues and to
@jacl.bsky.social
, who launched and oversaw much of the work. See the stories here:
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Pets for profit: An in-depth investigation
A deep look into exploitation within the nation's multibillion-dollar pet industry, from the unregulated pipeline of puppies and other animals imported to California, to lax oversight that enables abu...
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-09-12/pets-for-profit-an-in-depth-investigation
10 months ago
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Abby
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Seeing more and more social media posts (on various platforms) about bringing the Canadian boycott south of the border, ie: Americans buying only Canadian whiskey and shifting their vacation plans northward.
11 months ago
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#Tesla
owner driving past
#TeslaTakedown
protest at Westfield Topanga in Woodland Hills CA pulled over, opened his hatch & handed out these posters. Very cool.
11 months ago
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Amy McGrath
11 months ago
Old F-18 fighter pilot here with 80+ combat missions - launch times on a strike mission ARE ABSOLUTELY CLASSIFIED.
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VIDEO They are literally searching for a clump of ashes — a favorite aunt’s burned-up urn — in a sea of ashes. My final appearance on “LA Times Today” reveals how archeologists find cremated remains in wildfire burn areas
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How archeologists find cremated remains in burn areas
"LA Times Today" investigates
https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/southern-california/news/2025/03/24/finding-cremated-remains-in-fire-areas?cid=id-app15_m-share_s-web_cmp-app_launch_august2020_c-producer_posts_po-organic?cid=share_twitter
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Sammy Roth
11 months ago
Los Angeles trees are absorbing more carbon dioxide than researchers expected, per a new study out of USC:
www.latimes.com/california/n...
via
@ryan-fonseca.bsky.social
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‘L.A. trees are kicking ass.' Urban plants capture more CO2 than expected, study finds
A researcher tracking CO2 emissions across a swath of the city says trees are ‘uncanny’ air cleaners.
https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2025-03-19/usc-urban-trees-study-carbon-dioxide-essential-california
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“Anything to feel weightless again.” Great Handsome Family show.
11 months ago
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Waiting on the Handsome Family at Barnsdahl Gallery Theater
11 months ago
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Pam Kan-Rice
11 months ago
LA fires: “If we don’t do something different, we’re going to re-create what just happened,”
@ucanr.bsky.social
wildfire specialist Max Moritz tells
@dwharton.bsky.social
. “Homes may still have to be greater than some minimum distance apart. It could be 10 feet or 15 feet. No one knows.”
add a skeleton here at some point
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Fire-ravaged neighborhoods in Altadena & Pacific Palisades are basically rebuilding from scratch. It's an awful situation but fire science experts say they have a chance to come back safer & stronger. Check out this graphic explanation.
@latimes.com
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Can fire-gutted suburbs rebuild safer? Here's what the experts say
Though no community can be made fireproof, discarding past urban design practices could make areas abutting wilderness safer from the kind of wildfire that hit Altadena and Pacific Palisades.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-12/can-devastated-communities-rebuild-differently-for-the-next-wildfire?fbclid=IwY2xjawI-qelleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHWxf-ELlJGgE0tx9go80AYLawL6XHtlBwp8pPB7LQ7-oecPPZh4bVn_63Q_aem_uYzWqd0amHeDliLPmk_Tww
11 months ago
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It was 1982 when I first walked into the
@latimes.com
, never imagining this job would take me around the world to write about a cemetery in Russia & boxers in Lesotho, murder in Tahiti & war in Iraq, plus 20 years of Olympics. Goodbye & thanks to all who made this place feel like home.
12 months ago
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VIDEO: Like searching for a needle in a haystack.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA_D...
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Finding the cremated remains of loved ones in homes destroyed by wildfire
YouTube video by Los Angeles Times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA_DYFmNgzI
12 months ago
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VIDEO: Can you really find a clump of ash in a sea of ashes? After wildfire destroys Aunt Cecilia's urn in an Altadena home, these archaeologists -- and their talented dog -- launch an amazing search.
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Lost in a sea of ash: When wildfire destroys a home — and a loved one's urn — the search begins
A husband-wife archeology firm in Santa Rosa has developed a process to find cremains, the kind kept in an urn, among ashes of burned houses.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-03-04/cremains-urns-los-angeles-wildfires
12 months ago
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Is this great or what? Who needs an all-star game? Gimme 4Nations
about 1 year ago
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VIDEO CHALLENGE: Everyone thinks they're good drivers, but are they? Here are 5 traffic laws that people might not know.
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Think you’re a good driver? Take this test
Some traffic laws are obvious. Others can be tricky.
https://www.latimes.com/00000194-4239-dc6c-abb6-cabf1aab0000-123
about 1 year ago
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VIDEO: Think you're a good driver? Let's see if you know these 5 traffic laws.
www.latimes.com/00000194-423...
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Think you’re a good driver? Take this test
Some traffic laws are obvious. Others can be tricky.
https://www.latimes.com/00000194-4239-dc6c-abb6-cabf1aab0000-123
about 1 year ago
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Cowboy night at LAKings and Nick Nickson says he’s more of a swing guy. Asleep at the Wheel, he says. Ok, I see you.
about 1 year ago
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The people of
#LosAngeles
are telling us about what they lost in the
#wildfires
-- a favorite quilt, a family piano, their local library -- and what those things meant to them. Add your story to the chorus ...
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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What we lost in the fires
Times' readers share what they lost in the Eaton and Palisades fires
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-07/what-we-lost-in-the-fires
about 1 year ago
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about 1 year ago
President Trump seems determined to trash conservation and clean energy on public lands. But I wanted an example of how they can work together in harmony. So I hiked at Chuckwalla National Monument, designated last month by President Biden. My
@latimes.com
column:
www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Column: Forget Trump's wrecking ball. Here's how to treat America's public lands
Chuckwalla National Monument is a great example of how to balance renewable energy and conservation.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/newsletter/2025-02-06/column-forget-trumps-wrecking-ball-heres-how-to-treat-americas-public-lands-boiling-point
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Finally getting off 101 after an hour trapped behind crowds who streamed onto the freeway to protest Trump immigration policies.
about 1 year ago
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David Wharton
Los Angeles Times
about 1 year ago
The Times spoke to team behind "The Stringer" and an attorney for former AP photographer Nick Ut about the film's claims that Ut did not take the photo known as "Napalm Girl" during the Vietnam War.
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Inside a new documentary's provocative allegations about a famed Vietnam War photo
The Times spoke to team behind "The Stringer" and an attorney for former AP photographer Nick Ut about the film's claims that Ut did not take the photo known as "Napalm Girl."
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2025-01-25/the-stringer-nick-ut-napalm-girl-sundance
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NEW: In a generation, Silicon Valley has gone from a collection of indifferent, politically naive entrepreneurs to king-making lords of the political universe. It would be inspiring -- if their outsized influence and blatant pandering weren't so dingy and gross.
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Column: The rise of Silicon Valley, from indifference to lords of the political universe
The assembly of billionaires at Trump's inauguration was a display of wealth and power unlike any before. The display was all the more remarkable given how recently many in tech were politically naive...
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-01-26/trump-musk-zuckerberg-bezos-political-rise-high-tech-silicon-valley
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Sammy Roth
about 1 year ago
Former mayor of Paradise, CA, on difficult fire safety upgrades that need to happen as L.A. rebuilds post-fires: “This has to happen. If this doesn’t happen, we’re not coming back.”
www.latimes.com/environment/...
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His town burned in California's most destructive fire. This is his advice for rebuilding in L.A.
The former mayor of the town at the center of California's deadliest wildfire encouraged L.A. to get its churches, schools and community spaces open as soon as possible — and not shy away from difficu...
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-01-24/ex-paradise-mayor-offers-advice-to-los-angeles-recovery-wildfires
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The 1906 San Francisco quake and fire changed the future and fortunes of all of California. Could the same happen with Los Angeles' catastrophic fires? My column:
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Ashes to ashes: What L.A. can learn from San Francisco's 1906 disaster
Los Angeles took over as California's top city after San Francisco's 1906 earthquake and fires. What lessons can L.A. learn from this latest disaster?
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-16/ashes-to-ashes-what-la-can-learn-from-san-franciscos-1906-disaster
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Presidential pardons? Trump and Biden merely added to a long -- sometimes odd -- American political tradition.
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Trump and Biden add to long, strange history of presidential pardons
Trump's clemency for Jan. 6 rioters and Biden's reprieve for family represent merely the latest chapters in an odd history of the presidential pardon.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-01-27/trump-and-biden-add-to-long-strange-history-of-presidential-pardons
about 1 year ago
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The wildfires have shined a spotlight on a little-known firefighting charity. And with winds picking up again, the LAFD Foundation is scrambling to get firefighters more equipment.
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L.A. wildfires shine spotlight on obscure firefighting charity
With wildfires burning across Southern California, the little-known Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation has raised about $20 million in a matter of days.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-20/wildfires-shine-spotlight-on-obscure-firefighting-charity
about 1 year ago
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ICYMI: Should fire-torn L.A. move ahead with plans for the 2028 Summer Games? Olympic organizers visit Mar-a-Lago to discuss the matter with Trump.
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Casey Wasserman meets with President-elect Donald Trump to discuss 2028 Olympics
LA28 chairman Casey Wasserman met face-to-face with President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday and received unwavering commitment for hosting the Games in L.A. in 2028.
https://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/story/2025-01-15/casey-wasserman-meets-with-donald-trump-2028-olympics
about 1 year ago
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The Los Angeles fires have put this city on a long, hard path to recovery. What does that mean for plans to host the 2026 World Cup, 2027 Super Bowl and 2028 Summer Olympics?
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Can fire-torn L.A. handle the World Cup, Super Bowl and Summer Olympics?
Widespread damage from wildfires has prompted calls for L.A. to drop its plans to host the World Cup, Super Bowl and Olympics over the next three years.
https://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/story/2025-01-15/la-fires-world-cup-super-bowl-2028-summer-olympics
about 1 year ago
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VIDEO:
#NFL
field goals might seem ordinary but, if you look closely enough, they pack total mayhem into the blink of an eye. With help from the
#Rams
, we use slo-mo video to break it all down by the tenths of a second.
www.latimes.com/sports/story...
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Breaking down the 1.3 seconds of mayhem before every NFL field goal
NFL field goals might look simple, but they require three different players to do three different jobs in 1.3 seconds.
https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2024-12-16/breaking-down-nfl-field-goals
about 1 year ago
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Trump -- and Elon Musk -- have vowed to cut government spending. Does that mean 2028 L.A. Olympics will lose out on needed federal support?
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Here's why LA28 officials are not worried about Trump's support for the Olympics
Local Olympic organizers said they have detected no signs of resistance in conversations with President-elect Trump’s transition team or other Washington officials.
https://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/story/2024-11-15/ioc-visit-to-los-angeles-ahead-of-olympics
over 1 year ago
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The man responsible for preparing
#LosAngelesCA
for the 2028 Summer
#OlympicGames
has never worked in sports before. Reynold Hoover is relying on his experience as a
#USArmy
commander in
#Afghanistan
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www.latimes.com/sports/olymp...
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L.A. Olympics boss Reynold Hoover uses wartime problem-solving skills to plan 2028 Games
New head of L.A. Olympics organizing committee Reynold Hoover draws on his planning experience as top military officer during the Afghanistan war.
https://www.latimes.com/sports/olympics/story/2024-11-14/olympics-boss-is-treating-the-games-like-wartime
over 1 year ago
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