Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

This is Adelita Grijalva. She was elected 43 days ago. Republicans still refuse to swear her in because she is the final vote needed to release the Epstein Files.

I just want to point out that my city councilwoman in Los Angeles is a democratic socialist!

CONFIRMED: Georgia Democrats have won their first statewide elections for non-federal offices since *2006.* The two Dem challengers, Alicia Johnson and Peter Hubbard, have ousted two GOP Republican commissioners on the state's utility commission.

They thought they could tear down part of the people’s house. They thought they could kidnap our neighbors. They thought they could take away healthcare subsidies. They thought they could take away food from the poor. They thought they could force people to work for no pay. Tonight we said no!

BREAKING: Mississippi Democrats have now flipped two state Senate seats—putting them on the verge of breaking the Mississippi GOP's supermajority. Theresa Gillespie Isom has defeated Republican opponent Charlie Hoots, who she leads in the current vote tally by about 2-1.

You know what tonight proves more than anything else? Local elections matter. Local. Elections. Matter.

The people of California have spoken. We support democracy!

Our student paper at UCLA published this editorial a few days ago. I certainly hope that a large part of our over 30,000 undergrad! voted exercised their constitutional right to vote.

BREAKING: Democrat Mikie Sherrill wins the New Jersey governor’s race, turning back a push from Republicans to build on Trump’s gains in the state, NBC News projects. nbcnews.to/4qCHbU1

Someone who I follow on here seems to think that California doesn’t have seasons. At least at my building at UCLA we get fall colors.

The cat union approved my new rug from Joon Loloi, so it gets to stay! Lila, junior rep for the union, posed for their victory photo. #caturday

In a World Series between an American and Canadian team, the real winner is Japan.

People in my Los Angeles neighborhood are already firing off fireworks to celebrate the Dodgers

Today in California History: On November 1st, 1876, Lucy Wanzer became California’s 1st woman doctor youtube.com/shorts/ryH0B...

This came up in my photo memories today. We do get some pretty amazing sunsets in Los Angeles, especially from my rooftop patio.

The most creative costume last night at the West Hollywood Halloween party in Los Angeles: the partially destroyed White House. 😭😭😭

I just donated to the Los Angeles Food Bank. I challenge each of you to do the same (or volunteer) for a food bank in your local community. No one should go without food. www.lafoodbank.org

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

This summer someone called me a Democratic Socialist. I didn’t know how to respond. I was a Republican at 18, an independent after uni, and a moderate Democrat after volunteering on the first Obama campaign. Yet, the more I follow the run of Zohran Mamdani the more I wonder if they were right.

When my mom was a little kid, her family was on food stamps. My grandparents both had jobs, and were hard workers, but it wasn’t enough for a family. No one should go hungry in a country as wealthy as the United States!

According to the Internet it is national cat day. That’s nice, but in my house it is intergalactic cat day!

The Dodgers have a super long World Series game and then we start a heatwave in Los Angeles. Coincidence? 😂

If only Vin Scully was calling this game!

every pitcher in this game

I was going to run another statistical model for my dissertation tonight but my cat started grabbing my hand. Lila cat is a firm believer in work/grad school/cat time balance. #caturday

“Give me the tomato soup (or tomato sauce) now hooman or I’ll cute you to death!” -Chloe “the dog cat” La Torre Note from the hooman, they know they aren’t allowed on the table, but… #caturday

I just voted yes on California Prop 50 at my beautiful polling location off Mulholland Drive in the Santa Monica Mountains of Los Angeles. #DemocracyMatters

I took this picture of the White House from Lafayette Square during one of many work trips that I took to Washington DC in 2015. It’s awful to think that it no longer looks this way. It’s also awful when you realize that the last time any of it was destroyed was during the War of 1812. #NoKings

I used to be married to a Torontonian, so the Blue Jays are my American League team. I grew up in San Diego, so the Padres are my National League team. But I’ve spent two decades of my life in Los Angeles. So am I contractually obligated to root Dodgers during this World Series?

For those STILL dismissing yesterday’s march as mere performance… Yes. It was. How else do you create a movement?? Here are a LOT of reasons why such marches are important: m.youtube.com/watch?v=wmaZ...

Tonight my 12 year old cat once again enforced the if I lie on you, you may not move rule. So we had Siri put on some music and chilled. God, I love my Chloe!

I’m proud of my hometown! #NoKings

October 18, 2025

Just to be clear, my cat Chloe supports the Democrats as proof from 2020. #Caturday

#NoKings in Los Angeles, California

“The foundation of authority is laid firstly in the free consent of the people.” -Rev. Thomas Hooker, 1638 I think about these words from my 11th great grandfather almost every day lately. #NoKings todayincthistory.com/2023/05/31/m...

If you attend a No Kings Day event, please record the number of people in attendance in our crowdsourced crowd-counting sheet. We prefer official estimates above ad-hoc counts — if you count yourself, pls be conservative (people are bad at estimating crowd sizes). docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

While I work, my research assistant decided to simply fulfill her secondary role of emotional support cat. #caturday

Tish James lit up the room last night — and her words echoed far beyond the walls of The United Palace. This is a fight for the future.

Tim Walz: "It's almost unimaginable that he's got Milei in there, giving him $20 billion, so that they can undercut us and China can buy their soybeans from them. And now China has learned they can replace our markets."

You can find a #NoKingsDay event near you at nokings.org/#map. Join your neighbors and friends. Stand up for what actually makes America great. This Saturday. Everywhere.

Today was my eighth and final day of serving on a jury at the criminal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. One benefit of jury service was getting to enjoy various parks, restaurants, and coffee shops. Today I found a new gem called café Persona, which is behind Walt Disney Concert Hall!

I’ve never celebrated Columbus Day, but my dad made sure I knew about Giuseppe Garibaldi’s role in unifying Italy. By the way, the historic meeting of Garibaldi with Victor Emanuel II happened in the commune of Teano where my great grandfather La Torre was born. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teano

"Hundreds of Catholic priests, nuns and lay people led a march from a Catholic church in Maywood to the ICE detention center in Broadview..." www.fox32chicago.com/news/faith-l...

If any of you watching The Martian want to nerd out, scientists from both JPL and CalTech give interesting lectures on astronomy and space. Some of the best ones I’ve been to were part of Astronomy on Tap at a pub in Pasadena. #HATM

I know it’s earlier in The Martian, but as a research scientist and former teacher, I love the “I’m going to have to science the shit out of this” line. #HATM

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