On this date in 1939, the USSR invaded Poland in cooperation with its ally, Nazi Germany. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/timot...

Disney has Tron: Ares, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Rental Family, Zootopia 2, Ella McCay, Avatar: Fire and Ash, and Is This Thing On? opening this year. I hope the talent involved in these movies curtails all planned publicity until the company reverses its decision about Kimmel.

A salute to Robert Redford who used his all-American looks to get us to examine all of America -- good, bad and ugly www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

My collaboration with Ivan Ehlers for the @latimes.com

Unsurprising but horrifying. Wherever there are people forced into crowded living conditions, there will be tuberculosis. Wherever people are dehumanized, there will be tuberculosis. prospect.org/health/2025-...

I grew up right next to Carmel but that’s not the only reason I found this story by @haileybranson.bsky.social so fun and fascinating! Definitely a great weekend read.

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

I'm sure I'm not the only GenXer who is tearing up at this. If you were there when it began, then you know why.

As @gregpak.net has noted, unless there was a specific clause in all the contracts that allows for this, they can't go back and retroactively amend contracts without the author's consent. This is a class action suit waiting to happen.

Our sources are telling us it is in fact marco rubio 🤔

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

A lot of older adults forced a war on universities because that’s where their kids realized their parents were evil.

Real discussion: CNN: Hey Dave it's CNN. Could you come on to talk about the death of Hulk Hogan Me: Hulk Hogan was a racist scab and a liar. He hated unions, Black people, and the truth and that's why he loved Donald Trump. What time do you want me? CNN: Great! Well.... so we'll keep looking

Please read this essay by Alaa Alqaisi in Gaza. Please send money to Gaza. Please scream at the politicians who are making this possible and never let them forget. arablit.org/2025/07/21/b...

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, most remembered for playing Theo Huxtable on ‘The Cosby Show,’ passed away Sunday. But his legacy spans much more than one character. I wrote about how I’ll remember him best. www.theringer.com/2025/07/21/t...

The enigma that is current model Jon Stewart continues to perplex me: After a very strong analysis of what’s so troublesome about CBS’s decision to kill Late Show, Stewart then conducted the softest of softball interviews with the newly MAGA-coded owner of the LAT. Asked not a single tough question

This is poetically stupid

On Feb. 15, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas called his wife from inside a Texas immigration detention facility. He asked her to record a message, “just in case something happens to me.” Thread 👇

A story about Stephen Colbert I’ve never shared before. Years ago I was hospitalized for a month. One of toughest things I ever had to do. Confined, monitored, my health a mystery with no solution, cycling through roommates & their families who needed miracles, or would go off to surgery & vanish…

The death toll from the Trump Administration’s foreign aid cuts could total more than the number of Jewish people killed in the Holocaust, Ukrainians killed in the Holodomor, and Cambodians killed in the genocide by the Khmer Rouge, combined. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

Commentary: ICE arrested a California union leader. Does Trump understand what that means? www.latimes.com/california/s...

This piece by @anitachabria.bsky.social in @latimes.com is so smart and very eye opening. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Hope other countries are excited for the LA Olympics!

If the New York Times reported on my petty post-break-up behavior, I would simply kill myself.

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

Runway lights and an automated system that provides weather conditions was out of operation at Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport before a Cessna crashed into a San Diego neighborhood amid foggy conditions, killing all its passengers www.latimes.com/california/s... via @latimes.com

I can’t recommend this enough. UNBREAKING, a new project from @lizneeley.bsky.social & co, documents & explains our many concurrent institutional collapses. It’s beautifully executed work, full of intellectual & moral clarity. 3 pages are live, more will come. It’s SO GOOD, & I learned so much.

Pope Breakfast Potatoes V

Among the Pulitzer Prizes awarded today: Ann Telnaes, formerly of The Washington Post, won for illustrated reporting and commentary. She resigned from The Post in January, after The Post refused to publish her cartoon depicting the paper's owner, Jeff Bezos, and other billionaires bowing to Trump.

FEMA refused to test residents’ soil in the Eaton and Palisades burn areas for potentially hazardous fire contaminants. So, we did it ourselves. Read our full investigation for @latimes.com here: www.latimes.com/environment/...

SCOOP: California Attorney General Rob Bonta is considering placing L.A.'s juvenile halls in receivership, basically removing them from L.A. County's control, after years of chaos inside the youth facilities. My latest: www.latimes.com/california/s...

My colleague @cshalby.bsky.social dove into Mayor Bass' L.A. budget plan, which could cut $7 million from the Dept. of Transportation and nearly 24% of its workforce. That would hamper "goals to improve traffic safety and support for major rail and bus lane projects ahead of the 2028 Olympics."

Somehow the Times managed to get four sources on a group chat that had twelve of the people closest to Hegseth. Literally everyone must hate this guy.

Now you’re just some bunny that I used to gnaw

Earthquake

I told Ramona Quimby it’s Monday.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell, 1984

A powerful letter and far more courageous than a lot of millionaire law partners I could name

I'm supposed to be at Sweet Briar College, where I was so excited to meet with the amazing students, faculty, and staff who organized my visit & made Mobility their Common Read. Hours before my flight I learned about their Board's exclusion of trans & nonbinary people. So now I'm not going.

Strom Thurmond and Elon both taking an L on the same day is a hell of a white supremacy bankshot

I love you Wisconsin!

They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.

“The loss of U.S. support may mean 75 million children do not receive routine vaccinations in the next five years, with more than 1.2 million children dying as a result.” 1.2 million children dying. Abhorrent. Evil. Indefensible.

Adolescence on Netflix is just incredible on all fronts - acting, writing, directing, cinematography. It will absolutely stress you out and break your heart (this spoils nothing) but it’s absolutely worth watching.

When you're right, you're right. New from my colleagues Richard Winton and Libor Jany: Secret recordings reveal LAPD cops spewing racist, sexist and homophobic comments, according to a complaint filed with the LAPD. www.latimes.com/california/s...

99% of new medicines developed by the pharmaceutical industry depend on NIH research jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Wordle 1,360 1/6* 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 The only time I will post Wordle score (but I do play it daily.)

LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong’s biased AI ‘bias meter’ leans heavily toward Project 2025 for its sourcing