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News editor @EW.com, serious man. Also contemplating basketball, food, style, and other pressing matters. Leaning from the steep slope.
me after trying to erase the past
April 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM
me after trying to erase the past
oh hell nah 😩
Asian grocery stores are a lifeline to the communities they serve. But store owners say the prospect of sweeping tariffs are threatening their ability to stock up on goods and keep prices affordable.
Asian grocery stores, a lifeline for immigrants, brace for steep new tariffs
Asian grocery stores are a lifeline to the communities they serve. But store owners say the prospect of sweeping tariffs are threatening their ability to stock up on goods and keep prices affordable.
www.npr.org
April 8, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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One of the major points of doing DEI (or whatever you want to call it) is a labor insight that lots of people out there could be excellent air traffic controllers or anything else etc, but racism, sexism, whatever drives them out of the workforce until you don’t have all the best people for the job.
January 30, 2025 at 5:03 PM
One of the major points of doing DEI (or whatever you want to call it) is a labor insight that lots of people out there could be excellent air traffic controllers or anything else etc, but racism, sexism, whatever drives them out of the workforce until you don’t have all the best people for the job.
Clear and helpful info on the air quality situation in L.A.
As someone who writes and thinks about air quality all the time, I wanted to answer some questions I'm getting and talk about what steps I'm taking, not necessarily as a reporter, but as an LA mom trying to do the right thing
Clearing the air
A hearty welcome to all the new AQI obsessives!
www.torched.la
January 22, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Clear and helpful info on the air quality situation in L.A.
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“If we think it’s wildfire, then we tend to maintain wildfire as the principal problem — with wildfire control as the solution. However, there is no evidence to suggest wildfire control is a reliable approach during the extreme wildfire conditions” www.latimes.com/california/s...
Inconvenient truths about the fires burning in Los Angeles from two fire experts
For years, renowned fire experts Jack Cohen and Stephen Pyne have tried to shift the conversation on fire prevention strategies. This week’s destruction, they say, could have been minimized.
www.latimes.com
January 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“If we think it’s wildfire, then we tend to maintain wildfire as the principal problem — with wildfire control as the solution. However, there is no evidence to suggest wildfire control is a reliable approach during the extreme wildfire conditions” www.latimes.com/california/s...
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After decades of being nearly synonymous with American fashion, 85-year-old Ralph Lauren on Saturday became the first fashion designer to receive the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. nyti.ms/4h4rKyC
January 5, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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this hit me like a sledgehammer:
“[Andrea] felt that she had spent years moving through the world ‘as if I was giving a hundred dollars to each person I connected with, in the hopes that on the day I needed to borrow ten dollars, I could.’”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“[Andrea] felt that she had spent years moving through the world ‘as if I was giving a hundred dollars to each person I connected with, in the hopes that on the day I needed to borrow ten dollars, I could.’”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Alice Munro’s Passive Voice
The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story.
www.newyorker.com
December 24, 2024 at 10:51 PM
this hit me like a sledgehammer:
“[Andrea] felt that she had spent years moving through the world ‘as if I was giving a hundred dollars to each person I connected with, in the hopes that on the day I needed to borrow ten dollars, I could.’”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“[Andrea] felt that she had spent years moving through the world ‘as if I was giving a hundred dollars to each person I connected with, in the hopes that on the day I needed to borrow ten dollars, I could.’”
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
from "A Visit With Joan Didion," New York Times, 1977 www.nytimes.com/1977/04/03/a...
December 10, 2024 at 6:59 AM
from "A Visit With Joan Didion," New York Times, 1977 www.nytimes.com/1977/04/03/a...