Paul Thornton
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Ex-L.A. Times. Old trees are my people. Writing and editing at goldenstatereport.substack.com.
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So excited to see my talented former colleague @sammyroth.bsky.social set free to write important, impactful climate pieces without the constraints of corporate journalism. Please subscribe to his newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/climatec...
Why I'm writing about climate and culture
I never expected to leave the Los Angeles Times and start a Substack. Then a story about Disneyland caught me by surprise.
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What the heck was the Marine Corps thinking?
It said shooting shells over Interstate 5 as part of a celebration was no big deal. Then, oops, one exploded over what was thankfully an empty freeway.
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It said shooting shells over Interstate 5 as part of a celebration was no big deal. Then, oops, one exploded over what was thankfully an empty freeway.
goldenstatereport.substack.com/p/what-the-h...
What the heck was the Marine Corps thinking?
It said shooting shells over Interstate 5 as part of a celebration was no big deal. Then, oops, one exploded over what was thankfully an empty freeway.
goldenstatereport.substack.com
Of course I want to the Dodgers to win it all, but I gotta admit:
Trump losing it over Mark Carney hosting the Blue Jays at Parliament Hill would be a helluva consolation prize.
Trump losing it over Mark Carney hosting the Blue Jays at Parliament Hill would be a helluva consolation prize.
Healthcare in the US is not good, but truly, people need to read up on what came before.
Oh you have cancer? Too bad so sad, no more care for you, you had enough
You were a premie? Really sucks, but you will never have insurance
Oh you had this before? Well then you will die of it now
Oh you have cancer? Too bad so sad, no more care for you, you had enough
You were a premie? Really sucks, but you will never have insurance
Oh you had this before? Well then you will die of it now
No lifetime maxes. Pre-ACA, insurance companies would put lifetime max costs on coverage. I had NICU nurses talk about kids who would hit their LIFETIME max before their first breath of non-hospital air.
No pre-existing conditions. "No insurance if you had serious injuries." So my kid? Uninsurable.
No pre-existing conditions. "No insurance if you had serious injuries." So my kid? Uninsurable.
Who are you rooting for in this cubs v brewers game and why?
This is the kind of incoherent ranting you'd expect from someone who is experiencing a drug-induced break from reality. But because this dude has a bazillion dollars it's legitimized in lectures, news stories.
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Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction
In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.
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