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Here's our explainer on Prop 50: What you need to know before the Nov. 4 election.

If approved by voters, the ballot measure would change California’s congressional maps through 2030 in order to favor Democrats in future elections.

Food assistance programs like CalFresh and WIC remain open amid government shutdown — for now #California
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White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention. - @angryblacklady.bsky.social

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“The market that emerges under siege is not a sign of resilience—it is a system of predation born of deliberate policy.”

As Israel’s blockade drives Palestinians into daily negotiations with their dignity, women have become the front-line managers of scarcity, Mariam Mohammed Al-Khateeb writes.

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As immigration detentions continue to ramp up across the country, the California Dream Act Application remains available to U.S. citizens in mixed-status families who are wary of sharing their personal data with the federal government. Still, experts say students should weigh their options.

For people getting ready to fill out their NYC ballots, we have a bunch of ballot initiatives again. Hard to know how to vote on these. I received this from the City Council: www.whatsonmyballot.nyc - I'll be looking to local groups to figure out how to vote on these.

In a fight between Pritzker and and police, who is going to win? This is what happens when both parties allowed law enforcement to become one of the most powerful political actors in the country -- a taxpayer-funded political movement that wants to kill people.

The Fraternal Order of Police is on the side of MAGA and against the people they are supposed to be "policing." I think this says a lot to the people who insist local police are going to be "resistance."
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I grew up going to Zabar's. So many of my childhood memories center around the best lox in NYC (which is saying something). With Saul Zabar's passing today, the Upper West Side has lost a legend who turned his parent's humble store into a culinary institution.

This is only 12 miles from where my family lives. When you use AI in any form, people are affected directly

- put down the damn AI.

A host of alternative jobs data from Wall Street are pointing in the same direction: The U.S. labor market is losing steam.

“We don’t have to approach and criticize this album as art, because it isn’t art. The Life of a Showgirl is made of Shein quality rip-offs of other people’s songs that are constructed shoddily and sold in ginormous quantities. Art takes time and care. This is profit. It’s content.”

WHEW.

“The law does not permit this kind of prolonged deprivation of an individual’s liberty without any allegations or charges of violating the law,” said Jean Elizabeth Reisz, an attorney representing Marin, who is also a USC law professor.

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Now you know this wasn't us. This was not on any Black Gen X kid's dinner table.

I'll be in the lookout!

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

From the first 40 unscratched lottery tickets in California holding potential 1980s fortune to the original "Anarchist Cookbook" pulled from a garage of spiritual texts, this year's fair was a cabinet of curiosities.

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Nope.

Well, folks, personal news: After 7 years, today is my last day with @latimes.com.

It's been a privilege working with some of the world's best journalists at my hometown paper. Thank you to everyone who's read and supported my work.

I'm not done telling climate stories. More news to come.