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Trump makes formal ask to Congress: kill funding for PBS, NPR and public broadcasters My story for NPR www.npr.org/2025/06/03/n...

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From me: ‘Indigenous students at odds with UA over changes to Native program, loss of director’ via @azcentral.com

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My latest column: RFK Jr.'s fake citations were only the start www.latimes.com/business/sto...

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MY LATEST @latimes.com COLUMNA: Homeland Security’s ‘sanctuary city’ list is riddled with errors. The sloppiness is the point. Share, porfas!

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Indigenous students to UA: "Closing our NA program down betrays the uni's land-grant mission." by Arlyssa Becenti www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

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Tucson residents say immigration agents posed as utility workers, in an attempt to detain an undocumented man from Honduras. “They’re lying! They're not in uniform,” neighbor Christine Cariño warned, in a video she recorded. "Don't let them in; they don't have a warrant." tucson.com/news/local/b...

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The latest forecast from the Colorado Basin River Forecast Center shows the river’s flows into Lake Powell will be about 46% of average. "This is another year that is not going to help the Colorado basin’s long-term water crisis." @sean-greene.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/... @latimes.com

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Warm and very dry conditions are shrinking the flow of the Colorado River. With the meager snowmelt, the river's already depleted reservoirs will probably decline further this year. See the latest data explained by @sean-greene.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/... @datagraphics.bsky.social

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“It has become clear that our journey towards being carbon negative is a marathon, not a sprint.” — Microsoft Lol; since 2020 Microsoft’s total emissions have increased by 23.4%! What’s the race where you end up behind the start line?

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From @garrettdowns.bsky.social, Sen Mike Lee says he's looking to restart efforts to sell off federal lands in the 'megabill' subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

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Smoke from Canada wildfires drifted over Northern California on Monday morning and could add a slight orange tint to the sky through Tuesday. #CAwx

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New research shows depletion of groundwater in the Colorado River Basin far exceeds losses from the river’s reservoirs. Scientists say overpumping is leading to alarmingly rapid declines while climate change is putting growing strains on water supplies. Video: www.latimes.com/00000197-1da...

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For months @latimes.com photographer @gferaz.bsky.social has chronicled 17-yr-old Abi's life as a transgender athlete. Due to threats against such athletes, it's a rare and important portrait, at a pivotal moment. Kudos to Abi & @gferaz.bsky.social for letting us in. latimes.com/california/s...

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In today’s @latimes.com print edition: My column on the Big Oil sponsorship that now unites the Dodgers and Giants, and also the Houston Astros: www.latimes.com/environment/...

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Hire Ryan. We have worked together across multiple newsrooms and he is someone who will make your whole team better.

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Some personal news: I'm one of the L.A. Times journalists who got a layoff notice last month. Today is my last day. I'm hoping to stay in journalism, but keeping an open mind right now. If you have any leads or just want to catch up, I’d truly appreciate it. You can DM me or reply below. Thanks!

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Due to climate pressures, home insurance prices could, on average, leap an additional 29% over the next 30 years, a research firm found. In Sacramento, California, rates could double. In Miami, they could quadruple. By @abrahm.bsky.social‬ (Published Feb. 2025)

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A long-running dispute over the price of water deliveries has ended with the signing of a settlement between San Diego County Water Authority and Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. www.latimes.com/environment/... #CAwater

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Water from the Colorado River isn’t the only source in decline in the Southwest. The groundwater reservoirs are being depleted by farming. Add to that climate change and researchers conclude: “We need to start moving out of this danger zone.” @ianjames.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

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“Climate warming is driving this drying of the Colorado River Basin for the long term, so we really need to come to grips with doing this great rebalancing act,” he said. “We need to start moving out of this danger zone.” @ianjames.bsky.social

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“This area is important for the long-term survival of the Joshua trees,” Rockwell said. “It’s that last refuge.”

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Gov. Newsom proposes 'asset test' for low-income and disabled Medi-Cal applicants. What does that mean?

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The government’s own data, which was obtained by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and a team of journalists from Venezuela, showed that officials knew that only 32 of the deportees had been convicted of U.S. crimes and that most were nonviolent offenses, such as retail theft or traffic violations.

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The Trump administration’s proposed budget slashes about 90% of the funding for one of the country’s cornerstone biological and ecological research programs. 🌐🧪 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/c...

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An absolutely chilling story about a cost of climate disasters we don't think/talk about enough, from @ninalakhani.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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RFK Jr said “One of my big priorities will be getting good food — high-quality food, traditional foods — onto the reservation because processed foods for American Indians is poison.” Then the administration ended a program that provided fresh, locally produced food to dozens of tribal food banks.

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Great advice from @sulliview.bsky.social, including this: “Demand better of the news media you follow.” Let them know you’re watching. She says good news orgs pay attention. My newspaper did because we believed every reader counts. open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

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The Trump administration’s proposed budget cuts about 90% of the funding for one of the country’s cornerstone biological and ecological research programs www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/c...

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There are three new wolf packs roaming Northern California. It's wonderful news for conservationists who want to see the endangered canids thrive. But the revelation also arrives as ranchers are increasingly agitating for measures to control the animals. bit.ly/43DZxt3

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A scientist told me it's common for marmots to get up in the undercarriage of cars in Kings Canyon NP and "catch a ride home with people." Not good but the idea of a fugitive marmot makes me happy.

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Trump taps Palantir to compile data on Americans www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

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In Norway, herrings are losing their elders and their knowledge of migration routes. The solution? Change harvesting practices to encourage a population boom and help the fish recover their collective memory.

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Great story by @missdakotasmith.bsky.social about the former head of L.A. animal shelters and what she faced. "Dains said she felt powerless to solve entrenched problems that included severe understaffing and employees who mistreated or neglected animals." www.latimes.com/california/s...

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NEW from PP: When the Trump admin shipped 238 immigrants to the horrific Salvadoran prison -- “savages,” “monsters” and “the worst of the worst,” they said.... it knew that just six of them had been found guilty of any violent crimes. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Sabotaging AIDS prevention www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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At the state Democratic Party convention, @lorenagonzalez.bsky.social tells the labor caucus: “We have to demand that the future of this Democratic Party [does] not abandon working people in order to please tech bros and people at cocktail parties and billionaires who don't give us a shit about us.”

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ICYMI - Research has shown that alfalfa and other cattle-feed crops consume 46% of the water that is diverted from the Colorado River www.latimes.com/environment/...

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Warm and very dry conditions are shrinking the flow of the Colorado River. With the meager snowmelt, the river's already depleted reservoirs will probably decline further this year. See the latest data explained by @sean-greene.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/... @datagraphics.bsky.social

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Bad snowpack, two decades of the #coloradoriver ‘s main reservoirs strinking, and negotations between the #coriver states apparently still stuck. Damn. And hell. Thanks for the piece @ianjames www.latimes.com/environment/...

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Along the Colorado River, a very dry spring has shrunk the amount of runoff streaming into reservoirs. The latest forecast shows the river’s flows into Lake Powell will probably be about 46% of average. "It’s going to make things worse." @weatherwest.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

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The man calls himself the "Neuroavocado Warrior" and he's on a mission to save California's quintessential fruit: the avocado. But this quirky L.A. farmer faces a brutal battle against entrenched interests stretching all the way to Mexico. My inside look at his fight: www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Smaller water districts were hit hardest by L.A. firestorms, UCLA report finds #cawater @latimes.com @ianjames.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

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Meager snowpack adds to Colorado River’s woes, straining flows to Southern California #cawater @ianjames.bsky.social @latimes.com www.latimes.com/environment/...

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“If this trend continues, it could lead to severe water shortages that impact not only local farmers and residents but also broader agricultural markets and municipal water supplies throughout the southwestern U.S.,” @ianjames.bsky.social www.latimes.com/environment/...

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“Wendsler Nosie, head of Apache Stronghold, said the group would ‘never stop fighting’ to save Oak Flat from obliteration.”

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