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paulthornton.bsky.social
Ex-L.A. Times. Old trees are my people.
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“It truly breaks my heart to see Crooked Joe … ruin our country as he pushes America to the brink of World War III.” -Trump in a 2023 fundraising email

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I need to go into the mountains with a stick and listen to flowing water for a while.

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Three years, seven months left. At this rate, we’ll be at war with Norway.

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Five months into Trump’s second term, Los Angeles is under military occupation and the US is at war with Iran. And Canada hates us.

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Yep. You can still get your drugs where I live, but the car wash down the street can’t open every day.

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Worried this might be the case. It goes right by my street in Alhambra and is always a lovely community event. I’ve heard a more than a few people say they’ll skip it this year.

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I wrote about my reverence for California’s ancient trees back when I was at the LA Times. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

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This land, home of the majestic Great Basin Bristlecone, could be sold off to help pay for tax cuts. Some of the trees in these photos are more than 4,000 years old.

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If the maps with this analysis are correct, the land containing world’s oldest known trees will be sold off. www.wilderness.org/articles/blo...

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Yeah, it’s happening here. Started a while ago, but plausible deniability evaporates when opposition politicians are being publicly roughed up. That impeachment and removal fail to merit so much as a whisper in Congress testifies to our ongoing democratic collapse.

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This warms my heart. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/s...

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Today feels… important.

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Life in a war zone.

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Me on the surreality of life in supposedly war-torn Los Angeles. In short: First they came for LA. It won’t end here. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

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Alex Padilla for president.

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So they shoved Alex Padilla to the ground and handcuffed him. Sen. Padilla is the consummate public servant. About 25 years ago, when he was a 20-something LA City Council member, he offered to come speak at my school. He acts out of service. Can’t say the same for the thugs who roughed him up.

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“Everyone who breaks the law has to have consequences.” Kristi Noem actually said that, without irony. These people.

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My god, Kristi Noem is casually reciting Nazi-level bullshit. Don’t believe a word she says about LA. What’s the point of even broadcasting her dangerous propaganda? LA residents don’t feel safe walking their kids to school? Lies.

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Threat levels? Pre-staging federal assets? What a surreal news conference. Good god, these people really want to see LA burn.

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I thought we didn’t do shit like this.

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I hiked in Griffith Park this morning. I took my 13-year-old to a pitch-and-putt golf course within the city of LA this afternoon. I am watching my youngest son at Little League practice right now. No Marines needed.

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TBH I quite like this version of Gov. Newsom.

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It’s one thing to intellectually grapple with polarization and the proliferation of lies. It’s another thing to feel the danger from them in your bones.

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Yep. Look, a car on fire over there! Never mind the blocks with bustling restaurants nearby.

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Presidential bullshit. Yesterday, I took my kids to their little league game near Dodger Stadium. Right now, I am waiting with a bunch of jovial, elderly golfers to start a round in Griffith Park, where one of my kids is spending the morning in a summer camp. This lying could get people killed.

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lol

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If you sent your best wishes to LA during the fires but cheer this blatant attempt to stoke mass riots, you are so full of shit.

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I fear some people in Los Angeles could soon die because of a lie.

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Los Angeles, my forever home

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In downtown LA right now. I have a hard time seeing this a National Guard-level threat.

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I hope the National Guard personnel coming to LA tonight understand they are obligated to disregard illegal orders.

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The June 22 @activesgv.bsky.social event rolls right by my block in Alhambra. Come!

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Enjoying his birthright as a Californian.

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I encourage everyone to read up on the Norwegian teachers strike of 1942.

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I can’t be the only one to have thought of “Always Sunny” when hearing of Kristi Noem’s immigrant reality show.

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Gratulerer med dagen to the Norwegians celebrating their constitutional democracy today.

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What’s the point of being fuck-you rich if you won’t say “fuck you” to the worst people in the world? x.com/DrPatSoonShi...

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IFL baseball

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And I’m still pissed at the Dodgers for whistling past the graveyard with Trump, but damn what a game that was.

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Just make the whole season Dodgers-Diamondbacks.

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That regime murdered a newspaper columnist. Dr. Patrick owns a newspaper, so maybe he should ask about that while he is there.

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Yikes. Maybe don’t fly through Newark for a while.

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This is the ghost town Bodie. Like Alcatraz, I’ve been there several times. In a month, Trump will probably demand that this once-great mining town be repopulated.

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