Gabrielle Birkner
@GabiBirkner
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features editor @chalkbeat; co-founder @modernloss; @harpercollins author; mom of 2; telling stories that matter; keeping it real, even in hollywood.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined November 2008
Today, 83 years after my Jewish grandparents fled Nazi-annexed Austria, I am an Austrian citizen. 🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹.
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RT @DanielNMiller: Dan Tana, a former pro soccer player from Serbia, opened his namesake L.A. restaurant in '64. Decades later, it's still….
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The onetime professional soccer player opened Dan Tana's restaurant in West Hollywood in 1964, and it soon became a favorite haunt of movie stars and moguls alike.
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RT @Reuters: The Los Angeles Times newspaper plans to go public within the next year, its owner Patrick Soon-Shiong said in a television in….
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The Los Angeles Times newspaper plans to go public within the next year, its owner Patrick Soon-Shiong said in a television interview, aiming to give the public ownership of the 143-year-old public...
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RT @PettyLupone: That man gave us one of the greatest scenes in the history of television. I cannot even believe this. I am over here SOB….
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RT @latimes: California, epicenter of the nation's housing crisis, is finally getting a housing agency
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After years of soaring rents and home prices and an enduring homelessness crisis, California is finally creating a state agency exclusively focused on housing.
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RT @LuluGNavarro: Vital reporting: How Netanyahu Prolonged the War in Gaza to Stay in Power via @NYTimes.
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Secret meetings, altered records, ignored intelligence: the inside story of the prime minister’s political calculations since Oct. 7.
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RT @NBCNews: BREAKING: A farmworker at a Southern California cannabis farm has died, the United Farm Workers says, a day after being injure….
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The manager of one farm, Edgar Rodriguez, a U.S. citizen, said he was handcuffed, thrown to the ground and had his arm twisted behind his back after he asked to see a warrant.
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Amid the ICE raids upending this city, I’ve been thinking a lot about this 2018 piece by Stephen Miller’s uncle.
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If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
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Today in Grok: "the chatbot praised Hitler, suggested that people with Jewish surnames were more likely to spread online hate," and endorsed a Holocaust-like response.
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The artificial intelligence chatbot, which has a dedicated account on X, praised Hitler after fielding a query about a user’s comments on the Texas flood.
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"New York’s Democratic primary wasn’t about Israel, no matter how much Cuomo wanted it to be," writes @michelleinbklyn. "Mamdani won because of his relentless focus on affordability and our quality of life, and his ebullience, optimism and authenticity,." .
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It’s been maddening to see outsiders claim that his win in the mayoral primary was a victory for antisemitism.
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RT @teddyschleifer: Here's a fun thing that a top donor to Andrew Cuomo's super PAC just told me.
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RT @LAURA_N_ROD: ICE took her mother in Chicago. Now a 6-year-old is left without a guardian or a legal path to reunite in Honduras. A sto….
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On June 4, her mother was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement outside an office in downtown Chicago during what was supposed to be a routine check-in.
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RT @peterbakernyt: A sad day for @washingtonpost readers as the standalone Metro section in print is eliminated and folded behind Style. As….
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RT @brittny_mejia: Story is coming on this. I spent hours out there this morning. Here’s what I heard. People told me that Border Patrol….
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RT @CNET: After the death of his sister, Senior Writer Joe Supan was pulled into the troubling world of AI-written obituaries. This is what….
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The rush to monetize grief leads to the creation of AI obituaries, turning personal loss into clickbait and exposing the dark side of online memorials.
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RT @jeremotographs: BREAKING: ICE raid and community resistance in front of Home Depot in Paramount, California.
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RT @IhabHassane: Now, In Tel Aviv, hundreds of Israeli Jews and Palestinians are marching silently outside the Israeli Defense Ministry, ho….
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