Trump wants to stop new offshore wind projects. In Louisiana, jobs and revenue are at stake.

President Trump will be in town today. Here’s a story from @_josiejo he would be wise to read:

Louisiana winter wonderland via NASA Worldview (NASA GOES-East at 9:30 a.m. 1/22/25)

read this good piece from @_josiejo on the under appreciated wildfire risk in Louisiana

As lower Chartres Street gets scraped and repaved, note the rare views of wooden pilings in the foreground, a street treatment used occasionally in the nineteen century.

Shane Guidry, who says he is to Jeff Landry what Elon Musk is to Trump, is reshaping the agency tasked with protecting the New Orleans metro area from storm surge flooding. https://t.co/lsYbSiUC26

'Look at Elon Musk' -- great piece on what's happening behind the scenes at the New Orleans area levee authority by @alexlubben. Shane Guidry says changes are necessary, but they raise questions over whether post-Katrina reforms are being abandoned. https://t.co/W5mPYMKDAr

“The sheer scope of the region’s multiple fires means that nearly every echelon of Hollywood has been hard hit.” good explainer for those who might not know about the variability and interconnection of the people who power the industry, already so unstable for so long

The widely dispersed, hopscotch geography of these wildfires means you might be offering your house as an evacuation point to a friend in the morning and then in the evening asking that same friend if you can stay with them.

Using interviews with nearly two dozen eyewitnesses, surveillance footage, phone videos and social media posts, @BlakePater, @mikejsmith504, @jadelson and @_josiejo reconstruct the before, during and after of the Bourbon Street attack for @NOLAnews

Today we posted the most complete telling so far of what happened in the Bourbon Street attack, with contributions from a long list of colleagues. Read it here:

Honestly just go look at LATimes and get facts on the fires. Actual, usable facts. Hundreds of journalists have been reporting (+ evacuating/surviving), publishing stories by the minute, verifying facts. Do you know what that means? Type this in a browser:

I could be standing in Lahaina or Paradise or Mendocino. Today I’m standing in the rubble of what used to be my childhood home and am reminded that wildfires don’t care if you live in a mansion or a studio apartment. Once they come for you, we’re all the same @NBCNews

A good way to decide what to post about LA wildfires right now is to imagine the 2,000 plus bereaved families as the primary audience. Not posting is also an option.

And so it begins: seven victims of the New Orleans Bourbon Street attack have filed a lawsuit against the city and two of its contractors alleging that they failed to protect Bourbon from this type of attack. @joey_cranney with the early details: https://t.co/0FSdQgTxAt

L.A. restaurants providing food, shelter to fire evacuees and first responders - Los Angeles Times

I remain in major awe of my colleagues @latimes. For those who cancelled their subscription in the last year in protest of whatever, I urge you to take a look at our homepage and argue that this work isn't worth supporting:

Here’s tomorrow’s front page of the @latimes. All our fire coverage is here, and the paywall has been lifted: https://t.co/UHn4hKD6GR

Heartbreaking @NBCLA footage shows a deer running through Altadena as a wildfire burns over 10,000 acres. ⁠

A local ER nurse was doing all she could to save her 90-year-old parents' home in Hastings Ranch as the Eaton Fire ravaged the area. She expressed frustration that her elderly parents' insurance company had recently canceled their fire coverage. https://t.co/DTqXxl5YTe