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Some personnel news:
My layoff has been rescinded due to rights/protections afforded to me under LAT Guild’s contract
Under the terms, I’m reporting for TimesOC again. Email in bio for local story tips
I remain committed to the guild and our fight to secure a fair contract!
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Scenes from the academic workers strike at UC Irvine—including Pikachu the picketer 🪧
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One day you’re covering the CSU strike in the pouring rain, the next day you’ve been served a lay off notice.
To my fellow
@latguild
colleagues, as a famous Wobbly once said: Don’t waste any time mourning, ORGANIZE! ✊🏽✌🏽
L.A. Times management has notified me that 94
@latguild
members are being notified of intended layoff today, or about one-fourth of our whole membership.
This total, while devastating, is nonetheless far lower than the total number of Guild layoffs initially expected last week.
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What can I say? It's only been three weeks since OC Weekly shut down, but in that time there's been a living-wage lawsuit against
#Disneyland
and a divisive Angels Stadium deal--two huge
#Anaheim
stories that I would've otherwise covered in the paper
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January: let’s see how much we can fuck up 2020 in a single month. February: hold my beer...
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Aaaand it’s a wrap. A day before Thanksgiving, OC Weekly owner Duncan McIntosh has decided to close down the paper down indefinitely. I’m grateful for my time as a Weekling and appreciative of all the opportunities to tell stories other outlets wouldn’t. OC Weekly 1995-2019
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In a LONG overdue profile, I write up Kim Nguyen, Garden Grove’s own “Vietxican” councilwoman.
She’s the 1st Latina elected to that council and hopes to be OC’s 1st Latina supervisor in the new Latino-majority District 2.
@Kibenguy
@timesocofficial
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My last job as an OC Weekly staff writer ended with a meme as coda so why not announce my new job as a TimesOC Feature Writer with another meme?
I start on Aug. 9, y’all!
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Episodes from a people’s history of Huntington Beach (for no particular reason!)
Let’s start with this photo.
It’s a partial “klanorama” from a Labor Day parade in 1924 that drew thousands of klansmen to Surf City.
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My latest for
@LongBeachPost
: A profile of LBC author/high school teacher Myriam Gurba (
@lesbrains
), the literary luchadora behind the dust up
#AmericanDirt
! RT, porfas!
#DignidadLiteraria
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"Company A is Disneyland Resort, according to a person familiar with the investigation, and the employee is Disneyland Resort Director of External Affairs Carrie Nocella."
New w/
@adamelmahrek
&
@nathanfenno
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First day in the books! New email is activated. Got OC story tips? Send to gabriel.sanroman
@latimes
.com
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The anti-mask, anti-vaxx ranks will never appreciate how others who stayed home and later got the jab actually reduced their risk of getting infected while they gallivanted recklessly during a pandemic.
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This just adds to the list of reasons why Arte Moreno is a vendido and also a pandemic pendejo.
I’m done with the Angels under his ownership.
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COVID-19: Coachella Valley cases up 77% following first weekend of Coachella
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As today marks 75 years since an appellate court victory in Mendez, et al v. Westminster, I deepen my original historical research into the forgotten pandemic roots of Santa Ana’s segregation of Mexican students in the fall of 1918 🧵
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Developing story: An appellate court ruled that
#Disneyland
is obligated to follow Anaheim’s living wage law passed by voters in 2018.
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It's been 30 days since my story about Loay Elbasyouni's parents being stranded in Gaza City first published in the LA Times.
Every day is a day of improbable survival followed by the next.
But the situation for them only grows more dire.
My parents are dying in Gaza and no one cares.
My mom had one cup water in last 24 hours, she is trying to save the water for my sick dad, my dad is losing his breath, Everyone deserted them.
They miraculously survived several artillery shells. I’m not sure why I’m tweeting
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Listen to OC administrators, educators and trustees. The OC Board of Education has no jurisdiction over independent school districts. For example, Anaheim UHSD announced today that the academic year will begin with distance learning.
Don’t relax, but do flex with the facts!
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I’m putting my pen down today in protest of the devastating layoffs proposed by LA Times management.
Our readers deserve better.
We deserve better.
Ya basta!
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I’ve waited a long time to finally be able to tweet this but, as of today, I’m fully vaccinated against coronavirus!
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My last story of the year for
@latimes
.
For the past year,
#Disneyland
, taquerías and residents have pushed Anaheim to get tougher on street taco vendors.
But by deploying lookouts and other tactics, taqueros have rendered the crackdowns ineffective.
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That
#Disney
wields political influence in Anaheim is no secret.
But just how deep relationships between politicians and resort lobbyists go has never been revealed.
Until now...
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A sign at a local park in Costa Mesa banned team sports (i.e. soccer) for years.
"It might as well have said ‘No Mexicans,'" said Councilman Loren Gameros.
Boulders placed to discourage games were recently removed, signaling a new day in the city.
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Buena Park City Council will seat its first ever Latino councilmember—and that’s increasingly looking like it will be Jose Trinidad Casteñeda in this race.
Buena Park has historically had a sizable Latino population, particularly on the east side. Long overdue.
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I witnessed a much more militarized police response on the streets of
#Anaheim
in 2012 than what showed up at the Capitol Hill today.
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During the 1918 pandemic, Santa Ana schools delayed returning to class by a week (Jan. 6 as opposed to Dec. 30) on account of an expected holiday spike in cases.
Well, except the city’s newly segregated Mexican school, which according to this Register article never closed.
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"A Chicano is a Mexican-American with a non-Anglo image of himself" - Ruben Salazar
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@Kgformvp211
@ESPNNBA
The number of touchdowns Al Bundy once scored in a single game at Polk High!
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@SanaSaeed
@rezaaslan
The cops don’t even have their batons out to hold the line. I’ve seen police in full riot gear against people of color for less.
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Now for the official version!
Please give a warm welcome to the newest employees of TimesOC: Gabriel San Roman, Sarah Mosqueda and Eric Terrazas.
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Facebook is so dedicated to combating disinfo that it recently gave a blue checkmark to one of OC’s mavens of misinformation.
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A source once told me that after my corruption reporting into Harry Sidhu, the former Anaheim mayor had OC Weekly removed from city council media roundups and news briefs.
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Some news: I signed a book contract with my day one publisher. I’m excited to bring my first full-length book to readers through PM Press!
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Correction: half-assed lockdowns don’t work all that well.
It’s not at all mystifying why California is raging with Rona rn
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If you’re out there praising OC Sheriff Don Barnes for shrugging off pandemic orders, OC Weekly’s website is still up. I’d advise you to do some damn research!
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Correa grew up in Penguin City, Anaheim and wasn’t gonna back down from MAGA hecklers at the airport.
Congressman Lou Correa-THEY WON’T BE ABLE TO WALK THE STREETS via
@YouTube
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Observation from a back to school drop-off: a Latina mom doing the sign of the cross on her daughter before kissing her on her mask and sending her off.
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Chicano Heritage Month in OC;
This year marks the 80th anniversary of Doss, et al, v. Bernal, et al, a court case that struck a blow against racially restrictive housing covenants.
In 1943, Alex & Esther Bernal bought a house in Fullerton. Then their white neighbors sued.
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Ernby was 46 and eyed another state assembly run before her death.
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Tito Ortiz, who claimed that BLM wanted to burn HB down and rape wives, is running for HB city council. So is Gracey Van Der Mark, an Ecuadorian woman who denies the Holocaust among her many racist conspiracy theories.
Stay classy, HB!
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With this flip in the race, Anaheim could see a Democratic majority on city council for the first time in recent memory.
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“Pendejo, you better do something about those films. It might be too late.”
Great story by
@DoranyPineda90
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Thirty years later, OC is a major metropolitan area home to 3.2 million residents.
Hannah Fry, Daily Pilot/TimesOC and I do what we can!
In 1993, the Orange County bureau for LATimes had 175 reporters. In 2018, it had ONE. (Just learned this on a panel with Norm Pearlstine, former LATimes EIC)
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Press quote: “Not a single person on this panel is a dedicated expert in, nor in my judgement thoroughly knowledgeable about, Ethnic Studies curriculum. In fact...all the panelists are vehemently opposed to Ethnic Studies and have made their positions on the topic clear."
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Santa Ana Unified School District just announced that the academic year will begin with distance learning only, joining Anaheim UHSD in that regard.
Santa Ana and Anaheim are the two cities hardest hit by
#coronavirus
.
#SanTanaHeim
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This is in Brea—a city with an elementary school named after a Klansman (Fanning Elementary). It also hasn’t apologized for its past as a Sundown Town (no Blacks after dark).
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Anaheim Councilmember Avelino Valencia has publicly called for Mayor Harry Sidhu to resign in the wake of the FBI probe into his alleged corruption.
Sidhu is not in attendance at tonight’s city council meeting.
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FYI: Orange County has a new officially designated ethnic enclave: Koreatown in Buena Park!
Buena Park is proud to officially designate our vibrant northern portion as "Koreatown!” City Council approved this designation at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting to honor more than two decades of rich Korean-American culture here in our City.
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“What is alleged is that she was in the hospital and had a miscarriage and divulged some information to hospital staff, who then reported her to the police.”
#LizelleHerrera
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OC Weekly took home 10 honors one last time at the OC Press Club Awards tonight, including first place finishes for
@apignataro
in the Best Profile category and my own Best Public Affairs winner. Congrats to everyone!
RIP, OC Weekly
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Where was all this media scrutiny of Tito Ortiz BEFORE he got elected?
Major OC GOP endorsements and donations despite his extremism (or is it now because of it?) was enough of a story.
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90 degrees followed by thunder, lightening and hail. Sure, why not?
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Management has disabled the email and slack accounts of
@latguild
workers out on strike—like me.
These tactics won’t intimidate us. Not one iota!
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And just like that, it’s been a decade since
#KellyThomas
was beaten to death by Fullerton police.
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Conservative San Clemente came within 23 votes of having a Democrat majority City Council, despite Republicans having a 15% voter registration edge.
Knoblock tried to turn the city into an anti-abortion “sanctuary for life.” He almost lost to a nurse endorsed by the OC Dems.
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Based on Garden Grove councilwoman Kim Nguyen’s new FB cover photo, it looks like she’s launching a congressional campaign to challenge Rep. Michelle Steel.
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RIP, Kelly Thomas. He died at the hands of Fullerton police officers 7 years ago on this night. The cops are currently trying to get their jobs back.
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NEW: Republicans have dominated county governance for four decades, but with Supervisor Katrina Foley's reelection, an incoming Democratic majority opens up the possibility for a new political direction.
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Big BREAKING news: FBI Does What OCDA or State Park Police Didn’t: Arrests Neo-Nazis Who Assaulted OC Weekly Reporters via
@OCWeekly
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Last year, a fire destroyed one of the historic structures at Wintersburg Japanese Mission in Huntington Beach.
Now, another blaze destroyed a World War II-era blimp hangar in Tustin.
OC history is up in flames.
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OC Supervisor Doug Chaffee is 834 votes away from getting bounced from the general election
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A TimesOC investigation into an outbreak in Yorba Linda that sickened dozens students at Travis Ranch school *before* winter break.
I reviewed 83 PYLUSD COVID-19 nurse investigation checklist forms.
This is what I found.
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This is a better breakdown than the news reports that will assuredly be bereft of any semblance of extremist tracking.
And if it couldn’t be any clearer: ethnic studies is a threat to the most overt white supremacist renderings of the past.
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The LA Times’ storied downtown printing plant shut down on Sunday.
About 170 teamsters lost their jobs on account of the outsourcing move to SCNG’s Riverside plant.
The end of an era in more ways than one.
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If you don't want to be around Spanish-speaking Mexicans, Disneyland ain't the place to be.
'I hate Mexicans,' woman shouts at mother in viral video from Disneyland
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OC Democrats hold a briefly rally near the the Anaheim Convention Center.
Party chair Ada Briceño tries to keep the peace as shoving and shouting matches break out.
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I’m excited to check out the Mendez Tribute Monument Park in Westminster.
More people’s public history in OC, please!
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Ethnic Studies expert and CSUN professor Theresa Montaño is withdrawing from her participation in the OC Board of Education's forum on the topic tomorrow.
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OC V!be is the shittiest branding I’ve heard since the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim!
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With a Democrat majority on the OC Board of Supervisors, home care providers gained a contract that lifts them $1.25 above minimum wage.
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If anyone wondered what
@lesbrains
left as a teaser in my article last week, she and other
#DignidadLiteraria
folks met w/ Flatiron Books today in NYC. Macmillan has pledged to increase Latinx representation in publishing as a result of their efforts!
#AmericanDirt
My latest for
@LongBeachPost
: A profile of LBC author/high school teacher Myriam Gurba (
@lesbrains
), the literary luchadora behind the dust up
#AmericanDirt
! RT, porfas!
#DignidadLiteraria
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Short list of people happy about
#OCWeekly
’s demise: Corrupt politicians, dirty cops, brutal deputies, dishonest prosecutors, neo-Nazis, racists, shady businessmen, progressive charlatans and wokosos! Enjoy each other’s company!
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This Riverside triple homicide story takes another ghastly turn.
Police say a man who worked for LE in Virginia catfished a teen girl, drove across the county and murdered her family at their home.
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Murder charges dropped against
#LizelleHerrera
and, according to this release, hospital staff WAS the reporting party.
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Latino vote in OC out the gate was overwhelmingly against the recall
🚨🗳️📊 BREAKING -- FIRST LOOK AT LATINO VOTE -- This is for ALL PRECINCTS in Orange County, very clear pattern with Latino vote estimated 83% No on Recall in OC with some Latino precincts voting 88% No
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OC is now in the red tier: all restaurants that have allowed indoor dining through the purple tier winter surge are now allowed to have indoor dining!
25 percent capacity, of course!
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@JamesQueallyLAT
@latguild
Why cover a major metropolitan area where 3.3 million people reside?
It's been on honor to fight alongside you. Pick up my pen and plunge it into the heart of injustice.
Onward!
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A recall effort against former Buena Park councilwoman Sunny Park not only failed in 2019, it turned into an election fraud criminal case with the OCDA filing 33 felony charges against three recall organizers.
This is the political backstory:
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LA County’s “Safer at Home” rule is what OC had until the Lords of OC obviously threw a hissy fit keeping non-essential businesses open. The reversal of course will go down as one of the biggest political blunders in OC history.
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You may have seen headlines on the CDC’s relaxed mask recommendations for 70% of the nation where COVID is at a “low” level.
What you may not realize is that the definition of “low” transmission has changed as part of that overall risk assessment.
Previous and new CDC covid transmission thresholds based on cases per 100,000 population per week
Based on:
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