Kiera Feldman
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I'm so proud of the investigative work that my team did and delighted to share that our cannabis series was a Pulitzer finalist
It's an honor to be part of work that makes a difference in the lives of some of California's most vulnerable people
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The air you breathe on planes comes directly from the jet engines (yes really).
Toxic fumes from jet engine oil seeping into the air supply are sickening passengers and crew.
And the industry has known for decades.
My new airline industry investigation
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That's a National Lawyers Guild legal observer getting arrested in NYC. Everybody in town knows what that green hat means
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Man dies beneath the wheels of a garbage truck in the Bronx in November. Company claims he was a homeless man who jumped aboard the moving truck and fell off. He was actually an off the books worker. His name was Mouctar Diallo. Here's my story
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Holy shit. LA hospitals running out of oxygen because covid patients require so much. On Sunday 5 LA hospitals had to turn all ambulances away
Shortage of oxygen canisters, and the pipes that bring oxygen into rooms are overtaxed and can’t take it
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Flights are nearly empty. Airlines have cut service drastically. But still, workers are dying from COVID-19.
A pilot, a flight attendant, a gate agent at LAX airport, a baggage handler at Dallas-Ft Worth and two more at JFK airport--at least 15 dead
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California was supposed to clear marijuana convictions ‘automatically’
It didn’t happen
Some counties haven't cleared a single case
In Riverside, all 21,000 cases are languishing
San Bernardino hasn't done its 5400 cases either
New investigation:
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“My brother hated cars....He was against cars because of all of the things they do to our lives and to our world. And I agree.”
This
@TheWarOnCars
interview with Ray Magliozzi—OF CAR TALK—is going to blow my dad’s mind
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“I would absolutely not fly a Max airplane”—former Boeing senior manager
“I would tell my family to avoid the Max. I would tell everyone, really”—former FAA engineer
Experts have serious safety concerns about both the Max 8 and 9. My latest:
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While much of California shut down this spring, Robbie Hall made masks in a prison sewing factory in Chino, working 12-hour days for 60 cents/hour.
Then COVID-19 broke out in the factory. From there, workers said the virus spread throughout the prison
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I'm happy to announce that I'll be joining the
@latimes
as an investigative reporter in metro. I'm thrilled and humbled to get to work with such amazing colleagues in such an exciting time for the paper. Here's to a new adventure!
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A "fume event" is when toxic gases seep into the air you breathe on planes.
There are no air sensors on-board.
Senior Boeing engineers worried that sensors would collect data that could be used by sick passengers and crew in lawsuits against Boeing
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They had a family gathering outdoors and carefully placed the chairs 6 feet away. But they didn't wear masks. Now 7 of the 10 family members have covid and the wife is in the ER
So yes, folks, 6 feet is not some magic protective number. Mask up.
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Harper’s—the magazine that crushed their own union and is still built on unpaid full-time interns (in 2018!)—puts “Labor’s Last Stand” on the cover
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As of this morning there were 54 ICU beds in all of LA county—half are pediatric
A sign of what’s to come: last night there wasn’t a single bed for 30 people at LAC-USC hospital. Ambulances turned away for 12 hours. Wait time for an ICU bed: 18 hours
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Holding the Oscars at Union Station is truly a giant fuck you to the people of LA who rely on public transportation
From the south side of Union Station, security guards were directing people up this bus ramp to get to trains and buses. There were quite a few people walking this way. Would not recommend
#Oscars
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Hello, LA. I am here. I am ready. I start at
@latimes
tomorrow. Tell me where the bad things and the good tacos are
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Wow that was fast.
Vons firing unionized drivers, switching to Doordash “after the passage of Proposition 22, which gutted worker protections while making it easier for companies to shift financial burdens onto newly-designated independent contractors.”
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It took the City of LA six months to learn how to use the text alert system for something other than announcing curfews to shut down protests
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Just before the Baldwin shooting, the camera crew had walked off the set to protest work conditions
There’d been three recent misfires of the prop gun in the days leading up
Wowww this
@MegJamesLAT
story
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Homeless man in a wheelchair shot by cops during a demonstration in LA
“He pleaded with police not to use force on him before being shot in the face,” the suit reads
A Times review of LAPD records found that only 5% of arrests were for “looting”
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Dizzy pilots, vomiting flight attendants, ambulances waiting on the tarmac: Toxic fumes on planes are sickening passengers & crew
But there aren't air sensors on-board
An internal Boeing memo described it as a “risk” to give sensors to even one airline
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Annnnnnd management is now locking us out of Slack
One by one
@latguild
members were making heartfelt Slack posts about saving the newsroom, calling for LAT management to negotiate in good faith, honor the contract and offer buyouts so that layoffs would be as humane as possible
It’s the first walkout in the paper’s 142-year history.
It’s what’s needed: management won’t even say the number of layoffs coming and refuses to bargain over them, instead demanding that we agree to gutting contract provisions like seniority
Let’s gooooooooo
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LA city council to city: sorry we can’t vote on a rent freeze because we can’t meet safely and apparently haven’t figured out video chat
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The airline industry has known about toxic fumes on planes for decades
But there aren't sensors for it
"We have to rely on people’s noses"--senior Boeing engineer
Airbus has a form to report fumes w/boxes to check for symptoms like “dizziness/fainting"
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Big trash news out of NYC: city council just passed zoning legislation to overhaul the sanitation industry & hold haulers to strict labor & environmental standards. A privilege to do my bit (). But of course a whole generation of advocacy went into this
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How many of you would buy a digital subscription to the LA Times if you got more of this
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The airline industry would be forced to adopt new measures to protect passengers and crew members from toxic fumes on planes under a new bill
My
@latimes
investigation found that toxic gases are sickening passengers and crew and incapacitating pilots
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This photojournalist wore a mask and gloves and worked outside from 6 feet away. She's dictating this from her hospital bed
I don't know who needs to read this but this is your daily reminder that mask, gloves and 6 feet are not magic COVID protection
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Boeing spokesperson trying to get me to go off the record at 6pm on a Friday night is the LAST thing this week needed.
Journalism industry is in free fall, yes. But I swear to god if any flack tries to get me to go off the record I'll stay in this industry until I'm 90 to say no
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Also, I have protested Birthright events and hung out with
@elivalley
so I'm basically fired from the AP
If you're unfamiliar with Birthright, I recommend this classic piece from
@kierafeldman
about the political purpose of Birthright.
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I'm outraged and horrified by the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh by Israeli military forces
Strong thread statement by
@LATAAPICaucus
. Co-sign. And I wholly agree that media must stop uncritically repeating claims by the Israeli government
The AAPI Caucus of the Los Angeles Times condemns the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and calls for an immediate, thorough and independent investigation of her death.
Here's the thread on our statement. 🧵
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For those of you working from home, I wrote a story for you about life in pandemic year 3.
28-year-old Dominic Green signed out of work on a Wednesday. Five days passed before his body was found.
On the death of a remote worker
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And with that, folks, we are officially out of ICU beds in southern California
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“Are you doing a story on the cats?” asks the security guard who is catching me for the umpteenth time creeping on the LA Times parking lot ferals
I mean yes basically
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“Deaths of despair.” That’s actually what the researchers call it.
Raise the minimum wage and the earned-income tax credit by 10 percent each could prevent ~1,230 suicides/year, they found
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Taiwan has reported zero covid cases for six days in a row.
Gov scientists point to universal mask wearing, saying that if both people wear masks, the risk of transmission is about 1-2%
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Four LASD deputies accompanying a metro cop doing fare inspection on the A train in Pasadena, basically just to kick unhoused people off. Fucking insane
Transit riders don’t want guys with guns. Green shirt
@metrolosangeles
ambassadors are what make riders *actually* feel safe
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This thread from WHYY follows the gang of white men wielding weapons (bats, an axe, a sledgehammer) around Philadelphia. Yet police do not fire tear gas, rubber bullets, or beat them
Thread ends w/the white men attacking the public radio reporter and sending him to the hospital
huge congregation of agitated white people with bats, golf clubs and billy clubs. n-words flying. overheard: “I’m ready to fuck shit up. you know ive been looking for a fight for the past 6 months.”
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Every year I revisit Woody Guthrie's New Year's resolutions (1943)
-Learn people better
-Stay glad
-Keep hoping machine running
-Help win war -- beat fascism
Ok. Tall orders for 2021.
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It’s the first walkout in the paper’s 142-year history.
It’s what’s needed: management won’t even say the number of layoffs coming and refuses to bargain over them, instead demanding that we agree to gutting contract provisions like seniority
Let’s gooooooooo
🦅THE L.A. TIMES GUILD IS WALKING OUT🦅
We are calling for a one-day walkout TOMORROW, Jan. 19, in protest of management's proposal to cut staff and multiple unfair labor practices.
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A homeless man was set on fire and burned to death on skid row Monday night
Per the LAPD, the number of homeless people who were victims of crimes went up by 96% in 2018,
@latimes
previously reported
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City that lets piles of Lime scooters and Jump bikes block sidewalks indefinitely is looking for new ways to push a rule banning homeless people from sleeping near schools, parks and in places that are ostensibly public. And this is constitutional how?
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LA rushed to reopen everything from indoor restaurants in May to bars in June. Covid cases exploded, record deaths followed
This timeline is a damning portrait of Garcetti
Great work by
@sandhya__k
@skarlamangla
@jaclyncosgrove
@priyakkumar
@maloym
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Proud to have signed this letter from 200+ journalists calling for more accurate coverage of Palestine
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A big reason I wanted to come to
@latimes
was getting to work in a unionized newsroom. I wanted to work where pay inequities were being addressed, where contractors/freelancers weren’t being exploited, where I could count on basic job protections.
Proud to sign my name here 👇🏽
“What a difference a year makes.” To mark the anniversary of our sale, the newsroom has written to
@DrPatSoonShiong
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@latimes
.
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“She probably contracted the virus while attending a dinner with relatives who had also been cautious...Within days, all four adults and several children” tested positive
I don’t know who needs to read this but you absolutely should not be sharing meals
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“Hello yes we are hiring somebody whose job is to violate federal law”
LOL, it looks like Tronc is tired of every single one of its newspapers unionizing.
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In March, when LA County had < 250 Covid cases, officials let infected travelers into LAX without warning passengers and crew of exposure
Including the flight that brought the woman who became LA County’s first Covid death
Story by
@latimesharriet
and me
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Major Bronx hauler just gave up its license after 2 deaths and reporting that found an army of off the books workers paid $80/night, shifts as long as 21 hours, a union once run by a mobster, $385K in unpaid overtime in just three years, and more
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Worth noting that LA's ICUs are full, and film/TV productions are contributing to covid outbreaks. As of today:
CBS studios: 3 locations--45 infections
NBC: 2 locations (including the Ted Danson show "Mr. Mayor")--23 infections
Netflix: 9 infections
There are also three outbreaks at Warner Bros productions -- on the set of Lucifer, the Kominsky Method and Young Sheldon. In total, 35 people are sick as part of these outbreaks.
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At Rikers, a man with AIDS is jailed for stealing Tylenol from a drugstore. A detainee and two workers have already died, and COVID-19 is spreading fast.
@RosaGoldensohn
with this wrenching story
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Happy new year you can subscribe to the LA Times for $1/week and there are no eugenicists on the editorial pages
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looks like uniqlo has a new line for council staffers who bike to work
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Locking
@Latguild
members out of Slack takes an impressive amount of organizational effort. I'm shocked they pulled it off given that the wifi basically doesn't work in the LAT office. People share hotspots.
THIS is what management is doing instead of negotiating in good faith
Annnnnnd management is now locking us out of Slack
One by one
@latguild
members were making heartfelt Slack posts about saving the newsroom, calling for LAT management to negotiate in good faith, honor the contract and offer buyouts so that layoffs would be as humane as possible
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The trash industry spent $500K fighting NYC's reform plan. Their lobbyist drafted legislation that'd block the city's overhaul. And the councilman pushing the bill? He was recently in biz with the owners of Sanitation Salvage, a funder of the lobbying push
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SBF got out of jail on a $250 million bond using his parents' house. But it's a faculty home on-campus. They rent the land from Stanford.
This isn't how it works for federal defendants who are not white and wealthy
75% are detained awaiting trial
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Jeff Klein & Mark Gjonjaj wrote a letter asking for reinstatement of the company’s license: “Sanitation Salvage has been an exemplary example of a good corporate citizen”
Sanitation Salvage & its owners have donated $120,000+ to Klein & $40,000+ to Gjonaj
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UPDATE today the city upheld its suspension of Sanitation Salvage’s license. Just one mind-boggling detail from the determination: DOT investigators found 129 instances of drivers doing illegal 14+ hour shifts and 294 instances of 70+ hour weeks—and that was just June-Aug 2018
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No really. Militia members in Oregon shut down the state senate over a cap on carbon emissions. Republican minority refused to make quorum, a senator implied he’d shoot anybody who tried to force him, then the emboldened militiamen turned up
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For
@ProPublica
and
@theIFUND
, a story about the workers on the nightshift and the human toll of capitalism. "We know we down in this shithole together"
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I'm at the rosh hashana
I'm at the labor day
I'm at the combination rosh hashana labor day BBQ
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just learned my dad got a first vaccine dose!! Total surprise. He and his retiree doc crew are coming off the bench to administer vaccines
He didn’t know about taking a pic so please enjoy this one of him in his get-up for biking in Oregon winter rain when it’s 38 degrees out
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Mouctar Diallo wasn’t homeless. He died working.
But at a hearing today Sanitation Salvage rejected term “off the books employee”
Lawyer: “He would sometimes as a homeless person be given a few bucks running along w/the truck”
BIC: “He was being paid cash for doing the job.”
Sanitation Salvage is arguing against their suspension in a hearing today. Word is that their lawyer just invoked To Kill a Mockingbird.
Recent stories:
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advice to my younger self: not getting a reply to an email means literally nothing and is not a referendum on anything about you and whatever drama you’re imagining is all in your head
Anyway you’re great and I owe everyone emails and it’s me not you. Plz follow up...but later.
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So to recap: yesterday the LAT laid off 25% of
@latguild
. On Monday we learned that the 4-person "leadership team" running the paper is now a duo--one had straight Irish goodbyed last week
Still no all-staff meeting. Just learned that tomorrow's "town hall" has been "postponed"
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“Survivors need to make sure our stories are not erased again and again to lift up powerful men’s legacies.”
Important Kobe Bryant story by
@LauraMNewberry
and
@marialaganga
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And yes,
@latguild
leadership also cut. Our current unit council president? Laid off. Our former unit council president/current chief steward? Also laid off.
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Men in black surrounded this journalist, demanded to know who she worked for, threw her to the ground and broke her camera and stole her press pass. Then capitol police didn’t believe she was a journalist and drew their guns on her
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A new bill would force California to clear marijuana convictions faster
The move comes after
@latimes
investigation that found that tens of thousands are still stuck with felonies, misdemeanors & other convictions on their records
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Weed has been legal in California for five years.
But tens of thousands of Californians are still stuck with marijuana-related felonies, misdemeanors and other convictions on their records
My new investigation is out today
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ICU capacity 0% across Southern California
How dire is it? Almost triage time. Patients at a Pasadena hospital are getting a notice this week that if it’s not looking good for them “limited medical resources may go to treat other patients who are more likely to survive”
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This new
@hannahdreier
story is horrifying. Parents kept reporting kids missing, local police kept calling them runaways and dismissing evidence, more kids kept getting murdered
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alright guys there will be another trash story, FINE pull my teeth
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Things are trash but good news from the LAT feral cat colony: a new calico showed up, her name is Coco, she was successfully trapped for ✂️, and it turns out she purrs and loves pets ().
Foster/adopter needed. LAMeow, the slack channel, is on it
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Instead of the lists of women who write 10,000 word stories I'd like to see a list of white men who just keep failing up
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Streetsblog stakeout: 13 e-bike food deliveries to NYPD in just one hour on the coldest day of the year
Last year police confiscated more than 820 e-bikes and issued 1200 summons. Folks want their fast food but not the immigrant workers who bring it...
Does that burger come with hypocrisy?
On the coldest day of the year, we sent superintern
@verde_nyc
to watch
@NYPDnews
get food deliveries on e-bikes.
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Los Angeles Apparel, formerly American Apparel, ordered to shut down after 4 workers die of covid and more than 300 test positive
Company refused to cooperate w/health dept investigation and illegally reopened after shutdown order
Today's promo email:
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Big NYC trash news: today councilman
@CMReynoso34
and advocates are introducing zoning leg to reform the industry
What's at stake? See my
@propublica
investigation into safety, the cover up of a worker death (), corruption & the mob
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Honored to be a finalist for the Tom Renner Award for covering organized crime for my series on what judges called "New York's swashbuckling trash collectors." The
@ProPublica
@typeinvestigate
@VOANews
stories can all be read here
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“Homeless people in our street”
“Driving homeless people out of residential areas had become a long process”
“Please don’t feed homeless”
This is the sign that’s up in the entryway of the building I’m staying in. Ffs the entitlement of seeing public space as “our street”...
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“My mask protects you; your mask protects me.”
25% of people w/COVID-19 may not have symptoms. Wear a bandana or any face covering in public as a spit/whatever guard. Also remember a surgical mask doesn't protect you. It's to protect others from you
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*Garbage news*: NYC has proposed reforming the industry through zoning. Latest study finds it'd reduce truck traffic 50%, also create 165 new recycling jobs
I spent last year chronicling the industry's many problems for
@ProPublica
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Happy May Day here's what having a union means. When the company says they're facing a $2 million shortfall and asks for layoffs/401K cuts,
@latguild
figures out an alternative: "work sharing"--4-day weeks w/unemployment benefits to cover the difference
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A hundred years ago Black families owned homes and built wealth in Manhattan Beach. The Bruce family ran a seaside inn. The city drove them out using eminent domain
Now white people in the now-ritzy town don’t want to pay reparations to even one family
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Tesla declared an "essential business" amid shelter in place order, forcing workers to chance exposure or risk their job
"What’s essential about automobile manufacturing in the midst of a viral pandemic? 'That’s a good question,' said spokesman Ray Kelly"
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@latimes
@latimesharriet
@MattHjourno
@PringleLATimes
This is how hardcore
@latimes
is. Won Pulitzer, forgets to drink all the champagne, back at it
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The head of the agency that regulates NYC’s private trash industry is stepping down. I investigated the biz—and its oversight—in a year-long
@propublica
series
I’m covering LA now so
@thejoesexton
is pinch hitting on the trash beat
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Unrelated to weed, I’ve been binge listening to the
@LATACO
podcast on Jose Huizar. It is SO good. Tells the scandal as a community story set in Boyle Heights and it’s just extremely well done
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It's so nice that my
@ProPublica
/
@theIFUND
story is included on this list--and with such great company. You can read all the stories in the series here
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It’s almost as if there’s the money to pay people to stay home and restaurants and bars to stay closed
NEW: Mnuchin will place the $455b in unspent Cares Act money he is taking back from the Fed into Treasury's General Fund, where his successor (Yellen) essentially cannot reach it w/o Congressional approval
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