"As she tried to break free, Hamilton said she was punched repeatedly in the chest and upper abdomen; another student journalist was pushed to the ground and beaten and kicked for nearly a minute."
Some personal news: I'll be joining the LA Times as Assistant Op-Ed Editor next week. Thrilled to work on this team and with writers, in the city of my birth!
@latimes
I am a Palestinian journalist from Gaza. I fear a media blackout of the war - by Yara Eid in
@latimesopinion
"My journalist colleagues who are still alive in Gaza are not only grieving their slain peers, but feel under severe threat themselves."
First day
@latimesopinion
. Op-eds, personal essays, narrative writing, graphics, visual art. We do it all. Tell me your favorite writers--established and emerging--and send me folks with great stories.
Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid are expected to ask Trump and Pence to voluntarily testify in an NFL blacklist case. Should the White House refuse, the players' attorneys plan to subpoena the president and vice president, a source says via
@bpolitics
Incredible student journalists
@WKCRFM
- saying there will be no more reporters outside of Hamilton Hall as NYPD escorted away, and who will be left to document what happens.
Op-Ed: It's Groundhog Day for the GOP. Failure after defeat is becoming a hallmark -
@kurtbardella
"Racism, misogyny and conspiracy theories are accepted as part of the agenda. You can see it in virtually every soundbite, every tweet, every policy."
With nearly 70 journalists killed, who will be left to cover the Gaza war? by Youssef Jajili in
@latimesopinion
"The killing of journalists in Gaza is being normalized with no one taking responsibility."
“His girlfriend is Persian. Or Indian. I don’t know. Some kind of brown.” - two dudes at LAX about their friend.
Now I know the title of my memoir - SOME KIND OF BROWN
This year, more than 1,600 migrants and refugees have been lost at sea.
Some finally reached the continent that had consumed their dreams. But Europe was not welcoming.
On
#Sudan
, by
@SherineT
in
@latimesopinion
-
Those escaping Ukraine were flown out and welcomed in the U.S., Europe and elsewhere. This is not what is happening to civilians in Sudan.
AUB establishes the Shireen Abu Akleh Endowed Memorial Scholarship.
"The endowment will fund scholarships for women from Palestine to obtain master’s degrees in media studies."
My whole family is in Gaza and they have nowhere to run. Will it be at their graves that we meet again? - by
@emadmoussa
in
@latimesopinion
"Now I feel sick to my stomach just thinking that my people could be ethnically cleansed again, or worse."
Why Palestinian Americans believe Rep. Rashida Tlaib spoke the truth -
@sareemakdisi
in
@latimesopinion
"Tlaib powerfully captured the extent to which Palestinians have been silenced and dehumanized in institutions across the United States."
Farewell
@lighthousewrite
Lit Fest! Thanks for carving space for new voices. Found Toni in a quiet corner, recalling her words: "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
Such a powerful piece by
@TeresaWatanabe
as the LA Times today drops the word 'internment' and instead use 'incarceration' :
"The decision comes eight decades after The Times viciously campaigned to incarcerate Japanese Americans during the war."
Ooof. This image of little
@minjinlee11
made my heart fall. How many other kids still do the same?
"That year, we moved into a two-bedroom rental in the back of the same building, overlooking the parking garage, and in the evenings, I’d wait by the window for their safe return."
For a long time, I have been afraid. “Behind my small eyes, there comes a light, which I use to see you, and in its flicker, I hold the hope that you will see me, too.”
All writing is a struggle against erasure -
@LailaLalami
says she didn’t see ppl like her in books, so it became a “matter of survival” to write her stories, and make care the world care about them
@latimesfob
On the assumption that women’s bodies are broken, and the need to tell our stories of pain - moving essay by novelist
@tiphanieyanique
in
@latimesopinion
In today’s Opinion, meet 4 formerly incarcerated ‘lifers’ as they reintegrate into a vastly changed world - in this incredible multimedia project by
@OGpenn
and
@BE_DIZZLE
On apartheid:
@lamamfakih
@OmarSShakir
of Human Rights Watch in
@latimesopinion
"Israeli authorities maintain a two-tiered legal system: methodically privileging Israelis...while repressing Palestinians to varying degrees wherever they live."
So much resonated in
@olivasdan
's Op-Ed, from the personal to the system:
"Too many historically marginalized writers still battle ingrained bias to obtain acceptance by agents and publishers that authors from more entitled backgrounds take for granted."
Thinking of journalist colleagues on the scene. I covered way too many mass shootings in my own day. You don't forget seeing the blood on the ground, the body bags. Can't imagine this one...
As a Gaza teen, I used to dream of college. Now I feel sentenced to death by Israel's bombings -by Salma Hamad in
@latimesopinion
"Biden’s own life has been marked by profound loss — a deep, aching grief that I feel, too. So I wonder: Will he save us?"
Op-Ed essay by novelist
@thesailorsgirl
in
@latimesopinion
#QueenElizabeth
"Something that has not happened or maybe could not happen under the queen’s reign is a genuine accounting of what the British Empire meant and its continuing impact."
Look what I (finally) found at the Princeton bookstore! Big mabrook
@ZahraHankir
@DonnaAN1
Excited to read these women’s stories with no filter, no gaze but their own.
Exclusive: Top U.S. cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs has told associates he expects to be fired by the White House. Krebs has drawn the ire of the Trump administration over a website debunking misinformation about the election
Read a submission advocating Jeff Bezos runs for president in 2024, and then shivered because I'm reading
@vauhinivara
's terrific novel, "The Immortal King Rao," where a Bezos-like, tech CEO character becomes leader of the whole world!
For Iraqis like me, the U.S. invasion 20 years ago isn’t a distant memory — it’s our daily devastation - powerful essay by Iraqi novelist
@GzarMortada
in
@latimesopinion
On the Morocco earthquake, novelist
@LailaLalami
in a powerful essay in
@latimesopinion
:
"When disaster strikes, the question we must ask ourselves is: What can I, in my own limited ways, do to help?"
For all the mixed kids, and those of us navigating multiracial families:
My Chicana-South Asian daughter, finding her roots in Karachi and South Texas - by
@sehbasarwar
As a young reporter, I covered law enforcement in the DC region. I mapped out dozens of local, state and federal agencies. Just noting my spreadsheet had dozens of agencies, it was dizzying to cover. Where were they?