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Spoke to
@SenFeinstein
today for a brief minute. I asked her how she was feeling and also about the well-wishes she's heard from colleagues. This is how she responded.
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Last year, I set out to understand what it's like to work in one of the busiest fire stations in America. The LAFD's Fire Station 9 sits at the center of skid row, and what their firefighters experience is like nothing else.
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Schiff is trying to speak and there are now more protesters chanting “let gaza live.” It’s sort of devolved and schiff is trying to speak over them but there are probably about two dozen protesters who won’t stop.
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Wild that this NBA season was its longest but also one of the great public health experiments ever. There were no positive case the WHOLE TIME in the bubble, and the league along with the NBAPA funded the development of a new Covid test.
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We're witnessing a truly unbelievable scene inside the City Council Chambers where angry Angelenos won't allow the meeting to start until
@cmgilcedillo
and
@kdeleon
leave the room. Meanwhile
@mikebonin
sits alone as other members speak with the two.
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NEWS: Judge David Carter has just filed an order saying that the city and county must "offer and if accepted provide shelter or housing immediately to .. to the general
population living in Skid Row," within 180 days. The order is 110 pages. story soon.
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BIG NEWS: Homelessness is up 12% in LA County and 16% in the city. Officials are "stunned" as they get more people off the street than ever before. Still more people are falling into homelessness as Angelenos can't keep up with rent.
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David is trying to gather his possessions and leave the park but he has far more than he can carry. He is hoping for the best right now. “This is a fucked up situation. It didn’t have to be this way. “
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The last few weeks I've been reporting out this profile of Judge David O Carter and his wild insistence on continuing to hold in-person hearings in a lawsuit related to homelessness in Los Angeles. The case predates the pandemic but he sees this moment to make real lasting change
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“This is supposed to be a progressive state. How the hell do you lead the nation in homelessness,” Skid Row Activist General Dogon says at a rally to protest new anti camping ordinances outside of city hall.
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Milo to me: "The Purpose of today was to show up on campus no matter what and to let them know we'll be back as many times as it will take."
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So I want to introduce you to a couple I've spent a lot of time with over the last few months. Lawrence and Carla McCue have been married for almost 31 years and live in their car with their dog Oreo.
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NEW:
@KarenBassLA
takes a very small lead 50.38% to 49.62% over
@RickCarusoLA
in the race to be
@MayorOfLA
. Caruso had been leading by close to 3,000 votes.
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When we talk about increased crime associated with homelessness, it should be noted that the victims of these crimes tend to be homeless.
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This is a huge deal. Padilla and Nury are extremely close political allies and Their political networks are intertwined. I believe they went to high school together and he represented roughly the same areas of her when he was CC President.
My statement regarding the recording released yesterday.
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SCOOP w/
@LATDoug
: In LA, homeless COVID-19 patients are 50% more likely to die. Starting Monday, all homeless people in LA County will be eligible for vaccines.
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Surfers are coming out to bring supplies from the boat to the beach.
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NEW:
@CD6Nury
has issued a statement apologizing for comments she made in a leaked audio recording, which was obtained by the
@latimes
. In it she makes racist remarks about
@mikebonin
's son among other things.
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LAPD in riot gear have cleared the intersection of Vin Scully and Sunset. “The only people we want to see in blue are the dodgers,” one woman steamed.
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The fireworks have arrived along with about a dozen more LAPD officers in riot gear.
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‘Buy more fruits and vegetables’: L.A.’s produce wholesalers are seeing a 90% drop in sales
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Outside of
@RepMaxineWaters
, a group of people who had come to protest the
@Oathkeepers
are chanting “Fuck the government. America was never great.”
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The burnouts have begun. The LAPD helicopters are getting lower. People are screaming some masked some not
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"It was not just that The Times saw fit to hire white men almost exclusively for its newsroom; the stories it told were largely for and about white people, which meant Angelenos weren’t getting an accurate account of their city, region and state."
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PERSONAL NEWS: After several years covering homelessness and LA City, I started this week covering regional politics with a focus on the 2024 Senate race here in California. Here's my first story from the campaign trail.
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NEW: We have entered a new stage of the pandemic where vaccines are becoming more widely available, but Los Angeles' plan to vaccinate the homeless population and the skid row community, which is just getting underway, is fraught with obstacles.
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AHF declined our repeated requests for an interview with their CEO.They refused to answer detailed questions in writing. It's pretty rich of them to say we're not telling their "story fairly" even as we quote their own legal briefs extensively in the story!
AIDS Healthcare Foundation takes out full-page ad in
@latimes
in response to report by
@liamdillon
@boreskes
@LATDoug
on lawsuit over conditions at an AHF-owned apartment on skid row
Story:
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.
@EchoPark90026
president Zarinah Williams, noted that the lake is situated on what once was Tongva tribal land and should continue to be a place where the community goes for “solace, leisure and survival.”
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Meanwhile in Malibu Canyon fire fighters are battling spot fires that keep popping up. One after another, helicopters and tankers bombarded the slopes of the canyon with flame retardant.
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NEWS: People involved in the planning say
@KarenBassLA
will likely declare a state of emergency Monday, and the goal is to centralize power and authority in responding to the homelessness crisis in a way that has both a political and practical effect.
Karen Bass will make history today when she becomes mayor. But her honeymoon will be brief as she faces an LA in crisis.
@boreskes
on what she is doing now
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@BOOBSPACE
@emykat03
@LACountyRRCC
Hi, were you a poll worker in LA County? If you were could you send me an email or call me. Benjamin.oreskes
@latimes
.com 213-238-8436
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The LAPD just declared an unlawful assembly and have set up a skirmish line. People are in the streets and the cops have yet to clear the intersection.
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I wanna tell you about my great-grandmother, Clara. She came to America with no money but in search of a better life. She was a labor organizer, and at one point, worked in the circulation department of a left-wing magazine called the New Masses. Here's her guild card from 1947.
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Mike Dickerson of
@KtownforAll
says we need housing and shelter urgently but “What we get urgently is criminalization and enforcement,” he says.
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“Asking for forgiveness is a good first step," he said--of the colleagues who have reached out. "Well, it's a second step because first you must resign and then ask for forgiveness.”
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This is Daniel, an emotional-support duck, who was on board a recent American Airlines flight.
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NEWS: Councilman
@JoeBuscaino
is dropping out of the Los Angeles mayor's race and throwing his support behind billionaire developer
@RickCarusoLA
. Story TK
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Still wild to me that in the year of our lord 2021, we're doing stories about the homelessness criss and specifically the question of people not wanting to go into a shelter and that story doesn't actually include the voices of any homeless people!
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Two former
@latimes
interns—one is a Pulitzer winner, one is wearing a shirt with fish on it. Congrats
@MattHjourno
!
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I'm in Federal Court today for an emergency hearing on a case filed last week alleging that the city and county of L.A. have failed in their duty to protect public health and safety and to provide shelter to people living on the streets.
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SCOOP: The City of LA hasn't received any reimbursements from
@fema
for the roughly $59 million it has spent on Project Roomkey. That's because
@ericgarcetti
's team hasn’t asked the federal government for the money yet. W/
@dakotacdsmith
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In this excellent and incredibly sad tale,
@MatthewOrmseth
writes: "Amid a startling overall rise in homicides in Los Angeles County over the last year, killings of homeless people have surged most dramatically."
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"A Northern California sheriff has apparently largely abandoned his job and moved to another state while still collecting his salary"
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Several of the folks left in the park are collecting there things and preparing to go. It’s a very tough moment for them. Trying to give them some space but I would say 10 or 11 people are left in the park
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LAPD urges women who say they were victims of Harvey Weinstein to come forward
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NEWS: Los Angeles city officials and homeless services providers are rushing to move as many homeless people as possible from Echo Park Lake this week in advance of an expected sweep to remove more than 100 tents and fence the entire park for repairs.
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"Other departments across the country have robust rules for carrying firearms while drinking alcohol or when intoxicated, but the LAPD’s rules remain vague even as serious cases pile up,"
@kevrector
and
@LAcrimes
write.
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Nomination of 'Dr. Drew' for homeless commission is pulled after outcry
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Sorry my phone was rendered non-functional by the rain. Suffice to say we spent about 2 hours walking and talk on skid row. Judge Carter was testing every hand washing station he saw and speaking with homeless individuals. He also kept taking his mask off!
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Depending on how it’s done, this will be an especially huge deal for homeless Californians living in cars and RVs.
NEW: California will eliminate debt owed for traffic fees and fines for low-income Californians. Tickets from 2015 - June 2021 will be forgiven.
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MILO is about to leave. And as quickly as he appeared, he's now gone.
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Fighting back tears, Councilman Mike Bonin said: "I take a lot of hits, and I know i practically invite a bunch of them. But my son? it makes my soul bleed."
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Ensuring she's in the room and voting is essential for Democrats right now.
@SenatorDurbin
told The Times that “we’ve talked about her availability” w/her staff. “We need her in the committee. We need her on the floor”
@SenBlumenthal
framed it similarly.
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The cops continue to fire at the crowd as they push them west on sunset.
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Fresh comments from
@mikebonin
and his husband Sean Arian. They are calling for
@CD6Nury
to step down saying: “Any parent reading her comments will know she is unfit for public office.”
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.
@mikebonin
is speaking now through tears. Starts off by saying: "I really, really don't want to be here today. want to be home with my family right now... I am still trying to wrap my head around everything that was said and everything that is happening."
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NEWS: Today we learned that
@SenFeinstein
's shingles caused her to have encephalitis, which is swelling of the brain and can be debilitating, causing memory loss among other effects.
@nytimes
reported it first.
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.
@yamphoto
is so good that he's inspired a whole sub-genre of journalism solely devoted to his photos. Let me be the millionth person to say that Marcus is the best!
Marcus Yam’s picture of the California fires is a kind of counterpoint to the classic SoCal image: a sunset tucking into the horizon.
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LAPD investigating family dispute involving Harvey Weinstein, sources say
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Ye Rustic Inn took my temperature and phone number before serving me a Budweiser. Love it when the neighborhood dive is better equipped to do contact tracing than the White House.
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Really grateful to be honored last night by the
@LAPressClub
for my coverage of homelessness. Though I dropped my award in the bar after and broke it! Anyway it was a fun night and I'm honored to be recognized.
Congratulations
@boreskes
Judges’ comment: "With his keen eyes for detail, excellent research and writing, and an empathy for the homeless and those who help, including firefighters, EMTs and a judge, Benjamin Oreskes
earns a Print Journalist of the Year award..."
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I'm no epidemiologist but hopefully this shows businesses that if you think about employee safety, and invest in it, you can pull cool things off.
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Hey
@MitchOFarrell
, I am listening to the Homelessness and Poverty Committee meeting right now, and I know it's easy to score a cheap political hit to claim that the
@latimes
has not been covering the progress of Project Roomkey. Here are stories we've written recently.
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BIG NEWS: Beginning Feb. 19, a few of us including,
@sherlyholmes
+
@DavidZahniser
+
@dakotacdsmith
and others, are starting a newsletter about the local politics and elections. It will be great. Please sign up!
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Very cool to be nominated! It's been a rough year, and it means so much to see the
@LAPressClub
recognize my coverage of homelessness in Los Angeles. I care deeply about lifting up the stories of people + am honored write about it for the
@latimes
.
Congrats to
@boreskes
&
@DanielNMiller
for being nominated as LA Press Club journalist of the year !
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NEWS: Judge Mary Strobel has granted a temporary restraining order that has “enjoined" Councilman Herb Wesson "from performing any functions of a council member.“ Story tk.
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Spent the last few months talking to
@KarenBassLA
and nearly 40 of her friends, family members and colleagues in Los Angeles, Sacramento and Washington. I tried to capture where she comes from and why she wants to be mayor of LA.
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Some bottles are being thrown at LAPD as they fire projectiles towards crowd at Sunset and Logan.
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I deleted the Twitter app so I could watch Blade Runner w/o being distracted. I ended up going to Twitter on Safari.
I have a problem.
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Los Angeles and New York: They both have good and bad bagels. 1/489
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Listening back to the tape, noticing a moment where they're all talking about USC's history of mishegas and Carmen Puliafito comes up.
@gilcedillo
: "I like him."
@kdeleon
: "I like him. He was fun."
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I had never been to the top of Point Dume rock. The line was always too long. Since Malibu was a ghost town, I decided to check it out. There I met a former Marine with binoculars, a radio and American flag who was tracking the fires
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Tidbit of NEWS:
@mikebonin
has tested positive for covid. He was feeling wrung out, he told me, but it wasn't just the strain of the last few days. He's sick! He'll be attending council remotely today.
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Ayman Ahmed was just on the phone organizing motel rooms for some of the people still in the park through community groups. Him and David Busch-Lilly don’t appear to want to walk out of here and are discussing next steps
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“'This is extremely disrespectful,’”
@EunissesH
told
@gilcedillo
about his presence on the council floor last week. The “'community would like you to leave and I think that’s the right move.’”
He made eye contact with her but did not respond, she said.
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NEWS: The Los Angeles Police Protective League is endorsing developer Rick Caruso's run for mayor of Los Angeles. Remember that Caruso served as president of the Los Angeles Police Commission in the mid-2000s.
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In recent weeks, I spoke w/dozens of homeless people, outreach workers and government officials about the implications of Judge David Carter's ordering officials to provide space in shelters or alternative housing for residents living near freeways.
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“I think she’s gonna need our base. She’s going to need the support of the movement,”
@GinaForLA
said of
@KarenBassLA
.
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