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  • One far-right leader ousted. Another barely hangs on. Is Shasta rejecting MAGA politics?

    03/18/2024 10:59:57 AM PDT · by cuz1961 · 19 replies
    https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-03-16/shasta-voters-oust-far-right-leader ^ | MARCH 16, 2024 | BY HAILEY BRANSON-POTTS, JESSICA GARRISON
    ...It was a stunning turn for Jones, a gun store manager who in his one term in office has emerged as a leading voice in an ultraconservative insurgence that transformed this largely rural Northern California county into a national symbol of hard-right governance and election denialism \
  • Letters to the Editor: I'm a psychiatrist. Lawyers shouldn't be assessing Biden's cognitive ability

    02/12/2024 1:44:02 PM PST · by Carl Vehse · 107 replies
    LA Times ^ | February 12, 2024 | Sidney Weissman, M.D., Highland Park, Ill.
    Justice Department special counsel Robert Hur has training in neither psychiatry nor neurology, yet he included an assessment of President Biden's cognitive functioning in his report declining to bring charges for mishandling classified information. Memory assessment is a complex task and cannot be undertaken over five hours in interviews with attorneys.
  • Age matters. Which is why Biden’s age is his superpower

    02/10/2024 2:24:59 PM PST · by Trump20162020 · 61 replies
    The Los Angeles Times ^ | February 9, 2024 | Bill McKibben
    Joe Biden is old. Like each of us, he comes from a particular place in history, in his case the LBJ years. And that’s one big reason why his first term has been so full of accomplishment: His age, often cited as the greatest obstacle to his reelection, is actually his superpower. The first presidential election in which Joe Biden was eligible to vote featured Lyndon Johnson beating Barry Goldwater. History remembers LBJ’s presidency as chaotic because of his tragic adventuring in Vietnam, but in other respects it was remarkable. His Great Society echoed Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal (FDR was...
  • Mass layoffs hit LA Times, California's biggest newspaper

    01/23/2024 12:40:14 PM PST · by artichokegrower · 46 replies
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Jan 23, 2024 | By Farley Elliott
    The Los Angeles Times, the largest newspaper in California and one of the biggest by circulation in the entire United States, was hit with a heavy round of layoffs Tuesday. The move to terminate more than 110 positions within the company has been widely rumored for several weeks — even prompting a one-day walkout protest from the newsroom last week — but the scale of the layoffs, and when those layoffs would happen, was not widely known until Tuesday morning.
  • Earth surpasses critical 2-degree warming threshold, European climate officials say

    11/20/2023 2:28:56 PM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 113 replies
    The Los Angeles Times ^ | November 20, 2023 | BY HAYLEY SMITH
    For the first time since record keeping began, Earth has surpassed a critical temperature threshold that scientists have long warned could unleash the worst effects of climate change. On Friday the planet soared 2.07 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, or the 1850 to 1900 average, according to Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. Not all hope is lost, however. The Fifth National Climate Change Assessment, released last week by the White House, underscored that every fraction of a degree of warming added or averted will make a difference.
  • Why Palestinian Americans believe Rep. Rashida Tlaib spoke the truth

    11/13/2023 7:10:26 AM PST · by artichokegrower · 30 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | November 11, 2023 | Saree Makdisi
    “I can’t believe I have to say this,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) said during the debate over the motion to censure her in Congress this week, “but Palestinian people are not disposable. We are human beings just like anyone else.”
  • Ted Lieu Accuses NY Times of 'Intentionally' Writing False Headline for Gaza Hospital Report to Draw Clicks

    10/23/2023 10:19:05 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 14 replies
    Fox News ^ | October 20, 2023 | Kristine Parks
    Democratic congressman lashed out at New York Times and Los Angeles Times for pushing false narratives on Palestinian hospital strikeRep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., accused The New York Times of doing something far "worse" than making a mistake, after the outlet quoted Palestinian claims blaming Israel for the explosion that rocked the al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City earlier this week. President Biden said that U.S. intelligence confirmed Israel was not to blame for the attack and backed up Israel's military investigation, which found the strike was caused by Palestinian terrorist group Islamic Jihad. Users on X roasted the paper for...
  • Column: Reagan gave Americans hope. Trump offers venom and lies

    09/24/2023 11:16:11 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 119 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | 09/24/2023 | GEORGE SKELTON
    SACRAMENTO — The Republican Party will hold a presidential candidate debate at the Ronald Reagan library Wednesday. It’s a bad fit. The GOP’s modern idol is exactly the opposite of Reagan in personality and character. For upbeat Reagan, America was a “shining city on the hill.” For whining Donald Trump, it’s a waste bin for venom and lies. Reagan’s soaring rhetoric made people feel good about themselves. There was “always a bright dawn ahead” — “Morning in America.” Yes, maybe that was a tad naive and corny, but it brought a collective smile — and won over many Democrats.
  • Controversial law punishing doctors who spread COVID misinformation on track to be undone

    Show more sharing options Tucked into a state Senate bill revising aspects of the Medical Board of California is a brief but unambiguous clause undoing a controversial law that was intended to curb “dissemination of misinformation or disinformation related to COVID-19.”If the bill passes as expected this week, it will put an end to the saga of Assembly Bill 2098, a well-intentioned, poorly worded and ultimately doomed effort to curb the most flagrant cases of COVID-related falsehoods by people wielding medical licenses. “We are happy that the Legislature is attempting to address the defects in last year’s legislation,” said Chessie...
  • Gov. Gavin Newsom Officially Calls for Convention to Change US Constitution

    09/15/2023 4:32:06 PM PDT · by Publius · 125 replies
    The Western Journal (via MSN) ^ | 15 September 2023 | Richard Moorhead
    California Gov. Gavin Newsom is eyeing a change to the United States Constitution. The state's legislature on Thursday approved a resolution in support of Newsom's call for a 28th Constitutional amendment, according to the Los Angeles Times. The amendment would enshrine a list of Democratic gun-control policy priorities into federal law. California is requesting a Constitutional convention to enshrine the amendment. For the amendment to be considered, two-thirds of state legislatures would have to vote in favor of a convention, according to the Times. The proposed "Right to Safety Amendment" would limit legal gun ownership to adults 21 and older,...
  • Neighbors rally as Reagan statue in Balboa Island home patio of its sculptor is defaced

    08/21/2023 7:05:50 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 16 replies
    latimes ^ | 08/17/2023 | SUSAN HOFFMAN
    The vandalism last weekend of a sculpture of Republican Party icon Ronald Reagan that’s long greeted passersby of artist Miriam Baker’s home on Balboa Island’s South Bayfront has generated outcry from her neighbors and friends. Baker first learned of the incident from her nephew, who at about 9 a.m. Sunday discovered the artwork, which stands next to some potted geraniums on her front patio, had been defaced by someone using what appeared to have been foam insulation. “It’s incomprehensible that there is a person that nasty around that would do it out of meanness and small mindedness,” said Baker, who...
  • Gun control laws in California and beyond in peril as Supreme Court expands 2nd Amendment

    07/19/2023 2:28:18 PM PDT · by rellimpank · 25 replies
    LA Times via msn ^ | 18 july 2021 | David G. Savage
    It wasn't until 2008 that the Supreme Court for the first time struck down a gun control law, ruling the 2nd Amendment protected the "right of law-abiding, responsible citizens" to keep a handgun at home for self-defense. Last year, the court went a step further and said an "ordinary law-abiding citizen" also has a right to a state permit to carry a concealed weapon in public for self-defense. Now the justices face a new frontier: Do gun rights extend to dangerous people and dangerous weapons? In just the last year, accused criminals and felons including drug dealers and domestic abusers...
  • RFK Jr. Is Really Scaring Them Now: LA Times Says He’s a Threat to ‘Our Democracy’

    06/21/2023 7:41:34 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 83 replies
    PJ Media ^ | 06/21/2023 | Robert Spencer
    Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has the Leftist political and media elites deeply rattled, and that’s utterly delightful. Imagine this scenario: a wildly unpopular and manifestly incapable president is running, however haltingly, for reelection. Initially he seemed like a lock, but then he encountered an unexpected challenge from a scion of an old American political family, a man who defies all the conventional categorization of political candidates and has set the establishment on its ear by challenging not only the superannuated corruptocrat in the White House but many of that establishment’s most cherished assumptions. It would make a great novel, but...
  • In further blow to Russian LGBTQ+ community, lawmakers move to ban gender transitioning procedures

    06/15/2023 6:50:33 AM PDT · by JonPreston · 27 replies
    LA Times ^ | 6/15/23 | DASHA LITVINOVA
    Russian lawmakers gave initial approval Wednesday to a bill that would outlaw gender transitioning procedures in yet another blow to the country's beleaguered LGBTQ+ community.Senior lawmaker Pyotr Tolstoy, who is among the bill’s sponsors, has said it is intended to “protect Russia with its cultural and family values and traditions and to stop the infiltration of the Western anti-family ideology.”
  • Abcarian: I almost wrote off Joe Biden in 2020. Boy, was I wrong then. What about now?

    02/12/2023 10:54:49 AM PST · by E. Pluribus Unum · 32 replies
    Yahoo! News ^ | Sun, February 12, 2023 at 5:00 AM CST | Robin Abcarian
    Was I the only journalist in America who thought President Biden’s State of the Union speech Tuesday was hard to watch? At least until he departed from his script and began sparring with the nation’s rudest Republicans?Sometimes when Biden starts to speak, I involuntarily hold my breath, waiting for him to stumble over his words, or slur them or otherwise mangle his text in a way that will show up in clips on Fox News or MAGA Twitter. See, he’s incompetent! Worrying about this detracts from the pleasure of having a solid Democratic president after four years of Trumpian chaos...
  • Column: What I learned about myself at the Richard M. Nixon museum

    01/17/2023 1:23:26 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 37 replies
    latimes ^ | 01/16/2023 | NICHOLAS GOLDBERG
    In the house where I grew up, President Nixon was a villain. My parents voted against him every opportunity they got, and we all cheered when he resigned during his second term, flying off in ignominy from the White House lawn to a life outside the public eye. That he was a criminal, a warmonger, a bigot, a vicious redbaiter, a threat to the Constitution — these were unquestionable truths. So for me, a recent visit to the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda was a head-turning, mind-bending experience that challenged my assumptions and forced me...
  • Gregory Yee, Times reporter who chased the stories that shaped L.A., dies at 33.. ( Los Angeles Times )

    01/06/2023 5:23:41 PM PST · by george76 · 28 replies
    Los Angeles Times ^ | JAN. 5, 2023 | Christopher Goffard
    Gregory Yee, a hard-charging breaking news reporter for the Los Angeles Times, died unexpectedly Wednesday at the Hollywood bungalow where he lived. His family said the cause appeared to be complications from a respiratory issue. He was 33. ... Hired during the pandemic, he worked from home and did not have a chance to meet many of his co-workers in person. Colleagues said he enjoyed the adrenaline rush and constant novelty of breaking news, and studied the paper’s online analytics to gauge how much time readers were lingering on his stories.
  • Fox News’ ‘The Five’ topples ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ to become new cable news ratings leader

    12/20/2022 12:04:25 PM PST · by marcusmaximus · 74 replies
    LA Times ^ | 12/19/2022 | STEPHEN BATTAGLIO
    There is a new cable news ratings champion. Nielsen data for 2022 rank the Fox News round table program “The Five” as the most watched show in cable news with an average of 3.5 million viewers. The figure tops “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” which averaged 3.3 million viewers for the year. The figure for the Fox News prime-time show is up 3% over 2021 when it was the most watched program for the year. But “The Five” grew more, up 17% over 2021. The program, which airs live at 5 p.m. Eastern and 2 p.m. Pacific, is also the first cable...
  • Can red states overcome their hatred of California and embrace electric cars?

    12/12/2022 6:49:51 AM PST · by Oldeconomybuyer · 164 replies
    The Los Angeles Times via MSN ^ | December 12, 2022 | by Noah Bierman
    This industrial city an hour north of Indianapolis isn't as famous as Detroit, but it has become an unlikely battleground in the war over electric cars. Almost everyone you meet here either works in a factory, is retired from one or has a relative in a plant that makes parts for gasoline-powered cars — which have ruled Kokomo for nearly 130 years. Yet change is coming. Bulldozers are clearing Kokomo’s cornfields to build a $2.5-billion government-subsidized electric vehicle battery factory, with the aim of retaining jobs tied to auto production at a time California is leading the nation in phasing...
  • Op-Ed: Free food for all? Absolutely. In this age of abundance, it should be a human right ["If some processing plants, distribution warehouses and retailers were owned by government"]

    11/27/2022 9:53:32 AM PST · by grundle · 87 replies
    Los Angeles Times via Yahoo ^ | November 27, 2022 | Chloe Sorvino
    One way to do that would be to restructure some food companies, distribution warehouses and retailers as a public utility, like how the energy grid, sewers and water delivery are managed. If some processing plants, distribution warehouses and retailers were owned by government, they could use subsidies to buy grains, legumes like beans and meat directly from farmers, and the resulting goods could be made available free to everyone. Programs could alternatively take the form of universal school meals and open-to-all cafeterias that serve meals throughout the day.