Boyle’s relationship with Obama/Biden goes back a long way - like when Obama met privately with him and four former gang members in LA during a 2014 fundraising swing. Mayor Bass, then a member of Congress, was among the attendees latimes.com/nation/politic…

Many O.C. residents deny Trump election results, potentially swaying key races, Hannah Fry reports latimes.com/california/sto…

Crime is a ballot 'vulnerability' for California Democrats after Schiff, Bass break-ins. Smart read by Laura J. Nelson 🦅 latimes.com/california/sto…

As put by UNLV history professor Michael Green, who was quoted for the story: “I can imagine the ads about the dangers and nuclear power accidents and the like. I don’t think he [Sam Brown] has done himself any favors.”
latimes.com/politics/story…, via Los Angeles Times, Seema

🧵The student publications are truly doing some of the best journalism out there. Follow/read/listen/support:
-NYC : WKCR-FM NY, Columbia Daily Spectator, Washington Square News,
-Boston: The Berkeley Beacon, The Tufts Daily
-CA: Daily Trojan, USC Annenberg Media, Daily Bruin, The Daily Californian, The Lumberjack

I stand with the student journalists trying to do their work under impossible conditions. Keep telling the truth as professionally and fiercely as you can. It’s you versus the world right now.

I spoke with two of the Daily Bruin reporters who were attacked early this morning while doing their jobs. Without question, they said they will continue covering the unrest on their campus and serving their community.

'I can't sit back.' latimes.com/california/sto…

Long Beach weighs new hiring process as almost a quarter of jobs sit vacant, reports Terry Castleman latimes.com/california/sto…

ICYMI: Antonio Villaraigosa, the former mayor of Los Angeles, has been hired as an adviser to the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. latimes.com/california/sto…

Delaine Eastin, pioneering California politician, dies at 76 latimes.com/politics/story…

Speaking of the American Independent Party, this is one of my all-time favorite Los Angeles Times stories, by Christine Mai-Duc John Myers, about how the majority of members in the far-right party apparently joined by accident instead of declaring 'no party preference' static.latimes.com/american-indep…

More than 3.5 million pounds of highly radioactive nuclear waste is buried on a coastal bluff just south of Orange County, near an idyllic beach name-checked in the Beach Boys’ iconic “Surfin’ U.S.A.” It was supposed to go to Yucca.

Nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain could roil Nevada U.S. Senate race latimes.com/politics/story…

One of LA's most original chroniclers published 4,000+ stories in Los Angeles Times, some of the best hidden deep inside the paper next to appliance ads. How do you pick the Best of Bob Pool. I tried! Bob would shake his head latimes.com/california/sto…

Bob Pool was a towering figure in Los Angeles Times newsroom -despite his small stature. Veteran reporter, graceful writer, pun-smith extraordinaire and an absolute gem of a man died yesterday at 79. Seema Paul Pringle latimes.com/obituaries/sto…

Why Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2003 tabloid deal came up at Trump’s hush-money trial latimes.com/politics/story…

How treatment of miscarriages is upending the abortion debate latimes.com/politics/story…

VA Gov. Glenn Youngkin will headline OCGOP Flag Day event on 6/21.

RIP Delaine Eastin, California's first female superintendent of public instruction. Here is a piece--and an 'It's All Political' podcast -- from when she ran for governor. She was the candidate I most wanted to have a beer with. sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…

Gov. Kristi Noem also speaking at CAGOP in May.