That’s ~4X more than originally thought

Great (and sobering) breakdown by Ian James on a lesser-known driver of ocean acidification: high nitrogen levels from coastal sewage plants.

“It’s not just coming from global climate change. It’s also coming from our land-based sources of pollution.'
latimes.com/environment/ne…

Whoops

The future the Sulzbergers/Dolnicks/Perpiches want (intentionally or unintentionally because I doubt any of them know who Pinochet was)

Astroturfers fucked around, are finding out

MY LATEST ⁦Los Angeles Times⁩ COLUMNA: More than just a store, 99 Cents Only gave a fair shake to all who entered. RT, porfas! latimes.com/california/sto…

Times have definitely changed theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

Via this story: 'Vivek is definitely bright,' one source who requested anonymity said. 'He made an assessment: Vegas will eventually fall apart and wherever the team is at that moment is where it will stay. He's not the only one who believes that.'

History doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes?

New development - OPD Deputy Chief Drennon Lindsay faces termination, other cops face serious discipline for tampering with Phong Tran’s IAD investigation.

Appreciate the East Bay Times standing up my reporting on Bleeding Edge from 2 weeks back

eastbaytimes.com/2024/04/10/hig…

Fiat Lux

It. Doesn’t. Work.

30 years ago, I reported on the Rwandan genocide as the world stood by. Afterwards, governments made another promise of 'never again'. Now they are failing Gaza. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Months of mobilization paid off. Turkey finally restricted exports to Israel.
Just another reminder that protest is meaningful even under authoritarian regimes.

Hollywood shunning Megalopolis is going to have Big Francis spitting bars like it's Cannes 1979 again

NEW from me: Concerns about the lack of corporate criminal prosecutions from DOJ, with a focus on the top personnel leading the agency. Acting #3 at DOJ Ben Mizer was on the team that handed out sweetheart settlements to banks after the financial crisis:
prospect.org/justice/2024-0…

This means DocGo was papered with at least one federal subpoena