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being a journalist is like being in school and writing a paper on a cool new topic every week and getting to chat with top experts in that field🥰and then you have random fun facts to tell your friends but they don't really care lol
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70% of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up. He rules. theatlantic.com/technology/2…
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In January 2025 my mom’s lung cancer spread to her brain. The drug with the best chance of helping her was approved in China but not here.
A doctor told me, almost as an aside, that if she were Chinese she could buy it at a pharmacy.
So I flew to Shanghai and came home with 26 boxes in my luggage. That was 19 months ago. My mom is still here, still working, and in her words has had an amazing three years.
The drug was approved in China in 2023. The FDA approved it in July 2025. It still is not for sale here. I know of at least 30 Americans who have made the same trip.
I have been scared to tell this story because I worried it could cost my mom access to the medicine keeping her alive. But the problem matters more than my silence. These drugs need to be developed and available here, and that means FDA reform.
Art Allen at KFF Health News told our story this week. It also ran in The Washington Post.
kffhealthnews.org/health-ind…
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This week LA’s had:
-Heatwaves
-Rain
-Frigid mid-60°s
-Santa Ana Winds
All we need is an earthquake, and then we’ve had everything LA has to offer.
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#BREAKING An ICE agent is in custody at a local hospital after police say he was shot after assaulting an elderly man and his daughter at a home in Fresno.
abc7ne.ws/DflFwu
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Japanese Americans grew most of the state’s celery once in Venice Beach. I found some still growing wild in Ballona Creek this past weekend and wrote about it in Lunch Box. frankbear.substack.com/p/jap…
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never not thinking about the 2014 corn cover
ALT a glorious cover of bloomberg businessweek that features 5 faceless normies holding hands in a circle around a giant floating ear of corn that says "Don't Hate Me Because I'm Beautiful" on it. they are frolicking in a field that looks like the bucolic windows XP wallpaper, Bliss
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The Guardian identifies the 21-year-old behind the fake Median Strategies Polling account
theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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Multiple family members have reported incidents of sailors attempting to jump off the USS Abraham Lincoln, the Military Times reports: militarytimes.com/news/your-….
The Lincoln's deployment was anticipated to end in May and has been extended indefinitely to support the war with Iran.
Images of food being served to sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Tripoli, published by USA Today.
Supplies "are going to get really low" and "morale is going to be at an all-time low," one sailor messaged his mother: usatoday.com/story/news/poli…
i eat taco bell like twice a week 😭
Federal and state health officials are investigating whether Taco Bell played a role in one of the largest U.S. outbreaks of a gastrointestinal illness caused by a parasite that contaminates fresh produce, according to two individuals. wapo.st/3Tizwhs
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If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7
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The landmark Supreme Court decision axing a majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana has renewed a Republican challenge to Washington state’s new legislative districts while spurring some state Democrats to seek new congressional boundaries:
seattletimes.com/seattle-new…
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🚇 IT’S HERE. The D Line Extension is officially open — Beverly Hills to DTLA.
And we’re celebrating in style. For 90 days, your Metro station comes with: Farmers markets, coffee carts and much more.
Your commute just got a serious glow-up. 👇
thesource.metro.net/d-line-e…
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🚨 NEW TOOL for U.S. legal journalists ⚖️
I turned @allyjarmanning's incredible crowdsourced Google doc on accessing state court records into an interactive map.
Check it out and let me know about any errors, missing information, or ways I can improve this thing (link below)
