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JUST POSTED: Today at The NYT we are publishing a major investigation into how President Trump used his executive powers to expose millions of Americans to greater cancer risks. A six month-long investigation built on more than 10,000 pages of FOIA records. Read it www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/c...

Who is the government holding in its shelters for “unaccompanied” immigrant children? Turns out, a growing number of these kids were taken away from loving parents and other relatives.

Filmmaker Alex Gibney told CNN's Kaitlan Collins that Elon Musk has "enormous power and no idea of what to do with it." His documentary "Musk" opens in New York and Los Angeles on October 9, then nationwide October 16.

🚨 ¿SE ESTÁ PINTANDO DE AZUL EL MAPA DEL SENADO? No importa lo que digan las encuestas. De nada sirven si no salen a votar. Así que todos los que sean ciudadanos, a votar en estas elecciones. No hay que confiarse. ¡Ola azul!

NITHYA RAMAN’S YEARS IN CHARGE Raman blames Karen Bass for LA’s homelessness crisis. But Raman was chairing the City Council’s homelessness committee before Bass became mayor. She’s had YEARS. If she had the answers, why didn’t she fix it then? She wants us to believe becoming mayor changes that?

Cuando el debate se convierte en espejo: Becerra obligó a Hilton a enfrentar la distancia entre su narrativa de bienvenida y las políticas que excluyen a quienes sostienen este estado.

Xavier Becerra put the Steve Hilton contradiction right on the debate stage: enforce Trump’s federal immigration laws, but ignore California’s own protections? Then he dropped the hammer: “You seem to welcome immigrants who look like you, but deport immigrants who look like me.”

They should have boicoted when he threw Jorge Ramos out of a press conference in 2015. If you guys don't know who Jorge Ramos is, he is a journalist. But none of you paid attention, I guess.

Xavier Becerra has a message for naturalized American citizens: YOU ARE NOT A SECOND-CLASS CITIZEN. VOTE. “What the Trump administration is telling us, is that they believe that they can intimidate U.S. citizen voters.”

Never forget: when Platner’s Nazi tattoo surfaced, Democrats had time to rally behind another progressive in Maine. Instead, they doubled down on a candidate with a trail of red flags. Now they’re dealing with a sexual assault allegation. 1/2

La Suprema Corte acaba de marcar el rumbo en los casos de atletas transgénero. En B.P.J., el tribunal sostuvo que el Título IX permite que las escuelas tengan equipos separados por sexo biológico, y que West Virginia puede reservar el deporte femenino para mujeres biológicas sin violar la ley.

La Corte Suprema le dijo “no” a Trump. El veredicto de $5M por abuso sexual y difamación se queda tal cual. Ni sus propios jueces lo salvaron. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/u...

147 deportados llegaron a Venezuela el día del desastre. Víctimas de Trump y ahora de la tragedia. Solo 12 hallados con vida. El vuelo de la desgracia: los 147 deportados de Estados Unidos que terminaron bajo los escombros en Venezuela elpais.com/america/2026...

Niños quedaron solos tras el terremoto en Venezuela. Riesgo de trata y desapariciones. Pedimos acción urgente de Cruz Roja y UNICEF. Firma aquí: lulac.org/advocacy/ale...

Hell yeah 👏🏽

La Suprema Corte reinventó “llegar”: si CBP te bloquea, no existes. No puedes pedir asilo sin pisar EE.UU. y no puedes pisar EE.UU. porque… te bloquean. Genial sistema.

Wow! Iran left a thank you note in their locker room thanking LA for its hospitality during the World Cup. Be sure you read the last line: “May peace, respect, and friendship prevail among all nations.” (Source: Reuters)

Host: A new report gives a chilling account of the treatment migrants experienced in CECOT. These detainees were subjected to torture, inhumane conditions and sexual violence. One detainee says 'guards made us kneel so they could shave our heads. The prison director told us you have arrived in hell'

Real journalism is not political, paid off, or prejudiced. It is simply reporting. The truth is the truth. No matter what apologists and extremists want you to believe.

A fire that broke out in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles on Wednesday continued to burn through the weekend. No injuries have been reported, but officials urged residents to limit time outdoors because of the smoke. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/20/u...

To George and Laura, Bill and Hillary — we're grateful for your friendship, counsel, and devotion to this country. And to Joe and Jill, thank you for being on this journey with us.

The arc of the moral universe is long but it includes St Paul.

Welcome back to California, FIFA World Cup! ⚽️🇺🇸 The Golden State is rooting for everyone on USMNT, including the team’s three Californians. Let's show the world why California stands proud on the global stage.

I love this. When the reporter found out Xavier Becerra took the lead.

Dems abandoned Swalwell over SA allegations. Platner’s been hit w/a list of red flags, reports from former partners, sexting scandals, allegations of threatening behavior, and stories of repeated infidelity, and he still has the party’s endorsements and blessing. 1/2

This is great! The DCCC is investing in red and purple states through its Red-to-Blue and Districts in Play programs, targeting 44 districts across 23 states to flip the House. And that’s exactly where Dems need to be.

Apparently, billionaire influence is only bad when it's the other billionaire. Tom Steyer has spent more than $200 million trying to become governor of California, nearly three times more than all of his opponents combined. I wrote about why that should scare Democrats more than anyone.

Xavier Becerra consistently leading in the California governor primary polls while Tom Steyer dumps nearly $200 million of his fossil fuel fortune into the race is a crazy reality. Maybe flooding the airwaves with nasty attack ads against Becerra, paying influencers for endorsements… 1/2

Tom Steyer wants voters to see him as a climate crusader now. But let’s be real about where the money came from. Steyer built his fortune at Farallon Capital through investments tied to coal, fossil fuels, mining & global energy infrastructure. Environmental watchdogs spent years documenting it. 🧵

If you want to know more about Becerra’s environmental record as AG…

Take your time with this one… Looking at Becerra’s healthcare plan and one thing jumps out immediately: This is what government looks like when you’re trying to keep people alive instead of turning healthcare into a shareholder extraction scheme.

I asked Xavier Becerra about the Chevron donation and I got honest answers. But before you watch, everyone needs to understand one thing… For every $1 Democrats raise, Republicans are pulling in $5. That’s what our candidates are up against in these races. 1/2

Steyer might be cooked in politics. More is coming about paid influencers promoting his campaign w/out proper disclosures. Now he’s trailing in the latest poll. But the biggest scandal is that he’s able to outspend his opponents with the $ millions he made from fossil fuel and private prisons.

Wow! Jasmine Crockett just endorsed Xavier Becerra for governor, and I was here to see it. Amazing morning. [Dulan’s Restaurant]

Here’s the real difference: Xavier Becerra is a longtime proponent of single-payer healthcare. The other candidates are just catching up to where he’s always been.

Tom Steyer is playing us. The wording in this creator brief is rubbing me completely wrong. “Winnable target”? I am not a f*cking target!

🔵 One side fears eligible Americans won’t be allowed to vote. 🔴 The other side fears too many Americans will.

What is Katie Porter doing? Drop out now‼️ Candidates polling in the single digits need to suspend before ego and vote-splitting hand California to the GOP. Lighting millions on fire attacking other Dems on cable news while Republicans sit back and watch the math isn’t going to give her the win.

Katie Porter is a bully with an ego the size of her whiteboard.

Dear @katieporterca.bsky.social

Are we sure Chad Bianco is a “former” Oath Keeper? Because here he is defending the white nationalist militia group again.

Hello from Minneapolis.

Whoa 👀

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

CHAD BIANCO IS A TRAIN-WRECK If you can’t answer basic questions about your own policy, you shouldn’t be running for governor of California. Notice, Bianco never actually answers questions. He dodges, pivots, and changes the subject.

President Donald Trump could see his vast personal fortune wiped out by a judge's ruling relating to the January 6 Capitol Hill attack, a legal analyst wrote Sunday.

A contrast between President Donald Trump's war with Iran and a previous conflict has been flagged by a war scholar.

Just wild that the Secret Service shot a Donald Trump supporter dead at Mar-a-Lago two months ago because he had a gun & was trying to kill the president over the Epstein files but—speaking only for myself—I haven’t heard a word about it amid the coverage tonight www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

WE NEED TO KEEP CALLING THIS OUT BECAUSE IT MATTERS: California is the 4th largest economy on Earth, and the most populous state in the country. This isn’t a place for amateurs. Becerra has the experience for a state this big, this complex, and this consequential. 🧵

Photo sent from someone in the crowd at Lesher Center in Walnut Creek for Xavier Becerra forum. Reports are it’s full after having to relocate to bigger space 3 times just like in LA. Whatever’s going on he’s getting big crowds.