Deborah Murphy

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Spent five years in Paris, left 15 or so years ago. The photographs Brent posts of Paris are astonishing and hopeful.

Gritty, grey side streets for cars are now green and lively with people. Bicycle lanes on rue de Rivoli?? The only time I saw bicycles on it was the finish of the Tour de France.

LA's Department of Cultural Affairs just released its planning framework "intended to serve as a complementary plan to LA28’s Cultural Olympiad Strategic Plan."

Where is LA28’s Cultural Olympiad Strategic Plan? Good question.

Read here: culture.lacity.gov/2028-cultura...

When I shared this I really thought we'd see at least one or two local leaders saying this would not be the way LA would host the Super Bowl in 2027 but I guess not 🙃

LOS ANGELES 2028: The temporary Olympic track in the L.A. Memorial Coliseum will surely send USC’s football team elsewhere in 2028 - The Sports Examiner LOS ANGELES 2028: The temporary Olympic track in the L.A. Memorial Coliseum will surely send USC’s football team elsewhere in 2028 - The Sports Examiner - Your all-in-one coverage of Olympic-sports ne...

A temporary track and field venue being installed by LA28 will kick the Trojans out of their football stadium for the 2028 season, concludes Rich Perelman.

“There is — barring an engineering miracle — no chance that USC will play any of its 2028 home schedule in the Coliseum”

The Garage Is the New Porch

"We’re getting older and I guess we’re becoming porch people," she said one night, as a neighbor walked by and said hello. "But since we don’t have a porch, this is the place where friends will drop by for a drink or to maybe watch sports with us when we bring our TV down."

It really is staggering to see so many people willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

The Trump administration has cancelled 4,304 deliveries to food banks so far this year, refusing to deliver 94 million pounds of contracted-for food. Food banks simply can’t feed people enough anymore. Millions of Americans are going hungry as a result.

Just going through this list again there are so many red flags. We still don't have an after-action report from the January fires with updated evacuation plans. There is no plan for more shade. There is no plan to keep LA clean. We are unable to pick up all our trash on a regular non-Olympics day!

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

My god.

“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”

It's really time to start asking these people: okay, great, so which world-class conventions and trade shows are you hoping to get, what is their current attendance, and how are you planning on luring them to LA?

And, more importantly, how many hotel room nights have they promised to book?

Frightening 😱

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

Imagine being proud of canceling grants providing food to people in need.

@awalkerinla.bsky.social has been writing about this for a very long time yet we still haven’t learned from 1984.

Screenshot of headline reading: Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.

Banning "climate change" doesn't mean it's not real.

Unacceptable and despicable

Why this convention center expert is calling LA's expansion plan a disaster "If you think that somehow a bigger convention center is key to downtown revitalization, or is going to do wonders for local job creation, or economic development? The answer is, you've got to be kidd...

Last week, convention center expert Heywood Sanders wrote this about LA's expansion plan: "the likelihood of any significant increase in the city’s convention business is effectively nil."

So I called him up to talk me through his analysis — and what he told me makes LA's plan seem *even worse*

Instead of this ridiculous story quoting one person who doesn’t want a bathroom in Runyon Canyon because of “odors” (have you smelled the dog piss there?), please read my story about how we can and should have beautiful public bathrooms in ALL our parks

"Any city we think is going to be a little dangerous for the World Cup — or for the Olympics, where, you know, they have Olympic overthrow, right [???] — but for the World Cup in particular, where they're playing in so many cities, we won't allow it, we'll move it around a little bit"

In 2024, LA Mayor Karen Bass pledged to transform the way LA operated by implementing a citywide capital infrastructure program that would prioritize major investments and distribute services equitably: www.torched.la/civic-promise/

This is the exact opposite of how this was all supposed to work!

L.A. approves $2.6B convention center expansion, even as convention demand shrivels There are boondoggles, there are big boondoggles, and then there are public development disasters. Los Angeles has just embarked on a disaster. Last week, the Los Angeles city council approved an expa...

"There are boondoggles, there are big boondoggles, and then there are public development disasters. Los Angeles has just embarked on a disaster."

Convention center development expert Heywood Sanders on LA's $2.6 billion mistake in the always-excellent Field of Schemes

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Eyes on the Street: Culver City Robertson Improvements Under Construction - Streetsblog Los Angeles Culver City is nearly done transforming one long block of Robertson Boulevard to be a safe bike/walk/transit first/last mile connection to the Metro E Line Station

First/last mile connection to the Culver City E Line Station nearly complete la.streetsblog.org/2025/09/22/e...

Jimmy Kimmel sits behind a desk. He’s wearing a tie and a jacket. A headline reads: “Jimmy Kimmel's Show To Return to ABC on Tuesday Night.” Photo credit: Randy Holmes/Disney.

Breaking News: ABC said that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” would return on Tuesday, ending an impasse that began last week. nyti.ms/3KAl4Np

What was I saying about never getting a moment of peace for wondering if this insane man is going to make his insanity real?

"Remember, Los Angeles is also on the hook for Olympic overruns. The Convention Center bill starts coming due the very same year we could be forced to absorb those Olympic overages."

I asked Yaroslavsky for her prepared remarks because I felt they captured this particular moment in LA so perfectly

Tesla is trying to hide 3 Robotaxi accidents Tesla is attempting to conceal the details of three separate accidents involving its Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, despite having...

“Tesla is attempting to conceal the details of three separate accidents involving its Robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, despite having only two months of service with a small fleet.”

There are names for that kind of thing…
electrek.co/2025/09/17/t...

Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.