Mariel Garza

Journalists at 3 Newspapers Quit Over Edits to a Charlie Kirk Story

Good for them for standing on principle. Now they should band together and start a competing digital news site. No better time. People are sick of craven corporate media organizations.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Opinion | There’s Only One Way to Win a Shutdown. Democrats Don’t Have What It Takes.

Sounds like a dare. From Newt Gingrich, the shutdown king himself.

A Woodland Hills nursery is turning into a cemetery. Some locals are fighting it Boething Treeland Nursery has served flora to the San Fernando Valley for the last seven decades, but plans by its new owner call for a cemetery on the 32-acre property in Woodland Hills. Locals are c...

Would they rather have a shopping mall or massive housing development? I would love to have a cemetery as a neighbor. Green and quiet. What's not to love? www.latimes.com/california/s...

Uh, might that be called….SOCIALISM???!!!!

I will believe it when I see it. Seems like we haven't hit rock bottom yet.

Just to illustrate how much LA's services suck right now, this couch that I filed an 311 request for on September 9 has still not been picked up. This type of request used to take a few days and no longer than a week.

And these service levels are about to get even worse

Commentary: In the world of 'South Park,' Mexicans are cool while ICE is the joke Augusto Arellano pays his respects to Casa Bonita, a combo plate of pro-Mexican PR revived by 'South Park' creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

MY LATEST @latimes.com ‬⁩ COLUMNA: In the world of 'South Park,' Mexicans are cool while ICE is the joke. Share, porfas!

heh

That’s quite a turnaround

L.A. Convention Center expansion hits a wall: Council committee endorses repairs instead A narrowly divided Budget and Finance Committee voted to recommend a much smaller package of repairs to the Convention Center, citing concerns about the cost of expanding the facility.

L.A.'s plan for expanding the Convention Center hit a wall, with the council's budget committee recommending that the city halt work on the project and carry out less expensive repairs instead.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

I love all this independent news start-up energy.

Democracy dies in corporate spinelessness

I've spent a large portion of my life giving talks at colleges--the idea that someone would come up and shoot me has never really occurred to me. What a horrible horrible thing

Commentary: Charlie Kirk's killing is horrific — and likely not the end of political violence Political violence has no place in American democracy. But in this fragile moment, we can't use that violence as an excuse to curb more freedoms.

Chabria: Charlie Kirk's killing is horrific — and likely not the end of political violence

Whatever your feelings about Charlie Kirk's opinions, I think we can all agree that what happened is terrible -- and terrifying for those of us who opine for a living.

My L.A. neighborhood, Echo Park, could use a chapter of Trashers. The curbs and sidewalks are filled with rotting trash.

"... immigration agents may stop and question people they suspect are here illegally based on little more than working at a car wash, speaking Spanish or having brown skin."

Well, that's basically half L.A.'s population who are now subject to getting whisked off the street by masked ICE agents.

Trump responds to online speculation that he died | CNN Politics President Trump held a press conference on Tuesday to announce that US Space Command headquarters will move to Huntsville, Alabama. The president was asked by a reporter about viral theories that he w...

This headline is killing me.
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And that matters because, as I point out in this @globeopinion.bsky.social piece this week, the outcome of the Nov. 4 special election is far from certain. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/01/o...

Opinion | Do Not Re-Gerrymander California

The wealthy funder the anti-Proposition 50 campaign ($10 million so far) just got some great exposure in this NYT op-ed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...

California Republican leader calls for a ‘two state solution’ amid redistricting battle Assemblymember James Gallagher said his new proposed state would be among the most populous in the nation.

Never gonna happen -- unless? What if the GOP sweetens the deal by allowing coastal California, the bluest of the blue parts, to secede from the U.S.? A win-win?

That was quick.

Got my first redistricting election mailer, paid for by Charlie Munger.

Yes that is pretty much where we are now

California voters will decide redistricting in November, escalating battle with Trump and Texas California lawmakers approved a November special election to ask voters to redraw the state’s electoral lines to favor Democrats. The effort aims to counter similar steps taken by Republicans in Texas...

And there it is. California is having a special election Nov. 4.https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-21/california-lawmakers-newsom-approve-congressional-district-adding-heat-to-battle-with-trump

According to Trump: “Our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals, roving mobs of wild youth, drugged out maniacs and homeless people.”

I visited DC in April and found the streets exceptionally clean and safe.

And waste millions doing it. The "liberation" of Los Angeles in June, using National Guard troops and U.S. Marines, cost taxpayers $134 million -- and that figure came from Hegseth.

Gavin Newsom is going low. Is this the future of Democratic campaigns? - The Boston Globe The California governor is considering going beyond warring with words and is flirting with the same sneaky tactics as his political opponents.

My latest for @globeopinion.bsky.social www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/04/o...

Aint that the truth

Harris Will Not Run for California Governor

This is very good news for the many prominent democrats already running for governor, like former Rep. Katie Porter and Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis. Harris would have instantly become the frontrunner and presumptive winner