Jaime Lowe

Shameful in so many ways.

R.I.P. GAWKER

Donate! L.A. Taco has been closely covering the ICE raids that haven’t stopped in L.A. even after the national headlines went away.

or a moderate size country I guess

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Unaccountable extremist ideological army to persecute all opposition

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Two dead after crowds rush UN aid warehouse amid Gaza hunger crisis The World Food Programme reiterates its call for the urgent need to scale up aid to Gaza.

The World Food Programme reiterates its call for the urgent need to scale up aid to Gaza.

Sex Hormones Are Brain Hormones. What Does This Mean for Treating Brain Diseases? A growing understanding of how “reproductive” hormones sculpt the brain could transform the management of neurological conditions.

AS ALWAYS RACHEL GROSS WITH AN EXCELLENT READ FILLED WITH LIFE GUIDING INFORMATION THAT IS ESSENTIAL AND PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/h...

Jackie Robinson Would Be Appalled As baseball gets set to celebrate the trailblazer’s legacy, it’s also placating a president who wants to dismantle everything Jackie stood for

42 @tribecalledlex.bsky.social www.theringer.com/2025/04/15/m...

Harvard stepping up for the fight with fascism is big news. Even bigger news is Trump's declaration that he won't comply with court orders and that he plans to start imprisoning U.S. citizens abroad based on "evidence" his DOJ says it doesn't have to and won't reveal.

Americans Must Prepare to Fight for the Citizenship Rights of U.S. Prisoners Trump's Plan to Render U.S. Citizens to Foreign Jails Seeks to Exploit Americans' Disinterest in the Rights of Prisoners

I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass.

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cool cool cool not at all troubling www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

The Life and Death of a Block Destroyed By the L.A. Fires A block is more than just houses — it’s one of our most basic forms of community. This is the story of what’s lost when a whole block burns.

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Thank you to everyone on Wapello for spending time with me, for talking to me, for being willing to share what your block was and what was lost and what it might become. I’m so grateful.
In the print version, there are more stories than online.

Lauren Betts and UCLA have arrived to the Women's NCAA Tournament Final Four 🐻

Donate to SUPPORT COACH TALAP!, organized by Nolan Hanson I'm Nolan Hanson and Talap Mamyrkanov is my mentor, coach, and friend. Talap was detained by ICE on… Nolan Hanson needs your support for SUPPORT COACH TALAP!

Talap Mamyrkanov, one of the boxing coaches at Gleason's Gym in Brooklyn, has been detained by ICE and is facing deportation to Russia, where he would be in danger. If you can, contribute to his legal defense here:

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Crime Writers for Trans Rights 2025 Silent auction 'Crime Writers for Trans Rights 2025' hosted online at 32auctions.

Lots of cool stuff in this writers auction to benefit the Transgender Law Center, including a signed copy of my book. Check it out and bid generously:

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This is a journalist.

This is a journalist.

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Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.

“The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human. It is happening to me, personally.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...

A Television Show Called The USA Washington gapes at the proceedings.

Hypnotized by a television show about our own demise.
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US Forest Service and National Park Service to fire thousands of workers Agencies say Trump’s latest push to trim government could impede firefighting efforts and create crises at national parks

Wildland firefighters barely make minimum wage or have guaranteed employment season-to-season or health insurance. These are the thousands of jobs being cut when cities and rural towns are facing catastrophic fire risk. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

Early warning that @patrick-hoffman.bsky.social will be "in conversation with" ("in thrall to"?) @taffyakner.bsky.social on March 18th!!!!!!!! www.eventbrite.com/e/book-event...

Happy Birthday, Angela Davis!

Tacos, Water and ‘Homies’: A Gas Station Becomes a Uniquely L.A. Relief Site Out of desperation and a need for social bonding, volunteers have banded together to help Altadena residents.

For the last week, @kenbensinger.bsky.social and I have been in Altadena, to report on the devastation. But we kept coming back to an Arco gas station, which a group of locals have turned into a beacon of hope with tacos, clothes and community. This is their story: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u...

YouTube video by Powell's Books Jaime Lowe presents Breathing Fire in conversation with Jeff Sharlet

A very good book to read right now is @jaimeroselowe.bsky.social’s brilliant BREATHING FIRE, on the incarcerated women firefighters risking their lives to save L.A. I got to speak with Jaime about it a few years ago for @powells.bsky.social: m.youtube.com/watch?v=iqbO...

Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California's Wildfires a book by Jaime Lowe A dramatic, revelatory account of the female inmate firefighters who battle California wildfires. Shawna was overcome by the claustrophobia, the heat, the smoke, the fire, all just down the canyon and...

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