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Los Angeles, CA
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Tom Hanc retweeted
Al Jazeera journalist @AnasAlSharif0 breaks down after a woman on the street collapsed from hunger. Gaza is now in an acute hunger crisis with 19 people starving to death per day.
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BREAKING: Al Jazeera Arabic reporter Anas Al-Sharif and Mohammed Qreiqeh were killed in an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, along with cameramen Ibrahim Zaher and Mohammed Noufal.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/o5rzvs
Tom Hanc retweeted
NEW: LA’s homeless services chief engaged in major misconduct — including hiring unqualified friends into top positions, trying to destroy public records and behaving inappropriately at a conference — according to whistleblower claims obtained by LAist.
laist.com/news/housing-homel…
Tom Hanc retweeted
CA has a major loophole in anti-corruption regulations that allows elected leaders to raise unlimited sums of cash from corporate interests, and even foreign governments, as long as they do so through nonprofits or foundations that they have tremendous influence over.
Very interesting piece by @AnaKasparian on @RCInvestigates this morning. Give it a read.
realclearinvestigations.com/…
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Officials were warned of failing water system before Palisades fire. Fixes never happened latimes.com/california/story…
Tom Hanc retweeted
Sorry for tweeting so much, but Twitter throttles out-bound links, so I'm trying this again.
SoCal animal shelters are overwhelmed with people dropping off injured animals they can't take with them as they flee. Many are in need of volunteers, money, and foster homes 🧵
Tom Hanc retweeted
The #NewsEmmys Award for Outstanding Hard News Feature Story: Short Form goes to It’s Bisan from Gaza and I’m Still Alive | Aj+ Reports (@ajplus).
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This is how heavily armed and masked Israeli soldiers raided Al Jazeera’s bureau in the occupied West Bank's Ramallah and imposed a 45-day closure order.
The network has condemned the action as ‘criminal’ and an affront to press freedom.
Tom Hanc retweeted
Just In: Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoes AB 2570, which would have required his administration to do a yearly evaluation of money the state provides to cities and counties to address homeless.
He says the bill would create an unnecessary ongoing workload…
Tom Hanc retweeted
Everyone I know in Los Angeles—and I roll in some extremely pro-transit circles—has a story like this and it's so, so frustrating. The scale of disorder on LA trains makes NYC or DC look like Tokyo.
“The nationwide homicide rate for 15- to 19-year-olds increased by an astonishing 91% from 2014 to 2021.”
As I've been reporting on the post-2019 resurgence in homicides, I kept hearing from violence-prevention workers about an overlooked factor, especially among young people: instigation by routine social media.
I dug into it, for @propublica & @TheAtlantic. propublica.org/article/socia…
Tom Hanc retweeted
The single most annoying aspect of Discourse is when a bunch of people reply to you saying “nobody is saying [crazy thing]! they’re saying [much more reasonable thing you are not actually criticizing]” and a bunch of other people reply to you saying “[crazy thing]” – at San Francisco, CA
Tom Hanc retweeted
For starters, longer lives, higher well-being, lower infant mortality, less urban pollution, refrigerators and modern cookstoves and washer/dryers and air conditioning, more than 50% of the population having access to electricity or a telephone, computers, and much better food
Tom Hanc retweeted
What’s it like to visit your father’s hometown, a once-vibrant Palestinian city, that has now been devastated by the Israeli occupation?
Watch @Dena’s film "One Day in Hebron" which was just honored with a @PeabodyAwards nomination: bit.ly/41eFgYc
Tom Hanc retweeted
I’m honored that my team is nominated for a @PeabodyAwards for our documentary, “One Day In Hebron.”
I retraced my dad’s footsteps to his hometown and saw how it’s been destroyed by Israeli apartheid.
Watch here youtu.be/aEdGcej-6D0
@malsaafin @ElstonKate @ajplus
Tom Hanc retweeted
🚨🚨Results from biggest study on 4 day workweek:
— 73% of workers report being happier w/ their lives
— 40% reported fewer sleep problems
— 64% drop in quitting, 71%
drop in reported burnout
— 92% of firms say they’ll continue 4 day week after trial
— No drop in wages in trial
Tom Hanc retweeted
I feel like @kevinroose fully captured the technology cycle this month in his swiftly evolving relationship with Bing.
Enchantment at the beginning of Feb (nytimes.com/2023/02/08/techn…)
vs.
low-level terror by mid-Feb (nytimes.com/2023/02/16/techn…).
The cycle has really accelerated.
