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@awalkerinLA

I'm a writer and a walker in LA. Words /. Co-host . LAUSD mom.

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    Sep 17

    I wrote about air quality apps, how tracking AQI has provided a distraction from pandemic-related data, and the sweet, sweet relief of an orange day after a week of reds and purples

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    50 minutes ago

    BREAKING: After nearly 200 days since the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor, a Jefferson County grand jury has reached a decision. One officer has been charged with three counts of first-degree wanton endangerment; the other two were not indicted.

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    1 hour ago

    BREAKING: orders end to gas-powered cars by 2035. Huge deal in biggest US state, whose stricter auto rules shape automakers' national strategies -- as we've seen in emissions fight w Trump. Context: transportation is biggest hurdle to CA hitting low-emission goals.

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    14 hours ago

    This is the complex that replaced the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip, and it is plastered in digital billboards. The Strip is The Strip.

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    3 hours ago

    Unfortunately I had to delete an earlier Tweet about the # of people that the L.A. County Sheriff's Dept. has killed since was murdered. The LA County Medical Examiner doesn't account for the person that LASD killed outside of L.A County. The correct # is 10 people.

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  6. 3 hours ago

    The only acceptable palm tree in Los Angeles

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    3 hours ago

    A major gas plant in a Latino, low-income neighborhood had been leaking methane for at least 3 years. Los Angeles officials learned about it a year ago. But they didn't tell anyone until independent scientists found the leak and planned to publicize it:

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    4 hours ago

    newsletters can offer independent writers (including lesser-known ones) the freedom/money that institutions don't. but it's hard to ignore that the most high-profile stars in the staff-to-substack pipeline are marquee (mostly white) writers already at the top of the pecking order

    riding the newsletter wave requires a following, garnering a strong enough following requires a platform, platforms have only really afforded that support to a certain kind of writer.
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    4 hours ago

    Homeless people are sharing the Project Roomkey RV trailers are closing. The way politicians hyped this, one would think RVs on a parking lot, which is quicker and more cost-effective than building apts and more permanent than hotels, would be around more than just a few months.

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    24 hours ago

    For years, the beaver community has waited for a scientist to rigorously study how our favorite rodents interact with wildfire. is that scientist. This is that study. For , I wrote about a very important development in Beaverdom.

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    20 hours ago

    As the conversation around police reform/defunding continues to advance, there has to be more willingness (& capacity) to engage w/ victims who might seem "imperfect." They are the ones who've been most affected by repressive policing & the ones most punished for it.

    Finishing a companion piece to my look at the Sheriff's blatant falsehoods around the shooting of and I am still struck by how little traction this story has gotten.
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  12. 13 hours ago

    Read and share her entire thread

    As the conversation around police reform/defunding continues to advance, there has to be more willingness (& capacity) to engage w/ victims who might seem "imperfect." They are the ones who've been most affected by repressive policing & the ones most punished for it.
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  13. 13 hours ago

    "Offered yet another version"? "Adds details"? No "questions remain" in this case — sheriff's officials repeatedly lied even as they played video that blatantly contradicted what they were saying. reported the entire thing out right here:

    At a recent news briefing, sheriff’s officials offered yet another version of events of what led up to the fatal shooting on Aug. 31 that has generated national attention:
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  14. 15 hours ago

    Replying to @rabonour
    I don't think the Editorial Board members are naive. I think they just represent the perspective of a predominantly white subscriber base that does not even live in Los Angeles
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    Sep 22

    I cannot believe that LA Metro is planning, in the year 2020, to destroy people's homes in order to widen a freeway

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    Sep 21

    New story for about the race to redesign the sugar molecule—hollowing it out, stuffing it with silica, or tweaking its chemical structure until it becomes alien, like the sugar found on meteorites—so it's just as sweet, but without the calories

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    17 hours ago

    Welcome to the first Ballot Action Night! LA CAN is hosting a weekly virtual action every Tuesday until the election at 7pm on Twitter. Tonight, we’re focused on spreading the word about Yes on J () Join us! This action will take less than 10 minutes to do

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    Sep 22

    Here's a fun legal theory question: if the Joshua Tree cannot be protected from extinction except by rapid global action on climate change, would a California court have the ability to enforce a climate-mitigation remedy to protect it?

    BREAKING: The California Fish and Game Commission has approved the western Joshua tree for candidacy for listing as a threatened species, granting it legal protection. Story to come from once the public meeting has ended.
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  19. 18 hours ago

    I know a lot of people have said this but all you have to do is take out a single paragraph and it reads as an endorsement of Nithya so I went ahead and made that change

    A screengrab of the LA Times showing a photo of Nithya Raman with the headline: Endorsement: Nithya Raman is thoughtful, detail-oriented
    What a difference five years makes. When David Ryu ran for the Council District 4 seat in 2015, there were hearty debates over big development projects, street repairs in Hancock Park and how to spend council members’ “slush funds.” Today, Ryu is running for reelection, and he and challenger Nithya Raman are talking about how to dismantle systemic racism, reimagine the Los Angeles Police Department, house the homeless and prevent a pandemic-created eviction tsunami. The change in conversation is driven by the moment — the pandemic, the racial justice protests and the high-stakes presidential election. But it’s also been driven by Raman, an urban planner and activist who has pushed Ryu so far to the left in the runoff, a political action committee tied to the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce rescinded its earlier endorsement of him.
    Ryu spent five years trying to convince his colleagues to ban political contributions from real estate developers, and they only reluctantly passed a version in response to pay-to-play scandals. He has a gotten solid marks for supporting more shelters and housing in his district, including fending off NIMBY lawsuits and an angry mob in Sherman Oaks. Still, Ryu has fallen short on his pledge to get 222 units of permanent supportive housing approved in his district; he’s at 167. Yes, it’s hard to find affordable land in his affluent district, but Ryu — like other council members — has to be creative and indefatigable in building homeless housing. Raman is thoughtful and detail-oriented; she has lengthy policy platforms with ideas that seemed like political nonstarters a few months ago but have gained traction in this moment — rent forgiveness, defunding the police and public broadband. Ryu and other council members would do well to consider her proposals on affordable housing construct
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  20. 19 hours ago

    Behind the scenes footage from the LA Times Editorial Board making their endorsement decisions

    A photo of the NY Times editorial board member who has become a meme for asking Pete Buttigieg about working at a company that did price-fixing on bread. The line says: You said you wouldn't take developer money but you actually did
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    20 hours ago

    i talked to some anarchists about nyc being an "anarchist jurisdiction" now

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