The Days’ Reading, 2/21–22/17
Back to the salt mines!
CA-34
Christine Mai-Duc, Los Angeles Times, Half the candidates in L.A.’s latest congressional race have their own immigrant story. With Trump, this contest is personal
Christine Mai-Duc, Los Angeles Times, Will Bernie Sanders endorse his former campaign aide in the race to replace Xavier Becerra in Congress? — gotta figure Bernie’s playing it cautious, despite close ties to one particular candidate, because that candidate is as much a longshot as all of the 22 non-Jimmy Gomez candidates are.
Trump
Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, Trump, after failing to denounce anti-Semitism, calls threats to Jews ‘horrible’ and ‘painful’ — he’ll say the things normal people would and should say if you give him a script
Bert Spector, The Washington Post, Trump wasn’t a real CEO. No wonder his White House is disorganized.
Aaron Rupar, ThinkProgress, Trump’s first month of travel expenses cost taxpayers just less than what Obama spent in a year
Kevin Drum, Mother Jones, Trump’s thin skin is keeping him from staffing the federal government
Azerbaijan
Associated Press, The Washington Post, Azerbaijan’s leader names his wife as 1st vice president
NBA
Dave Zirin, The Nation, Why the NBA Is in Revolt Against Trump
Tania Ganguli, Los Angeles Times, Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak, exec Jim Buss relieved of duties as Magic Johnson takes over basketball operations — I’m sad they fired John Black in the whole shakeup; what’d he do?
Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, Plaschke: Can the greatest Laker ever save the worst Lakers ever? — oh lord, save me, I agree with the entirety of a Plaschke column
Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, Grading the Lakers’ moves in the Jim Buss era (Spoiler alert: It’s not a passing grade) — this is bad; don’t read it
Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, Rob Pelinka to be new Lakers general manager
Workers
Libby Hill, Los Angeles Times, SAG-AFTRA blasts Trump without ever saying his name
Katherine V.W. Stone, The American Prospect, Unions in the Precarious Economy
Crime
Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, Police chief says Whittier officer’s slaying shows danger of criminal justice reform, but details are unclear
Pruitt
Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times, Scott Pruitt tries to calm a rattled EPA workforce
Deportation
Del Quentin Wilber and Brian Bennett, Los Angeles Times, Sweeping new immigration guidelines emphasize more enforcement, deportations
They’re Learning
Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, Killing with kindness, GOP’s McClintock faces down hostile questioners as town hall goes into overtime — we’ve got to keep showing up, because they’re learning that the headlines when they don’t show up are worse than being yelled at for a few hours. But we also need to get over this hump of “he showed up and talked” headlines and get down to the real business of what we’re saying at these events, and what they’re saying and doing.
Spicer
Callum Borchers, The Washington Post, Sean Spicer defends Trump by ignoring what the president actually said
Cops
Kate Mather, Los Angeles Times, L.A. officials ask LAPD to find ways to put more officers on city streets
