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When you hear people talking about Gavin Newsom as a potential Democratic presidential candidate, just remember that he helped push through the deal that allowed one right-wing family to gain ownership of all of these media channels. prospect.org/2026/10/08/d...

A tree diagram branching rightward from a large black dot labelled "Skydance" at left centre. Thin grey curved lines fan out to six smaller black dots, each of which branches again to a list of names under a bold category heading. Every name has a coloured dot beside it: teal or orange. At top left, a key reads: "Select Skydance properties that were previously part of Paramount Skydance or Warner Bros. Discovery", with "Paramount Skydance" in teal and "Warner Bros. Discovery" in orange.

Movie studios: Paramount Pictures (teal); Warner Bros. Pictures (orange).

TV studios: CBS Studios, Paramount Television Studios (teal); Warner Bros. Television (orange).

Streaming platforms: Paramount+, Pluto TV (teal); Discovery+, HBO Max (orange).

Cable networks: BET, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, TV Land (teal); Discovery Channel, HGTV, TBS, TNT, TLC (orange).

News properties: CBS News, The Free Press (teal); CNN (orange).

Franchises: CSI, The Godfather, Mission: Impossible, NCIS, Yellowstone (teal); DC Comics, Game of Thrones, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings (orange).

Text at bottom left: "Sources: the companies. Nate Rattner/WSJ"

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 7h

It's so good. My 4th time at the restaurant. Twice for lunch specials and twice for blow out set dinner menus. They have a small dining room with another chef that is a Michelin star restaurant inside this restaurant We eat at the less expensive main dining room guide.michelin.com/us/en/califo...

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Sushi Inaba – Torrance - a MICHELIN Guide Restaurant

Sushi Inaba – a One Star: High quality cooking restaurant in the 2026 MICHELIN Guide USA. Free online booking on the MICHELIN Guide's official website. The MICHELIN inspectors’ point of view, informat...

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 7h

Finished with a scoop of yuzu sorbet Now roll me upstairs to bed because I'm too full to move myself

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 7h

I forgot to photograph the house-made soba (w/ zaru) with a ring of seasoned tempura shrimp. It's amazing though the menu didn't clue us in that it is a very special dish. Order it a la carte if you don't get a set meal with it.

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 7h

Wait! How did I forget to mention the scallop tempura!? We also had an egg custard with mushrooms. Silky and delicious

Blue and white small bowl and saucer filled with a creamy custard. Two mushrooms are on top

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 7h

Last time, we had the combo with a lot of sashimi and a little tempura. This time, we had the reverse. Second course pf tempura. Asparagus, squid steak, chicken, fish cake, shrimp, more veggies. So good, but a lot of food

A brown rectangular dish with white paper and another edible sculpture of seafood and vegetables

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 7h

Inaba has a sushi chef and a tempera chef--open concept so you can watch them work. This is the first tempura dish. It has tiny squid button butts. Lotus root. Yum. He arranges it like a sculpture

A composition of tempura starting with lotus root at top left, then fish, shrimp, eggplant, pepper, onion and squid end caps. Arranged on white paper atop a white rectangular dish

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 7h

The first time we ate there, I didn't know what to do with the salts. Matcha, plain and curry salt. I love the curry salt. With tempera dipping sauce

Black rectangular dish with 3 squares. Left to right: green tea salt, plain white sea salt, orange curry salt

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 7h

I post pictures of my food because I like to see what other people are eating. I got dressed up and wore my Japanese stepmom's pearls to dine at Inaba in Torrance. Here's the sashimi course of our set meal

3 pieces of 3 kinds of sashimi. Tuna and yellowtail. Set on a pillow of white daikon topped with a green leaf

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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 08/10/2026

You're walking down the street. We lock eyes. Then I pull out my phone. I look serious. Then I ask the question nobody expects: "You wanna see a shitload of pelicans?" 🪶 🦑

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 8h

Wouldn't it be nice for LA to have a mayor that does this?

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RORY @rorythereddog.bsky.social · 11h

Yesterday the human took Finley and I up to the mountains and we went hiking! 🥾 The humans kept commenting on the pretty colors 🍁 which were nice, but there were also things to sniff and climb. So settle in friends, it might be a long one 🧵 #DogsOfBluesky #UpstateNY #Hiking

Two dogs sit on a rock cliff looking at the camera. On the left of the photo is Rory, a medium size, red and white dog with beautiful light blue eyes. On the right is Finley, a light brown dog with darker brown markings and a reddish nose. Behind them are trees whose leaves are exploding with the colors of fall

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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 13h

"Ripping out these protected bike lanes against the will of Toronto city council is a colossal waste of $48 million. The province’s own experts know it will not ease traffic congestion, it will put people’s lives at risk, and there is no network of side streets that could replace these lanes."

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Ontario will officially begin removing Toronto bike lanes on Tuesday | CBC News

Ontario will begin removing bike lanes from a stretch on Bloor Street W. in Etobicoke on Tuesday, the Ministry of Transportation says.

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Ben Werdmuller @werd.io · 13h

Misinformation: false information spread without intent to harm. Disinformation: false information intentionally spread to manipulate truth and facts to bring about a particular outcome. Bisinformation: information about 1990s Scottish indie rock band Bis.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 17h

Five days after signing a law formalizing a state apology for “harms and atrocities” against California’s Native peoples, Gov. Newsom vetoed two additional bills that California tribes had championed, one on water and the other on sacred sites. cal.news/4y50WGl 📸 Loren Elliott

An aerial view of Three mile Slough in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta near Rio Vista on May 19, 2024. The Delta is formed by the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers before their waters flow into San Francisco Bay. Photo by Loren Elliott for CalMatters

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The Humanist Report @humanistreport.bsky.social · 17h

Democrats will never learn.

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 13h

Yes, SpaceX owns most of the world's satellites (hotdogguy.jpg), but seriously a big issue is Chinese operators do not share ephemeris data, do not provide notice of manuevers, don't answer the phone to discuss impending conjunctions, and they have 1,000 sats and growing fast

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 14h

My mother in law did not identify as Jewish in 1942 Germany because her parents were too scared to tell her lest she give away the secret. Germany had a registry of the births of all Jews. But not of Jews born abroad who subsequently moved to Germany

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natalia barbour @nataliabarbour.bsky.social · 18h

Car math is leaving 20 min early and being 15 min late. Bike math is leaving 5 min late and being 5 min early.

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 15h

The Antarctica is definitely tempting

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 15h

Protected bike lanes make everyone safer. This corridor only cost $500,000 and it was paid for with Measure M return money. "No fatal injuries have occurred since the improvements were completed." Seems like a worthwhile investment to me

One Year Later, Hollywood Boulevard Bike Lanes See More Biking & Walking With Minimal Driving Delays

Despite initial controversy, driving times increased by just 77 seconds across the 2.1 mile corridor during rush hour

Biking increased by up to 66%, pedestrian traffic increased by up to 44%, and there have been zero fatal injuries along the project corridor

HOLLYWOOD, CA — One year after the opening of 2.1 miles of parking-protected bike lanes on Hollywood Boulevard, new data shows more people are biking and walking along the corridor, while sidewalk riding has dropped significantly and no fatal injuries have occurred since the improvements were completed.

Since the project was completed, LADOT data shows that:
Travel times across the entire corridor increased by approximately 30 seconds during off-peak periods and up to 1 minute and 17 seconds during the PM rush hour. Travel-time data was measured using anonymized GPS metadata from INRIX.
Biking increased 66% near Western Avenue, with an average of 408 daily riders, and 51% near Vermont Avenue.
Pedestrian traffic increased 34% near Western Avenue and 44% near Vermont Avenue.
Sidewalk riding decreased 61% near Western Avenue and 100% near Vermont Avenue, giving pedestrians more space on sidewalks.
There have been six collisions resulting in severe injury: two involving a vehicle and pedestrian, one involving a vehicle and bicyclist, two involving vehicles, and one involving a motorcycle and vehicle.
Ridership and operational performance on Metro Lines 180 and 217 have continued to increase since April 2025.

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 15h

Eg the personal stories of deaths due to the Great Leap Forward.

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 15h

My physics professors said that the foreign graduate students were to make lazy American students work harder 😉 They were certainly a wake up call that there is a lot of amazing global talent and I needed to work harder to keep up. They also also taught me non physics things

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 16h

In 1994, my PhD advisor told all his students and postdocs to make a web page with our interests in and out of lab. He said to make us sound interesting and fun to recruit potential grad students 😆 I hand coded mine in HTML

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 16h

I love these, even though I am not a tissue holder user. Especially like the purple/teal colorway. What's your favorite volcano? Mine is Lassen

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 17h

🚨BREAKING: In a loss for Wisconsin voters, a state court ruled to leave voters without an option to cast an in-person provisional ballot on Election Day if they are concerned their mail-in ballot may not arrive by the deadline.

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🚨 League of Women Voters of Wisconsin et al v. Wisconsin Elections Commission et al

Learn more here.

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Peter Flax @pflax1.bsky.social · 16h

"A parent participating in a bike-to-school event in Philadelphia's Queen Village neighborhood was struck by a vehicle Wednesday morning." "I heard a car honking behind me and revving and before I knew it there was a jeep that had run me over.....I was on the ground" 6abc.com/post/parent-...

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Parent hit by car during National Walk and Roll to School Day in South Philadelphia

National Walk and Roll to school day took a scary turn in South Philadelphia Wednesday morning when a man was hit by a car.

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 16h

I believe the seeds of who people would become are evident by the age when these two got married.

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 16h

Gavin Newsom, my governor, married Kimberly Guilfoyle. He was an adult who chose who he associated with.

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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🇺🇦💔This is how Ukrainians spend their nights. In 2026, people are still forced to hide in subway stations just to survive the night.

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 17h

Met up with Eli Lipmen (his photo) and MoveLA for the Clean Air Day Transit Marathon. They took Torrance Transit 13 from the A line to Hermosa Beach for ice cream & a sunset. Then we took BCT 109 to @metrolosangeles.bsky.social K line to downtown Inglewood for dinner. So much fun!

A train car full of people wearing black Transit Marathon, or Blue South Bay Forward or purple LWV Unite and Rise Tshirts

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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 20h

Seems like infrastructure is a real issue in this race! Are either of these candidates going to talk about Measure LA, the charter amendment on your ballot RIGHT NOW that would reform the public works department and formalize the capital infrastructure program the mayor takes credit for creating?

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What you need to know to vote on Los Angeles Charter Amendment LA

L.A. voters are being asked to decide on whether the city should budget on a two-year cycle and other planning reforms.

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Dr. Katie I. @hellyeahcorks.bsky.social · 17h

I just *love* how the ORIGINAL observations of this phenomenon get ignored every time this gets posted. *WE* observed this originally in December 2013 on Dorado outcrop off Costa Rica with JASON. We then went back in 2014 and saw it again with Alvin. Predating the MBNMS dives by 5+ years.

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Sharon Parrott @sharonparrott.bsky.social · 17h

Highly rec this @washingtonsun.com piece showing the harm that's done when the Admin illegally impounds funds & that the Admin often grossly mischaracterizes the public services it is halting, often in service of their relentless efforts to demonize immigrants. www.washingtonsun.com/immigration/...

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Funding Cuts Aimed at Unauthorized Immigrants Are Hitting Americans, Too

The White House targeted a 50-year-old program for U.S. citizens and green card holders.

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 17h

This is why I reskeet and quote people I think are good follows.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

This is why, when Republicans use the word socialism to tag Democrats, it has no relationship with the actual definition of the word. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 18h

This is why you quote skeet. Someone I follow on BS quoted someone who I used to follow on X but didn't know was on BS. Instant follow. Now my feed is populated by more voices with good info for my particular interests. Bluesky is bewildering for people conditioned to platforms' algorithms

Screen shot of a CU Boulder professor quote skeeting a meteorologist with a comment, "this sucks"

The exact quote or comment could be anything, but this is about how Colorado just had it's hottest October start ever

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Chris Bianchi @bianchiweather.bsky.social · 19h

This is both Colorado’s and Denver’s hottest start to a year on record (Jan-Sept), and it’s not even close. Statewide temps so far in 2026 are 1.6° warmer than 2012, a blowout for warmest year-to-date on record. The influence of a warming climate is clear on the chart below.

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Next door in Silicon Valley @nextdoorsv.bsky.social · 19h

Half baked take The 5 most important races in California this fall 1. Insurance commissioner - wreck home insurance market or not 2. Mayor of LA - continue the housing crisis or not 3. Prop 43 - Prop 13 Maxxxx or not 4. Prop 41 - Gann Limit maxx or not 5. Prop 39 - make voting difficult or not

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 20h

If they expect 100% of the parking spots to fill up early in the day at the $45/day price they’re charging, they should be charging even more and using the revenue to fund extra transit service.

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T @toneg99.bsky.social · 19h

When Kemi Badenoch (or anyone else) talks about ‘cutting red tape to get building’, think about all the people killed in the Grenfell fire.

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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 19h

What kind of bike frames do you ride? U-locks don't work for step through frames on common rack types

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · 20h

For those in the Berkeley or Oakland hills above ~800ft, this has been an extreme October heat wave. Temperatures currently 81 degrees(!) in the hills, but in the upper 50s near Lake Merritt. This temperature version is like oil and water. The hot, dry air will not mix with the marine layer below.

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Mpls.St.Paul Magazine @mspmag.bsky.social · 20h

The Stolen Neighbors Quilt, made of 12,500 fabric squares and unveiled at the State Capitol’s rotunda, represents the lives of the estimated 11,000 people deported in Minnesota between the beginning of President Trump’s second term and the end of Operation Metro Surge.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 20h

Given how much Los Angeles' terrible governance on housing and homeless affects the rest of the state, it's no exaggeration to call the LA Mayor's race the most important election in California this cycle.

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