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Daniel Michael Hernandez

@longdrivesouth.bsky.social
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Bilingual border brother. Former VICE drug war correspondent turned food editor at LATimes. MacDowell Fellow. Free press advocate. Fiat Lux.

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Daniel Michael Hernandez @longdrivesouth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A fine tasting menu experience featuring modern Salvadoran cooking sparked dEeP ThOuGhTs in me about the status of this fascinating diaspora in Southern California. Read more here in the latest edition of my newsletter LA OMNIVORE 📥 @latimes.com www.latimes.com/food/newslet...
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L.A. is ready for an upscale Salvadoran restaurant. So where is it?
Salvadoran food goes beyond pupusas. Could Leña, the pop-up from former Mozza chef Jimmy Reyes, be a bridge to the Salvadoran fine-dining restaurant L.A. needs?
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Brittney Elizabeth Stoneburg @brittandbone.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Something anecdotal that makes me think the recent museum closures we’re seeing is a symptom of a wider cultural attitude towards science: Two of the most frequent questions I now get from kids on field trips are “what’s that fossil worth”/“do you make a lot of money?”
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Daniel Michael Hernandez @longdrivesouth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Mi reporte ... I mean, it was just a tasting menu with a wine pairing, centering modern Salvadoran cuisine. But it was sooo good, that it left me wondering for one chaotic second — Am a little bit 'Salvi' now?? 😆 Read the latest LA OMNIVORE 🇸🇻 @latimes.com www.latimes.com/food/newslet...
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L.A. is ready for an upscale Salvadoran restaurant. So where is it?
Salvadoran food goes beyond pupusas. Could Leña, the pop-up from former Mozza chef Jimmy Reyes, be a bridge to the Salvadoran fine-dining restaurant L.A. needs?
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Price of gasoline vs. UMich consumer confidence: (via Schwab) ⛽️
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Daniel Michael Hernandez @longdrivesouth.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
MI NEWSLETTER DEBUT: Freaked out by ‘AI slop menus’? They might be — gulp 🤢 — here to stay Read here ➡️ Sign up for the email 📩 Mark it in Important ‼️ in your Gmail settings 📲 www.latimes.com/food/newslet...
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Freaked out by 'AI slop menus'? They might be — gulp 🤢 — here to stay
Bizarre AI slop menus with unsettling food images are taking over restaurants in L.A. and beyond. Why some restaurants say they work.
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Daniel Michael Hernandez @longdrivesouth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Yesterday my driving began at 1030a to Playa Vista ➡️ View Park ➡️ Hollywood ➡️ Silver Lake ➡️ Lincoln Heights ➡️ Boyle Heights ➡️ then home at 1230a Saturday. 🫠
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Cost of diesel for a typical Los Angeles-to-Dallas truckload: $1,430 — up about $600, or 72%, from the day before the Feb. 28 strikes on Iran.” @bloomberg.com ⛽️
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Daniel Michael Hernandez @longdrivesouth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mi reporte ... 82% of cooks and 95% of agriculture workers in California are Latino. In hyper-diverse LA County, 64% of *all restaurant workers are Latino. Or rather, *identified as, because many are Indigenous and identify by their nation. That's a future newsletter! www.latimes.com/california/n...
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Almost all the L.A. restaurant food you eat is 'Hispanic.' Who do you think is cooking?
Your morning catch-up: 'Hispanic food' in L.A., Fast & Furious coaster is officially open and more big stories
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Daniel Michael Hernandez @longdrivesouth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
ICYMI: What I learned dining at fancy restaurants as Food editor. Plus, what comes next? My essay for Tasting Notes, with highlights — ✅ Please click on the link, read when you can, and share! 💙 www.latimes.com/food/newslet...
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Daniel Michael Hernandez @longdrivesouth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I have .... SOME NEWS ❗️ I've stepped down as Food editor to return to writing, and launching a newsletter on food and culture at @latimes.com 💙 Here's what I learned eating at fancypants places over the last four years 😝 Read more — www.latimes.com/food/newslet...
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What I learned dining at fancy restaurants as Food editor. Plus, what comes next?
Daniel Hernandez on the meals that changed his mind about "fancy" dining, plus his new role as host of our upcoming L.A. Omnivore newsletter.
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Daniel Michael Hernandez @longdrivesouth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Love how my lil arm hairs get sun bleached in the summer ☀️☀️☀️☀️ being mestizo brown skinned is DA BEST 👌🏽👌🏽
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Homerschoice @homerschoice.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Rams landed 27 hours before kick off and conceded 27 points. The Niners landed 7 days before kick off and conceded 7 points. Days > Hours confirmed
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I'm sure lots of other people have said this, but if I worked for a company on a product that I thought had a >10% chance of killing all humans within the next decade and we had no plan for how to stop it, I would quit and devote myself full time to destroying this product.
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Daniel Michael Hernandez @longdrivesouth.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
feels like the style in LA right now with the heat/humidity wave is very Baz Luhrmann Verona Beach 🫠🫠🫠🫠
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Daniel Michael Hernandez @longdrivesouth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is equatorial humidity and heat in Southern California. In case you're wondering, this is what it feels like — stifling heat, humidity, and rain — in tropical and suptropical areas of Mexico, Central America, island nations all summer. EQUATORIAL. 🥵
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
UN votes 164-1 to adopt Equal Earth map projection, replacing centuries-old Mercator distortion
UN votes 164-1 to adopt Equal Earth map projection, replacing centuries-old Mercator distortion
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geoffrey @parsnip.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
thank you panang curry i owe you my life
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The idea that making a sitting president answer for criminal charges would distract him from important official duties has never looked more ridiculous.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 03/09/2026
Apple, Google rename Lake Ontario to Lake America after Trump order
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Apple, Google rename Lake Ontario to Lake America after Trump order
Tech companies that provide navigation apps are contending with how to handle President Trump's renaming of Lake Ontario amid a trade war with Canada.
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 31/08/2026
US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll submits resignation: White House
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“.. Wheat prices have risen +19% so far this month, and are up +50% since the start of 2026.” - Kobeissi
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Daniel Michael Hernandez @longdrivesouth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
great guide, since "adult happy meal" is how I eat like 2 or 3 times a week, so 🥴 — www.latimes.com/food/list/be...
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16 burger and drink deals for when you need an adult happy meal
L.A.'s restaurants and bars are tempting guests to come out on slow days and off hours with discounted burger and cocktail combos.
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Aaron Cameron @thatbootlegguy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
There are better burritos in the universe, but the Cali burrito is fine. Few things irrationally annoy me more, however, than people who order them and ask for the fries “crispy”. They’re wrapped in a steamy flour blanket with hot meat and creamy goo. It’s a dumb request!
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Dennis Price @dennisprice.com · 28/08/2026
The San Diego California Burrito Wars left families shattered. How many died over inclusion of guacamole? Can a cube of potato substitute for a fry? Only LA could end the fighting. A couple places adding BEANS?! to it unified the San Diego factions against a common enemy.
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Pumpkin Spice Matte @preflop.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I’m begging the east coast places that have adopted this to stop putting beans in them. Please.
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Daniel Michael Hernandez @longdrivesouth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Trump administration considering trading Yosemite land to private developer. This is treasonous to the California brain. @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Trump administration considering trading Yosemite land to private developer
The Trump administration is considering trading a parcel of Yosemite National Park to a private commercial developer to connect a proposed development on adjacent land to an interior park road, accord...
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Daniel Michael Hernandez @longdrivesouth.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Shots fired! Cooking editor Cody Reiss has posted a recipe for a California burrito, the San Diego-spawned specialty containing steak and fries. LA taquerías have never universally adopted it, so make one at home? @latimes.com 🌯 www.latimes.com/recipe/calif...
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A California burrito is steak, fries, cheese and sour cream in a flour tortilla — that's it
A California burrito is carne asada, cheese, sour cream and French fries, all wrapped in a tender, flaky flour tortilla.
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Daniel Michael Hernandez @longdrivesouth.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Miserable in this LA heat? 🥵 Make a suero. It's, like, the easiest cool-down imaginable ✅ — www.latimes.com/recipe/suero...
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Cool Off With This Icy-Salty Suero
A suero is a Mexican 'water cocktail,' consisting of lime juice, ice and sparkling water, served in a tall glass with a salted rim.
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Military Times @militarytimes.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Pentagon ordered 30 U.S. academic institutions to audit research and financial ties to foreign entities by Aug. 31 or risk losing funding eligibility. 🔗Link to article in comments ⬇️
Pentagon scrutinizes foreign research ties at 30 US academic institutions
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Erika Andiola @erikaandiola.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
My friend Guillermo is terrified he will not make it out of immigration detention alive. Memo, a welder and construction worker, has lived in Arizona for over 20 years, building a life and raising his family. He’s been in immigration detention for a year with no due process.
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Daniel Michael Hernandez @longdrivesouth.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
LAT: ‘That was fun.’ As L.A. burned, online gamblers bet on how much the fires would destroy @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/s...
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'That was fun.' As L.A. burned, online gamblers bet on how much the fires would destroy
While Southern California was burning in January 2025, people online were placing money on potential outcomes. Experts say the possibility of making money on disasters can create dangerous incentives.
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 12/08/2026
Something doesn’t add up about the Lakers sale. Mark Walter bought the team less than a year ago. Now he’s selling for a record $12.5 billion. Bill Plaschke examines the questions surrounding the deal, and what Lakers fans should be watching next.
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Commentary: Too many questions, not enough answers. Lakers sale doesn’t pass smell test
Bob Iger and Joshua Kushner have no history in L.A. They have no experience. They have no credibility. This isn’t Disney. This isn’t some hedge fund.
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Keri Blakinger @keribla.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
LA jails just reported their 25th death for the year today -- once again, a person in MCJ.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
From Spain to Iceland, Europe experienced its first total eclipse in decades. Here’s why that’s bad news for House Democrats.
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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 11/08/2026
The man's skeletal injuries looked like a train hit him, but he died in 1304 CE. At #ppa26Berlin last week, @uniofbradford.bsky.social scientist Jo Buckberry concluded he was likely whacked by a flying boulder, making him the first confirmed trebuchet death in the archaeological record. @science.org
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Shattered skeleton in Scottish castle is first confirmed death from trebuchet
“Devastation” across body of 14th century warrior indicates horrific demise from flying boulder
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Yesterday Mayor Mamdani endorsed a bill to force Amazon to employ its own delivery drivers, rather than outsource the work to subcontractors. The Prospect can report that Amazon's lead lobbyist on that bill is Chuck Schumer's daughter Jessica. prospect.org/2026/08/11/m...
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Mamdani’s Taking On Amazon. His Opponent? Chuck Schumer’s Daughter. - The American Prospect
Legislation before the New York City Council would end Amazon’s subcontracting of delivery drivers. Jessica Schumer is the lead lobbyist against it.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
It's not just that this is, of course, an insane lie—it's that *just thinking about it for ten seconds*, without looking anything up, should make it screamingly obvious that the claim couldn't possibly be remotely close to true. You have to actively shut your brain off to say stuff like this.
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Daniel Michael Hernandez @longdrivesouth.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The way the Black Cuban-accent man working at the Mexico City bus terminal right away called me "primo" 😭
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Daniel Michael Hernandez @longdrivesouth.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
MUST-WATCH. #AI grift reality check: "It's genuinely going to be a global catastrophe, and it breaks my heart. ... The tech industry has run out of hyper-growth ideas. ... I have to word this very precisely. I think that a lot of executives don't do any work" 😅 youtu.be/syJ7kjXfJ-U?...
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The Bear Case For AI: Ed Zitron
YouTube video by Investor's Business Daily
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"Maria" is working in Coachella CA doing maintenance on the lemon trees. She wears thick gloves and sleeves to protect herself against the lemon thorns. She shares, "I will work any job to feed my children." Today Coachella temps are predicted to reach a high of 118°. #WeFeedYou
A farm worker who is working in Coachella CA doing maintenance on the lemon trees. She wears thick gloves sleeves, and a hoodie to protect herself against the lemon thorns and the sun
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"We had to go to extraordinary lengths to find clean water to feed into the machine, because all the water that comes out of the machine is irretrievably polluted. But we persevered."
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
“.. he was met with applause from roughly half the room .. before turning toward new #WHCA president Jacqui Heinrich, who smiled .. and embraced the man who had just spent more than an hour assailing the work of those seated before him.” @passantino.bsky.social www.status.news/p/the-white-...
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Gabriel San Román @gsanroman2.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
The Trump sporting event attendance curse remains undefeated.
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⚜️Baldgood Marshall @freshlogic.blacksky.app · 19/07/2026
Lmaoooooooo
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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Our long international nightmare is over
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Andrew Hammond @ahamm.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Happy for this guy.
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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
NEW: A second ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero in Maine, Lucinda Brouillette, issued a statement this morning. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes." /
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Daniel Michael Hernandez @longdrivesouth.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
When I saw this, my jaw dropped and I - #Argentina players held up banner claiming "The Malvinas [Falkland Islands] are Argentine," torching the UK over a war that *it started *against England to claim the islands, and LOST. Super provocative political speech. 😬 www.latimes.com/sports/story...
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U.K. urges FIFA to investigate Argentina over Falklands banner at World Cup
Argentina refers to the Falkland Islands as Islas Malvinas. They were invaded in 1982 under orders from Argentina's then-military dictatorship, triggering a 10-week war won by Britain.
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