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Stuart Leavenworth

@sleavenworth.bsky.social
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Journalist, Honolulu Civil Beat | Ex WaPo, LA Times, McClatchy, SacBee, Oliveto Chef Apprentice | Banana Slug | Community Volunteer | Cyclist | Gardener

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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In other words, we will have to wait at least two more years.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This could be the tipping point for Fetterman. But who knows? Certain politicians have survived worse. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
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Former John Fetterman Aides Threaten to Expose Senator’s Internal Messages
The former aides started a social media account they said would publicize Senator John Fetterman’s communications, following a report detailing the Democrat’s disdain for doing his job.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I’m now part of the awesome team at @civilbeat.bsky.social in Honolulu. Do you have tips to share about Hawaii? Contact info here: www.civilbeat.org/about/the-te...
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Our Team
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Smart takedown of Xi Jinping by a friend from my China days, Michael Schuman. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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What the Floods Say About Xi Jinping
China’s leader behaves more like an emperor than a man of the people.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
So saddened by this. Cassandra was truly amazing. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/a...
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Cassandra Wilson, Star Jazz Singer, Dies at 70
With a low and smoky voice, she conjured the blues tradition of her native Mississippi in both her own songs and in covers.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
RIP Wendell Berry: If only more of our leaders had listened to your wise words. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/u...
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Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.
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Honolulu Civil Beat @civilbeat.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Neighborhoods have been devastated by Tropical Storm Lala, which brushed past Hawaiʻi as a hurricane.
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LIST: Help Lala Victims. Here’s Where You Can Donate
Neighborhoods have been devastated by Tropical Storm Lala, which brushed past Hawaiʻi as a hurricane.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“Tombstones, caskets came down from the graveyards, all sitting down in Nāʻālehu by the bakery; cars from the auto shop are all over the place. It’s pretty bad at the gas station, the school. It’s just very devastating.” www.civilbeat.org/2026/08/utte...
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‘Utter Devastation’: Lala Turns Hawaiʻi Upside Down, Spares Some
Even as the hurricane settled into a tropical storm, it bared down across the island chain, hitting rural Big Island harder than other areas.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
More deception from WH on Trump’s musical chairs involving Air Force One and his travels to and from Turkey. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Contradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threat
The White House said the president was aboard Air Force One as he left a NATO summit. Instead, his departure included an elaborate ruse that concealed his travel.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Wow. This story. Everyone celebrating their 401k’s should take notice. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/m...
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Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the A.I. Bubble?
Inside the 81-year-old billionaire’s risky, debt-fueled scramble to transform his data empire into an A.I. juggernaut.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
I just love how JD Vance and Joe Rogan are trying to tie Epstein to Israeli intelligence and the US “deep state” without acknowledging that Epstein DID have a key friend at the top — Trump. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/18/u...
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JD Vance’s Remarks on Epstein and Israel Echo Conspiracy Theories
The vice president’s comment that there were ties between Mr. Epstein and the “highest levels” of Israeli intelligence troubled some in his party.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The new exhibit whitewashes history by taking out key panels, such as one titled “The Dirty Business of Slavery.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Slavery exhibit swapped overnight at Philadelphia’s Independence Park
The National Park Service replaced panels that discussed the horrors of slavery and George Washington’s ownership of enslaved people.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The soccer episode “obviously plays into a certain stereotype about Donald Trump,” said Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, an analyst at the Belgian think tank Bruegel. “Another example of a rogue, unconstrained America.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/w...
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Glee and Snark in Europe After Belgium Knocks U.S. Out of World Cup
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
As I predicted…
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
This could well backfire on both Trump and FIFA. The Belgian team will be amped up and angry Monday, and even if the US should win, it will forever be seen as a tainted victory. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/u...
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Trump Asked FIFA to Review U.S. Player’s Suspension. Now He’s Eligible to Play.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Just what we need in our national forests --more cows. open.substack.com/pub/landdesk...
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USDA chief: Give me more cattle in the national forests!
Plus a Messing with Maps look back at the summer of 1776
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
JD Vance is having a Tricky Dick moment. “If you look at the story of how the ‘deep state’ took down Richard Nixon, it’s not all that different from what the same groups of people, the same institutions tried to do to Donald Trump.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Vance dismisses Watergate scandal, says ‘deep state’ went after Nixon
The vice president said he admired Nixon and drew parallels between the past president, who resigned amid pressure in 1974, and Trump today.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Per orders from the Trump administration, Yosemite has not announced this death on park property. www.sfgate.com/national-par...
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A man went over Yosemite's Nevada Fall. A stranger tried to save him.
"You're fighting a mountain, and you're just one swimmer."
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Overdue congrats to @lajourno.bsky.social and @photospice.bsky.social for their James Beard award in investigative reporting! More recognition for their revelatory reporting on conditions of young farmworkers in CA. www.latimes.com/about/pressr...
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Los Angeles Times Media Group Earns Three James Beard Media Awards
Among the honors, L.A. Times staff writer Stephanie Breijo received the Jonathan Gold Local Voice Award; The Times and Capital & Main won for investigative reporting; and LA Times Studios was recogniz...
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Here’s The earlier story by @chicoharlan.bsky.social and others. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Jared Kushner wants to turn a wild stretch of Albania into a luxury resort
Kushner’s use of foreign funds is again coming under scrutiny. Environmentalists fear his planned resort could destroy a delicate ecosystem.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
@chicoharlan.bsky.social was on this Kushner story in Albania way before others. The flamingos are finally coming home to roost. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Jared Kushner-backed luxury resort plan sparks protest in Albania
Demonstrators say the project backed by Donald Trump's son-in-law would harm a protected environment.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
President Trump wanted the Reflecting Pool at the Lincoln Memorial to look pristine. Photosynthesis had other plans. Story by @maxinejoselow.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/c...
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Trump Ordered ‘American Flag Blue’ for the Reflecting Pool. It’s Green Again.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
In San Francisco, protesters form a human banner spelling out “EPSTEIN” in the outline of a file folder marked “Trump.” www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/o...
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Banner of bodies on S.F.’s Ocean Beach sends Trump a pointed birthday warning
Hundreds of protesters on San Francisco’s Ocean Beach formed banner to urge the release of the Epstein files ahead of President Trump’s 80th birthday bash.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
@washingtonpost.com editorial board is such an embarrassment, trying to outdo FoxNews with its tired right-wing tropes. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | California’s glacial vote counting undermines faith in elections
The Golden State changed its law last year to speed up results but didn’t go far enough.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Trump uses emergency powers for a bogus solution to the energy emergency he created. Meanwhile, California gets a lump in its stocking. www.latimes.com/environment/...
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Trump announces new coal export terminal in Oakland
The president said he will invoke Cold War-era emergency powers to direct a nearly $700-million investment into the waning coal industry, including construction of a West Coast coal export terminal in...
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
“A Becerra-Steyer face-off would force both candidates to define a vision of California beyond generic liberal ideas.” Totally agree. 💯 Column by @anitachabria.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Commentary: A Becerra-Steyer race in November? It's possible
If Xavier Becerra and Tom Steyer were to finish one-two in the primary, the Democrat-vs.-Democrat general election race would force both candidates to answer tough questions.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
NEW: A federal judge in Miami has reopened Trump’s $10 billion case against the I.R.S., saying she wanted to investigate “grievous allegations” that the hasty deal to resolve the case was “premised on deception.” Deception? From this administration? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/u...
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Judge Reopens Trump I.R.S. Suit, Questioning ‘Weaponization’ Fund
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
“Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name,” Judge Cooper wrote in his opinion, “and only Congress can change it.” www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
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Judge orders Kennedy Center to remove Trump’s name from building
Judge Christopher Cooper also ordered Kennedy Center officials to halt plans to close for two years starting in July.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Oh darn. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/s...
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Blue Origin Rocket Blows Up on Florida Launchpad During Test
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Another Trump vanity project: His mug on a $250 bill. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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Trump appointees push $250 banknote with his portrait
The director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing who resisted the effort was reassigned last month. “The buck stopped here,” she wrote in her goodbye email.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Oh man. Sonny was one of the greats. apnews.com/article/sonn...
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Sonny Rollins, saxophonist and restless genius of jazz, dead at 95
Sonny Rollins, the legendary tenor saxophonist known for his bold tone and constant experimentation, has died at 95.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Crypto corruption: In the past 16 months of the Trump administration, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has shrunk its work force, purged career officials, sharply curtailed crypto enforcement and helped out prediction markets at virtually every turn. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/u...
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How Prediction Markets and Crypto Firms Steamrolled a Watchdog Agency
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Ugh. California could end up with a governor matchup pitting a status quo Democrat against a Trump-endorsed Brit who wants to deport abortion doctors and gut environment regs to cover the landscape with unaffordable single family homes and data centers. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Hilton and Becerra lead in a tightening race in final weeks of California governor's campaign, poll shows
Despite handwringing among Democrats about being shut out of the governor's race, a new poll by the state party suggests the two candidates most likely to emerge after the June primary are Republican ...
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
In the CA gubernatorial debate, Hilton said he’d allow CA abortion providers to be extradited to states such as Louisiana to face criminal charges for mailing abortion medications. He presents a risk to women everywhere. @anitachabria.bsky.social bringing it www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
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Commentary: Who won and who lost in Thursday night's California gubernatorial debate? Our columnists weigh in
Candidates pile on the Democratic front-runner, Xavier Becerra, including a white-paper wielding Katie Porter. But nothing happened that's likely to shake up the race as it careens toward the finish. ...
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Wang resigned Monday amid accusations she acted as an illegal foreign agent of China, after Beijing urged her to spread falsehoods that China is not persecuting Uyghur people in Xinjiang. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Arcadia mayor, accused of being Chinese foreign agent, strikes deal with feds and resigns
Federal authorities alleged that Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, was cultivated to help promote pro-China policies, according to a plea agreement unsealed Monday.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
So far, Bezos’ investment in his rightwing opinion section’s podcast “has produced an astonishingly small audience: just 182 YouTube subscribers, with many videos attracting only a few dozen views.” Embarrassing www.status.news/p/washington...
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The Post’s Opinion Divide
As Adam O’Neal carries out Jeff Bezos’ vision for The Washington Post’s opinion section, staffers tell Status they question the paper’s priorities in the wake of sweeping layoffs.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
It is not unusual for the FBI director to travel with a supply of personalized branded bourbon. The bottles bear the imprint of Woodford Reserve, and are engraved with the words “kash patel fbi director,” as well as a rendering of an FBI shield. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Kash Patel’s Personalized Bourbon Stash
The FBI director has been leaving an unusual calling card.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
This is great news for California and the Central Valley. www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...
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California announces plans for three new state parks
California is planning to open three new state parks over the next few years and also enlarge several existing parks, calling it the biggest expansion of the state parks system in decades.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
“Every time a woman comes forward with her story of sexual assault, this is the first question she faces. OK, maybe the second — after some variation of ‘Are you a lying slut?’” Column by @anitachabria.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Commentary: Why now? Because that's how trauma works. Get over it
Why are Eric Swalwell's accusers coming forward only now, just weeks before the California gubernatorial primary? That's the kind of question predators want us to keep asking.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The more Trump lashes out in his trademark deranged way, the more seats the GOP are sure lose in the midterms. I almost feel sorry for Republicans in heavily Catholic districts. Almost. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/u...
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Trump Attacks Pope Leo as Too Liberal and ‘Weak on Crime’
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Finally, some truth from Trump on Truth Social. The Wall Street Journal has “one of the worst and most inaccurate ‘Editorial Boards’ in the World,” the president wrote. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...
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Robert Lopez @lajourno.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
First I hear of this! Great news and thanks to @sleavenworth.bsky.social for helping edit this important project.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Congrats to @lajourno.bsky.social for winning a Best of the West prize for his investigation of mistreatment of child farmworkers in California, in collaboration with @latimes.com & Capital & Main. bestofthewestcontest.org/2026-contest... www.latimes.com/california/s...
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California's child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Trump wants Congress to fund the rebuilding of Alcatraz prison, which Nancy Pelosi called “a stupid notion that would be nothing more than a waste of taxpayer dollars.” www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
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Trump asks Congress for $152 million to start rebuilding Alcatraz prison
The president's new budget requests funding from Congress to convert the historic site into a working "state-of-the-art" prison.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Trump’s SOJ minions are trying to claim that a 48-year-old transparency law doesn’t pass constitutional muster. How many cases do they hope to lose? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Justice Dept. says the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional
The DOJ concluded that a law requiring presidential records preservation is unconstitutional, setting the path to potentially upend decades-old legal precedent.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
“This particular year is as clear an indication of the influence of climate change as anything we’ve seen.” www.latimes.com/environment/...
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April 1 is supposed to be peak snow in California. Forget that this year
An extremely warm March melted most of the snow in California's Sierra Nevada. The early melt fits a long-term pattern as greenhouse gases push temperatures higher.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
“Carry on, Patriots,” Hegseth said to military pilots who apparently used their choppers to intimidate No Kings protesters and salute pro-Trumper Kid Rock. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Hegseth exonerates helicopter crews over Kid Rock flyby, nullifying Army probe
“No punishment. No investigation,” the Pentagon chief wrote on social media hours after military officials announced they had grounded the pilots involved.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
And of course the Jeff Bezos-owned @washingtonpost.com comes to the defense of big tech companies found legally culpable for harming children with their algorithms. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | A blow against free speech in California
In defense of personal and parental responsibility on social media.
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
So glad to see @lajourno.bsky.social honored for his investigation of child farmworkers in California, which I helped edit. www.latimes.com/california/s... 1st Place in the national SABEW contest for government reporting. Here's what the judges said:
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Stuart Leavenworth @sleavenworth.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
After starting a Middle East war and sparking an energy crisis, Trump finds time to stop by Elvis' mansion. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/u...
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Trump Visits Elvis’s Graceland Estate
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