US troops who died in Iran war remembered as devoted parents and soldiers Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor was just days away from returning home to her husband and two children when a drone strike in Kuwait killed her and five others.

Sgt. 1st Class Nicole Amor, 39, was an avid gardener who enjoyed making salsa from the peppers and tomatoes in her garden with her son, a senior in high school. Via @armytimes.bsky.social
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3 US troops killed in Iran attack Several more troops were wounded as part of the U.S. and Israel effort against Tehran.

The real cost of war - “Three U.S. troops were killed and five more “seriously wounded” as part of the joint U.S.-Israel operation targeting Iranian military sites and government officials, according to U.S. Central Command.” Via @politico.com
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FEMA Staff Bracing for Dismissal of 1,000 Disaster Workers

“You cannot gut the agency responsible for #disasterresponse and expect it to function at its best when the next #hurricane, #wildfire or #flood hits,” said Rafael Lemaitre, a former #FEMA official. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/c...

A lost generation of news consumers? Survey shows how teenagers dislike the news media You don't have to tell Cat Murphy or Lily Ogburn about the attitudes of young people toward journalists.

We must invest in #NewsLiteracy at the middle and high school levels because responsible journalism defends democracy. Props to @newslit.org X @apnews.com
for sounding the alarm.

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#JournalismIsNotACrime

Stanford Daily sues Trump administration over deportation threats Stanford’s student newspaper sued the Trump administration for threatening to deport any noncitizen who criticizes Israel or U.S. foreign policy, saying the government is violating freedom of...

Rock on! “In the United States of America, no one should fear a midnight knock on the door for voicing the wrong opinion,” lawyers for the Stanford Daily, the university’s independent 133-year-old publication, wrote in a lawsuit. Via @sfchronicle.com www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

California says OC doesn’t qualify for federal fire assistance grant for Airport fire OCFA Fire Chief Brian Fennessy said the denial by the governor’s Office of Emergency Services “really defies logic for us.”

“The federal grant would have provided public safety agencies and others in the county with tens of millions of dollars toward covering their costs during the fire. #OCFA Chief Brian Fennessy said the denial by @caloes.bsky.social ‘really defies logic for us.’” Via @ocregister.bsky.social

How about those states rights? Via @npr.org

'We live in response to a monarchy': Judge appears critical of deployment of National Guard in L.A. California officials argue that President Trump exceeded his authority by federalizing the National Guard without the consent of Gov. Gavin Newsom and by deploying Marines on American soil.

“We’re talking about the president is exercising his authority, and of course, the president is limited in his authority,” U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said in court Thursday. “That’s the difference between the president and King George.”

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L.A. law enforcement's treatment of journalists during protests is once again under scrutiny Journalists have been shot with less-lethal police rounds, tear-gassed, shoved and detained while chronicling the ongoing civil unrest and military intervention in Los Angeles.

“The reality is police are not the ones who’re allowed to decide who is press,” @adamrose.bsky.social told @latimes.com. Let journalists do their jobs without getting nailed from behind with munitions. #JournalismIsNOTACrime

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National Guard arrives in Los Angeles as fallout from immigration raids continues The California National Guard's 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, based in San Diego, said 300 personnel were deployed to protect federal property and personnel.

This is why #LocalNewsMatters! @latimes.com is out front on this historic mobilization of federalized CA Army National Guard soldiers. Reporting by
@salhernandez.bsky.social @tarantulaarms.bsky.social @jqwritesstuff.bsky.social and Hannah Fry.
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In the last 20 or so minutes I’ve seen LAPD officers shove women to the ground without provocation, rip a sign out of a man’s hand and then swing a baton into his leg and raise a less-lethal launcher to aim
directly at a protester (which I’m 99% is a major policy violation.)

What Can (and Can't) The National Guard Actually Do? So what is the National Guard? What can it do? And what limits do state governors—and presidents—have on sending in its troops?

President Trump deployed the National Guard to Los Angeles on Saturday night in response to immigration protests there.

What can the Guard do? What can’t it do? How is sending in the National Guard different than invoking the Insurrection Act?

Read our explainer:
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Former Times reporter sues Villanueva, L.A County, alleging 1st Amendment violation Former Times reporter Maya Lau has filed a lawsuit claiming Los Angeles County and former Sheriff Alex Villanueva violated her 1st Amendment rights.

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That guy wants the Oval Office… he’d trip Frank Underwood to get it.

Newsom proposes $20-million funding cut for California newsrooms, citing budget issues The state confirmed Wednesday that it will pay out $10 million, instead of $30 million, to California newsrooms for the 2025-26 fiscal year.

Talk about a bait-and-switch! @gavinnewsom.bsky.social killed a bill that would have taxed #Google & #Meta to support California newsrooms. He sold the deal based on a state-funded infusion that is now slashed by two-thirds. Let’s finally get serious about ending news deserts. #LocalNewsMatters

Rumeysa Ozturk is speaking at a microphone. A headline reads: "Tufts Student Returns to Massachusetts After 6 Weeks In Immigration Detention." Photo by Sophie Park for The New York Times

Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish citizen whose student visa was canceled by the U.S. government, returned to Massachusetts on Saturday evening, one day after a federal judge in Vermont ordered that she be immediately released from a detention facility in Louisiana. nyti.ms/44zpoom

In his executive order on NPR and PBS, Trump leapfrogs Congress to target a private organization - Poynter The order calls on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, an independent nonprofit, to stop funding NPR and PBS

#SavePublicMedia - California needs @laist.com , @kqednews.kqed.org & @kpbssandiego.bsky.social !

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Q&A: What Does It Mean If President Trump Invokes the Insurrection Act Over the Southern Border? Defense Secretary Hegseth, Secretary of Homeland Security Noem expected to inform Trump on whether to invoke the Insurrection Act over southern boarder

“In short, [invoking the #InsurrectionAct] would give the president very wide latitude to use the military on U.S. soil, free from the major checks & balances that usually come with deploying the military domestically.” Via Sonner Kehrt @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social
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L.A. Times sues city over Mayor Bass' deleted text messages during fire response The city of Los Angeles maintains it is not required to retain or release texts sent by the mayor. The Times is taking the matter to court, arguing the messages are public records.

“It’s bigger than these text messages,” said Kelly Aviles, outside counsel for @latimes.com. “The city seems to believe they can destroy whatever they want whenever they want, and that they don’t have a duty to the public to retain public records.” #LocalNewsMatters
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Grateful to be spotlighted by @andreagribble.bsky.social and the #SocialSchool4Edu Team! More to come.
#SchoolPR #IndySchoolPR #IndependentSchool

Awesome panel on school crisis comms and #emergencypreparedness during #PalisadesFire & #EatonFire with PIOs from Arcadia USD, Simi Valley USD and Santa Monica-Malibu USD. #CalSPRA #SchoolPR

Meltdowns, nightmares and regressions: The L.A. fires are taking a traumatic toll on kids The L.A. County fires have taken a traumatic toll on kids. The distress is coming out in their art and play, and it is leading to some developmental regressions.

“As the family raced down the hill, branches & wind pummeling their car, the song ‘Best Day Ever’ from the cartoon ‘SuperKitties’ blared over the speakers. Fortier hoped the music would distract them. It didn’t.” Via Jenny Gold @latimes.com
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A statement from a spokesperson for The New York Times on White House press coverage:

U.S. Army Corps begins clearing tons of fire debris in Altadena and Pacific Palisades In a pivotal milestone in Los Angeles County's long road to recovery from the deadly wildfires in early January, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Tuesday began clearing debris from burned propertie...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has started clearing debris from burned properties in Altadena and Pacific Palisades, 35 days after the fires -- a speed that Gov. Gavin Newsom described as "unpredecented" in California history. With @sherlyholmes.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/california/s...

As a #SantaBarbara native, this is very exciting. The News-Press bankruptcy would have been a sad bookend to a sordid story. Wishing @asunewswell.bsky.social
much luck in adding to a dynamic local news market that already includes Noozhawk, The Santa Barbara Independent
& The Montecito Journal.

This is bananas…

L.A. fire officials could have put engines in the Palisades before the fire broke out. They didn't Fire officials made the critical decision to forgo calling in extra firefighters to the level that they had during some similar weather events in the past, according to internal predeployment memos re...

“As the [LAFD] faced extraordinary warnings of life-threatening winds, top commanders decided not to assign for emergency deployment roughly 1,000 available firefighters and dozens of water-carrying engines in advance of the fire that destroyed much of the Palisades.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

Drone collides with firefighting aircraft over Palisades fire, FAA says Several viral videos and images appeared to be taken with drones in conflict with a temporary flight restriction issued by the Federal Aviation Administration to protect firefighting aircraft.

“The drone was destroyed and the Super Scooper — a massive fixed-wing plane that can drop large amounts of water — was damaged. ‘It put a hole in the wing,’ he said. ‘It’s grounded now.’” Via @castleman.bsky.social & Grace Toohey

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