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@capitalandmain.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 6:46 PM

Latino voters, writ large, have soured on President Trump, and on Republicans. They are unhappy about the failed promise of an economic turnaround, and the severity of immigration enforcement.

@capitalandmain.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 7:48 PM

The California Federation of Teachers and the 310,000 strong California Teachers Association are rallying their members and using their money to help get out the vote in favor of Prop 3.

@capitalandmain.bsky.socialOct 8, 2026, 5:50 PM

Community efforts to block data centers have come up against a formidable obstacle in the City of Industry, a sprawl of industrial warehouses and commercial manufacturing centers that snakes across 12 miles of the San Gabriel Valley.

@capitalandmain.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 10:08 PM

Declining snowpacks plus climate stress have led to less water in one of New Mexico's iconic waterways: the Pecos River.

@capitalandmain.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 7:00 PM

As climate change dries New Mexico, and the Pecos River runs ever lower, one of the biggest drivers of that change is 75,000 square miles of oil and gas wells across 55 counties in New Mexico and Texas: the vast Permian Basin oilfield.

@capitalandmain.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 5:45 PM

A coal-fired power plant in northwestern Colorado was scheduled to close at the end of 2025 amid pressure from environmental advocates, public interest groups and state officials. But on Dec. 30, Energy Secretary Chris Wright ordered it to keep burning coal. capitalandmain.com/aging-coal-p...

@capitalandmain.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 6:34 PM

L.A.’s ports are the region’s biggest polluters.

@capitalandmain.bsky.socialOct 6, 2026, 5:40 PM

On most evenings, Maricela Morales runs with her 18-year-old son in West Long Beach, a neighborhood that is less than a half-mile from two fumigation facilities that regularly spew a toxic pesticide called methyl bromide into the air.

@capitalandmain.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 8:30 PM

The Trump administration’s aggressive crackdown on immigrants has prompted an eight-day pilgrimage led by faith-based groups from an immigration detention center in California’s high desert to the downtown Los Angeles Federal Building.

@capitalandmain.bsky.socialOct 5, 2026, 5:37 PM

L.A.’s ports remain the region’s biggest polluter. Nearby residents exposed to pollution are compensated with funding for parks and asthma clinics, paid into a court-ordered fund by the very same polluters endangering the health of locals.

@capitalandmain.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 11:23 PM

This Pennsylvania river hasn’t always been orange.

@capitalandmain.bsky.socialOct 2, 2026, 5:18 PM

It’s not immediately apparent that there’s anything wrong with the red-rocked Tioga River. But while life teems along its banks, there is virtually nothing beneath the water’s surface.

@capitalandmain.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 7:36 PM

OPINION: As the California Oligarch Index makes clear, a relatively tiny number of wealthy donors and corporations are exerting profound influence over who gets elected and which laws get passed in the Golden State.

@capitalandmain.bsky.socialOct 1, 2026, 6:26 PM

NEWS: The condition of the building — and the displacement of residents — has raised questions among tenants and housing activists about the St. George’s owners’ ability to manage their portfolio of more than 1,100 downtown residential hotel units. capitalandmain.com/downtown-l-a...

@capitalandmain.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 7:03 PM

Damage wrought by the mountain pine beetle is already evident in thousands of dead and dying red-needled ponderosa pine knitted throughout these stands.

@capitalandmain.bsky.socialSep 30, 2026, 6:12 PM

The U.S. government has agreements with 36 countries to receive people who are not their citizens or residents, according to data gathered by Human Rights First and Refugees International.

@capitalandmain.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 9:22 PM

This West Texas town is experiencing its driest days in hundreds of years.

@capitalandmain.bsky.socialSep 28, 2026, 5:23 PM

In a small border town in West Texas, ranchers and residents are struggling with a decades-long drought. The land has been cracking under the pressure of a sustained megadrought since 2000, bringing some of the driest days in hundreds of years to the region.

@capitalandmain.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 5:59 PM

El sistema normativo diseñado para proteger a los trabajadores agrícolas de los pesticidas se aplica de manera irregular en toda California. capitalandmain.com/arbitrarieda...

@capitalandmain.bsky.socialSep 24, 2026, 5:53 PM

OPINION: You have to scroll to the end of California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s statement about the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger to find the first — and only — mention of the massive settlement’s implications for freedom of the press.

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