Mark Barabak
Columnist at Los Angeles Times
LA Times columnist, covering politics from out West. Cat on a tin roof. Dogs in a pile. Over on Bluesky @markzbarabak.bsky.social
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2 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Mark Barabak
On Saturday, on the streets of Washington, Donald Trump will throw himself a costly and ostentatious military parade, a gaudy display of waste and vainglory staged solely to inflate the president’s dirigible-sized ego. The estimated price tag: As much as $45 million.
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Mark Barabak
5 hours agoHundreds of thousands of people are "slowly starving" in Kenyan refugee camps after US funding cuts reduced food rations to their lowest ever levels, a United Nations official has told the BBC. The impact is starkly visible at a hospital in the sprawling Kakuma camp in the north-west of the East …
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2 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Mark Barabak
When four Los Angeles police officers were acquitted in the beating of Rodney King, President George H.W. Bush expressed the shock and horror many Americans felt. “What you saw and what I saw on the TV video was revolting,” Bush said in a nationally televised speech from the Oval Office. “I felt anger. I felt pain.
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2 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Anita Chabria |Mark Barabak
To hear Republicans tell it, California is a failed state and Donald Trump won the presidency in a landslide that gives him a mandate to do as he pleases. No surprise there. But more and more, Democrats are echoing those talking points. Ever since Kamala Harris lost the election, the Democratic Party has been on a nationwide self-flagellation tour.
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3 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Mark Barabak
Brian Colbert ran on a parochial platform focused on garden-variety local issues. He said he’s the product of ‘hope’ harbored by his grandparents and others oppressed by Jim Crow. It’s hard to miss Brian Colbert. It’s not just his burly 6-foot-4 frame, his clean-shaven head or the boldly patterned, brightly colored Hawaiian shirts he’s adopted as an unofficial uniform.
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RT @markzbarabak: NEW: Dems are deep in self-examination (and self-flagellation mode), which is fine. To a point. The party isn’t doomed, a…
What really happened outside the Paramount Home Depot? The reality on the ground vs. the rhetoric @racheluranga @LATvives https://t.co/ixSjrbunvq
NEW: Dems are deep in self-examination (and self-flagellation mode), which is fine. To a point. The party isn’t doomed, any more than the GOP after it lost back-to-back presidential elections So spare us the existential freakout Me+Anita Chabria discuss https://t.co/RfWesRqPIS
