Stark and gut-wrenching example of the imbalanced scales of justice tipped in favor of drivers who kill someone with their vehicle in crashes that could have been prevented by responsible driving and safer street designs.
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Ryan Fonseca
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Ryan Fonseca
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Deputy digital editor for https://t.co/Wv6KRBCzfY Teaching journalism @csunorthridge Past: @LATimes, @LAist, @ladailynews Mostly on Bluesky
Los Angeles, CA Bergabung Şubat 2012
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Lau killed Diego Cardoso de Oliveira, Matilde Moncada Ramos Pinto and their sons, one-year-old Joaquim and three-month-old Cauê.
Judge Bruce Chan imposed an incredibly light sentence for the woman, in part because of his "feeling" that she feels bad about killing four people.
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Mary Fong Lau was driving nearly 3x the speed limit when she crashed into a SF bus stop and killed a family of four.
Today a judge sentenced her to probation without jail time and she could be licensed to drive again in five years.
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@sherlyholmes Congratulations to you and your team, Julia! I'll be reading and rooting for y'all
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Today we launched L.A. Material — a new, independent L.A. news site — and I hope you'll check it out! Much more to come. lamaterial.com
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@tomoki_chien Congrats, Tomo! Very excited to see more of your stellar reporting soon 🤘🏼
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Personal news! I’ve joined L.A. Material, a new news outlet founded by a stellar group of LA Times veterans that launches this month.
There’s no team I’d rather be a part of, and I’m stoked to compete on this new stage.
lamaterial.com
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I just did the dumbest thing of my career to prove a much more serious point
I hacked ChatGPT and Google and made them tell other users I’m really, really good at eating hot dogs
People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I'll explain how I did it
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Just awful. Cold, callous, awful.
Solidarity with my fellow journalists and their families going through this today.
Lizzie Johnson@lizziejohnsonnn
I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.
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Here's my full piece about some of the questions raised internally about this story and concerns I heard from some CBS News staffers about it: theguardian.com/media/2026/jan…
(In an editorial call yesterday, Bari Weiss said the story was a high priority to pursue.)
Jeremy Barr@jeremymbarr
There was discussion internally at CBS News about the specifics of the officer's injuries and whether more detail could be provided, I am told. "I'm no doctor, but internal bleeding is a very broad term and can range in severity," a CBS News executive said in an internal email. "A bruise is internal bleeding. But it can also be something serious. We do know that the ICE agent walked away from the incident -- we have that on camera."
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"On paper, policymakers make lofty commitments to public transportation and road safety, placing the utmost value on human life. In practice, human life is not as important as the convenience of drivers — a policy choice that endangers every person in CA."
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Did some reporting on this incident back in September. Spoke to a few witnesses at the time, but it hits different to see the video evidence of what they described.
Riley Walz@rtwlz
Video of a San Francisco Muni train flying 50mph out of the Sunset Tunnel after the driver fell asleep. Luckily the train didn't crash.
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US defense secretary Pete Hegseth has announced a shift in the Pentagon's process for acquiring weapons.
“We are not building for peacetime,” Hegseth told military and industry leaders.
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Mamdani had this one ready to go. @AP just called the race for him.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani@ZohranKMamdani
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Some of that personal news:
I recently joined the Guardian US as a deputy digital editor! I’m excited to be part of a stellar global newsroom while maintaining my West Coast lens.
Got tips or ideas? I’m at ryan.fonseca@theguardian.com ✌🏼
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New: Furloughed Dept. of Education employees discovered their out of office messages were manipulated blaming Democrats for a government shutdown
"None of us consented to this. And it’s written in the first-person, as if I’m the one conveying this message, and I’m not. I don’t agree with it. I don’t think it’s ethical or legal. I think it violates the Hatch Act."
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@laura_nelson Solid tenure full of great reporting. 🫡 Sending you good vibes for your next adventure!
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Some personal news, as they say: This is my last day at the @latimes.
Thank you, thank you to everyone who has shared their time, expertise and stories over the last 13 years, and to my kind and brilliant colleagues. Grateful doesn't even begin to cover it.
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I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse.
Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away.
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ICYMI: Dozens of Muni passengers packed in for their morning commute yesterday were knocked off their feet when their train rocked side-to-side, then sped through a station where it was supposed to stop.
Some riders shared their experience with me:
sfstandard.com/2025/09/24/mun…
SFMTA@SFMTA_Muni
We know that Wednesday's incident aboard the N-Judah leaving the Sunset tunnel was alarming for our riders on that train, and we want to acknowledge the concern it caused. Our statement below.
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