Anita Chabria
@anitachabria.bsky.social
Los Angeles Times columnist covering politics, criminal justice and other stuff.
While the 8 Dems who broke from their party are directly responsible, Democratic leadership should also be held accountable.
Commentary: Democrats crumble like cookies. Is this really the best they can do? www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Commentary: Democrats crumble like cookies. Is this really the best they can do? www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Commentary: Democrats crumble like cookies. Is this really the best they can do?
Democrats broke ranks to reopen the government without securing a deal to protect health insurance subsidies for low and middle income Americans.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
While the 8 Dems who broke from their party are directly responsible, Democratic leadership should also be held accountable.
Commentary: Democrats crumble like cookies. Is this really the best they can do? www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
Commentary: Democrats crumble like cookies. Is this really the best they can do? www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
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Must-read Commentary by @anitachabria.bsky.social: How can Newsom stay relevant? Become the new FDR
"It’s time to once again embrace the values — inclusiveness, equity, dignity for all — that too many Democrats have expeditiously dropped to appease MAGA."
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"It’s time to once again embrace the values — inclusiveness, equity, dignity for all — that too many Democrats have expeditiously dropped to appease MAGA."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: How can Newsom stay relevant? Become the new FDR
The spotlight of Proposition 50 has gone cold. How can Gov. Gavin Newsom remain nationally relevant in his run for the White House?
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November 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Must-read Commentary by @anitachabria.bsky.social: How can Newsom stay relevant? Become the new FDR
"It’s time to once again embrace the values — inclusiveness, equity, dignity for all — that too many Democrats have expeditiously dropped to appease MAGA."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
"It’s time to once again embrace the values — inclusiveness, equity, dignity for all — that too many Democrats have expeditiously dropped to appease MAGA."
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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This column by @anitachabria.bsky.social concludes by asking of Republicans uncomfortable with antisemitism etc—
"will they find the courage to be not just true Republicans, but true Americans, and declare non-negotiable for their party that most basic of American ideals: We do not tolerate hate?"
"will they find the courage to be not just true Republicans, but true Americans, and declare non-negotiable for their party that most basic of American ideals: We do not tolerate hate?"
Commentary: MAGA's 'big tent' is burning down amid explosion of antisemitism, racism
Fights among conservatives over racism and antisemitism broke out into the open last week.
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November 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This column by @anitachabria.bsky.social concludes by asking of Republicans uncomfortable with antisemitism etc—
"will they find the courage to be not just true Republicans, but true Americans, and declare non-negotiable for their party that most basic of American ideals: We do not tolerate hate?"
"will they find the courage to be not just true Republicans, but true Americans, and declare non-negotiable for their party that most basic of American ideals: We do not tolerate hate?"
MAGA had a total anti-Indian meltdown on social media, revealing a deep, ugly racism toward South Asians. It comes amid the first real rebellion about rampant antisemitism: MAGA's 'big tent' is burning down amid explosion of antisemitism, racism www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: MAGA's 'big tent' is burning down amid explosion of antisemitism, racism
Fights among conservatives over racism and antisemitism broke out into the open last week.
www.latimes.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:42 PM
MAGA had a total anti-Indian meltdown on social media, revealing a deep, ugly racism toward South Asians. It comes amid the first real rebellion about rampant antisemitism: MAGA's 'big tent' is burning down amid explosion of antisemitism, racism www.latimes.com/california/s...
Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids are just the flip side of the coin to his election fraud claims — both at heart a part of the white Christian nationalism that his administration is now openly embracing. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: From ‘election integrity’ to voter suppression: America’s long, slow slide
Many Americans erroneously believe that Trump won the 2020 election, and the chief water-carriers of that lie are now in powerful government positions.
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October 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Trump’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids are just the flip side of the coin to his election fraud claims — both at heart a part of the white Christian nationalism that his administration is now openly embracing. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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October 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
You can—and should!— read @anitachabria.bsky.social’s column here www.latimes.com/california/s...
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A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
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October 16, 2025 at 2:07 PM
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
“We can both recognize that it’s ridiculous and also that it’s pretty sinister,” @leahgreenberg told me.
Don't let MAGA turn protest into a crime.
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Don't let MAGA turn protest into a crime.
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Don’t let MAGA turn protest into a crime
Large crowds are expected to protest President Trump and his policies at 'No Kings' events. Some on the right are framing them as 'Hate America' rallies.
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October 16, 2025 at 2:57 PM
“We can both recognize that it’s ridiculous and also that it’s pretty sinister,” @leahgreenberg told me.
Don't let MAGA turn protest into a crime.
www.latimes.com/politics/new...
Don't let MAGA turn protest into a crime.
www.latimes.com/politics/new...
Despite the partisan Supreme Court, the reason that we are still holding on to democracy is because the system still works, albeit like a ’78 Chevy with the doors rusting off. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: So much winning. Can Bonta maintain California's legal hot streak against Trump?
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta has secured multiple wins against President Trump's agenda, a reminder that the judicial branch remains a functioning check on the power of the presidency.
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October 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Despite the partisan Supreme Court, the reason that we are still holding on to democracy is because the system still works, albeit like a ’78 Chevy with the doors rusting off. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Bettina Aptheker, as a student activist at UC Berkeley in the 1960s, fought for free speech after administrators tried to suppress political speech on campus. She sees the same with Trump’s efforts to control speech at universities today.
By @anitachabria.bsky.social
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Commentary: McCarthyism in a MAGA hat? Trump’s campus deal sounds familiar to her
President Trump offered a carrot-or-stick deal to USC and eight other colleges. On first glance, it may not sound that bad to some. But it is the end of the kind of education that seeks to bend the ar...
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October 6, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Bettina Aptheker, as a student activist at UC Berkeley in the 1960s, fought for free speech after administrators tried to suppress political speech on campus. She sees the same with Trump’s efforts to control speech at universities today.
By @anitachabria.bsky.social
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By @anitachabria.bsky.social
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Bettina Aptheker was a 20-year-old sophomore at UC Berkeley when she climbed on top of a police car, barefoot so she wouldn’t damage it, and helped start the Free Speech Movement. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: McCarthyism in a MAGA hat? Trump’s campus deal sounds familiar to her
President Trump offered a carrot-or-stick deal to USC and eight other colleges. On first glance, it may not sound that bad to some. But it is the end of the kind of education that seeks to bend the ar...
www.latimes.com
October 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Bettina Aptheker was a 20-year-old sophomore at UC Berkeley when she climbed on top of a police car, barefoot so she wouldn’t damage it, and helped start the Free Speech Movement. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Trump has done exactly what he set out to do: Reduce our alarm at the use of the military on our streets. A recent study from the UC Davis found one-third of respondents (32%) agree that government ‘should use the military to help enforce its policies'. www.latimes.com/politics/new...
Trump. Hegseth. Vance. In a week of chaos, does all of it matter, or none of it?
Trump, Hegseth and Vance gave us another week of the onslaught and overload.
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October 2, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Trump has done exactly what he set out to do: Reduce our alarm at the use of the military on our streets. A recent study from the UC Davis found one-third of respondents (32%) agree that government ‘should use the military to help enforce its policies'. www.latimes.com/politics/new...
Free speech triumphs?
It depends on Tuesday night, when we see if Kimmel returns undaunted, or if he has been subdued. Kimmel’s return should be a moment we all watch — a real-time look at how successful our president is at forcing us to censor ourselves through fear.
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It depends on Tuesday night, when we see if Kimmel returns undaunted, or if he has been subdued. Kimmel’s return should be a moment we all watch — a real-time look at how successful our president is at forcing us to censor ourselves through fear.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: Please, Jimmy, don't back down. Making fun of Trump is your patriotic duty
ABC announced Jimmy Kimmel will return to the air Tuesday night. For the sake of democracy, let's hope he comes out swinging.
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September 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Free speech triumphs?
It depends on Tuesday night, when we see if Kimmel returns undaunted, or if he has been subdued. Kimmel’s return should be a moment we all watch — a real-time look at how successful our president is at forcing us to censor ourselves through fear.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
It depends on Tuesday night, when we see if Kimmel returns undaunted, or if he has been subdued. Kimmel’s return should be a moment we all watch — a real-time look at how successful our president is at forcing us to censor ourselves through fear.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
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‘Wake up, Los Angeles. This isn’t a Jimmy Kimmel problem. This is a Los Angeles problem… You don’t need to agree with Kimmel’s politics to see where this is going.’
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Commentary: Wake up, Los Angeles. We are all Jimmy Kimmel
San Francisco used to be the MAGA boogeyman, but no more. Trump 2.0 is laser-focused on Los Angeles.
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September 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
‘Wake up, Los Angeles. This isn’t a Jimmy Kimmel problem. This is a Los Angeles problem… You don’t need to agree with Kimmel’s politics to see where this is going.’
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Via @anitachabria.bsky.social
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Kimmel having his speech censored is in league with our immigrant neighbors being rounded up or pressuring doctors into dropping transgender patients. They are all weaponization of government against people.
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Commentary: Wake up, Los Angeles. We are all Jimmy Kimmel
San Francisco used to be the MAGA boogeyman, but no more. Trump 2.0 is laser-focused on Los Angeles.
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September 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Kimmel having his speech censored is in league with our immigrant neighbors being rounded up or pressuring doctors into dropping transgender patients. They are all weaponization of government against people.
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After media coverage and scrutiny... ARC finally registered as a data broker in the state of California in June. Senator Wyden previously said it appeared ARC had been in violation of Californian law
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Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records to the Government For Warrantless Searching
New documents obtained by 404 Media show how a data broker owned by American Airlines, United, Delta, and many other airlines is selling masses of passenger data to the U.S. government.
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September 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
After media coverage and scrutiny... ARC finally registered as a data broker in the state of California in June. Senator Wyden previously said it appeared ARC had been in violation of Californian law
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THANK YOU @bostonjoan.bsky.social & LA Times!
Folks, please check this out—any analyses taking the these memes as face value is missing the mark. www.latimes.com/politics/liv...
Folks, please check this out—any analyses taking the these memes as face value is missing the mark. www.latimes.com/politics/liv...
September 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
THANK YOU @bostonjoan.bsky.social & LA Times!
Folks, please check this out—any analyses taking the these memes as face value is missing the mark. www.latimes.com/politics/liv...
Folks, please check this out—any analyses taking the these memes as face value is missing the mark. www.latimes.com/politics/liv...
@bostonjoan.bsky.social explains what the writing on the bullets really means: www.latimes.com/politics/liv...
Suspect in Kirk shooting arrested and identified: 'We got him!'
Kirk, a Trump ally and leading voice for the far right, was fatally shot while speaking to hundreds of people at Utah Valley University.
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September 12, 2025 at 9:48 PM
@bostonjoan.bsky.social explains what the writing on the bullets really means: www.latimes.com/politics/liv...
Brown people, speaking brown languages, hanging out with other brown people, and doing brown people things now meets the legal standard of “reasonable suspicion” required for immigration stops. Living while brown has become the new driving while Black. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: It's not just Latinos. Supreme Court says all brown people are suspicious
Latinos were called out specifically in the Supreme Court ruling allowing immigration officials latitude to stop and question anyone. But the ruling goes far beyond one ethnicity.
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September 10, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Brown people, speaking brown languages, hanging out with other brown people, and doing brown people things now meets the legal standard of “reasonable suspicion” required for immigration stops. Living while brown has become the new driving while Black. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Before we get to the point of having to choose who will go back in time to save Sarah Connor from Skynet and the Terminator, maybe we just don’t go there. Maybe we start with SB 53, and listen to smart, young people like Revanur. www.latimes.com/politics/new...
Column: Tech bros hate this college student. California should listen to what she's saying about artificial intelligence
President Trump wined and dined top AI tech executives last week, leaving little hope that Congress will regulate the emerging technology in meaningful ways. That leaves California — and a college act...
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September 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Before we get to the point of having to choose who will go back in time to save Sarah Connor from Skynet and the Terminator, maybe we just don’t go there. Maybe we start with SB 53, and listen to smart, young people like Revanur. www.latimes.com/politics/new...
Before we get to the point of having to choose who will go back in time to save Sarah Connor from the Terminator, maybe we just don’t go there. Maybe we start with SB 53 in California, and listen to smart, young people like Revanur.
www.latimes.com/politics/new...
www.latimes.com/politics/new...
Column: Tech bros hate this college student. California should listen to what she's saying about artificial intelligence
President Trump wined and dined top AI tech executives last week, leaving little hope that Congress will regulate the emerging technology in meaningful ways. That leaves California — and a college act...
www.latimes.com
September 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Before we get to the point of having to choose who will go back in time to save Sarah Connor from the Terminator, maybe we just don’t go there. Maybe we start with SB 53 in California, and listen to smart, young people like Revanur.
www.latimes.com/politics/new...
www.latimes.com/politics/new...
The hardest parts of an autocracy are division and fear. It feels lonely and scary to speak out. @CAgovernor has done two crucial things with his social media barrage. www.latimes.com/politics/new...
How caps lock became Newsom’s weapon of resistance
California's Gov. Gavin Newsom has embraced social media to troll president Trump. It's clearly gotten under the president's skin, and also boosted Newsom to a frontrunner for a run at the White House...
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September 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The hardest parts of an autocracy are division and fear. It feels lonely and scary to speak out. @CAgovernor has done two crucial things with his social media barrage. www.latimes.com/politics/new...
There’s still a deep hesitation within media to make this call, but now it’s bordering on negligence. Still, some of us are trying. www.latimes.com/california/s...
September 3, 2025 at 12:31 AM
There’s still a deep hesitation within media to make this call, but now it’s bordering on negligence. Still, some of us are trying. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: 'What’s to prevent a national police force?' Not this National Guard ruling.
“There’s a chilling effect against pushing back or at least openly questioning any kind of orders,” @rachelv12 , a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, said. www.latimes.com/california/s...
“There’s a chilling effect against pushing back or at least openly questioning any kind of orders,” @rachelv12 , a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, said. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Commentary: 'What’s to prevent a national police force?' Not this National Guard ruling
A federal judge ruled that Trump's deployment of the National Guard in L.A. was illegal. But don't expect that to protect us from the president creating a national police force under his control.
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September 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Commentary: 'What’s to prevent a national police force?' Not this National Guard ruling.
“There’s a chilling effect against pushing back or at least openly questioning any kind of orders,” @rachelv12 , a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, said. www.latimes.com/california/s...
“There’s a chilling effect against pushing back or at least openly questioning any kind of orders,” @rachelv12 , a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, said. www.latimes.com/california/s...