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Lisa Pickoff-White
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The California Reporting Project’s Director of Research, covering law enforcement in the Golden State. Based out of Berkeley Journalism’s Investigative Reporting Program. Former KQED. Nerd. Signal user
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Without downloading any new pics describe your gender.
Me in an inflatable T-Rex costume running in the Presidio in San Francisco. You can see the Golden Gate Bridge and Marin headlands in the distance.
November 20, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Reflecting on Claude
Claude, an albino alligator at the California Academy of Science is leisurely hanging out in his pool. The angle almost doubles him.
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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A tabbie cat naps on a cat tower while the sun shines on him
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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November 2, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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We’re holding two sessions this week on how to use new databases to cover law enforcement in California.

➡️ 6 pm PT Wednesday, in-person at KQED with @spj-norcal.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-rep...

➡️ 10:30 am PT Saturday, online at AccessFest with @ire.org
Utilizing new police misconduct and employment databases, session at 10:30 am Saturday
October 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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A good time indeed
Image from Ecco the Dolphin, a classic Sega game. Three dolphins leap out of the vibrant water while a dolphin swims undersea in the left. Brightly colored coral line the bottom.
July 16, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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It’s been five years since Louisville Metro Police killed Breonna Taylor.
Breonna Taylor as envisioned and painted by Amy Sherald. Taylor is wearing a blue dress and wearing a delicate cross necklace. Her hair is in waves. “Her mom shared with me that she loved to get dressed up,” Sherald told the NYTimes, “So I thought it was fitting that she have on a beautiful dress.” Taylor’s wearing an engagement ring because her boyfriend had intended to propose to Taylor before police officers killed her.
March 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Two tabbie cats cuddling on a black couch forming a heart shape. Kira is resting her chin on brother, Odo.
January 21, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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I always love finding zines in the wild that I’ve read bits of online. Thanks Medicine for Nightmares and @charliejane.bsky.social for organizing the crawl!
Ya no quiero ser fuerte zine featuring Raneban and Javiro. The zine is in bright oranges, pinks and green featuring cartoon frogs
January 12, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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Only 38% of California is a desert, according to the USGS.

But most of the state is at risk for fire using topography, vegetation and other factors. Maps used to calculate risk are also old, Cal Fire’s over a decade, and would likely show more areas with newer modeling.
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A map of California showing areas at risk for fire based on Cal Fire maps and ones created by scientists to show how people and the land interface.
January 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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It was real! I remember the anime and have one manga still
Cover of Read or Die manga showing an Asian woman with glasses and red tape reading Keep Out.
December 17, 2024 at 11:30 PM
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When Pokémon Adventures X&Y sparks a journalism ethics conversation in your household.
Lumiose Press editor-in-chief says “I’m quashing this article!” and burns Alexa’s notes on the Vaniville Town incident. Alexa is horrified.
January 31, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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This has been a devastating day.

Statement from Black, Latino, AAPI and MENASA caucus folks from the LAT guild on the layoff numbers.

38% of Latino Caucus members
36% of Black Caucus members
34% of combined AAPI, Middle East, North Africa and South Asia caucuses

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Statement on major layoffs at the Los Angeles Times from Black, Latino, AAPI and MENASA Caucuses The announcement today of cuts at the Los Angeles Times eliminating 115 jobs has devastating implications for Black, Latino, AAPI and other journalists of color. If these layoffs are allowed to go through, our caucuses will be decimated. The Latino Caucus will lose 38% of its members. The Black Caucus will lose 36% of its members. The Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) and Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (MENASA) caucuses will lose 34% of their combined membership. Our newspaper’s ownership made a promise to bring in talented journalists from diverse backgrounds so that our staff reflects the city we cover, in the most populous state in the country. These proposed cuts would severely damage what incremental progress has been made. De Los, a Latino-led, Latino-centered, initiative, will be gutted by these cuts. That is just one example of the ways in which this proposal would
January 24, 2024 at 3:01 AM
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You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?

Uh oh.
The Elemental Monkeys, Psyduck, Mudkip, Tyler, Haru and Alisa stand under a bougainvillea next to a pool at a tropical resort for Pokémon and people.
January 12, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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Caught a rainbow running errands today.
Rainbow over Mission High in San Francisco. There’s a patch of blue sky in the upper left corner and buildings downtown peak out from the clouds on the right.
December 20, 2023 at 5:01 AM
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Question in typewriter font, “Them: What do you have to be anxious about?” “Me:” there are four panels with Galadriel with some light looking ethereal. In the first she says “things that were”, the second “things that are”, the camera pans out for the third “and some things” and the camera pans in “that have not yet come to pass”
November 25, 2023 at 5:51 PM
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Meme showing Taylor Swift with chyrons showing “Breaking News: I see no lies, insider reports she spoke nothing but the truth”
November 8, 2023 at 11:59 PM