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Sarah D. Wire

@sarahdwire.bsky.social

Washington reporter for Los Angeles Times

I drink coffee and make FOIA requests.
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In a race where many voters aren’t excited for a rematch between the same two White House contenders as four years ago, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a long-shot, third-party candidate, sees himself as the alternate they are looking for. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn't see himself as a spoiler for Democrats or GOPwww.usatoday.com In an exclusive interview, RFK Jr. said his dad would be proud of his campaign and that he's the hopeful alternate in an election full of doom and gloom.
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A bit of news: this is my last full week at the LA Times. It’s been a wild ride covering Congress, campaigns, the Justice Department and the Jan. 6 trials for the last 8 and a half years.
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“All that’s done typically is a little plaque that’s put inside the post office. And so it’s more trivial than trivial,” said Arizona State University politics professor Steven Smith. “It’s a weird form of commemoration.”
Dianne Feinstein made history. Now she could get honored with a post office?www.latimes.com The proposal to name a San Francisco post office after the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein struck some as unbefitting the gravitas of her half-century career in politics.
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“It is kind of a consolation prize rather than a signal honor,” said Ross Baker, emeritus political science professor at Rutgers University. “Naming a post office is kind of an inside joke in Congress... It’s very, very easy to do.”
Dianne Feinstein made history. Now she could get honored with a post office?www.latimes.com The proposal to name a San Francisco post office after the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein struck some as unbefitting the gravitas of her half-century career in politics.
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“We’re taking this seriously, because we have to,” @RepAdamSchiff said. “We’ve seen this movie before … and how perilous it is to ignore what someone is saying when they say they want to be a dictator.”
Trump says he'll jail his opponents. Members of the House Jan. 6 committee are preparingwww.latimes.com California Democratic Reps. Zoe Lofgren, Adam B. Schiff and Pete Aguilar are among those who believe they could be targeted for retribution if Trump is reelected.
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Some days are great and some days you forget your own phone number while leaving a voice mail
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Sarah's rules for lopping 30 inches out of a story. 1. Look for -ly words 2. Scrap introductory clauses 3. Take out all of your favorite quotes and anguish about which ONE you might get back
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😮‍💨 Definitely wrote trail instead of trial in an article many, many times today.
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He took on L.A.’s street gangs. For Mayorkas, impeachment ‘does not rattle me’
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Today House Administration held a hearing titled “American Confidence in Elections: Confronting Zuckerbucks, Private Funding of Election Administration” The term Zuckerbucks comes from a far-right conspiracy theory about grants to help local gov run elections during the pandemic
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Of course I am listening to my Tracy Chapman album on repeat today and feeling like a teenager again