Aryn Braun
West Coast correspondent for The Economist.
📍Los Angeles
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- Looking to talk to current or former workers at the National Park Service for a story for The Economist. Please help share this around! I’m on signal at abraun.99
- Spending my 4th of July listening for fireworks and then obsessively checking Watch Duty hbu
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- DTLA
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- I’ve spent years covering both immigration and Los Angeles and sending National Guard troops to LA feels like “a thinly-veiled message to Democratic-run places that retribution awaits those who would stand between immigrants and the administration’s deportation machine” economist.com/united-state...
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- This is so pure www.seattletimes.com/life/travel/...
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- Hot take: California is good, actually
- Wrote two very different, but very California, stories this week. First, on the effects of last year’s Grants Pass SCOTUS decision and the dozens of cities trying to end homelessness by force economist.com/united-state...
- Looking to talk to current or former federal workers at NOAA for a story for The Economist. Please share far and wide! I’m on signal at abraun.99
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- Reposted by Aryn BraunOur cover this week.
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- Listening to Mayor Bass’s state of the city address, and she says she wants to “stop the bureaucratic madness” that prevents police hiring. Should be a slogan for the whole city…county…state
- Reposted by Aryn BraunI said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.
- The scene from Bernie Sanders’ and AOC’s “Fighting Oligarchy” rally in front of LA city hall this afternoon
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- Important piece of Justice Sotomayor's Alien Enemies Act dissent www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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- Reposted by Aryn Braun60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. cbsn.ws/4clubLP
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- New SF zoning map just dropped 🚨
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- If you want to ramp up deportations or shrink the court backlog, ousting immigration judges isn't the way to do it... www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/u...
- Reposted by Aryn BraunWorth stating simply what’s happening. An American government is launching a full-scope political & economic assault on an ally repelling an ongoing invasion to compel them to terminate martial law, topple their president, hand over minerals to America & accept a ceasefire w/out security guarantees.
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- Ventured to Kansas this week to write about how Trump’s funding cuts are already hurting some of his biggest supporters: farmers www.economist.com/united-state...
- Really good story from our LatAm desk: "If you listen to American politicians you might think that every migrant in Latin America is heading for the United States. In the past most did, but not any more." www.economist.com/the-americas...
- “Single-family zones will be left largely untouched” www.latimes.com/california/s...
- Here’s a reminder that I cover immigration for The Economist. If any folks who work in the federal government want to get in touch I’m on signal at abraun.99
- Looking up from LA to see snow falling on the San Gabriels just does not get old
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- I swear to god this month is 95 days long
- It has been a horrific week. And the fires are still burning. Before my brain stopped working I tried to write a story about how catastrophe befell Los Angeles, and where we Angelenos go from here. Reported from what is left of Altadena www.economist.com/united-state...
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- From my story on the fires in LA, which I wrote while packing to evacuate my own house
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- For our special holiday double issue(!) I wrote about what the energy transition means for oil towns—and the trade offs that no one likes to talk about on the way to a greener future. There was no better place to look than Kern County, California www.economist.com/christmas-sp...
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- California's special session—during which the leg will debate a special litigation fund for the state's DoJ—starts today, which reminded me to post my story about how blue states are preparing for Trump 2.0 www.economist.com/united-state...
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- Wrote something not about national politics this week and loved every second of it www.economist.com/united-state...
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