Humbled and honored by this review of Rethinking Rescue from a former head of LA Animal Services animalpolitics.substack.com/p/book-revie...
LA-based journalist. Author of Rethinking Rescue: Dog Lady and America's Forgotten People and Pets and Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer and Sex Changed a Nation at War. Bylines in NY Times, LA Times, WaPo, many more.
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Humbled and honored by this review of Rethinking Rescue from a former head of LA Animal Services animalpolitics.substack.com/p/book-revie...
Sweaters!
I spent years writing for pre-internet women's magazines and the fact-checkers were relentless! It made me a very careful journalist.
Trying to win a multisyllabic derby?
I am a genuine writer and I live for my em-dashes. (I even know why they're called that)
What he said. And he said it more politely than I would have.
SCOOP @motherjones.com: Republicans want to ban pets from domestic violence shelters through a proposal in the budget Advocates say the program is small but critical: “Survivors won’t leave, they can’t leave [abusers], if they’re going to leave their pets behind" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
"This is what we were voting for!" From a friend in academia: >>I was with a public health professor from [major university] last weekend and he said that NIH is now euthanizing whole cohorts of animals from animal studies because there is nobody around to feed them<< Great work.
There's a whole lot of this throughout the entire Sun-Times Summer 2025 section, I can't find most of the people or publications referred to or quoted in any of this (some of the publications exist but i can't find the cited people in them)
A narrative too nuanced -- and too demanding of difficult action-- to be politically useful.
Thrilled to join this thoughtful panel on the homelessness crisis at the LA Times Festival of Books with Kevin Fagan, Jeff Hobbs, Mary Brosnahan and Carla Hall.
Congratulations!
I live on the internet and have, for like 30 years!
Not to defend this action or these evil m-fs, but Kevin, a lot of septugenarians are quite competent with their computers.
Secular prayers to you. This time is unbearable and adding personal grief does take you to the edge.
Thrilled to see an excerpt of my book Rethinking Rescue in the newspapers of the Southern California News Group! Big thanks to @samydunn.bsky.social
She also tried to steal the dog of a displaced (and less affluent) Hurricane Katrina family. www.businessinsider.com/rnc-speaker-...
Pets of poor NOLA residents, displaced during Hurricane Katrina, often ended up with affluent out-of-state adopters who refused to return them, calling original owners "deficient." One Trump nominee killed a dog, another tried to steal one. Shameful. www.businessinsider.com/rnc-speaker-...
Why dog rescue and social justice are part of the same fight -- and the story of Lori Weise, who first made that clear. www.pellcenter.org/understandin...
