Steve Marble
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Editor at Capital & Main, x L.A. Times editor | shared in 2011 Pulitzer | aging surfer | helpless Dodger fan| opinions are my own
Congratulations to Capital & Main contributor and Daylight San Diego co-founder Kate Morrissey, who was named Journalist of the Year by the Society of Professional Journalists’ San Diego Pro Chapter. www.daylightsandiego.org/spj-recogniz... @daylightsdnews.bsky.social @bgirledukate.bsky.social
SPJ recognizes Daylight San Diego for outstanding reporting in 2025
In our newsroom’s first year of publishing, the San Diego Society of Professional Journalists awarded Daylight with five first-place wins, and co-founder Kate Morrissey was honored as 2026 Journalist ...
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Capital & Main@capitalandmain.bsky.social · last mo.An immigrant from Guatemala who lived in Los Angeles for more than two decades, José has been fighting to get medical attention the entire time he’s been in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. capitalandmain.com/18-months-in...
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Capital & Main@capitalandmain.bsky.social · last mo.Military families are experiencing a sharp rise in food insecurity, driven largely by the rising cost of groceries, according to a survey conducted before the start of the Iran war in February and its inflationary impact. capitalandmain.com/military-fam...
Military families are experiencing a sharp rise in food insecurity, driven largely by the rising cost of groceries, according to a survey conducted before the start of the Iran war in February and its inflationary impact. capitalandmain.com/military-fam...
Military Families Are Going Hungry — and the Numbers Don’t Yet Reflect the War
The number of families struggling with food insecurity nearly tripled in last two years, survey finds.
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Capital & Main@capitalandmain.bsky.social · 2mo agoInspections by the California Department of Justice confirmed what people in immigration custody have been saying since President Donald Trump took office — conditions at detention facilities have grown worse. capitalandmain.com/conditions-a...
Capital & Main@capitalandmain.bsky.social · 3mo agoJackie Onsurez was driving between his home in Loving and nearby Carlsbad when he saw a 70-foot roaring geyser of toxic oilfield wastewater, commonly called produced water, spewing from a pipe at a site operated by NGL Energy Partners. capitalandmain.com/70-foot-wast...
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Capital & Main@capitalandmain.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe effects of the war — which is costing the U.S. between $500 million to more than $1 billion a day — are being felt throughout the economy, upending the lives of millions of Americans. capitalandmain.com/as-the-u-s-s...
Of the 131 oil refineries in the United States, more than a quarter of them are in Texas. Communities like Port Arthur get the brunt of the pollution — including a highly hazardous and carcinogenic chemical found in crude oil and gas called benzene. capitalandmain.com/texas-gulf-c...
Texas’ Gulf Coast Has a Health Problem: Benzene Emissions Are Among the Highest in the Nation
At the worst-performing refineries, report finds operators are not tackling recurring and harmful leaks, leading to public health risk.
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Fuel made from Russian oil is surging into California, even though such sales help pay for that nation’s ongoing war with Ukraine
Capital & Main@capitalandmain.bsky.social · 4mo agoCalifornia is importing refined products from abroad just as the Iran war tightens global crude oil supplies. Fuel made from Russian oil is surging into the state, even though such sales are used to finance that nation’s ongoing war with Ukraine. capitalandmain.com/as-prices-cl...
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Capital & Main@capitalandmain.bsky.social · 4mo agoA pilot program launched last year at Camp Pendleton is detaining people with temporary permission to be in the U.S. Many of those detained were working for rideshare or delivery apps, including Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, GrubHub and Roadie. capitalandmain.com/ice-has-arre...
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Capital & Main@capitalandmain.bsky.social · 4mo ago“America is demanding mining concessions — and they have said categorically that if we don’t agree on mines, they will stop HIV funding. That’s colonialism,” said Owen Mulenga, a 42-year-old campaigner for literacy and data protection in Zambia.
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Capital & Main@capitalandmain.bsky.social · 4mo agoOil companies ExxonMobil, Empire Petroleum and their subsidiaries engaged in accounting fraud that could cost the state nearly $200 million, a lawsuit filed in New Mexico District Court alleges. capitalandmain.com/oil-companie...
There are world-changing amounts of minerals underneath California’s “Lithium Valley.” But extracting them has proven difficult. Hanging in the balance is a vast and thirsty farming region enduring the slow-motion devastation of climate change. capitalandmain.com/newsom-promi...
Newsom Promised California a Lithium Bonanza. It Still Hasn’t Arrived.
Local officials blame environmentalists for long delays, but politics, technology and markets are the culprits.
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Latest from @bgirledukate.bsky.social --> From SoCal to Minneapolis, Fatal Encounters Show Impunity of Immigration Officials, Activists Say via @capitalandmain - capitalandmain.com/from-socal-t...
Colorado’s Oil and Gas Industry Is Vastly Underestimating Methane Emissions via @capitalandmain - capitalandmain.com/colorados-oi... @jennoldham
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Capital & Main@capitalandmain.bsky.social · 6mo agoImmigration officials in Minnesota arrested 100+ refugees and sent many of them to Texas detention centers where they faced long interviews to once again prove they qualified for protection. Thanks to a judge’s order, they must now be released. capitalandmain.com/amid-the-vio...
Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz began telling his family that he wasn’t feeling well weeks before he died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody. Yanez-Cruz is one of six people to die in ICE custody less than three weeks into 2026. capitalandmain.com/honduran-gra...
Honduran Grandfather Who Died in ICE Custody Told Family He’d Felt Ill For Weeks
Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz is one of six people to die in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody less than three weeks into 2026.
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With the internet, the dictionary can expand forever, but it will never come close to recording every meaning of every word used by English speakers—of which there are an estimated 1.52 billion. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/kaCOZ5
Is the Dictionary Done For?
The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a revolution.
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Photos, Video, Protests — Homeland Security Tightens Rule on Anti-ICE Activities @bgirledukate.bsky.social - capitalandmain.com/photos-video...
‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like it.’ Aggressive ICE Raids Led One Man to Ask: Should I Self-Deport? @jeremotographs.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/ive-never-se...
Some people in ICE custody are being strip searched following in-person visits with their loved ones. Other detainees have opted out of in-person visitation because they don’t want to take off all their clothes in front of a guard. By @bgirledukate.bsky.social: capitalandmain.com/people-in-ic...
People in ICE Custody Face Invasive Strip Searches After Visits With Loved Ones
Some people decide not to participate in in-person visitation because they don't want to take off all their clothes in front of a guard.
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Capital & Main@capitalandmain.bsky.social · 10mo agoCalifornia has nearly 300 data centers running around-the-clock power to run AI models like ChatGPT. But by 2030, data centers in the state could consume the equivalent of adding another city the size of Los Angeles to the grid. Story by @aaroncantu.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/the-insatiab...
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Capital & Main@capitalandmain.bsky.social · 11mo agoImmigrants in ICE custody are being transferred to facilities further away from family and their lawyers. One group of detainees ended up in Alaska, where prison guards pepper sprayed them after one man asked for a phone call. Story by @bgirledukate.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/ice-is-trans...
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Capital & Main@capitalandmain.bsky.social · 11mo agoIn May, New Mexico’s water quality commission issued a rule that banned fossil fuel wastewater from being used outside oilfield work and testing. Emails now show that Gov. Lujan Grisham may have pushed the commission to overturn the ruling. capitalandmain.com/new-mexico-g...
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Capital & Main@capitalandmain.bsky.social · 11mo agoAcross the U.S., oil well operators declare bankruptcy and abandon highly contaminated and dilapidated facilities for state and federal agencies to clean up. Such cleanup could cost New Mexico taxpayers $1.6 billion in the coming years. capitalandmain.com/new-mexicos-...
After federal judges began pushing back on efforts to detain people at hearings, ICE has strapped ankle monitors to many immigrants leaving court in an apparent shift in policy to increase the surveillance of immigrants. Story by @bgirledukate.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/ice-is-putti...
ICE Is Putting Ankle Monitors on People Who Show Up for Immigration Court Hearings
After federal judges began pushing back on efforts to detain people at hearings, Immigration and Customs officials implemented a strategy that tracks immigrants and makes them feel like criminals.
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Trump’s campaign against immigrants is affecting their ability to work, and it's hurting businesses in California. One restaurant owner says sales have dropped by 30%-40% because immigrant customers fear leaving their homes, reports @bgirledukate.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/ice-raids-pu...
ICE Raids Push Workers Into the Shadows, Disrupting the Economy
Trump's campaign against immigrants is affecting their ability to work, hurting businesses and eroding workers’ rights.
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President Trump's flurry of actions — from mass layoffs and ICE raids to union-busting and tariffs — are straining U.S. workers and fueling uncertainty. By @jessicagoodheart.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/trumps-polic...
Trump’s Policies Are Adding Up to a Hostile Work Environment
A flurry of actions, from mass layoffs and ICE raids to union-busting and tariffs, are straining U.S. workers and fueling uncertainty.
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