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17 May, 5 tweets, 3 min read
LATEST @latimes PODCAST EPISODE: Killings of transgender people in U.S. on track to top last year’s record. Please listen, and share! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kil…
For this episode, I spoke to USA Today reporter @typewriterninja, who wrote a sobering story about there were at least 40 transgender killings in US/territories last year — a record. So far in 2021? 23 — and it's only May money.yahoo.com/us-hits-record…
We talked about my fellow LAT columnista @hiltzikm column about how, while the Biden administration has pledged its support of trans folks, it happens as state legislatures pass laws targeting them latimes.com/business/story…
And I also interviewed Maria José, matriarch of the House of Grace, a San Jose, Puerto Rico safe space for LGBTQ folks. She spoke about the importance of trans joy even as they are under assault by society. Here's a great profile of her papermag.com/puerto-rico-qu…
As usual, please do listen/share/follow The Times podcast — here's the @ApplePodcasts link, but you can find us wherever you get your podcasts. Gracias! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…

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MY LATEST @latimes COLUMNA: What the anger over Flamin’ Hot Cheetos origin story is really about. RT, porfas, and THREAD (1/?) latimes.com/california/sto…
So for this columna, I took on the criticism against my colleague @SamAugustDean for his piece on whether Richard Montañez invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos the way he's maintained for nearly 15 years latimes.com/business/story…
People are pissed, pissed, PISSED at Sam, accusing him of taking down a successful Mexican/not believing a Mexican/not interviewing certain people/and a bunch more. As @IronMang2000 would do:
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18 May
MY LATEST @latimes PODCAST EPISODE: Who really created Flamin’ Hot Cheetos? RT, porfas, and listen! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/who…
So this episode takes on THE story on too many of our timelines: Whether Richard Montañez — a former Frito-Lay janitor turned company Big Cheese — REALLY invented Flamin' Hot Cheetos. He's told the story for over a decade, to the point a movie is in works latimes.com/food/sns-daily…
BUT has he been telling the full truth? I talk to my colleague @SamAugustDean about a big story he did on the subject that casts hella doubt on Montañez's claims latimes.com/business/story…
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16 May
A year and a half ago, @SamAugustDean and I talked about whether the origin story of Flamin' Hot Cheetos — invented by a Chicano janitor — might be fake. Today, he came out with a HELL of a story — read, por favor! latimes.com/business/story…
The Flamin' Hot fallacy is a perfect companion to that other urban legend of Mexican ingenuity that spread last year — that a nursing student in Bakersfield invented hand sanitizer. @r_valejandra and I knocked that one down fast latimes.com/california/sto…
And it's the flip side to the original origin story of Doritos — that a Frito-Lay marketing exec named Arch West invented them. Actually, no: it was the Mexican American Morales family of Anaheim, which ran XLNT Tamales and invented Doritos at Disneyland latimes.com/california/sto…
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25 Oct 20
MY LATEST @LATIMES COLUMNA: Trump inspired them to become U.S. citizens and to vote. Against him. RT, porfas! latimes.com/california/sto…
@latimes So for this one, I profiled Rafael and Carmela Serrano of Lakewood, 70-some-year-olds from Guadalajara who just became U.S. citizens this year to vote against Trump. Here's a photo of them because they're currently in Mexico on vacation.
@latimes They're continuing a proud family tradition practiced by their children: Legalize their status. Become American citizens. Register to vote. And vote Democrat, because of the GOP's anti-immigrant legacy in California over the past 25 years
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I TOLD YOU JANSEN WAS UNRELIABLE #DODGERS #WorldSeries
Dem Bums reign... #dodgers #WorldSeries
Wait, wouldn’t the ball be declared dead if it hit the umpire? #dodgers #WorldSeries
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LATEST ORIGINAL FOR @GustavoArellano'S WEEKLY: 10 Great Songs About the States of Mexico. This one's by me, gentle cabrones — RT, porfas! gustavoarellano.org/2020/10/songs-…
So this is an article I’ve wanted to write FOREVER, but that’s too niche for mainstream consumption, as a major music publication once told me. To them, I offer this, as @Scrface87 would do:
OF COURSE Chente is on this list, but probably not for the song you think. As @MexicanKeto would do:
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