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
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In Ohio, the Republican-controlled Legislature is trying to redefine “clean energy” to include coal and gas, explicitly to the benefit of data centers, through a little noticed proposal. capitalandmain.com/candidates-r...
Candidates Run Against Data Centers, but Ohio Legislature Didn’t Get the Memo
Candidates in both parties turn on the industry while a bill redefining coal and gas as “clean” energy moves quietly in the statehouse.
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August 27, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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The United States has deported hundreds of Mexican children who crossed the border without their families on flights to southern Mexico, where many have gotten stuck without the resources to go home safely. capitalandmain.com/u-s-has-depo...
U.S. Has Deported Hundreds of Children to Cities in Southern Mexico
Human rights organizations said the minors lack the resources to go home safely and that some may have died trying.
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August 12, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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The Trump administration has found a way for immigration judges to order dozens of immigrants deported at the same time by using a tactic widely known as mega master hearings. capitalandmain.com/the-mega-mas...
The ‘Mega Masters’ Tactic: Mass Immigration Hearings Inside Crowded Courtrooms
Judges are issuing deportation orders before immigrants receive notice their hearing dates have been moved up.
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July 15, 2026 at 9:43 PM
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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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July 2, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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
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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...
18 Months in Detention and Still Fighting for Medical Help
Locked up after living in L.A., an immigrant has suffered rectal bleeding for months. “Sometimes I think they want to kill me here.”
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June 24, 2026 at 11:41 PM
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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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June 23, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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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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June 23, 2026 at 6:15 PM
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...
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Inspections 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...
Conditions at California ICE Detention Centers Are Getting Worse, Inspections Find
A state Department of Justice inspection of seven California facilities found overcrowding, poor medical care, inadequate food and excessive force from guards.
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May 27, 2026 at 12:32 AM
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Jackie 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...
70-Foot Wastewater Geyser Reflects New Mexico’s Latest Oilfield Challenge
It’s a towering example of the contentious debate over what to do with the state’s ever-growing supply of oilfield waste.
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May 20, 2026 at 11:36 PM
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The 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.
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As the U.S. Spends Billions Fighting Iran, War-Driven Inflation Hits Working Families Hard
The rising cost of gas and higher utility rates are hurting farmers, ride-sharing workers and consumers from coast to coast.
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April 27, 2026 at 11:53 PM
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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.
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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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April 22, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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.
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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
California 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.
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As Prices Climb, California Imports More Gasoline Made From Russian Oil
The state’s failure to reduce driving and to stockpile fuel led to dependence on sanctioned oil refined elsewhere.
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April 21, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Fuel made from Russian oil is surging into California, even though such sales help pay for that nation’s ongoing war with Ukraine
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A 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.
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ICE Has Arrested Dozens of Delivery Drivers at the Gates of a San Diego Military Base
Advocates warn immigrants to avoid military bases when working for apps like Uber, Lyft and DoorDash.
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April 14, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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“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.
U.S. Demand for Mining Concessions in Return for Health Funding Prompts Backlash
African countries beef up lobbying to influence Trump’s transactional approach. Some see U.S. tactics as “colonialist.”
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April 10, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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Oil 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.
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Oil Companies Accused of Massive Accounting Fraud in New Mexico
Suit claims ExxonMobil and others underreported debts by $194 million, calling it “a playbook” for how companies dump old wells and expenses on states.
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April 6, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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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.
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Hanging in the balance is a vast and thirsty farming region enduring the slow-motion devastation of climate change.
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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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April 1, 2026 at 4:58 PM
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.
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Hanging in the balance is a vast and thirsty farming region enduring the slow-motion devastation of climate change.
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March 2, 2026 at 9:25 PM
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Immigration 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.
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Thanks to a judge’s order, they must now be released.
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Amid the Violent Minnesota Raids, ICE Arrests Over 100 Refugees, Ships Many to Texas
Federal judge ordered the Trump administration to release those detained; lawsuit called the mass arrest
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February 3, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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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.
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Yanez-Cruz is one of six people to die in ICE custody less than three weeks into 2026.
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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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January 21, 2026 at 11:12 PM
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.
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Yanez-Cruz is one of six people to die in ICE 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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December 27, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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
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Photos, Video, Protests — Homeland Security Tightens Rule on Anti-ICE Activities
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November 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Photos, Video, Protests — Homeland Security Tightens Rule on Anti-ICE Activities
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‘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...
October 29, 2025 at 8:44 PM
‘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...
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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.
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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.
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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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October 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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.
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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.
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