#KernCo hashtag - Bluesky

@amyalexca.bsky.social

5 months ago

Update on the recent NYT story asking, “What Ails Las Vegas,” see this fresh @latimes.com report on a massive new casino set to open in #KernCo: Californians who used to have to travel up to Nevada to gamble in #LV #Tahoe or #Reno now have many in-state options. 😑 www.aol.com/news/huge-60...

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AmyAlexCA

@amyalexca.bsky.social

5 months ago

4) Anderson also to excellent effect leverages an Under-reported side of our mutual home state, #CA, specifically the quiet but important cultural-political contradictions that populations in regions like #KernCo / #Sacramento / #ButteCo (far #NorCal) live w daily (you like your neighbors….but…?)

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AmyAlexCA

@amyalexca.bsky.social

6 months ago

California City Deep in the Mojave Desert, there is a little town with a big name and a bizarre history: California City. For decades, real estate developers have sold a dream here: if you buy land now, you’ll be ric...

Via @laist.com— this is an amazing pod series I first listened to on its debut in 2020. I was then living FT in #MontgomeryCountyMD but was riveted bc I’m familiar w #KernCo and had heard of #CaliforniaCity but hadn’t ever visited. Now a
#MAGA ICE facility is there. 🫢 laist.com/podcasts/cal...

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AmyAlexCA

@amyalexca.bsky.social

6 months ago

ICE began shipping immigrants to this tiny California town. Chaos has reigned ever since ICE began sending immigrants to a new California detention center in small town in August. Since then, it has been inundated with activists, desperate families and utter confusion.

A decent (if amateurishly edited) report about a little-known #ICE facility in rural #KernCo called “California City.” Deceptively, the @sfchronicle.com portrays this as if it *Discovered* #CaliforniaCit — although @laist.com produced a 2020 pod on this sad place www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

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