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How brutal will the summer wildfire season be? | New York Times

Weather models forecast that temperatures from July through September will fall within the warmest 20 percent of recent summers, according to Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. “This summer looks to be pretty high in the record books, and that has some significant implications for fire season,” Mr. Swain said.

Messages of hope for Class of 2025 | Los Angeles Daily News

Thousands of graduating Bruins arrived at the UCLA campus Friday, June 13, to mark the culmination of their college journey, as the city around them swelled with more protests over ICE raids … Julio Frenk, UCLA’s newly inaugurated chancellor, praised the Class of 2025 for its resilience through an unusually turbulent college journey. “And yet you are here,” he said. “Your tenacity and grit have brought you to this moment, and more importantly, you have grown into people who think critically, care deeply and act with intention.” (Also: KABC-TV.)

Trump’s war on Latinos reaches a new low | Los Angeles Times

(Commentary by UCLA’s Sonja Diaz) For many Latinos, the abhorrent treatment of Sen. Alex Padilla by the Trump administration is emblematic of a shared grievance: being pushed out of conversations about our lives, our families and our futures.

Answering kids’ big questions amid ICE raids | Los Angeles Times

The cascading events have made it a profoundly uncertain time for immigrant families. And that can spawn anxiety, said psychologist Melissa Brymer, a director at the UCLA-Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress. But there are, she said, simple actions parents can take to help children, such as organizing a comforting family meal or arranging for other relatives to check in on a youngster to increase their sense of security.

Why Waymo was targeted during protests | NBC News

Adam Millard-Ball, director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies, said that robotaxis are a symbolic target for some street demonstrators. “They’re attacked not because they’re autonomous cars but because they’re a symbol of inequality in cities and a symbol of the power of large technology companies,” he said. He noted that electric scooters are also sometimes targets.

Fears of racial profiling rise | Los Angeles Times

“Some of the accounts I have heard suggest that they’re just stopping a whole bunch of people and then questioning them all to find out which ones might be unlawfully present,” said Ahilan Arulanantham, co-director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA Law School.

The Trump immigration raids: Stunning | Los Angeles Times

Critics of the immigration crackdown in Los Angeles and subsequent military deployment called it “a public relations operation” that was directed only at those who already support Trump. “It provides sort of cheap fuel to keep his base,” said Efrén Pérez, professor of political science and psychology at UCLA. Angelenos, he said, “are the quintessential persona non grata for Trump and his followers.”

Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission meets | USA Today

Eugene Volokh, a professor of law emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, said time will tell if the commission lives up to its stated goal of protecting all religious groups and practices in the United States. “I think the commission’s job is to protect everybody, and they may very well take quite seriously that job,” he said. “We’ll see.”

Emergency alerts go out in Spanish and English | NPR

However, a UCLA study found that over 12,000 Asian Americans in the four evacuation zones didn’t understand the evacuation alerts they were getting through their mobile providers. Paul Ong is one of the study’s authors and directs UCLA’s Center for Neighborhood Knowledge. He says having multilingual wireless emergency alerts during the wildfires would have been extremely beneficial to the Asian community in L.A.

Immigration crackdown leads to tumultuous week | CNN

“These are tactics that we haven’t seen before on this scale,” said Amada Armenta, UCLA associate professor of urban planning who specializes in immigration enforcement.

Marines were once invaders of Mexico | New York Times

“Mexican Americans have a saying here, ‘They didn’t cross the border, the border crossed them,’” said Gaspar Rivera Salgado, director of the Center for Mexican Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. In the historical memory of Mexicans and Mexican Americans, he added, the American invasion is remembered.

Scientists try letters to the editor over budget cuts | New York Times

As a scientist, Erin Morrow’s focus is cerebral — literally. She studies the brain, investigating the interplay of memory and stress. But when Ms. Morrow, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, sat down to compose a letter in defense of science, she decided to write from the heart.

The best age to start on Social Security | San Francisco Chronicle

It’s also OK to take your anxiety about the news into account as you make your decision, said Hal Hershfield, a professor at the UCLA Anderson School of Management who studies behavioral decision-making.

HHS defends vaccine changes with junk science | California Healthline

While members of Congress who are physicians should know to check references in the paper, they may not take the time to do so, said Neil Silverman, a professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology who directs the Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy Program at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. “They’re going to assume this is coming from a scientific agency. So they are being hoodwinked along with everyone else who has had access to this document,” Silverman said.

Vaccinated COVID-19 patients with reduced kidney function more likely to survive | ABC News

Lead author Dr. Niloofar Nobakht, a health sciences clinical associate professor of medicine in the division of nephrology at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, said the findings suggest COVID-19 vaccination can reduce the risk of long-term kidney function decline and death. (Also: NBC News, United Press International and Medical Xpress.)

Trump gains advantage in National Guard case | San Francisco Chronicle

It’s also a court that in 2018 upheld Trump’s ban on travel to the United States from a group of nations, most of them with a majority of Muslim inhabitants, said Jon Michaels, a UCLA law professor. Opponents said the ban was discriminatory, but the court majority deferred to the president’s assertion that he was protecting national security — one of his main arguments in the current case, Michaels noted.

Israel and Iran trade attacks | KNBC-TV

“The concern is whether or not Israel can finish what it started, and whether or not, in order to do so, it has to bring the United States in,” said UCLA Benjamin Radd. (Radd was also interviewed by KCAL-TV.)