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Hailey Branson-Potts
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California reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Rural Oklahoman. Mildly amusing.
Los Angeles, CA
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    Hailey Branson-Potts
    @haileybranson
    May 5
    My latest for @latimes is about the 1936 Bum Blockade. The LAPD sent officers to California border counties to keep poor Americans — including Dust Bowl refugees — from crossing state lines.
    Reno, Nevada, February 7, 1936 - Reno sportsmen erected this "Los Angeles City Limits" sign just east of the California State line Thursday in a satirical thrust at Los Angeles police efforts to prevent indigent transients from entering this state. The City Limits sign has a cartoon police officer holding up his hand to say stop. Behind the City Limits sign is a sign for Nevada's Route 40. (Photo Credit: M. C. Jones...
    'Hints of poverty': How the LAPD once stopped Americans from crossing into California
    From latimes.com
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    Hailey Branson-Potts
    @haileybranson
    Nov 16, 2019
    Dolly Parton refuses to get political. She’d prefer to heal the divide. “Half my people are Republicans, half of them are Democrats...But we could get along a little better if we tried a little harder.” google.com/amp/s/www.lati… by @MeredithBlake
    **EXCLUSIVE**DO NOT USE. FOR SUNDAY CALENDAR 11/17/2019. These images cannot be used for any purpose other than within the LA Times. No posting within social media accounts as stand-alone assets or publishing any comments about the photo.** Dolly Parton has a new series titled "Heartstrings" on 'Netflix". Credit is "Jason Bell for Netflix". DOLLY PARTONS HEARTSTRINGS
    Dolly Parton for America
    From latimes.com
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    Hailey Branson-Potts
    @haileybranson
    Dec 3, 2020
    My latest @latimes: Why are outdoor playgrounds closed but crowded indoor malls open? Nine weary months in, many Californians have entered the “why-is-this-closed-while-that-is-open” stage of the pandemic. One angry mom: “Let my kid swing on a f— swing..”
    A child plays in a closed playground in Redondo Beach.
    Angry parents won’t let officials slide over closed playgrounds, packed malls
    From latimes.com
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    Hailey Branson-Potts
    @haileybranson
    Apr 28, 2021
    My latest: After WWII, a Chinese American soldier and a woman who survived Japanese incarceration fell in love. At 98, he’s published a memoir about their love story.
    Undated handout photo of Louis Moore and his wife, Nellie.
    After WWII and the Japanese incarceration, they fell in love. At 98, he’s published a memoir
    From latimes.com
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    Hailey Branson-Potts
    @haileybranson
    Jan 21, 2017
    Gloria Allred and Trump accusers getting cheers and selfies taken as they walk to #WomensMarch
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    Hailey Branson-Potts
    @haileybranson
    Jan 20, 2017
    People leaving Deploraball have water bottles thrown at them and followed by people shouting "Nazi Scum."
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    Hailey Branson-Potts
    @haileybranson
    Jul 25, 2020
    My latest, from Amarillo, Texas: A face mask is part of the ‘scamdemic,’ they say. But they’ll be happy to sell you one. “I think it’s pointless. But as a salesman? I’m gonna sell them.”
    Don Caple sells face masks from the Trump Trailer outside Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas.
    A face mask is part of the 'scamdemic,' they say. But they'll be happy to sell you one
    From latimes.com
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    Hailey Branson-Potts
    @haileybranson
    Jun 23, 2019
    Japanese internment camp survivors protested Ft. Sill, Okla., migrant detention center. A military policeman officer yelled: “You need to move right now! What don’t you understand? It’s English: Get out.” latimes.com/nation/la-na-j… by @mollyhf
    latimes.com
    Japanese internment camp survivors protest Ft. Sill migrant detention center
    With the Trump administration planning to move 1,400 migrant children to this fortified Army post later this summer, a small group of Japanese American World War II internment camp survivors came to...
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    Hailey Branson-Potts
    @haileybranson
    Feb 7, 2018
    Sharing a photo of my LA Times cubicle for no particular reason at all.
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    Hailey Branson-Potts
    @haileybranson
    Jan 20, 2017
    A burned red Make America Great Again hat on the sidewalk at National Press Building anti-Trump protest #disruptj20 #Inauguration
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    Hailey Branson-Potts
    @haileybranson
    Aug 28, 2021
    COVID is surging in rural California harder than ever. In Crescent City, the mortuary’s filled beyond capacity & needs a refrigerated truck for bodies. Hospital’s so full it’s lining up helicopters to fly COVID-19 patients out of the county latimes.com/california/sto… w @seangreene89
    latimes.com
    Mortuaries fill, hospitals clog in rural California towns with low vaccination rates
    Rural Del Norte County has more people hospitalized with COVID-19 than at any other point in the pandemic. Its only hospital is overwhelmed.
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    Hailey Branson-Potts
    @haileybranson
    Oct 6, 2017
    The @latimes wrote profiles of every Las Vegas shooting victim. Please read them.
    latimes.com
    Las Vegas shooting victims: Portraits of the fallen
    At least 58 people were killed and almost 500 were injured after a gunman opened fire at a country music festival in Las Vegas. These are their names and stories.
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    Hailey Branson-Potts
    @haileybranson
    Apr 3, 2021
    “We were supposed to grow old together,” he said, his voice breaking with emotion. Orange mass shooting victims remembered. latimes.com/california/sto… by @Hannahnfry @LATvives @lila_seidman
    Orange, CA - March 20: Residents watch as police respond to the scene of a multiple shooting on Saturday, March 20, 2021 in Orange, CA. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times)
    ‘They were so innocent’: Orange mass shooting shattered a family business; victims remembered
    From latimes.com
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    Hailey Branson-Potts
    @haileybranson
    Feb 15, 2021
    My latest for @latimes: Armed with a camera, a young ER doctor captures the faces of the COVID war from the frontlines.
    Medical team performs CPR and prepares to intubate a patient dying of COVID-19.
    Armed with a camera, a young ER doctor captures the faces of the COVID war
    From latimes.com
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