Big money has always played a role in California, from the Southern Pacific Railroad to Uber. How will billionaires respond to a new 5% tax on their wealth to fund public health services? Not very well. trib.al/ELShc1X

Here on the streets iof DTLA! @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social

So the commentary on "elites" isn't wrong, and there truly is something horrible about a system that can create hyper-powerful ultra-predators and allow them to operate with impunity. But a lot of people you know have been hurt by predators a lot less powerful than Epstein. They also matter.

Both of the agents responsible for killing Alex Pretti were hired long before the current surge where “training” could be a culprit. The rot in Border Patrol and DHS at large runs very deep. There has to be a reckoning soon where we look at what we’ve created and how we got here /

We need a better way to get the 3800+ kids out of ICE detention than this. We know Liam’s name and we can advocate on his behalf, but that isn’t true of almost any of the other people stuck in detention centers. We have to stop ICE on a systemic level.

[Rhiannon is busking tomorrow at Figueroa and 11th at 4pm.]

No need to imagine. The country incarcerates children as young as 9 years old daily in youth prisons and jails. Those children are routinely sexually and physically assaulted and also emotionally tortured. They are fed terrible food and given barely any education. This country has done this for yrs.

My favorite episode of Sanford and Son is "Lamont Goes African" ... RIP Desmond Wilson ... Also loved him in the All and the Family episode, "Edith Writes a Song"... www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/a...

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

It's been a helluva a 36 hours for keeping track of what the Trump administration is doing in Minnesota. Here's my Law Dork report: www.lawdork.com/p/minnesota-...

I had not realized that today, a day that included big anti-ICE demonstrations, was Fred Korematsu day.

he always had trouble with anti-virus measures

They're manufacturing illegal immigrants to abuse — stripping lawful immigrants of status and then springing the trap.

🚨 I know everything is going to hell, but a reminder that VIRGINIA residents still have until MIDNIGHT TONIGHT to enroll in #ACA coverage effective starting Feb. 1st. Residents of CA, CT, DC, IL, NJ, NY, PA & RI still have until midnight SATURDAY to enroll. acasignups.net/26/01/29/rem...

No sitting president should be able to sue the federal government for any financial reason.

Lawyer Ex Machina returns: a new CA bill to regulate use of GenAI by litigators & arbitrators; the crypto market structure bill stalls in Senate Banking but passes Senate Ag; findings of prosecutorial bias in AI legal work & more #law #lawlibrarians #legaltech buttondown.com/LawyerExMach...

A fraud is about to be perpetrated on the people of Fulton County. And it isn't coming from the county.

ICE & CBP never left Los Angeles. In fact, today the feds set a daily record for number of kidnappings. Do not fall for the trap of “X says they’re leaving the city.” LA may have disappeared from the headlines but it’s still going on. We must continue to organize & fight back. Solidarity 🖤

What… the fuck?

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.

we've got Schumer calling for Miller's head, folks we're dragging them kicking and screaming in the right direction, keep it up

For non-Californians, if you're wondering why everyone's 👀: HB is the place where anti-lockdown measures started during Covid (and you probably saw it on the news), and it has a reputation for conservatives/MAGA/white nationalist types. There is a LONG history there.

An attorney quoted further down: “The water is putrid. They have to mix baby formula with water that nobody wants to even smell. The food has bugs in it. The food has dirt in it.”

Pay attention to this. The purpose of these investigations is not just to manufacture evidence to support Trump’s 2020 “voter fraud” accusations, but also to set the stage for another round of efforts to suppress votes and delegitimize election results in 2026 (which the GOP is likely to lose).

It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have

Wow, the White House is so shaken by the turn in the public mood that they thought Chuck Schumer might actually rise up and "seize this moment" to get meaningful concessions. That's how panicked they are. They thought Chuck Schumer would do something.

Kansas just passed a monstrous bill enabling criminal penalties and vigilante lawsuits for trans people using the bathroom according to their gender identity and requires them to surrender their current drivers licenses and birth certificates if it does not match their sex assigned at birth.

there we go

How do we apply this to the LAPD and LASD?

My article, "Birthright Citizenship, Denaturalization, and the Specter of Statelessness" was published yesterday in the UCLA Law Review Discourse - just in time for all of the amicus briefs dropping. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

BREAKING: Federal prosecutors subpoenaed Jeffrey Toobin and Rudy Lee in the Tom Goldstein criminal case over The New York Times article published about Goldstein on December 28. Toobin, the author of the story, and Lee, who did fact-checking on the article, are seeking to quash the subpoenas.

I have no reason to doubt Gov. Beshear means well (those of you more versed in KY politics can disabuse me of that notion if you want), but no, retraining is not enough. #AbolishICE thehill.com/homenews/sta...

A reminder that ICE hasn’t slowed down in Minneapolis at all. Outside of Minnesota, it might feel like everything has changed since Alex Pretti’s murder. But ICE hasn’t actually lost any power and they’re continuing to terrorize our communities.

BREAKING: The petitioner ("T.R." or Juan Tobay Robles) whose non-release prompted Chief Judge Schilitz to threaten ICE director Todd Lyons with contempt has now been RELEASED, according to what the civil chief of the US Atty's office has told his atty and his atty has relayed to me.

Trying not to cry at work and failing ... thank you for the remembrances, @annelouiseavery.bsky.social

Wow— “Cardinal Tobin told hundreds of faithful gathered online that now is the time to say no — no to violence, no to indifference, and no to funding the U.S. government’s own “machinery of death.” www.thelettersfromleo.com/p/pope-leos-...

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

Y'all this brought me joy and I hope it does the same for you. I needed it.

The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism. Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.

Alameda & Templle Sts., Los Angeles, 1/25/26.

Feeling helpless? Here’s how YOU can help take a stand against ICE! lataco.com/five-easy-wa... By @ivan-ehlers.bsky.social

ICE took the flower man in Echo Park 40 minutes ago. He’s at this corner every day. I’ve bought flowers from the man and woman here for anniversaries and birthdays. Lemmy loves to smell them whenever we walk by in the mornings. I was just at the street corner 15 minutes before it happened. Fuck.

01/25 9:45AM Border Patrol is out in Los Angeles, sightings in Echo Park/ Silverlake and South Central. Please stay alert, get vulnerable people inside. Record everything and be safe.

Good afternoon from downtown Chicago, where despite heavy snowfall, thousands have gathered for an anti-ICE/CBP demonstration in solidarity with the Twin Cities. More are still streaming in. Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.

Congress is not powerless. Democrats must unify around an actual agenda. 1. Vote no on DHS funding bill. 2. Repeal the multi-year $75 billion funding for ICE. 3. End qualified immunity for ICE agents. 4. Investigate and prosecute every single ICE agent who broke the law.

ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.

And to think I was going to wait until Monday to call them. Shame on me for assuming they could read the room.