This is a lie: www.propublica.org/article/immi...

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

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Three of the four CA counties empowered to inspect federal immigration detention facilities have not done so, and the fourth has conducted only basic reviews of food this year. https://cal.news/4gQMN8J 📷 Miguel Vasconcellos

GOP Senator Cynthia Lummis: "Under normal times, in normal circumstances, I tend to think that the First Amendment should always be sort of the ultimate right... I don't feel that way anymore." www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Man fatally shot by ICE in Franklin Park had just dropped off his child at school, Rep. Delia Ramirez says chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09...

In busy end of session in #caleg, Dems frustrated with their leaders for piling up priorities with no chance for input/amendments Includes climate deal, budget bills that steer tens of millions $ to outgoing Sen pro tem Mike McGuire's district READ @calmatters.org: calmatters.org/politics/202...

I'm caught up on sleep now, you can catch up on the end of #caleg session in @calmatters.org Dem leaders in a jam-packed week rushed big bills including: -extend cap and trade -boost oil drilling -allow denser housing near transit -ban ICE wearing masks calmatters.org/politics/202...

Updated the story with a statement from the company that is developing the project that seems have been the subject of this legislation.

As climate change exacerbates the risks of extreme heat, California prison officials plan to start a $38 million pilot program to figure out how to keep prison cells cool. But it’s only a test, and it will only help a fraction of inmates. @jeannereporter.bsky.social calmatters.org/politics/202...

Extreme heat is warping life for all Californians, but state prisoners will be hit especially hard, @jeannereporter.bsky.social writes. And mounting pressure from activists, lawmakers and judges to do more is running into cost concerns. calmatters.org/politics/202...

@jeannereporter.bsky.social's story on soaring temperatures in California prisons and the new, tiny, step toward addressing them will make you exasperated and sad for the people affected.

Journalists everywhere need to stand in solidarity on this killing spree and resulting news blackout. See below in this thread for some actions and stay tuned here https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-hits-gaza-hospital-killing-least-20-people-including-five-journalists-2025-08-25/

Fox 17 Nashville reports that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from criminal detention in Tennessee and is on his way home to Maryland. “Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free,” his attorney, @sean-hecker.bsky.social, said in a statement. fox17.com/news/local/k...

Welp, it's happening. @mayacmiller.bsky.social @jeannereporter.bsky.social with a snapshot of the scene inside the California Capitol today as lawmakers approved Newsom's gerrymandering plan calmatters.org/politics/202...

Trump cuts off medical visas from Gaza after Laura Loomer freaked out over a video showing several children being permitted to come to the U.S. for medical care www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Legislature has finally unveiled its proposed map of new California congressional lines. Find your district in our searchable map and read how the plan changes the dynamics of 10 key races: calmatters.org/politics/202...

California has the greenest power grid in the U.S. Now it’s about to plug into coal-burning states — just as Trump moves to tilt energy markets back to fossil fuels. Here’s what’s happening 🧵

California cut coal from its energy supply. Why it might plug back into fossil fuels — with an expanded western energy market. Read my latest @calmatters.org with @jeannereporter.bsky.social. calmatters.org/politics/202...

After the Taliban retook control in 2021, tens of thousands of Afghans resettled in California. But in his second term, President Trump has withdrawn legal protections and erected new obstacles that threaten their future in their adopted home. calmatters.org/politics/202...

This is who Trump shipped to a Salvadoran dungeon: An event planner A coal miner An Uber driver Tortilla maker Barber DoorDashers Soccer coaches Furniture-maker Car washers Taxi drivers HVAC techs Auto parts worker Tire plant worker and 240 more... projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

"The GlobalX flight manifests contain the names of dozens of people who were supposedly on the flights but whose status and existence has not been acknowledged by the U.S. government or previously reported in the press." Desaparecidos. www.404media.co/flight-manif...

Lawyers for ICE are increasingly hiding their identities in court. This is completely unprecedented. “We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu — after stating her own name and those of the immigrants and their lawyers. theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...

UnitedHealth's CEO being assassinated has been a huge boon for the company's legal team as they use the murder to justify "an aggressive and wide-ranging campaign to quiet critics" through threats and lawsuits aimed at journalists, platforms, activists, and investors. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/b...

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immigration raid at cannabis farm led a farmworker to fall several stories from a building. the worker is not expected to survive. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Moving story (and gut punch ending) by @melissagomez.bsky.social who's been doing amazing work covering the raids in southern California www.latimes.com/california/s...

The Carpenters Union is "a pariah" among California construction trades unions, @jeannereporter.bsky.social and @frombenc.bsky.social report. Yet the Carpenters struck the deal for the biggest overhaul of California's environmental law in a generation. Here's the backstory:

While a stated purpose of worksite raids is to remove illegal competition from the labor marketplace, the reality is far messier: Studies have found that immigration raids don’t do much to raise wages — and actually deflate them. Good story by @nigelduara.bsky.social & @jeannereporter.bsky.social

Why do so many of California's big housing battles come down to an enduring beef between different construction unions? @jeannereporter.bsky.social did the heavy lifting on this one: calmatters.org/politics/202...

When a manicurist asked to be classified as a W-2 employee, her boss refused. “She said, ‘This is how everybody does it,’” she said. @jeannereporter.bsky.social captures the different dynamics at play in this worker-classification story: calmatters.org/politics/202...

Law enforcement agencies are violating California law and sharing license plate reader data with federal authorities calmatters.org/economy/tech...

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A controversial $125 million deal California struck with Google last year to prop up the state’s struggling journalism industry is already on track to shrink — before any of the money has been delivered to news outlets. via @jeannereporter.bsky.social tinyurl.com/pzvzv3w5

Another notable announcement from the governor ahead of this morning's full budget proposal, as he backtracks on the expansion of Medi-Cal to undocumented immigrants amid soaring costs calmatters.org/health/2025/...

Despite their superminority status in the California Legislature, Republicans keep backing Democrats into the corner on sex crimes. By @jeannereporter.bsky.social

Life after California's death row: What happens when condemned inmates get a second chance

One of the most controversial housing bills of the year has lived to be voted upon another day, but only by surviving the Legislative equivalent of two back-to-back prison breaks. calmatters.org/housing/2025...

The excellent reporting from @wendyfry.bsky.social and @sergioolmos.bsky.social has been front and center in this case.

I spoke with farmers, trade groups and wine industry folks who are all facing higher costs one way or another. Some see hope and even opportunity in the tariffs — but will those outweigh their increased costs?

RFK Jr. decimated the nation's HIV prevention programs. Public health advocates, once optimistic about the end of the HIV epidemic, say these cuts could lead to more infections and death - esp among Black and Latinx communities, queer men, trans folks, and poor ppl www.huffpost.com/entry/advoca...

SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...

A sobering/stressful story that manages to also be a beautiful and emotional tribute to LA, the city that lets you "travel around the world" 🫶 www.latimes.com/california/s...

Lt. Gov. @eleniforca.bsky.social, who earns millions of dollars annually from extensive property investments around the Sacramento region and beyond, told me she’ll put “any assets that may present a conflict of interest” into a blind trust if she is elected governor. calmatters.org/politics/202...

Be my colleague! CalMatters is hiring for a Sacramento politics reporter. DM me if you have questions about the gig. We just won a union contract and our benefits and pay are quite good and competitive. calmatters.org/about/jobs/p...

Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond has regularly taken side jobs running Bay Area nonprofits during his tenure as California’s elected schools chief, earning tens of thousands of dollars to supplement his income, financial disclosures show. calmatters.org/politics/202...