My 15th time in the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker 😡 'Reporter ticketed, jabbed with police baton at LA protest' @freedom.press pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incident...

What Extreme Heat Is Like in U.S. Prisons

FCC to journalists: cover the Iran war the way the president prefers or lose your broadcast license.

Breaking news: A jury convicted people who protested outside an ICE facility in Texas of providing material support to terrorists, and other charges in a closely watched case in which the gov't argued the protesters were "Antifa". www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Minneapolis.

Wrote a piece for @slate.com explaining that states have a long history of prosecuting federal officers when they allegedly use excessive force. Federal officers are only immune from such prosecutions when they act reasonably in carrying out lawful duties.

For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok. Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.

AI Fellow @eedugdale.bsky.social & Hanisha Harjani revealed that Match Group knew for years about abusive users but chose to keep millions of customers unaware. Stephen Matthews was first reported for rape to Hinge in 2020. Only his arrest in 2023 got him off the apps. bit.ly/4b7RCrp

Thanks to my sources; editors Jenna Chandler @zenagrossa.bsky.social @eedugdale.bsky.social @rina.bsky.social; LAPP's design/web/audience team (like Alyson Yee & @adelcidlugo.bsky.social); and publisher Matthew Tinoco for all your help.

hooooooooly shit he is not fucking around

What we know so far, 9:30pm —Dems flip VA-Gov & VA-LG. —BIG Dem gains in VA House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani up —Dems seem to flip 2 statewide offices in GA —JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincy. —Dems sweep Orlando council —PA: Dem justices up big —Maine anti-mail vote measure down —Krasner wins

it's almost like running young, leftist, authentic politicians MOTIVATE VOTERS

And then the entire politics staff was fired. RIP Teen Vogue.

Is it good when federal judges have to schedule Sunday night 10 pm hearings about absurd military invasions of their state.

Hey, you guys? Is it a good sign or a bad sign if a federal judge has to remind you (multiple times) that you’re a lawyer and an officer of the court?

In 2023, I wrote about a young veteran who ended his life in jail as LASD sheriff’s deputies watched videos on their computers and failed to perform standard welfare checks in his dorm. Today, his family revealed new evidence that deputies also falsified safety check records.

New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

The right to speak freely is the ultimate personal liberty and the foundation of Karen’s 11-year career at The Post. We’re proud to call Karen a colleague and a longtime union sibling. The Post Guild stands with her and will continue to support her and defend her rights.

Their jails are atrocious and unsafe. The OIG for the LA County Sheriffs reported that from April to June, seven people died in the department’s custody. Of those seven, four were suicides. YTD, the department has reported 36 in-custody deaths.

California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit today against LASD and LA County over “unconstitutional and inhumane conditions” at LA County jails. Bonta highlights that we’re on track to have “more in-custody deaths in 2025 than at any time in the past twenty years.”

Context in our @lapublicpress @latimes collab from September: @keribla.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

How one Los Angeles complex organized to take on their landlord—and the city’s housing crisis. “I didn’t know how to explain it to her. I just said, ‘No, we aren’t going to move.'”

The mayor of Huntington Park had formally directed the police department to enforce laws against ICE concerning unmarked vehicles, visible license plates and required agency identification.

Headed to #IRE2025 and a reminder that you can always say no to this ❌

Federal agents attack press and protesters with pepper balls at DTLA’s federal building during protests against ICE arrests. @shoton35mm.bsky.social reporting on the scene.

ooo she sounds smart and hot wonder if she has a name!!!

The US used to have free to low tuition until schools couldn't discriminate based on race

This UCLA psychiatrist's expert evaluation of ex-sheriff Alex Villanueva is ... really something. (The county hired Cohen to do this eval to determine whether Villanueva had really suffered emotional distress as a result of being put on a "Do Not Rehire" list, as he alleged in his lawsuit.)

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about strikes in Yemen to a second unclassified Signal group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said. nyti.ms/4jBQ1wV

“If you’re in a bar, and someone’s being creepy to you, you’re going to tell the bartender or the bouncer and that guy is going to get kicked out… With these apps, the bouncer didn’t work.” — @eedugdale.bsky.social, lead reporter, The Dating Apps Reporting Project https://twp.ai/9PQx0X

NEW: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt for their decision not to turn the planes around on March 15. He orders them either to fix their mistake or identify who made those decisions (presumably for further sanctions).

“Substance-use related” incident sent three incarcerated youths in LA County to the hospital and cancelled visitation at Los Padrinos this weekend, according to the probation department.

By 2022, 40% of the buses weren’t working, as @eedugdale.bsky.social reported at the time: laist.com/news/crimina...

In THEORY the point of jail is to make sure people show up to court - but since 2018 LASD has often failed to get them there At one point >80% of buses were broken & 1/3 of inmates were missing court dates. My latest @latimes.com is a deep dive on how it came to this www.latimes.com/california/s...

The problem isn't new. Our friend @eedugdale.bsky.social wrote this story way back in 2022. But it has gotten worse in the past year, per attorneys, judges, prosecutors, anyone I speak to in an L.A. courthouse, ever. laist.com/news/crimina...

The L.A. Sheriff's Department can't get inmates to jail on time thanks to a years-long bus crisis, sowing courtroom chaos, infuriating judges and leading to people getting injured in jail when held longer than they should be. Latest from @keribla.bsky.social & me: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Earlier today the LA Times had AI-generated counterpoints to a column from @gustavoarellano.bsky.social. His piece argued that Anaheim, the city he grew up in, should not forget its KKK past. The AI "well, actually"-ed the KKK. It has since been taken off the piece. www.latimes.com/california/s...

1. Happening now, the United States Senate is considering S9, a bill that would ban transgender people from playing sports of their gender identity from chess to darts and everything in between. It could result in genital exams and more. I'm covering live. Watch: www.senate.gov/legislative/...

California Attorney General Ron Bonta indicts 30(!!) probation officers for their role in allowing and/or encouraging fights between youths at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall.

On @npr.org this morning, @eedugdale.bsky.social talking about The Dating Apps Reporting Project. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 www.npr.org/2025/02/21/n...

Steven Matthews was first reported for rape to #Hinge in 2020. Only his arrest, in 2023, got him off the apps. AI Fellow @eedugdale.bsky.social & Hanisha Harjani reveal why this happened in this report for @themarkup.org, @theguardian.com & @19thnews.org! pulitzercenter.org/stories/dati...

Match Group made a show of hiring trust & safety workers to assure users it platform was safe. When negative media attention and congressional scrutiny died down, the company laid off its core safety team and outsourced their jobs. Read more from @eedugdale.bsky.social & Hanisha Harjani:

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"But Matthews’s case shows that even as these apps have made it easier for people to connect with a seemingly endless pool of potential lovers, they have also made it easier for people who commit sexual abuse to reach a seemingly endless number of potential targets." @eedugdale.bsky.social

Not the prison texting app asking for vday money!

AI Fellow @eedugdale.bsky.social and Hanisha Harjani investigated how the world’s largest dating app company, knew for years about the abusive behaviour on its platforms but chose to keep millions of users unaware. A report for @themarkup.org, @theguardian.com, & @19thnews.org! bit.ly/4b7RCrp