A Border Patrol agent accused of drunkenly fighting with Long Beach police overdosed weeks after his arrest, according to his lawyer. New body-camera footage shows what he told the cops who'd wrestled him into custody: lbpost.com/news/isaiah-hodgson-drunk-border-patrol-arrest-long-beach-overdose/

Oaklandside lately spends all its energy in a pitched struggle to prevent anyone from saying its biased, and along the way wastes the public's time by publishing provably false claims as the "other side" of public safety discourse.

Oaklandside needs ethics help in its public safety reporting. Here helping along the Oakland Report/Mandal slander about Commissioner Farmer which are provably false, then neglecting to mention Mandal/OR pushed the also provably false claims about OPD's pursuit policy Hofer rightly criticizes

Rather than admit Flock represents an untested tech w/unintended consequences, OPD and enabling Council members are rushing to trap public in a contract that will increase in scope over time. But unlike other jurisdictions, our local media is helping them.

Good Fortune is disappointing, but recouped some of its potential with this conclusion, which is manifestly true. No one believes it more than standard capitalists, who wait for the govt to act to avoid rioting after they've taken the public for a ride. MAGA forgets at its peril.

Pro Socialism reporting at SF Business Times while regular folks wonder if they can afford groceries and thousands are laid off from a rapidly shrinking tech sector

The sheer amount of organized labor backing for the Arms Embargo is impressive, airport workers, dock workers, service workers, nurses, professors. Media is going to have to start paying attention to this soon--and the Port will have to respond.

The Alameda Labor Council has endorsed the Oakland People's Arms Embargo at the Oakland airport!!!!

Montclair is once again organizing against Black and Brown Police Commissioners, angry that two Commissioners they've relentlessly impugned and slandered have the constitutional, and Oakland Charter, right to speak publicly on their own views. Let's see what the Council does.

OO PRA'd redlined copy of EAP from Interagency Commission on Homelessness. The ICH critique ended up being the biggest obstacle for EAP, the fact that the state agency that evaluates the city's grant applications pointed to numerous conceptual problems. oaklandca.nextrequest.com/documents/52...

But people should be very aware of what the State's ICH does agree with in the EAP changes. Vehicles would no longer be considered encampments, and they would be evaluated strictly on legal parking, operability and current registration. A move that's likely to increase homelessness, not decrease it

Redlined copy of CA ICH on "EAP" undermines the rationale of "abatement" view. Houston has promoted the EAP as a zero tolerance for Oakland encampments. But that's the opposite of state's POV on hi/lo sensitivity areas; the ICH says there MUST be a public place homeless can stay

Local journalism, in this economy? This week the Oakland Observer's reporting on proposed Flock expansion and the EAP netted numerous new subscribers. I am incredibly grateful for everyone's support and could not do this work without you

I had no idea the Ashby Flea Market had continued. Good to see

Of note, several local immigration attorneys said DHS lawyers broke the law while implementing this initiative. My latest for Mission Local...

The fate of SNAP was once again in question on Saturday after the Supreme Court temporarily agreed to allow the Trump administration to withhold full aid under the food stamp program.

CAIR-SFBA Condemns State’s Biased Decision Targeting Palestinian Expression in Oakland Schools

Oakland Observer is only publication that pays attention to processes as they are happening & in detail. Info you will need to evaluate media representations vs real performance. Great ex: A big rules change snuck into a 9am meeting & waged w/pettiness

Because of the Veteran's Day holiday next Tuesday, there's no Committee meetings scheduled, nor council meetings--altho as we've seen that could again change with very little notice. Next Committee mtgs scheduled for November 18

Oakland City Council will discuss the Insight and OBOT suits tomorrow in closed session

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

Year to date homicides down ~ 50% ~ from 2023 Homicide rate will still be quite high by state and national standards, but huge huge improvement.

Third consecutive OPD report listing zero homicides. Oakland is on track to have of its lowest homicide totals in a decades, with one of the lowest numbers of police in decades also. The how/why should be the number one focus of Public Safety Committee discussions and isn't.

“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

About to start a special 9 am city council mtg, ostensibly scheduled to not interfere with election day. But perhaps as also intended, there are no people in chamber as important legislation that changes Rules of Procedure, grants 1 MM/yr contract to ICE-contracting company is up

What's really frustrating is how obvious this was from official investigatory records that I obtained, the same reporting on which the EBT based its reporting calling the shooting an "assassination" attempt. It was clearly local beef.

For months, local media harped on "attempted murder" angle of Juarez. But by early this year, it was common knowledge alleged shooter, admitted to having his own beef & lived down the street. But no org ever retracted its verbiage. Journalistic malpractice

How do you ask this question without including the union that has most city employees and spends the most money, the OPOA--so FM3/Chamber either didn't ask or their powerpoint left it off. Either are astonishing admissions of bias. I can't imagine a universe where a pollster would not want to know

5 days after publishing powerpoints and press releases about its 2025 poll, I still can't find Chamber of Commerce's data, i.e., number of respondents by gender, race/ethnicity, zip code, income, education, district, etc. I can't think of one decent reason to withhold this info

Five days after publishing powerpoints and press releases about its 2025 poll, I still can't find Chamber of Commerce's data, i.e., number of respondents by gender, race/ethnicity, zip code, income, education, district, etc. I can't think of one decent reason to uphold this info

While it doesn't reach level of scheduling hijinks I covered in today's other article, look out for $1MM Martin Marietta asphalt contract. MM refuses to abide by City's sanctuary/border wall ords, but City says it has no choice but to grant them a waiver

Oakland Observer News Analysis: In the past months, it's been difficult to ignore efforts by CMs that curtail public participation in important Oakland legislation. OO drills down on a Council practice which may only get worse with new Rules of Procedure

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

Remembering local 24 hour trash bin of history news cycle for the IAD corruption story where the entire command staff of OPD were fired for exonerating a cop whose bribery and malfeasance reversed two murder convictions, with more to come. But this is a 2-week daily update story

Hollywood Museum Heist vs Real World Museum Heist

APTP's press release for its 5pm rally went out hours before Moore/Escobar release, for event scheduled days in advance. When it came time to evaluate newsworthiness, corp tv news chose a group that never brings out more than 15 over the one that brings out thousands. Wonder why?

I'm the last reporter regularly reviewing Council agendas. With a Council committed to avoiding public scrutiny & participation, this is more important than ever, there's never been a more crucial time to support independent journalism, & Oakland Observer.

The Mayor's new Privacy Advisory Commission appointment is a Google Marketing exec who has lived in Oakland for four years. This follows the appointment of an AI focused lawyer who provides services for OpenAI and YC

News Analysis: Trump channels past Latin American aggressions in new crusade: 'We're just gonna kill people'

Evanston, IL demanded Flock take down their cameras, they complied for a minute, then put them back up on city streets. Evanston had to put garbage bags over the cams, the only way to be assured Flock wasn't using them and giving data to feds.

Flock also reserves total rights over placement of the cameras, including vetoing a City decision. The City's Flock cameras will only go where Flock wants them to go.

Once the cams go up in Oakland, only Flock can take them down. We're about to mortgage our streets to a corporation that in its most charitable iteration does not gaf about us.

The biggest hole in this element of Flock contract: Flock owns the cams, and the city can't remove them, Flock has to. If Trump took over Oakland, the cameras would remain, the platform would remain, the consent forms would remain. All in place for a new contract with Trump

The biggest hole in this element of Flock contract: Flock owns the cams, and the city can't remove them, Flock has to. If Trump took over Oakland, the cameras would remain, the platform would remain, the consent forms would remain. All in place for a new contract with Trump

This really is the point of right wing antzionism. All the silly claims about the Left using antizionism as a cloak for antisemitism are actually true of the right, and its very visible.

Can't think of any good reason to release poll results without the underlying data. It's wild that any news publication would publish a poll without looking at the data.

Local wingers try to play public against bicyclists by claiming they are elites, but I bike 73rd all the time and see Black and Brown people using bike lane. My greatest fear is a bike lane speeder, but catching the driver won't prevent it, a protected bike lane will www.ktvu.com/video/173235...

CEO of EBRHA claimed at a recent committee meeting that demographic data for its landlord service base had been updated. I got that data in a records request. Landlord org that constantly claims to be representing a significant Black, working class base lists no Black landlords.

"The Way we Were" with Streisand and Redford, is a lot deeper than I've ever been led to believe