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A May 2026 report by Million Dollar Hoods at UCLA found that the L.A. County sheriff’s and probation departments have cost the county more than $1 billion on litigation expenses, including settlements, judgments and legal fees, over a 12-year period. capitalandmain.com/sheriffs-pro...

LA Mayor Karen Bass answered questions from the press this afternoon about the Trump administration’s accusation of election fraud in California. #news #LosAngeles #LAMayor #SpencerPratt

Raman passes Pratt in the LA Mayor tally

I spoke with Sheriff Robert Luna ahead of Tuesday’s primary election. We discussed the department’s work with federal agencies, enforcing a mask ban on ICE, and why he thinks a nuanced approached to deputy gangs is necessary.

Mike Bornman retired after 36 years at the LA Sheriff’s Department, and now he is running for Sheriff. He says he has a tattoo, but that does not make him a gangster. He points to his record of investigating other department members as evidence that he does not tolerate misconduct.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 May Yahoo Leading CA Gov candidate billionaire Tom Steyer sides with trans kids: "I’m totally in favor of trans athletes in high school. ...[A]lmost half of them try to commit suicide [and] we’re gonna cut them off from team sport.' It’s like, no we’re not."

This company wants to turn every school bus into a mobile license plate reader www.404media.co/buspatrol-pu...

An NBC News investigation finds dozens of examples of criminals imitating ICE to rob and attack people www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Sgt. Karla Carranza is running for Sheriff to fulfill a lifelong dream. She promises to continue the department’s current approach to deputy gangs and give the public a “stern” approach to crime.

To be clear: I have ZERO affiliation w/ Knock LA & its political endorsements, particularly of LA County Sheriff. Knock LA is a political blog of Ground Game LA. They are illegally displaying my reporting on their website. This falsely boosts their credibility & relevance.

Eric Strong is running for Sheriff of LA on a progressive platform. He says it is time for the department to take a stand against ICE, eradicate deputy gangs and close Men’s Central Jail.

Wow: Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, one of the biggest children's hospitals in the nation, will be forced to create the nation's first ever "detransition clinic" as part of a $10 million settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

Andre White is the youngest candidate in the race for LA County Sheriff. In this interview, he recounts retaliation he faced after reporting a supervisor. He says that current leadership is out of touch, and it is time for the department’s younger generation to lead.

When did we normalize this? When did it become okay for a president to tell a female reporter she’s a ‘dumb person’ for asking a totally legitimate question about his contradictory answers? Was there a specific date and time it become okay? Normal? Normalized?

Palmdale Lt. Oscar Martinez is running to be Sheriff of Los Angeles County. He supports the constitutional sheriffs movement and believes there needs to be AI implemented throughout the department. He doesn’t believe deputy gangs are real, and wants to see more cooperation with ICE.

Dozens of countertop stone cutters in California have died after contracting the lung disease silicosis. The industry says the engineered stone causing it can be worked with safely. But public health experts are urging state regulators to ban it. youtu.be/NO4HWDzeLDQ

Former Hollywood bailiff Sonia Montejano is running to be Sheriff of LA County. She wants to eliminate deputy gangs, approve more concealed carry permits and bring in the National Guard to fill vacancies. Check out my interview with her on my YouTube channel. youtu.be/ezmRDfzhAgM?...

I tried to talk to Brendan Corbett, Alex Villanueva’s assistant sheriff about his campaign for Sheriff of LA County. It did not go well.

New video for @capitalandmain.bsky.social produced by me

ICE has been arresting delivery drivers at a California military base as part of a pilot program. People with temporary permission to be in the U.S. have been detained and sent to immigration detention facilities. youtube.com/shorts/LARwt...

I tried to interview former LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva about why he was running for sheriff in this year’s election. I was thrown out of the event. Are you voting for a sheriff that runs from reporters? youtube.com/shorts/5WQQ4...

update: for whatever this is worth "Retired Army Major General Randy Manner told MS NOW’s Nicolle Wallace on Tuesday he had secondhand knowledge that military officials were “saying no” to Pentagon leadership." www.yahoo.com/news/article...

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Did you know Los Angeles will elect a sheriff this year? Many voters are not aware of the race or its high stakes. I went to a candidate forum hosted by the National Alliance for Equal Justice in America to meet the ones who showed up to talk to voters. youtube.com/shorts/ZrLU3...

LA Sheriff’s Dept Cpt Ben Torres sued LA Co saying he didn’t get promoted because he has a tattoo identifying him a member of the Regulators, a gang of deputies. His case was dismissed after LACo said it already has other people with deputy gang tattoos in leadership www.youtube.com/shorts/aBksO...

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Agents with the Department of Homeland Security who have shot and killed people have histories of making racist, sexist remarks or celebrating violence new from me for @capitalandmain.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/agents-in-ic...

historical detail I can't help but bring up: by some accounts, the event that instigated the British soldiers to open fire on Crispus Attacks and the rest of the crowd in the Boston Massacre was a soldier being hit by a snowball

New from me over at the Ten Four: An LAPD Officer is charged with a Felony after skydiving at least 21 times while receiving disability payments. (Also, yes, that is the same officer in the photo skydiving while carrying an American flag) latenfour.com/2026/02/25/d...

Update: The federal indictment against Kyle Wagner confirms our reporting, that Wagner was arrested and charged with cyberstalking right-wing agitator Jayden Scott (who allegedly stalked a Minnesota reporter before this) and NOT federal agents. /

1. Numerous transgender people in Kansas are reporting that the state has sent them a letter demanding the immediate surrender of drivers licenses. Those driving could be arrested, charged, and see privileges revoked. Subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

Wow, legendary MAGA grifter Omar Navarro got four years in federal prison www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/o...

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

🚨Israeli Soldiers Killed Gaza Aid Workers at Point Blank Range in 2025 Massacre: Report A min.-by-min. reconstruction of the massacre by Earshot NGO and @forensicarchi.bsky.social found Israeli soldiers fired over 900 bullets at... By Sharif Abdel Kouddous... www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-so...

In 2018, after Musk infamously claimed that he had the funding to take Tesla private, his PR consultant went to Jeffrey Epstein for help convincing the Saudis to put up the cash he didn't actually have. Epstein also strategized on press coverage of Musk and recommended names for Tesla's board.

The Trump admin's indictments over a protest inside of a church target central figures in the movement to protecting the rights of Black Americans: “They definitely wanted to use us as a trophy, that’s the reality of all this." My latest for @capitalandmain: capitalandmain.com/trump-admini...

More than 100 refugees were detained by immigration agents. Many were sent to a Texas detention center where 3 men have died. A judge has ordered their release. Reporter: Kate Morrissey @bgirledukate.bsky.social Producer: Cerise Castle @cerisecastle.bsky.social Editor: Myles Kramer

Court battle over surveillance footage at the Broadview ICE detention center reaches new levels of kafkaesque absurdity: The DOJ claimed it *couldn't afford* hard drives to put video footage on. Plaintiffs bought THE US GOVERNMENT hard drives. ICE "lost" them. www.404media.co/government-l...

Protesters are turning to economic disruption to fight ICE. Last Friday, protesters across the U.S. missed work and school as part of an anti-ICE shutdown. Thousands showed up in Downtown LA to protest the agency, many—including City Councilmember Nithya Raman—supporting calls for a general strike.

GEORGIA FORT HAS BEEN RELEASED. Her case is ongoing. Please support her at her website below.

One detail getting lost in the coverage of Don Lemon's arrest? The church at the center of the case has ties to the Christian nationalist movement, including the “TheoBros," a loose network of mostly millennial, extremely online Christian nationalist pastors, podcasters, and shitposters.

Here are a few of the emails from Casey Wasserman, current chair of LA28, to Ghislaine Maxwell in the latest Epstein files drop

FREE GEORGIA FORT. Please donate to her directly through her website to support: www.georgiafort.com/support

My statement on the arrests of journalists Georgia Fort and Don Lemon.

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door: