There is still time to vote on Prop 50! If you need a quick explainer, here’s a video I made for @capitalandmain.bsky.social youtu.be/I0UAqzoB9_U?...

Hey LAPD, come pickup your shit off the streets of Echo Park. Sunset Blvd is littered w/ spent munitions. - 40mm foam rounds are the blue ones. - the black one is 37mm rubber bullet comes from a baton munition (seen below). Three rounds skip off the ground and hit people. (hand for reference)

‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like it.’ Aggressive ICE Raids Led One Man to Ask: Should I Self-Deport? @jeremotographs.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/ive-never-se...

"As they approached the border [.], the atmosphere in the car grew silent." "When they crossed, González could think of only one thing to say — something he'd waited to exclaim during his months hunkered down in his [.] home: 'Fuck you, ICE.'" #California #USA #Mexico #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

I spent the last few months following Juan González, an undocumented Pasadena resident, as he contemplated self-deporting. Read about his journey here: capitalandmain.com/ive-never-se...

California Democrats are seeking to fight back against Republican gerrymandering efforts. Check out this Prop 50 explainer for Capital & Main.

Prop 50 explainer video for @capitalweather.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0UA...

Finally ended up developing and scanning my No Kings film

LOS ANGELES, CA—The main #nokings march is done over at city hall, but a sizeable crowd of a couple hundred has congregated at the intersection of Alameda and Commercial, where police have taped off the street away from the MDC

Bigger group pulled up to the federal detention center. Marched from a Home Depot from a couple of blocks away. #NoKings #LosAngeles

Im here in downtown Los Angeles where thousands of No Kings protesters have gathered to oppose Donald Trump.

I’ve been reporting on how the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration raids have shaken L.A. communities — including my daughter. In her nightmares, an immigration agent takes me away. New column by George B. Sánchez-Tello: capitalandmain.com/they-just-to...

Time magazine is owned by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who just came out as a Trump supporter and said it would be great if he sent the National Guard to invade San Francisco

Announcing: "The Psychedelic Syndicate: How Silicon Valley Used Veterans to Hijack the Psychedelic Industry" Now on @Psymposia's website in four parts. www.psymposia.com/psychedelic-...

Over the last year, our team at @psymposia.bsky.social has been nose-to-keyboard writing what amounts to a 200-page book about the influence and motivations behind the modern "psychedelic renaissance." "The Psychedelic Syndicate," cheers. www.psymposia.com/psychedelic-...

Took the 4x5 on the road this past week. Just developed and scanned the few shots I made. Definitely have to work on nailing focus more, but very excited to be diving into the new medium.

An outspoken antifascist US-born citizen was stopped from leaving the US. This should terrify you. (BTW, this is not to imply this is ok for non-citizens or naturalized citizens.)

Moonrise over Manzanar

Some sites along California’s 395

Took the large format film camera on some hikes today. Who knows if any of the photos turned out, but it was fun practicing.

Another beautiful day driving through Eastern California.

A few photos from today in Eastern California.

My film camera stopped working on the second day of my roadtrip, so it looks like this’ll be a mostly digital trip. Here’s the first digital photo from earlier today.

On a California roadtrip and yesterday I stopped at California City Correctional Facility – the largest ICE detention center in the state – and then Manzanar concentration camp, where thousands of Japanese Americans were forcibly interned during World War 2. We are repeating the sins of our past.

On a California roadtrip and yesterday I stopped at California City Correctional Facility – the largest ICE detention center in the state – and then Manzanar concentration camp, where thousands of Japanese Americans were forcibly interned during World War 2. We are repeating the sins of our past.

Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills said ICE agents are draining the resources of his department and the community by making false 911 calls. He has demanded ICE turn over the names of all federal officers involved in each incident, and said he is ready to take ICE to court.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A. ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why. A judge has ordered his immediate release. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Aerial view of California City Correctional Facility, a private prison owned by CoreCivic that has been converted into the single largest ICE detention center in California. Many detainees have decried the conditions within the facility.

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Spent some time today with Kim Corella, a Cal Fire Forest Pathologist who is sounding the alarm about goldspotted oak borers - an invasive insect infecting and killing trees across Southern California. Shot on Pentax 67 105mm, Portra 400, developed and scanned at home.

If you want to better understand the ACA subsidies Democrats are trying to protect, check out this article I wrote about this exact topic almost a year ago. capitalandmain.com/election-may...

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted. My story:

The US Forest Service website now displays a banner that reads “The Radical Left Democrats shutdown the government.” This is an explicit breach of the Hatch Act, but nothing new for the Trump administration.

Developed more film in my bathroom sink today. I like this one of Polina.

While Disney's Bob Iger bent the knee to Trump's censorship, Willow Bay, Iger's wife and dean of USC's journalism school, remained silent. Read this opinion piece by the one and only Alan Mittelstaedt. morningtrojan.com/p/willow-bay...

Wherein I interview a one-time #Texas oilman and learn about the massive mess left behind when his company collapsed. It's also a glimpse into how oil wells get orphaned and how New Mexico may be on the hook for $1.6 billion in cleanup costs in coming years. capitalandmain.com/new-mexicos-...

we can't say for sure that these aren't actually death camps

The public has ONE MORE DAY to submit comment to the USDA about the Trump administration's efforts to rescind the Roadless Rule, opening up 45 million acres of National Forest land to roadbuilding, logging and mining. Story here: capitalandmain.com/trumps-plan-...

Trump wants to allow road construction & logging on 45 million acres of protected National Forests. I spoke w/ conservationists who said rescinding the Roadless Rule is an existential threat & with timber industry professionals who are excited at the prospect. WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=084P...

NEW: The Trump administration's efforts to rescind the Roadless Rule, which prohibits road construction, logging and mining on 45 million acres of National Forests, alarms conservationists and excites the timber industry. capitalandmain.com/trumps-plan-...

Asking for funding is a wildly uncomfortable experience but we gotta do it: this newsletter is reader-funded, and I've got some goals I need your help to accomplish. This month, I'm hoping to reach 50 paid subs to the newsletter. If I reach 1000 by end of 2026, I'll fly to you and fight your boss👊

“It’s falling apart and is a ticking time bomb.” After a major U.S. Steel Clairton plant explosion that made headlines in August, environmentalists have hoped that the company's new owner corrects the many years of neglect at the aging steel plant. capitalandmain.com/before-the-u...

Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

Forest Service layoffs are forcing wildland firefighters to clean toilets and mow lawns. Some firefighters say they have even been prevented from joining efforts on the fireline to execute their new non-fire responsibilities. My latest: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZLo...

After mass layoffs and deferred resignation offers hollowed out a large part of the U.S. Forest Service, federal firefighters have been left to pick up the slack — some now clean toilets while others mow lawns around ranger stations. By @jeremotographs.bsky.social @capitalandmain.bsky.social

Went camping in Yosemite with 16 friends and my Hasselblad.

In Los Angeles, gasoline was found in a drinking water aquifer. Phillips 66 has removed millions of tons of polluted water from its closing refinery, but more remains. Residents of Wilmington demand a plan to clean it.

Hi everyone! I’ve unfortunately been diagnosed with a likely rib fracture from the hospital. Likely it occurred on Friday, August 8 during a protest where I was in the middle of asking for a PIO/supervisor. As is clear in the video, I waited for a moment for a break in the line moving forward.

I messed up loading a roll of 120 film onto my Paterson development reel. Resulted in squiggles.