"Voter fraud lies have infected local law enforcement agencies, who now feel emboldened to act upon vague tips from politically-motivated groups." www.democracydocket.com/opinion/cali...

powerful reporting from my colleague @kevin-flores.bsky.social and also @thesouthlander.com's first investigative piece. Read the story here: thesouthlander.com/lb-substanti...

Since April 2023, at least 217 Long Beach tenants have been displaced due to substantial remodel evictions. Tenant advocates allege that landlords exploit the "renoviction loophole" without proper legal or city notification. ✍️ by Kevin Flores 🔗Read our full story on thesouthlander.com

if the constant digital ads on my timeline continue for a certain mayoral candidate, I am just going to not vote for them at all just based on the amount of ads filling my timeline, idc if i agreed with what they had to say, the way to my vote is not ads #rantover

Last year, I wrote a piece highlighting LAPD's liability settlement costs and the harm that precedes the lawsuits. Now, I'm thinking bigger and want to know what you'd like to see reported on about police liabilities. What's missing? lapublicpress.org/2025/11/lapd...

6! members! away!

Folks, I’ve got some great stuff coming this year on Inadvertent. We are just 8 paid members away from having a freelance editor— a year ago I did not think this would be possible. The graphic says 10 but since I made it and shared on IG, two people signed up. inadvertent.substack.com

Weston to the city via letter: "If suspects can defeat surveillance simply by knowing where cameras are located and avoiding those areas, then the surveillance system's effectiveness is admittedly minimal—undermining any claim that its secrecy serves a compelling [police] interest."

Santa Ana city officials are saying they can’t retrieve data from the Flock system— and they’re using that to throw their hands up and deny requests for the data. Story here: inadvertent.substack.com/p/secret-flo...

Dedication: Crenshaw and Slauson to Forever be Known as “Nipsey Hussle Square” - my photos and story from the day: la.streetsblog.org/2026/03/05/d...

Scenes from the dedication at Crenshaw and Slauson: Nate Gibbs, Rachel Doyle, artist Mohammad Mubarak and the painting of Nipsey Hussle that served as the backdrop of the ceremony, and Marshall (in the jacket he made himself) and Brother Quenton.

⭕️ CIA evacuating posts w/in Iranian missile range after drone strike hits Riyadh station A suspected Iranian drone strike hit the CIA station inside the US Embassy compound in Riyadh, according to people familiar w/ the incident, The Washington Post reports. Journalist @aidachavez.bsky.social...

Happy #FOIAFriday to those that celebrate! This week I met with journalist @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social to discuss public records requests he'll be filing for @lataco.bsky.social. We're able to work with Joey part-time thanks to all your donations! Donate here 👉🏾 givebutter.com/la-taco-inve...

I’m excited to help @shoton35mm.bsky.social launch LA Taco’s much needed investigative reporting desk. We’re already scheming on a couple of stories and I can’t wait to share what we find. Your donations support my work and LA Taco’s future investigations that are in the pipeline.

@404media.co sums up my frustration as a journalist about the new federal contracting website. It’s strange to miss a database that looks like it’s stuck in the early 2000’s, but now there’s less info about contracts, making it harder to do our jobs. Maybe the point? www.404media.co/the-governme...

Over the weekend, violence erupted across parts of Mexico in the wake of the killing of major Jalisco cartel leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, "El Mencho, leaving stores ransacked, residents sheltering in place and flights cancelled. LA people who know these neighborhoods, how are you feeling?

El Mencho was the last of the old guard—the final mass-trafficking titan standing alongside El Chapo and El Mayo—now fallen, marking the end of an era in Mexican organized crime. This is a developing story. The latest: lataco.com/mexico-viole... By @theglutster.bsky.social

Across the US, people fed up with Flock cameras surveilling their communities, and with local governments that are often unwilling to listen to concerns over privacy violations and ICE data sharing practices, are taking matters into their own hands—and tearing them down.

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

My latest in @texasobserver.org The ‘Antifa Scare’ Goes on Trial in North Texas: As nine of the "Prairieland 19" face their days in court, the broader constitutional rights of left-wing activists may hang in the balance. www.texasobserver.org/antifa-scare...

MAGA white nationalist kills two at Pawtucket high school hockey game. www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...

The LAPD is citing truancy laws in an attempt to squash the ongoing school walkouts against ICE. The LAPD is also threatening to arrest any parents or adults who support the kids in their acts of civil disobedience.

“Whatever euphemistic term people use for these weapons, all of them are known to maim people for life,” FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social told @shoton35mm.bsky.social. “They’re only appropriate when the only alternative is lethal force.”

LAPD's "endless arsenal of so-called 'less-lethal' weapons." "FN303 shoots high-speed .68 caliber projectiles containing small pieces of metal." "Whatever euphemistic term people use for these weapons, all of them are known to maim people for life." #California #USA #Policing #Protest #Weapons

I hope this email finds you at a very Chinese time in your life

Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.

There’s no end to this fuckery

Yesterday, news broke that an immigration judge dismissed the deportation case against Narciso Barranco, an undocumented landscaper who was violently arrested on June 21 My colleagues @kevin-flores.bsky.social & @bencamach0.bsky.social sat down w/ Barranco shortly after for @thesouthlander.com 👇

"Hope is like when you fall into an emptiness, and you have hope that you're going to float, you're going to float. It's like how I always said, 'we're in a hole, but we need to dig. Find a way to move forward.'" - Narciso Watch @thesouthlander.com's doc www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6x2...

“I think the American people would agree that no one like Narciso Barranco, who raised three U.S. citizen Marines and has no criminal record deserved the treatment he received.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

going to just speak spanish to everyone from now on, idc

residents are talking about the drones in some public comments happening right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=asR8... Item 15 will be the drones

The release of more Jeffrey Epstein files reveals further connections between the late, convicted sex criminal and the state of Israel. mondoweiss.net/2026/02/newl... #Palestine #Israel

I'm also starting a new series called "SAPD 🤝 ICE" that will highlight the ways the Santa Ana Police Department supports ICE or is aligned with ICE. A paid subscription lets the series happen.

my latest is on substack today: inadvertent.substack.com/p/bringing-t...

404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for the Palantir-made tool called ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address. www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

No secret police.

Karen Bass is a champion of violence against journalists. She’s an enemy to the press.

It’s journalistic malpractice to let @mayor.lacity.gov Karen Bass exploit @donlemonofficial.bsky.social to pretend she cares about press. It’s duplicitous and hurts all journalists. Her own LAPD has committed hundreds of acts of violence against working press. She’s never said ONE word about it.

This month, my reporting resulted in two people resigning from positions and a congressman trying to reduce the salary of a fascist ICE lawyer. From the outside it may seem like I'm doing great but it's tough going as a freelancer. Chip in to help keep me going! patreon.com/stevanzetti

Journalist Georgia Fort has been released from custody (video @fox9mn.bsky.social)

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DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:

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:

Yeastie Boys (the popular bagel truck) is distributing the California Post 🤮 Has the bagel truck ever supported local press?

“officers found only one antique rifle and a pistol that belonged to the only white resident of the town. Nevertheless, they tied up 15 Mexican American men and boys from the village and shot them until they ran out of bullets” calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

WARNING, fellow journalists: As @nicoschmidt.io explains, attackers are trying to hijack reporters' Signal accounts by tricking people into handing over their 2FA codes. www.linkedin.com/posts/nicosc...