If only certain people can only say certain things at state-mandated certain times and in state mandated certain places, speech is not free. If only state sanctioned reporters can report state sanctioned things at state sanctioned locations, the press is not free.

Councilmember Ysabel Jurado has introduced a motion to protect journalists covering protests. The motion: LAPD will create a public campaign on how to obtain LAPD-issued press passes along w/ signing MoUs between press groups and the city to create an agreement on conduct at protests.

The problem is not press unable to identify themselves properly. The problem is LAPD shooting us with kinetic munitions and interfering with our work. Ysabel Jurado and Eunisses Hernandez would have us meet LAPD on LAPD’s terms when LAPD is the one breaking the law and shooting people.

"Nvidia, [..] the world's first $5 trillion company, is powering [ICE's] investigative division." "[I]nvesting in [large language model] systems that can be used to surveil U.S. citizens, migrants." #USA #Surveillance #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Also I have an entire project dedicated to how exactly to run a reader-funded newsletter and it is also reader-funded. For $7/mo or $75/yr you can know everything I know paidnewsletterplaybook.com

Journalists are questioning whether the reader funded model works. I think the real problem is many journalists expected someone else to run their business—namely Substack. One asked me “what does it mean to run the business?” vs letting a tech company do it My answer: youtube.com/shorts/8mh_W...

Inadvertent (my substack) turned 1 last month! 🎉🎃 inadvertent.substack.com If you still haven't subscribed -- you should. All of my independent reporting is on there.

you'll never see LAPD do this to the echo park rising crowd

LAPD on horses charge at and beat guests standing in line to the Short Stop in Echo Park. @shoton35mm.bsky.social

i dont fw with dodgers/baseball like that but LA did need a win after everything, we need joy

People's last time seeing their friends/family are in videos that show them being taken away (violently, most of the time).

LA City Attorney making the same argument as DHS in their Chicago lawsuit about “fake press.” LAPD’s then-Chief Moore told me and other journo’s to our faces multiple times people were pretending to be press to commit crimes. He never provided evidence to us. www.latimes.com/california/n...

I was co-producer and DP on this mini-doc, we worked meticulously on this project. It is a glimpse into what is happening to families across the country. Every person being taken is loved by their own. Lives are shattered through banishment and forced disappearances. Even in the cases where the

Narciso Barranco arrived to the U.S. in 1994. He spent 24 days locked up in a detention center after being violently arrested by a snatch squad of federal immigration agents in Santa Ana on June 21.

Here’s a disturbing video from Evanston of a federal agent hitting a man on the ground as people yell that he can’t breathe.

Could ICE have ‘lost' 3,000 immigrant arrestees in Chicago? NBC Chicago's investigative team reports at least 3,000 jailed immigrants have vanished from federal records, according to human rights attorneys and organizations. www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...

SAPD Gang update: inadvertent.substack.com/p/sapd-gang-...

Watch our mini documentary about the terror and trauma inflicted by the ICE deportation machine through the eyes of Barranco and his wife Martha.

JUST IN: Federal judge tells U.S. Border Patrol Gregory Bovino to have his own body-worn camera by Friday. Bovino told her he has no camera, and he's not been trained to use one.

Goin 2 bed, good luck!!!

what if it’s just on loop

I don't want to overdo my personal hobby horse, but this is an example of "sheriff policing mentality" over progressive urban police (both bad but in different ways).

On June 21, ICE targeted Narciso Barranco while he was working, and snatched him outside an IHOP. Barranco is the father of 3 Marines & has lived in the US for over 30yrs @bencamach0.bsky.social @kevin-flores.bsky.social produced a mini @thesouthlander.com doc youtu.be/J6x2KWcDi94?...

You can watch our mini-documentary here: youtu.be/J6x2KWcDi94?...

Check out our latest newsletter. Our reporters @bencamach0.bsky.social and @kevin-flores.bsky.social sat down with Narciso Barranco, who ICE targeted. thesouthlander.com/documentary-...

Narciso Barranco is the father of three US Marine sons who was violently arrested by ice in Santa Ana back in June. In this new mini documentary by @thesouthlander.com , he speaks to us from the heart about his experience with state terror. His wife, Martha Hernandez, also shared her experience.

we made something really beautiful and important at @thesouthlander.com, please make sure you are subscribed to us, we are publishing it this week thesouthlander.com

It is apparent that nothing, including an injunction handed down by a federal judge, will stop LAPD's attack on the press.

LAPD shot at @shoton35mm.bsky.social last night and called him “fake press.”

The LA City Council unanimously voted to formally ask the city attorney to withdraw the motion that seeks to lift the injunction on LAPD shooting journalists at protests.

LAPD wants permission to shoot journalists working at protests. inadvertent.substack.com/p/lapd-wants... Co-authored and co-published this report with @abemarquez.bsky.social

Another guest post from @abemarquez.bsky.social on my substack: inadvertent.substack.com/p/palestine-...

"Experts worried the ceasefire deal was vague, allowing Israel leeway to resume attacks whenever it sees fit." Already "exploiting it in order to continue to genocide." "Both the Red Cross and the United Nations blasted Israel's decision to again limit aid." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide

now cops are filing complaints! here's a new piece from me on my substack, Inadvertent. Please subscribe & share! inadvertent.substack.com/p/sapd-cops-...

This is also true in one of the cities I cover. The Santa Ana Police Officers Association is the city’s largest political player and they exclusively support conservative candidates. Although all are democrats because of local politics.

So many families ripped apart by the cruelty of ICE

George was just trying to get to work. ICE pepper-sprayed him, dragged him from his car, locked him in a detention center, and placed him on suicide watch. He even missed his young daughter’s birthday in the process. This man is a veteran and American citizen. Don't look away.

There are many mysteries surrounding the breakdown of public safety in Los Angeles City Hall and deputy mayor Brian K. Williams' bomb threat is a big one. You can attend his sentencing hearing this afternoon at Roybal and maybe get some answers. RIP 90272. mynewsla.com/crime/2025/1...

A pretty big fire is burning at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo/ Manhattan Beach

South Bay folks, close your windows and mask up. If you're driving, set air to recycle. The Chevron refinery in El Segundo just blew up. citizen.com/-OacL7_yVyF5...

holy shit the Chevron refinery just went up

DAILY MEMO: At least 43 People Abducted in Southern California in One of The Largest ICE Raids in Recent Memory If you appreciate reporting like this, please consider becoming a monthly or yearly member of L.A. TACO so we can continue to bring you this vital information. @eltragon.bsky.social

BREAKING: Mario Guevara, the Atlanta-based Spanish-language journalist who was arrested covering an anti-Trump protest, has been transported to a Louisiana immigration facility, from where his family said he will be deported to El Salvador tomorrow at 11 a.m. www.wabe.org/family-says-...

FILED: Erika Armenta, wife of Noe Rodriquez, is suing the city of Santa Ana and officers Luis Casillas and Isaac Ibarra. Complaint: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Backstory: www.calonews.com/communities/...

You have the right to call President Donald Trump a fascist. (new @msnbc.com column)

SAPOA invested taxpayer dollars in brokerage account while it operated the medical trust fund in a deficit story: inadvertent.substack.com/p/santa-ana-...

ICYMI: An audit found that the City of Santa Ana overpaid $3m to the Santa Ana Police Officers Association's health benefit account. Council member Ben Vazquez is calling on the AG to investigate the potential mismanagement of funds by the SAPOA. report by Destiny Torres laist.com/news/santa-a...

DHS keeps arguing in court that people filming their agents in public amounts to violence, and justifies their attacks on press and protesters. But would this ICE officer have been suspended without the videos taken by press and protesters? Of course not! KEEP. FILMING. EVERYTHING.

Jimmy Kimmel's worst case scenario was moving from prime time to a podcast. Mario Guevara's is being shipped to El Salvador and facing more of the persecution he fled 20 years ago. If that happens, the chilling effect will be impossible to measure.