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My friend and colleague David Swanson is a legendary photographer and an extraordinary, deeply kind and compassionate human being. Please help out if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/support-da...

My friend and colleague David Swanson is a legendary photographer and an extraordinary, deeply kind and compassionate human being. Please help out if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/support-da...

11/16/25: Community organizer and housing advocate Reverend Rae Huang announces her candidacy for mayor of Los Angeles.

Law enforcement physically attacked 72 journalists covering immigration in LA this year—more than double the city’s 2020 BLM protest total, according to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. lapublicpress.org/2025/11/indy...

SCOOP: ICE is allocating as much as $180 million to pay bounty hunters and private investigators who verify the address and location of undocumented people ICE wishes to detain, including with physical surveillance, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Visiting a loved one at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center means navigating a series of obstacles like long drives through the Mojave Desert, hours-long waits, and then facing the emotional toll of leaving your loved one behind after the visit is over. Read more: www.dailynews.com/2025/11/06/w...

Of course @lataco.bsky.social @shoton35mm.bsky.social has the definitive account of what unfolded before and after Saturday’s victory — which illustrates over and over again how LA is completely unprepared to handle celebrating fans

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

You should absolutely subscribe to Sean's LA Ten Four newsletter if you already haven't. This is what I mean by indie journalists doing such vital work. A heartbreaking, brutal read.

As always, your support means *so much* to me while I try to scrape rent and food money together. A little means a lot, and if you can’t support financially please feel free to repost. You can subscribe on my site or contribute to Venmo here: venmo.com/u/ACatWithNews latenfour.com

Please, support your local indies and freelance journalists. Subscribe to their newsletters, share their work, and, if you can, help them survive. So many are consistently doing incredible, vital work and get paid scraps or less.

Alright I fucking wrote about this. It was apparently necessary to vent my rage about this this afternoon, because that took me two hours to get it all out and onto the page.

As promised, a longer read:

LAPD officers used tear gas to disperse Dodger fans in Echo Park after the World Series. Gas canisters were thrown outside of a 7 Eleven on Rosemont Avenue and Sunset Boulevard. The gas caused people to quickly leave the area. @shoton35mm.bsky.social

Cops going aggro on Sunset near Echo Park in LA after the Dodgers Win. Shooting people with less lethals from point blank range, horses running people and press down. Literally minutes before, fireworks in the street

California has released $80 million to support food banks across the state. Gov. Gavin Newsom has also sent the California National Guard to help food banks pack and distribute food. bit.ly/48SNxs9 📸 J.W. Hendricks

New for The Ten Four: Los Angeles City Controller Mejia recently released the results of their assessment of the LAPD’s Mental Evaluation Unit (MEU). The assessment claims LAPD does not give their units necessary tools, and receives minimal mental health training. latenfour.com/2025/10/30/l...

“They have fun while doing it, which is deeply disturbing. We expect some level of decorum from government officials,” says Phoebe, a member of Harbor Area Peace Patrols. The full story: lataco.com/federal-immi... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

10/21/25, LA: Carlos Jurado, attorney of community reporter Carlitos Ricardo Parias ("Richard LA"), tells media he wasn't allowed to see Parias after spending hours inside California Hospital Medical Center, where Parias is being treated after a federal immigration agent shot him earlier in the day.

NEW for The Ten Four: A crowd of hundreds gathered in the late afternoon Saturday outside the Metro Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, turning what began as a nearly universally peaceful rally into officers dozens of batons. latenfour.com/2025/10/20/p...

Scenes from No Kings 2, Los Angeles, CA 10/18/2025 #nokings

After five days of striking, Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers head back to work this week. Thousands of workers struck last week to draw attention to their contract struggle. At the heart of the issue: better staffing = better patient care. Photos by the wonderful @jwhendricks.bsky.social

Well, yeah, we're suing ICE. This wasn't really a hard decision. As little faith as we have in institutions, we recognize the value of drawing visible lines in the sand. We drew ours personally a while ago, but better late than never. May every protester be freed and may this occupation end.

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...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

New: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells 404 Media "we are determined to fight this." "Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move." www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media. 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

Adam is the best, this is spectacular news.

🚨 New directive NSPM-7 targets "anti-capitalism," “anti-Christian,” and “anti-American" opinions as indicators of extremist violence, authorizing an army of 4,000 counter-terrorism officers to prevent crimes that haven't happened: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Press being arrested alongside protesters in Chicago--

From LA to Chicago, the feds continue their horrid practice of aiming high and directly at press. When these agencies get to uncritically claim that videotaping is violence, this is the outcome: reporters getting hit in the face with “less lethals.” Unconscionable.

Good time to mention that I just touched down in Chicago. Local journalists in the Chicago area say the following are good accounts to follow for more context: bsky.app/profile/djby... bsky.app/profile/mulc... bsky.app/profile/unra... bsky.app/profile/thet...

Good morning! I’m at the Broadview Detention Facility in Chicago, Illinois. Several dozen protesters are here protesting against the ramp up in federal deportation raids in the Chicago area. Things are testy already, several attempted arrests from DHS.

Covered the Mexican Independence Day Parade in East LA on Sunday (9/14) and at one point Big Boy became an elotero. Dude was having the time of his life.

Loyola Marymount University claims religious exemption with the NLRB, claws back recognition of NTT faculty union The sudden decision of the LMU Board of Trustees has left many NTT faculty in shock; the union plans a response.

CBP got their raid sweeps down to less than 7 minutes here in LA. By the time reporters receive tips, the raids are done and the feds are gone and with them, people. Trying to document and find patterns for these raids as a reporter has been extremely frustrating and demoralizing. It really sucks

New for The Ten Four: Neo-Nazis attacked a man Saturday evening during a vigil for slain right-wing pundit Charlie Kirk. Groups that participated included neo-Nazi “active clubs,” from throughout California… A collaboration with the people over at @lcrw.bsky.social latenfour.com/2025/09/14/n...

After her hearing at 26 Federal Plaza, a woman was detained and escorted toward the stairwell. Her husband, confused and in shock, was guided toward the exit. Minutes later, he broke down in the elevator. They entered together, but he left alone. This happens here daily. #ICE

Several people and I sued DHS and Kristi Noem, and won a preliminary injunction. Here’s the meat of the judge’s order:

BREAKING: Federal judge in Los Angeles issues preliminary injunction against Department of Homeland Security to restrict use of force against press, legal observers and protesters. Judge in LA Press Club v. Noem calls out "surprising savagery" of DHS officers: "The First Amendment demands better."

NEW from me for The Ten Four: An employee at Los Angeles County Counsel has been arrested and charged with felony hate crimes after sending death threats to an Asian co-worker Always appreciate any reposts, subscribes, etc. you can give as I try to build The Ten Four. latenfour.com/2025/09/10/a...

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

FPF filed a FOIA request to learn if the Trump admin had a legal rationale for killing 11 people on a Venezuelan boat. Our fight will take months. It shouldn’t be this hard to see what the government believes the law is and how it intends to apply it.

Hi everyone! Big news: I’ve begun and launched the LA Ten Four. The LA Ten Four is for news covering issues surrounding first responders in the Los Angeles area. Rather than a police blotter, or “public safety” reporting this newsletter aims to take an eye and ask how can we improve? the-104.org

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👊

Hey all, so the ultrasound results are back for Falkor and they aren't great. It's been a long journey getting a diagnosis- we still aren't fully there but my baby is sick and I need your help. Full details in the Gofund me link www.gofundme.com/f/save-falko...

Photos from last night’s protest in DTLA