Our ex-BuzzFeed team has provided a testimonial to the immigration court about the value of Guan's work and his incredible bravery. I hope that this man - who I am in absolute awe of - is granted the asylum he needs and deserves. You can read more here: hrichina.substack.com/p/man-who-fi...

At least six people were taken today as immigration agents once again descended on the Home Depot in Cypress Park, the site of one of first raids in June boyleheightsbeat.com/immigration-...

I'm going to bed and Clayton Kershaw should too

Not yet clear why sheriff's deputies serving a search warrant has caused the evacuation boyleheightsbeat.com/garfield-hig...

This exhibition is incredible and I hope people actually get to see it today (yesterday's opening was disrupted by a neighborhood power outage; I took this photo during a preview Sunday)

Solidarity!! Last week, Indiana University fired the director of student media & halted print on the Indiana Daily Student newspaper. Yesterday, Purdue’s student paper printed the banned edition & drove two hours to deliver it. Incredible www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...

The premise of The Diplomat is what if Keri Russell had bad hair, and I'm fully here for it

prayers plz, it's headshot day

In honor of Spooky Szn, as a reminder to always fact check the official police narrative, & ESPECIALLY to never use a cop as your sole source for a story, may I present to you this 1989 Chicago Tribune story about baby sacrifice in Chicago Forest Preserves: www.chicagotribune.com/1989/02/26/s...

Exciting personal news! I've joined the LA Local News Initiative to work with Boyle Heights Beat and build new neighborhood newsrooms in Koreatown/Pico-Union/Westlake and South LA/Inglewood.

Starbucks says surveillance clears an employee who’d been accused of writing “Loser” on a cup when someone ordered Charlie Kirk’s “favorite drink.” The accusation was originally posted by a Republican party official. It forced the store to shut down for safety. blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/19/v...

NEW: More than 500 pages of #FOIA docs @zhirji.bsky.social @davey.bsky.social & I obtained from FEMA detail previously unreported threats against personnel in the aftermath of Hurricanes Helene & Milton, including the swatting of then-FEMA Director Deanne Criswell 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“Violence that is rooted in gendered issues is a huge predictor of — and possibly the biggest predictor, in some studies — of trajectories that lead to mass violence,” Miller-Idriss told The 19th. “Over half of mass shooters are targeting a partner.”

After claiming Gabby Giffords, the retired American politician turned gun-control advocate, also attended the event at Damian with Tucker Carlson, a staffer confirmed that she wasn't even in Los Angeles at the time. Full story: lataco.com/rick-caruso-... By @shoton35mm.bsky.social

thinking about all the incredibly talented internet culture reporters who've been laid off and/or gone independent and how much big media orgs could really use them right now

Kirk, who was fatally shot while on stage at a speaking event, lit a path for the future of Trumpism.

The hotel and airline bankrolled challenge to the Olympic wage *did not qualify* for the ballot according to the LA County Registrar. This means the city’s Olympic wage ordinance , $25/hour beginning this year and $30/hour by 2028, goes into effect for tourism workers immediately

Another campaign finance scandal emerging while we wait for the mayor to emerge is peak Adams administration

In another loss in the courts for Trump, a federal judge just blocked the administration from revoking legal status from hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans and Haitians in the United States. Judge Chen ruled that the termination of TPS exceeded the DHS Secretary’s authority and violated the law.

Hello! I'm conducting research on BIPOC communities throughout Central Illinois on their media intake and their trust/distrust of mainstream (predom white) news sources. if you are or know someone who'd be good to talk to please get in touch (could be a neighbor, parent, auntie, old school teacher)

NEW: A Texas mother recently became the first woman to sue for wrongful death of an embryo from abortion pills; past cases had aggrieved male partners suing. But in a wild counterclaim, the Marine she accused of “drugging” her hot chocolate says she made it all up and there was no coercion

Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities, shares Stateline. buff.ly/CicG9BT

things you don't ever expect to see in print "It is unusual for federal border agents to make arrests during the fighting of an active fire, especially in a remote area." www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Especially nausea-inducing to hear updates on a school shooting on the car radio as you drop your own kids off at school

do you think the officials in the cabinet meeting know that taylor swift is engaged

New from @iamleslierangel.bsky.social and me: Rep. Nicole Collier spent the night held hostage in the Texas House. Then four enraged women — many of them mothers — refused to leave her side overnight. The slept in jail; are banned from Capitol grounds for a year. thebarbedwire.com/2025/08/19/h...

LAPD’s liability settlements are defunding the budget to the point that the city can’t find $1 million to cover legal services for immigrants. www.latimes.com/california/n...

The White House Twitter feed is now basically the old “black crime” tab from mid-2010s Breitbart. The editor of Breitbart back then was Steve Bannon, and a young senate staffer named Steven Miller was feeding him content from white nationalist sites. www.splcenter.org/resources/gu...

What Hangs In The Balance? "The federal government wants a display of military force so great that any lawful opposition to their agenda is effectively silenced" www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Military "showing force" at the very same site where Japanese Americans were rounded up for incarceration during WWII.

All police gone now. Everyone out here claps. "See y'all tomorrow!" shouts one guy to a few weak laughs.

back to asking ppl where they were on Jan. 6 www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

are all the backlot Oval Offices going to have to add the gold knicknacks and wall appliques now too

listening to brat and feeling like i've aged 1,000 years since last summer

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself. By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

NEW FOIA Files SCOOP: The FBI redacted Trump’s name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the Epstein files under two privacy exemptions before DOJ & FBI concluded “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

“In the past few weeks, longtime allies of the rap mogul have approached…operatives, lobbyists, and others with close ties to Trumpland and government officials, offering to pay them large sums of money if they agreed to help with a potential Trump pardon, three people familiar with the matter” say…

Karen Read wants her SUV back: people.com/karen-read-w...

The terror began immediately. Salvadoran guards beat them with their fists, boots and batons, shot them with rubber pellets, and forced them to lick other men's backs. What happened when we sent 230+ Venezuelans to a prison known for human rights abuses. www.propublica.org/article/vene...

Trump's US Atty in LA has moved to dismiss: -a case against a Trump donor accused of carrying out a $47m “sham loan” scheme -the case against an LASD deputy already convicted at trial & sentenced for throwing a Black woman to the ground in a parking lot www.latimes.com/california/s...

as someone who is really sick of annoying people moving to Texas because it's the based state, i had a lot of fun writing about how Joe Rogan's friends all seem to hate living in Austin: www.chron.com/culture/cele...

MY LATEST @latimes.com ‬⁩ COLUMNA: A new iteration of Taco María opens, in an unlikely place. Share, porfas!

i've been informed i'm on my 5-year-old's "not being good" list, along with his little brother and ... Shohei Ohtani

a privately owned fighter jet going from El Paso to Oxnard is quite a vibe www.cnn.com/2025/07/25/u...

NEW: our profile of Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol official running the immigration raids on the streets of Los Angeles, and what his role portends for next phase of Trump's propaganda-driven deportation campaign @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

it's july

To the tune of De Colores: 🎶 innnnnndoor voices

the moment Ysqueibel Yonaiquer Peñaloza Chirinos reunited with his family after 125 days in CECOT, shared with me and @mattshuham.bsky.social by his mom, Ydalys Chirinos-Polanco

Here you go internet. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Wastewater from Alcatraz currently gets sent off the island by boat to San Francisco. If Trump turns it into a prison, the city could try to block shipments.