Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.

Who needs Deep Throat and leaked documents when you've got *checks notes* gamblers on the internet

Horsefeathers!!

LA really was all over the Super Bowl halftime show 🥲 thelalocal.org/art-and-cult...

Finally, Lady Gaga shares a stage with Villa's Tacos, just as God (my subconscious) intended

I wrote about the Epstein files (gift link) www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

LAPD shot and killed a man outside the California Science Center. A witness told The LA Local that the man was carrying a long gun and had appeared calm until police told him to drop the gun. thelalocal.org/neighborhood...

Remarkable scenes from LA's Boyle Heights, where people dropped everything during this week's raids to warn their neighbors, help street vendors and even chase a truck potentially belonging to federal agents thelalocal.org/neighborhood...

A first appearance for a sealed "out of district affidavit" has appeared on the calendar for downtown LA's federal criminal court at 1:30 p.m. today following Don Lemon's arrest. apps.cacd.uscourts.gov/calpub/view-...

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:

At least three people have been taken in Boyle Heights today, including a flower vendor "They kidnapped him. They took him,” Verita Topete said. “It was hard to witness.” thelalocal.org/neighborhood...

"A man suffering a seizure went without oxygen as guards watched him convulse on the floor, and another was not given antibiotics for a severe staph infection that led his finger to burst" — some shocking allegations in a new lawsuit against ICE and GEO Group thelalocal.org/immigration/...

BREAKING: Judge Tostrud -- a Trump appointee — has quickly granted a restraining order, barring the administration from "destroying or altering evidence" taken from today's shooting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

i havent shut off the notification for this form and it has just been vibrating every minute in my hand. just a steady beat.

Update: The admin is moving to quickly deport witnesses who saw ICE detainee die. They say the man was just trying to get his meds. ICE guards shackled him Then they choked him. The admin moved to deport the witnesses — right after they spoke to WaPo. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

The LA Local launched this week to bring more neighborhood-level reporting across LA County. In two days, we've had two breaking stories with reporters in the field, tracking down details of ICE raids. thelalocal.org/neighborhood...

Trump posts footage of the Maduro raid set to "Fortunate Son" -- a protest song about the Vietnam War draft

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...