NEW: Six people detained in California’s newest + largest ICE facility speak out, saying they are confined in filthy cells, struggling to access basic medications, going hungry due to insufficient food, drinking dirty water, and faced with “military-like” staff. “This place is built to break us”

Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago. Send videos to tinyurl.com/chicagojourn..., or get in touch via email [email protected].

Satellites have been tracking the water held in glaciers, lakes and the world’s vast underground reserves — aquifers. A extensive analysis of that data reveals water is rapidly disappearing beneath much of humanity’s feet, and large swaths of the Earth are drying out. www.latimes.com/environment/...

'It's happening everywhere': 1 in 3 ICE detainees held in overcrowded facilities, data show

“People are sleeping on floors.” New analysis: One in three ICE detainees has spent time in an over capacity facility this year. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Private prison and detention contractor CoreCivic has reached an agreement with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to convert its 2,560-bed California City facility into the state’s newest and largest migrant detention center. www.latimes.com/california/s...

NEW: The biggest DOGE-related layoffs are in and around Washington, D.C. In the week ending Feb. 22, unemployment claims in D.C. rose 25% from the week prior and were four times as high as one year earlier — and that’s only the beginning.

DOGE came for the research and statistics arm of the U.S. Department of Education today, declared "fraud" and "waste" and abruptly terminated about $900M in contracts. A lot of what we know about America's schools comes from the data this agency collects. New reporting with @jodiscohen.bsky.social

Here’s tomorrow’s front page of the @latimes. All our fire coverage is here, and the paywall has been lifted: www.latimes.com/california/l...

Shoutout to the Los Angeles Times reporters who are doing essential journalism under very difficult circumstances. They’ve dropped their paywall, but their ongoing coverage is a good reminder of why local newsrooms need support — and what we lose when those outlets are hollowed out.

Oh you gotta be kidding me. nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

"Our members—and all Times stffers—abide by a strict set of ethics guidelines, which call for fairness, precision, transparency, vigilance against bias, & an earnest search to understand all sides of an issue. Those longstanding principles will continue guiding our work" latguild.com/news/2024/12...

Ummm rude to mention this. But yes! Such a good song. Shaboozey deserves all the attention.

This is a jarring story about Tegna owned WUSA-TV pulling a story AFTER IT AIRED. The excuse is that the story needed a comment from the local gas company BUT that seems a bit fishy especially because 1) the local gas co isn't mentioned 2) the general industry complaints are included. HMMMM

Here is a gift article from The NY Times that also describes the disinformation-fueled measles epidemic in Samoa which killed over 80 people, most of them small children, and RFK Jr’s considerable role in fomenting it: www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/w...

DMV folks: 🚨 Thanksgiving Volunteers Needed! Food & Friends needs YOUR help delivering 4,500 Thanksgiving meals to seriously ill neighbors across the DMV. Delivery shifts are available at 8:00 am, 9:00 am, 10:00 am, and 11:00 am. Details at: foodandfriends.org/engage/thank...

Lifesaving medication for postpartum hemorrhaging is being pulled off emergency carts because of new Louisiana law reclassifying misoprostol as a controlled dangerous substance. lailluminator.com/2024/09/03/l...

While looking through campaign finance data, I noticed a strange pattern. Many people were donating small amounts, $1 or $5, to the same candidates and groups over and over again, dozens of times, every day. Why? Here's the story. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Seems like people like pets over here. This is Flops, a mostly good boy. Flops thinks the work day has gone on far too long.