In case anyone is wondering, crime rates keep going down in California. Some, like homicide, are at or near historic lows @nigelduara.bsky.social calmatters.org/justice/2026...

"If you did let your imagination run wild, especially if you were undocumented, everywhere you look, around the corner, is somebody that you’re fearful is going to try and get you and deport you.” Nice deep dive by my colleague @nigelduara.bsky.social calmatters.org/economy/2025...

Glad @jupinwhm.bsky.social and @szyszka.bsky.social had the same reaction to WEAPONS I did. Waited to give it a rewatch on streaming, but man. Problems. This feels like a late King miniseries adaptation — The Outsider. Starts with a cool slow reveal and then “oh whoops it’s just a witch/vampires”

While a stated purpose of worksite raids is to remove illegal competition from the labor marketplace, the reality is far messier: Studies have found that immigration raids don’t do much to raise wages — and actually deflate them. Good story by @nigelduara.bsky.social & @jeannereporter.bsky.social

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

Really worth reading about a reckoning for California Democrats last weekend calmatters.org/politics/202... By Stella Yu

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Great @jocelynwiener.bsky.social look at how a health plan denied a 23-year-old substance abuse treatment, and his mother’s battle in the Legislature to change that after his death. calmatters.org/health/menta...

Despite holding back on some of the more confrontational rhetoric, California is actually suing the Trump administration at a much faster pace than during the first term, @nigelduara.bsky.social reports calmatters.org/justice/2025...

holy moly

New: Network State group plans a "vertical village" on San Francisco's Market Street: "The project team has been associated with the Network State, a controversial political movement to create decentralized and sovereign communities..." sfyimby.com/2025/04/offi...

Space is not an either or, it’s a both

The former leader of the San Diego police review board has written a book. We profiled Paul Parker last year amid his frustrations with the sheriff’s office, which led him to resign. Book link: geni.us/intheshadows...

lol

SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...

The rideshare to the airport is an uber with delorian doors and I want to ask him to drop me off a few blocks away like going to the mall in middle school

San Mateo lunchtime sports bar sighting of @kerithburke.bsky.social

Here’s a story that goes to a Bakersfield migrant detention center, the orange groves outside Visalia and a couple small churches where a network of people spread the word about potential ICE sightings. This is the Central Valley today, and it is full of fear: calmatters.org/justice/2025...

While immigration agents keep detaining individual people outside of their homes or at the entrance to a Walmart, it's still unclear whether the Trump admin's deportation plans are working. As for creating fear, that part is working just fine @nigelduara.bsky.social calmatters.org/justice/2025...

A California Highway Patrol trooper found a disoriented man at the site of a crash. She observed him for 45 minutes, then decided he was on drugs and arrested him. Steven D’Braunstein wouldn’t get to a hospital for more than three hours. calmatters.org/justice/2025...

🧵 The number of people becoming homeless in @sandiegocounty.bsky.social continued to outpace the number moving into homes in February though there's been some recent improvement in numbers. @rtfhsd.bsky.social reports that 979 people became homeless for the first time and 969 exited homelessness.

Some of California’s most conservative areas benefit disproportionately from Medicaid. That creates a complicated political equation for Republican members of Congress weighing a budget that could steeply cut the health care program for the poor. calmatters.org/health/2025/...

In the first-ever look at what California athletes have actually made from NIL deals, university records obtained by @calmatters.org show that money is flowing, but how much athletes earn depends on the the sport, the gender and star power of its players and fanbase calmatters.org/education/hi...

I’m sorry to share this, everybody. comicbook.com/anime/news/s...

"If we as U.S. citizens went through horrific pain in there and retaliation, what could they do to the immigrants?" abc7news.com/post/hundred...

I’m sure it’ll work out great this time!

After @calmatters.org found that a law meant to disclose who is paying for California legislators' sponsored travel was used only twice in seven years, state regulators looked into it. How they suggest fixing the law: calmatters.org/politics/202...

Damon Hininger, CEO of private prison giant Core Civic, just told investors: " I've worked at CoreCivic for 32 years, and this is truly one of the most exciting periods in my career ... we're anticipating .. the most significant growth in our company's history." theintercept.com/2025/02/11/c...

I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

Crypto guy in 2014: Crypto will revolutionize finance and change how we interact with money Crypto in 2025:

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately." | www.wired.com/story/treasu...

NEW: While responding to worst wildfires in the history of Los Angeles, FEMA employees were ordered to immediately change their vocabulary to call immigrants "aliens." "For Immediate compliance" they were told. Worker said it's "the most 1984 email Ive ever seen" www.404media.co/for-immediat...

I know there are two more months of the rainy season in California, but I'm going to call it now: southern Cal is going to be in severe drought this year. The split in storm tracks during La Niña years, with wetter conditions in the north and drier conditions in the south, are currently holding true

This took me 45 minutes to make

There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.

Worried about a fascist takeover? This sheet-pan paella will make you feel like you’re in 1930s Spain.

You got one day left and it’s gone

(sigh) terry rozier in the news

The administration is not targeting immigrants with violent records. They're targeting the immigrants who are easiest to get: those who show to court and follow the rules. It's a great way to ensure that undocumented people stop coming to court. They're also already ensnaring U.S. citizens.

“every local law enforcement agency is required to comply under this law —the (federal) Death in Custody Reporting Act. Yet, the state of Florida has no statute to enforce DCRA.” www.ocalagazette.com/florida-has-...

USDA inspector general escorted out of her office after defying White House www.usatoday.com/story/news/p... via @usatoday.com

There are no websites that you visit anymore. Either you see a headline on social media and don’t click or you try to order a sandwich and it makes you download an app and tell it the last four digits of your social security number for Pepperoni Points

@crabin.bsky.social You’re the only one that’s right on Romulus

We got in touch with half the sheriffs in California (still waiting on the other half). They told us they’ll follow the state’s sanctuary law.* But some personally oppose it, and said they’re ready to act on deportations if allowed. *One said he’ll look to work around it t.co/5Cv0Jj31Ux

[fists pound tables, a chant begins] tronc tronc tronc TRONC TRONC TRONC TRONC

This is a plot point on Boardwalk Empire

Why is the number of jail deaths in California up, even though the number of people in jail is down? We investigated: t.co/DUXEeRtBpw