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Reporter ticketed, jabbed with police baton at LA protest

L.A. Taco reporter Lexis-Olivier Ray was cited by police, kettled and shoved with a police baton while covering a workers’ …

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What Extreme Heat Is Like in U.S. Prisons

Summer Heat in Prison: Just How Hot Are Our Nation’s Prisons?

Prison writers from across the U.S. describe how hot their prisons get in the summer. One prison reached 117 degrees.

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FCC to journalists: cover the Iran war the way the president prefers or lose your broadcast license.

Breaking news: A jury convicted people who protested outside an ICE facility in Texas of providing material support to terrorists, and other charges in a closely watched case in which the gov't argued the protesters were "Antifa". www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas

Case was seen as major test of the first amendment and whether the US could use broad anti-terrorism statute to prosecute leftwing protesters

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ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Minneapolis.

Wrote a piece for @slate.com explaining that states have a long history of prosecuting federal officers when they allegedly use excessive force. Federal officers are only immune from such prosecutions when they act reasonably in carrying out lawful duties.

Minnesota Could Prosecute the ICE Shooter. Trump Can’t Pardon Him.

Shortly after an ICE officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, city leaders began looking into whether the officer had violated state criminal law.

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For the last few days on X, people (mainly women, and sometimes children) have had nonconsensual images of them in swimsuits (or much worse) requested by users and created by Grok. Musk's only apparent response thus far has been to crack jokes about it.

jae holzman@jael.bsky.social · 7mo ago

so x dot com’s ai generated CSAM and they admitted it may violate US law and … i haven’t seen in anyone in power say much at all or call to stop using the platform

AI Fellow @eedugdale.bsky.social & Hanisha Harjani revealed that Match Group knew for years about abusive users but chose to keep millions of customers unaware. Stephen Matthews was first reported for rape to Hinge in 2020. Only his arrest in 2023 got him off the apps. bit.ly/4b7RCrp

Dating App Cover-Up: How Tinder, Hinge, and Their Corporate Owner Keep Rape Under Wraps

Editor’s note: Graphic details could be offensive or disturbing to some readers. The company behind more than a dozen dating apps, Match Group, has known for years about the abusive users on its...

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Tiny homes are a flawed solution to LA’s homelessness crisis, investigation finds

Investigation uncovers flooding, broken heaters, and safety concerns. Critically, more than half of residents end up homeless when leaving LA’s tiny home villages.

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hooooooooly shit he is not fucking around

TechCrunch@techcrunch.com · 9mo ago

Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.

What we know so far, 9:30pm —Dems flip VA-Gov & VA-LG. —BIG Dem gains in VA House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani up —Dems seem to flip 2 statewide offices in GA —JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincy. —Dems sweep Orlando council —PA: Dem justices up big —Maine anti-mail vote measure down —Krasner wins

it's almost like running young, leftist, authentic politicians MOTIVATE VOTERS

Ali Velshi@velshi.com · 9mo ago

BREAKING: NY Board of Elections says more than 2 MILLION votes have been cast in the NYC election - the highest number since 1969.

And then the entire politics staff was fired. RIP Teen Vogue.

Is it good when federal judges have to schedule Sunday night 10 pm hearings about absurd military invasions of their state.

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 10mo ago

COMING UP: Judge Immergut has set a hearing for 10 pm ET tonight (!) on Trump's effort to circumvent her temporary restraining order re: Oregon national guard deployment by calling up the federalized California national guard.

Hey, you guys? Is it a good sign or a bad sign if a federal judge has to remind you (multiple times) that you’re a lawyer and an officer of the court?

Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Immergut: You're an officer of the court. Do you believe this is appropriate way to deal with my order? Hamilton: I'm not a policy maker Immergut: You're a lawyer In response, Hamilton basically argues no geographic limit to federalization of CA guard...

In 2023, I wrote about a young veteran who ended his life in jail as LASD sheriff’s deputies watched videos on their computers and failed to perform standard welfare checks in his dorm. Today, his family revealed new evidence that deputies also falsified safety check records.

New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract

404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps.

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The right to speak freely is the ultimate personal liberty and the foundation of Karen’s 11-year career at The Post. We’re proud to call Karen a colleague and a longtime union sibling. The Post Guild stands with her and will continue to support her and defend her rights.

Their jails are atrocious and unsafe. The OIG for the LA County Sheriffs reported that from April to June, seven people died in the department’s custody. Of those seven, four were suicides. YTD, the department has reported 36 in-custody deaths.

Emily Elena Dugdale@eedugdale.bsky.social · 11mo ago

California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit today against LASD and LA County over “unconstitutional and inhumane conditions” at LA County jails. Bonta highlights that we’re on track to have “more in-custody deaths in 2025 than at any time in the past twenty years.”

California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit today against LASD and LA County over “unconstitutional and inhumane conditions” at LA County jails. Bonta highlights that we’re on track to have “more in-custody deaths in 2025 than at any time in the past twenty years.”

Context in our @lapublicpress @latimes collab from September: @keribla.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

Spotty redactions and public records reveal names of deputies in case against D.A. advisor

State prosecutors fought to keep the deputies' names secret. An investigation by The Times and LA Public Press identified them.

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Keri Blakinger@keribla.bsky.social · last yr.

#breaking A California appeals court has ordered dismissal of the case against Diana Teran, the former prosecutor who was prosecuted under state hacking statutes after she sent court records to a colleague as part of an effort to track bad cops.

How one Los Angeles complex organized to take on their landlord—and the city’s housing crisis. “I didn’t know how to explain it to her. I just said, ‘No, we aren’t going to move.'”

These Los Angeles tenants are saying no to rent hikes

How one complex organized to take on their landlord—and the city's housing crisis.

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The mayor of Huntington Park had formally directed the police department to enforce laws against ICE concerning unmarked vehicles, visible license plates and required agency identification.

Huntington Park mayor directs police to enforce ICE agents’ self-identification

Huntington Park Mayor Arturo Flores released a statement Saturday, condemning what he called “masked abductions” amid immigration raids across Los Angeles County, and directing police to intervene …

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Headed to #IRE2025 and a reminder that you can always say no to this ❌

Federal agents attack press and protesters with pepper balls at DTLA’s federal building during protests against ICE arrests. @shoton35mm.bsky.social reporting on the scene.

ooo she sounds smart and hot wonder if she has a name!!!

CBS News@cbsnews.com · last yr.

Trump administration in talks with Rwanda to take deportees from U.S.

The US used to have free to low tuition until schools couldn't discriminate based on race

Hugh Laurie (Srsly)@utahcornelius.bsky.social · last yr.

Countries with free tuition: Germany, France, Denmark, Czech Rep, Sweden, Uruguay, Turkey, Taiwan, Iceland, Austria, Finland, Greece, Egypt, India, Norway, Brazil, Argentina, Kenya, Luxemb., Slovenia, Mexico. Something about the next generation being the future of the country, I guess.