Nigel Duara
@nigelduara.bsky.social
CalMatters justice reporter. Former: Vice on HBO, LA Times, AP
All right guys, I would love your assistance. I've posted a 10-minute video recapping the extent to which Jeff Pearlman's Ruben Rivera video plagiarizes the visuals from my own video on him from 2021. There are 23 instances in which his editor lifted from me, and you can see them all in this.
Jeff Pearlman's Ruben Rivera video sure is familiar...
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Rob Bonta promised the state DOJ would wrap police shooting probes in a year. The average has been almost 2.5 years, since a high-profile 2020 law took effect. The long turnaround leaves victims — and police — in a highly consequential limbo @nigelduara.bsky.social calmatters.org/justice/2026...
How a George Floyd-inspired California law accidentally weakened police accountability
Investigations into fatal shootings by California police take so long that officers often can't be decertified or prosecuted, a CalMatters investigation shows.
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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...
California cities just saw their lowest homicide rates in decades. It's not clear why
Homicides in California surged during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, killings are down to historic lows in Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco and many other cities.
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"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...
How fear of Trump's immigration blitz is changing life in California farm towns
Tax receipts are down almost 30% in one California farm town, where immigrants are afraid to go out and some longtime workers are weighing self-deportation. People panicked when probation agents in gr...
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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
CalMatters@calmatters.org · last yr.Research shows worksite immigration raids can depress local economies as people stay home and stop spending money. So far, they aren't known to free up jobs for citizens. cal.news/4lKYT4x 📸 J.W. Hendricks
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
Young Democrats’ POV: How California politicians can better resonate with young voters
California’s young Democrats have tips for candidates on how to make inroads with their peers: Be concise, progressive and … not too old.
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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...
He died of an overdose. Now his mom is taking on the health insurance industry
"Without speaking to Ryan, they denied the care he needed," she said, her voice tight with unspilled tears. “They said he could control his addiction if he really wanted to.”
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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...
100 days in, California is suing Trump at almost double the pace of his first term
Trump's deluge of executive orders means California, usually the state suing to advance a progressive agenda, now finds itself fighting in court to preserve the status quo – playing defense, not offen...
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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...
Office-to-Residential Conversion at 995 Market Street, San Francisco - San Francisco YIMBY
New permits have been filed for a partial office-to-residential conversion inside 995 Market Street in San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood...
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Space is not an either or, it’s a both
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · last yr.what is this supposed to mean
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...
In the Shadows of Death: Writing Life's Final Chapter
In the Shadows of Death: Writing Life's Final Chapter - Kindle edition by Parker, Paul. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading In the Shadows of Death: Writing Life's Final Chapter.
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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...
Palestinian Student Leader Was Called In for Citizenship Interview — Then Arrested by ICE
Palestinian Columbia student leader Mohsen Mahdawi was called in for a citizenship interview. Instead, ICE arrested him for deportation.
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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
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...
Reports of immigrations sweeps are warping life in California's Central Valley
‘It feels like you’re on edge all the time,’ one immigrant advocate said about the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement posture and the seemingly constant rumors of impending sweeps.
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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...
Reports of immigrations sweeps are warping life in California's Central Valley
‘It feels like you’re on edge all the time,’ one immigrant advocate said about the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement posture and the seemingly constant rumors of impending sweeps.
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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...
A CHP officer thought a stroke victim was on drugs. Years later, his family gets permission to sue
The Highway Patrol officer, Samantha Diaz-Durazo, did not call an ambulance. Instead, she observed the man for 45 minutes after she arrived on the scene, then arrested him on suspicion that he was on ...
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🧵 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/...
They live in California’s Republican districts. They feel betrayed by looming health care cuts
Some of the state’s most conservative areas benefit disproportionately from Medicaid.
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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...
California’s college athletes can now make millions off sponsorship deals. Here's a first look at the numbers
In 2021, California allowed college athletes to earn money, profiting off their name, image and likeness. University records show which student athletes are benefitting and how.
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"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...
Hundreds protest proposal to reopen Dublin women's prison as ICE detention center
A class action lawsuit filed by prisoner advocates led to the closure of FCI Dublin last year. But now, the Trump administration may be looking to reopen the facility as an ICE detention center.
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I’m sure it’ll work out great this time!
Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 2y ago"Wall Street is once again creating and selling securities backed by everything—the more creative the better...Data-center bonds are backed by lease payments from companies that rent out computing capacity." www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
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...
Who's paying for California politicians' travel? After CalMatters' report, audit proposes a legal fix
A state audit spurred by CalMatters reporting finds that a law meant to reveal who funds CA legislators’ sponsored travel is falling short.
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