A stunning reversal of LA’s environmental progress. In 2019, we decided to phase out natural gas at Scattergood by 2024. It was a commitment to protect the climate for our kids. Today the City Council extended natural gas there for the foreseeable future.

Climate, Ecology, War & More: Dr. Glen Barry BigEarthData.ai@bigearthdata.ai · 6d ago

LA City Council Votes to Allow Billion Dollar Scattergood Gas Plant Retrofit to Move Forward ->Food & Water Watch | More info at BigEarthData.ai | #Vote #Democracy

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Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 3mo ago

In deal with business leaders, $30 minimum wage for L.A. hotel and airport workers will be delayed

New poll from Emerson Collge. CA GOV: Xavier Becerra is in the lead, with Tom Steyer and Steve Hilton vying for second slot. LA MAYOR: Karen Bass is leading with 30%, followed by Spencer Pratt with 22% and Nithya Raman with 19%: emersoncollegepolling.com/california-2...

California 2026 Poll: Becerra Continues to Surge, Steyer and Hilton Compete for Second Spot - Emerson Polling

Bass leads primary for LA Mayor with 30% support; Pratt and Raman trail A new…Full Release & Results

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Tonight's mayoral candidate forum isn't happening — but the questions still matter. Read what what the Pat Brown Institute and the League of Women Voters planned to ask, at my Substack: mikebonin.substack.com/p/voters-des...

Voters Deserve Answers: What We Would Have Asked

Tonight's scheduled mayoral candidate forum isn't happening — but the questions still matter. Here is what the Pat Brown Institute and the League of Women Voters planned to ask, and why.

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BIG HISTORY. The Los Angeles City Council yesterday voted to ban pretextual traffic stops - an ugly vestige of Jim Crow, with Blacks and Latinos being pulled over, searched and frisked at wildly disproportionate rates.

Blessings to LAist for staying on this very overdue agreement. Pretty wild that LA28 is selling tickets to an event and doesn't have a final deal in place with the host city!

A critical agreement between Olympics organizers and LA is now 6 months late

City Controller Kenneth Mejia called the delay "deeply troubling."

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Tom Steyer joins me on What's Next, Los Angeles. We talk about issues not getting enough attention: child welfare, gentrification, food deserts, job training, helping students working full-time to finish college, surveillance technology and more. whatsnextlosangeles.buzzsprout.com/1414123/epis...

Dark money is creeping into LA's elections . . . more on the ULA saga . . . and a potential new progressive revenue stream for housing and basic services in the city of Long Beach. On the latest LA Podcast. Listen below or almost anywhere you get your podcasts. www.thinkforward.la/la-podcast-d...

Enjoyed talking Los Angeles water and power (and climate politics!) with @awalkerinla.bsky.social & @mikebonin.bsky.social on the LA Podcast! Covered Nithya Raman, Karen Bass, air quality, wildfires, AI, 100% clean energy and more: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Departure of Water and Power

Podcast Episode · LA Podcast · March 30 · 1h 1m

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New bombshell mayoral poll from LMU’s Center for the Study of Los Angeles: Raman 32.5%, Bass 17%, Huang 16.6%, Miller 13.4%, Pratt 11.5%. Nearly 48% of those surveyed said they prefer a democratic socialist for mayor: lmu.app.box.com/s/i6jtszzmyo...

It’s wild to hear people suggest that all CA’s Latino, Black and Asian-American guv candidates should drop out to clear a path for 4 white ppl. Especially since one of the white guys – Mahan – isn’t polling better than the candidates of color. link.latimes.com/view/652823f...

Los Angeles families are living in fear of being seized by unnamed, masked government agents, and LAPD -- instead of protecting them -- is suggesting that if your kids stay home out of fear of ICE, or if they dare skip school to protest ICE, they or you can be arrested.

Culver City has less criminal activity than a meeting of Trump’s cabinet.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 6mo ago

Wait one damn minute, I need to speak on this. @kamlager-dove.house.gov read AG Pam Bondi the riot act over the DOJ scrubbing data on right wing extremists from the website. Bondi’s response: “Her district includes Culver City and she’s not talking about… stopping crime in her district.” 1/2

Political earthquake. Nithya Raman is running for mayor. Not only does this pose a serious threat to Mayor Bass, but it reframes the June primary in a way that benefits down ballot progressives in other city races.

Dems are pushing for body cameras to curb abuses by ICE. Trump/MAGA are proud of footage of ICE's brutal murders. What good will body cams do? The necessary fix isn't documenting ICE agents being abusive; it's ending the cruel, abusive unconstitutional secret police force.

alec karakatsanis@equalityalec.bsky.social · 6mo ago

A question no Democratic Party official has been able to answer: Given that Bannon says they will deploy ICE to voting locations in November (after *filming themselves* killing Renee Good and Alex Pretti), what do you want to accomplish with more body cameras?

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #AbolishICE #ICEOut #Palantir #PaloAlto

LAPD Chief McDonnell's refusal to enforce the "No Secret Police Act" is no aberration. It's reflection of a vision for LAPD that is fundamentally incompatible with the reform-minded direction L.A. has been struggling toward for 50 years. mikebonin.substack.com/p/jim-mcdonn...

Jim McDonnell, LAPD & the Olympic Imperative

Chief McDonnell vision for LAPD is fundamentally incompatible with the reform-minded direction Los Angeles has been struggling toward for 50 years.

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All eyes on Lindsey Horvath as this week's mayoral political roller-coaster ride continues.

Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 6mo ago

Rick Caruso confirms he will not run for L.A. mayor

Wow! Such a dramatic week in the LA mayor’s race. The deadline for candidates to declare is Saturday noon. Here’s hoping Rick Caruso and Lindsay Horvath make their decisions by midday Friday, before we record this week’s episode of LA Podcast :)

LAPD Chief McDonnell's refusal to enforce the "No Secret Police Act" is no aberration. It's reflection of a vision for LAPD that is fundamentally incompatible with the reform-minded direction L.A. has been struggling toward for 50 years. mikebonin.substack.com/p/jim-mcdonn...

Jim McDonnell, LAPD & the Olympic Imperative

Chief McDonnell vision for LAPD is fundamentally incompatible with the reform-minded direction Los Angeles has been struggling toward for 50 years.

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Labor unions urge Gov. Gavin Newsom, California lawmakers to rein in artificial intelligence

Labor unions urge Gov. Gavin Newsom, California lawmakers to rein in artificial intelligence

National union leaders urged Gov. Gavin Newsom to protect workers as AI threatens to replace or surveil employees — and warned that failure to do so could hurt his presidential ambitions.

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If you want to know who is calling for Casey Wasserman to resign from LA28 (and who isn’t), be following @awalkerinla.bsky.social Calling for resignations: Supervisors Hahn and Horvath, Controller Mejia, CMs Soto-Martinez, Hernandez, Raman, Rodriguez, Padilla.

Alissa Walker@awalkerinla.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"Ultimately, any decision on the LA28 leadership must be made by the LA28 Board. As you know, they are a separate and independent nonprofit organization." Statement from LA Mayor Karen Bass (which just landed in my inbox) who is *not* calling for LA28's Casey Wasserman to step down

I have not seen any local coverage of this: Patrick Butler, former Assistant Chief of LAFD, testified before the U.S. Senate last week, offering a damning indictment of LA’s (lack of) preparation for the Palisades Fire. This is Butler’s written testimony: www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

We need a nationwide general strike.

"The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - George Orwell They are killers, and they are liars.

The only way to save this country from Trump, Miller, and these unrepentant Nazi thugs is a nationwide general strike. Thank you to the people of Minnesota for leading the way - and in sub freezing temperatures! That’s patriotism. That’s courage. That’s love. ✊🏼

Need a summary of last week's election results and why they matter to you, an LA voter, in 49 minutes or less? Join me, @mikebonin.bsky.social and @rachelreyes.bsky.social for this week's episode of LA Podcast. @laforward.bsky.social Listen here: www.thinkforward.la/50-ways-to-l...

Zohran Mamdani won't become mayor of New York City until January 1 -- but Trump and FOX etc will almost immediately start claiming he has already turned the city into a shit hole.

“Hear me, President Trump: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.”

Three reform DAs won re-election tonight, two of them running uncontested. All in major population centers. Krasner Bragg Gonzalez This is get one-billionth the coverage of the Boudin recall, bc it doesn't fit the entrenched Tough on Crime Narrative, but it's still noteworthy.