I cannot wrap my head around this. Sick sad world.

Some places of the Rio Grande will be shallow enough that this won't be effective. And smugglers moving people across in rafts will quickly figure out how to cut these apart or hoist people over them from raft to raft. But... they will 100 percent cause more drowning deaths.

We uncovered a federal effort that disproportionately prosecuted migrants from Muslim countries at the border. The migrants, like Afghan journalists/activists, were jailed for months. DOJ stopped after our inquiry. “Why is it just us in detention?” latimes.com/world-nation/s…

Does anyone still use an RSS feed for local news and if so what do you use? Twitter worked for me for years but is so deeply useless now

"One migrant worker, a 17-year-old student at Belmont High School who requested anonymity, said he skipped two days of school to clean rooms at the Holiday Inn by LAX airport."

A bodega in Brooklyn

motherjones.com/politics/2024/… This is an incredible project

What we know about the victims of the Los Angeles area fires: via stephanie saul mimi dwyer Shaila Dewan Troy Closson: nytimes.com/2025/01/09/us/…

Today Ryan Mac 🙃 mimi dwyer and I talked to people returning to Altadena after the Eaton fire. What we found was heartbreaking. nytimes.com/2025/01/10/us/…

There's a special kind of horror at being able to watch your home burn down. The ubiquity of Nest and Ring cameras has made this possible both for people living in the fanciest neighborhoods and for those living in trailer parks. With colleague mimi dwyer: nytimes.com/2025/01/12/rea…

"Altadena Not For Sale!" signs have popped up in the area & activists implore people to resist offers from flippers & investors to buy their land. But for fire victims, the math or rebuilding can be too tough. w/ mimi dwyer Jesus Jiménez nytimes.com/2025/03/08/us/…

roach scoop: curbed.com/article/erewho…

Wrote about how Trump's tariffs are making it harder to rebuild after the LA fires. theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a…

Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future. wired.com/story/cbp-dna-…

Grateful to the LA press core this week ❤️ The independent journalists, the reporters on the ground and the ones sitting in the courtroom with pad and a pen, and the photographers in the streets with bruises on their body.

The L.A.P.D.’s widespread use of less-lethal weapons on protesters in June was intended to limit injuries and deaths. But our analysis shows how officers misused the weapons, violating department protocol by shooting and severely injuring two protesters with 40-mm sponge rounds.

L.A.P.D. officers used several different types of less-lethal munitions during the protests, including 40-mm sponge rounds. These are heavily regulated high-speed projectiles intended to cause pain and bruise the target. Sponge rounds are target specific: They are fired at single

The police’s protocol states that officers may only fire these rounds at specific individuals who pose an immediate threat, not to disperse crowds. Even if a target poses a threat, officers are prohibited from targeting the head unless lethal force is authorized.

Our investigation into LAPD's use of force at June's protests:

For the past few months, I’ve been investigating a privately-owned federal facility in New Mexico used to lock up federal detainees under the U.S. Marshals Service and immigrants arrested by ICE. What I found was shocking: