The organization announced the lawsuit in response to the councilmember’s failure to turn over public documents related to Flock Safety.

Find your neighborhood to see where Karen Bass and Nithya Raman led. Use the map’s race menu to explore City Council contests and ballot measures, too.

After a group of street vendors were forced out from the sidewalks outside of the Westlake/MacArthur Park Metro station last year, the mayor’s office installed a temporary fence to block vendors from returning for the purported purpose of disrupting illegal drug and weapons sales. In May, the city replaced the fence with large yellow and red bollards.

Now city officials are planning to spend at least $2.3 million to put a fence around MacArthur Park, with LAPD Capt. Ben Fernandes telling LA Local in an article published Oct. 23 that doing so would make it easier for police to arrest people using drugs inside the park.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — At the height of the Los Angeles fires in 2025, millions of residents were exposed in a 24-hour period to toxic lead levels from smoke that were 80 times higher than the typical background level, according to a new study.

Researchers from the California Institute of Technology compared the chemical composition of smoke from the Eaton Fire with that of a wildfire and found that the urban plume had more lead, arsenic and halogens (which include chlorine and bromine) linked to burning vehicles, building materials and electronics.

“The main, key finding is really that wildfire smoke is very different fundamentally from the urban smoke,” said Nga Lee “Sally” Ng, an author of the study published Wednesday in the journal Science Advances. With the new technology they used to measure what was in the smoke, they were able to “actually see the very detailed component of these particles that we are breathing.”

LAPD officers drove up and down the streets as pro-Palestine protesters were subjected to harassment on the sidewalk and around the entrance of the museum but did nothing to intervene or disperse the crowd. Museum staff and personnel entered and exited the building throughout the verbal attacks on protesters, stopping to speak with security but refusing to dissipate the violent and loud counter-protesters.

Corrales’ lawsuit references a 252-page investigative report compiled throughout 2024 by the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau. The report itself isn’t included in the lawsuit, but Corrales claims he has knowledge about what it contains, including the identities of 271 current and former employees who either admitted to or were found to potentially have tattoos associated with two deputy gangs, the “Regulators” and “Spartans.”

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“Nobody knows the number of deputies in any secret society, Spartans and Regulators included, because [the sheriff’s department] has never conducted an investigation to identify all members,” said Huntsman, who retired in 2025.

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According to the lawsuit, internal affairs investigators tried to compel Corrales to tally or show them every tattoo on his body.

He was also ordered, under the threat of discharge, to answer if he had a Spartan tattoo or one similar to it anywhere on his body, according to the lawsuit. Investigators at one point, he said, asked Corrales to lift his pant legs to prove the existence of a tattoo on his shins.

He refused, and on Nov. 6, he was discharged for “purposely and/or unnecessarily obstructed, and/or interfered with, and/or delayed an official internal investigation” and refusing to answer the investigators’ questions, according to the lawsuit.

Who supports Proposition 4?

Proposition 4 is supported by California Governor Gavin Newsom and groups like the California Democratic Party, the League of Women Voters of California, Consumer Watchdog, and Money Out, Voters In. Supporters say the cost of running for office has increased over the past few decades — a handful of recent races were some of the most expensive in state history — and the measure could open doors for candidates who lack support from private donors.

Who opposes Proposition 4?

Opponents include the California Taxpayers Association, United Latinos Action, and former members of California’s Fair Political Practices Commission. Those who oppose Proposition 4 say it would not eliminate campaign funding from private special interest groups; candidates would be able to fundraise from both private and public groups. CalTax, the California Taxpayers Association, argues that Proposition 4 diverts cash from taxpayers to fund campaign costs such as advertising.

UCLA law student Jonathan Hale and about 150 volunteers have painted unauthorized crosswalks at dangerous Los Angeles intersections, saying residents cannot wait for city action.

Advocates say traffic deaths rose 56% from 2015 to 2025 as the city’s Vision Zero effort faltered; officials say they maintain or add more than 1,000 crosswalks annually.

Hale, arrested while painting in Westwood before his case was dismissed, wants the city to legalize the work and recommit to Vision Zero. LADOT says it has met its commitments to him.

Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20261016121334/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-10-16/risking-arrest-he-paints-illicit-crosswalks-in-la-we-cant-wait

"My office served LA28 with a subpoena for financial records and information to ensure that the City leaders and public know LA28's finances!"

"Behind every door was a chance to make money. It was 2020, and Matt DeBoth and Angel Escobar were canvassing Koreatown, Highland Park and other gentrifying Los Angeles neighborhoods, trying to get tenants, mostly working-class immigrants, to give up some of the city’s most affordable apartments. Each time a tenant agreed, DeBoth later said in a deposition, he and Escobar could get a bonus of up to $1,000.

They worked for K3 Holdings LLC, a landlord based in Beverly Hills, California, which was rapidly acquiring dozens of rent-controlled properties across L.A. The company’s plan was to pay the longtime tenants to leave their homes — usually tens of thousands of dollars — and then raise the rent substantially for the next occupants, according to internal K3 records reviewed by Capital & Main."

I won't pretend to be neutral, I'm supporting Nithya Raman wholeheartedly.

LOS ANGELES — Public Counsel, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA), the Immigrant Defenders Law Center (ImmDef), and co-counsel Willkie Farr & Gallagher filed a motion on Wednesday, October 7, asking a federal court to enforce its July 16 preliminary injunction requiring the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement to fix dangerous conditions at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center. The motion presents evidence that the government has failed to comply with the order's most basic requirements. It asks the Court to enforce the order, require the government to show cause regarding its compliance, hold the government in civil contempt, and impose daily sanctions until it complies.

The Details: The ad featured two young women with unnaturally colored hair sitting in a dark bedroom with a LGBTQ flag visible in the background. One of the women said, "I've never done anything like this before. What if my dad finds out?" The other woman told her to close her eyes and let her do all the work, and their hands move below the screen. The ad then cut to their hands and showed one woman helping the other fill in the "Steve Hilton" bubble on a mail-in ballot. She then made a risque comment to ask the other woman to help her seal the ballot envelope.

“He’s showing California his true colors,” Debru Carthan, vice president of Service Employees International Union-United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW)—which is leading the campaign for the California billionaire tax—said in response to Newsom’s endorsement of Proposition 42. “He’d rather millions of children and families lose their healthcare than ask a couple hundred billionaires to finally pay their fair share.”

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But critics have described Prop 42 as a “poison-pill measure” whose supporters are fearmongering about a nonexistent threat to retirement savings in an effort to defeat the proposed billionaire tax, revenue from which would be used to fund healthcare, food aid, and education in the state.

“Its true target is Prop 40,” the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote of the Newsom-backed measure. “Prop 42 papers over its real purpose by cynically appealing to middle-class worries about retirement security. Reject this appalling tactic and disincentivize its further use by voting no.”

Newsom has opposed the idea of a wealth tax on California’s billionaires from the proposal’s inception, pitting him against major unions, the California Democratic Party, and prominent national progressives such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.).

Gavin Newsom please stop doing politics already, we all hate you and can see right through your shallow bs.

I consider this a prime Gestapo move if you are gunning for the top position of performative opposition/Top Good Cop in a fascist society run by billionaires.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/52677229

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Exploring the history, ecology, and future of the Los Angeles River.

Some time ago I made a quiz game where you need to correctly locate the neighborhoods of Los Angeles.

Link: https://geographyquiz.app/quiz/usa-los-angeles-neighborhoods/346

Also made one about the major roads and neighboring cities.

Have fun!