The suit was filed Friday and on Monday the county started producing records. Gotta be a world record.

The Union Bug: Ep. 003 In conversation with Daniel Gross about his forthcoming book, "Unions of Our Own: 8 Building Blocks to Change Work...and the World"

NEW: The Union Bug is back! On this week's episode, I spoke with @dgorganize.bsky.social about his forthcoming book, "Unions of Our Own: 8 Building Blocks to Change Work...and the World."

It's a damn good conversation and I hope you'll check it out. Daniel's book is out April 28th.

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in all seriousness, it all feels extra fake now.

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I just suspect every social media post is written by an AI now.

This doesn’t just suck — it’s annoying!

These attacks on the people appear to be retaliation and punishment, especially when considering what led up to the attacks:

And yes, it’s torture. GEO Group used chemical & kinetic weapons against people & left them without med care or enough means to fully wash the chemicals off.

Torture definition: “the infliction of intense pain (as from burning, crushing, or wounding) to punish, coerce, or afford sadistic pleasure”

“People were tortured inside the Adelanto ICE prison. GEO Group is fighting to keep the records secret so the public is kept in the dark about what’s really going on there,” said [me w/ @thesouthlander.com] “The taxpayers who fund that facility deserve transparency.”

Motion to Intervene Granted, One Major Step Closer to Unsealing Crucial Records and Video Footage of Abuse at Notorious Adelanto Immigration Facility Latest News

Motion granted! Public Justice scored a win on behalf of FAC, @thesouthlander.bsky.social, @lapublicpress.bsky.social & Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice to unseal documents in a case against the Adelanto ICE Processing Center. Learn more here ⬇️ firstamendmentcoalition.org/news/post/mo...

Thomson Reuters Shareholders Demand Investigation into ICE Contracts The shareholders explicitly cited multiple 404 Media investigations, including one that showed Thomson Reuters' CLEAR is integrated with a tool ICE uses to find neighborhoods to target.

New from 404 Media: Thomson Reuters shareholders demand investigation into the company's ICE contracts. The shareholders demand explicitly cites multiple 404 Media investigations, including one that shows Thomson Reuters' CLEAR is integrated with a Palantir ICE tool www.404media.co/thomson-reut...

Watch The Southlander interview with Jenaro Ernesto Ayala, a labor outreach coordinator for the Van Nuys Day Labor Center. Ayala spoke about his experience getting detained by the federal agents, the brutality he faced, and how it impacts the community's mental health.

Full interview link in bio🔗

Smell of feces, vomit fills crowded ICE facility, detainee's wife says Conditions at the ICE facility in central Phoenix mirror the conditions at a Mesa facility, where people were being treated worse than "animals," lawmakers said.

Many, many brave people are fighting to stop this, and also—our collective failure to stop it from getting this far will haunt us for the rest of our lives.

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Inadvertent is now at inadvertent.news (ditched the substack URL finally)

How Californians can use a new state website to block hundreds of data brokers – The Markup A tool called DROP lets California residents fill out a few forms to keep their personal data from being tracked or sold by data brokers.

A tool called DROP lets California residents fill out a few forms to keep their personal data from being tracked or sold by data brokers.

hilarious

"...they're afraid that they're gonna die there. They're afraid that what's happening across the country to people, that what's happening inside Adelanto, with the deaths of people, is going to happen to them." -@ryannemena.bsky.social on This Week on ICE

open.spotify.com/episode/6Cvq...

Cherry Hill school district sues journalists for filing too many public records requests The Cherry Hill school district wants to block public records requests by a freelance journalist and shut down his website portal.

How many FOIA requests does the state of New Jersey think is too many to file in a year and worth getting banned from filing anymore FOIAs for a year?

14.

LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell should be held in contempt for overseeing a department that continues to violate a federal injunction.

Saturday in LA at No Kings 3

LAPD
- 3 press unlawfully detained 2+ hours
- 2 press unlawfully arrested & cited
- 3 possible press handcuffed and driven away, identity/status unknown
- Dozens of press unlawfully obstructed

DHS
- Person holding camera shot in face
- Threw tear gas at group of press

"ICE agents will be stationed outside graduation events for the nation’s newest Marines to identify whether any of their family members are undocumented, according to the Marine Corps."

What?

ICE agents will be stationed outside Marine Corps graduation events in South Carolina As the U.S. continues to fight the war in Iran, the Marine Corps has boosted protection measures on bases, requiring everyone to present REAL IDs, passports or birth certificates to access any sites.

ICE is going to harass family members of United States Marines graduating from basic training www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

i was recently shown a photo from a couple years ago BEFORE i knew who bari weiss and the free press was and in the photo i am wearing a Free Press hat thinking it was some public gesture of my support for a free press. if u saw me wearing that hat, no you didn’t

More gas. A young woman with a camera got shot in the eye and carried away

Too chaotic to post

California sheriff who seized ballots has ties to radical ‘constitutional sheriffs’ movement The California sheriff who last month seized over 650,000 ballots has ties to a movement of radical right-wing local enforcement officials.

"Voter fraud lies have infected local law enforcement agencies, who now feel emboldened to act upon vague tips from politically-motivated groups."
www.democracydocket.com/opinion/cali...

powerful reporting from my colleague @kevin-flores.bsky.social and also @thesouthlander.com's first investigative piece. Read the story here: thesouthlander.com/lb-substanti...

Since April 2023, at least 217 Long Beach tenants have been displaced due to substantial remodel evictions. Tenant advocates allege that landlords exploit the "renoviction loophole" without proper legal or city notification.

✍️ by Kevin Flores

🔗Read our full story on thesouthlander.com

I just learned you can block ads from specific advertisers on IG if you click the 3 dots on the top right of the post. #bless

if the constant digital ads on my timeline continue for a certain mayoral candidate, I am just going to not vote for them at all just based on the amount of ads filling my timeline, idc if i agreed with what they had to say, the way to my vote is not ads #rantover

Inside LAPD's nearly $400M settlement crisis that's bankrupting LA Taxpayers are covering civil rights violations and officer misconduct while basic city services face cuts—and a new audit could reveal whether LAPD is doing anything to stop the pattern.

Last year, I wrote a piece highlighting LAPD's liability settlement costs and the harm that precedes the lawsuits. Now, I'm thinking bigger and want to know what you'd like to see reported on about police liabilities. What's missing?
lapublicpress.org/2025/11/lapd...

I’ll be at ONA26 in Chicago thanks to the Online News Association, Project C and the Lenfest Institute for Journalism! Inadvertent was one of the projects chosen for their Creator Cohort 🙏✊🏽

6! members! away!