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L.A.’s Most Eccentric Bartender Just Swam 21 Miles From Catalina to L.A. This Is What Was Going Through His Mind

L.A. TACO caught up with Matthew Biancaniello to share what the hell was going through his mind, being in salty water for nearly a day, nearly naked because he is team-no-wetsuit, and both the mental and physical challenges he overcame to do it all.

October 24, 2025

Beto Villanueva of Chicago Oi! Band Fuerza Bruta On ICE Raids, Latino Skinheads, and Paella in Basque Country

Fascist times call for antifascist music. Fuerza Bruta play this Saturday, October 25 at First Street Billiards for Perry Templars Halloween Birthday Bash featuring Templars, Castillo, Fuerza Bruta, Ultra Sect, Hand Pay and Traxx.

October 24, 2025

DAILY MEMO: About 30 Community Members Escort Family Home After Being Chased By Feds Into Long Beach Ross

Community members continue to step in and force federal agents out of their communities, thwarting kidnappings, confronting scouts, and even escorting families safely back home.

October 23, 2025

L.A.’s Megachurches Preach Tradition From Behind Laser Beams and Fog Machines

Today in L.A., it’s customary for churches to livestream sermons, accept online donations, and master the digital algorithm. Hillsong’s Instagram account currently has 2.9 million followers—more than the populations of San Diego and San Francisco combined. 

October 23, 2025

From Bettie Page to Alfalfa: Six People You Didn’t Know Were Buried In Los Angeles

If you think L.A.’s studios, supermarkets, and freeways are stacked with Hollywood stars, you should see its cemeteries.

October 23, 2025

DAILY MEMO: Federal Agents Continue Ramming Their Vehicles Into People’s Cars

Except for a wild incident in San Diego where Agents chased and rammed their truck into a fleeing vehicle by a special ed center, today has been relatively calm compared to the last couple of weeks. There were only eight verified incidents to report. This is the new reality where such incidents are considered a calm day. A quick note, if you’re in San Bernardino and OC, listen up, because they never leave you alone. They are always there, especially at the San Bernardino courthouse, which they seem to target every single day.

October 22, 2025

City of the Dead: The Forgotten History of the People of Los Angeles, Told By Six East L.A. Cemeteries

Thanks to Hollywood films, Day of the Dead has evolved from a Mexican holiday to an international one celebrated by all of Los Angeles but long before that, the dead were already shaping L.A.’s story.

October 22, 2025

Voting ‘Yes’ on Prop 50 Flexes California’s Power to Defy MAGA’s Power Play

Even some champions of California’s citizen-drawn Congressional maps support the Nov. 4 ballot measure to suspend them and counter Trump’s attacks. "The people have to say no, we are going to figure out how to survive,” activist and politician Melina Abdullah said.

October 22, 2025

DAILY MEMO: Agents Shoot TikToker in L.A. and Raid San Fernando Valley

Across Southern California, a joint operation involving ICE, U.S. Marshals, and other federal agents led to multiple kidnappings and violent detentions from the shooting of TikTok reporter RichardLA in Los Angeles to aggressive day-laborer raids in Sylmar, Reseda, and Thousand Oaks while heavily armed masked agents were also seen intimidating residents in Santa Ana and other cities throughout the day.

Trump Administration Pressures Meta, Apple, and Google Into Corporate Obedience

The federal government "jawbones" private companies by pressuring them to silence voices they can’t legally censor themselves, and Big Tech has erased ICE‑watching apps and an ICE-Sighting Chicago Facebook group.

October 21, 2025