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Daily Memo: California Is Installing ICE AI Surveillance Tools As Trump Goes After Your Civil and Constitutional Rights
Either through willful ignorance or foolish naivety, our local governments are building the surveillance apparatus that ICE currently uses and will continue to use to persecute immigrants, people of color, and dissidents to Trump.
Why Did Anaheim City Council Vote to Install Nearly $1M-Worth of License Plate Surveillance?
Forty-one of the cameras will be deployed across the broader Orange County operational area as part of a regional surveillance network.
USC Graduate Student at Center of Arturo Flores Sexual Assault Scandal Speaks Out
Since the news broke, there have been ongoing recall efforts and public pressure for Flores to resign. However, Flores remains a sitting council member.
Update: ICE Re-Detains Plaintiff Out On Bond in Landmark Case Challenging L.A. ICE Raids, Sends Him Back To Adelanto
After the Supreme Court refused his challenge to ICE, Isaac Antonio Villegas Molina, a construction worker filing a lawsuit against ICE with the help of the ACLU, was detained once again during his ISAP check-in.
Four Shops Turning the San Fernando Valley Into America’s Trading Card Capital
Since the pandemic, no hobby has seemingly been hotter than trading cards. Values have soared across all brands, with sealed Pokémon products outperforming the S&P 500.
Controversial Israeli Chef Expands Miznon Across L.A.
The Israel-founded group behind Miznon is expanding its L.A. footprint with a new Culver City location, despite protests accusing the restaurant of rebranding Palestinian cuisine, and highlighting its founders’ ties to massacres in Gaza.
You Think L.A. Smog is Bad Now? Let’s Set the Record Straight
“I remember my eyes stinging and my lungs burning [from smog]," UCLA environmental law professor Ann Carlson writes in ‘Smog and Sunshine.'
This 26-Year-Old From the Pacific Northwest Is Calling Out MAGA-Owned Latino Businesses
How did Harrie in Washington become a voice of accountability within the Latino American community?
I Almost Died to Try Long Beach’s Viral New Tacos. Was It Worth It?
Reflections from our editor-in-chief, who got in a bad accident on his way to try L.A.’s first all-beef trompo on a Tuesday afternoon.
How to Stop A Data Center in Your Backyard
These are lessons from San Gabriel Valley neighbors and activists who outsmarted developers and lobbyists.
