Third Annual LitCrawl L.A. ~ October 21

We’re not seeing much ICE activity in the L.A. area, but we can confirm that people are being taken from their check-ins. Not everybody who checks in gets taken, but some people do.

Memo Torres, Izzy Ramirez, and Erwin Recinos

March 5, 2026

Former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has been reassigned to the role of “Special Envoy for the Shield of the Americas,” which will have its first meeting with like-minded right-wing leaders from 12 Latin American countries. Mullin, who is currently a House Representative for Oklahoma’s 2nd district, will take on the role of Secretary of DHS at the end of the month, where he’ll likely be ready to take on all of the U.S. in a fistfight.

Izzy Ramirez, Aisha Wallace-Palomares, and Memo Torres

March 5, 2026

Life is too short for bad tortillas. Here’s how to choose flour and corn tortillas that have the power to change your outlook on life.

Javier Cabral

March 5, 2026

The complaints report similar declarations from different commanders, who describe the Iran war as Trump’s bringing of “Armageddon.”

Izzy Ramirez

March 4, 2026

“I have voted against every single 41.18 motion that has come into city council,” Soto-Martinez says in his defense during an interview with L.A. TACO at the protest.

Lizbeth Solorzano and Lexis-Olivier Ray

March 4, 2026

Councilwoman Ellis, who is Haitian-American and a registered nurse, tells the Arizona Daily Star that she is outraged, “Nobody should die from a tootache. Something has to be done.”

Memo Torres

March 4, 2026