Gabrielle LaMarr LeMee

The transformation of the prison into migrant detention continues a pattern of ICE moving into shuttered prisons. With several recently closed prisons in the state and one more expected next year, activists worry whether one of those facilities may be next.

California City mayor told me that he had proposed to the company that they turn the former prison into a training academy for trade careers but CoreCivic decided to wait until after the election to see which way the political winds would blow.

ICE wants to expand detention capacity in California. This new facility will be the largest in the state CoreCivic has reached an agreement with ICE to convert its California City facility into federal immigrant detention.

Private prison and detention contractor CoreCivic has reached an agreement with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to convert its 2,560-bed California City facility into the state’s newest and largest migrant detention center. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Washington Blues: A Government Town Faces a Gloomy Future For years, Washington, D.C., was insulated from many of the economic forces that decimated many older U.S. cities. Now, as Elon Musk’s mass layoffs shake everything from employment to real estate,…

NEW: The biggest DOGE-related layoffs are in and around Washington, D.C.

In the week ending Feb. 22, unemployment claims in D.C. rose 25% from the week prior and were four times as high as one year earlier — and that’s only the beginning.

Elon Musk’s Team Decimates Education Department Arm That Tracks National School Performance The Trump administration canceled $900 million in contracts overseen by the Institute of Education Sciences, which partners with scientists and education companies to compile and make public data abou...

DOGE came for the research and statistics arm of the U.S. Department of Education today, declared "fraud" and "waste" and abruptly terminated about $900M in contracts. A lot of what we know about America's schools comes from the data this agency collects. New reporting with @jodiscohen.bsky.social

Here’s tomorrow’s front page of the @latimes. All our fire coverage is here, and the paywall has been lifted: www.latimes.com/california/l...

5 dead, more than 2,000 structures burned as new fire hits Hollywood Hills More than 2,000 structures have burned and at least five people are dead in wildfires burning across L.A. County. Red flag warnings remained in effect for Los Angeles County and much of Ventura County...

Shoutout to the Los Angeles Times reporters who are doing essential journalism under very difficult circumstances.

They’ve dropped their paywall, but their ongoing coverage is a good reminder of why local newsrooms need support — and what we lose when those outlets are hollowed out.

How a simple math error sparked a panic about black plastic kitchen utensils A study warned that people were being exposed to a toxic chemical from kitchen utensils. But the researchers misstated the safe daily limit

Oh you gotta be kidding me. nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

LAT Guild statement: Our commitment to journalistic integrity — L.A. Times Guild - Los Angeles Times Guild Journalists of the Los Angeles Times are committed to shining a light on injustice, exposing wrongdoing, and seeking the facts. We speak truth to power, regardless of which party is in power.

"Our members—and all Times stffers—abide by a strict set of ethics guidelines, which call for fairness, precision, transparency, vigilance against bias, & an earnest search to understand all sides of an issue. Those longstanding principles will continue guiding our work"
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Ummm rude to mention this. But yes! Such a good song. Shaboozey deserves all the attention.

This is a jarring story about Tegna owned WUSA-TV pulling a story AFTER IT AIRED. The excuse is that the story needed a comment from the local gas company BUT that seems a bit fishy especially because 1) the local gas co isn't mentioned 2) the general industry complaints are included. HMMMM

Here is a gift article from The NY Times that also describes the disinformation-fueled measles epidemic in Samoa which killed over 80 people, most of them small children, and RFK Jr’s considerable role in fomenting it:
www.nytimes.com/2019/12/19/w...

Thanksgiving | Food & Friends Delivering hope, one meal at a time.

DMV folks: 🚨 Thanksgiving Volunteers Needed! Food & Friends needs YOUR help delivering 4,500 Thanksgiving meals to seriously ill neighbors across the DMV. Delivery shifts are available at 8:00 am, 9:00 am, 10:00 am, and 11:00 am.

Details at: foodandfriends.org/engage/thank...

Doctors grapple with how to save women's lives amid 'confusion and angst' over new Louisiana law • Louisiana Illuminator Under a new state law, Louisiana doctors might not be able to quickly access one of the most widely used life-saving medications for pregnant women.

Lifesaving medication for postpartum hemorrhaging is being pulled off emergency carts because of new Louisiana law reclassifying misoprostol as a controlled dangerous substance. lailluminator.com/2024/09/03/l...

How ‘urgent’ texts pushed these donors to give thousands of times to political candidates Donors responding to a slew of political text messages from both Republicans and Democrats have given tens of thousands of dollars in small donations. Some without realizing how they were adding up.

While looking through campaign finance data, I noticed a strange pattern. Many people were donating small amounts, $1 or $5, to the same candidates and groups over and over again, dozens of times, every day. Why? Here's the story. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Black dog wearing red harness laying down in the trunk of an SUV.

Seems like people like pets over here. This is Flops, a mostly good boy. Flops thinks the work day has gone on far too long.