Jeremy Lindenfeld

A few photos from today in Eastern California.

My film camera stopped working on the second day of my roadtrip, so it looks like this’ll be a mostly digital trip. Here’s the first digital photo from earlier today.

On a California roadtrip and yesterday I stopped at California City Correctional Facility – the largest ICE detention center in the state – and then Manzanar concentration camp, where thousands of Japanese Americans were forcibly interned during World War 2.

We are repeating the sins of our past.

On a California roadtrip and yesterday I stopped at California City Correctional Facility – the largest ICE detention center in the state – and then Manzanar concentration camp, where thousands of Japanese Americans were forcibly interned during World War 2.

We are repeating the sins of our past.

Broadview police chief accuses ICE agents of making false 911 calls Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills said ICE agents are draining the resources of his department and the community by making false 911 calls.

Broadview Police Chief Thomas Mills said ICE agents are draining the resources of his department and the community by making false 911 calls. He has demanded ICE turn over the names of all federal officers involved in each incident, and said he is ready to take ICE to court.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Aerial view of California City Correctional Facility, a private prison owned by CoreCivic that has been converted into the single largest ICE detention center in California.

Many detainees have decried the conditions within the facility.

Trump officials discussed sending elite Army division to Portland, text messages show A high-ranking White House official was indiscreetly texting about the Portland, Ore., planning last weekend, according to messages shared with the Minnesota Star Tribune.

The messages show high-level officials in the Trump administration discussing the possible deployment of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, an infantry force that has dropped into combat zones in both World Wars, Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Spent some time today with Kim Corella, a Cal Fire Forest Pathologist who is sounding the alarm about goldspotted oak borers - an invasive insect infecting and killing trees across Southern California.

Shot on Pentax 67 105mm, Portra 400, developed and scanned at home.

Election May Decide Health Coverage Fate for Millions as Some Affordable Care Act Subsidies Are Set to Expire Chrysa Ostenso — who operates the only optometry practice in Rusk County, Wisconsin — worries about keeping her doors open if Biden-era tax credits end.

If you want to better understand the ACA subsidies Democrats are trying to protect, check out this article I wrote about this exact topic almost a year ago. capitalandmain.com/election-may...

Trump mandates all federal agencies send email blaming Dems for potential gov’t shutdown Workers call the partisan email "a vile slap in the face."

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted.

My story:

The US Forest Service website now displays a banner that reads “The Radical Left Democrats shutdown the government.” This is an explicit breach of the Hatch Act, but nothing new for the Trump administration.

Developed more film in my bathroom sink today. I like this one of Polina.

Opinion: USC's Willow Bay must break her silence on Kimmel A few ideas for our dean once she breaks her silence on her husband suspending Jimmy Kimmel.

While Disney's Bob Iger bent the knee to Trump's censorship, Willow Bay, Iger's wife and dean of USC's journalism school, remained silent.

Read this opinion piece by the one and only Alan Mittelstaedt. morningtrojan.com/p/willow-bay...

Wherein I interview a one-time #Texas oilman and learn about the massive mess left behind when his company collapsed.
It's also a glimpse into how oil wells get orphaned and how New Mexico may be on the hook for $1.6 billion in cleanup costs in coming years.

capitalandmain.com/new-mexicos-...

we can't say for sure that these aren't actually death camps

Trump’s Plan to End Forest Protections Targets a ‘Conservation Success Story’ Allowing roads and logging on millions of acres of national forests would benefit private industry while threatening habitat and public access, opponents say.

The public has ONE MORE DAY to submit comment to the USDA about the Trump administration's efforts to rescind the Roadless Rule, opening up 45 million acres of National Forest land to roadbuilding, logging and mining.

Story here: capitalandmain.com/trumps-plan-...

Trump’s Plan to End Forest Protections Targets a ‘Conservation Success Story’ Allowing roads and logging on millions of acres of national forests would benefit private industry while threatening habitat and public access, opponents say.

Full story here: capitalandmain.com/trumps-plan-...

YouTube video by Capital & Main Why Is Trump Ending Environmental Protections on 45 Million Acres of National Forest Land?

Trump wants to allow road construction & logging on 45 million acres of protected National Forests. I spoke w/ conservationists who said rescinding the Roadless Rule is an existential threat & with timber industry professionals who are excited at the prospect.

WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=084P...

Trump’s Plan to End Forest Protections Targets a ‘Conservation Success Story’ Allowing roads and logging on millions of acres of national forests would benefit private industry while threatening habitat and public access, opponents say.

NEW: The Trump administration's efforts to rescind the Roadless Rule, which prohibits road construction, logging and mining on 45 million acres of National Forests, alarms conservationists and excites the timber industry.

capitalandmain.com/trumps-plan-...

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Before the U.S. Steel Explosion, a Legacy of Cost-Cutting and Broken Promises Canceled upgrades, insufficient maintenance and political lobbying preceded deadly explosion at Pennsylvania’s aging steel plant.

“It’s falling apart and is a ticking time bomb.”

After a major U.S. Steel Clairton plant explosion that made headlines in August, environmentalists have hoped that the company's new owner corrects the many years of neglect at the aging steel plant.

capitalandmain.com/before-the-u...

Firefighters question leaders’ role in ICE raid near Bear Gulch Fire - High Country News Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.

Holy shit:

Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status.

www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

Forest Service Cuts Leave Firefighters Mowing Lawns While Morale Craters Crews say layoffs and resignations have left them stuck with duties far from the fire line.

Full story: capitalandmain.com/forest-servi...

YouTube video by Capital & Main Forest Service Layoffs Push Firefighters to Clean Toilets and Mow Lawns

Forest Service layoffs are forcing wildland firefighters to clean toilets and mow lawns. Some firefighters say they have even been prevented from joining efforts on the fireline to execute their new non-fire responsibilities.

My latest: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZLo...

Forest Service cuts leave firefighters mowing lawns while morale craters | Colorado Newsline The Forest Service currently lacks the manpower it needs to manage the worsening wildfire crisis, according to its own website.

After mass layoffs and deferred resignation offers hollowed out a large part of the U.S. Forest Service, federal firefighters have been left to pick up the slack — some now clean toilets while others mow lawns around ranger stations.
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Went camping in Yosemite with 16 friends and my Hasselblad.

In Los Angeles, gasoline was found in a drinking water aquifer.

Phillips 66 has removed millions of tons of polluted water from its closing refinery, but more remains.

Residents of Wilmington demand a plan to clean it.

Hi everyone! I’ve unfortunately been diagnosed with a likely rib fracture from the hospital. Likely it occurred on Friday, August 8 during a protest where I was in the middle of asking for a PIO/supervisor.

As is clear in the video, I waited for a moment for a break in the line moving forward.