Melissa Gomez

Los Angeles Times journalists approve new contract by 87% after three years | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA Unionized journalists at the Los Angeles Times voted 156 to 23 on Tuesday to ratify a three-year contract deal with Media Guild of the West.

NEW: LA Times journalists (@latguild.bsky.social) approved a new contract after three years of hard-fought negotiations.

Under the deal, which covers more than 200 Guild members, every newsroom worker will receive a raise of at least $3,000 in the first year.

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We are all the passed out raccon in the bathroom.

Commentary: The DHS keeps poaching music for ICE recruitment ads. Musicians keep demanding it back Poaching the work of pop music artists appears to be the only way the DHS can utilize music that actually appeals to people younger than 50.

"The list of luminaries who have condemned the agency’s actions or filed legal copyright removal requests (Jay-Z had his song “Public Service Announcement” struck from a DHS social media post) reads like a sold-out Coachella lineup: Jay-Z, Olivia Rodrigo, MGMT..."
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Inside the Stockton banquet hall where kids were slaughtered, parents return to a scene of horror In an act that left this gritty San Joaquin Valley city in a state of numb fear, a gunman or gunmen had crashed their child’s birthday party Saturday night. On Sunday, the family confronted a scene of...

heartbreaking look inside the Stockton banquet hall where kids were slaughtered as parents return to a scene of horror
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School enrollment drops amid ICE raids. 'We just don't know what happened to them.' Schools across Southern California are facing steeper enrollment declines as Trump immigration enforcement actions discourage or prevent students from enrolling.

Trump administration immigration crackdowns are driving unexpected enrollment declines at U.S. schools. Read more here: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-29/school-enrollment-plummets-lausd-amid-trump-immigration-raids?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_ 

Despite court wins, immigrants stay detained as ICE seeks to deport them Immigration attorneys described an escalating trend of cases in which someone who won protection from deportation has remained indefinitely detained.

Despite court wins, immigrants stay detained as ICE seeks to deport them
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Column: L.A. exploded into a world art capital. I was lucky to be here to witness it Los Angeles' ascension coincided with the 46-year career of art critic Christopher Knight. In his final column for The Times, he cites three important factors in that rise.

Christopher Knight's @knightlat.bsky.social's last column for the LA Times! 🫡
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Hard lives in California's fields: 'The American dream eats us alive' Immigrant farmworkers toil, season after season, in jobs that most Americans wouldn't endure for a week. It's a rough life that takes a heavy toll.

Undocumented farmworkers have formed the backbone of California agriculture for more than a century, yet they face mounting fears of ICE raids under the Trump administration.

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Attacks on ICE up 1,000%? Trump administration claim not backed up by court records The Trump administration has cited a more than 1,000% increase in assaults on immigration agents to justify aggressive tactics. But court records reviewed by The Times show the majority of the alleged...

"A Times analysis of court records related to assaults on federal law enforcement in Los Angeles, San Diego, Portland, Ore., Chicago and Washington, D.C., shows the majority of the alleged attacks resulted in no injury to an agent."
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L.A. grand jury now probing mystery of dead teen stuffed in trunk of Dv4d's Tesla, sources say Although the LAPD has publicly declined to call the death a homicide, a recent court filing calls the matter "an investigation into murder."

SCOOP: An L.A. grand jury is now hearing evidence in the case of a teen girl found stuffed in trunk of Dv4d's Tesla, sources tell me & @lacrimes.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.

"But offering her an editorship showed disregard for the damage she’s caused and the journalistic ethics she’s burned to the ground. The glamorous photo shoots, the breathless gossip... all function to rehabilitate the images and careers of people who have done harm."
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‘I’m Lost in This Country’: Non-Mexicans Living Undocumented After Deportation to Mexico Cubans and other third-country nationals are dropped off on the streets of Villahermosa where they struggle to survive.

Cubans and other third-country nationals deported from the U.S. are being dropped off on the streets of Villahermosa, Mexico, where they struggle to survive.

Though Mexico receives these deportees, it does not give them any legal status to live or work there.
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Thousands of Immigrant Students Flee L.A. Unified Schools After ‘Chilling Effect’ of ICE Raids The nation’s second-largest district now enrolls about 62,000 English learners, down from more than 75,000 immigrant students in the 2024-25 academic.

Thousands of Immigrant Students Flee L.A. Unified Schools After ‘Chilling Effect’ of ICE Raids
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Farmworkers sue Trump administration in California over threat to wages The United Farm Workers, along with more than a dozen farmworkers, filed a federal lawsuit in California challenging a new Labor Department rule they argue will "undercut and adversely affect" wages paid to U.S. workers.

Farmworkers sue Trump administration in California over threat to wages

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
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D.A. moves to drop charges against Torrance officers in fatal shooting of Black man Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman moved to dismiss a manslaughter indictment against two Torrance police officers who shot and killed Christopher Deandre Mitchell in 2018. Mitchell, a car ...

BREAKING: L.A. D.A. Nathan Hochman is moving to drop charges against Torrance officers in the 2018 fatal shooting of Christopher Deandre Mitchell, undoing a signature case filed by ex-D.A. George Gascon www.latimes.com/california/s...

California's child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.

What an incredible piece of reporting from my former colleague @lajourno.bsky.social, who spent months reporting how the state has under-investigated children working in harsh conditions in fields across California. Spend the time to read and hear from the children.
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Border Patrol agent died of cocaine overdose a month after Long Beach arrest, autopsy says U.S. Border Patrol agent Isaiah Hodgson died of a cocaine overdose in August, one month after he was arrested for drunkenly fighting with Long Beach police, according to an autopsy report made public ...

An autopsy made public today shows a Border Patrol agent was depressed and died of a cocaine overdose a month after he was arrested in Long Beach. My latest: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Immokalee High School urges staff to support students after impact of ICE raids in Collier County ICE agents have been detaining people across Collier County, causing emotional distress among students at Immokalee High School as families face uncertainty.

Immokalee is one of Florida's most low-income areas, and about 73% Latino. It's also heavily agricultural - this is like targeting the Central Valley in California.
www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com/article/immo...

She Was Deported in Error. Her Child Was Left Behind.

Maribel Lopez was supposed to be protected from deportation because she had a pending asylum case on appeal, after fleeing years of abuse in Guatemala. Instead, she was deported in error & left behind a 2-year-old son. Now back in the U.S., she remains in detention.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Epstein’s journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.

"What are young and/or struggling journalists supposed to think when the most successful people in the business are the ones with malleable ethics and poor judgement (and, to be honest, pretty bad writers)?"

@marisakabas.bsky.social with some sharp thoughts 👇🏼
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Scrappy and underpaid, LA's independent reporters risk it all to cover the ICE beat Law enforcement physically attacked 72 journalists covering immigration in LA this year—more than double the city's 2020 BLM protest total, according to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.

Law enforcement physically attacked 72 journalists covering immigration in LA this year—more than double the city’s 2020 BLM protest total, according to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.
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Mistrial declared in case of ex-Whittier cop charged for shooting unarmed man in back Jurors could not reach a verdict against former Whittier police detective Salvador Murillo, who was charged with multiple counts of assault for shooting a fleeing unarmed suspect in the spine in 2020,...

An L.A. jury deadlocked on assault charges against an ex-Whittier who shot and paralyzed an unarmed man in 2020, leading to a mistrial. My latest: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

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Trump defends Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing The de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia was branded a pariah in 2018 after the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Now, U.S.-Saudi relations are approaching a high point.

“[We] at The Washington Post will continue to remind you that one of our colleagues in the not-so-distant past was murdered... “That’s not something we can just wipe under the rug or forget about.”
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Man who stabbed woman in the throat as they rode L.A. Metro is found guilty of murder Elliot Tramel Nowden faces life in prison for stabbing Mirna Soza Arauz to death while robbing her on the B Line L.A. Metro train.

A homeless man who had previously been banned from L.A. Metro for violence was convicted today of murder and robbery for stabbing a 67-year-old woman to death on the B Line last year. www.latimes.com/california/s...

How little plastic does it take to kill marine animals? Scientists have answers Ocean plastic kills sea creatures. For the first time, researchers set out to find out how much it takes. The answer: Surprisingly little.

For sea creatures, plastic is often deadly. New research shows it takes just 6 pieces the size of a pencil eraser to kill sea birds. It’s the first time scientists have quantified how much plastic it takes to kill a bird, marine mammal or turtle. @susrust.bsky.social www.latimes.com/science/stor...

Trump 'knew about the girls,' Jeffrey Epstein claimed in explosive emails released by House Democrats Donald Trump “spent hours at the house” and “knew about the girls,” Jeffrey Epstein wrote in emails House Democrats released Wednesday.

Trump ‘knew about the girls,’ Jeffrey Epstein claimed in explosive emails released by House Democrats
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He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation Deportation has taken away the father I once knew and given me back a person I no longer recognize.

what a heartbreaking story.
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California city tried to stamp out 10-year-old’s beehive project. Saving the bees was a lesson in love Before he goes out for lacrosse games, it's tradition that he has a spoonful of honey. Also, perhaps not coincidentally given what happened later, he gets a kick out of seeing tiny insects work togeth...

“Because all the bees are girls, worker bees are girls, I say, ‘Girls, you’re going to be on the news tonight,’” Nicholas said. “Or I’ll say, ‘Girls, how are you doing this morning?’ I just want to give them a heads-up.”
a great read by @tarantulaarms.bsky.social
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