Emily Elena Dugdale

Tiny homes are a flawed solution to LA’s homelessness crisis, investigation finds Investigation uncovers flooding, broken heaters, and safety concerns. Critically, more than half of residents end up homeless when leaving LA’s tiny home villages.

Thanks to my sources; editors Jenna Chandler @zenagrossa.bsky.social @eedugdale.bsky.social @rina.bsky.social; LAPP's design/web/audience team (like Alyson Yee & @adelcidlugo.bsky.social); and publisher Matthew Tinoco for all your help.

hooooooooly shit he is not fucking around

What we know so far, 9:30pm

—Dems flip VA-Gov & VA-LG.
—BIG Dem gains in VA House
—Dems win NJ-Gov
—Mamdani up
—Dems seem to flip 2 statewide offices in GA
—JD Vance's half-brother loses in Cincy.
—Dems sweep Orlando council
—PA: Dem justices up big
—Maine anti-mail vote measure down
—Krasner wins

it's almost like running young, leftist, authentic politicians MOTIVATE VOTERS

And then the entire politics staff was fired. RIP Teen Vogue.

Is it good when federal judges have to schedule Sunday night 10 pm hearings about absurd military invasions of their state.

Hey, you guys?

Is it a good sign or a bad sign if a federal judge has to remind you (multiple times) that you’re a lawyer and an officer of the court?

Several months later, I spoke to Maxwell Aguirre’s parents, who sued LA County and LASD claiming that they did not adequately monitor their son, who had attempted suicide while in custody less than three weeks before his death.

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A man died by suicide at Twin Towers while guards allegedly watched videos An inmate died by suicide, while deputies who were supposed to be performing wellness checks were watching videos.

Here’s the article from 2023 @lapublicpress.bsky.social where I spoke to jail healthcare providers and social workers.

At that time, LASD placed restrictions on internet use for some deputies working the jail.

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The family also obtained surveillance footage showing that 22-year-old Maxwell Aguirre, who hung himself, was “affixing the ligature in plain sight” of deputies watching videos.

The family is demanding that the LA County DA’s office prosecute the deputies.

In 2023, I wrote about a young veteran who ended his life in jail as LASD sheriff’s deputies watched videos on their computers and failed to perform standard welfare checks in his dorm.

Today, his family revealed new evidence that deputies also falsified safety check records.

We’re Suing ICE for Its $2 Million Spyware Contract 404 Media has filed a lawsuit against ICE for access to its contract with Paragon, a company that sells powerful spyware for breaking into phones and accessing encrypted messaging apps.

New: 404 Media is suing ICE. We have filed a lawsuit demanding ICE release its $2 million contract with Paragon, a company that makes powerful spyware to break into phones and read encrypted messages. This is expensive for a small outlet but this info is important
www.404media.co/were-suing-i...

The right to speak freely is the ultimate personal liberty and the foundation of Karen’s 11-year career at The Post. We’re proud to call Karen a colleague and a longtime union sibling. The Post Guild stands with her and will continue to support her and defend her rights.

Their jails are atrocious and unsafe. The OIG for the LA County Sheriffs reported that from April to June, seven people died in the department’s custody. Of those seven, four were suicides. YTD, the department has reported 36 in-custody deaths.

Full complaint here:

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California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit today against LASD and LA County over “unconstitutional and inhumane conditions” at LA County jails.

Bonta highlights that we’re on track to have “more in-custody deaths in 2025 than at any time in the past twenty years.”

Context in our @lapublicpress @latimes collab from September: @keribla.bsky.social

www.latimes.com/california/s...

These Los Angeles tenants are saying no to rent hikes How one complex organized to take on their landlord—and the city's housing crisis.

How one Los Angeles complex organized to take on their landlord—and the city’s housing crisis.

“I didn’t know how to explain it to her. I just said, ‘No, we aren’t going to move.'”

Huntington Park mayor directs police to enforce ICE agents’ self-identification Huntington Park Mayor Arturo Flores released a statement Saturday, condemning what he called “masked abductions” amid immigration raids across Los Angeles County, and directing police to intervene …

The mayor of Huntington Park had formally directed the police department to enforce laws against ICE concerning unmarked vehicles, visible license plates and required agency identification.

Rude

Headed to #IRE2025 and a reminder that you can always say no to this ❌

Federal agents attack press and protesters with pepper balls at DTLA’s federal building during protests against ICE arrests. @shoton35mm.bsky.social reporting on the scene.

ooo she sounds smart and hot wonder if she has a name!!!

The US used to have free to low tuition until schools couldn't discriminate based on race

Can they do this for more people 👀

This UCLA psychiatrist's expert evaluation of ex-sheriff Alex Villanueva is ... really something.

(The county hired Cohen to do this eval to determine whether Villanueva had really suffered emotional distress as a result of being put on a "Do Not Rehire" list, as he alleged in his lawsuit.)

Pete Hegseth is pictured wearing a blue suit, looking to his left. A headline reads: "Pete Hegseth Said to Have Shared Sensitive Attack Details in Second Signal Chat." Photo by Eric Lee/The New York Times

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about strikes in Yemen to a second unclassified Signal group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said. nyti.ms/4jBQ1wV

gijn.org Investigating the Systemic Failures Enabling Abuse on Dating Apps

“If you’re in a bar, and someone’s being creepy to you, you’re going to tell the bartender or the bouncer and that guy is going to get kicked out… With these apps, the bouncer didn’t work.”

— @eedugdale.bsky.social, lead reporter, The Dating Apps Reporting Project

https://twp.ai/9PQx0X

NEW: Judge Boasberg finds probable cause to hold the Trump administration in contempt for their decision not to turn the planes around on March 15.

He orders them either to fix their mistake or identify who made those decisions (presumably for further sanctions).

“As a precautionary measure, Los Padrinos has implemented modified programming, and youth movement within the facility has been temporarily restricted… visiting hours for this weekend…as well as any tours involving outside visitors, have been canceled while the investigation remains active.”