Marina Watanabe

Can ICE access Flock cameras in L.A.? @marinamasako.bsky.social gets into the law versus the reality.

For further reporting, check out @shoton35mm.bsky.social’s coverage: lataco.com/flock-la-sta...

This event is insane

If you’ve ever walked around Bunker Hill, you may have noticed a series of pedestrian sky bridges.

Come along with @marinamasako.bsky.social as she takes @metrolosangeles.bsky.social to explore DTLA’s unfinished pedway system and the controversial history behind it.

#metropartner

With an @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social card, you can do way more than borrow books. @marinamasako.bsky.social shares five surprising free perks you get with the #BestCardinLA ✨

#PaidPartnership

Organizers have collected 14 lotion bottles, two deodorant bottles, and one AA Battery that detainees have thrown over the fences with notes attached to them.

The full story: lataco.com/captive-loti...

By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

these conditions are horrifying. this is an amazing story of community organizing strategy and commitment, as well as another example of the criminalization of mutual aid @lataco.bsky.social

screenshot of iPhone lock screen with an email notification from the Washington Post of a fundraising email

sending a fundraising email the morning you lay off a bunch of journalists — classy!

crunchyroll cutting its free tier and raising prices during frieren/jujutsu kaisen season is diabolical

Has this been reported?

Looks like Marsh Barnaby offered to introduce Patrick Soon-Shiong, current owner of the LA Times, to Jeffrey Epstein in 2014 and Epstein accepted the offer.

Probably worth knowing if they ever linked up.

*whispers* The best free resource in Los Angeles? An @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social library card 📚✨

With a library card, you get access to WiFi, 3D printing tools, Adobe Creative Cloud, recording studios, legal help, student tutoring, and more. All for free.

🎥: @marinamasako.bsky.social

Looking for traditional Japanese breakfast in Los Angeles?

The beloved Suehiro DTLA recently started offering *seven* different breakfast sets, including salted salmon, dashimaki tamago, and Japanese-style sausages with eggs.

🎥:
@marinamasako.bsky.social

My City Council representative, Katy Yaroslavsky, has an extra finger on her holiday postcard. Did Katy use AI to generate her postcard photo?!!

i don't ask for much. i just need billionaires to be executed in the street

Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

they should invent an iPad screen that doesn’t have my fingerprints all over it

Two rows of three post-it notes with drawings on them. Each cartoon is drawn by different artist who uses different colors and materials to complete the final look. The headline at the bottom of image reads “This 20-Year-Old Sawtelle Art Show Is Made of Over 2,000 Post-it Notes”

Every December, thousands of well-known and emerging artists from around the world scale down their work on three-by-three inch Post-it notes and display them at Giant Robot 2 in Sawtelle.

The full story: lataco.com/giant-robot-...

By @marinamasako.bsky.social

The Washington Post, everyone

i think it’s ok if janice is your favorite muppet

i just don’t think it’s ok that she’s quentin tarantino’s favorite muppet

Instead of holiday shopping at an evil mega-corporation, why not shop local this season instead?

From vintage Godzilla collectibles to cursed taxidermy objects, @marinamasako.bsky.social has got you covered. Bonus: all locations are easily @metrolosangeles.bsky.social accessible!

i consider blind box packaging a form of gambling, but i just bought my first smiski ever and it came with the ultra-rare “secret” baby smiski

so i’m actually pro-gambling now

not sure if y’all know this obscure fact about electric scooters, but they actually have a built-in brake system to slow for pedestrians who are using the sidewalk 🥹

💜

Marina Watanabe foi fundamental pra minha formação como feminista na adolescência (ela era youtuber na época) e leio todas as matérias dela na LA Taco hoje em dia

é tão legal ver pessoas que fizeram o bem continuando a fazer o bem com integridade

When the federal immigration raids ramped up in L.A. and protesters took to the streets in June, Chan decided to make a statement the only way he knew how: By printing thousands of protest signs and distributing them for free.

The full story: lataco.com/prints-again...

By Marina Watanabe

My latest for @lataco.bsky.social in collaboration with @lapublicpress.bsky.social

The law firm that obtained this footage could have given it to any news outlet they wanted to, including @latimes.com, but they decided to give it to @lataco.bsky.social FIRST.

Hi @latimes.com, I broke this story for @lataco.bsky.social yesterday. We were the first news outlet to publish the surveillance footage and report that Rodriguez is a federal agent. Disappointing to not see a "first reported by" credit or link to our website in your story. Do better.

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

chainsaw man is boy madoka magica

L.A. TACO's first ever "Sunday Taquitos" by Ivan Ehlers.