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I still tell people about that gumbo. I think I told someone a couple weeks ago

Donate to Support David Swanson's Cancer Battle, organized by David Strathearn On November 14th, my 61st birthday, I, David Swanson, was diagnosed with squamo… David Strathearn needs your support for Support David Swanson's Cancer Battle

My friend and colleague David Swanson is a legendary photographer and an extraordinary, deeply kind and compassionate human being. Please help out if you can.

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Donate to Support David Swanson's Cancer Battle, organized by David Strathearn On November 14th, my 61st birthday, I, David Swanson, was diagnosed with squamo… David Strathearn needs your support for Support David Swanson's Cancer Battle

My friend and colleague David Swanson is a legendary photographer and an extraordinary, deeply kind and compassionate human being. Please help out if you can.

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Reverend Rae Huang poses with her children following her mayoral campaign launch at a press conference in front of City Hall in Los Angeles, CA on Nov. 16, 2025

Reverend Rae Huang announces her mayoral campaign launch at a press conference in front of City Hall in Los Angeles, CA on Nov. 16, 2025

Reverend Rae Huang hugs a supporter following her mayoral campaign launch at a press conference in front of City Hall in Los Angeles, CA on Nov. 16, 2025

Reverend Rae Huang speaks to supporters at a launch party in Arts District Brewery following her mayoral campaign launch in Los Angeles, CA on Nov. 16, 2025

11/16/25: Community organizer and housing advocate Reverend Rae Huang announces her candidacy for mayor of Los Angeles.

Scrappy and underpaid, LA's independent reporters are risking everything to cover the ICE opposition 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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ICE Plans to Spend $180 Million on Bounty Hunters to Stalk Immigrants Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.

SCOOP: ICE is allocating as much as $180 million to pay bounty hunters and private investigators who verify the address and location of undocumented people ICE wishes to detain, including with physical surveillance, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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What it’s like to visit the ICE detention center in Adelanto The facility, roughly 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles, is at the end of a road splintered with cracks and potholes. Once there, some wait for hours to see their loved ones.

Visiting a loved one at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center means navigating a series of obstacles like long drives through the Mojave Desert, hours-long waits, and then facing the emotional toll of leaving your loved one behind after the visit is over.

Read more:
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Bartenders and Innocent Bystanders Tear Gassed, Knocked Over By Horses, And Shot With ‘Rubber Bullets’ During World Series Night Celebrations ~ L.A. TACO One man who was walking to Gold Room bar had to get surgery on his finger after being shot with a “rubber bullet.” “He was just running away and they got him in the leg and shot the top of his finger ...

Of course @lataco.bsky.social @shoton35mm.bsky.social has the definitive account of what unfolded before and after Saturday’s victory — which illustrates over and over again how LA is completely unprepared to handle celebrating fans

The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

You should absolutely subscribe to Sean's LA Ten Four newsletter if you already haven't. This is what I mean by indie journalists doing such vital work. A heartbreaking, brutal read.

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Alright I fucking wrote about this. It was apparently necessary to vent my rage about this this afternoon, because that took me two hours to get it all out and onto the page.

It was never about the numbers On trying to work in the dying American news industry

As promised, a longer read:

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LAPD officers used tear gas to disperse Dodger fans in Echo Park after the World Series. Gas canisters were thrown outside of a 7 Eleven on Rosemont Avenue and Sunset Boulevard. The gas caused people to quickly leave the area. @shoton35mm.bsky.social

Cops going aggro on Sunset near Echo Park in LA after the Dodgers Win. Shooting people with less lethals from point blank range, horses running people and press down. Literally minutes before, fireworks in the street

California has released $80 million to support food banks across the state. Gov. Gavin Newsom has also sent the California National Guard to help food banks pack and distribute food. bit.ly/48SNxs9

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LA’s City Controller Audits LAPD’s Mental Health Units LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles City Controller Mejia recently released the results of their assessment of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)’s Mental Evaluation Unit (MEU), the unit designed to re…

New for The Ten Four:

Los Angeles City Controller Mejia recently released the results of their assessment of the LAPD’s Mental Evaluation Unit (MEU). The assessment claims LAPD does not give their units necessary tools, and receives minimal mental health training.

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“They have fun while doing it, which is deeply disturbing. We expect some level of decorum from government officials,” says Phoebe, a member of Harbor Area Peace Patrols.

The full story: lataco.com/federal-immi...

By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

Carlos Jurado, attorney of community reporter Carlitos Ricardo Parias, known as Richard LA, tells media he was unable to see Parias after spending five hours inside Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center, where Parias is being treated after a federal immigration agent shot him earlier in the day.

Carlos Jurado, attorney of community reporter Carlitos Ricardo Parias, known as Richard LA, tells media he was unable to see Parias after spending five hours inside Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center, where Parias is being treated after a federal immigration agent shot him earlier in the day.

10/21/25, LA: Carlos Jurado, attorney of community reporter Carlitos Ricardo Parias ("Richard LA"), tells media he wasn't allowed to see Parias after spending hours inside California Hospital Medical Center, where Parias is being treated after a federal immigration agent shot him earlier in the day.

Protests After No Kings Greeted By Horses Protecting Federal Detention Facility It’s her LAPD. She has said nothing. She has been more absent on this issue than when she was out of the country during the fires.” -Adam Rose

NEW for The Ten Four:

A crowd of hundreds gathered in the late afternoon Saturday outside the Metro Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, turning what began as a nearly universally peaceful rally into officers dozens of batons.

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A large crowd of demonstrators marches toward the camera, with a giant baby-Trump-in-a-diaper-shaped balloon overhead

A woman leans out the door of a metro bus parked in traffic while waving a sign which reads “NO KINGS / NO FASCISTS IN AMERICA.” over an image of Donald Trump wearing a crown and a Hitler stache.

A red “Make America Great Again” hat burns on a planter in front of City Hall.

A protester wearing a shirt that reads “THEY THEM THEIR” stands in the middle of the road holding a Venezuelan flag, Pride flag, and sign that reads “NOBODY’S FREE UNTIL EVERYBODY’S FREE - Fannie Lou Hamer”

Scenes from No Kings 2, Los Angeles, CA 10/18/2025
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Kaiser Nurses head back to work after 5 day strike Thousands of healthcare workers are back to work after a groundbreaking 5-day strike last week. Negotiations set to resume next week.

After five days of striking, Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers head back to work this week. Thousands of workers struck last week to draw attention to their contract struggle. At the heart of the issue: better staffing = better patient care.

Photos by the wonderful @jwhendricks.bsky.social

Well, yeah, we're suing ICE.

This wasn't really a hard decision. As little faith as we have in institutions, we recognize the value of drawing visible lines in the sand. We drew ours personally a while ago, but better late than never.

May every protester be freed and may this occupation end.

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.

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BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

New: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells 404 Media "we are determined to fight this."

"Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move."

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