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Daily Memo: 18th Death in ICE Detention Is Presumed a Suicide After An Alleged Altercation Left a Guard Unconscious

According to original reporting by Andrew Free, “Sources close to the facility report the man was in solitary confinement ...
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Diners, Dommes, and Dives: The 13 Best Restaurants in L.A., According to Dominatrixes

Los Angeles, it turns out, has a tight-knit domme community. They’re caretakers, interpreters of human behavior, and, in ...
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Why Did Anaheim City Council Vote to Install Nearly $1M-Worth of License Plate Surveillance?

Forty-one of the cameras will be deployed across the broader Orange County operational area as part of a regional ...
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Daily Memo: California Is Installing ICE AI Surveillance Tools As Trump Goes After Your Civil and Constitutional Rights

Either through willful ignorance or foolish naivety, our local governments are building the surveillance apparatus that ICE ...
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Daily Memo: ICE Unveils Plan To Detain Children In “Toxic” Louisiana Military Site

The raids continue here in Southern California, as we’ve been seeing many vehicles targeted and stopped. In one case, ICE ...
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Michelle Zacarias

Michelle Zacarias is a Los Angeles-based journalist and two-time cancer survivor. As a 2023-25 UC Berkeley California Local ...
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USC Graduate Student at Center of Arturo Flores Sexual Assault Scandal Speaks Out

After a long semester, Fátima Rodriguez-Ortiz was looking forward to hanging out with her friends at the University of Southern California (USC) Village, a "living community" for students adjacent to ...