We out here.

#HousekeysNotHandcuffs

For the past six months I've been asking people what stories they want me to write about LA. Just about everyone asked me: 'Can you find out what's going on with the Olympics?' I just launched my new newsletter and I hope you'll subscribe.

Sign up at torched.la 🔥

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🚨Rally at the School Board: Stop the Carvalho Cuts 🚨
5/7 at 4:30 PM at the Van Nuys Civic Center

Schools have had their budgets cut for next year— despite the fact that reserves are projected at $6.3 billion.

We'll rally strong to reverse the cuts and fully fund our schools.

Statement from Ground Game LA membership and current and former Knock LA contributors:

Let em know!!

In just 11 months, the #MansionTax has raised $215 million for new affordable housing and homelessness prevention programs and is now averaging about $22 million of new revenue each month. 

Ground Game LA ACT-LA SEIU Local 2015 🐝 ACCE 🐝 T.R.U.S.T. South LA United Teachers Los Angeles

LET’S GO

A really important thing to understand that doesn’t get discussed in the corporate media is that one of the primary functions of armed police in the U.S. is forcibly evicting and threatening to evict people. There is no way to separate housing policy from policing policy.

The Supreme Court will soon take up Grants Pass v Johnson, a crucial case regarding the criminalization of homelessness. We Institute on Inequality & Democracy are proud to join chris herring Randall Kuhn & other UCLA scholars in an amicus brief filed by Public Justice : publicjustice.net/grantspass-v-j…

Israel used an automated system called 'Where's Daddy?' to ensure it killed AI-designated targets while the targets were at home with their spouses and children:
972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

New from Sam Levin and I: newly obtained videos from the 2022 shoot-out show San Bernardino deputies shot the abducted teenager as she walked to deputies for help:
theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a…

Double Tree Hilton in Torrance CA is hosting an event called 'War on Children' with Chaya Raichik and Chris Rufo on April 7th.

Call the hotel and tell them that hate has no home in California!

310-540-0500

At the trial of an L.A. deputy mayor, federal prosecutors revealed a “a city legally and ethically out of control” latimes.com/california/new…

Pro-Palestinian protesters are gathering in front of LA city hall to demand an immediate ceasefire and an end to Israel’s occupation of Palestine

“If you chop off 20% of a Lexus, you don’t get a Camry, you get a wreck”

The City is proposing to eliminate 1,974 job positions amidst a staffing shortage across all city departments to save 💰 to pay for overspending in police, liability claims, & more.

latimes.com/california/sto…

#LandDay march and rally in #LosAngeles ! #FreePalestine #PermanentCeaseFireNow

🚨 BREAKING: BUDGET DEFICIT UPDATE 🚨

The City is proposing to ELIMINATE 1,974 city positions including from MOST city departments who are NOT overspending.

This includes cutting ALL our Controller vacant positions we've been trying to fill including accountants & auditors. 🔎

In communications between the CLA and the LAPD on the department's report-back for anti-encampment law 41.18, the LAPD uses that it spent nearly $17 million from the ABH fund to support overtime enforcement of 41.18 between January 1st, 2022, and December 31st, 2023: