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Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman announced yesterday that she is running for mayor, entering the race just before the filing deadline and immediately reshaping the field. Her candidacy adds

This article was originally published on Brian Merchant’s Substack and is reposted here with permission. Last Friday, Amazon’s anodyne corporate campus in Santa Monica, California was overrun with protestors. Hundreds

Photographs and primary documentation for this article were provided by Peggy Lee Kennedy. For months, residents and outreach volunteers in Venice have been documenting a pattern that is impossible to

The Trump administration is moving closer to finalizing a federal housing rule that could force thousands of families with mixed immigration status out of subsidized homes and into homelessness. Under

Los Angeles County leaders are finally acknowledging what immigrant tenants and housing advocates have been saying for months. ICE raids are not just tearing families apart. They are driving people

Reposted from Carter Moon’s Substack – Subscribe here! Last Sunday I was highly activated by the murder of Alex Pretti. A brutal street execution by Border Patrol agents caught in

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