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✒️ Deputy Director of Advocacy @freedom.press
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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · Jul 19
I made a DRAFT field guide to help journalists (or anyone) navigate police + protests in Los Angeles. ~80% done. Slides all illustrated w/photos:

👮 Agencies & Uniforms
🔫 Firearms & Devices
🎯 Munitions
🦺 PPE
🏥 Injuries

Sharing this as rough draft b/c feedback VERY welcome!

(Note: Google Slides.)
LA Protest Visual Field Guide: How to identify police and “less lethal” munitions
LA Protest Visual Field Guide How to identify police and “less lethal” munitions An overview of law enforcement agencies commonly operating around Los Angeles and their use of so-called “less lethal” ...
docs.google.com
adamrose.bsky.social
Pffffft, that's nothing. Talk to me when it's at least a magnitude 1.36720235285300.
earthquakesla.bsky.social LA QuakeBot @earthquakesla.bsky.social · 26m
#Earthquake Update: A magnitude 1.36720235285299 earthquake took place 4 km N of View Park-Windsor Hills, CA at 7:41:20 PM. #micro
For details from the USGS:
M 1.4 - 4 km N of View Park-Windsor Hills, CA | 41127255
2025-11-26 03:11:20 (UTC) | -118.344°N 34.030°W | 3.4 km depth
earthquake.usgs.gov
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 AM
adamrose.bsky.social
Thankful for outpouring of support from 16 states+DC in our LA Press Club case against DHS.

I started taking screenshots, but too much good stuff to highlight! Check out crowd-control munitions section starting page 8. Bravo!

LAPD & Los Angeles leaders: Take note.

oag.ca.gov/system/files...
Amici States also have learned hard lessons over the years through efforts to address numerous mass protests. Most notably, after the George Floyd protests of 2020, many Amici States recognized that existing guidelines and state laws did not properly balance their interests in policing unlawful conduct while protecting First Amendment rights, nor did they recognize that aggressive tactics can often inflame rather than quell public unrest. Together, these laws and guidelines reflect an emerging consensus on the best practices in crowdcontrol policing: that crowd-control munitions should typically only be used to address a threat to life or serious bodily injury. In this way, these best practices attempt to ensure public safety and order while at the same time protecting the First Amendment rights of the public and members of the press. In light of the complexities associated with crowd management and control, Amici States recognize the need for specialized training. For example, California’s POST Commission requires agencies to conduct trainings on crowd management and control that “include the actual stress of incident management to ensure that critical thinking can be applied during real events.”19 The Commission has also stressed the “need for reality-based scenario training that mimics, as much as possible, the ‘fog’ encountered during critical event management.”
November 25, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Reposted by Adam Rose
freedom.press
Los Angeles ➡️ Chicago ➡️ Charlotte ➡️ New Orleans ➡️ ???

As ICE and Border Patrol invade more American cities, local communities are sharing tips about how to respond and defend their rights.

FPF's @seth-stern.bsky.social and @adamrose.bsky.social offer perspective:
As Charlotte immigration enforcement fears linger, activists from Chicago offer advice
As federal immigration enforcement departs Charlotte, organizers and advocates share lessons they’ve learned from Chicago’s immigration raids — lessons that could inform responses to future crackdowns...
www.wfae.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
adamrose.bsky.social
I hadn't heard the term "Kavanaugh stop" before.

As a longtime editor: Accurate and precise. Excellent word choice.

As a longtime American: OMG this story. An affront to our nation. These ICE agents are committing child abuse. When all is said and done, they must be the ones brought to trail.
November 24, 2025 at 4:07 AM
adamrose.bsky.social
People think California is some progressive bastion, but with press freedoms it's a nonstop civil rights disaster here.

You've probably seen video of local police senselessly brutalizing journalists. Maybe you know the City of LA sues journalists to return public records it gave out.

Now this ...
pulitzercenter.org Pulitzer Center @pulitzercenter.org · 4d
The SLAPP Back Initiative is the first-of-its-kind database tracking strategic lawsuits against public participation, potentially meritless or malicious legal actions that chill speech and deter scrutiny.

A project by @nyu.edu's First Amendment Watch.

Learn more at slappback.org.
SLAPP-related cases appear across the country but they are most prevalent in California, Texas, and federal courts.
November 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
adamrose.bsky.social
LA Press Club v. Noem is the case where we won a preliminary injunction against DHS (ICE, Border Patrol, etc.) to stop them shooting journalists and innocent protesters.

DHS is appealing, so our lawyers had to write a legally dense 33-page court filing. But I think they had fun with the intro!
INTRODUCTION Vedic teachings, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Lucy, Charlie Brown and the football all hold that events are destined to eternally recur. Litigation, however, should progress linearly toward a denouement—precedent builds on itself, cases move forward, and courts do not have to repeatedly decide the same questions in the same case.
November 21, 2025 at 4:38 AM
adamrose.bsky.social
Periodic reminder we should have called it "epostcard" and not "email" ...

Lawsuit: "Schmidt confided that when he worked at Google, he built an insider 'backdoor' to Google servers... the backdoor enabled him to access anyone’s Google account and private information."
Former Google chief accused of spying on employees through account 'backdoor'
Former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt was accused in a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a former girlfriend and business partner of using a Gmail "backdoor" to spy on her and company employees.
www.latimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:21 AM
adamrose.bsky.social
It's dizzying (in good way!) how many small and independent newsrooms are in Los Angeles. More spinning up as described in article.

Not sugar coating news economics here. Still, these upstarts are SO valuable to civic life and community!

Important we support them ALL when it comes to press rights.
“More of everything”: In Los Angeles, an “explosion” of new efforts aim to up the city’s local news game
A well-funded coalition building out neighborhood news, a new newsletter from an expanding for-profit site, and a nonprofit breaking through on social media are just a few examples of the latest bids ...
www.niemanlab.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Reposted by Adam Rose
lauraleeactor.bsky.social
“We don’t have a democracy without an informed public. We don’t have an informed public without a free press,” Rose said.
- @adamrose.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Reposted by Adam Rose
rcfp.org
A federal judge has ruled that LA County must face journalist Maya Lau’s lawsuit, which alleges that sheriff's deputies unlawfully investigated her in retaliation for her reporting about police misconduct.

@rcfp.org attorneys are co-representing Lau in the case.
LA County must face journalist's challenge to retaliatory investigation, court rules
Journalist Maya Lau, co-represented by RCFP attorneys, sued LA County for unlawfully investigating her in retaliation for her reporting about police misconduct.
www.rcfp.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:08 AM
adamrose.bsky.social
Lots of new discourse in LA newspaper editorials, City Attorney op-ed, and LAPD press release basically asking:

Can LAPD shoot press?

The answer: NO!!

But all LA City officials do is deflect from the question.

This piece is right on the issues, and right on how great @susanseager.bsky.social is!
Larry Wilson: Stop shooting at the press while we do our jobs
The LAPD doesn’t like being watched
www.dailynews.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
adamrose.bsky.social
$300,000

That's it. Nine tsunami-tracking stations going offline over a $300,000 funding cut.

That's like 1.5 ICE agents/year.

Probably less than it cost just to fix potholes caused by Trump's birthday parade.

What are we doing here?
This lab is key for tracking deadly waves. Its sensors are about to go offline.
After NOAA cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes for the agency will go offline by the end of the mo...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:35 PM
adamrose.bsky.social
Happy Veterans Day! 🇺🇸

This is Bill from the Bronx. All-American boy savoring victory in Germany. Look at that smile!

Bill's dad was from Germany. Didn't matter. Immigrant families are loyal to countries that are loyal back.

I learned that from Bill, my grandfather.

Here's what today means to me:
An American soldier stands tall, looking over his shoulder and smiling. I often think about this photo, not just on Veterans Day. This is my grandfather, an American GI standing triumphant at the end of WWII in Germany -- after defeating his own father's homeland. Look at that smile. Nobody would question his loyalty to the United States. Bill was born in the Bronx, loved baseball, and retired after 40 years with the Army and Department of Defense. He escaped from frigid ocean waters when a Nazi U-boat sank his ship. Maybe the one who pulled the trigger was one of his distant relatives. Bill dedicated his life to this country, not because of a sense of the past but a sense of the future. That's the American Dream to me. We're all immigrants when you go back far enough. We somehow wound up in this crazy experiment in democracy, and in order for it to thrive we must embrace others no matter where they or their families came from. That's how we build loyalty to something greater. Our nation's leaders must take that vision into account when they make decisions about our military, whether it's where we send them or how we take care of them when they come home. Happy Veterans Day to all who serve a future that makes us smile.
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 PM
adamrose.bsky.social
Furor among Democrats about members caving on the shutdown make me wonder if there's momentum for a new political party.

Also ... didn't Elon Musk say he'd formed a new political party this summer? World's richest person couldn't pull it off?

What's it gonna' take to break this duopoly?
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
adamrose.bsky.social
Pretty good lede, made much funnier by the author's mini-bio. Touché.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
By Reid J. Epstein Reid J. Epstein has two mostly agreeable children. Nov. 10, 2025 Updated 6:22 p.m. ET It’s not great when your defiant kid says you are wrong. It’s a little bit worse when you are in the United States Senate and your defiant kid is running for Congress. Stefany Shaheen is running for a House seat in New Hampshire on a health care platform and with a boost from her family name and the legacy of her mother, Jeanne Shaheen, the state’s former governor and now its senior senator. So when the elder Ms. Shaheen negotiated to move toward ending the government shutdown without a Republican agreement to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies that Democrats have demanded, the younger Ms. Shaheen had a problem.
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Reposted by Adam Rose
peoplesfabric.com
This is how to write a headline about repeated liars.
Border patrol chief reprimanded for lying claims shots were fired at immigration officers in Chicago
Gregory Bovino was called out by a judge only two days earlier for lying about being assaulted by a protester
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
adamrose.bsky.social
Bluesky isn't ideal for longform, but if you're concerned about ICE and what's happening to immigrants this is 45 mins well spent. Puts a lot in context.

At least add to your YouTube watch later.

This is where Johnny Harris shines at his craft, explanatory journalism for a YouTube generation.
Why the US is deporting so many people
YouTube video by Johnny Harris
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
adamrose.bsky.social
Probably a dozen self-evident terrible things here, but seemingly small one can’t be ignored:

Border Patrol agent using side grip on firearm suggests technical incompetence.

Been frowned upon 100+ years. Limited exceptions to rule, but this doesn’t look like one of them.
lorennacleary.bsky.social LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 17d
Chaos erupted in Little Village.

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November 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
adamrose.bsky.social
The neat things about cryptography is that it doesn't just live in the minds of math super geniuses.

You don't have to "get" any of the theoretical cryptography to enjoy the real-world spy vs. spy stuff of applied cryptography. Sometimes it's a simple human "oops!" moment. 🕵️ 🔎
November 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Reposted by Adam Rose
mjsdc.bsky.social
A long and comprehensive opinion, but this jumped out at me: The judge accused the Federal Protective Service—which was called in to suppress the protests—of lying under oath to slander the regular Portland police.😬

DOJ recently admitted that other FPS claims in this case were objectively false.
As related to the time period immediately before the President’s callout of the National Guard, this Court heard testimony from FPS officers that PPB does not respond to their requests and that FPS stopped calling PPB altogether.13 The Court does not find this testimony to be credible. FPS did call PPB for help, and PPB routinely responded to these calls for help. One example is PPB’s response to the suspicious abandoned vehicle left near the ICE facility on August 16, 2025. FPS Commander W.T. testified that the Portland Metro Explosive Disposal unit responded “really fast.” Tr. 10/30/2025 549:2–6. The FPS report from that day shows that the response included an Explosives Detection Canine Team responding on scene roughly half an hour after the vehicle was abandoned. Ex. 835 at 5. No bomb was discovered, and the vehicle was later towed. Id.
November 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Reposted by Adam Rose
awalkerinla.bsky.social
Be sure to also note @adamrose.bsky.social's assessment of why declaring an unlawful assembly to shut down a bar DURING THE FINAL GAME OF THE WORLD SERIES sets a chilling precedent: “Using unlawful assembly this way is like pre-crime or thought-crime enforcement"
Adam Rose, the press rights chair for the Los Angeles Press Club, told L.A. TACO that he didn’t see shutting down The Douglas bar as a press rights issue, but “it is another example of LAPD’s endless incompetence in dealing with crowds.” Rose said, based on limited reports, that the gathering was peaceful, “declaring an unlawful assembly during the 9th inning of World Series game 7 seemed senseless and frankly cruel to a city in need of something worth celebrating." “Using unlawful assembly this way is like pre-crime or thought-crime enforcement,” Rose continued. “It’s a dystopian punishment of lawful people and lawful business. The only thing it accomplishes is giving pretextual excuses for LAPD’s thoroughly documented bloodlust during public assemblies.”
November 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
adamrose.bsky.social
I'd like one quote, please, extra spicy. 🌶️🌶️🌶️

Coming right up ...
freedom.press Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 18d
“ICE loves to demand our papers but it seems they don’t like it as much when we demand theirs,” said Ginger Quintero-McCall, one of FPF's lawyers in our latest FOIA lawsuit against the immigration agency.
FPF takes ICE to court over dangerous secrecy
FOIA lawsuit targets ICE’s efforts to stop congressional oversight of detention facilities
freedom.press
November 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Reposted by Adam Rose
zidan.bsky.social
ICE is tearing apart families, placing people in secretive detention centers beyond the reach of congressional oversight, that's why @freedom.press is suing the agency to obtain emails it received Congress.

"ICE is the most lawless agency in government," FPF attorney @kevinok.bsky.social says.
FPF takes ICE to court over dangerous secrecy
FOIA lawsuit targets ICE’s efforts to stop congressional oversight of detention facilities
freedom.press
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Reposted by Adam Rose
adamrose.bsky.social
There, I fixed it.

(VOLUME UP! 🔊 🎵)
November 7, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Reposted by Adam Rose
acatwithnews.bsky.social
NEW for the Ten Four:

The Adelanto ICE Processing Center and its conditions inside are the subject of dozens of concerning stories, but rarely is there an opportunity to actually talk to those inside the facility. I was able to get inside (kind of).

latenfour.com/2025/11/06/i...
Inside Adelanto: A Visit To Adelanto ICE Processing Facility
ADELANTO — Visitors pass through layers of security and silence to see those inside. Many haven’t seen their loved ones since they were detained by immigration authorities in Southern Califor…
latenfour.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM