L.A. Aura
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🚨 LAPD is on track to hire more officers than the City budgeted and approved for.
What does this mean for the budget?
What does this mean for the budget?
December 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
🚨 LAPD is on track to hire more officers than the City budgeted and approved for.
What does this mean for the budget?
What does this mean for the budget?
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Cory Doctorow : "We need to make tech workers unionized again ... because tech workers that aren't working behind a keyboard, those tech workers, they're peeing in bottles or being injured at 3x the national rate in an Amazon warehouse. That's how tech bosses treat workers they're not afraid of."
December 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Cory Doctorow : "We need to make tech workers unionized again ... because tech workers that aren't working behind a keyboard, those tech workers, they're peeing in bottles or being injured at 3x the national rate in an Amazon warehouse. That's how tech bosses treat workers they're not afraid of."
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How to report foul odors in your LA County neighborhood to air quality officials.
Southern California residents can submit complaints about odors, asbestos, dust, gasoline dispensing and other air quality concerns to the district.
If the air outside smells like rotten eggs, call the AQMD.
Southern California residents can submit complaints about odors, asbestos, dust, gasoline dispensing and other air quality concerns to the district.
If the air outside smells like rotten eggs, call the AQMD.
How to report foul odors in your LA County neighborhood to air quality officials
If the air outside smells like rotten eggs, call the AQMD.
lapublicpress.org
December 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
How to report foul odors in your LA County neighborhood to air quality officials.
Southern California residents can submit complaints about odors, asbestos, dust, gasoline dispensing and other air quality concerns to the district.
If the air outside smells like rotten eggs, call the AQMD.
Southern California residents can submit complaints about odors, asbestos, dust, gasoline dispensing and other air quality concerns to the district.
If the air outside smells like rotten eggs, call the AQMD.
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Huntington Park just gave renters more time to pay rent amid ICE raids.
Housing advocates call the eviction ordinance “bare minimum” as federal immigration enforcement threatens to displace families across Southeast L.A.
lapublicpress.org/2025/12/hunt...
Housing advocates call the eviction ordinance “bare minimum” as federal immigration enforcement threatens to displace families across Southeast L.A.
lapublicpress.org/2025/12/hunt...
Huntington Park just gave renters more time to pay rent amid ICE raids
Housing advocates call the eviction ordinance "bare minimum" as federal immigration enforcement threatens to displace families across Southeast LA.
lapublicpress.org
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Huntington Park just gave renters more time to pay rent amid ICE raids.
Housing advocates call the eviction ordinance “bare minimum” as federal immigration enforcement threatens to displace families across Southeast L.A.
lapublicpress.org/2025/12/hunt...
Housing advocates call the eviction ordinance “bare minimum” as federal immigration enforcement threatens to displace families across Southeast L.A.
lapublicpress.org/2025/12/hunt...
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This is how it should be
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.
Read more: wrd.cm/4iYIl9a
Read more: wrd.cm/4iYIl9a
December 10, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This is how it should be
This must concern the GOP that the electorate is not giving the economy under 47 a A++++ more like it F------.
Democrat Eileen Higgins won the Miami mayor's race on Tuesday, defeating a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump to end her party's nearly three-decade losing streak. n.pr/48I1reS
Democrat wins Miami mayor's race for the first time in nearly 30 years
Democrat Eileen Higgins won the Miami mayor's race on Tuesday, defeating a Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump to end her party's nearly three-decade losing streak.
n.pr
December 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
This must concern the GOP that the electorate is not giving the economy under 47 a A++++ more like it F------.
Late stage capitalism continues!
Last month, Denny's was bought out by private equity in a $620 million deal.
Now the company is closing 150 locations.
It's the latest chain to be swallowed by private equity and see numerous workers lose their jobs.
Now the company is closing 150 locations.
It's the latest chain to be swallowed by private equity and see numerous workers lose their jobs.
December 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Late stage capitalism continues!
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Twenty years ago, over 90% of revenue from recorded music came from physical album sales.
Now, streaming accounts for 84% of that money.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Now, streaming accounts for 84% of that money.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Musicians push back on dwindling payments from streaming services
Nearly every song ever recorded is available for about $12 a month, or free if you don’t mind the ads. But while the streaming giant Spotify has conquered the music industry, many of the artists respo...
www.pbs.org
December 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Twenty years ago, over 90% of revenue from recorded music came from physical album sales.
Now, streaming accounts for 84% of that money.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Now, streaming accounts for 84% of that money.
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
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Daily Memo: A Thousand Confirmed Kidnappings in the Past 90 Days, Plus Two More Deaths in Detention
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@eltragon.bsky.social
December 9, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Daily Memo: A Thousand Confirmed Kidnappings in the Past 90 Days, Plus Two More Deaths in Detention
@eltragon.bsky.social
@eltragon.bsky.social
Late stage capitalism much?
Paramount launches a hostile $108 billion bid to snatch Warner from Netflix www.theverge.com/news/839813/...
Paramount launches a hostile $108 billion bid to snatch Warner from Netflix
It’s not over yet.
www.theverge.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Late stage capitalism much?
This is a hard yes!
I also say we need just cause worker protections too!
I also say we need just cause worker protections too!
We need a 4-day, 32-hour work week with livable wages.
There is no reason that people need to be working this much.
People need time off to rest and spend with family and friends.
There is no reason that people need to be working this much.
People need time off to rest and spend with family and friends.
December 8, 2025 at 6:42 AM
This is a hard yes!
I also say we need just cause worker protections too!
I also say we need just cause worker protections too!
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One officer was accused of spreading a nude photo of a woman he knew.
Another was found responsible for acts of domestic violence and sexual assault.
In spite of their disciplinary records, the Chicago Police Department promoted both of them.
With @invisible.institute
Another was found responsible for acts of domestic violence and sexual assault.
In spite of their disciplinary records, the Chicago Police Department promoted both of them.
With @invisible.institute
Chicago Promoted Two Police Officers After Investigators Found They Engaged in Sexual Misconduct
The Chicago Police Department’s promotions system allows officers’ disciplinary records to be ignored. Despite years of reform efforts, nothing has changed.
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
One officer was accused of spreading a nude photo of a woman he knew.
Another was found responsible for acts of domestic violence and sexual assault.
In spite of their disciplinary records, the Chicago Police Department promoted both of them.
With @invisible.institute
Another was found responsible for acts of domestic violence and sexual assault.
In spite of their disciplinary records, the Chicago Police Department promoted both of them.
With @invisible.institute
Is anyone going to comment on how 47 was falling asleep during his "cabinet" meeting?
December 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Is anyone going to comment on how 47 was falling asleep during his "cabinet" meeting?
Are they just doing whatever comes to mind?
They literally are putting babies at risk of death for what?
They literally are putting babies at risk of death for what?
Sec. Kennedy must appear before the HELP Committee to explain why his vaccine advisory committee, in strong disagreement with the medical & scientific community, voted to end a decades-long recommendation that newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine.
This vaccine saves lives.
This vaccine saves lives.
Breaking News: A federal vaccine committee voted to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B, a highly infectious virus that leads to chronic liver disease in most infected children.
December 5, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Are they just doing whatever comes to mind?
They literally are putting babies at risk of death for what?
They literally are putting babies at risk of death for what?
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DAILY MEMO: Feds Take U.S. Citizens and Grab Street Vendor’s Cash Box
Raids mainly targeted the San Gabriel Valley today, but there is an uptick in activity all over Southern California, especially San Diego.
Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-d...
(No video today)
Raids mainly targeted the San Gabriel Valley today, but there is an uptick in activity all over Southern California, especially San Diego.
Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-d...
(No video today)
DAILY MEMO: Feds Detain U.S. Citizens and Take Street Vendor’s Cash Box ~ L.A. TACO
Federal immigration raids are escalating in intensity, with more people being profiled and taken without due process.
lataco.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:16 AM
DAILY MEMO: Feds Take U.S. Citizens and Grab Street Vendor’s Cash Box
Raids mainly targeted the San Gabriel Valley today, but there is an uptick in activity all over Southern California, especially San Diego.
Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-d...
(No video today)
Raids mainly targeted the San Gabriel Valley today, but there is an uptick in activity all over Southern California, especially San Diego.
Full report: lataco.com/daily-memo-d...
(No video today)
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Feds continue to terrorize Los Angeles. From Huntington Park this morning:
Day Laborer Chased By Border Patrol Struck by Vehicle at Huntington Park Home Depot.
Reporting by Aisha Wallace-Palomares
Reporting by Aisha Wallace-Palomares
December 3, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Feds continue to terrorize Los Angeles. From Huntington Park this morning:
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The Trump administration's strikes in Venezuela were ordered without Congress, without transparency, and without any justification to the public. These actions are reckless, unconstitutional, and dangerous for our national security.
December 1, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The Trump administration's strikes in Venezuela were ordered without Congress, without transparency, and without any justification to the public. These actions are reckless, unconstitutional, and dangerous for our national security.
MAGA promised that we would see a made in America movement but yet that has not materialized!
U.S. manufacturing activity has now contracted for 9 straight months.
December 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
MAGA promised that we would see a made in America movement but yet that has not materialized!
This is a shame!
Every year since 1988, the United States has recognized World AIDS Day — until now.
Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.
Shameful.
Why not? Maybe because the Trump administration doesn’t want to acknowledge that its foreign aid cuts led to nearly 150,000 deaths from AIDS, according to Boston University researchers.
Shameful.
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 10:06 PM
This is a shame!
How will Americans feel that college is worth it when many take on debt but yet this administration is having colleges give them settlement money.
Imagine how many students education could have been funded with this money.
Imagine how many students education could have been funded with this money.
We must keep calling out those that cave to the Trump Admin, and the latest is Northwestern.
As part of their "deal," NU will pay $75 million, stop vital research, renege on agreements with its students over the war in Gaza, and more.
Throwing your students under the bus to please Trump. Shameful.
As part of their "deal," NU will pay $75 million, stop vital research, renege on agreements with its students over the war in Gaza, and more.
Throwing your students under the bus to please Trump. Shameful.
Northwestern Agrees to a Deal With Trump Administration
www.nytimes.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
How will Americans feel that college is worth it when many take on debt but yet this administration is having colleges give them settlement money.
Imagine how many students education could have been funded with this money.
Imagine how many students education could have been funded with this money.
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25% of buy-now, pay-later users are now relying on it to finance groceries.
December 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
25% of buy-now, pay-later users are now relying on it to finance groceries.
Education should be accessible to all and not just for the wealthy and elites!
We have failed a generation by letting college tuition skyrocket & saddling them with lifetime debt.
I had over $100k in debt after my education.
We need to make public college free & have 1000 new trade schools.
I had over $100k in debt after my education.
We need to make public college free & have 1000 new trade schools.
December 1, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Education should be accessible to all and not just for the wealthy and elites!
Why? Make it make sense!
Food and Drug Administration officials say they will ratchet up requirements for vaccine studies, citing concerns about COVID shots for kids. But public health experts question the agency's analysis. n.pr/44yMDxJ
FDA to raise hurdles for vaccines, faulting COVID shots for 10 kids' deaths
Food and Drug Administration officials say they will ratchet up requirements for vaccine studies, citing concerns about COVID shots for kids. But public health experts question the agency's analysis.
n.pr
November 29, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Why? Make it make sense!
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Your Black Friday reminder that in 75% of U.S. industries, a smaller number of companies now control more of the business than they did twenty years ago. We must stop the monopolization of America. Shop small if you can, please.
November 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Your Black Friday reminder that in 75% of U.S. industries, a smaller number of companies now control more of the business than they did twenty years ago. We must stop the monopolization of America. Shop small if you can, please.