Gavin Newsom had challenged an order to send California troops, and warned that the US is on the “brink of martial law.”
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In 2013, venture capitalist Tim Draper launched a “Six Californias” ballot initiative. The upshot was that with some 40 million people, more than the population of the 20 smallest states combined, California was too big, too diverse, to be “efficiently” governed. So why not, Draper argued, break it up into six new “startups,” a.k.a. states? […]
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Books are heavily restricted behind bars, including some of the books that officials have fought for students to access.
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California Officials Defend Right to Read Banned Books — Unless You’re in Prison Read Post »
Teachers’ unions and civil rights groups say the legislation could stifle criticisms of Israel.
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CA Educators Urge Newsom to Veto What They Call “Classroom Censorship Bill” Read Post »
“No one wants masked officers roaming their communities and kidnapping people with impunity,” said the bill’s sponsor.
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DHS Official Calls California Ban on Masked Agents “Garbage” Read Post »
Mental health professionals note an increase in stress, anxiety, fear, and anger in their clients since June.
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Los Angeles Therapists Say ICE Raids Take Severe Toll on Latino Mental Health Read Post »
The map focuses on arsenic, chromium-6, and nitrate — all scientifically known to cause cancer and other health issues.
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New Map Shows Where Cancer-Causing Chemicals Are Polluting Water for Over 200M Read Post »
Recording on-duty law enforcement agents is protected by the First Amendment.
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DHS Says Filming, Posting Videos of ICE Agents Is “Doxxing,” Vows Prosecutions Read Post »
Organizers confront ICE wherever they can be found, from the hotels where agents sleep to the streets they patrol.
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In Southern California, Small Groups of Activists Quietly Undermine ICE Operations Read Post »
Carlos Montoya, a Guatemalan father and day laborer, was hit by a car while fleeing an ICE raid in Monrovia, California.
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Advocates Call on Newsom to Investigate Death of Man Who Was Fleeing ICE Raid Read Post »
When the Los Angeles fires began last January, the designer and futurist Tracee Worley was re-reading Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler’s chillingly prescient novel, written in 1993 but set in the 2020s. In the book, climate change has devastated the world, an increasingly dangerous and inequitable society has resulted in many people living in […]
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Border Patrol was “directed, clearly by the White House, as a political operation to make a point,” Newsom said.
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