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Jeanne Kuang

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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Black rain in Iran Residents in Tehran say they have burning eyes and difficulty breathing when the dark and oily precipitation falls. By Tammy Webber @apnews.com apnews.com/article/iran...
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After attacks on Iran's oil facilities, toxic black rain endangers the public
Black rain fell in Iran's capital after airstrikes on oil facilities sent up dark clouds of toxic smoke.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 10/03/2026
AI data companies have found rich recruiting ground among the growing ranks of the highly educated and underemployed. It is, as one industry veteran put it, the largest harvesting of human expertise ever attempted. Read more from @joshdzieza.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
Verge headline: Laid-off lawyers, history PhDs, and scientists are now part of a miserable gig economy in which they’re teaching AI how to do their old jobs. If you’re still employed…

YOU COULD BE NEXT

by Josh Dzieza
Art by Samar Haddad

Illustration depicts a distorted computer processing data and eyeballs
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
House Oversight hearing on ICE opens with the rules: "It is also a clear violation of the rules of the House to make statements that might personally be offensive to the President or the Vice President of the United States."
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Brooke Jarvis @brookejarvis.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
"The officers told nurses Castañeda Mondragón 'purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall,' an account his caregivers immediately doubted" apnews.com/article/immi...
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Immigrant whose skull was broken in eight places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked
A Mexican immigrant whose skull was broken during his arrest by immigration officers last month in Minnesota says the beating was unprovoked.
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Jeanne Kuang @jeannereporter.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
This industry's nuts. But we are hiring. Come work with me to cover California at a pivotal time. calmatters.org/about/jobs/p...
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Politics Reporter
CalMatters is looking for a dynamic political reporter to cover California’s unique political landscape, hold power accountable, and explain clearly why it matters to Californians’ daily lives. This r...
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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Katherine Jacobsen of the Committee to Protect Journalists reacts to the arrest of Don Lemon: "As an international organization, we know that the treatment of journalists is an indicator of the condition of a country's democracy. The United States is doing poorly."
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Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com · 30/01/2026
Statement from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press on the arrests of independent journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for their coverage of a protest inside a Minneapolis church: “It’s obviously concerning any time journalists are arrested in connection with their reporting….” 1/
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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. 

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
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Zach Montague @zjmontague.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
NEW: Docs unsealed tonight show the official reasoning DHS sent to the State Dept. recommending that Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Mohsen Mahdawi, Badar Khan Suri and Yunseo Chung be deported. Marco Rubio signed off, despite warnings by DHS that their findings looked like protected speech.
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D.H.S. Cited Foreign Students’ Writings and Protests Before Their Arrests
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Minnesota Star Tribune @startribune.com · 22/01/2026
Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 18/12/2025
Trump's DOJ has been ordered to embark on a sweeping crackdown on "left-wing domestic terrorism." Civil liberties experts warn it could lead to a level of politicized FBI surveillance of Americans not seen since the era of J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO. Our story today: wapo.st/3L9lpr4 (gift link)
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Trump administration prepares sweeping crackdown on leftist networks
The Justice Department’s program to root out violent “Antifa” extremism is raising First Amendment concerns.
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Ken Schwencke @schwanksta.com · 30/10/2025
This is a lie: www.propublica.org/article/immi...
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.
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Rachel W. Martin @rwmartin.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Brassica oleracea has entered the chat.
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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 02/10/2025
Three of the four CA counties empowered to inspect federal immigration detention facilities have not done so, and the fourth has conducted only basic reviews of food this year. cal.news/4gQMN8J 📷 Miguel Vasconcellos
The CoreCivic California City Immigration Processing Center in California City on Sep. 22, 2025. Photo by Miguel Vasconcellos for CalMatters

HED: California gave counties power to inspect ICE detention centers. They’re not using it
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
GOP Senator Cynthia Lummis: "Under normal times, in normal circumstances, I tend to think that the First Amendment should always be sort of the ultimate right... I don't feel that way anymore." www.semafor.com/article/09/1...
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Kimmel’s suspension prompts free-speech Republicans to reconsider their boundaries
One Republican said she no longer considers the First Amendment to “be sort of the ultimate right,” as she would “in normal circumstances.”
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2025
The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing
Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.
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Lauren FitzPatrick @bylaurenfitz.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Man fatally shot by ICE in Franklin Park had just dropped off his child at school, Rep. Delia Ramirez says chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/09...
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Man fatally shot by ICE in Franklin Park had just dropped off his child at school, Rep. Delia Ramirez says
Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez was formally identified Saturday by the Cook County medical examiner's office. Ramirez and others are demanding an investigation into what happened.
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Jeanne Kuang @jeannereporter.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
In busy end of session in #caleg, Dems frustrated with their leaders for piling up priorities with no chance for input/amendments Includes climate deal, budget bills that steer tens of millions $ to outgoing Sen pro tem Mike McGuire's district READ @calmatters.org: calmatters.org/politics/202...
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California Democrats end legislative session with climate deal – and infighting
The session stretched into Saturday, prolonged by last-minute backroom deals on climate and energy, sparking deep frustration among some lawmakers.
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Jeanne Kuang @jeannereporter.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
I'm caught up on sleep now, you can catch up on the end of #caleg session in @calmatters.org Dem leaders in a jam-packed week rushed big bills including: -extend cap and trade -boost oil drilling -allow denser housing near transit -ban ICE wearing masks calmatters.org/politics/202...
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California Democrats end legislative session with climate deal – and infighting
The session stretched into Saturday, prolonged by last-minute backroom deals on climate and energy, sparking deep frustration among some lawmakers.
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Ben Christopher @frombenc.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Updated the story with a statement from the company that is developing the project that seems have been the subject of this legislation.
In an unattributed statement from Mission LLC, the company slammed the deal and said it would sue, “as California prohibits legislation attacking a single project.”

“This bill is an example of the control of public policy by a few wealthy NIMBYs in an attempt to obstruct desperately needed low-income housing,” the company wrote. “The project, located in a wealthy area of Santa Barbara, would provide 54 low-income units and this attempt to block it demonstrates the kowtowing of some legislators to wealthy NIMBY constituents.”
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Jeanne Kuang @jeannereporter.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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In rural California, a grave echoes another era of forced removal of immigrants
After Del Norte County in Northern California kicked out its Chinese immigrants in the late 1800s, Dock Rigg stayed behind.
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Ian James @ianjames.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
As climate change exacerbates the risks of extreme heat, California prison officials plan to start a $38 million pilot program to figure out how to keep prison cells cool. But it’s only a test, and it will only help a fraction of inmates. @jeannereporter.bsky.social calmatters.org/politics/202...
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Will officials finally address California's shocking prison cell temperatures?
After years of complaints from inmates and advocates, California is finally embarking on a plan to cool some cells. But it’s only a test, and there’s no indication the state will take broad action.
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Alexei Koseff @akoseff.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Extreme heat is warping life for all Californians, but state prisoners will be hit especially hard, @jeannereporter.bsky.social writes. And mounting pressure from activists, lawmakers and judges to do more is running into cost concerns. calmatters.org/politics/202...
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Will officials finally address California's shocking prison cell temperatures?
After years of complaints from inmates and advocates, California is finally embarking on a plan to cool some cells. But it’s only a test, and there’s no indication the state will take broad action.
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Juliet Williams @jwilliamsjourno.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
@jeannereporter.bsky.social's story on soaring temperatures in California prisons and the new, tiny, step toward addressing them will make you exasperated and sad for the people affected.
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Will officials finally address California's shocking prison cell temperatures?
After years of complaints from inmates and advocates, California is finally embarking on a plan to cool some cells. But it’s only a test, and there’s no indication the state will take broad action.
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Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Journalists everywhere need to stand in solidarity on this killing spree and resulting news blackout. See below in this thread for some actions and stay tuned here www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/i…
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Israel hits Gaza hospital, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists
Israel struck Nasser hospital in the south of the Gaza Strip on Monday, killing at least 20 people, including five journalists who worked for Reuters, the Associated Press, Al Jazeera and others.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Fox 17 Nashville reports that Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from criminal detention in Tennessee and is on his way home to Maryland. “Today, Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free,” his attorney, @sean-hecker.bsky.social, said in a statement. fox17.com/news/local/k...
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia free from Tennessee jail and returning home to Maryland, lawyer says
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been freed from Putnam County Jail and is on his way to reunite with his family in Maryland, his lawyer confirms to FOX 17 News.
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Yousef Baig @yousefbaig.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Welp, it's happening. @mayacmiller.bsky.social @jeannereporter.bsky.social with a snapshot of the scene inside the California Capitol today as lawmakers approved Newsom's gerrymandering plan calmatters.org/politics/202...
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California lawmakers are voting on Gavin Newsom’s gerrymandering plan. Here’s the latest
Gov. Gavin Newsom wants voters to approve congressional districts that would wipe out five Republican seats. He's trying to counter a GOP gerrymander in Texas.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 16/08/2025
Trump cuts off medical visas from Gaza after Laura Loomer freaked out over a video showing several children being permitted to come to the U.S. for medical care www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump Cuts Off Medical Visas from Gaza After Laura Loomer Meltdown
Donald Trump stopped all visas from Gaza, including for humanitarian and medical aid, after Laura Loomer freaked out about children getting care.
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Alexei Koseff @akoseff.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
The Legislature has finally unveiled its proposed map of new California congressional lines. Find your district in our searchable map and read how the plan changes the dynamics of 10 key races: calmatters.org/politics/202...
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Alejandro Lazo @gauchoesque.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
California has the greenest power grid in the U.S. Now it’s about to plug into coal-burning states — just as Trump moves to tilt energy markets back to fossil fuels. Here’s what’s happening 🧵
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Alejandro Lazo @gauchoesque.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
California cut coal from its energy supply. Why it might plug back into fossil fuels — with an expanded western energy market. Read my latest @calmatters.org with @jeannereporter.bsky.social. calmatters.org/politics/202...
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Could California prevent more blackouts by joining a Western power market?
The state built a clean grid. Now lawmakers are eyeing opening its market to states that rely on coal. Critics say it’s a risky bet.
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Alexei Koseff @akoseff.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
After the Taliban retook control in 2021, tens of thousands of Afghans resettled in California. But in his second term, President Trump has withdrawn legal protections and erected new obstacles that threaten their future in their adopted home. calmatters.org/politics/202...
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They worked with the U.S. in Afghanistan. Now Trump could return them to the Taliban
Afghans who fled the Taliban and resettled in California have lost legal protections and financial support in President Trump's second term.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
This is who Trump shipped to a Salvadoran dungeon: An event planner A coal miner An Uber driver Tortilla maker Barber DoorDashers Soccer coaches Furniture-maker Car washers Taxi drivers HVAC techs Auto parts worker Tire plant worker and 240 more... projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...
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The Men Trump Deported to a Salvadoran Prison
On March 15, President Donald Trump’s administration sent more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. Last week, the men were released as suddenly as they’d been t...
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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
"The GlobalX flight manifests contain the names of dozens of people who were supposedly on the flights but whose status and existence has not been acknowledged by the U.S. government or previously reported in the press." Desaparecidos. www.404media.co/flight-manif...
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Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador
Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. “We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even the...
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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Lawyers for ICE are increasingly hiding their identities in court. This is completely unprecedented. “We’re not really doing names publicly,” said Judge ShaSha Xu — after stating her own name and those of the immigrants and their lawyers. theintercept.com/2025/07/15/i...
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ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court
ICE attorneys fighting to deport immigrants are able to obscure their identities — no masks required.
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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 14/07/2025
UnitedHealth's CEO being assassinated has been a huge boon for the company's legal team as they use the murder to justify "an aggressive and wide-ranging campaign to quiet critics" through threats and lawsuits aimed at journalists, platforms, activists, and investors. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/b...
It was the latest salvo in an aggressive and wide-ranging campaign to quiet critics. In recent months, UnitedHealth has targeted traditional journalists and news outlets, a prominent investor, a Texas doctor and activists like Ms. Strause and her father, who complained about a UnitedHealth subsidiary.
In legal letters and court filings, UnitedHealth has invoked last year’s murder of Brian Thompson, the chief executive of the company’s health insurance division, to argue that intense criticism of the company risks inciting further violence.
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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
The American Dream abc7.com/post/man-lif...
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Farmworker dies from injuries during immigration raid in Ventura County, family says
A farmworker has died after suffering injuries during an immigration raid at an agricultural area near Camarillo on Thursday, according to a family member.
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suhauna hussain @suhauna.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
immigration raid at cannabis farm led a farmworker to fall several stories from a building. the worker is not expected to survive. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Immigration raid at cannabis farm leads to chaos, one farmworker reportedly suffers grave injuries
Protesters blocked the roads in and out of one of the farms, and at one point federal agents drove their vehicles through the fields.
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Jeanne Kuang @jeannereporter.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Moving story (and gut punch ending) by @melissagomez.bsky.social who's been doing amazing work covering the raids in southern California www.latimes.com/california/s...
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Faith leaders bear witness as migrants make their case in immigration court
Across California, clergy leaders are accompanying migrants at their asylum hearings. 'We’re there trying to appeal to a higher authority than ICE,' one pastor said.
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Juliet Williams @jwilliamsjourno.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
The Carpenters Union is "a pariah" among California construction trades unions, @jeannereporter.bsky.social and @frombenc.bsky.social report. Yet the Carpenters struck the deal for the biggest overhaul of California's environmental law in a generation. Here's the backstory:
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With carpenters’ help, California eases housing rules—and sparks labor clash
California’s new environmental reform law, backed by carpenters, eases housing construction rules but deepens divisions within the labor movement.
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Levi Sumagaysay @levisu.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
While a stated purpose of worksite raids is to remove illegal competition from the labor marketplace, the reality is far messier: Studies have found that immigration raids don’t do much to raise wages — and actually deflate them. Good story by @nigelduara.bsky.social & @jeannereporter.bsky.social
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Ben Christopher @frombenc.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Why do so many of California's big housing battles come down to an enduring beef between different construction unions? @jeannereporter.bsky.social did the heavy lifting on this one: calmatters.org/politics/202...
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With carpenters’ help, California eases housing rules—and sparks labor clash
California’s new environmental reform law, backed by carpenters, eases housing construction rules but deepens divisions within the labor movement.
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Levi Sumagaysay @levisu.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
When a manicurist asked to be classified as a W-2 employee, her boss refused. “She said, ‘This is how everybody does it,’” she said. @jeannereporter.bsky.social captures the different dynamics at play in this worker-classification story: calmatters.org/politics/202...
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California labor rule leaves Vietnamese nail workers in job uncertainty
The industry was temporarily exempt from AB 5, which required many contractors to be classified as full employees. Now nail salons are affected, too.
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Khari Johnson @khari.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Law enforcement agencies are violating California law and sharing license plate reader data with federal authorities calmatters.org/economy/tech...
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California police are illegally sharing license plate data with ICE and Border Patrol
LAPD and the counties of San Diego, Orange, and Riverside have repeatedly shared automated license plate reader data to federal agencies
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 28/05/2025
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HHS cancels nearly $600 million Moderna contract on vaccines for flu pandemics
HHS has notified Moderna that it is canceling a nearly $600 million contract for vaccines for flu strains that could trigger future pandemics.
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marisakendall.bsky.social @marisakendall.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
A controversial $125 million deal California struck with Google last year to prop up the state’s struggling journalism industry is already on track to shrink — before any of the money has been delivered to news outlets. via @jeannereporter.bsky.social tinyurl.com/pzvzv3w5
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Money promised to “save” local news vanishes as California proposes deep cuts
Lawmakers struck a handshake deal with Google last year to pay local news outlets in exchange for less regulation. Now, the budget deficit could prompt the tech giant to pull back.
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Alexei Koseff @akoseff.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Another notable announcement from the governor ahead of this morning's full budget proposal, as he backtracks on the expansion of Medi-Cal to undocumented immigrants amid soaring costs calmatters.org/health/2025/...
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Newsom proposes to freeze Medi-Cal enrollment for immigrants
To save $5 billion, the California governor wants to close new enrollment to adults who lack legal status and charge premiums. The Legislature has resisted such changes.
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