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J.W. Hendricks @jwhendricks.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I've been spending time documenting the continued aid efforts of Kelly Montano of Full Arepas and her organizing partner, Marlen Gonzalez. The two recently started a nonprofit, SELA, to continue sending aid to Venezuela and beyond, including Colombia. Link to full piece below.

Volunteers load boxes of aid for La Guaira into a La Guaira-bound shipping container at Guzmán Brothers Distribution in Vernon, CA on Aug. 6, 2026.

Marlen Gonzalez speaks to volunteers as they load boxes into a La Guaira-bound shipping container at Guzmán Brothers Distribution in Vernon, CA on Aug. 6, 2026.

Marina, a regular volunteer, carries papers containing messages of solidarity for Venezuela past a pallet of La Guaira-bound body bags, at Guzmán Brothers Distribution in Vernon, CA on Aug. 6, 2026.

Volunteers form a prayer circle after filling a La Guaira-bound shipping container with donated boxes of aid at Guzmán Brothers Distribution in Vernon, CA on Aug. 6, 2026.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

BREAKING NYT: The Trump admin just issued subpoenas to several journalists for The New York Times, after the outlet reported on security concerns involving Trump's Qatari-gifted Air Force One. The subpoenas seek to force the reporters to testify before a federal grand jury on Wednesday.

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Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media

The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

If anyone has more info about this, or if you've spotted similar elsewhere in the country, please message me. DMs are open or adjoro.11 on Signal. More questions than answers right now, but press freedom orgs have fought against local cops doing stuff like this because it endangers everyone.

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/07/2026

Breaking News: Federal immigration agents who killed a man during a traffic stop in Houston on Tuesday had been searching for a different person, according to a Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman. nyti.ms/4pfTwgK

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Mexican Man Fatally Shot by ICE Wasn’t the Intended Target

Officials say agents believed the driver resembled one suspect, but the encounter quickly escalated into a fatal shooting.

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J.W. Hendricks @jwhendricks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Residents in La Guaira have been turning to private companies to rent excavation equipment. Montano is now looking to quickly find the funds to rent the excavation equipment to help find her missing parents, fearing that cleaning crews will soon commence.

A photo of Montano's parents, Jesús and Marina, on the wall inside Full Arepas. To the right, a picture of Jesus, and to the left, a picture of a menu item, Arepa Con Pernil.

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J.W. Hendricks @jwhendricks.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Today I caught up with Kelly Montano, owner of Full Arepas in DTLA, who, in the wake of the catastrophic earthquakes in La Guaira, Venezuela, has turned the arepera into a donation center to send aid to those affected by the disaster, the death toll of which has risen to 3,300 as of Sunday 7/5.

Stacks of boxes containing donated supplies in front of Full Arepas in DTLA. The sign reads "AYUDA VENEZUELA" ("Help Venezuela") "NO DINERO / No Money Gracias" ("Thank you")

Kelly Montano prepares an order at Full Arepas

(Right to left) Kelly Montano, her nephew Aron, and a rotary club volunteer help sort through donations.

Volunteer Jeremy takes a break from sorting through donated boxes.

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Mav (Comms Open 1/3) @xmaveria.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

I made a spreadsheet with links for direct aid to people affected by the twin Earthquakes in Venezuela and with charities to donate as well. If anyone needs to be added please don't be afraid to reach out People that are not Venezuelan spread this Please! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

An image with the text sos Venezuela. Candles are lit under it. The text below them reads direct and charities in the spreadsheets

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/03/2026

BREAKING: After ProPublica published letters written by children at the Dilley concentration camp, ICE officers raided the dormitories and confiscated the children's letters. I'm suing ICE to get them back. I'll explain it all in 45 minutes on @meidastouch.com here: www.youtube.com/live/H-D8SzR...

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J.W. Hendricks @jwhendricks.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Writers Guild Staff Union, which has been on strike against the WGA for 28 days, is picketing the Guild outside of SAG-AFTRA, where the WGA is currently beginning the first day of negotiations with the AMPTP.

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Eunice Cho @eunicehcho.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

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J.W. Hendricks @jwhendricks.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

I still tell people about that gumbo. I think I told someone a couple weeks ago

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J.W. Hendricks @jwhendricks.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

My friend and colleague David Swanson is a legendary photographer and an extraordinary, deeply kind and compassionate human being. Please help out if you can. www.gofundme.com/f/support-da...

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Donate to Support David Swanson's Cancer Battle, organized by David Strathearn

On November 14th, my 61st birthday, I, David Swanson, was diagnosed with squamo… David Strathearn needs your support for Support David Swanson's Cancer Battle

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J.W. Hendricks @jwhendricks.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

11/16/25: Community organizer and housing advocate Reverend Rae Huang announces her candidacy for mayor of Los Angeles.

Reverend Rae Huang poses with her children following her mayoral campaign launch at a press conference in front of City Hall in Los Angeles, CA on Nov. 16, 2025

Reverend Rae Huang announces her mayoral campaign launch at a press conference in front of City Hall in Los Angeles, CA on Nov. 16, 2025

Reverend Rae Huang hugs a supporter following her mayoral campaign launch at a press conference in front of City Hall in Los Angeles, CA on Nov. 16, 2025

Reverend Rae Huang speaks to supporters at a launch party in Arts District Brewery following her mayoral campaign launch in Los Angeles, CA on Nov. 16, 2025

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LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Law enforcement physically attacked 72 journalists covering immigration in LA this year—more than double the city’s 2020 BLM protest total, according to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. lapublicpress.org/2025/11/indy...

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Scrappy and underpaid, LA's independent reporters are risking everything to cover the ICE opposition

Law enforcement physically attacked 72 journalists covering immigration in LA this year—more than double the city's 2020 BLM protest total, according to the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.

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404 Media @404media.co · 12/11/2025

SCOOP: ICE is allocating as much as $180 million to pay bounty hunters and private investigators who verify the address and location of undocumented people ICE wishes to detain, including with physical surveillance, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.

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ICE Plans to Spend $180 Million on Bounty Hunters to Stalk Immigrants

Newly released documents provide more details about ICE's plan to use bounty hunters and private investigators to find the location of undocumented immigrants.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

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I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.

Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.

An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.

Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st.

Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

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Ryanne Mena @ryannemena.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Visiting a loved one at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center means navigating a series of obstacles like long drives through the Mojave Desert, hours-long waits, and then facing the emotional toll of leaving your loved one behind after the visit is over. Read more: www.dailynews.com/2025/11/06/w...

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What it’s like to visit the ICE detention center in Adelanto

The facility, roughly 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles, is at the end of a road splintered with cracks and potholes. Once there, some wait for hours to see their loved ones.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 06/11/2025

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

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The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands

The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.

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J.W. Hendricks @jwhendricks.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

You should absolutely subscribe to Sean's LA Ten Four newsletter if you already haven't. This is what I mean by indie journalists doing such vital work. A heartbreaking, brutal read.

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

As always, your support means *so much* to me while I try to scrape rent and food money together. A little means a lot, and if you can’t support financially please feel free to repost. You can subscribe on my site or contribute to Venmo here: venmo.com/u/ACatWithNews latenfour.com

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Venmo | Sean Beckner-Carmitchel

Venmo is a digital wallet that lets you make and share payments with friends. You can easily split the bill, cab fare, or much more. Download the iOS or Android app or sign up on Venmo.com today.

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J.W. Hendricks @jwhendricks.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Please, support your local indies and freelance journalists. Subscribe to their newsletters, share their work, and, if you can, help them survive. So many are consistently doing incredible, vital work and get paid scraps or less.

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Alright I fucking wrote about this. It was apparently necessary to vent my rage about this this afternoon, because that took me two hours to get it all out and onto the page.

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It was never about the numbers

On trying to work in the dying American news industry

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

LAPD officers used tear gas to disperse Dodger fans in Echo Park after the World Series. Gas canisters were thrown outside of a 7 Eleven on Rosemont Avenue and Sunset Boulevard. The gas caused people to quickly leave the area. @shoton35mm.bsky.social

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Cops going aggro on Sunset near Echo Park in LA after the Dodgers Win. Shooting people with less lethals from point blank range, horses running people and press down. Literally minutes before, fireworks in the street

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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 31/10/2025

California has released $80 million to support food banks across the state. Gov. Gavin Newsom has also sent the California National Guard to help food banks pack and distribute food. bit.ly/48SNxs9 📸 J.W. Hendricks

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

New for The Ten Four: Los Angeles City Controller Mejia recently released the results of their assessment of the LAPD’s Mental Evaluation Unit (MEU). The assessment claims LAPD does not give their units necessary tools, and receives minimal mental health training. latenfour.com/2025/10/30/l...

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LA’s City Controller Audits LAPD’s Mental Health Units

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles City Controller Mejia recently released the results of their assessment of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD)’s Mental Evaluation Unit (MEU), the unit designed to re…

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

“They have fun while doing it, which is deeply disturbing. We expect some level of decorum from government officials,” says Phoebe, a member of Harbor Area Peace Patrols. The full story: lataco.com/federal-immi... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

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J.W. Hendricks @jwhendricks.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

10/21/25, LA: Carlos Jurado, attorney of community reporter Carlitos Ricardo Parias ("Richard LA"), tells media he wasn't allowed to see Parias after spending hours inside California Hospital Medical Center, where Parias is being treated after a federal immigration agent shot him earlier in the day.

Carlos Jurado, attorney of community reporter Carlitos Ricardo Parias, known as Richard LA, tells media he was unable to see Parias after spending five hours inside Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center, where Parias is being treated after a federal immigration agent shot him earlier in the day.

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

NEW for The Ten Four: A crowd of hundreds gathered in the late afternoon Saturday outside the Metro Detention Center in downtown Los Angeles, turning what began as a nearly universally peaceful rally into officers dozens of batons. latenfour.com/2025/10/20/p...

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Protests After No Kings Greeted By Horses Protecting Federal Detention Facility

It’s her LAPD. She has said nothing. She has been more absent on this issue than when she was out of the country during the fires.” -Adam Rose

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J.W. Hendricks @jwhendricks.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Scenes from No Kings 2, Los Angeles, CA 10/18/2025 #nokings

A large crowd of demonstrators marches toward the camera, with a giant baby-Trump-in-a-diaper-shaped balloon overhead

A woman leans out the door of a metro bus parked in traffic while waving a sign which reads “NO KINGS / NO FASCISTS IN AMERICA.” over an image of Donald Trump wearing a crown and a Hitler stache.

A red “Make America Great Again” hat burns on a planter in front of City Hall.

A protester wearing a shirt that reads “THEY THEM THEIR” stands in the middle of the road holding a Venezuelan flag, Pride flag, and sign that reads “NOBODY’S FREE UNTIL EVERYBODY’S FREE - Fannie Lou Hamer”

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

After five days of striking, Kaiser Permanente healthcare workers head back to work this week. Thousands of workers struck last week to draw attention to their contract struggle. At the heart of the issue: better staffing = better patient care. Photos by the wonderful @jwhendricks.bsky.social

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Kaiser Nurses head back to work after 5 day strike

Thousands of healthcare workers are back to work after a groundbreaking 5-day strike last week. Negotiations set to resume next week.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 06/10/2025

Well, yeah, we're suing ICE. This wasn't really a hard decision. As little faith as we have in institutions, we recognize the value of drawing visible lines in the sand. We drew ours personally a while ago, but better late than never. May every protester be freed and may this occupation end.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A. ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why. A judge has ordered his immediate release. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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ACLU @aclu.org · 02/10/2025

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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404 Media @404media.co · 03/10/2025

New: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells 404 Media "we are determined to fight this." "Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move." www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

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ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’

Apple removed ICEBlock reportedly after direct pressure from Department of Justice officials. “I am incredibly disappointed by Apple's actions today. Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never t...

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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2025

BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media. 🔗 www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

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ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

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