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Reposted by Melissa Gomez

Los Angeles Times

@latimes.com

Trump administration immigration crackdowns are driving unexpected enrollment declines at U.S. schools. Read more here: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-29/school-enrollment-plummets-lausd-amid-trump-immigration-raids?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_

School enrollment drops amid ICE raids. 'We just don't know what happened to them.'

Schools across Southern California are facing steeper enrollment declines as Trump immigration enforcement actions discourage or prevent students from enrolling.

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December 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM

Melissa Gomez

@melissagomez.bsky.social

Despite court wins, immigrants stay detained as ICE seeks to deport them
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Despite court wins, immigrants stay detained as ICE seeks to deport them

Immigration attorneys described an escalating trend of cases in which someone who won protection from deportation has remained indefinitely detained.

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December 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM

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Carolina A. Miranda

@cmonstah.bsky.social

Christopher Knight's @knightlat.bsky.social's last column for the LA Times! 🫡
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Column: L.A. exploded into a world art capital. I was lucky to be here to witness it

Los Angeles' ascension coincided with the 46-year career of art critic Christopher Knight. In his final column for The Times, he cites three important factors in that rise.

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December 1, 2025 at 6:57 PM

Reposted by Melissa Gomez

Los Angeles Times

@latimes.com

Undocumented farmworkers have formed the backbone of California agriculture for more than a century, yet they face mounting fears of ICE raids under the Trump administration.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

Hard lives in California's fields: 'The American dream eats us alive'

Immigrant farmworkers toil, season after season, in jobs that most Americans wouldn't endure for a week. It's a rough life that takes a heavy toll.

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December 1, 2025 at 6:03 PM

Melissa Gomez

@melissagomez.bsky.social

"A Times analysis of court records related to assaults on federal law enforcement in Los Angeles, San Diego, Portland, Ore., Chicago and Washington, D.C., shows the majority of the alleged attacks resulted in no injury to an agent."
www.latimes.com/california/s...

Attacks on ICE up 1,000%? Trump administration claim not backed up by court records

The Trump administration has cited a more than 1,000% increase in assaults on immigration agents to justify aggressive tactics. But court records reviewed by The Times show the majority of the alleged...

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December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM

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James Queally

@jqwritesstuff.bsky.social

SCOOP: An L.A. grand jury is now hearing evidence in the case of a teen girl found stuffed in trunk of Dv4d's Tesla, sources tell me & @lacrimes.bsky.social www.latimes.com/california/s...

L.A. grand jury now probing mystery of dead teen stuffed in trunk of Dv4d's Tesla, sources say

Although the LAPD has publicly declined to call the death a homicide, a recent court filing calls the matter "an investigation into murder."

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November 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM

Melissa Gomez

@melissagomez.bsky.social

"But offering her an editorship showed disregard for the damage she’s caused and the journalistic ethics she’s burned to the ground. The glamorous photo shoots, the breathless gossip... all function to rehabilitate the images and careers of people who have done harm."
newrepublic.com/article/2035...

Olivia Nuzzi’s Real Victims

More than her fiancé, or fellow female journalists, the public will pay the price for these misdeeds. RFK Jr. will see to that.

newrepublic.com

November 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM

Reposted by Melissa Gomez

Capital & Main

@capitalandmain.bsky.social

Cubans and other third-country nationals deported from the U.S. are being dropped off on the streets of Villahermosa, Mexico, where they struggle to survive.

Though Mexico receives these deportees, it does not give them any legal status to live or work there.
capitalandmain.com/im-lost-in-t...

‘I’m Lost in This Country’: Non-Mexicans Living Undocumented After Deportation to Mexico

Cubans and other third-country nationals are dropped off on the streets of Villahermosa where they struggle to survive.

capitalandmain.com

November 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM

Melissa Gomez

@melissagomez.bsky.social

Thousands of Immigrant Students Flee L.A. Unified Schools After ‘Chilling Effect’ of ICE Raids
www.the74million.org/article/thou...

Thousands of Immigrant Students Flee L.A. Unified Schools After ‘Chilling Effect’ of ICE Raids

The nation’s second-largest district now enrolls about 62,000 English learners, down from more than 75,000 immigrant students in the 2024-25 academic.

www.the74million.org

November 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM

Reposted by Melissa Gomez

Los Angeles Times

@latimes.com

Farmworkers sue Trump administration in California over threat to wages

The United Farm Workers, along with more than a dozen farmworkers, filed a federal lawsuit in California challenging a new Labor Department rule they argue will "undercut and adversely affect" wages paid to U.S. workers.

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November 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM

Melissa Gomez

@melissagomez.bsky.social

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal

Exclusive: Agency accessed private conversations of New York ‘courtwatch’ group that was observing public hearings

www.theguardian.com

November 21, 2025 at 10:02 PM

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James Queally

@jqwritesstuff.bsky.social

BREAKING: L.A. D.A. Nathan Hochman is moving to drop charges against Torrance officers in the 2018 fatal shooting of Christopher Deandre Mitchell, undoing a signature case filed by ex-D.A. George Gascon www.latimes.com/california/s...

D.A. moves to drop charges against Torrance officers in fatal shooting of Black man

Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman moved to dismiss a manslaughter indictment against two Torrance police officers who shot and killed Christopher Deandre Mitchell in 2018. Mitchell, a car ...

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November 21, 2025 at 6:14 PM

Melissa Gomez

@melissagomez.bsky.social

What an incredible piece of reporting from my former colleague @lajourno.bsky.social, who spent months reporting how the state has under-investigated children working in harsh conditions in fields across California. Spend the time to read and hear from the children.
www.latimes.com/california/s...

California's child farmworkers: Exhausted, underpaid and toiling in toxic fields

State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.

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November 20, 2025 at 8:50 PM

Reposted by Melissa Gomez

James Queally

@jqwritesstuff.bsky.social

An autopsy made public today shows a Border Patrol agent was depressed and died of a cocaine overdose a month after he was arrested in Long Beach. My latest: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Border Patrol agent died of cocaine overdose a month after Long Beach arrest, autopsy says

U.S. Border Patrol agent Isaiah Hodgson died of a cocaine overdose in August, one month after he was arrested for drunkenly fighting with Long Beach police, according to an autopsy report made public ...

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November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM

Melissa Gomez

@melissagomez.bsky.social

Immokalee is one of Florida's most low-income areas, and about 73% Latino. It's also heavily agricultural - this is like targeting the Central Valley in California.
www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com/article/immo...

Immokalee High School urges staff to support students after impact of ICE raids in Collier County

ICE agents have been detaining people across Collier County, causing emotional distress among students at Immokalee High School as families face uncertainty.

www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com

November 20, 2025 at 7:12 PM

Melissa Gomez

@melissagomez.bsky.social

Maribel Lopez was supposed to be protected from deportation because she had a pending asylum case on appeal, after fleeing years of abuse in Guatemala. Instead, she was deported in error & left behind a 2-year-old son. Now back in the U.S., she remains in detention.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

She Was Deported in Error. Her Child Was Left Behind.

www.nytimes.com

November 20, 2025 at 7:04 PM

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Ryan Fonseca

@ryan-fonseca.bsky.social

"What are young and/or struggling journalists supposed to think when the most successful people in the business are the ones with malleable ethics and poor judgement (and, to be honest, pretty bad writers)?"

@marisakabas.bsky.social with some sharp thoughts 👇🏼
www.thehandbasket.co/p/moral-rot-...

Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field

The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Epstein’s journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.

www.thehandbasket.co

November 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM

Melissa Gomez

@melissagomez.bsky.social

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...

Scrappy and underpaid, LA's independent reporters risk it all to cover the ICE beat

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

November 20, 2025 at 12:59 AM

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James Queally

@jqwritesstuff.bsky.social

An L.A. jury deadlocked on assault charges against an ex-Whittier who shot and paralyzed an unarmed man in 2020, leading to a mistrial. My latest: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Mistrial declared in case of ex-Whittier cop charged for shooting unarmed man in back

Jurors could not reach a verdict against former Whittier police detective Salvador Murillo, who was charged with multiple counts of assault for shooting a fleeing unarmed suspect in the spine in 2020,...

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November 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM

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Karen Attiah

@karenattiah.bsky.social

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression

The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

www.washingtonpost.com

November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM

Melissa Gomez

@melissagomez.bsky.social

“[We] at The Washington Post will continue to remind you that one of our colleagues in the not-so-distant past was murdered... “That’s not something we can just wipe under the rug or forget about.”
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

Trump defends Saudi crown prince over Khashoggi killing

The de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia was branded a pariah in 2018 after the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Now, U.S.-Saudi relations are approaching a high point.

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November 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM

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James Queally

@jqwritesstuff.bsky.social

A homeless man who had previously been banned from L.A. Metro for violence was convicted today of murder and robbery for stabbing a 67-year-old woman to death on the B Line last year. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Man who stabbed woman in the throat as they rode L.A. Metro is found guilty of murder

Elliot Tramel Nowden faces life in prison for stabbing Mirna Soza Arauz to death while robbing her on the B Line L.A. Metro train.

www.latimes.com

November 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM

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Ian James

@ianjames.bsky.social

For sea creatures, plastic is often deadly. New research shows it takes just 6 pieces the size of a pencil eraser to kill sea birds. It’s the first time scientists have quantified how much plastic it takes to kill a bird, marine mammal or turtle. @susrust.bsky.social www.latimes.com/science/stor...