Adam Rose
@adamrose.bsky.social
✒️ Deputy Director of Advocacy @freedom.press
💽 Fellow and former COO of Starling Lab (Stanford+USC)
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💽 Fellow and former COO of Starling Lab (Stanford+USC)
🌴 Board of Directors @lapressclub.bsky.social
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Adam Rose
@adamrose.bsky.social
· Jul 19
LA Protest Visual Field Guide: How to identify police and “less lethal” munitions
LA Protest Visual Field Guide How to identify police and “less lethal” munitions An overview of law enforcement agencies commonly operating around Los Angeles and their use of so-called “less lethal” ...
docs.google.com
I made a DRAFT field guide to help journalists (or anyone) navigate police + protests in Los Angeles. ~80% done. Slides all illustrated w/photos:
👮 Agencies & Uniforms
🔫 Firearms & Devices
🎯 Munitions
🦺 PPE
🏥 Injuries
Sharing this as rough draft b/c feedback VERY welcome!
(Note: Google Slides.)
👮 Agencies & Uniforms
🔫 Firearms & Devices
🎯 Munitions
🦺 PPE
🏥 Injuries
Sharing this as rough draft b/c feedback VERY welcome!
(Note: Google Slides.)
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New court record from the FBI details the state of the devices seized from Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson: phone was on w/Lockdown Mode; personal laptop was off; work laptop was on w/Touch ID; several Signal chats used disappearing messages. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 31, 2026 at 5:32 PM
New court record from the FBI details the state of the devices seized from Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson: phone was on w/Lockdown Mode; personal laptop was off; work laptop was on w/Touch ID; several Signal chats used disappearing messages. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
NYT notes Bovino's antisemitic comments this month could undermine him as a trial witness.
But that ship sailed in September. Bovino was exposed ON STAND, destroying huge case and humiliating prosecutors.
Once this came out, he became unusable as a witness forever.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
But that ship sailed in September. Bovino was exposed ON STAND, destroying huge case and humiliating prosecutors.
Once this came out, he became unusable as a witness forever.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
February 1, 2026 at 1:14 AM
NYT notes Bovino's antisemitic comments this month could undermine him as a trial witness.
But that ship sailed in September. Bovino was exposed ON STAND, destroying huge case and humiliating prosecutors.
Once this came out, he became unusable as a witness forever.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
But that ship sailed in September. Bovino was exposed ON STAND, destroying huge case and humiliating prosecutors.
Once this came out, he became unusable as a witness forever.
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Huh. So you're telling me the poster boy of the anti-immigrant movement who dresses up in a trench coat like a WWII cosplayer ... might have spoken his true feelings?
Bovino Is Said to Have Mocked Prosecutor’s Jewish Faith on Call With Lawyers
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Huh. So you're telling me the poster boy of the anti-immigrant movement who dresses up in a trench coat like a WWII cosplayer ... might have spoken his true feelings?
JOURNALISTS AND PROTESTERS:
I can’t offer any guarantees about this specific device, but I do think it’s brilliant this person made a free 3D printable tool to turn any water bottle into an eye wash station in case of pepper spray or tear gas exposure.
cults3d.com/en/3d-model/...
I can’t offer any guarantees about this specific device, but I do think it’s brilliant this person made a free 3D printable tool to turn any water bottle into an eye wash station in case of pepper spray or tear gas exposure.
cults3d.com/en/3d-model/...
January 31, 2026 at 11:31 PM
JOURNALISTS AND PROTESTERS:
I can’t offer any guarantees about this specific device, but I do think it’s brilliant this person made a free 3D printable tool to turn any water bottle into an eye wash station in case of pepper spray or tear gas exposure.
cults3d.com/en/3d-model/...
I can’t offer any guarantees about this specific device, but I do think it’s brilliant this person made a free 3D printable tool to turn any water bottle into an eye wash station in case of pepper spray or tear gas exposure.
cults3d.com/en/3d-model/...
Los Angeles can be a such a dream sometimes.
Thousands of sunbathers stretch for miles on unbroken sand.
Temps in mid-70s at the end of January.
Busker on pier crooning Etta James hits.
So picturesque in person it’s surreal.
Oh, and an LAPD helicopter creepin’. It is LA, after all.
Thousands of sunbathers stretch for miles on unbroken sand.
Temps in mid-70s at the end of January.
Busker on pier crooning Etta James hits.
So picturesque in person it’s surreal.
Oh, and an LAPD helicopter creepin’. It is LA, after all.
January 31, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Los Angeles can be a such a dream sometimes.
Thousands of sunbathers stretch for miles on unbroken sand.
Temps in mid-70s at the end of January.
Busker on pier crooning Etta James hits.
So picturesque in person it’s surreal.
Oh, and an LAPD helicopter creepin’. It is LA, after all.
Thousands of sunbathers stretch for miles on unbroken sand.
Temps in mid-70s at the end of January.
Busker on pier crooning Etta James hits.
So picturesque in person it’s surreal.
Oh, and an LAPD helicopter creepin’. It is LA, after all.
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I'm NAL, but my understanding is contempt can include sanctions. And courts are co-equal branch of govt that can throw people behind bars.
What I don't understand is what it'll take for a judge to do that to bad actors depriving people of civil rights.
America is waiting. And running out of time.
What I don't understand is what it'll take for a judge to do that to bad actors depriving people of civil rights.
America is waiting. And running out of time.
January 31, 2026 at 9:25 PM
I'm NAL, but my understanding is contempt can include sanctions. And courts are co-equal branch of govt that can throw people behind bars.
What I don't understand is what it'll take for a judge to do that to bad actors depriving people of civil rights.
America is waiting. And running out of time.
What I don't understand is what it'll take for a judge to do that to bad actors depriving people of civil rights.
America is waiting. And running out of time.
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Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
![Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you
can keep it."
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike,
It is so ORDERED.
SIGNED this 31st day of February, 2026.
_________________________________________________
FRED BIERY
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
[photo of Liam]
Credit: Bystander
Matthew 19:14
John 11:35](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:73t3muu2pudsajp7a2fj3aly/bafkreigfz6fzbu65haq7nfqgaoe7m42gsaonpinpmaaptuzd5atkqvya4i@jpeg)
January 31, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept."
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
Astonishing thing for a judge to do.
Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying.
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
January 31, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Lawyers can't reach clients in ICE detention. I've heard it anecdotally, but scale of issue is horrifying.
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
Bloomberg Law is a legal trade pub so many may miss this. Screenshot from their CA newsletter summarizes "bleak" situation for justice and rule of law.
news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/l...
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"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices" ~ Edward R. Murrow
January 31, 2026 at 6:16 PM
"No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices" ~ Edward R. Murrow
It’s journalistic malpractice to let @mayor.lacity.gov Karen Bass exploit @donlemonofficial.bsky.social to pretend she cares about press.
It’s duplicitous and hurts all journalists.
Her own LAPD has committed hundreds of acts of violence against working press.
She’s never said ONE word about it.
It’s duplicitous and hurts all journalists.
Her own LAPD has committed hundreds of acts of violence against working press.
She’s never said ONE word about it.
January 31, 2026 at 4:05 AM
It’s journalistic malpractice to let @mayor.lacity.gov Karen Bass exploit @donlemonofficial.bsky.social to pretend she cares about press.
It’s duplicitous and hurts all journalists.
Her own LAPD has committed hundreds of acts of violence against working press.
She’s never said ONE word about it.
It’s duplicitous and hurts all journalists.
Her own LAPD has committed hundreds of acts of violence against working press.
She’s never said ONE word about it.
As someone constantly saying press should be allowed to do their job when police clash with protesters, I love this clip.
Bunch of press, standing nonchalant, off to side, leaning on wall, practically seem bored. Just. Doing. Their. Job.
I assume feds don’t like dumpster. Fair. Not press’s fault.
Bunch of press, standing nonchalant, off to side, leaning on wall, practically seem bored. Just. Doing. Their. Job.
I assume feds don’t like dumpster. Fair. Not press’s fault.
Anti-DHS protesters in LA moved a huge dumpster, partially blocking agents in their building.
January 31, 2026 at 3:37 AM
As someone constantly saying press should be allowed to do their job when police clash with protesters, I love this clip.
Bunch of press, standing nonchalant, off to side, leaning on wall, practically seem bored. Just. Doing. Their. Job.
I assume feds don’t like dumpster. Fair. Not press’s fault.
Bunch of press, standing nonchalant, off to side, leaning on wall, practically seem bored. Just. Doing. Their. Job.
I assume feds don’t like dumpster. Fair. Not press’s fault.
This is a long and very quotable piece about one of the more bizarre episodes from the ICE surge in Minneapolis.
Read it this weekend. You won’t regret it.
Read it this weekend. You won’t regret it.
January 31, 2026 at 3:14 AM
This is a long and very quotable piece about one of the more bizarre episodes from the ICE surge in Minneapolis.
Read it this weekend. You won’t regret it.
Read it this weekend. You won’t regret it.
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🔴 Three things you should know about the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort (hint: this never ends well for the government).
1. They were just doing their job.
2. The government keeps losing these cases.
3. We must call out attacks on journalists of color.
Watch @adamrose.bsky.social explain:
1. They were just doing their job.
2. The government keeps losing these cases.
3. We must call out attacks on journalists of color.
Watch @adamrose.bsky.social explain:
3 things you need to know about the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort
YouTube video by Freedom of the Press Foundation
youtube.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:23 AM
🔴 Three things you should know about the arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort (hint: this never ends well for the government).
1. They were just doing their job.
2. The government keeps losing these cases.
3. We must call out attacks on journalists of color.
Watch @adamrose.bsky.social explain:
1. They were just doing their job.
2. The government keeps losing these cases.
3. We must call out attacks on journalists of color.
Watch @adamrose.bsky.social explain:
As a certified drone pilot and longtime journalist, I say in here that new FAA rules are "totally mind-boggling, totally vague and totally problematic."
The feds are just trying to hide actions of ICE and Border Patrol from the press -- and making everyone on the ground less safe in the process.
The feds are just trying to hide actions of ICE and Border Patrol from the press -- and making everyone on the ground less safe in the process.
FAA’s mobile no-drone zones create First Amendment concerns
Quill, a magazine by the Society of Professional Journalists
www.quillmag.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:10 PM
As a certified drone pilot and longtime journalist, I say in here that new FAA rules are "totally mind-boggling, totally vague and totally problematic."
The feds are just trying to hide actions of ICE and Border Patrol from the press -- and making everyone on the ground less safe in the process.
The feds are just trying to hide actions of ICE and Border Patrol from the press -- and making everyone on the ground less safe in the process.
The courts keep telling this admin "no" in humiliating fashion.
Literally ruined the generations-old joke "a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich" when they couldn't indict the DC sandwich guy.
These charges won't stick, but damage already done: intimidating journalists and chilling 1A rights.
Literally ruined the generations-old joke "a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich" when they couldn't indict the DC sandwich guy.
These charges won't stick, but damage already done: intimidating journalists and chilling 1A rights.
The government’s arrests of journalists @donlemonofficial.bsky.social and @bygeorgiafort.bsky.social are attacks on freedom of the press.
Two federal courts flatly rejected prosecuting Lemon, but instead of accepting that humiliating defeat, the government has now doubled down.
Read our statement:
Two federal courts flatly rejected prosecuting Lemon, but instead of accepting that humiliating defeat, the government has now doubled down.
Read our statement:
January 30, 2026 at 6:47 PM
The courts keep telling this admin "no" in humiliating fashion.
Literally ruined the generations-old joke "a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich" when they couldn't indict the DC sandwich guy.
These charges won't stick, but damage already done: intimidating journalists and chilling 1A rights.
Literally ruined the generations-old joke "a prosecutor could indict a ham sandwich" when they couldn't indict the DC sandwich guy.
These charges won't stick, but damage already done: intimidating journalists and chilling 1A rights.
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It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day
Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have
Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have
January 28, 2026 at 11:00 PM
It’s really difficult & disorienting but the feds hit LA extremely hard today. There were kidnappings all over & reported cluster raids in Chinatown, East LA, Ktown. This list shows to 1130 AM but they haven’t stopped all day
Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have
Just because the media attention stopped doesn’t mean the abductions have
Not the hero America deserves, but the one it needs right now.
"I'm f—king demanding that you act with some semblance of a f—king spine."
'Batman' blasts Bay Area city council over ICE's involvement in Super Bowl
"I'm f—king demanding that you act with some semblance of a f—king spine."
bit.ly
January 29, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Not the hero America deserves, but the one it needs right now.
“Those who have knowledge don’t predict. Those who predict don’t have knowledge.” - Lao Tzu, 6th century Chinese poet
(Wise words quoted today in @marketplace.org)
(Wise words quoted today in @marketplace.org)
January 29, 2026 at 1:54 AM
“Those who have knowledge don’t predict. Those who predict don’t have knowledge.” - Lao Tzu, 6th century Chinese poet
(Wise words quoted today in @marketplace.org)
(Wise words quoted today in @marketplace.org)
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ICE & CBP have been out kidnapping people in Los Angeles every day since June. The media has moved on and acts like this isn’t still happening. The crises are ongoing. Solidarity with the people fighting back in Minneapolis and everywhere.
please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota.
people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.
people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.
January 28, 2026 at 5:54 PM
ICE & CBP have been out kidnapping people in Los Angeles every day since June. The media has moved on and acts like this isn’t still happening. The crises are ongoing. Solidarity with the people fighting back in Minneapolis and everywhere.
If someone did this to an ICE agents they’d have put 30 bullets in the guy, opened an investigation into his family, and taken three paid months off for “internal bleeding.”
Omar took a step toward him to fend him off, then went back to speaking.
Respect.
Omar took a step toward him to fend him off, then went back to speaking.
Respect.
video of the moment a man tried spraying something at ilhan omar at her town hall in minneapolis tonight
January 28, 2026 at 2:27 AM
If someone did this to an ICE agents they’d have put 30 bullets in the guy, opened an investigation into his family, and taken three paid months off for “internal bleeding.”
Omar took a step toward him to fend him off, then went back to speaking.
Respect.
Omar took a step toward him to fend him off, then went back to speaking.
Respect.
Hey, whatever happened to the Epstein files?
In 21 days
•Venezuela
•Renee Good
•Greenland
•Alex Pretti
•Venezuela
•Renee Good
•Greenland
•Alex Pretti
January 27, 2026 at 4:52 AM
Hey, whatever happened to the Epstein files?
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
Journalists and observers in Minneapolis:
Please send me photos of spent munitions (grenade, hand sprayed, etc.). Only when safe to approach, fumes may be toxic!
Photos before use also helpful.
Much confusion on green gas. Color is just dye, unclear which are OC, CS, etc. Canisters can confirm.
Please send me photos of spent munitions (grenade, hand sprayed, etc.). Only when safe to approach, fumes may be toxic!
Photos before use also helpful.
Much confusion on green gas. Color is just dye, unclear which are OC, CS, etc. Canisters can confirm.
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 27, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Journalists and observers in Minneapolis:
Please send me photos of spent munitions (grenade, hand sprayed, etc.). Only when safe to approach, fumes may be toxic!
Photos before use also helpful.
Much confusion on green gas. Color is just dye, unclear which are OC, CS, etc. Canisters can confirm.
Please send me photos of spent munitions (grenade, hand sprayed, etc.). Only when safe to approach, fumes may be toxic!
Photos before use also helpful.
Much confusion on green gas. Color is just dye, unclear which are OC, CS, etc. Canisters can confirm.
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“Keeping our streets safer” by…holding my riot gun in between my fucking knees at a crowd of unarmed media so I can struggle to pull the pin on my smoke grenade
January 26, 2026 at 6:43 AM
“Keeping our streets safer” by…holding my riot gun in between my fucking knees at a crowd of unarmed media so I can struggle to pull the pin on my smoke grenade
OMG @dieworkwear.bsky.social is so, so good at this. Big fan. For those of us who try to dress up occasionally he's our guide to men's clothing. Not just how it looks, but the message conveyed. He's also very funny.
And when he rolls up his sleeves like in this article, it's VERY enlightening.
And when he rolls up his sleeves like in this article, it's VERY enlightening.
January 25, 2026 at 9:23 PM
OMG @dieworkwear.bsky.social is so, so good at this. Big fan. For those of us who try to dress up occasionally he's our guide to men's clothing. Not just how it looks, but the message conveyed. He's also very funny.
And when he rolls up his sleeves like in this article, it's VERY enlightening.
And when he rolls up his sleeves like in this article, it's VERY enlightening.