Nathan Solis
@tarantulaarms.bsky.social
Hello, Mother Leopard.
Editor at The L.A. Local
Former breaking news reporter at the L.A. Times. Normal amount of hands and feet. Definitely not a spider.
https://www.localnewsforla.org/
Editor at The L.A. Local
Former breaking news reporter at the L.A. Times. Normal amount of hands and feet. Definitely not a spider.
https://www.localnewsforla.org/
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Do you appreciate @nws.noaa.gov's posts on Bluesky?
Did you know that this account is a pilot program that may or may not be continued and even expanded to NWS field offices?
NWS is soliciting comments here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrototypeN...
Press release:
www.weather.gov/media/notifi...
Did you know that this account is a pilot program that may or may not be continued and even expanded to NWS field offices?
NWS is soliciting comments here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrototypeN...
Press release:
www.weather.gov/media/notifi...
⚠️~132 million: Number of people under alerts for snow, sleet, & freezing rain.
A large, long-duration winter storm is expected to bring widespread heavy snow, sleet, & freezing rain from the Southern Rockies & Plains beginning Friday (Jan. 23), spreading eastward toward New England this weekend.
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A large, long-duration winter storm is expected to bring widespread heavy snow, sleet, & freezing rain from the Southern Rockies & Plains beginning Friday (Jan. 23), spreading eastward toward New England this weekend.
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January 22, 2026 at 7:53 PM
Do you appreciate @nws.noaa.gov's posts on Bluesky?
Did you know that this account is a pilot program that may or may not be continued and even expanded to NWS field offices?
NWS is soliciting comments here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrototypeN...
Press release:
www.weather.gov/media/notifi...
Did you know that this account is a pilot program that may or may not be continued and even expanded to NWS field offices?
NWS is soliciting comments here! www.surveymonkey.com/r/PrototypeN...
Press release:
www.weather.gov/media/notifi...
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We're losing the battle against AI slop, chapter 23,239. Only one of these is a photo of the actual Metro A Line Allen Station in Pasadena
January 23, 2026 at 3:34 PM
We're losing the battle against AI slop, chapter 23,239. Only one of these is a photo of the actual Metro A Line Allen Station in Pasadena
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A number of people from out-of-state have been opening tabs at small businesses—coffee shops where people on patrol can grab a drink and warm up, bars where people can be in community, etc. It’s been a deeply appreciated form of solidarity and helps the businesses closing tomorrow.
how (if at all) can we support the minnesota general strike on friday from afar?
January 23, 2026 at 4:27 AM
A number of people from out-of-state have been opening tabs at small businesses—coffee shops where people on patrol can grab a drink and warm up, bars where people can be in community, etc. It’s been a deeply appreciated form of solidarity and helps the businesses closing tomorrow.
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Appalling.
We don't know whether to believe our own eyes anymore. THAT is the greatest threat of AI.
Expect a few reactionary calls to label AI. That doesn't work. The damage here was already done.
Society has the tech to verify and label real content, though. Just no appetite to do it. Yet.
We don't know whether to believe our own eyes anymore. THAT is the greatest threat of AI.
Expect a few reactionary calls to label AI. That doesn't work. The damage here was already done.
Society has the tech to verify and label real content, though. Just no appetite to do it. Yet.
We have been rightly afraid of the threat of bad actors using AI to create disinformation.
It's appalling that one of the first of those bad actors is in the White House. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
It's appalling that one of the first of those bad actors is in the White House. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest
Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration
www.theguardian.com
January 23, 2026 at 6:20 AM
Appalling.
We don't know whether to believe our own eyes anymore. THAT is the greatest threat of AI.
Expect a few reactionary calls to label AI. That doesn't work. The damage here was already done.
Society has the tech to verify and label real content, though. Just no appetite to do it. Yet.
We don't know whether to believe our own eyes anymore. THAT is the greatest threat of AI.
Expect a few reactionary calls to label AI. That doesn't work. The damage here was already done.
Society has the tech to verify and label real content, though. Just no appetite to do it. Yet.
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The DHS and ICE have insisted this family was following them. They were coming back from a kids' basketball game when ICE agents saw Black people and attacked them, nearly killing an infant. www.startribune.com/family-recou...
Family recounts being caught in unrest after man is shot by federal agent
The family’s 6-month-old baby was unconscious and foaming at the mouth after federal agents threw tear gas and flash-bangs under their SUV, according to the child’s parents.
www.startribune.com
January 23, 2026 at 1:52 AM
The DHS and ICE have insisted this family was following them. They were coming back from a kids' basketball game when ICE agents saw Black people and attacked them, nearly killing an infant. www.startribune.com/family-recou...
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"After our fourth student was taken yesterday, I just thought someone has to hear the story. They’re taking children.”
@samtlevin.bsky.social reports the story behind this heart-wrenching photo.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
@samtlevin.bsky.social reports the story behind this heart-wrenching photo.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
ICE detains five-year-old Minnesota boy arriving home, say school officials
Superintendent says Liam Ramos and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway and sent to Texas
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 7:46 PM
"After our fourth student was taken yesterday, I just thought someone has to hear the story. They’re taking children.”
@samtlevin.bsky.social reports the story behind this heart-wrenching photo.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
@samtlevin.bsky.social reports the story behind this heart-wrenching photo.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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DAILY MEMO: ICE and Border Patrol Continue Shooting and Assaulting Southern California Immigrants, Citizens, Women, and Minors
January 22, 2026 at 4:15 AM
DAILY MEMO: ICE and Border Patrol Continue Shooting and Assaulting Southern California Immigrants, Citizens, Women, and Minors
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They kidnapped a five year old child
January 22, 2026 at 1:40 AM
They kidnapped a five year old child
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BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
bit.ly
January 21, 2026 at 9:32 PM
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
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Some of the detainees at the California City detention facility were detained at immigration hearings.
Many did not have prior criminal records, according to Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff. They conducted an oversight tour at the facility on Tuesday.
Story by @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social
Many did not have prior criminal records, according to Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff. They conducted an oversight tour at the facility on Tuesday.
Story by @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social
Some detainees were arrested at routine immigration appointments, Padilla and Schiff say after oversight tour | LA Local
The California Democratic senators carried out the congressional oversight tour amid the onslaught of immigration raids across the region.
thelalocal.org
January 21, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Some of the detainees at the California City detention facility were detained at immigration hearings.
Many did not have prior criminal records, according to Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff. They conducted an oversight tour at the facility on Tuesday.
Story by @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social
Many did not have prior criminal records, according to Senators Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff. They conducted an oversight tour at the facility on Tuesday.
Story by @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social
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Here's the note that Elissa Slotkin got in the middle of a Novemer briefing on Venezuela:
Mark Kelly on peeking at it: “I’m like, ‘Oh shit. .. Five minutes later, she comes back in, she looks at me and she goes, ‘Well, he called for your execution too.’” www.cnn.com/2026/01/21/p...
Mark Kelly on peeking at it: “I’m like, ‘Oh shit. .. Five minutes later, she comes back in, she looks at me and she goes, ‘Well, he called for your execution too.’” www.cnn.com/2026/01/21/p...
January 21, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Here's the note that Elissa Slotkin got in the middle of a Novemer briefing on Venezuela:
Mark Kelly on peeking at it: “I’m like, ‘Oh shit. .. Five minutes later, she comes back in, she looks at me and she goes, ‘Well, he called for your execution too.’” www.cnn.com/2026/01/21/p...
Mark Kelly on peeking at it: “I’m like, ‘Oh shit. .. Five minutes later, she comes back in, she looks at me and she goes, ‘Well, he called for your execution too.’” www.cnn.com/2026/01/21/p...
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Join us for the first Echo Park Really, Really Free Market, where everything is FREE!
📆Sunday, January 25
⏰11am—2pm
📍Echo Park Lake (corner of Park Ave & Echo Park Lake Ave near the picnic tables)
📆Sunday, January 25
⏰11am—2pm
📍Echo Park Lake (corner of Park Ave & Echo Park Lake Ave near the picnic tables)
January 21, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Join us for the first Echo Park Really, Really Free Market, where everything is FREE!
📆Sunday, January 25
⏰11am—2pm
📍Echo Park Lake (corner of Park Ave & Echo Park Lake Ave near the picnic tables)
📆Sunday, January 25
⏰11am—2pm
📍Echo Park Lake (corner of Park Ave & Echo Park Lake Ave near the picnic tables)
This is the type of rhetoric you'd expect from someone on trial or on a podcast, not at Davos on the world stage.
Some news outlets are going to soften his words with headlines like TRUMP MAKES DEAL ON GREENLAND and call it a day
Some news outlets are going to soften his words with headlines like TRUMP MAKES DEAL ON GREENLAND and call it a day
Trump on NATO: "Until the last few days when I told them about Iceland, they loved me. They called me daddy."
(He means Greenland.)
(He means Greenland.)
January 21, 2026 at 2:43 PM
This is the type of rhetoric you'd expect from someone on trial or on a podcast, not at Davos on the world stage.
Some news outlets are going to soften his words with headlines like TRUMP MAKES DEAL ON GREENLAND and call it a day
Some news outlets are going to soften his words with headlines like TRUMP MAKES DEAL ON GREENLAND and call it a day
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New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.
My story:
My story:
Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home
DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 20, 2026 at 12:29 AM
New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.
My story:
My story:
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I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:56 PM
I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
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ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
January 19, 2026 at 5:41 AM
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
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Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
January 17, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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HUGE. A fed judge in the BLM vs City of Los Angeles case has banned LAPD from using 40mm rubber bullets at protests. "Defendants have not demonstrated substantial compliance or that all reasonable steps have been taken to be in compliance with the Court’s Preliminary Injunction Order."
![“If a violating party has taken all reasonable steps to comply with the court
order, technical or inadvertent violations of the order will not support a finding of
civil contempt.”) General Signal Corp. v. Donallco, Inc., 787 F.2d 1376, 1379
(9th Cir. 1986). “A contemnor in violation of a court order may avoid a finding of
civil contempt only by showing it took all reasonable steps to comply with the
order.” Kelly v. Wengler, 822 F.3d 1085, 1096 (9th Cir. 2016). Here, Plaintiffs
argue that Defendants directly violated the Court’s Preliminary Injunction by
“repeatedly [shooting] individuals in the face, eye, groin and back” with 40mm
weapons. (Mot at 10.) Because the Circuit has held that the 40mm munition is not
intended to disperse crowds, but “is chiefly designed, intended, and used for the
purpose of incapacitating its target,” Sanderlin v. Dwyer, 116 F.4th 905, 912 (9th
Cir. 2024), Plaintiffs argue these instances are not “technical or inadvertent” so as
to allow Defendants to avoid liability. (Id.)
However, Defendants have not demonstrated substantial compliance or that
all reasonable steps have been taken to be in compliance with the Court’s
Preliminary Injunction Order. (See Dkt. No. 243 at 4-7; Quiroz Decl. ¶ 4) (e.g.,
Crown management/Crowd Control management training, Crowd Management
and Control for Patrol training, requiring officers to undergo 24 hours of
perishable skills training every two years which includes use of force, LAPD
disseminated the content of the TRO to all personnel, and a notice to all personal
after the modified TRO was issued on April 28, 2021, LAPD issued nine
directives and policy updates regarding the use of 37mm and 40mm LLMs
between September 2021 and May 2025). Defendants do not argue that the
exceptions to the Preliminary Injunction Order apply here (e.g., if a protestor is
violently resisting arrest, poses an immediate threat of violence or physical harm,](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vnsn3gjqvtaianuuziyiqxlx/bafkreiasowqazj7cr3fk3qbghkvk75juqztyaab75kgw247rz4imhqpn64@jpeg)
January 15, 2026 at 11:56 PM
HUGE. A fed judge in the BLM vs City of Los Angeles case has banned LAPD from using 40mm rubber bullets at protests. "Defendants have not demonstrated substantial compliance or that all reasonable steps have been taken to be in compliance with the Court’s Preliminary Injunction Order."
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The ICE detention center being hosted on the land that's a part of a US Army base.
🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
January 15, 2026 at 11:27 PM
The ICE detention center being hosted on the land that's a part of a US Army base.
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"Anonymously sourced report that Jonathan Ross ‘suffered internal bleeding’ after killing Renee Good faced skepticism inside CBS newsroom" www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
CBS News report on ICE officer’s injuries drew ‘huge internal concern’
Anonymously sourced report that Jonathan Ross ‘suffered internal bleeding’ after killing Renee Good faced skepticism inside CBS newsroom
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:20 AM
"Anonymously sourced report that Jonathan Ross ‘suffered internal bleeding’ after killing Renee Good faced skepticism inside CBS newsroom" www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
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January 16, 2026 at 2:49 AM
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New independent media outlet The LA Local, launched in response to how legacy media is failing Angelenos, expands on the Boyle Heights Beat channel with coverage of Inglewood, South LA, Koreatown, Pico Union and Westlake.
thelalocal.org/news/welcome...
thelalocal.org/news/welcome...
Welcome to The LA Local: We built this newsroom for you | LA Local
We interviewed hundreds of residents from across Los Angeles County and designed our newsroom to meet your needs.
thelalocal.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:41 PM
New independent media outlet The LA Local, launched in response to how legacy media is failing Angelenos, expands on the Boyle Heights Beat channel with coverage of Inglewood, South LA, Koreatown, Pico Union and Westlake.
thelalocal.org/news/welcome...
thelalocal.org/news/welcome...
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The pocket park, set to slot right next to the Pío Pico–Koreatown Branch Library, was formally approved in August 2017. Nearly a decade later — and after $22 million in public funding was committed — the park remains unfinished. Story from @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social
$18 million and a decade later, Koreatown is still waiting for its mini park | LA Local
When Los Angeles opens a pocket park in Koreatown in 2027, it will be the first park opened since the 1920s.
thelalocal.org
January 15, 2026 at 7:13 PM
The pocket park, set to slot right next to the Pío Pico–Koreatown Branch Library, was formally approved in August 2017. Nearly a decade later — and after $22 million in public funding was committed — the park remains unfinished. Story from @bymarinagiselle.bsky.social