LA Observed
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An online home of journalist and author Kevin Roderick. Formerly of Twitter. Redondo Beach CA.
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Pardoned by Trump: Juan Orlando Hernández, convicted of drug trafficking and weapons charges, responsible for flooding the US with cocaine.
Seized, shackled, and deported by Trump: Lucia López Belloza, college freshman, longtime Texan, charged with no crime.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
Seized, shackled, and deported by Trump: Lucia López Belloza, college freshman, longtime Texan, charged with no crime.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Pardoned by Trump: Juan Orlando Hernández, convicted of drug trafficking and weapons charges, responsible for flooding the US with cocaine.
Seized, shackled, and deported by Trump: Lucia López Belloza, college freshman, longtime Texan, charged with no crime.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
Seized, shackled, and deported by Trump: Lucia López Belloza, college freshman, longtime Texan, charged with no crime.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/u...
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Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
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Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.
October 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.
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Read this and be petrified. And then get organized.
Trump Empowers Election Deniers, Still Fixated on 2020 Grievances
www.nytimes.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Read this and be petrified. And then get organized.
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When the pendulum swings back, even if they don’t give their names and badge numbers, there will be payroll records. At this point, anyone tied to ICE should be put on a terror watch list.
October 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
When the pendulum swings back, even if they don’t give their names and badge numbers, there will be payroll records. At this point, anyone tied to ICE should be put on a terror watch list.
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The University of Virginia, considered among the top five public universities for more than two decades, just cut a deal with a guy who paid a $25 million fraud settlement for running a fake university.
University of Virginia Makes Deal With White House to Halt Investigations
www.nytimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
The University of Virginia, considered among the top five public universities for more than two decades, just cut a deal with a guy who paid a $25 million fraud settlement for running a fake university.
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The East Wing of the White House — which Trump is demolishing as though it belongs to him — is 70,000 square feet. A football field is 56,000 square feet. Trump’s palatial ballroom will occupy 90,000 square feet. Enough said.
October 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The East Wing of the White House — which Trump is demolishing as though it belongs to him — is 70,000 square feet. A football field is 56,000 square feet. Trump’s palatial ballroom will occupy 90,000 square feet. Enough said.
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The East Wing is the perfect metaphor for this whole presidency and its effect on the nation and democracy.
October 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The East Wing is the perfect metaphor for this whole presidency and its effect on the nation and democracy.
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Boggling how much better run and stable and safe things were in the United States just one single year ago.
October 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Boggling how much better run and stable and safe things were in the United States just one single year ago.
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almost wonder if he's gonna lose interest in the east wing and just like leave it half built and like exposed
October 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
almost wonder if he's gonna lose interest in the east wing and just like leave it half built and like exposed
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I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.
October 23, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I for one think the Epstein Ballroom will be magnificent. I love the decor theme of “what if Uday Hussein ran a Ramada Inn.” And giving it a theme song everyone will associate with it is a stroke of brilliance! “Thank Heaven for Little Girls” is very catchy.
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Extremely funny that INFOWARS has agreed not to publish anything without the explicit consent of the US government
The far-right conspiracy site Infowars says it has signed the Pentagon press agreement and says Breanna Morello will be joining the 'new media' press corps covering the Defense Department.
"I won't be moving to D.C. of course—thank god," she caveats. x.com/infowars/sta...
"I won't be moving to D.C. of course—thank god," she caveats. x.com/infowars/sta...
INFOWARS on X: "🚨MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 Breanna Morello will be covering news at the Pentagon as a part of the Pentagon Press Corps! The new Pentagon Press Corps consists of over 60 journalists that will combat the fake news stranglehold of legacy media. This is great news for truth and https://t.co/id0VtguTIW" / X
🚨MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 Breanna Morello will be covering news at the Pentagon as a part of the Pentagon Press Corps! The new Pentagon Press Corps consists of over 60 journalists that will combat the fake news stranglehold of legacy media. This is great news for truth and https://t.co/id0VtguTIW
x.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Extremely funny that INFOWARS has agreed not to publish anything without the explicit consent of the US government
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ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.
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October 23, 2025 at 6:40 PM
ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today.
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Watching this fool knock down the White House and feeling pretty solid about all the times people called me crazy.
October 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Watching this fool knock down the White House and feeling pretty solid about all the times people called me crazy.
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NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Some new ICE recruits have shown up to training without full vetting
The recruits have had criminal backgrounds or failed drug tests or were unable to meet physical or academic standards, raising concerns about the agency’s rush to hire immigration officers, sources to...
www.nbcnews.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:54 PM
NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
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Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"
October 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"
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We love our Marines and owe a debt of gratitude to Camp Pendleton, but next time, the Vice President and the White House shouldn’t be so reckless with people’s lives for their vanity projects.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
Artillery Shell Detonated Over Interstate 5 During Marines’ Celebration, California Officials Say
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
We love our Marines and owe a debt of gratitude to Camp Pendleton, but next time, the Vice President and the White House shouldn’t be so reckless with people’s lives for their vanity projects.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
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“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.
October 19, 2025 at 11:43 PM
“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.
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The most reckless, stupid administration E-V-E-R. Nothing comes close.
October 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
The most reckless, stupid administration E-V-E-R. Nothing comes close.
same as ever
The fascist playbook. In 1963, Wallace was a Democrat, a Southern Democrat. The Great Realignment into Sane People and Fascists was just starting.
George Wallace on the 1963 civil rights March on Washington: It’s all a bunch of communists trying to destroy America.
Mike Johnson on the 2025 No Kings rally: It’s all a bunch of marxists/socialists/Antifa trying to destroy America.
The GOP playbook: Same as it ever was
Mike Johnson on the 2025 No Kings rally: It’s all a bunch of marxists/socialists/Antifa trying to destroy America.
The GOP playbook: Same as it ever was
October 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
same as ever
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Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."
October 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."
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Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.
October 13, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.