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Freelance reporter in LA. Bus shelters, bathrooms, sidewalks, trees.

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shoton35mm.bsky.social
Mayor Karen Bass' office FINALLY sent me a copy of the town hall meeting the mayor hosted in Nov. to discuss the ongoing federal immigration raids. The recording includes a watermark that says: "This video cannot be modified or excerpted without authorization."
December 19, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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awalkerinla.bsky.social
Just when you thought this campaign couldn’t get worse.

This is a photo of Bali
A post from the LA is open Instagram account showing a beach at sunset ENDLESS COASTLINES ICONIC VIEWS UNMATCHED CULTURE 3 laisopen You know what makes LA so great? Miles of coastline, iconic beaches like Santa Monica, Venice, and Malibu — all in one city. And that's just one reason to visit. #LAisOpen 43 minutes ago The same photo shown on a shutterstock website · Try One time purchase $25 See all pricing plans Photo Description Stock Photo ID: 234826648 [ Volcano Agung and Amed beach, Bali, Indonesia shutterstock.com The location is circled in yellow marker
December 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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jawshv.bsky.social
this got me digging into this project again and noticed LAWA has a new 'ATMP fact VS. fiction' page and I swear they think people are stupid

www.lawa.org/sites/lawa/f...

"Opponents of this project claim this project will induce 50,000 new VMT. In reality its a measly... 41,000"
“The City’s own reports show that this will add 50,000 new vehicles miles traveled PER DAY, and make traffic worse” False. The project would increase VMT by 0.47%, which equates to 41,000 miles traveled. The true short-term induced VMT is about 3,306 miles; long-term 23,874 miles, tiny fractions of total regional travel. The new roadways would increase lane miles by only 0.006% compared to existing.
December 16, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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lintonjoe.bsky.social
An illustration of how L.A. City Public Works so-called "Large Asphalt Repair" works (or really *doesn't work*). Today Bureau of Street Services left an un-resurfaced ~4-ft-wide strip on a 30-ft-wide part of Hoover... in order to avoid triggering curb ramps for wheelchair access
Photo of today's Bureau of Street Services "large asphalt repair" resurfacing of Hoover Street, which left an un-resurfaced ~4-ft-wide strip on a 30-ft-wide part of Hoover in order to avoid triggering adding curb ramps for wheelchair access
December 17, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Noticing that there appear to be more departments available on this NextRequest dropdown, including Rec & Parks (RAP)

#foia #losangeles
December 17, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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lintonjoe.bsky.social
I don't write in first person much at Streetsblog, but the city's so-called "large asphalt repair" really gets my goat
December 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Still can't get over how LA County Public Works took over an LAUSD schoolyard greening project bc the nonprofit that received the grant money couldn't hack it — then took over 10 YEARS to actually implement the project.

It could take longer — the project is supposed to break ground next year.
Hillcrest Drive Elementary in the heart of L.A.’s Crenshaw District was awarded a nearly $1 million Prop 84 grant to green its schoolyard in 2012 as one of the top-ranked projects by the California Natural Resources Agency. After the original nonprofit could no longer shoulder the cost of working with LAUSD, the L.A. County Department of Public Works took over the Hillcrest greening project in 2015. Ten years later, a spokesperson for the agency told AfroLA that the project is set to break ground in 2026, 14 years after the grant was awarded. Records obtained by AfroLA show that the project has repeatedly missed deadlines for completion.
December 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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futureis.la
LA quietly stopped repaving all streets last July to avoid fulfilling its ADA obligations. The federal govt says when you repave a street, you have to update all the curb ramps. LA has tons of out of date curb ramps, so the rule makes repaving much more expensive. The city's solution: stop repaving!
LA has stopped repaving our streets
The reason why is probably illegal
futureis.la
December 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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lintonjoe.bsky.social
Recap of last Friday's Measure HLA hearing at Board of Public Works. (I don't write these because I am an interested party - thanks to my boss SBCA Editor Damien Newton for writing this up.)
December 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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melbuer.bsky.social
Hello! I am excited to finally announce the details of my new podcast. Introducing The Union Bug—a podcast by workers, for workers. Premiering Jan 2.
Introducing The Union Bug, a new podcast
The Union Bug is a podcast by workers, for workers. Premiering January 2.
www.wordsaboutwork.news
December 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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awalkerinla.bsky.social
How did the Stranger Things CicLAvia come together? I've got the inside story as well as the extremely bleak outlook for open streets in LA — if only our leaders could see car-free infrastructure as an investment in our future instead of a nostalgic novelty
The upside down
The spectacle that unfolded along four miles of Melrose on the Sunday before Thanksgiving was a portal into LA's age of activations
www.torched.la
December 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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assignedmedia.org
If you're reading this you're probably someone who reads print journalism, but maybe you have friends and family who get their news on TikTok.

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December 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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reporterliz.bsky.social
LA Mayor Karen Bass asked LA city departments propose 5% cuts for the next fiscal year (2026-27). Those requests have posted, many with reduction proposals, here: sites.google.com/lacity.org/d...
The CAO's request, for example, includes a proposal to cut unarmed response funding by $1 million.
December 2, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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theneedling.com
Capitol Hill Station Finally Opens Public Bathroom: tinyurl.com/yafp4aej
Real photo of pigeon sitting above Sound Transit LED real-time arrival screen dripping with bird shit reading "Service Alert 1 Line trains are arriving every minutes. 2 Line testing in progress, do not board test trains
November 26, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
today instead of buying barely discounted crap, get a paid subscription to an independent media outlet! a little $ goes a long way towards supporting a free press. 🗞️

drop links to your own or your faves in the replies so ppl can easily sign up (bonus if you add a couple words about why it’s good!):
November 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I read the Outrider article to see what made-up quotes look like — if anything, they just seemed flat, as did the rest of the article. Real speech can be pretty messy.
nickhunebrown.bsky.social Nick Hune-Brown @nickhunebrown.bsky.social · Nov 19
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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lintonjoe.bsky.social
A clarification on this week's #MeasureHLA hearings. A few people were wondering why I appealed "good" projects: Hollywood Blvd protected bike lanes, Roscoe bus lanes, San Vicente & Mission Rd bike lanes, etc. Well... it's complicated...
November 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
New story out about guerilla crosswalks in LA for @nextcity.org:

nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
Could Cities Partner With Guerilla Urbanists For Safer Streets?
Los Angeles failed to eliminate traffic fatalities, so Angelenos are taking Vision Zero into their own hands – one bucket of paint at a time.
nextcity.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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ashtonpittman.bsky.social
NEW: Mississippians still have not received their full SNAP benefits more than a week after the government shutdown ended due to problems with a 40-year-old computer system running on COBOL.

And there is no guarantee they'll get them before Thanksgiving—or even by December.
Mississippians Still Waiting on Full SNAP Benefits
Mississippi SNAP recipients are still waiting for full payments more than a week after the government shutdown ended due to technical issues.
www.mississippifreepress.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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tinavasquez.bsky.social
I went home to Southeast L.A. to cover the immigration raids there. And this week I've covered the raids in my adopted home of NC. Nothing--and I mean NOTHING--will give you hope like speaking to immigrant organizers and locals fighting back.
November 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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melbuer.bsky.social
NEW, for The Handbasket:

I spoke with concerned community members and local/state electeds about what's been going on re: detainments on the parkways in the DC area. Commuters use these fed hwys to get to and from work--and now families of detained drivers are on the hook for hundreds in tow fees.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Nov 17
NEW—US Park Police w/ DHS officers near DC are increasingly pulling over Black and brown men, leaving their work vans on the side of the parkway + immediately calling a local towing company to take them. Families who just lost their breadwinner are stuck with the bill.

@melbuer.bsky.social reports:
Families of DC-area immigrant drivers snatched by feds stuck with tow bill
Elected officials and activists note work vehicles removed lightning fast, resulting in hundreds in fees.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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acatwithnews.bsky.social
New for the Ten Four:

Throughout Southern California, minibike riders drive through city streets. Steel and chrome minibikes of nearly every color buzz with power from engines originally designed to operate pressure washers.

latenfour.com/2025/11/17/l...
Los Angeles Riders Gear Up For A Wheelie Good Time
Throughout Southern California, one particularly loud scene has erupted with increasing regularity: minibike riders drive through city streets. Steel and chrome minibikes of nearly every color buzz…
latenfour.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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thelareporter.bsky.social
Lefty mayoral challenger Rae Huang says she can't take another four years of Karen Bass thelareporter.la/p/lefty-mayo...
Lefty mayoral challenger Rae Huang says she can't take another four years of Karen Bass
Huang, a housing advocate and pastor, said she was upset by Bass's attempt to scale back LA's 'mansion tax.' She also criticizes Bass's Inside Safe program, calling it a bandaid solution that's very c...
thelareporter.la
November 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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awalkerinla.bsky.social
Back by popular demand! Come tour ATSAC, one of the most sophisticated transportation-monitoring systems in the world, to see how a famous legacy improvement of the 1984 Summer Olympics is preparing for 2028. You must be a Torched subscriber at the 🔥🔥 level to join, so what are you waiting for?
Tour ATSAC with Torched on November 19
Join 🔥🔥 subscribers for what's become a beloved annual tradition
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November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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awalkerinla.bsky.social
*taps sign*
awalkerinla.bsky.social Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · Jun 26
Two years ago I interviewed a 31-year-old NY state assemblymember about a 7-year-old girl killed by an SUV driver in his district. I hung up the phone, astonished that I'd talked to a legislator who so thoughtfully articulated what actually needs to change on our streets.

He'll make a great mayor
In February, 7-year-old Dolma Naadhun was crossing the intersection of Newtown Road and 45th Street in Astoria with her mother and sister when the driver of a 2021 Ford Explorer blew through a stop sign, striking and killing Dolma. One month later, New York City Department of Transportation commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez visited the crash site with other officials, met with community members demanding a traffic signal be installed, and promised to make changes to the street - including "daylighting" the intersection using curb extensions and plastic bollards. State assemblymember Zohran Mamdani also visited the scene that day and realized that something else needed to change. "When you take a step back and think about traffic violence in New York City," he said, "you start to understand that this is a systemic issue that is incentivized by the policies that we have in place with regard to the design of our streets and what kind of vehicles we allow to be on our roads." Whether a driver runs a stop sign or a red light, statistically, certain cars - namely, bigger SUVs and trucks - are more likely to kill a 7-year-old. This is why Mamdani is co- introducing legislation for a weight-based vehicle-registration fee intended to discourage people from purchasing heavier vehicles. "The car industry is pushing the sale of heavier and larger vehicles," he says. "The state has to make it clear that these types of vehicles come with a certain kind of cost." soar above adult shoulders. But there may be another way to disincentivize the purchases of such vehicles, says Edwards. "One other potential idea would be for someone, maybe a city's DOT, to start keeping a list of the different makes and models of vehicles that are killing pedestrians and cyclists, or kids specifically, and post that publicly," he says. "That could bring awareness to which cars are more dangerous and also potentially affect insurance rates, which would possibly convince people not to buy certain cars." There's a bit of accountability in New York's bill, which would require the State DOT to track all fatal crashes by vehicle weight. But the other encouraging aspect of the proposal is that the collected fees stay local, by county, and, after the annual dedications to highway, bridge, and transit trust funds are met, a full 75 percent of the funds raised will go toward safety improvements like bike lanes, bollards, road diets, pedestrianization of streets, and raised crosswalks. This means the neighborhoods most impacted by large vehicles are likely to see the biggest changes. And that might be the most important part of the legislation, says Mamdani. "This is an initiative to make our streets safer for our children," he says. "And we are making sure a significant portion of this funding goes toward creating the very streetscapes that we know will save their lives."
November 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM