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How the 9th circuit told the U.S. President NO regarding POTUS’s plan to keep CA from counting 20,000 of our state’s votes.

October 26, 2026
#JusticeBriefs2026

Op-Ed: The Conviction of Mark Ridley-Thomas Is Not a Joke: Representative Democracy Is at Stake

October 9, 2026
#Justice • #The California Justice Report

WitnessLA Comes to Substack

October 7, 2026
#NoKings

A quick look at how SCOTUS ruled in favor of Democracy, then our nation went to war, and the president threatened the Supremes

March 18, 2026
#NoKings

Judge first knocked down CA’s “No Secret Police Act,” but gave the go-ahead to the “No Vigilantes Act.” Then things changed

February 10, 2026
#DangerousJails

Dying In LA County’s Jails: Now there are 7 deaths in 2026

January 31, 2026
Fire • Natural Disasters

Fire Weather ’09

August 30, 2009
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View on Saturday at 1:40 p.m. from Topanga Canyon Blvd. looking toward the La Canada Flintridge...

CDCR • Prison • Prison Policy

Prison Lifers Trained as Drug & Alcohol Counselors

August 28, 2009
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With all the depressing news coming out of Sacramento and Washington D.C., it is great to run...

Torture

Asking the Really Tough Questions About Torture

August 27, 2009
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Is Using A Minotaur To Gore Detainees A Form Of Torture? (Favorite line: “We could use...

Uncategorized

Gang Czar Elevated to Mayor’s Chief Of Staff

August 27, 2009
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In a press release sent out late this morning, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced that his...

California Budget • Prison Policy

California Corrections Budget: THE GUTLESS WONDERS

August 27, 2009
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In reporting on the whimpering and pathetic series of encounters, that were formerly known as the...

LAPD

Sergio Diaz: A New Hat in the Race for LAPD Chief

August 26, 2009
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Up until today, there were four names tossed around by nearly everyone as most likely to be on the...

Social Justice Shorts

Social Justice Shorts (Very Short)

August 26, 2009
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LAUSD WILLING TO GIVE OUTSIDERS A CHANCE TO IMPROVE SCHOOLS In a 6-1 vote, the LAUSD board voted ...

Life and Life Only • National Politics

Le Lion est Mort

August 26, 2009
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City Attorney • Injunctions • Law Enforcement

Trutanich, Taggers & the Madness of Bad Injunctions

August 25, 2009
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Monday, the LA Times’ Scott Gold reported that, in an interview with new LA City Attorney...

Green Dot • LAUSD • Parole Policy • Prison Policy

Schools & Prisons, Tra-La: An Update

August 25, 2009
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CORRECTIONS VOTE DELAYED It was hoped—foolishly, as it turns out-–that the California...

Women's Issues

The NY Times & Saving Women….To Save Ourselves.

August 24, 2009
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Abbas Be was held captive in a most brutal manner in a Delhi brothel. After she was freed, she...

California Budget • Parole Policy • Prison Policy

Prison Reform: Dear CA State Legislature, Grow Some….!

August 24, 2009
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The California Senate passed the governor’s prison reform package on Thursday then, on...

American Artists • Writers and Writing

POST GRAD: My Brilliant Niece’s First Movie Opening

August 22, 2009
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Permit me to brag obnoxiously for a moment. (Is this pure nepotism? You betcha! But...

Crime and Punishment • Criminal Justice • Gangs

Freeing Deborah Peagler and the Issue of Abuse

August 21, 2009
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On Thursday, parole was granted to a 49-year-old, woman inmate named Deborah Peagler. She has...

Crime and Punishment

Bruce Lisker Shocker: Retrial? – UPDATED

August 21, 2009
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The LA Times reports that the LA District Attorney’s office will retry Bruce Lisker for the...

Media

Posting Later Today….

August 21, 2009
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So, check back. Thanks.

California Budget • CDCR • Crime and Punishment • Prison Policy

CA Corrections Budget: It’s the Sentencing, Stupid.

August 20, 2009
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The corrections budget-cutting battle will begin Thursday in the California legislature, and here...

Health Care

Barney Frank and Town Hall-ista Chat About Health Care

August 19, 2009
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