Ground Game LA

Ground Game LA

@groundgamela.bsky.social

Organizing LA block by block. follow the fam @knockdotla.bsky.social @power-la.bsky.social

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There’s still time to stop this! See you at city hall tomorrow 👇🏼

KnockDotLA@knockdotla.bsky.social

Tomorrow LA City Council will vote on a potential new contract between LAPD and automatic license plate reader (ALPR) company Axon. Under this new contract, any streetlight could become a tool of police surveillance. @rosalindjones.bsky.social reports ⬇️ knock-la.com/la-city-coun...

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I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.

Laura Bassett@lebassett.bsky.social

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

YEAAHHHHHH!!!!

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social

Lula has been reelected president, Brazilian media has now called. An extraordinary comeback for the left-wing politician who trailed by 2 points in round 1 but managed to hold off Flávio Bolsonaro, the former president's son.

Everyone who is fighting to stop Prop 40 is your enemy, in a genuine physical sense

Aaron Bady@zunguzungu.bsky.social

There isn't a "debate" over Prop 40. There's an intellectual and moral test you get to decide whether or not to pass. You get to decide whether you want people to die, and whether you want to talk about what is actually happening or just shit billionaire propaganda out of your mouth-hole.

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I am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.

Truthout@truthout.org

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

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Everyone who is fighting to stop Prop 40 is your enemy, in a genuine physical sense

Aaron Bady@zunguzungu.bsky.social

There isn't a "debate" over Prop 40. There's an intellectual and moral test you get to decide whether or not to pass. You get to decide whether you want people to die, and whether you want to talk about what is actually happening or just shit billionaire propaganda out of your mouth-hole.

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A little preview from the Knock LA voter guide, dropping tonight.

CalMatters@calmatters.org

Gavin Newsom backs measure to kill the billionaire tax and ban future wealth taxes Gov. Gavin Newsom isn't just fighting the billionaire tax. He's backing Prop. 42, which would ban future wealth taxes in California, too.

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It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

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ICE arrests surge across LA as feds target ‘sanctuary cities’ ahead of midterm elections. Immigration agents are reportedly targeting all immigrants across CA, according to ICE agents who told the Washington Examiner their mandate is to 'go after anybody.' lapublicpress.org/2026/10/la-i...

lapublicpress.orgICE arrests surge across LA as feds target 'sanctuary cities' ahead of midterm electionsFederal immigration agents are reportedly targeting all immigrants across California, according to ICE agents who told the Washington Examiner their mandate is to “go after anybody.”

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LA is stuck in a vicious, police-first cycle that criminalizes race while squandering our limited tax dollars. Why are we letting the LAPD use helicopters & guns to harass neighbors who are simply looking to live? We have the power to end this.

CalMatters@calmatters.org

Opinion | He's trying to break generational ties to gangs. Los Angeles police keep targeting him L.A. police allegedly profiled and detained several young men the day they were set to graduate from a reentry program in Boyle Heights.

A proposal to expand 41.18, the homelessness banishment law, was halted after the movement showed up and showed out!

Elizabeth Chou@reporterliz.bsky.social

Anti-camping zones proposed near fire stations, post offices and police stations. A policy for the use of ALPR cams in the LA transportation department. And LA supes taking up data center policies. LA Squawk Box for Tuesday, October 6, 2026 squawkbox.la/p/la-squawk-...

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Don’t do this

LAist@laist.com

Several voters NPR spoke with said they rely on chatbots for down-ballot races — with thinner news coverage, to make tables comparing candidates for governors' races and to verify or debunk viral claims. 🔗 Find out more: vist.ly/5m6et ✍️ Maham Javaid | NPR 📸 Getty Images

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Replying to @zunguzungu.bsky.social

Trump hugely cut federal subsidies to our state's medical care. Prop 40 temporarily, badly plugs those holes. Everyone arguing that it's an imperfect fix, that it fails "good government" tests, pretending there's another solution in the wings, other than "people lose coverage and die." There isn't.

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The more I read people arguing against Prop 40, the more furious I get at the absolute shameless mendacity and basic craven opportunism of it

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BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned

404media.coHow Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance ProgramHow the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

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The validity of laws like this have been debated for decades. Now, we’re going to finally see whether they withstand federal court challenges.

Senator Scott Wiener@scottwiener.bsky.social

The Governor just signed my bill to allow people to sue ICE, Border Patrol, and other federal agents for violating people’s constitutional rights. Starting immediately, people can sue federal agents retroactive to abuse occurring in March 2025.

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I spoke to @psfrench.bsky.social for this great piece, flagging the tension inherent in the City Attorney’s charge to defend the City when it harms people while also seeking justice for residents. At the end of the day, you have to pick a side: LA deserves someone who will stand with its people.

Taniel@taniel.bsky.social

The mayoral race has all the headlines, but one of the starkest choices for Angelenos is further downballot: the race for city attorney. From enforcing tenants' rights to policing homelessness, this office matters matters on all sorts of things. Learn more in our new Bolts reporting!

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This week, New York won $131 million for DoorDash drivers who were underpaid or paid late — and put nearly all of that money back in deliveristas’ pockets. Los Angeles’ City Attorney could be doing the same for our workers.

nytimes.comDoorDash Agrees to $131.5 Million Settlement for Shortchanging WorkersThe online delivery company agreed to give pay relief to workers and to accept monitoring of its methods after it underpaid — or didn’t pay — 264,000 workers.

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EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of pages of newly released FBI documents shed light on the agency's role in the Greensboro Massacre. Two Klansman, including one who was a former FBI informant, separately warned the agency about the potential for violence. (paywalled) www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

rawstory.comBombshell memo on horrific race massacre exposes complicit FBI: 'They lied like crazy'GREENSBORO, N.C. — In July 1979, a North Carolina Ku Klux Klan leader named Joe Grady summoned two FBI agents to a Waffle House to warn them “about possible violence in the future.”Earlier that month,...

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weird day to be worried about state-run tv, gavin!

Governor Gavin Newsom@governor.ca.gov

First, Trump banned independent news from the White House. Now, he's launching what is quite literally state-run TV to try drowning out the fact that he and his corrupt administration are failing the American people. This is truly autocratic behavior from a failed President.

This evil bigot serves the same interests as Trump.

Frances Larina@franceslarina.bsky.social

"Gov Gavin Newsom over the weekend vetoed legislation aimed at protecting providers of gender-affirming care from being extradited to face charges for doing so by another state." He was "worried about constraints on the governor's power to approve extraditions". www.ebar.com/story/170505...

Remember when Bass gave LAPD a billion dollars and then we turned around and had a billion dollar deficit? Funny how that works

Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ@padresj.bsky.social

It's strange how Democratic Socialists - who are being denounced by both parties - turned major deficits into balanced budgets in both New York and Seattle.

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There's a stretch of road in LA that's had 95 crashes and four fatalities since 2013. The city was set to put in protected bike lanes and a road diet. But some people leaned on @mayor.lacity.gov and she got the state to put a veto into an unrelated budget bill. Vote @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social

latimes.comPlanned bikes lanes on Forest Lawn Drive targeted in last-minute language added to billA street safety project at the center of a debate between Mayor Karen Bass and mayoral candidate Nithya Raman could be affected.

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I would prefer to raise taxes instead. Denmark's tax take is 20 points of GDP higher than ours

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Trump's massive surveillance state and attacks on our civil liberties wouldn't have been possible without the PATRIOT Act. Watch this prescient warning from Russ Feingold, the only Senator to vote against its passage after 9/11.