investigative editor @calmatters. former executive editor @reveal / editor of @voiceofsandiego / @jskstanford
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1 Nov 2023
I wanted to understand what Alden Global Capital’s purchase of @sdut meant for San Diegans.
My conclusion: This is the beginning of the end for the 155-year-old paper.
voiceofsandiego.org/2023/10/…
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Jan 26
Bovino going out just like he came in: not telling the truth.
Jan 26
BREAKING: Top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino and some of his agents are expected to leave Minneapolis and return to their respective sectors, sources tell me, @KristenhCNN @kaitlancollins.
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Jan 24
Bellingcat is gold standard
"Video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man BEFORE THE FIRST shot was fired."
"At least 10 shots being heard in total. Most of them are fired after a brief delay, when the man is already lying motionless on the ground."
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Jan 24
Bovino hasn’t been telling the truth since his very first operation in Kern County a year ago.
The Border Patrol’s own documents proved it.
calmatters.org/economy/2025/…
Jan 24
Bovino shamelessly lies: "This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement"
Community note
Video shows Alex Pretti, permitted U.S. ICU nurse, filming with phone in both hands when agents pepper-sprayed and tackled him. Gun holster-removed while pinned; fatal shots followed. Contradicts claim of approaching with drawn handgun amid resistance. theguardian.com/us-news/video/… abcnews.go.com/US/alex-pretti… kstp.com/kstp-news/top-…
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17 Jul 2025
A federal judge has barred the Border Patrol from conducting warrantless sweeps in the Eastern District of California after they went to places like Home Depot.
Sacramento is in the Eastern District.
calmatters.org/justice/2025/…
17 Jul 2025
BREAKING: We just rode along w/ Border Patrol as they conducted immigration enforcement in Sacramento, the capitol of the sanctuary state of California. Upon arrival at a Home Depot, suspected illegal aliens took off running in all directions. 10 arrested. BP tells us records checks on one already came back showing he’s an aggravated felon with a prior conviction for fentanyl trafficking. One man, who claimed to be a U.S. citizen, was arrested and maced by federal agents after he allegedly slashed the tire of a federal vehicle and appeared to assault an agent was he was taken to the ground. We were with one team of federal agents, as there are others conducting enforcement in other areas of the city.
@USBPChiefELC tells me this is the farthest north his BP agents have gone in California for immigration enforcement during the Trump administration, and it’s meant to send the message that the federal government can and will go wherever they want in the sanctuary state.
“There is no sanctuary from our enforcement efforts,” Chief Bovino told me.
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26 Jun 2025
CalMatters spoke with a number of migrants about their arrests and detentions after the first weekend of LA raids. Their accounts raise potential legal questions about the government’s operation. cal.news/4kaZ5su
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26 Jun 2025
Taken: What happens after an LA immigration raid
Masked men pull up quickly and approach Latino men.
When someone runs, they’re taken. When they don’t answer a question, they’re taken. When they can’t produce papers, they’re taken.
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20 Jun 2025
I received the criminal complaint against Adrian Martinez and nowhere in it does it mention him punching an agent
18 Jun 2025
Once again, a false narrative is and was being pushed out on the arrest of a U.S. citizen in Pico Rivera, CA. Don't take our word for it, check out @USAttyEssayli take on it. This subject just caught a federal case for assault on a federal agent. DON'T ASSAULT.
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19 Jun 2025
I took this at 10:40am outside gate E at dodgers stadium
19 Jun 2025
False. We were never there.
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19 Jun 2025
Immigration agents raided the Home Depot on sunset in Los Angeles.
Francisco says dozens of agents surrounded the parking lot and took people early this morning around 7am.
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15 Jun 2025
A man proposes in front of the riot line, she says yes 💍
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15 Jun 2025
A couple gets engaged in front of the LAPD riot line.
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13 Jun 2025
Bovino doesn’t distinguish between field workers or paleteros and fentanyl dealers. To him, they all fit one category: “Bad people.”
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9 Jun 2025
Father Peter O’Riley says is standing calm as LAPD fire less lethal rounds all around him.
O’Riley says he’s here because he’s an immigrant and he supports free speech and the right to peacefully protest.
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13 Nov 2024
The answer: one week
6 Nov 2024
How long before they go after the 22nd Amendment?
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1 Nov 2024
“I make $19.64 an hour. I’m not going to be a martyr for $19.60 an hour.”
Election workers quit in Shasta as self-appointed observers roam office.
W/ @Add 📷 @mgutierrezjr
calmatters.org/politics/2024…
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20 Dec 2023
California boasts very strict rules around toxic waste disposal.
So places like Tesla, Sally’s Beauty Supplies, the U.S. Navy and even California’s government instead ship it off to Mexico.
Our new investigation on what happens once it gets there:
calmatters.org/environment/2…
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20 Dec 2023
I have enough gray hairs in my beard to have seen my fair share of ridiculous government responses to public records requests.
This is probably the worst I’ve ever seen.
289 days!
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20 Dec 2023
The latest Alden change at @sdut: no more Spanish-language edition.
“No announcements will be made to the community.”
18 Dec 2023
The last issue of U-T en español will be published on Dec. 30. No announcements will be made to the community. I wish the best to my colleagues, especially @liliaohara for 25 years of dedication to the Latino community on both sides of the border. #lossforwords #UTespanol
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