How ‘screw Trump’ messaging may help California’s Proposition 50 prevail

25 octobre 2025 à 18:00

Republican opposition to the effort to give House Democrats more safe seats may be no match for the fact that Californians really don’t like Trump

There are many ways to characterize Proposition 50, the single ballot initiative that Californians will be voting on this election season.

You could say it’s about redrawing congressional district lines outside the regular once-a-decade schedule. You could say, more precisely, that it’s about counterbalancing Republican efforts to engineer congressional seats in their favor in Texas and elsewhere with a gerrymander that favors the Democrats. You could, like the measure’s detractors, call it a partisan power grab that risks undermining 15 years of careful work to make California’s congressional elections as fair and competitive as possible.

Revealed: police across US spread false rumors about Venezuelan gang threats

The Guardian

Par :Sam Levin in Los Angeles

23 octobre 2025 à 13:00

Claim that Tren de Aragua planned to attack officers was widely shared – only for FBI to later acknowledge it was mistaken, internal files show

An unverified rumor that Venezuelan gang members were preparing to kill police officers spread like wildfire through US law enforcement agencies last year, internal records reveal, only for federal officials to later quietly acknowledge the claim was mistaken.

The intelligence report, which appears to have first been disseminated by a local New Mexico police department in July 2024, suggested that the Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang had directed its members to “fire on or attack” law enforcement. The vague assertion quickly traveled among law enforcement agencies. It even made its way into a formal proclamation by the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, and was repeated by Republican Congress members as evidence of the dangers of Venezuelan immigrants and Democrats’ border policies.

Mental Health Is Real Wealth: how Black men prioritize healing in a Los Angeles community

The Guardian

Par :Aaricka Washington in Leimert Park · Los Angeles · California with photographs by Julien James

18 octobre 2025 à 22:41

The bi-monthly group gives Black men a safe space to share, reflect and support each other

Desmond Carter is on a mission to save the lives of Black men.

Carter, founder of Mental Health Is Real Wealth, leads a bi-monthly mental health group in Los Angeles’ Leimert Park neighborhood, and on a recent Thursday, 15 Black men gathered inside a conference room without pressure and without women.

‘A highly scheduled life doesn’t serve us’: has living ‘intentionally’ gone too far?

The Guardian

Par :Matthew Cantor in Los Angeles

15 octobre 2025 à 17:36

Carefully planning your routine can feel good in a chaotic world – but experts say we should ‘choose when to choose’

Social media is in its intentional era. On TikTok and Instagram, living intentionally means operating on the highest plane of existence: each moment is the product of heartfelt planning, part of the careful pursuit of a life flawlessly lived. Perhaps you intentionally spend half an hour after work decompressing, then put on your carefully curated playlist while you intentionally work out, intentionally choosing exercises that center your mind and body while also giving you huge forearms, before intentionally preparing dinner using locally sourced ingredients.

As Marie Solis wrote in the New York Times recently: “You can just do all of these things. Or you can do them ‘intentionally’.” The fear, it seems, is that a failure to act with purpose means letting life happen to you.

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