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Alissa, Mike, and Rachel talk about how LAUSD plans to protect students from their federal government. ICE crashes Gavin Newsom’s redistricting press conference. DC is invaded by Trump, just like LA leaders warned would happen. Then: DIY crosswalk battles and why you should support a subway beneath the Sepulveda Pass. (Just say no to Fred Rosen’s monorail!)

The first day of school included training teachers and volunteers on how to patrol campuses 

A 15-year-old disabled LAUSD student was detained outside Arleta High School by ICE at gunpoint and, thanks to the intervention of the principal, later released

LA Daily News: “Amid ICE raids, LAUSD implementing new safety measures aimed at ‘safe passage’ for students”

“Wake up, America,” Gavin Newsom warns the rest of the country at his redistricting press conference as ICE swarms outside — listen to last week’s episode for more on Newsom’s redistricting plan

The statement from the Japanese American National Museum is, of course, iconic

An astonishing photo by LA Taco’s Lexis Olivier-Ray shows Border Patrol Sector Chief Gregory Bovino standing before Barbara Kruger’s mural in Little Tokyo that reads “Who is beyond the law?”

Washington Post: “Pentagon plan would create military ‘reaction force’ for civil unrest”

“A senior administration official, as well as other officials, told Rolling Stone that it is a priority of Trump that these kinds of military deployments -- in times of relative calm -- become normalized in American political culture, according to Rolling Stone

“Some fear that when Los Angeles hosts the Olympics in 2028, Trump will put homeless people in detention camps,” the LA Times writes

Streetsblog LA on the Stoner Park DIY crosswalk battles:  “So, if you want to get a crosswalk installed in your neighborhood, the city's fast-track process seems to be: get your neighbors to paint it unofficially (with the help of the LA Crosswalks Collective), then the city will scrape it away and install it officially.”

In 2001, artist Richard Ankrom changed a confusing sign on the 110 freeway and no one noticed for nearly a year. When Caltrans eventually updated the sign, his change was incorporated into the new sign. Watch Ankrom’s documentary Guerrilla Public Service

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