Yusra Farzan

These Angelenos journeyed to Adelanto to protest conditions at immigrant detention centers (via @julia_p_barajas and Libby Rainey) laist.com/news/politics/…

This was hard to read. My grandpa was a Mexican farm worker who toiled in Texas fields before I was born & I was raised with images of Cesar Chavez in my home. I knew about the Delano grape strike before I learned anything else about American history in public school.

New: Dolores Huerta writes lengthy statement following @nytimes investigation into Cesar Chavez. Huerta says she had sexual encounters with Chavez resulting in 2 children. “I have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farm worker movement…”

Watch the full visual investigation: youtube.com/watch?v=evADOo…

Border Patrol agents have been roving from city to city over the last 15 months, far from their home bases in California and elsewhere along the U.S.-Mexico border, engaged in an unprecedented mass deportation campaign.  A collaboration w/ @CalMatters Evident and @bellingcat

We just wrote a 5,000-word longform investigative feature on Sunny Naqvi, who claimed ICE detained her for over 43 hours, for @thejuggernaut. thejuggernaut.com/sunny-naqvi-ic… Here’s why it matters:

Sri Lanka declares Wednesdays off as Asian countries try to conserve fuel bbc.in/41ahui4

With ICE's release of Leqaa Kordia after more than a year of holding her in federal detention, revisit this beautiful piece by @AidaAlami, who spoke with her in jail and profiled her for The @NewYorker. newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…

After more than a year in ICE detention, Leqaa Kordia has been released on bond. She was one of several pro-Palestine protesters arrested and detained by ICE in 2025.

A terrifying article about how AI is shaping how the US military decides targets in war. Of the 20,000 buildings US and Israel have hit, more than 17,000 were residential. ft.com/content/fedb26…

Crazy yet grammatically correct usage of Muslima

BREAKING: The Israeli military says it is dropping charges against five soldiers who were accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee. apnews.com/article/israel…

"We have been here for nine months,” wrote the 9-year-old. “Please get us out.” "I miss my bear," the 5-year-old said. In letters & drawings, the longest-held family at the Dilley ICE detention center describe it as "slowly killing us on the inside." texastribune.org/2026/03/11/el-…

NEW: LA county employee who allegedly had “a long history of sleeping on the job” was in charge of emergency workers sending evacuation alerts during critical moments of the Eaton Fire, per whistleblower claim Fantastic reporting by my colleague @Erstone7 laist.com/news/climate-e…

BREAKING: The FBI has warned police departments in California that Iran wants to retaliate for American attacks by launching offensive drones against the West Coast, according to an alert reviewed by ABC News. abcnews.com/US/fbi-warns-i…

NEW: O.C. forensic audit finds Andrew Do and his top aide had a pattern of misspending public money — far beyond the corruption scandal that landed Do in prison. Supervisor Janet Nguyen wants a criminal probe. She calls Do "the Godfather of Little Saigon” laist.com/news/andrew-do…

Bangladesh will close all universities from March 9, bringing forward the Eid al-Fitr holidays as part of emergency measures to conserve electricity and fuel amid a worsening energy crisis linked to the conflict in the Middle East reut.rs/3OYShV5

Bahrain said an Iranian drone attacked a water desalination plant. The report comes after Iran said the US struck an Iranian desalination plant on Qeshm Island. We explain why water desalination plants are so important to the Gulf. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/64yl8m?update=…

FT Exclusive: Pressure on the Gulf states’ budgets could cause them to review their overseas investments and future commitments as they consider options to ease the financial strain caused by the US-Israeli war against Iran. ft.trib.al/3Kk0Kcg

NEW: The Justice Department has published additional Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor after an NPR investigation found dozens of pages were withheld. But 37 pages of records are still not public. More: npr.org/2026/03/05/nx-…