Lots of #HandsOff protests around the Greater #LosAngeles area.

Los Feliz started at 11a. Pasadena at 12p. The Long Beach Protest Train to #dtla starts at 2pm. The big #dtla protest is slated to begin at 4pm.

Lots of other locations near you listed here: https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/

As a friend said, don't stress over not having a sign or whatnot, it's your presence that is needed and sends the strongest message.

Los Angeles zahlt vier Milliarden an Missbrauchsopfer

Über Jahrzehnte wurden in Jugendanstalten und Kinderheimen in Los Angeles Minderjährige sexuell missbraucht. Nun will die Stadt den etwa 7.000 Opfern insgesamt vier Milliarden Dollar an Entschädigung zahlen.

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/los-angeles-sexueller-missbrauch-entschaedigung-100.html?at_medium=mastodon&at_campaign=tagesschau.de

‘Cockeyed’ Map Shows Both Glamour and Margins of 1930s Hollywood Via Atlas Obscura [Shared]

The humming of 1930s Hollywood street life almost bursts off the page—this is the age of the talkies, after all.

A vignette straddling Beverly and Vine sets the scene: A slightly cockeyed map of that slightly cockeyed community, Hollywood, executed by that slightly cockeyed topographer … John Groth. Chicago native Groth (1908–1988) was a cartoonist who became art director of Esquire in his 20s. He would go on to have a brilliant career as a war artist for the Chicago Sun. In 1944, he rode the first Allied jeep into newly liberated Paris. If he’d been any closer to the front, “he would have had to have sat in the Kraut’s lap,” joked Ernest Hemingway.

https://welchwrite.com/blog/2025/04/02/cockeyed-map-shows-both-glamour-and-margins-of-1930s-hollywood-via-atlas-obscura-shared/

Urban wildfires may expose firefighters to toxic metals like lead & mercury

A new study has found that Los Angeles firefighters who battled January’s urban wildfires had significantly higher levels of mercury & lead in their blood cells than those who fought rural forest fires

https://www.dailyclimate.org/urban-wildfires-may-expose-firefighters-to-toxic-metals-like-lead-and-mercury-2671659136.html