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  "description": "Listen to the trailer for our first podcast miniseries.",
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    "How Los Angeles’s Iranian diaspora is confronting the US war on IranResidents are divided between supporting and opposing the US and Israeli war against Iran, amid fears for loved ones.Al JazeeraAbraham Márquez",
    "Controversial Israeli Chef Expands Miznon Across L.A. ~ L.A. TACOThe Israel-founded group behind Miznon is expanding its L.A. footprint with a new Culver City location, despite protests accusing the restaurant of rebranding Palestinian cuisine, and highlighting its founders’ ties to massacres in Gaza.L.A. TACOAbraham Marquez",
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  "textContent": "By now, we’ve all seen footage of federal agents forcibly removing people from their communities as part of the government’s deportation agenda. Children coming home to missing parents, breadwinners taken to detention centers, families violently ripped apart — so much news coverage has focused on the raids, but what happens afterward? What systems do people have to navigate for a chance to _maybe_ see their loved one again?\n\n“Through The Labyrinth” is a four-episode podcast miniseries produced and reported by investigative reporter Morgan Keith. The podcast will take listeners on a journey through these systems, where they will hear directly from Angelenos forced to look for their family members inside the sprawling, state-sanctioned mechanisms of immigration detention. This project captures how federal policy affects the people in our community, and the lasting impacts of the Trump administration’s immigration policies on Angelenos.\n\nAs a token of appreciation for our paid subscribers, we are giving you early access to the trailer for “Through the Labyrinth.” In the coming weeks, we will also be giving you early access to each episode five days ahead of their public release.\n\nThis podcast and our broader newsroom operations are only possible thanks to your financial support. We are incredibly grateful for your faith in our mission, and we look forward to bringing you more paid membership perks soon!\n\nIf you aren't currently a paid subscriber, you can get early access to the trailer right now by upgrading to a paid subscription with us. The trailer for \"Through The Labyrinth\"__ will be available on all major podcasting platforms on April 27.\n\nHelp support The Southlander by signing up for a paid subscription below. Subscriptions start at only $5 a month and it only takes a few seconds to upgrade.\n\nUpgrade\n\nHey y’all! It’s Morgan, and I’m so excited to finally get this project out to the public. I have been working on it for the bulk of the last year in the hopes of bringing to light an undercovered aspect of immigration detention.\n\nWant to chat with me about the podcast? I’d love to hear about your thoughts on the miniseries, the other kinds of audio content you like, and any stories you feel deserve better coverage by local news.\n\n__You can reach me at__ ___morgan.keith@thesouthlander.com___ __or on Signal @mekeith.98.__\n\n## 🔥 Southlander journalists around the web\n\nHow Los Angeles’s Iranian diaspora is confronting the US war on IranResidents are divided between supporting and opposing the US and Israeli war against Iran, amid fears for loved ones.Al JazeeraAbraham Márquez\n\nAbraham Márquez wrote about the Iranian diaspora in Los Angeles and how they are processing the US-Israel war on Iran.\n\nControversial Israeli Chef Expands Miznon Across L.A. ~ L.A. TACOThe Israel-founded group behind Miznon is expanding its L.A. footprint with a new Culver City location, despite protests accusing the restaurant of rebranding Palestinian cuisine, and highlighting its founders’ ties to massacres in Gaza.L.A. TACOAbraham Marquez\n\nMárquez also wrote about Shahar Segal and Eyal Shani, the co-founders of the restaurant Miznon, one of 40 restaurants owned by The Good People Group, an Israeli hospitality company founded in 2008. Shani turned his restaurants in Israel into food distribution centers to feed Israeli soldiers fighting in Gaza and and is opening a restaurant in the Gaza border near the now depopulated town of Beit Hanoun.\n\n###  Connect with us\n\n|  \n\n\n\n  |  \n                  @thesouthlander.com\n                \n---|---\n|  \n\n\n\n\n\n  |  \n                  @thesouthlander\n                \n---|---\n|  \n\n\n\n  |  \n                  @thesouthlander\n                \n---|---\n|  \n\n\n\n  |  \n                  southlandernews\n                \n---|---\n|  \n\n\n\n  |  \n                  @southlanderLA\n                \n---|---\n|  |  hello@thesouthlander.com\n---|---",
  "title": "Introducing 'Through The Labyrinth,' a four-episode podcast about what happens after someone is taken by ICE",
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