Last Whom Standing
@lastwhomstanding.bsky.social
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An armed off-duty U.S. Border Patrol Officer has been charged with assaulting a Long Beach police officer and resisting arrest in the Shoreline Village parking lot earlier this week, the LA DA’s office announced.
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Someone else said it for him. Love him. Miss him.
September 7, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Someone else said it for him. Love him. Miss him.
At least one bright spot in a city budget. Please support local independent journalism at @ @lbwatchdog.com
The Long Beach animal shelter has made it through another budget cycle.
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September 12, 2026 at 5:55 PM
At least one bright spot in a city budget. Please support local independent journalism at @ @lbwatchdog.com
At least one bright spot in a city budget.
Please support local independent journalism at @lbwatchdog.com
Please support local independent journalism at @lbwatchdog.com
The Long Beach animal shelter has made it through another budget cycle.
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September 12, 2026 at 5:53 PM
At least one bright spot in a city budget.
Please support local independent journalism at @lbwatchdog.com
Please support local independent journalism at @lbwatchdog.com
You think Odysseus had a challenge?
Come to our wonderful shelter and visit Odette, who'd have had no chance without an amazing community of heroes.
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Come to our wonderful shelter and visit Odette, who'd have had no chance without an amazing community of heroes.
Support local indie journalism @lbwatchdog.com.
It took a lost, frightened mastiff about a month to find safe harbor in Long Beach, but it probably felt like 10 years to her.
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September 6, 2026 at 12:05 AM
You think Odysseus had a challenge?
Come to our wonderful shelter and visit Odette, who'd have had no chance without an amazing community of heroes.
Support local indie journalism @lbwatchdog.com.
Come to our wonderful shelter and visit Odette, who'd have had no chance without an amazing community of heroes.
Support local indie journalism @lbwatchdog.com.
Read Bronco’s story, and find out who the therapy animals really are! Support local independent journalism at @lbwatchdog.com
Bronco Schultz has a neurological impairment, but that doesn’t mean he can’t act as a wonderful therapy dog to his pet parents.
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August 30, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Read Bronco’s story, and find out who the therapy animals really are! Support local independent journalism at @lbwatchdog.com
Not that animal abuse isn’t horrible enough, but there is a connection between it and human abuse.
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Benny the Cat’s 9th birthday is a cause for celebration because if he hadn’t been brought to Long Beach Animal Care Services, he probably wouldn’t have made it to his first birthday.
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August 16, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Not that animal abuse isn’t horrible enough, but there is a connection between it and human abuse.
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Support independent journalism at @lbwatchdog.com
If you’re hitting the Midsummer Scream horror convention in Long Beach and your hackles bristle, calm them down with cats at the Black Cat Lounge!
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Every year, LA-based cat organization Kitten Rescue brings their purry poltergeists to the Midsummer Scream Horror Convention at the Long Beach Convention Center.
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August 8, 2026 at 5:26 PM
If you’re hitting the Midsummer Scream horror convention in Long Beach and your hackles bristle, calm them down with cats at the Black Cat Lounge!
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Support local independent journalism at @lbwatchdog.com
No bull—purebreds wind up in shelters. Need a bulldog? Look into rescues. Support local x journalism at @lbwatchdog.com
Southern California Bulldog Rescue has everything you need to know about living with a bulldog, and they have the dogs, too!
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August 4, 2026 at 2:49 AM
No bull—purebreds wind up in shelters. Need a bulldog? Look into rescues. Support local x journalism at @lbwatchdog.com
Wish every city shelter had this. Support local indie journalism at @lbwatchdog.com
The Long Beach animal shelter and rescue needs volunteers to help underage kittens — the city’s most frail and vulnerable pet population.
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July 24, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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Expand your wardrobe and expand global animal welfare. And your heart. And—support local indie journalism at @lbwatchdog.com
Sherri Stankewitz’s new website fashions loving care for small, international rescues.
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July 20, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Expand your wardrobe and expand global animal welfare. And your heart. And—support local indie journalism at @lbwatchdog.com
Whoever you are and wherever you go, support local journalism at @lbwatchdog.com !
Whether you’re traveling by car, RV or plane, it’s vital to make the journey as pleasant for your pet as it is for you, @lastwhomstanding.bsky.social says in this week’s Scratch This.
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July 12, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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I hope that wherever you are, you have an event where you can just have silly fun and not think about anything else! Support independent local journalism at @lbwatchdog.com
The 29th annual Wiener Nationals runs at Los Alamitos on Sat., July 11. The mix of cuteness and wackiness has so far raised close to $300,000 for the Seal Beach Animal Care Center.
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July 3, 2026 at 11:02 PM
I hope that wherever you are, you have an event where you can just have silly fun and not think about anything else! Support independent local journalism at @lbwatchdog.com
Ol' puddingface shows his nether parts again.
JD Vance is having a Tricky Dick moment. “If you look at the story of how the ‘deep state’ took down Richard Nixon, it’s not all that different from what the same groups of people, the same institutions tried to do to Donald Trump.”
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Vance dismisses Watergate scandal, says ‘deep state’ went after Nixon
The vice president said he admired Nixon and drew parallels between the past president, who resigned amid pressure in 1974, and Trump today.
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June 27, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Ol' puddingface shows his nether parts again.
Please don't give canine flea meds to your cats. Ever. Support local indie journalism at @lbwatchdog.com .
A recent local tragedy makes it imperative that pet owners understand that doses of a topical medication intended for dogs are dangerous and often fatal if used on a cat.
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June 27, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Please don't give canine flea meds to your cats. Ever. Support local indie journalism at @lbwatchdog.com .
I had to read this twice before I got it.
😹 can never get over how relentlessly hilariously stupid this fuckin guy is
Welcome? This witless chowderhead doesn't know that passports are issued to US citizens for use traveling abroad? Welcome? Christ, he's so relentlessly stupid.
June 27, 2026 at 12:17 AM
I had to read this twice before I got it.
Foster the 4th makes room for dogs frightened by fireworks, run off, and get lost. Shelter dogs also get a break from the shelter.
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Foster the 4th, which encourages Long Beach residents to foster dogs for a minimum of 30 days and a maximum of forever, celebrated its 2026 kickoff on June 18 at the shelter.
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June 21, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Foster the 4th makes room for dogs frightened by fireworks, run off, and get lost. Shelter dogs also get a break from the shelter.
Support local indie journalism at @lbwatchdog.com
Support local indie journalism at @lbwatchdog.com
We have a vibrant community cat community--there's a descriptor--here in Long Beach. Submitted for your inspiration.
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Support local indie journalism @lbwatchdog.com .
This Saturday, June 13, the Long Beach Community Cat Coalition will meet to teach interested members of the public what they need to know about trapping and fixing homeless cats.
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June 13, 2026 at 12:10 AM
We have a vibrant community cat community--there's a descriptor--here in Long Beach. Submitted for your inspiration.
Support local indie journalism @lbwatchdog.com .
Support local indie journalism @lbwatchdog.com .
@meetthepress.com Kristin, I know you considered the source today.
June 7, 2026 at 6:32 PM
@meetthepress.com Kristin, I know you considered the source today.
Read about the inaugural Long Beach’s Favorite Pet awards! And support local indie journalism @lbwatchdog.com
On Saturday, May 30, a bunch of dogs, a far smaller group of cats and one sulcata tortoise came to the Bandshell at Recreation Park to see how they fared in Partners of Parks’ Long Beach’s Favorite Pet.
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June 6, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Read about the inaugural Long Beach’s Favorite Pet awards! And support local indie journalism @lbwatchdog.com
More nightmare fodder. We were Beelzeblubber’s playground for his toy soldiers last night.
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Helicopters, gunfire and explosions — southeast Long Beach was turned into a mock war zone Friday morning for a military training exercise.
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June 6, 2026 at 4:50 AM
More nightmare fodder. We were Beelzeblubber’s playground for his toy soldiers last night.
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V was a force. Please support independent journalism at @lbwatchdog.com
March 14 saw the loss of Vanessa Romain, a fighter, an activist and a force within Long Beach’s LGBTQ+ community.
With Pride Month beginning, @lastwhomstanding.bsky.social remembers Romain in a special Watchdog obituary. lbwatchdog.com/obituary-van...
With Pride Month beginning, @lastwhomstanding.bsky.social remembers Romain in a special Watchdog obituary. lbwatchdog.com/obituary-van...
June 1, 2026 at 6:55 PM
V was a force. Please support independent journalism at @lbwatchdog.com
Long Beach has a tunnel under Ocean Boulevard and a bee sanctuary off Orange Avenue.
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Please support local journalism at @lbwatchdog.com
Our own @lastwhomstanding.bsky.social learns everything she can about beekeeping from Long Beach Beekeepers, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving honey bee colonies.
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May 30, 2026 at 6:07 AM
Long Beach has a tunnel under Ocean Boulevard and a bee sanctuary off Orange Avenue.
Please support local journalism at @lbwatchdog.com
Please support local journalism at @lbwatchdog.com
Don't wanna go to the workout studio? Here's a good reason to go!
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Please support local indie journalism at @lbwatchdog.com .
The Little Lion Foundation, a nonprofit cat-rescue and -health organization, recently began a kitty-infused wellness program called Kitten Pilates that boosts the mood like nothing else.
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May 22, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Don't wanna go to the workout studio? Here's a good reason to go!
Please support local indie journalism at @lbwatchdog.com .
Please support local indie journalism at @lbwatchdog.com .
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Abrego García should apply for the “Anti-Weaponization Fund.”
How many other people have a district court ruling actually *finding* vindictive prosecution?
How many other people have a district court ruling actually *finding* vindictive prosecution?
May 22, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Abrego García should apply for the “Anti-Weaponization Fund.”
How many other people have a district court ruling actually *finding* vindictive prosecution?
How many other people have a district court ruling actually *finding* vindictive prosecution?
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5. For more info, contact the national, nonpartisan Election Protection hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE. (Or 866ourvote.com)
2. Return your ballot at a vote center during early voting.
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4. Don't put your ballot in US Mail!
5. For more info, contact the national, nonpartisan Election Protection hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE. (Or 866ourvote.com)
May 15, 2026 at 3:52 AM
1. Use a ballot dropbox.
2. Return your ballot at a vote center during early voting.
3. Return your ballot at a polling place on Election Day.
4. Don't put your ballot in US Mail!
5. For more info, contact the national, nonpartisan Election Protection hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE. (Or 866ourvote.com)
2. Return your ballot at a vote center during early voting.
3. Return your ballot at a polling place on Election Day.
4. Don't put your ballot in US Mail!
5. For more info, contact the national, nonpartisan Election Protection hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE. (Or 866ourvote.com)