Ace K (he/him) | public defender & movement lawyer | co-founder Ground Game LA & Knock LA Time to take this shit back, all of it ‘cause it was ours to begin with
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There are lots of things going wrong here but I think a really basic one is if you start something with "in many ways I think _____ is an idiot" then you should be aware that you really just agree with this one point because it flatters your prior assumptions and it's still the opinion of an idiot
oh, we all know how i'm going out
we did it joe
I kind of like the idea of rapping about granular liberal policy preferences though "fuck the police (contract with Axon body worn video camera software (which lacks adequate privacy safeguards))
we all remember the big NWA single "fuck the police who exceed their statutory authority in ways that does not reflect on other police as individuals or an institution"
lmfao just learned that Murs released a song about LAPD helicopters with the parenthetical title "thisisnotanantipolicesongthisisanantipolicehelicoptersong" and I am truly flabbergasted by how fucking pathetic that is
what the fuck is a left leaning republican, is this guy in a time machine from 1950
saw Cardi B is about to drop her second album 7 years after Invasion of Privacy, which is also the amount of time it took for the Wrens to have a complete nervous breakdown between Seacaucus and The Meadowlands
A friend took this at a rally today and I barked laughing.
this is so wholesome
a man of taste and sensitivity
Super important piece on how states can help fill the gaps created by RFK's anti-vax policies. We desperately need RFK out of the job, where he's doing immense damage to public health, but Dem Governors can take effective steps here if they want to. (So can R Governors! Not sure they'll want to.)
🚨 🧪 @drdemetre.bsky.social “The CDC you knew is over… Unless someone takes radical action, there is nothing there that can be salvaged.” “The American people expect that public health functions at a level that is so great that they don’t perceive that it exists” www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
I’m so grateful that I have tenure and the academic freedom to call it like I see it. “Dr. Kathleen Bachynski, a professor of public health at Muhlenberg College, described Kennedy’s comments as “absolute gibberish” and slammed the HHS secretary as a “dangerous buffoon” who is “threatening us all.”
yo this guy is cooking
Louis Mosley is quoted as saying that Palantir's strategy for entry into the British health industry was to "Buy our way in" by acquiring smaller rival companies with existing relationships with the NHS in order to "take a lot of ground and take down a lot of political resistance"
Palantir just took over the CDC. The head of the UK branch of Palantir UK is Louis Mosley, grandson of renowned British fascist Oswald Mosley. Palantir has 24 contracts with key UK public institutions; the NHS, Ministry of Defence, the police force, the Cabinet Office, and the DLUHC.
Noone gives this take the other way round, do they? No one advises conservatives that calling their enemies communists, extremists, anti-semites, Britain haters etc. "doesn't work" Because political name calling plainly *does* work, if done regularly at sufficient volume with a big enough platform
JUST IN: Judge Cobb has blocked the Trump administration’s effort to extend rapid-fire deportation procedures to immigrants who have been in the U.S. more than two years — warning that it is a flagrant deprivation of due process that could ensnare anyone. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
While defending the luddite argument in Discord, I stumbled into this IMO succinct explanation for opposing generative AI: At every step in the process, it impoverishes us.
The Largo is pretty much designed for crazy moments like that, shout out to whoever is in charge
TVOTR at the Fireside Bowl on their first full band tour.
exactly.
Western leaders have appeased Donald Trump since he returned to power, only to be hit with new demands after every concession. On Tuesday, Trump declared economic war on countries that regulate its tech companies. It’s time for the world to break from the US and aggressively target Silicon Valley.
As we insisted all along, the Biden admin was not just "complicit" in genocide but participating operationally
WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.
In like a week this guy is going to open an ironic concentration camp
No, it’s a shortage of left/liberal publications. Most journalists at the NYT are liberals! They still pushed right wing influence campaigns around crime, Claudine Gay, trans people, anti-genocide protests, etc. There is no neutral platform and pretending it exists is incompatible with seeking truth
This sort of thing, 3 years out from the election, can best be understood as centrists fantasizing about the opportunity to righteously reject the lives of minorities. It’s not a coherent political stance, it’s a performance of evil twisted into virtue. Not great
"Don't occupy me, I'll occupy myself!"
i think they do it just bc they want to
California has the 2nd largest prison population in the US the facilities are overcrowded and literally falling apart massive sums of money are spent to keep them running and deal with the increasing legal liabilities we have done the "tough on crime" thing, it didn't work
it really fucking sucks that Gavin Newsom has decided that he's going to "be tough on crime" it's like a bad replay of when Harris said she "would be tougher on immigration" how many elections do we have to lose before Democrats learn that they shouldn't let the GOP control the narrative?
My requirements for any Democrat running for president are simple: 1. Undo/reverse every single anti-trans policy the Trump administration has implemented. 2. Pledge not to further restrict trans people's rights. 3. Support the passage of the Equality Act and make it a priority.
The desexualisation of media (everyone is beautiful, and no one is horny) combined with an increasing hysteria around the 'pointlessness' of sex scenes is a key part of the fascistization of western culture and if we're going to fight back we're going to need to make it normal to be horny again.
fear only seems like the easy road if you yourself are already afraid
the sheer gall of this goyische motherfucker
about time
it's crazy how fucked up he always looks, like someone surprised him while he was eating a pigeon under a hedge
Holy moly this @monicapotts.bsky.social story. "The Democratic Party has handcuffed itself with data rather than use it to their advantage." THAT. That, in one sentence, is precisely what I and @waytowinus.bsky.social have been trying to solve for since 2018. 🎯🎯🎯 newrepublic.com/article/1996...
wtf is this nonsense? He thinks he can understand kid’s “mitochondrial challenges” just by looking at them? This is an insane person.
IMO many Americans don't even buy guns for personal protection or to defend themselves against a tyrannical government. They simply have a shopping addiction
New on Knock: Two years in, have Gov. Newsom’s “California model” prison policies really reduced stress and violence? The efforts have yet to bear fruit. D. Razor Babb reports from Mule Creek State Prison for Knock LA’s Incarcerated Writer’s Initivative. knock-la.com/is-the-new-c...
personally i do not think human rights should be up for “debate” but what do i know, i’m emotional and biased because those are my rights they’re talking about
Chotiner being so horrified that he breaks character and interrupts is fucking wild
Biden did a range of good things, but he will be remembered and deserves to be remembered chiefly for his enthusiastic, racist support for an unconscionable genocide.
In answer to your question, yes he is.
Every day for all of 2020 LAPD helicopters would circle our neighborhood so low that conversation was impossible outside. These things are garbage
The only OpenAI stocks I'm interested in are the ones we put their entire executive team in for the public to throw rotten fruit and rocks at
an appropriate response to your product killing a child after months of psychological manipulation and torture is to take the product off the market before it kills again and the fact that this isn’t universally accepted right now is incredibly frightening
If an elderly relative succumbs to an identity theft or pig butchering scam in the next few years there's a good chance it was because of something (either this or something else) the idiot DOGE guys did with their data.
really hard to top the moth joke
He didn't do that in his first term though as far as I can recall! This is a new sort of derangement
it's going great
Would be very fun to try a case with three no-bill GJ transcripts to impeach with
The old joke is that any good prosecutor could get a jury to indict a ham sandwich. Do you know how badly you have to be overcharging something for a grand jury to reject charges three times in a row? What an embarrassment.
SIDE POINT what the fuck is with the "Thank you for your attention to this matter" tic, it's really weird
they've just got to do like an omnibus impeachment that bars like 3,000 people from government on day one. like one of those unification church weddings.
There's a point Arendt makes in Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship that people who convince themselves to cooperate with the regime in pursuit of "the lesser evil" end up conditioning themselves to accept evil, which the regime then ratchets up. A similar story with the press here.
"We're not going back" and "they're weird" were both incredibly strong normal messages. what the fuck
this is good shit
"Country Over Party" remains one of the most perfect, profound failures of communicative language in the history of politics. Imagine how many layers of incompetence and groupthink it had to percolate through to become real. Every time I think about it it's like jumping into a cold pool on a hot day
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
No, they didn't, one of them fucking bought the platform, Jesus fucking Christ—THIS is what I mean about how the day-to-day existence of Musk's Nazi propaganda machine cooks people's brains
Pretty sure he retired specifically to try to avoid consequences
"Villain, I have done thy mother!"
as far as explaining gender to kids, "some people switch from boy to girl or boy to girl or whatever" is like a hundred times easier than explaining that we saw their teacher at the grocery store because she does not live at the school
"[G]enocide is not a byproduct of [Israel's] war but the goal ... The bloodshed is not meant to stop, but to be repeated."
Tell me again that this isn't a statement of endorsement for the Pulse massacre, and an active attempt to blot out the victims from public memory. This is the government and the police of the state of Florida saying: "We're glad they're dead, and if you memorialize them, we will arrest you."
You might remember Palka, also, as Les Moonves's hired goon who tipped him off about a sexual assault accusation! He was also the one doing the "kneeling cop" stunt during 2020 (if you fell for it you're a mark) and boy howdy was he in tight with Scientology. ANYHOW
A really cool/interesting thing that has happened in the last couple years that I'm hella excited about is Black nightlife coming back to Hollywood, after having previously been destroyed by openly segregationist policies by LAPD Cpt. Cory Palka, then-councilmember Garcetti, and O'Farrell.
This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
think tcw has to go post on facebook after this
Just got home from the Eric Adams scavenger hunt. We had to find 300 children’s teeth hidden in the alley behind Zero Bond, and use them to build “an electric chair for rats.” The winners got to keep the teeth. I hate this city.
Truly amazing.
Them and others. Like Traci Park is supposed to be a democrat???
They're not even Democrats at all in any meaningful sense, not even compared with Pelosi and the sort
Nancy Tung and Joshua Arce, representing San Francisco at the state Democratic Party's executive committee, tried to sideline a wildly popular resolution against sharing license plate data with ICE. Remember those names and don't vote for them or anyone who runs on a slate with or backs them.
right??? right
This is so fucking embarrassing
i wish i took a class from this dude
lmfao that's amazing
This is what they sent his attorney. After all he has been through, they’re ordering him to bring *himself* to submit to being sent 8,000 miles away to Uganda. If he doesn’t, they’ll declare him on the run and hunt him for sport as a fugitive anyway. The filing: marylandmatters.org/wp-content/u...
jfc neither did i
Justice Jackson is basically reporting live from inside a garbage fire www.ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/nih-c...
FWIW, "yours for the restoration of the Republic" was a common salutation American fascists gave to each other in the 1950s and 1960s. This is from a 1952 letter by Ohio white supremacist terrorist Peter Xavier. The rest of the rhetoric here might be familiar too.
i haven't! added to my bandcamp
Trump said today that LA is "poorly run" and "if I didn’t send in the troops, Gianni wouldn’t be in Los Angeles, you wouldn’t be having your World Cup there." Also, *this* is how you cover a Trump megaevent press conference
More fun: “the economy” is obviously wildly divergent in meaning depending on who you’re talking to and their class and sector, and also “the economy” is understood as a proper and polite answer to a poll that reflects common conversation rather than personal motivation
order to have the reach they want (287g programs) which means local action and pressure can interfere with their operations. The main immediate scalable areas for ICE budget are technology, detention facilities, and uh graft.
important point. LAPD has been dramatically short of their recruitment goals for years and used the excess positions as a slush fund at the expense of the city (we were finally able to cut that down this year, shout out to the progressive bloc). ICE is going to be dependent on local cooperation in
"Oh, you won't say nothing when they come for the socialists??? enjoy it when they come for the labor unionists!!"
...........so, the corncob