My other favorite Chumash place name is Malibu, from “humaliwo,” “the surf sounds loudly there.” I need a beach day.
My other favorite Chumash place name is Malibu, from “humaliwo,” “the surf sounds loudly there.” I need a beach day.
We used baby oil to to clean the tar from our feet after days at the beach in Isla Vista or Goleta.
Speaking of the La Brea pits, Pismu, which we know in the name of the town Pismo Beach, is the Chumash word for tar, so “the Central and South Coast” (as the newscasters used to call it when I lived near the tar-spotted beaches of Santa Barbara) has three languages’ words in place names.
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SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
Response 7 made me think of The The, the band. The band The The?
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www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/l... Sympathy. It could happen here, anytime.
If you think there was ever a filibuster-proof majority for single-payer in any Congress so that it was a matter of choice, I’d sure like to know which one.
The money exists.
Not THAT Georgia, Horse!
As Margaret Cho asked, “Where’s my parade?”
Increase a band: The B-53s
Is Andrew Cuomo having a nervous breakdown?
Investing in Confederate monuments. Banning library books. Renaming bases and ships. For all of Pete Hegseth’s posturing about a “warrior ethos” and being “laser-focused” on winning wars, he sure does seem fixated on fighting the culture wars. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
lol
This is like a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social headline skewering Maureen Dowd. Love it!
www.theatlantic.com/internationa... Most Israelis, including the security establishment, want no part of this.
“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell
John and I were two rows behind Ethan Peck for the ENTIRE FLIGHT from L.A. to London last fall and I was too shy to flash him a 🖖🏻 on the way back from the loo!
When a sitting Israeli minister calls to “wipe out Gaza,” we cannot look away. This is the language of atrocity, not security. True allies of Israel, especially in the American Jewish community, must demand an end to this war – and denounce the extremists driving it.
Luornu Durgo, whose best Legionnaire name was Duo Damsel.
We have government-run grocery stores on many military bases. It’s just a pilot program idea. Oh, and the Democratic Party includes many socialists. It’s what being a left-of-center big tent party is all about.
Possum friend!
He’ll probably believe he won’t die right up to the second that he does.
If existence is suffering, this guy’s the ultimate masochist.
He said the he was raised poor and suddenly got rich in his early 30s. But you’re right that money seems to have broken his brain.
This answer is so depressingly representative. This is just not how most people spend their time, and prolonging existence just for its own sake isn’t very far from 1984’s “the purpose of power is power.”
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
📌The President of the United States posted a FAKE VIDEO TO THE WORLD of a kneeling Barack Obama being placed in handcuffs, and we are supposed go along like it is just another day. Our press has so completely lost the thread it would be laughable if it wasn't so damn dangerous and disgusting.
What Trump’s rampant criminality says about Democrats.
They do. Within the constraints of their majorities, the 111th and 117th Congresses were the most productive for getting things done for the American people, and Obama I and Biden were probably the best presidential terms in the lives of most of us under 60. We see how the voters rewarded both.
Who comprises the Democratic base?
“Do you promise?” –The Dowager Countess of Grantham
He got four terms and was arguably only won the fourth time because of the war. Anyway, the shellacking of the 2010 election wasn’t because the Dems didn’t run further left.
Exactly. This whole “it’s never the voters’ responsibility to save the country” seems awfully undemocratic for an association with the word Democratic in its name.
And then people are outraged that we get the ACA instead of single-payer and the cycle starts all over again. Vibes suck.
I dunno. DSA salivates for the blood of anyone who isn’t them, don’t they?
The first food writing I’ve seen in a long time to evoke M.F.K. Fisher to my ear!
today's sandwich column reveals my deepest, darkest food opinion secret go ahead, pillory me; i probably deserve it buttondown.com/theswordandt...
www.gov.ca.gov/2025/06/18/w... He’s just all over the place with us, isn’t he.
Maybe geographical districts, especially single- or double-member (Senate), shouldn’t be the only constituencies represented in Congress.
Clear evidence of presidential cognitive issues that the mainstream press will ignore because they regard it as Trump being silly old Trump
Horrid.
Duncan Hunter, père et fils, cast a long shadow for a lot of people.
I was born in Point Loma in 1969. Dad was in the Navy, but my parents lived in Ocean Beach, hippie central. That juxtaposition has always seemed normal to me, but I’ve only ever lived in California.
Or Stasi
This ugly ass budget doesn’t pass in the Senate if Collins doesn’t vote to advance it to debate and Murkowski doesn’t vote for it in the end—thanks to pork barrel bribery. Neither of them is an ally, and Democrats should hammer them next year over it. We’re retiring them both in 2026.
People freaking out about having a socialist in the NYC mayoral residence but OK with having a fascist in the White House.
What do you call a court that says parents have a constitutional right to prevent their kids from seeing storybooks with gay people at school, but no right to provide their children with access to gender-affirming health care?
“Anything good” like the infrastructure bill? Who voted against that again?
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New gig for Tapper?
One solution of course would be to just write it yourself.
Yes, headcanons exist to satisfy a trekkie mindset.
He thinks people only read as labor.
That’s a terrible thing to call Andrew Cuomo!
I hope the producers of the Buffy reboot take this to heart.
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Great news. I hope it survives appeal.
“This is the bond of water. We know the rites. A man’s flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.”
Welcome to social media.
No, obviously it’s tagging Schumer on this app to make him aware of something I’m sure he hasn’t been briefed on. That’ll do it.
The judicial order to extend due process to those disappeared to a hellhole El Salvadoran prison, including Andry, a gay asylum seeker from Venezuela, has been appealed by the administration. No one from that same administration will verify if Andry is even alive. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...
Is Schumer the FBI director? Must’ve missed that.
Don't let them lie to you about Senator Padilla. DHS is claiming the agents DID NOT KNOW he was a senator. He CLEARLY says (BEFORE he is tackled and cuffed) "I am Senator Alex Padilla and I have a question for the secretary."
“Avant elle, le garbage.”
Feels kinda important to point out that if non-citizens are required to carry proof of legal status, then citizens do too by default. This is absolutely insane.
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
LAPD when they think nobody is watching
not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
It was in 1998 anyway. I understand there have been some changes since then.
I was in a high school production of ANYTHING GOES with her charming, sane, Democratic sister, as well as John Fugelsang’s future wife. In case you think Sonoma is just vapid winos.
Was not expecting a bit of a trigger watching the troops descend on L.A.—1992 not as long ago as one might think.
Neither am I, thank goodness.
Tell that to Steve Bannon.
Thanks for clarifying; I didn’t get who you meant.
Well, she’s more of an expert than you and I will ever be. Just curious about the meaning.
Didn’t most people who end up working in D.C. grow up, live, and work in “normal America”?
Wine not?
Oh no @magiclassomusic.bsky.social!
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 82 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo (or video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
This is disgusting, and as you said, intentionally timed. The cruelty and hatred are the point.
Saint Etienne wrapping it up feels like saying good-bye to another chunk of my youth. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...
Joni Ernst: "Well, we are all going to die." Wendy's Cashier: "Ma'am, please, I just need your order."
Anyone who can believe, in the year of our lord 2025, that *Democrats* drove trans issues into the public spotlight is just too fucking baby-brained to comment on politics.
How should they take those hatreds into account?
The Google Street View Cruisers.
“Held up to scrutiny” - is the scrutiny in the room with us right now?
It also goes back for Boomers to the ‘60s counterculture. There were several good reasons not to trust the government through to the end of the Nixon administration.
Interesting! I’m not being a reply guy when I’m asking if you’d say more.
The tribes aren’t a party to this case. Look at who is and why Gorsuch and Alito want their legal reasoning to win.
Or Morrissey. youtu.be/D5cZ-oLVJzY?...
