THANK YOU that’s what I said when I saw it
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THANK YOU that’s what I said when I saw it
Trump complains about domestic violence arrests hurting his new “there is no crime in DC now” stats. bsky.app/profile/atru...
Me and my family enjoying our boat tour of Chicago on one of the best vacations we’ve ever taken. For no reason today.
The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.
When young people ask me why they should get involved – I tell the story of Grace.
Marked safe from the bullet fires in Los Angeles.
Oh are we doing this? My family just had the best time in the murder capital. Trip of a lifetime.
Remember that we can always find power, solidarity, and hope in the labor movement. [Artwork by Ricardo Levins Morales]
With my cat sleeping next to me too.
Confirmed. All of this took place within a few blocks downtown. I never saw any of it except on the news. AND the protests were substantially peaceful; the violence came from the response. That I have from eyewitnesses.
The Guardian is finally saying it: It’s all about the racism. No “both sides.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
NEW: For decades, protecting the voting rights of people with disabilities was a bipartisan priority. Now, as the GOP restricts voting access through the lens of “election integrity,” those long-standing protections are already beginning to erode. From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social
This is votes as of 2024. The Trump side of my family had already cut us off by then. Perhaps Trumpy respondents did not see past actions in this poll question? Meanwhile, Clinton/Biden/Harris voters had given grace for well over a decade but enough is enough.
Nightly TV news in Los Angeles ICE holds high school senior in awful conditions ICE goes after local athlete ICE beats up nurses protecting a patient; nurses will not be charged Protests against ICE
The fluffy white cat bounces on one board but dives from another.
We’ve been joking about the “pee pee tapes” for years but does Putin have him on tape with an underage girl?
“Books are medicine. If it’s not your medicine, you don’t burn down the pharmacy.“ - Sandra Cisneros on book bans
As a graduate of UCLA ... The federal government’s $1B dollar demand is designed for one purpose and one purpose only: to devastate @UCLA and its critical mission. #StandUpForUC to defend America’s greatest public university system and support this life-saving work. bit.ly/standuc
Discrimination in many AI hiring tools can be “opaque–its bias buried not in an explicit rule, but in statistical patterns,” writes Dr. Sergey Kornilov. This “emergent ableism is a form of discrimination that arises when pattern-matching algorithms encounter human cognitive diversity.”
First they came for the unhoused?
Color? How do you measure and quantify “color”?! Or are we using the Family Guy to admit students now?
My latest for @prismreports.org. prismreports.org/2025/07/14/l...
How TF is my high schooler supposed to get through Civics this year?
Sound up! Small weekly Los Angeles protest becomes a cacophony as the community responds.
Los Angeles is joy and culture and don’t believe anyone who tries to tell you differently. We resist with music and dance.
And how many of the long-term unemployed are truly “able-bodied”? Like, picking strawberries for hours able-bodied?
Mayor Bass: This morning, it was frightening in Los Angeles to see tanks essentially rolling into MacArthur Park. It was an egregious show of force. I have no idea what their purpose was. I don’t even think they detained anyone. Los Angeles was peaceful before June 5. We need to go back to that.
Jason Stanley, philosopher and expert on fascism said “You know you're living in a fascist society when you're constantly going over in your head the reasons why YOU are safe.”
You’ve seen this movie before: Maybe Reagan guessed, Bush hoped, and Trump tried—but tax cuts never paid for themselves. Given the mountain of evidence, claiming once again that "tax cuts will pay for themselves" is no longer ideologically motivated optimism. It's a lie.
Downtown Los Angeles: dance, music, joy, community
This whole, "sexual assault and harassment is bad when Trump does it, but ok when our side does it," is sending a really clear message that the old guard of Democratic leadership only cares about women when it's politically advantageous. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
Not to draw attention to the parade someone threw for his birthday — but — in his speech he quotes Galaxy Quest. I’m not the only one who caught that, right?
And our friends’ kids. And our kids’ friends.
The first known detention by the US Marines in their recent Los Angeles deployment is of... a US Army veteran on his way to an office at the Department of Veteran Affairs building. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)
U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) was violently pushed out of a Homeland Security press conference in Los Angeles today.
Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing
So, so thankful we defeated the billionaire developer.
Let's all take a moment to read the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. It's only one sentence.
An incredibly easy way to stop all of the unrest in Los Angeles: Stop the ICE raids. That’s it. That’s all Trump needs to do. It’s one phone call. If he’s unwilling to do it, he’s responsible for the consequences.
Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The “president” is lying. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
If you’re looking for quality independent reporting on what’s happening in Los Angeles, I’ve put together a starter pack for it. If you’d like to be added or know an indie who should be added, hmu
Subtitled version #Subtitles
My ASL would be so much better if that was the standard here too. I always need more practice with receptive signing.
Loving the sign language interpreter visible on the screen the whole time too.
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 72 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo (& today a video) of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
Does he not know the difference between Africa (the continent) and South Africa (the country)?
important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:
The inside of the nutshell summed up by @hcrichardson.bsky.social
Predisposed is not an easy read but it explained so, so much www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...
A few favorite signs #HandsOff #DTLA
If they had been hired on their qualifications, the next step would be obvious. Instead, their willingness to lie to Congress reinforces why they were hired.
Signalgate and the refusal to fire those responsible is what you get when you hire based on loyalty instead of merit.
This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Surprising to hear that a government formed exclusively of a country’s most stupid people isn’t really working out.
We now have data for 2024, real wage growth was extraordinarily strong at the bottom end of the wage distribution www.epi.org/publication/...
Migrants found dead at Krome Detention Center in Miami, due to possible starvation and dehydration. The facility, which was a detention facility prior to it being converted for ICE use, has a max capacity of 500.
I was literally a child in the 70s/80s but I remember the casual overt racism of some of the adults around me. Towards our Latino/a neighbors; there were next to no black people in our small CA town.
Pundit agrees that “cruelty is the point.”
Pundit just said Trump’s followers aren’t conservatives, they’re “cultural populists.”
I think I’ll stay vegetarian, thank you.
NEW from me: Some U.S. citizens have already been caught up in Trump's immigration dragnet. More will be. A side note: more reports of citizens detained by immigration officials emerged even as we prepped this story for publication. For @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/more...
Would like to report some gang tattoos.
I’m on a webinar about what the cuts at the Department of Education mean for higher education. How’s your workday going?
I’m not seeing this enough: Even if some of the guys flown to El Salvador are the dregs of humanity, due process is required. Due process is for everyone.
🚨 We need you to call your Democratic senator ASAP if their name is on this list. Tell your senator you will have their back if they do the right thing and vote NO on the extreme MAGA spending bill that would give Trump more power to dismantle the federal government: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
Been thinking about that Joni Ernst story in @propublica.org yesterday. (www.propublica.org/article/joni...) First, that in another epoch, it would have been an immediate career-killer. Second, and more important in this epoch, it was implied in coverage of her Hegseth switch that she was either 1/x
Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.
“Woke just means you give a damn about other people.” J. Fonda
"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."
Slava Ukraini
I completely missed that Republicans introduced a bill to increase the endowment tax from 1.4% to 21%. If passed, Harvard would go from paying ~$35m to $525m/yr in federal taxes (that’s 8.2% of its current operating expenses)
Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...
The fools who voted for this charlatan. Screwing up the booming Biden economy, and failing on his number one priority.
On this Day of Remembrance, we honor the 120,000 Japanese Americans unjustly imprisoned during WWII because of their heritage. Their resilience remind us to never forget the lessons of history. We will continue to fight for justice, equality, and civil rights for all.
We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.
The greatest political scandal today is not what Trump is doing. It is the fact that congressional Republicans have given up their role in the constitutional system as a check on the executive branch. If we are in a constitutional crisis, it is as much on Mike Johnson and John Thune as anyone else.
No one HAS to do illegal, corrupt, wrong things, They CHOOSE to. Or not. Bravo to the SDNY and Main Justice Lawyers who are showing America what it is to defend the rule of law. What a contrast to sniveling Rs in Congress.
The DOGE "force of super-geniuses" reinventing our $6 trillion government forgot to password-protect their website. Here's what it looks like right now www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
This is stochastic terrorism.
The shortest summary of what we’re witnessing is that the right lost a decades-long ideological battle over the proper size of government, and then, instead of moving on, decided to impose their will criminally.
I’m a software engineer. I know all too well how dangerous the above described circumstances can be, and how they risk crashing the entire system.
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"I just want to be clear about what's going on here." - @warren.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...
Crockett: “I’m tired of the white tears. If you’re competent you’re not concerned. When you compare me to Greene/Boebert there’s no comparison… The only ppl crying are mediocre white boys beaten out by people that had to work much harder.” Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DFp8K0M...
Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.
What the right wing REALLY means:
"Everything happening now has already been spelled out... tech CEO takeover of gov't, the institutional purges, crypto corruption becoming a dominant economic force, the quest for new territory. I didn't guess this stuff – I just listened," writes @gilduran.com www.thenerdreich.com/the-network-...
inclusivity.consulting/2025/01/24/d...
www.lflegal.com/2025/01/week...
Fiction vs Reality.
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My husband checked FB when this first came up, early afternoon Pacific time on Jan. 20. No Trump, Vance, or Melania. He did not follow political accounts. He checked again at dinner — they had been added to his account. And now he has them on IG too.
