Actor. And other things. Venice Beach, CA she/her
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I wonder if there has been any research on burrowing owls in regards to passing along info to future offspring. Crows teach their kids which humans are trustworthy (or not.) I made friends with my neighborhood crow family during Covid lockdown & their kids/grandkids know I’m friendly!
So strange!
Weirdos!
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Residents are finding all sorts of ways to fight ICE: They're recording and reporting. They're wheatpasting and sharing know-your-rights materials. And they're stepping up to care for each other, from delivering groceries to walking kids to school. 51st.news/dc-residents...
Not marching tomorrow but my husband and I are going to be on street patrol on our side of town, helping protect our neighbors by keeping an eye out for state-sanctioned ghoulish kidnappers. Solo el pueblo salva el pueblo! ✊
I love LA.
In Labor Day holiday news, I just saw a couple people riding horseback down Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, CA.
As always, I love LA.
the judge is now basically checking every couple of hours to make sure her directions are being followed to the letter because she is dealing with lying liars who lie astounding how much credibility the government has burned with the courts
“There’s this drawing, ‘Ruined’, which is often how I feel.” lol
UPDATE: DOJ says it expects that the children will be returned to ORR by 10:30 pm. The report also offers some clarity on how many children were loaded on planes (76, purportedly). (But the putative class isn't limited to those put on planes today -- plaintiffs estimate # in the hundreds)
Seems like Judge Sooknanan and her clerk(s)/staff have been up since 2 am, talking to plaintiff's lawyers, calling DOJ, sussing out the likelihood of sneaky, dirty dealing by the govt, creating multiple oral and written orders, and sitting on the govt until they carry them out. To protect kids.
Omg 😂
This is quite remarkable and praiseworthy given that it happened in the early hours of a Sunday morning before a holiday.
Every five minutes some rich guy somewhere is like I have a brand new idea: colonization!
Judge: I got a call at 2:36 a.m. because the govt chose this time on a holiday weekend to execute this plan. I have been up since then. I haven't been able to reach anyone from govt until this morning at 9:30 a.m. So absent this intervention, all children would already have been sent to Guatemala!
NEW: A week or so ago, one federal agent kept popping up in videos from Trump's violent DC crackdown—so @jsweetli.bsky.social and I investigated. Turns out he's a 26-year-old US Parks Police officer, a lesser known law enforcement unit currently championed by Interior Sec. Doug Burnum. Our report:
There are around 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the USA. Everything is carceral. You cannot interact with the government without interacting with police; this includes walking outside.
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
Seen on my run in Rock Creek Park today. Parking lot near Beach and Tilden. Paper taped on over a Harris 2024 sign.
This is an artifact that should go into the Smithsonian.
You know, I just want to say something corny: when I was first starting out as a writer, a few of the most enthusiastic fans of my work were trans. I had never known any trans people in my offline life (that I was aware of) so these were the first. Their encouragement & support was so crucial for me
You may think what you said is corny, but your openness in this little thread brought tears to my eyes.
This short, guileless thread brought tears to my eyes.
Evil. The human beings in this administration - doing this to other human beings - are evil people.
It’s so gross!
Congrats! Have a blast! 🙌
Here are all the 'Workers Over Billionaires' protest locations in L.A. on Monday
Yuck
Omg Tim. Same!
Mutual aid groups across the country can (and do) respond to this reality by organizing break light repair programs. Check out one from @norcalresist.bsky.social at: www.norcalresist.org/brake-light-...
Tonight’s Bluesky isn’t as much fun as last night’s Bluesky.
Wait, wut?!
BOOM! Go get ‘em Gov!
Asics marketing missing team missed the boat on buying this photo. Iconic.
Wow, they’re out there counting coup on the cops.
any body want to help me plan sneaking around and raising all the flags back up to full mast
lol not me checking pizzato’s hours of operation and seeing they’re open til 4am and now I can’t stop refreshing
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Same. We deserve it
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my wife just got back from her book club of mostly offline people and i can report that the rumor has broken containment
Live your life such that millions of people won't pre-celebrate reading your obituary with their morning coffee based entirely on unsubstantiated rumors
derek guy is the best follow on this site. lol
If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me
Is it a five alarm fire yet?!
i did this on the old site too and i can't really describe how much it improved my psyche to never have to hear about this guy again
Omg.
I’m so old I remember when Iowa was a blue state
Late in the day on a holiday weekend…
Last night, about 60 Chicago activists and organizers gathered to discuss Trump's threatened military occupation of our city. Our convo centered around a worksheet that some friends and I put together this week—a tool that can help us build and strengthen local networks of support and protection.
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The current regional EPA head in charge of cleanup is Scott Mason, a former Oklahoma energy official who "was also an author of the Project 2025 plan that called for ending certain pollution regulations, toxic chemical clean-up programs, and research on the impact of pollution on human health."
It’s preening your car!
I can't *stand* the condescension of the people who think the only way to "embrace AI" is to buy into the bullshit narratives of the billionaires who are selling it. Tip: Ask early on, has your company ever enabled a genocide or made a product that encouraged self-harm? Maybe don't buddy up to them.
I think sometimes there's a bit of a feat around 'getting it wrong' or not understanding Indonesia enough. ABC has run a piece from Natasya Salim this evening that is an excellent primer please, please read it. It's tailored for fresh eyes! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
In deploying California Highway Patrol troops to California cities, Gavin Newsom is mirroring Trump's every move, taking advantage of the extent to which Trump has normalized fascist authoritarianism to expand state violence under Democratic branding. More police means more violence, not safety.
BREAKING "Several purported detainees at the Alligator Alcatraz migrant prison, and their families, contacted Noticias 23 to report that riots were taking place at this migrant prison in the Florida Everglades." www.univision.com/local/miami-...
DAILY MEMO: Agents Arrest San Bernardino Man 2 Weeks After They Fired Gun Shots at Him @eltragon.bsky.social
the people who made this thing should be treated like dealers who mix fent into drugs.
another truly grand jury
“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands. Why is it that killing a single person is seen as murder but killing masses is excused if you are a politician?” Dr Bill Foege
And lots of car washes.
I’m so old I remember back in February when Cassidy cast the deciding Senate Finance Committee vote, allowing RFK Jr’s nomination to advance. Absolutely no integrity.
This is very, very bad.
1/ Happy Thursday California! This week I’ve got a few #publichealth updates before we head into the weekend: a plague case in Tahoe, rising COVID levels, wildfire smoke, and a proposal for a new food allergy bill. Here’s what it means for your health 👇
WaPo: CDC leaders who resigned said RFK Jr. undermined vaccine science, risking lives https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/08/28/rfk-cdc-director-susan-monarez-fired/ #fascism #quacks #brainworms #politics
LA Times: L.A. teen is moved to ICE detention center out of state without parents’ knowledge https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-28/l-a-teen-nabbed-on-street-by-ice-transferred-out-of-state-without-parents-knowledge #fascism #ice
Essential thread:
Physical Inactivity is also on the list… In my case that leads straight to depression so I could check off at least two boxes on the list!
Oh wow! No, I don’t remember Sun Electronics. I moved to Venice in 1997 — maybe that was before my time.
DAILY MEMO: Border Patrol Celebrates 5,000th Abduction With a Message, “This is Just the Beginning” ~ @eltragon.bsky.social
Gift link (fyi for non-locals, the Racket is our excellent online arts paper): racketmn.com/everything-w...
"It ain't real until you give us a letter signed by Donald Trump" is delicious.
1/Our client was notified tonight by White House staff in the personnel office that she was fired. As a presidential appointee, senate confirmed officer, only the president himself can fire her.
JFC. This administration doesn’t give a flying fk about crime, safety, or public health. These ghouls are kidnapping firefighters, while on duty, fighting active wildfires. DHS, CBP, ICE = criminal terrorist organizations.
A client is going through a divorce RN because he took 100k out of his IRA to go buy guns, didn't replace the money, and is now being taxed on it. When I describe his wife as 'apoplectic' I think that is, if anything, understating it. There's such a weird consumer pathology at play here
Glad my local hardware store, Lincoln Hardware, made the list! R.I.P. to two of my old favorites, B & B in Culver City and Busy Bee in Santa Monica. Man, I miss those spots.
Our grandkids, 9 and 6 years old, live 2 miles from where this happened today in Minneapolis. Every time this happens, anywhere, I am just… I don’t have words.
“The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) said today that the FDA's narrowed labeling indications ignore science and put millions of American lives at risk”
2 of the victims are dead. Please correct this post
Put money into the pocket of your community and local economy, rather than towards the candidacy of a traitorous felon hellbent on waging war against the people he was supposedly elected to lead. But please feel free to shout out your local hardware store in the comments. lataco.com/oldest-hardw...
Here’s a gift link to read the article. I hope it works! I subscribed to @lataco.bsky.social recently because I’m in LA and I’m so grateful for their coverage, especially now. Lmk if the gift link works! lataco.com/oldest-hardw...
Trauma-informed journalism means you doubledown on informed consent, let the source choose the interview location, understand how reliving these events can retraumatize the source—and how sustained coverage affects children more heavily Hard to consider these things in the chaos of the aftermath
Look man, yell at me in the comments all you want, but if you want to interview children who witnessed a mass shooting, the best time is probably not directly after such an event, before the family has any meaningful time to process what the hell just happened “It’s important!” Yeah? You can wait
This is the first thing I thought. Just beyond
If I had one piece of advice for countries hoping to avoid the fate of the United States: Prosecute your rich people for their crimes. Aggressively. Don't let a criminal class gather political power.
if a human being was caught talking with a minor about suicide this way they'd face criminal charges
it's not a crime because Sam Altman is a billionaire
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
DAILY MEMO: The Horrified Face of a Young Asian Abductee @eltragon.bsky.social
From Venice Beach to Long Beach, Bus -> Trains -> Boats. “Romantics will say it’s about the trip, not the destination. I say, why can’t it be both?” How long do you guys think this trip took? ~ @eltragon.bsky.social @metrolosangeles.bsky.social
To be clear, OpenAI undoubtedly knew the harm that programming a chatbot to mimic emotional empathy would cause. But that made the product more addictive which made it more valuable, so they didn't care.
Motto for AI advocates: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
@ai6yr.bsky.social 👆 your next sewing project!
Whey Standard 