Feb 11, 1967: "Over 200 demonstrators peacefully gathered outside of The Black Cat [in #SilverLake], forming a picket line with a planned rally featuring speeches and printed leaflets promoting their cause against police abuse," #OneArchives. one.usc.edu/story/black-.... #LGBTQhistory #OTD

I just pre-ordered the collected trade of all five issues…and you should too!

I’m waiting on more records, but here are a couple 2028 Olympics security meetings from the LA mayor’s office with DHS, FBI, and the Army. “Intelligence updates” are among the topics discussed.

The more ICE cracks down in L.A., the harder the resistance hits back—straight from L.A.’s underground punk and ska-punk scene, packed with Latino and Black skankers. Get in the pit and pick it up!

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Finally, Lady Gaga shares a stage with Villa's Tacos, just as God (my subconscious) intended

OMG, VILLA’S TACOS DURING THE SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW!! An @lataco.bsky.social favorite!

No Kings includes Draft Kings

sure would be great if aftermath was eligible for more journalism-specific grants, lol

Interesting signage spotted in LA this weekend

Job offer!! I’m helping a PBS series look for a social media manager/content creator for an upcoming promotional campaign. The start date is ASAP, and a project timeline that currently goes to July. This is for a series on American Muslim history, so candidates with cultural familiarity preferred!

"Andor" creator Tony Gilroy spoke to us about how his acclaimed "Star Wars" series on a festering rebellion against authoritarian power became an anti-ICE symbol and seeped into our real-world political moment. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/andor-ice-...

In 1996, attending the opening ceremony of the first Olympics to have women’s soccer was such a big deal that US Soccer and the the USOC chartered a plane for the USWNT to travel from Orlando to Atlanta back to Orlando two days ahead of their opening group stage game.

Spiking the Kamala Harris endorsement can be rationalized as something that was done on the opinion side of the newspaper so less dire, but management spiking a news story means the outlet is official dead.

I want to reiterate that this shit is nuts. A federal invasion of state-run elections, an intelligence community invasion of federal law enforcement, a White House invasion of a criminal investigation, and a president’s insane treasonable sore loser obsession all rolled up and muddled together.

¡Brody King had them roaring in Las Vegas!

He just tweeted it out …

Altadena Library to Help Lead $1.2 Million Countywide Effort to Preserve Wildfire Memories 📚 pasadenanow.com/main/altaden...

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In my latest blog post I think through how ICE agents targeting immersion schools in Minneapolis connect to a broader collapse of neoliberal multiculturalism and what we should do about it. educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2026/01/29/i...

As expected, #SCOTUS denies the emergency application to block California’s congressional redistricting—with no public dissents. Among other things, this is also a good addition to the “be cynical but not nihilistic about the Court” file.

Graffiti seen in Los Angeles following the riotous anti-ICE protests

Mosh pit at the protest!!

Inside the newsroom: Dave Lesher turned CalMatters into one of California’s most influential newsrooms — and launched new tools to make your government transparent. bit.ly/3ZdKPr6

Heyo! I am at Plaza de César Chávez in #SanJoséCA for this morning's "ICE OUT OF THE BAY" protest on the first day of weeklong #SuperBowlLX celebration events happening across the #SFBayArea before the game on Sunday.

I spent a summer in Chile, on my fancy law school’s seemingly limitless dime, as part of a program to connect law students at Yale with counterparts in S. American countries that experienced authoritarian governments. What Trump is doing to us isn’t novel. And its effects will be felt for years.

No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

In America in 2026, journalists are the government's enemy. Let's just get comfortable with that and stop being weird. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-press-...

"tired of some of their admiration for [insert lefty or left-leaning political and cultural figure]" explains a solid three-quarters of the last decade of american politics

Over 3,400 journalists were laid off in 2025

Children. They are literally tear gassing children.

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

US politics is like a Safdie movie where a gang of billionaire creeps—linked by a dead pedophile—wreck the country to save themselves.

Full rights and citizenship actually means they’re not a “foreign labor class.” And that’s what he’s angry about. He’s mad citizenship is universal rather than restricted to white people like before the civil war bsky.app/profile/gbbr...

Interesting secondary effect happening in many of the Phoenix ICE watch signal chats. Middle-of-the-road folks are: 1) rushing to unconfirmed ICE arrests 2) discover that it’s actually a police or sheriff arrest 3) get outraged by the casual violence

Is this in the documentary?

This is one of the things I talked about on CNN - the DOJ releasing then deleting this looks like either a mistake or a coverup. Either way, it's the Streisand Effect on speed.

There have been so many ICE arrests around Downtown Los Angeles, blocks from City Hall and the Kenneth Hahn Hall of Administration. This is LITERALLY RIGHT NEXT TO BOTH! It's absolutely insane that city and county officials are not intervening when this is happening at their doorsteps.

insisting on calling every mass day of protest or one-day boycott a "general strike" is not the move. it's good to see people rallying around the cause, it matters, but if you want to be part of a large-scale labor action that shuts down the gears of capital, start by unionizing your workplace!!!

Members / readers asked and we answered! We have a growing list of groups and establishments in LA - OC - IE - SD taking part in tomorrow’s actions. We’ll be adding to this list through tomorrow.

It’s so heavy when you are going to get groceries and you find a car sitting with its windows broken out and it’s empty but still running and someone’s stuffed animals or pictures or papers are just laying all over the road. I have personally seen at least five of these in the last three days alone

Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

I’d like to interview folks for a possible story who’re still suffering from injuries sustained by LAPD, LASD, and ICE/CBP at the protests last year or while documenting immigration raids. Concussions, breathing issues from tear gas, broken bones Signal: joeyscott.05, email in bio, DMs also open.

Here's @charles01.bsky.social's summary in the @liberalcurrents.com Discord, which I found nice and succinct:

As Border Patrol invades communities, Rapid Response networks try to prevent as many abductions as possible by monitoring federal activity. The full story: lataco.com/how-cluster-... By Izzy Ramirez

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Total fascism is not possible in a society that both despises and is not afraid of the fascist forces