So much to recommend and parse about “One Battle After Another,” which seems like Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Goodfellas”—a highly entertaining movie where the filmmaker’s entire acumen deploys perfectly—but the use of Los Panchos’s “Perfidia” is among many of the movie’s rousing touches.

Celebrating men who massacred women and children is a travesty. In response, I've made a donation to KILI Radio, the public radio station on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Support Indigenous voices! www.kiliradio.live

Thank you for helping us reach our goal of 75 new Two Line Press memberships which helps us cover 50% of our printing costs for an entire year! We have a few tote bags left, and you can still get one if you sign up as an annual member (U.S. based only!) ...while supplies last!

What was it that Caroline Elkins writes in her book "Legacy of Violence," about the British empire? "Legalized lawlessness"? That sums up things neatly, I think.

Some days your brain plays Mose Alison’s “I Don’t Worry About a Thing” on a loop. Of course, it’s been more days than not this year when the loop kicks in.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Child care in this country works for almost no one, care providers and parents alike. And yet ... you have to figure it out or your family can't survive.

Our Fall Issue is here! Explore new stories, essays, poems, conversation, and art from a dazzling breadth of interests and styles. Read Issue 130 (or subscribe) at zyzzyva.org

Solidarity signs are popping up in restaurants across Los Angeles. They're a simple but powerful way to say we know our rights and we've got each other's backs. To download your own solidarity sign and for more free Know Your Rights resources, head to ilrc.me/protect

Felt it from the top floor of the Mechanics’ Institute.

🥳 TONIGHT 9/22 at 7pm PT, @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social is holding their Issue 130 Celebration at City Lights! Emceed by @ovillalon.bsky.social with a reading by @keenanthewriter.bsky.social Attend in person for pizza and wine, or register for the livestream here: citylights.com/events/

Today!!!

BREAKING: A court ruled that the federal government can't pick and choose among viewpoints when deciding who gets a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. We took the Trump administration to court to fight artistic censorship — and won.

It’s Friday. Cue up some “Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues.”

the ACLU has sued ICE, saying its San Francisco holding cells are filthy, freezing, & unconstitutional and in its suit, it cites Mission Local's reporting *three* times

DAILY MEMO: Federal Agents Have Now Killed 18 People ~ @eltragon.bsky.social If you appreciate reporting like this, please consider becoming a monthly or yearly member of L.A. TACO or donating to our fundraiser so we can continue to bring you this vital information.

In light of the Kimmel news, this immediately came to mind: "CBS abruptly yanked 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' in April 1969 because of their persistent and humorous opposition to the Vietnam War, support of civil rights and tweaking authority." apnews.com/article/6e2d...

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month everyone!

Want to expand your view of world literature in ways you couldn't previous have guessed at? Join as a Two Lines Press member by 9/21 and receive a brand new tote bag and a year's worth of books that come highly praised by @themountaingoats.bsky.social! www.catranslation.org/books/member...

San Francisco, get thee to the de Young to see Rose B. Simpson’s Tewa-style lowriders.

I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.

What was feared to happen happened. Man Fatally Shot in Confrontation With ICE Officers in Chicago Area www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/u...

Joe Garofoli of @sfchronicle.com with a thankfully more reality based view of Charlie Kirk’s legacy and the aftermath of his shooting.

Our new Issue No. 130 is almost here… and you can pre-order your copy!

As Trump invests $170 billion into ICE, we're making an investment of our own. Mission Local is committed to hiring a full-time immigration reporter to keep covering ICE, & we're seeking $100K/yr for the next 3 years of Trump's term to do so. Join us. mission-local.donorsupport.co/page/immigra...

Staring out the window, trying not to dwell on what comes next.

Politics reporter from Deseret News:

"Only Murders in the Building" evokes the same peril-infused coziness that old "Scooby Doo" episodes did. But instead of the wish fulfillment of eternally road-tripping in a van with best friends, it's the wistful idea of spending your golden years in a sumptuous home in a walkable neighborhood.

Five years ago all this stuff about Trump's serial abuse came up. Women who had been minors at the time told their stories. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...

Thousands of immigrants from Honduras, Nepal and Nicaragua lose their protected status today and may be deported. What happens next? We spoke to five of them. missionlocal.org/2025/09/i-ha...

No paywall on this LAT article (for once).

Here’s my write up on the most racist decision to come out of the Supreme Court in a while. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.” My latest in @thenation

My family all has photocopies of their passports in their cars.

Mondays are busy for everybody. Much to do, much to catch up on. But that Supreme Court decision will loom over everything for millions upon millions of us as we carry on with our day-to-day, from now till God knows when. Anxiety. Fear. Anger. Disgust. Pero tambien somos una gente chingona. So.

“Nothing would probably ever have happened without this jewel…” Thanks to all who came to our Movie Matinee yesterday! And to @alexanderchee.bsky.social + @ingridrojasc.bsky.social for a great conversation on identity, glamour, and Queen of the Night. See you at the next one! @litquake.org

SCHEDULE DROP COMING SOON! 📢 Ticket sales + RSVPS go live on 9/6 for donors and 9/9 for the rest of yous! Poster artist: Caitlin Mattisson

Good stuff from @caillemillner.bsky.social! Forget January resolutions indeed. Take what the defense gives you (to put it in football-speak).

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Gratitude and love to Paul Yamazaki, City Lights's longtime book buyer, who will receive the Northern California Book Awards GROUNDBREAKER AWARD at their ceremony this Saturday, 2pm, held at the SF Main Library’s Koret Auditorium. It's free to attend. See you there? poetryflash.org/programs/?p=...

All kidding about this nonsense answer aside: The regime is asserting the power to murder without trial a boat full of people suspected of drug trafficking, who easily could have been intercepted and arrested instead. That is unconscionable and horrifying even assuming everyone aboard was guilty.

Not sure what people were realistically expecting from Belichick’s coaching debut tonight. No way he was going to unveil a Top 10 team. Having said that, seeing his UNC team get stomped this bad is unexpected. (And enjoyable because … it’s Bill Belichick).

And still I can’t bring myself to wear shorts. Your brain becomes that hard-wired to expect cold gusts soon enough.

Labor Day weekend means the start of summer in San Francisco, culminating with hot mid-day weather in Golden Gate Park during Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. That’s just how it is here.

MY LATEST @latimes.com ‬⁩ COLUMNA: Slain L.A. Times columnist Ruben Salazar matters more than ever. Share, porfas!

Volunteer registration for Litquake 2025 is open! To learn more and sign up: www.litquake.org/volunteer

In my neighborhood, one keeps an ear out for the cacophony of car horns that signals a three-day weekend has officially begun.

Re-reading Camus's "The Plague," nodding every dozen pages or so and saying to myself, Yup, that checks out.

LA friends, a week from today, join me at Beyond Baroque for my LA book launch for “Some Final Beauty and other stories.” I’ll be sharing the evening with Adolfo Guzman-Lopez and Daniel Olivas. Saturday Sept. 5. Doors open at 7:00. Reading starts at 7:30. $10.00 www.eventbrite.com/e/la-book-la...