New on Knock: After the fires, Los Angeles cannot afford to rebuild the same way. In part 3 of the series, mizna moon looks at insurance, redlining, and urban sprawl. knock-la.com/2025-los-ang...

Absolutely heart wrenching account from inside the Adelanto Detention center. A few excerpts:

“Could we have a Mamdani in LA?” Nithya won in 2020 with more votes than any councilmember in history. Eunisses won in round one as a prison abolitionist with the party saying “defund” was a dead end. As with everything, good or bad, LA been out on the cutting edge

someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES

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Meet Rockbridge, the secretive donor circle that lifted JD Vance is now re-writing MAGA’s future. It roots its action in a “controversial theory — an ‘aristocracy’ is needed to move the country forward.” It’s method: a venture capital approach to politics. gift link: wapo.st/3Jsvgrl

Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.

a really key point here. Cuomo's attempt at gutter Islamophobic race baiting failed because Dem voter opinion on Israel-Palestine has shifted more than 70 points since 2023, and he somehow didn't notice prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...

We wish Dick Cheney lived one day longer so that he could see this utterly disastrous night for the conservatives.

Projections show a blowout victory for Prop 50, we assume because you all consulted the Knock LA voter guide

The moderates and fascists are going to be terrified. They’re going to be desperate and, just like we saw with Cuomo, they’re going to increasingly side with one another. That’s what history teaches us and it’s on us to be ready for the fight. And, if we are, we will win.

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

RESULT: Soren Stevenson is elected to the Minneapolis City Council in the Eighth Ward. Stevenson lost an eye during a 2020 BLM protest after he was shot by police with a foam projectile.

At the CD1/4/13/14 election night party in Highland Park, cheers erupt as Mamdani declared victor. Chants of “si se puede” drown out the television, pausing for remarks by Cm. Raman and Hernandez. “What this shows,” shouts Eunisses, “is that the power is with the people!”

The winner of the NY mayoral race is Los Angeles

We Can Do This Everywhere

Seems good based on the lines at polling places for a one-measure ballot

Dick Cheney was about as evil as you can get and caused incredible harm and suffering to humanity. Every breath he took made the world crueler and less free. Today we mourn his millions of victims. It’s a shame he was never made to answer for his crimes; it’s a shame he didn’t die forty years ago

When it comes to the ghouls that crawled to the top of the muck heap during the global war on terror (which never ended), there's no one I'd rather read than @attackerman.bsky.social. His Cheney obit is no different. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

In Memoriam: Cheney Haunted By People He Didn't Manage To Kill In Iraq War

New on Knock: Both the Palisades and Eaton Canyon fires caused massive damage, but race and proximity to power shaped how first responders and local government showed up. “Even when it comes to a fire…the system works for one that needs the help the least.” knock-la.com/it-was-commu...

Forty people have died in forty weeks in LA county jails. Send a letter with Justice LA and demand that the board of supervisors take action. actionbutton.nationbuilder.com/share/SPK-QE...

"The story of L.A. baseball fandom is that the face that meets the police baton was deliriously happy." open.substack.com/pub/mattdpea...

"We are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings." Crucial @mjtoma.bsky.social piece about need to reckon with how bad the info-space has gotten: newrepublic.com/article/2025...

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Around Chicago ICE/Border Patrol are mostly just driving around looking for landscaping crews. It’s not targeted by threat or criminal background. It’s just Kavanaugh sweeps of brown men in work clothes operating landscaping equipment to hit quotas. They’re not investigating, they’re hunting

Democrats have run Pennsylvania's supreme court since 2015; in that time, the court has struck down a GOP gerrymander, upheld mail-in voting, and rejected Donald Trump's election lawsuits in 2020. Three Democratic justices are up for retention tomorrow.

I mean you are living through an attempt at inflicting mass starvation on millions of people. This is an ELIMINATIONIST political movement. The sooner folks wake up to this, the better for all of us.

The welfare state is about dignity, equality, and making people not poor, but as @itsafronomics.bsky.social says/cites here, it’s often also an investment that more than pays for itself

One might even say they're connected in a way.

I would humbly put forward that it is not a coincidence that the best US politicians on Palestine are also the best US politicians on Sudan

Another attempted 'gotcha," another reason to vote for him. More about Shatzi Weisberger here: www.972mag.com/shatzi-weisb...

We need to address the fact that the LAPD - which is not ICE and at least nominally under the control of a liberal Democrat -- is violent and out of control and violating human rights just like the feds are

LAPD literally getting there early to beat the crowds

They better not go and shake that man’s hand while he’s kidnapping folks from the community that made them

There are bonafide monsters stalking the earth eagerly and enthusiastically distributing suffering to anyone they please. And with no recourse on our end but to film them and shout and beg for anyone with power to stop them. How convenient that the monopoly on violence always also acts as a shield.

can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.

This entire "the Dems need to abandon identity and focus on economics!" discourse is being driven by rich assholes who would melt down at the slightest hint of higher taxes on the wealthy or more welfare for the poor. Look how they're treating Mamdani! It's cynical bullshit all the way down.

People opposed to your political project don't want that project to succeed. Why would you listen to their advice?

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Part 1 on the economic, cultural, and social fallout from the fires: knock-la.com/2025-los-ang...

New on Knock: Part 2 of a series on the Eaton and Palisades fires. Fossil fuel extraction and real estate expansion into wilderness over 100 years laid the groundwork for this year’s catastrophe. knock-la.com/2025-los-ang...

Everything everyone told you about the evils of facial recognition tech was 100% correct

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

I am unmoved by the so called "fury" of the eunuchs. Did they not love the Iraq War? Do they not love ICE?

Now in Spanish! California debe combatir el fuego con fuego en la redistribución de distritos @traceeporter.bsky.social knock-la.com/california-p...

The 2025 voter guide, now in Spanish! knock-la.com/knock-la-pro...

This is standard cop procedure