LINA KHAN IS ON ZOHRAN’S TRANSITION TEAM!!!!!!!!

Maybe pundits should spend more time in densely packed, left leaning urban areas where the "real Americans" live

Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.

What we know, 10:20pm —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, *and* AG —BIG Dem gains in VA House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani wins —Dems keep PA supreme court —Larry Krasner & Bragg win — GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices —JD Vance’s half-brother loses Cincy —Dems sweep Orlando council —ME anti-mail vote measure loses

CHILLS.

There is no human being that I have had the displeasure of sharing my time on Earth with more than this evil cocksucker. No one human being has done more to destroy America being a free country with civil liberties that respects human rights than this fucking demon. I lack the words for my contempt.

Moments from Pu'uhonua o Hōnaunau, aka the #CityOfRefuge , a sacred ground containing the bones of 23 ali'i (Hawaiian royalty) and many ki'i (statues of Hawaiian dieties) where combatants and commoners could escape to be redeemed from breaking #kapu, the ancient Hawaiian code of conduct.

NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

In addition to L.A. food banks, pantries, community fridges, and other food donation programs, we see free Cambodian chicken rice porridge, kids goodie bags, and a program that allows you to buy a meal for someone at a growing chain. The full story: lataco.com/free-food-la... By Hadley Tomicki

Scenes from "the surface of Mars," aka the summit of #MaunaKea #BigIsland #Hawaii, Oct 23 2025. It was tough to be outside in the below freezing, high-wind, very low-oxygen conditions of this place for longer than a few minutes at a time!

I appreciate that I know when to refresh the live coverage of the World Series based on hearing neighbors all around me scream.

Newly equipped with the knowledge I obtained of what our surname 須田 looks like in kanji, my dad went and got it tattooed on his chest during our vacation in Hawaii.

There’s definitely a poetry to this.

Happy Halloween, y’all. Here are some film photos of the Halloween-themed paper lanterns I saw at the LA Lantern Art Expo last autumn. I used my Olympus XA and Pentax IQZoom. #analogfilmfeed #photography

Carved at Descanso Gardens: https://bapsi.micro.blog/2025/10/30/carved-at-descanso-gardens.html

The International Criminal Court (ICC) will switch its internal work environment away from Microsoft Office to Open Desk, a European open source alternative, the institution confirmed to Euractiv. www.euractiv.com/news/interna...

One of the only things I will not miss about being here: flies touching my legs like every four seconds. Thank you, Big Island 🙏🏼🌴🌋

The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)

One of the all time greatest posts on the internet imo

#GaussianSplat of a ki'i, a depiction of the akua, the pantheon of Hawaiian dieties. There are many more of these at this sacred space containing the bones of many ali'i (royalty). Captured at #CityOfRefuge aka Pu'uhonua o Hōnaunau, southwestern coast of Hawaii #BigIsland. #NianticScaniverse

📍 Hawai’i

For his Nikkei Family story, Andrew Aoyama shares how the loss of the Japanese language from his family & the greater community as a whole moved him to learn the language, which set off a series of life changes leading up to a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work in Japan.

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

my pumkin he is everything

Anybody interested in reading Philsopher’s Stone in Hawaiian or the Bible in Hawaiian Pidgin?? Spotted in Kona Stories, Kailua-Kona HI.

Today I added a new #kokeshi doll to my collection. I picked this one up from an antique shop in Kaleakekua, originally sourced from an estate sale in Hilo. I’m guessing that this one was made here in HI due to its unorthodox features: the simple taper, side notches, signature on side vs bottom, etc

One consistent thread of my time here on the Big Island of Hawaii has been how fantastically knowledgeable, charismatic, friendly & advocating of the local economy the tour guides of our activities have been. The caliber of tourism here is just stellar. Shout out to Davyn, Boo Boo, Jason & Jackie.

Sunset on the Mauna Kea summit

I captured this #GaussianSplat of the Mauna Kea Silversword, an endangered plant that only grows on the upper elevations of the volcano, which is in active preservation. The specularity of this beautiful plant is a great candidate for this capture technique. #NianticScaniverse #BigIsland #Hawaii

Big Island, Hawaii Day 1: - Tiny bungalow airport in Kona. - Serene sunset zazen meditation @ Daifukuji Soto Zen Buddhist Temple in Keauhou. - Admiring that the KTA grocery store in Kealakekua stocks senbei, even though I don't like sweet senbei as much as I like shoyu senbei.

really like this Two Lone Swordsmen EP from 1998, I'm sad I slept on this duo for so long but now I'm really into their particular blend of mid-90s ambient techno / IDM vibes. warprecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-bag-...

Digital music purchasers, do you have an aesthetically pleasing way of going through your library that provides a streamer-like experience? Album art-forward searching that groups by genre, record label, vibe, release year, etc?

The main achievement of the tech industry has been increasing the flow of money from people who make or do things to people who already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related. He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

would be very grateful if someone surgically removed my histamine response plzkthx

I feel like the general public should be way fucking angrier about this than I am seeing organically. 42% of all machines currently running Windows are on 10; my custom PC from 2016 doesn't have a CPU powerful enough to run Win11. It's outrageous www.404media.co/the-end-of-w...

It was literally broadcast on national TV because they started their terrorism and violence campaign in front of a reporter who was live. Angelenos are not the problem. It is the cops, and the cops own Mayor Bass. We are not in austerity crisis, the LAPD is a cancer sucking our budget dry.

Actually worked up the courage to gently dip in and out of speaking Japanese to the hairstylist today, please clap. I’ve chickened out of every other scenario where that could happen over the last three years.

REMINDER: LA's "budget crisis" is entirely created by the LAPD. They cost taxpayers millions in lawsuit settlement payments because LAPD can't stop breaking the law.

"New Far Side comics" was definitely not on my bingo card for this week. They're not bad! www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

Oooh, I have definitely found my "classy Aloha shirt" vendor for quasi-more-formal dinner with my parents on the Big Island. These are sick sigzanedesigns.com/collections/...

Another great new physical reissue of a mythical obscure record from @coldspringrecords.bsky.social . I would show the foldout too but for the overhead glare lol. They do such great work, and are also still shipping to the US under the “informational material” exemption unlike many Bandcamp vendors.

RSS was one of the truly great inventions of the Internet—entirely decentralized sharing to your own personalized feed of the internet—and every company is working hard to kill it.

Moments from our visit to the excellent #AcademyMuseum on #MuseumRow LA, including the small featured exhibit "#Cyberpunk: Envisioning Possible Futures Through Cinema" and various featured costumes from another nearby exhibit. This museum is really good!! I haven't been before.

Did some grass touching yesterday with @alabapsi.bsky.social in the small Redwood Grove at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, one of the few places in Southern California that has redwood trees.

In honor of Indigenous Peoples Day, a map of Tongva villages by Sutimiv-Pa’alat from the website of Julia Louise Bogany, the Tongva elder and educator who passed away in 2021. www.tobevisible.org/tongva-villa... #IndigenousPeoplesDay #Tongvaland

santa barbara botanic garden