the truth is a Good in and of itself. i miss when truth was valued more by society. we now all have different centers of gravity and it’s parasitic to social bonds & community.

warning: these posts are known by the state of california to cross the blood brain barrier

Democrats decided at some point that instead of lying to your voters you would just never promise them anything. Republicans don't really bother with that, and they win anyway. part of that's structural, but those structural advantages have never been challenged!

there is truth to the idea that Zohran and other DSA politicians are hated by centrists for making them look bad, but it's less about legislating and more about lying creatively to buy time for big Ws. that used to be a skill politicians had, but it's near extinct in the Democratic party.

pour one out for Rep. Mace especially because we know she wouldn’t waste liquor like that

“God didn’t tell me the details” is good.

Steyer Vs Becerra and Bass vs Raman would be very good for california politics. genuine debates, and sharpening of the political campaigns.

The UC Berkeley IGS poll is out! Becerra 25 Hilton 21 Steyer 19 Californians: it is your patriotic duty to vote for Steyer to give us a Becerra/Steyer matchup so we can depress Republican turnout for every congressional and down ballot race in the state. www.latimes.com/california/s...

one might ask why a free speech org is scrutinizing the small dollar political donations of private citizens

SCOOP --> I talked to Paulina Mangubat, who was doxed by Stephen Miller's wife over the "ugly f--k" tweet. She stands by the tweet 100 percent. “What he’s doing is ugly—siccing federal agents on civilians, applauding when families are separated," she tells me: newrepublic.com/article/2111...

bilious Islamophobia is just totally normal and accepted in the Democratic Party at present. not all of them are like this but Schumer is

the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. and then it bends back. it might bend back again, who knows. definitely bendier than we we thought

really want to encourage people to check this article out. we're in a time of big flux on this and a long term perspective is critical imo.

NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

one of my favorite childhood moments was when an elementary school friend threw a reverse surprise party her mom coordinated with all of the parents to make sure we were free & available. then my friend & her mom drove around to our houses to invite us to her party right then! it was a blast

the best way to defeat fascists is by being cooler than them, which is very easy, but you do actually have to go out and do it

Dr. Fünke’s 100% Natural Good-Time Family-Band Solution have withdrawn from the Freedom 250 celebration

ICE is targeting press outside Delaney Hall

Scientists are starting to see interesting and unexpected results with GLP-1 use and addiction, which points to both how little we understand about the biology of why some people struggle with addiction and others don't, and again suggests that willpower matters less than people want to think.

i am close to closing a deal with Iran

judging by sentiment On Here and on Reddit, it seems that Rae’s double retweet of Spencer Pratt may have been the nail in her mayoral campaign’s coffin she’s flailing and whatever goodwill people had for her is fading FAST

Extremely funny to issue an indignant denial of a story that's been reported by at least three different outlets when you are also maybe the single least credible lawyer in the entire country right now

re: Rae Huang's campaign in case you missed this reporting from two days ago, it's becoming increasingly clear that her campaign lied about qualifying for matching funds because they did not properly follow campaign finances laws. amateur hour thelareporter.la/p/what-is-go...

you getting booed is the least of your concerns john david

LA ranked choice voting when

Around 500 detainees are on hunger strike at five ICE detention centers across US. Started by Rogelio Bolufe detained in New Mexico, and now spread to 100 ppl at Adelanto Center in California, 20 ppl at Desert Annex in California, and 300 people at Delaney Hall in NJ & Prairieland Center in Texas.

westsiders, plz vote for @faizahforla.bsky.social so we don’t keep getting sued for not building housing!!!

lots of things are true at once: (1) most law students from elite law schools go into Big Law (2) going into Big Law is the frictionless career path at these law schools (3) many of the Big Law folks end up there as the path of least resistance (4) determined folks find other, harder career paths

"If we keep telling people to vote based on what is viable we won't change our system" is a correct thing to say about policy positions and an absolutely insane thing to say about zero-sum electoral math at 10% in the polls

Just The Most Left™ candidate out here making nice with a psychotic fascist who wants to put the homeless in concentration camps before deleting the tweet

reporting out this morning detailing how Raman’s staff has urged Huang to drop out & consolidate progressives tbh Raman should have done this weeks ago (and done it herself) and actually made a concerted effort to consolidate rather than through back channels lamaterial.com/p/nithya-ram...

Gen-z Bob Dylan, probably: “got in a waymo just to see where it’s goin’ put a prompt in a chatbot to put on a show ain’t touched grass in a fortnight rock me sweetly, I’ll be ‘aight”

rae has gotten momentum at the exact wrong time if she had been polling like this months ago, that’s one thing but weeks before the election? that’s political malpractice babyyyyy

a vote for anyone but Nithya Raman is a vote to see AI Spencer Pratt ads for five more months

median MAGA role model

“What would illiberal hegemony look like?” Well

the far right is just doing the birthday boy defense at this point you just have to laugh

look, i know the US Left™️ is averse to thinking about voting strategically because, realistically, it doesn’t actually matter that much (most of the time) on a national scale so you can do a protest vote to show the strength of a coalition but in local politics, a couple hundred votes can decide

A lot of L.A.'s left is still backing Rae and maybe Rae is to the left of Raman but strategically doesn't stand a chance. L.A. has a top two primary. Vote for Raman to give a Raman-Bass November election. Otherwise Pratt might make it and possibly even win. Vote for Raman.

a vote for anyone but Nithya Raman is a vote to see AI Spencer Pratt ads for five more months

cannot wait for months of content like this. it feels refreshing to have Dems on the offensive and unafraid

Oh man, this is becoming a children’s treasury of nope. By the time we hit the event we’ll be down to Vanilli.

/2 Federal perjury investigations for testimony in civil cases are incredibly rare. Nearly unheard of. And I have absolutely never heard of one launched against the prevailing party in a case. Wanton and open corruption.

there is an unresolved tension, in my very very humble opinion, between abolitionist belief in no carceral systems and the (likely) necessary carceral systems required to gain & hold state power though, i suppose many abolitionists don’t believe in holding state power so maybe that’s the answer

"Talarico is a vegan." "Paxton pardoned a pedophile." "Uh, well, Talarico says God is nonbinary or something?" "Paxton pardoned a pedophile." "Um, Talarico is, uh, low T?" "Paxton pardoned a pedophile." "Talarico is going to institute sharia law!" "Paxton pardoned a pedophile."

Infinite jest

just saw the worst thing I’ve ever seen: cybertruck with the license plate “SIGGGMA”