Honestly maybe my favorite-ever podcast series FYI 👇

rewarding my microwave by letting it heat up a fork as a treat

it's crazy that you can be a writer for the new york times and not know who the current mayor of new york city is or the current budget of the NYPD, who despite a constant presence in the area failed to intercept a man walking around with a GIANT FUCKING LONG GUN

The problem will continue to be that nothing will actually fix this except proposals from people to her left. They all think they can get by with just discourse

Zohran’s plan is to open five grocery stores in food deserts, there’s absolutely no way that TCW ends up anywhere near one, he would find being near it to be below his station

Busses can never be free and groceries can never be government issued but also there will always be hundreds of millions of dollars to make absolute sure neither happens.

I wrote about this extraordinary moment in which LA leaders still seem to believe they can produce a series of megaevents in cooperation with a federal government that has occupied their downtown and is openly abducting their constituents

The Studio episode one gave me legit stress dreams and I could hardly even watch episode two. Best show in awhile!

What a time to be alive!

Amid the ongoing political chaos it is important not to lose focus on what the root cause of all of this is: Some people have too much money. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-underl...

Okay fine!!!

Hot take: It’s actually good he’s keeping quiet, because he so clearly would not be any better at meeting this moment than any Democrat everyone is mad at.

Happy third anniversary to the time the Chicago Bears tried to rekindle The Troubles

Watching the tides turn against a certain New York senator who I have openly hated with every fiber of my being for over a decade.

Haven’t ever felt mounting horror in quite the way I did while reading this entire thread.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a group of people so forcefully committed to never winning anything again and missing the point so aggressively they’re on the verge of making the other side look strategic

So far in 2025 I can't bring myself to hear any of the political podcasts I've listened to over the last 8-10 years, and I've gone harder than ever on Grateful Dead live shows lol

fitting that the first big air disaster after years of loud, insistent warnings that understaffing would cause exactly this outcome, happens at the airport named after the guy who crushed the ATC union

You've probably read about the spreadsheet naming and shaming rent-gouging landlords. But with many displaced Angelenos fleeing to Airbnbs, now the team is taking on price gouging claims for short-term rentals, too

I just know Laura Dern is about to make a memorial post that will reduce me to ash.

People have gotten so into Nate Silver James Carville bullshit about politics that every argument now has to be about what will win elections instead of what you actually believe and when you end up at that point you don’t really have any values at all

btw Caruso has two other major gathering spaces in The Grove and the Americana and neither are being used for donation drives, community building, etc. They're literally just still acting as profit centers.

Some days it’s like “Huh turns out it was good, actually, that I was too lazy to read that guy’s books/see that guy’s TV shows.”

Seeing people spraining their ankles to dive in front of strays Karen Bass is catching from the metaphorical gun Karen Bass is firing… I don’t love to see it!!!

The Thomas Guide in 3 years:

LA is facing a serious budget crisis and it is all caused by our elected officials defunding city programs & giving all of our money to LAPD. This is well documented. @lacontroller.bsky.social has been warning about this. STOP SHARING THAT POLITICO PIECE!

LA. Please stay safe today. This app has been very helpful. And, get a bag ready to go in case things escalate in your area. And, FYI Planet Fitness is offering free access to their showers, wifi, and charging stations. app.watchduty.org

Really great how the newspaper with my city's name on it greets me with a paywall when I try to access emergency coverage. Not at all ominous given recent information about that paper's owner.

The discman on the lower right isn’t as flashy as either walkman but I trusted it more.

Obviously it's grim and I hate how the technology has been used, but it's still funny to read stories about social media/media companies attempting to integrate ChatGPT-style AI into their stuff. It's like if Kellogg's was trying to find a way to get "a fistful of ground glass" into every product.

Lars Von Trier watching dailies for Antichrist in 2008:

Look if this gets the kids into Dylan I'll allow it.

Exactly what it feels like heading into this holiday season with 2025 right around the corner…

The situation at the LA Times is infuriating. I encourage my fellow Angelenos to use and support @lataco.bsky.social for local LA news, and I feel bad for my friends and favorite writers stuck in the quagmire at the LA Times.

It’s time for the studios to come off the sidelines. After this industry has spent decades fighting piracy, it cannot stand idly by while tech companies steal full libraries of content for their own financial gain.

Sold out showing of a 10-year-old movie at 11am on a Wednesday. A reason to be optimistic!

solidarity with the writers on the receiving end of this profit maxing. the people who have been riding the profit maxing train are nearing the end of their reign. they will be big mad about that but they could, and should, have made better and less selfish choices over the last 40ish years.