When this happened, I was like, “No jury would convict him,” and well

The way that song dominated junior high school dances from the moment it dropped

Sure, my team won the World Series this year (Doyerrrs), but my people are also lifelong UCLA fans and man, have we reentered the lean years of football or what

I'm thankful for my ICE whistle.

Had to send my dude to get a real orange because I forgot this recipe requires *zest* of an orange, and I know it just doesn’t taste the same without it

SoCal problems: I had to buy orange juice for this recipe because the oranges on my tree aren’t ripe yet

Many thoughts about my cyborg bitch boss goddess accomplice Alice Wong & all the things she meant but there is a tendency for white disabled people to overshadow conversations about disabled BIPOC including in death. I choose to let Alice speak for herself & uplift those she wanted to represent her.

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’ —Alice Wong

Someone please tell this kitty that clocks changed almost two weeks ago and it’s not dinner time yet

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Thrilled for @theflytrapmedia.com!

Alright I fucking wrote about this. It was apparently necessary to vent my rage about this this afternoon, because that took me two hours to get it all out and onto the page.

LAPD on horses charge at and beat guests standing in line to the Short Stop in Echo Park. @shoton35mm.bsky.social

LAPD officers used tear gas to disperse Dodger fans in Echo Park after the World Series. Gas canisters were thrown outside of a 7 Eleven on Rosemont Avenue and Sunset Boulevard. The gas caused people to quickly leave the area. @shoton35mm.bsky.social

LAPD Disperses Dodger Fans in Echo Park with Horses By @shoton35mm.bsky.social

Dodgers Fans In Echo Park Celebrate Another World Series Victory @shoton35mm.bsky.social

DODGERS!!!

GAME 7

lol Shohei "I wanna go to sleep as soon as possible" most relatable motherfucker to ever do it

Can’t wait to do this again with y’all tomorrow/tonight

FREDDIE FUCKIN FREEMAN!!!

The broadcast crew is getting delirious and I LIVE

Y’all, let’s just do penalty kicks

Lol they played “Tomorrow”

I wonder if the Pope is watching this.

WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL

My entire feed is wall to wall baseball right now and I find that beautiful and sick

16th inning

I’m gonna have to get Tommy John surgery after watching this game

For all the bitching I do about the cruelty of penalty kicks in soccer, I can see the allure from here in the 14th gd inning

WTF

Lfg RALLY

Game’s gettin exciting

I’m fine I’m fine I swear I’m fine

11th inning

My cats love that Churu is a Dodgers sponsor

Love this - a way for the better funded bigger stations to show solidarity with the smaller at-risk stations

It’s still weird that Jimmy the Sports Guy of KROQ’s Kevin and Bean fame became a late night host that the feds literally tried to censor

many of us who specifically covered those victims & worked to center those targeted & harmed by people like Kirk and his allies were pushed out of mainstream media in the past few years. it wasn't always a loud public firing, but the stories of how folks who did this work were treated would shock u.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation over—while waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.

Several people and I sued DHS and Kristi Noem, and won a preliminary injunction. Here’s the meat of the judge’s order:

Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentator’s purposes.

BREAKING: Federal judge in Los Angeles issues preliminary injunction against Department of Homeland Security to restrict use of force against press, legal observers and protesters. Judge in LA Press Club v. Noem calls out "surprising savagery" of DHS officers: "The First Amendment demands better."

Sotomayor on the impact: "The Government, and now the concurrence, has all but declared that all Latinos, U. S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents’ satisfaction."

I dunno, man, it all feels pretty bad! Can’t say I like the idea of me, my friends, family, neighbors, etc, being hunted like animals

Oh, okay! Easy peasy, no problem! Papiere, bitte!

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