Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Good column by the often wonderful @mollyjongfast.bsky.social . And yeah, @jeffjarvis.bsky.social gave us gift link so go read it please.

This is a great list of some fantastic spots in Los Angeles. Good stuff from @estarla.bsky.social. And glad to see the bar I work at made the cut. www.bonappetit.com/story/best-b...

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

documenting what we all knew: Trump was teetering on financial collapse until he won the election, now he’s cashing in (gift link)

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

How does anyone justify this? Seriously, how?

As an anti-Zionist Jew, I’d love advice from progressive, anti-nationalist Christians on how you navigate connection to your religious identity while its most visible & influential face is a faction of racist, empire-seeking supremacists

Mark and Melissa saw the humanity in everyone. Let’s honor them by doing the same.

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.

Black people are over represented in deportations, many of the most questionable ones are to the Caribbean and specifically Jamaica I would like to fight

Important coverage of today’s press conference from @lataco.bsky.social. Please share:

three years ago, Vox Media reached an agreement with its union securing one of the *strongest* contracts in digital media. and now they won't budge on basic protections? shame on management. solidarity with my vox media union pals!!!! i hear they're ready to strike!!!

Seeing a massive divide online between Angelenos of all political stripes who understand that the protests in LA yesterday were mostly peaceful and any violence was ICE-initiated and East Coast establishment liberals lecturing “the left” on how riots just amplify right wing talking points.

FUCK RICKY LINTON! FUCK LAPD!

LAPD FIRING ON US AT POINT BLANK. TAKING MULTIPLE SHOTS AY THE CHEST AND HEAD AREA!! FUCK LAPD!!

Protesters sitting in front of police chanting peaceful protest

Just watching on local news now, but there are maybe 100 protesters carrying signs, being blocked by a line of police cars that stretch for three city blocks.

Rep. Maxine Waters calmly attempts to access LA Federal Building to check on David Huerta and is denied, recalling lawless shabby treatment of mayor Ras Baraka and Reps. Bonnie Watson Coleman, Rob Menendez and LaMonica McIver when they attempted to access a NJ ICE facility

Dozens of journalists were assaulted by law enforcement in Los Angeles this weekend. The press were just doing their job -- a sacred one explicitly protected by law. Press rights orgs will follow up collectively tomorrow. Tonight, I emailed evidence to local/state/federal officials. My sign off:

Content warning: blood, serious head injury. A woman was run down and trampled and clubbed by LAPD officers on horseback. She appears to be seriously injured and bleeding from the head as an officer drags her limp body along the pavement.

This seems important from Jake Sherman

the national "fell for it again" awards competition has come to southern missouri. big fan of watching people delude themselves that this isn't what they voted for while the guy next to them smiles and speaks the truth: yes you did, you just feel bad about it now.

gonna start calling my catastrophic failures “partially successful”

can’t take anyone seriously who wears a hat indoors

Southwest Airlines will start charging $35 for a checked bag tomorrow

"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

So a lot of people worked on this that weren’t me including @mamafriend.bsky.social @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social @alexwinter.com @link.spacelawshitpost.me @hebagowayed.bsky.social and a lot of other people- not to mention the hundreds of people in Gaza who entrusted me with their stories ❤️

AI art constitutes, as Hayao Miyazaki has put it, “an insult to life itself.” Here’s why. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

i thought the whiskers on catfish were poisonous until i was 25 because my brother told me, when i was 8, that they were so i'd stay out of the way while they were cleaning and scaling their catch

Republican Senators still in office who voted to confirm Hayden: -Barrasso -Boozman -Capito -Collins -Cornyn -Fischer -Graham -Grassley -Hoeven -Johnson -Lankford -McConnell -Moran -Murkowski -Paul -Sullivan -Thune -Tillis

the problem with accepting a $400 million dollar jet as a gift is that the IRS immediately takes 50% and half a plane really isn't safe to fly

“Leo also made a plea for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and for humanitarian aid to be allowed to be distributed ‘to the exhausted civilian population’ in the territory, as well as the return of the hostages taken in Hamas’ assault” (gift link)

"My union organized on behalf of me and other international students with so much effort, love, and care." Rümeysa Öztürk 😭😭🥰

Perhaps most important, it should be faster to manufacture than a traditional flu vaccine when there's a new pandemic

the absolute irony, hypocrisy and lack of education/self-awareness of someone posting, "we'll give up pronouns if you give up fascism" in my fb feed 🤦🏻‍♀️

New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Stop taking this administration at its word

To think the other possibility was prison.

Weekend read: US courts have ordered a stop to President Trump's policies and actions 200+ times. We've been tracking lawsuits from the moment he was sworn in, identifying at least 328 and counting. A deep dive into the data (gift link): www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

I hope it is very clear what antisemitism looks like, and I'll tell you what, it's not an op-ed condemning genocide. Consider that while Rumeysa Öztürk spent 6 weeks in prison for her constitutionally protected speech, the president's friend wouldn't dream of worrying about such a thing.

Just amazing: Trump grew angry over a Biden-era program with the word "equity" in its name, so he ended it. But a key part of the program was sending money to red states to expand internet access in rural/MAGA country. Now they might not get it. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1950...

it’s not a net loss. it’s the cost of a service. I don’t have a net loss with hulu. it costs something and I pay it.

Les Mis principal cast members are planning to boycott a planned Kennedy Center preview performance that is also a Trump fundraiser

Bluesky's userbase tilts pretty far towards liberals (gonna count progs as libs, but apologetically and with all due respec). But to everyone calling this place an outlier / echo chamber let me give you some admittedly unscientific anecdata: