At Board of Public Works - looks like Measure HLA items 4-9 will start around 1040am. Follow on Zoom or audio on YouTube dpwlacity.primegov.com/Portal/Meeti...

Talked to some National Guard kids from West Virginia on the street near my office. They don't have leave to go home for Thanksgiving this week. They can't see their families, because the president wants to use them as political props. No doubt, though, there'll be a feast at Mar-a-Lago Thursday.

Academics, looks like there's an open letter against solar geoengineering that you can sign on to here: https://www.solargeoeng.org/

It's underappreciated in LA's wildfire recovery how much the lack of accountability for government failures leading up to/exacerbating the disasters is contributing to residents' lack of trust for government to find solutions for rebuilding www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

First ever #MeasureHLA appeals to be decided by LA City Board of Public Works today at 10am at City Hall - please attend! labikas.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/f...

Ethiopian volcano erupts for first time in 12,000 years

The Farm Bureau is a lobbying group. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America... Have you bought groceries lately? I’ll guarantee that this is not an accurate portrayal of what it costs to feed people these days.

i can finally talk about this! 20k more unredacted epstein emails available to journalists and researchers (there's lots of sensitive info in there and things like victims are not redacted)! this is the same trove bloomberg has been working with, which is different from the gmail dataset.

Some outlets are reporting that DOGE "doesn't exist" anymore. But the fine print on that overturns the whole story: DOGE is just dropping its tarnished brand, not the chainsaw. 🧵

An ICE agent was caught removing a sign marking an ICE kidnapping in DC last week! Do we think he did it out of anger, embarrassment, or most appropriately shame? If you think what you’re doing is right, why are you trying to hide the evidence? 👀

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81

Being told that you wrote something that inspired someone else to make something is about as good a compliment as a self-publisher can get. I heard that a bunch with this text in 2025. Wanna get a cheap gift for zine makers your life? I hope you'll consider this. halfletterpress.com/PCpublic-pub...

Alma cries through the night from hunger and exhaustion We have no food and nowhere safe to go I hold her close, trying to calm her shaking body, but her weak voice breaks my heart. All we pray for is a chance to survive. Your kindness could give her medicine, food 👇 www.gofundme.com/f/support-fa...

Just a friendly reminder as we go into the holidays: Folks don't have to explain to you why they don't drink. If you offer them a drink and they decline, don't ask them why. It's not your business. Just offer them something without alcohol to drink instead. And move on.

www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight

Hurry up and finish whatever shit you’re buying this week. Boycotts begin Tuesday and go thru Dec 2nd. Stay home. Buy nothing unless it’s necessary, then get it local and not corporate. Happy Boycott

Holiday reminders: - If someone has a new relationship, they’ll tell you. You don’t need to ask. - If someone is pregnant and they want to share that, they’ll tell you. You don’t need to ask. - If someone’s body has changed, they’re aware. You don’t need to point it out.

Some substances and other addictions have fatal withdrawal and some do not Alcohol does Weed does not Hope that helps 🫶🏻

coming back to this to say: you also can't die from too much weed it can really fuck you up, you can make yourself real sick and real miserable but you can literally poison yourself to death w/ alcohol I'm not comparing morals or wisdom, only lethality, and fellas - the results are pretty clear

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Oh, man. One of cinema's most reliable weirdos, and I mean that in a highly complimentary fashion. RIP. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

a PSA: most nonprofit newsrooms right now are probably participating in the NewsMatch program RIGHT NOW. That’s a program funded by a few foundations that “matches” your end-of-year donation. If you set up $10 monthly, that literally unlocks $120 from NewsMatch. So who could you support?

Amir and Osama have started their new school year after a long break due to the genocide. 💔 We need £375 for month's school payment to make sure they can continue their education without worry.🙏 Please, Your support means stability and learning for them!

Epic transportation themed playground!

Members of POP are among 30 people arrested yesterday blockading the Krome ICE detention facility in Florida standing up to Trump’s deportation machine. No human being is illegal. It’s time to stand up and shut it down.

A snowy owl preening. November 22, 2025, Chicago.

There should be an optional field where you can list a reason why you block someone, for your personal future reference

“Detainees who express thoughts of suicide are frequently put in solitary confinement, where the isolation, darkness and dirty conditions tend to worsen their mental states…” This isn’t “detention” — it’s state-sanctioned torture. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/h...

I've bought things I've regretted as I learned watercolor but I have never once regretted any handmade ceramic items (brush rests, water holders, etc.) In some cases, they cost the same as the mass produced tat being flogged online, so use your creativity as an excuse to support other creatives.

'Senescence' - my new aerial embroidery of a warm Autumn landscape. Moorland ponies dot the grass while a stream cuts through the scene. Now available along with a miniature of the same theme: victoriaroserichards.co.uk/collection/a...

Israel has violated Gaza truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killed hundreds flip.it/SOS7tf

Exquisite oil on panel painting by Jenny Brillhart, “Fabric from the Lakso House,” 2025, on view in the group show “Drop/Cloth” curated by Glenn Adamson and Severin Delfs opening Dec. 4 at two sites: Hollis Taggart and Susan Inglett galleries in NYC 🦚

Ventilation was one of the original public health measures featured in early building codes in London and New York City. While contaminated water supplies were the real cause of cholera and typhoid outbreaks, airborne disease spread and high CO2 levels continue to plague modern buildings today.

Charlotte’s Amity Presbyterian Church “announced it would host a training on how to respond to the influx of federal immigration agents into the neighborhood. Later that evening, nearly 300 people filled Amity Presbyterian’s sanctuary to listen to representatives from @siembranc.bsky.social …”

Whistles to warn of immigration agents have also been a presence in NC. “Let’s practice our whistling language,” Rev. Joel Simpson, a pastor at First United Methodist Church in Taylorsville, said before a dissonant symphony of whistles filled the church.” www.cnn.com/2025/11/20/u...

This is embarrassing, uncritical pr puff for the imaginary scheme, presumably because one of the two people who are behind it used to work at the Guardian. I did more interrogation in my pithy thread on it a few weeks ago than the author did in this shallow 'article'. bsky.app/profile/will...

ℹ️ Note: Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is currently experiencing international outages; incident not related to country-level internet disruptions or filtering #TwitterDown

The skies cleared just in time for a beautiful remembrance of Melanie Winter’s life at Rio de Los Angeles State Park, a 247-acre public space she fought to create so Angelenos could have access to their river. A mosaic bench by artist Suzanne Siegel will be restored in Melanie’s honor

I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?

broke: "DOGE failed" woke: "DOGE succeeded" bespoke:"DOGE ruined the incredibly competent USDS service in ways that will be extremely hard to fix"

Border Patrol has a surveillance program tracking millions of drivers by name and then gets them pulled over for lies. Listen to the officer admit that he is careful to conceal the reason for the stop so if it ever gets questioned, no one will know that there was NO PROBABLE CAUSE.

Well-meaning city dwellers forgo permits and official procedure to rewild urban areas across the country. In downtown LA, artist Doug Rosenberg is trying to push the grassroots movement forward.

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

The White House recently proposed an idea for U.S. military planes to drop leaflets over Caracas in a psychological operation designed to further pressure Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, timed possibly to Sunday to coincide with his birthday.

Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.

5 Freeway closed in Burbank after suspect shoots police dog

Storms that battered Alaska’s western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left increasingly vulnerable by climate change.

We came to LA as refugees from the USSR in 1991. Life wasn’t easy, but we persevered and, I dare say, came to contribute something of worth to this nation. Had I experienced the following when I was a boy, I don’t know what would have become of me. www.latimes.com/california/s...