We’re gonna see a concerted push from MAGA to whitewash Epstein. Evangelicals are going to say the Biblical age of consent is 15. They’ll say it’s only natural for men to want to get teenagers pregnant. A female Fox host will say the girls were being paid and went to the island willingly.

What an unnecessary hassle! This is a very obvious, predictable thing the people in charge should have anticipated and preemptively prevented. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...

LAX is notorious for its congestion, but adding more lanes is not the solution. Building a new road over Sepulveda will only funnel more cars into Westchester, resulting in increased traffic, noise, and potential crashes. www.latimes.com/california/s...

I’m only eight chapters in to Greg Grandin’s America, América and I can already tell it’s going to be a foundational, life changing book. A total upheaval of the US mythos about the theft of these lands, feels urgent as MAGA fascists try to valorize the barbarism of colonialism.

Elon Musk went to Pedophile Island www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

I commend Rep. Maxine Waters for filing a petition with the U.N. demanding an investigation into the federal government’s campaign of “ethnic cleansing” of our Latino communities. The U.S. is not above international law. www.latimes.com/california/s...

"please rate your package delivery" i mean ill click the smiley face because i assume it impacts the poor bastard who delivered it but i must impress upon you that forcing both him and i into this situation is an act of utter inhumanity and furthermore that god frowns upon your deeds

"A brutal massacre followed, in which it’s estimated almost 150 Native Americans were killed (some historians put this number at twice as high), nearly half of them women and children." www.history.com/this-day-in-...

we are doing crimes against humanity so hard that it is literally detectable in consumer purchases of national alcohol brands

the exact right question if you ask me

The zest levels are high, the Dodgers are playing well, not a coincidence.

WESTSIDE: are you following your next CD11 councilmember? Follow @faizahforla.bsky.social and help us get Traci Park OUT for someone who actually cares about the Westside!!

Unfortunately this is funny

Ted Cruz wants you to stop talking mean about ICE because it leads to 'political violence' but Musk, Vance, Trump, and Nancy Mace wont stop inciting violence against trans people. Assailants in this story *cite Trump*. www.thestranger.com/news/2025/09...

I’m in a core home buyer demographic - elder millennial, married with two kids, two professionals with well paying jobs - and even WE can’t afford to buy a house on the Westside in LA. It’s a broken system!

LA Unified offers financial help and legal advice to immigrant families, among other services. The district has emerged as a national model. https://cal.news/4gGOeGR 📷 Zaydee Sanchez

I’m a housing and tenants rights lawyer running to represent LA City Council District 11 (the Westside), challenging the conservative incumbent who authored that reso against SB 79. Had I been on Council, I would’ve voted No too against that bad faith reso. Post here: bsky.app/profile/faiz...

Giorgia Meloni, Italy's PM, is a far right fascist who supports Israel, but the general strike Italians carried out 2 days ago scared the shit out of her. Strikes are the most effective way to get politicians to do what you want them to do. Shut down profit and they stand to attention.

huge W

Hundreds of Eaton fire area homes still have high lead levels in soil, new testing shows. A local coalition steps in to help provide education and soil remediation support. lapublicpress.org/2025/09/eato...

They should invent a vehicle smaller than an F-350 that my neighbor can use to get to the supermarket and the dentist and the golf course

We have lived to see the day the Spanish Navy is deployed to *prevent* a genocide, which I suppose proves things can get better over time

I don’t want to be overly optimistic but this plus the Italian general strike make think the scales may finally be tilting.

"The Spanish government approves a “total” arms embargo on Israel, part of a package of measures aimed at halting what Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez called “the genocide in Gaza.”" www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

A few wealthy elites keeping the economy afloat, while so many struggle to make ends meet is not a sign of a healthy economy; shared prosperity is. Beyond numbers on what is produced or consumed, a truly healthy economy is defined by who gets to participate and thrive. jacobin.com/2025/09/weal...

my deepest admiration for the purity of this hatred

CHOTINER: So you say you've always recognized the genius of Michael McDonald? ME: Well, of course. CHOTINER: And yet this diary entry of yours from 1987 complains about his quote "slick, overproduced sound." Is this your handwriting? ME: Well now, see here---

You guys wanna see a dead body?

Kyle Rittenhouse is free. Daniel Penny is free. Bernard Goetz served 8 months. Darren Wilson is free. George Zimmerman is free. Oscar Grant’s killer served 11 months. Breonna Taylor’s killer served 1 day. The state and the people it deputizes kill with impunity. www.kqed.org/news/1205727...

They built this technology with this use case in mind.

The thing that is making me hopeful in this past week is summed up nicely in this concluding para by @gregsargent.bsky.social in the linked piece. Core ideals, such as free speech, still hold great power in our culture. We're floundering, but not completely lost. newrepublic.com/article/2008...

“These codes of neighborliness or of common decency are, in other words, the bare minimum for us to exist peacefully as profoundly different people who nevertheless share the same time and place.”

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

One very wealthy white man got his job back today (along with his 200 staff and production team) because of organizing, boycotts, and collective pushback. When will we see that same energy for the 320k+ Black women who were pushed out of the labor market?

Conservatives love to darkly say stuff like “you aren’t prepared for what’s next, we’re not going to be moderate anymore, you have no idea what you’ve unleashed” and then cry like babies when you call them fascists

I’m proud to be endorsed by @UNITEHERE11! When workers win—like today’s decision defeating a corporate-backed attempt to repeal the Olympic wage—our whole city is stronger. Let’s ensure hotel, tourism, and airport workers on the Westside can afford to live in the communities they serve.

A systemic failure that requires systemic solutions. We can't police our way out of economic instability. We need affordable housing and livable wages. We need investment. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

“Under a third of American adults are Trump voters, and 53% are Trump disapprovers — with 48% intensely opposed.”

every corporate decision comes down to money and clearly the economics for abc/disney outweighed the threats from the fascist government

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

A man caged by ICE was found dead in his cell inside a Long Island jail 18 hours after arriving there.

They’re Treatlerites. Woke snacks getting more expensive is a bedrock of their politics.

This is worse than the military parade

Right after I snapped this a tween on his e-bike was like “this sunset is so sick dude”

MAGA BLAKE! BAD AT BASEBALL!!

this whole thing is idiotic but it's particularly worth noting that Trump was kicked off social media platforms after Jan 6, *before Biden was president.*

Whatever ruined, broken institutions the Dems inherit would suddenly become things impossible to change. "Listen to this child here, demanding the FDA 'resume vaccination programs' as if that's something in its power. You infant. You absolute rube."

Kirk was a nobody to normal people, but it's now clear how important he was to the right. The dream of post-Steve Bannon conservativism: An influencer presidential candidate. A homegrown Trump. The panic we're seeing is a movement realizing they have nothing to replace Trump's cult of personality.

The reason centrist pundits can only beat up on the left is because if they ever admitted that the left was correct about anything they’d have to admit they were correct about a lot of things and that ends in full on existential crisis territory for those guys