By the way, this has been the Democrats party for decades. They’ve skated by for years on this “at least we’re not republicans” bullshit, meanwhile enabling them at every turn. This is just the time during which you can ill afford their feckless ways.

“The purpose of healthcare has increasingly become profit-making rather than a public service.”

Ohtani speaking for all of us saying "I want to go to sleep as soon as possible."

The San Andreas fault has the chance to do the funniest thing ever right now

Do I have to run at the next commercial to put the trash cans out or do we think we can beat @lacitysan.bsky.social tomorrow morning 🤣

Good News: we secured a court order blocking the Trump Admin from discontinuing millions of dollars in critical school-based mental health grant funding for our state. The decision gives thousands of students in CA a fair shot at accessing crucial mental health services while our lawsuit continues.

SNAP, the country's largest anti-hunger program, dates back to the Great Depression and has never been disrupted this way. Most recipients are seniors, families with kids, and those with disabilities.

what will remain of the U.S. public sector is prison guards, ICE violence workers, soldiers and cops.

Conservatorships and Guardianships as Asset Seizure www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5X4YrX/

One of the key ways you refuse to comply with fascism is by becoming even louder and more fearless in supporting vulnerable people. You SHOW that you are unwilling to throw the "undesirables" under the bus if only for self-preservation because under fascism you will also become undesirable one day.

“Trey’s death evoked the collective memory of a community that has suffered a historic wound over many, many years and many, many deaths." Colin Kaerpernick is paying for an independent autopsy for Demartravion “Trey” Reed, a Mississippi college student who was found hanging from a tree.

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

Best antidote to it all is thoughtful reflection by @nhannahjones.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/p...

My understanding reading the notes from others that it’s now MMR and separately V for under 4. This is still stupid, but not cataclysmic. However. I don’t expect them to stop there, but to perhaps keep breaking things down to being worse and worse over time. This is just the first go round 😡

oh good now we get to convince a parent to hold down a screaming child for FOUR separate vaccines?

i mean really Ezra Klein doesn't feel a little bit silly given what happened to Jimmy Kimmel like, immediately? i know he doesn't listen to his Black friends but what about white men getting censored

Such a good episode 👏🏽 @mikebonin.bsky.social pushed back on the idea that “covid is mild now” w public health/herd immunity. Still disappointed Long COVID wasn’t mentioned. We know LC risk increases w each infection & CDCs own data show Black, Latiné, & LGBT folx disproportionately impacted.

Loved having @lataco.bsky.social's @eltragon.bsky.social as a co-host this week along with @mikebonin.bsky.social, the ultimate LA Taco x LA Podcast crossover episode. Listen and subscribe here: thinkforward.la/la-podcast-82-degrees-and-rising/

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They mean to be as insulting to Black people, as dismissive of our lives, as resistance to our status as full citizens in this country as they can be. There is no common ground to be had at the expense of our sisters & daughters’ lives and our dignity as a people. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

The manager for the Downey Animal Care Center, urges people who are in a position to adopt to stop by to visit dogs like Canela, a five-year-old Belgian Malinois. A total of 18 animals have been turned in due to the deportations. By @janettev.bsky.social 🐕 lataco.com/ice-raids-pe...

PLEASE SHARE! I'm reporting on #H5N1 #BirdFlu (#AvianInfluenza #HPAI) for @thesicktimes.bsky.social, & want to talk to farmworkers or people who work with them re impacts of H5N1 on farmworkers. I'm especially interested in hearing re human cases since Feb 2025. Sources can be anonymous! (1/4)

This is scandalous. The El Paso SPC is one of the few ICE detention centers owned by ICE itself. Members of Congress cannot legally be turned away from ICE facilities when conducting oversight. Yet these emails say Noem herself is deciding when and how Members can conduct oversight.

“Investigators are trying to determine if the suspect was trying to pose as a federal immigration agent. Officials said the vehicle was equipped with police lights and several radios were mounted on the center console… Police also found a list of ICE radio codes.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

All the celebs crying about their burned McMansions in January, fundraising “for the community” are real quiet about their neighbors and laborers being kidnapped across LA right now. Buyout some car washes, a frutero, literally anything.

The dodgers owe Nezza an apology like yesterday.

There are a couple of kids in my nephews's class who weren't born in the US, and the class has decided (w/o teacher input) that if ICE shows up in they're all going to pretend not to speak English. 10yos reinventing "I am Spartacus" because they don't want their friends to get disappeared.

You’re seeing a lot on TV rn about force and misconduct in Los Angeles sheriff department's role. Well, here’s what happened when someone tried to get serious about bringing accountability to the department: she faced huge pushback… and now she faces criminal charges. boltsmag.org/the-curious-...

Pretty messed up how they tell you to peacefully protest and that's just fine, but then they box you in and arrest you when you can't leave on time

Last week I published this story explaining the violence that LAPD exercises toward protesters and press. Today I saw them seriously injury many with the exact same tactics. capitalandmain.com/police-viole...

Hats off to Maya Lau for holding power to account here. “If LASD’s actions are left unredressed,” according to the complaint, “journalists in Los Angeles will be chilled from reporting on matters of public concern out of fear that they will be investigated and prosecuted.”

The man on the left wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine *last week* that pregnancy is a one of the medical conditions that increases the risk of severe covid and thereby warrants vaccination. Covid infection is linked to miscarriages. MAHA is a cult. www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/c...

Pure evil

Vile.

#JournalismIsNotACrime www.latimes.com/california/s...

Is flu next? Also pregnant women are immunosuppressed and have always been on the list of high risk. This is beyond comprehension

Hey folks, I have a HUGE request from the Trevor Project and would appreciate help getting the word out. Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it. This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights. Take it here:

worth the wait - this week's #WTHealth podcast! With @alicemiranda.bsky.social, @annaedney.bsky.social, and @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social, plus @maryrziegler.bsky.social on her new personhood book! kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast...

wait, what, the senate can overrule the parliamentarian? Didn't the dems swear up and down circa 2021-2022 that the a parliamentarian was an unstoppable, indefatigable force of nature? They couldn't possibly deliver on their policy goals, because the parliamentarian said no, ah shucks?

Democrats insisted for years that there's absolutely no way around the allegedly all-powerful parliamentarian - and credulous liberals believed them. Then within a few months of taking over the Senate, Republicans just went around the parliamentarian to get their way. thehill.com/homenews/sta...

So old I remember...

Turns out you *can* just ignore the Senate Parliamentarian!

With obituaries of DOGE and Elon Musk's political career circulating prematurely, @brbarrett.bsky.social is must read: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Has anyone tabulated how much all of these Trump-instigated lawsuits are costing taxpayers?

Seconded!

when i was a child, my family took CHIP and food stamps. this shaped my entire orientation toward government programs (positive) in a way most pundits don't have access to. and also, not to brag, but i think my siblings and i are proof that the ROI on feeding children is very high