How we beat back the corporate takeover of America: 1. Break up corporate monopolies 2. Continue building union power 3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

i believe this is related to the rise in people who are utterly incurious about anything not directly beneficial to themselves

Like potholes? Last year LA stopped repaving streets. In new research the Data/Dev team finds by 2036 under the City's current approach a majority of LA streets will be failed and we will have more than $15 billion in outstanding street maintenance. https://data.streetsforall.org/blog/repaving/

We all do better when we all do better.

The era of colonialism must come to an end.

This is just one of several bizarre edits to the up-to-now useless Corridor Transitions program that the city is proposing to make the program generate housing in SB 79 transit zones. The changes feel hastily written and kind of nonsensical. A quick 🧵:

More significantly, they lowered the allowed height for 7-10 unit projects from 3 stories to 2. They did this in a sneaky way, by changing a table without noting it changed, even though they track changes in the rest of the document. Look at the right column on the before (left) and after (right).

Saikat was asked what the three biggest threats to democracy are right now. His answer: the Israel, crypto, and AI lobbies. I’d say corporate misinformation systems, the hollowing out of public education, and the affordability crisis. @saikatforcongress.bsky.social @waltermasterson.bsky.social

Joon Lee's video gets at something bigger than sports: hot take debate culture became the model for modern civil discourse—loud, shallow, conflict-driven. It trained audiences to confuse volume with insight and outrage with substance. And Donald Trump and Fox News ran with it. @joon.bsky.social

Journalists interview progressives the same way NBA teams play against the Lakers.

Zohran Mamdani is the model—the kind of leader we need right now. Imagine if we demanded this level of care from all our elected officials. But no society should have to rely on rare politicians for common-sense policy. The real goal is a system that delivers it by design.

Democratic Senator Mark Kelly pops off at Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Marco Rubio and their war in Iran: "The American people are poorer and less safe because of this president...We've spent billions of dollars and this president does not have a plan." Go Mark!

An update on the long-delayed LAX People Mover:

Over 1,000 major names in Hollywood signed an open letter opposing the Warner Bros/Paramount merger. This includes Denis Villeneuve, J.J. Abrams, Bryan Cranston, Mark Ruffalo, Joaquin Phoenix, Damon Lindelof, Noah Wyle, Glenn Close, Jane Fonda, David Fincher, Ted Danson & more

Thousands of workers are threatening to strike at the Los Angeles World Cup stadium. The SoFi Stadium plans to host two of the three US Men's World Cup matches, but now 2,000 cooks, servers, bartenders and more may strike. Their main issue? ICE being present at the World Cup.

¡Mexico! 🇲🇽⚕️

The Misinformation Age

The Democratic establishment needs a hard pivot, starting yesterday, on Israel. Unfortunately, still not there yet. Meanwhile, the worst people, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Megyn Kelly are expressing the majority's opinion. Self-destructive political incompetence. For what?

I'm starting to think this Trump fella is a real bad egg.

Explaining the wealth tax: a reasonable, modern tool to close the gap. @moreperfectunion.bsky.social

Really appreciated this conversation between Jon Stewart and Heather Cox Richardson. @hcrichardson.bsky.social The future isn’t written for us. Systems fail. People can rebuild them. History, art, and storytelling help people make sense of the moment, recover agency, and imagine what comes next.

Senators that voted for their confirmations need to be fired as well!!

Israel’s new death penalty law was passed down from a scaffold the British had already built on the same land, testing it on the same people under the same sky. The military courts established by the British Mandate in November 1937 were built for speed above all else.

L.A. City Council approved a scaled-down local housing plan while delaying SB79’s broader buildout until 2030. @dwagner.bsky.social @laist.com Our leaders are afraid and unwilling to confront the housing crisis with real urgency. We need leaders willing to rise to the severity of the moment.

Gotta remind em.

Been really enjoying these recent breakdowns of the LA28 visuals by @awalkerinla.bsky.social As someone who’s geeked out on the design and cultural impact of Mexico 68 and Los Angeles 84, it’s refreshing to see this level of scrutiny on what these games look like and what that says about our city.

It's become painfully clear why we're in a housing crisis in the first place. Our so-called leaders are either ignorant, cowardly, or both. SB79 is a gift—and Los Angeles is squandering it.

We are being reminded that a fundamental issue of our day isn’t the size of the government or how to make government more “efficient.” It’s who our government actually works for. Should it work mainly for big corporations and billionaires? Or should it work for the rest of us?

Watch this exchange between @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social and the top Trump official on global arms control. Q: What is Israel's nuclear capability? A: I'd have to refer you to Israel. C: Does Israel have nukes? A: I'm not prepared to comment on that. C: I don't understand why this is so taboo.

I wrote the law that unlocked billions in financing for the K Line extension without raising taxes. Now, LA is one vote away from either building the transit we need, or stalling yet again. Choose the best route forward now. Choose the San Vicente-Fairfax route.

The City of West Hollywood has formally said that Karen Bass' approach doesn’t work and risks delaying accelerating the entire K Line Northern Extension. MAYOR BASS STOP PLAYING GAMES WITH THE ENTIRE REGION’S TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM TO APPEASE THE UNAPPEASABLE!

Karen Bass's K Line Corruption

Wake up bestie new website just dropped 🥳🎉 We have POLICY! We have solidarity statements! We have upcoming events! YARD SIGNS! Photos! 💥 Newsletter coming this Friday, stay in the know and get yours inbox’d when you sign up on—yes— the aforementioned new website. RAEFORLA.COM!🌞 LINK IN BIO 🔗

Here’s the full recording of our Mayoral Debate with @adammillerla.bsky.social @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social @raeforla.com, with timestamps for each topic. Thank you to all the candidates, volunteers, staff, and audience that made the event possible! And to our partners at HAC youtu.be/FdXUibYcXGk

@dsa.la can’t afford to sit out a mayoral race. Endorsements are signals. They tell voters, organizers, and candidates where the movement is willing to consolidate and build. When we don’t back our strongest candidates in major races, we signal that we aren’t ready for the big game. @raeforla.com

A woman in labor was dragged into Zoom court from her hospital bed. No lawyer. Surrounded by doctors and a judge who would ultimately force a C-section against her will. In Florida, pregnant women have fewer constitutional rights.

Unacceptable.

Progressives split the vote in Illinois’ 9th District Democratic primary. If nothing changes, history will repeat itself.

Here's my Blooski statement that Sen. Kennedy calls hyperbolic. I will defend natural law until the day I die, Senator. People's rights come from their humanity, not their government. If ordered to act unethically, you should always refuse. Do Republicans now disagree?

US just bombed a school, killing 165 children. Oops—I meant we just bombed a school. Pronouns are wild.

The First Amendment is under attack.

For the first time in modern history, polling finds that more Americans sympathize with Palestinians than Israelis — a stark reflection of changing attitudes toward the top U.S. ally as it commits a live-streamed genocide in Gaza and wanton ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank.

The USA men’s hockey team revealed our nation’s exceptionalism, ignorance, and depravity at the same damn time.

Kat Abughazaleh is exactly the kind of candidate we should be supporting across the country: someone fighting to abolish and prosecute ICE, tax billionaires out of existence, deliver Medicare for All, and end U.S. aid to Israel. @katmabu.bsky.social

"The President Must Be Removed From Office" Zeteo is calling today for Donald Trump to be democratically removed from office, via impeachment or the 25th Amendment. The evidence, as laid out by Zeteo's @andrewperez.bsky.social in today's First Draft, suggests he is unfit. zeteo.com/p/time-for-t...

When a platform incentivizes rage, degrades trust signals, and monetizes misinformation, society pays—whether you’re on it or not. I steer clients to healthier options and owned channels, but personal choices won’t fix systemic harm. We need regulations that curb algorithmically amplified bullshit.

Axios reports the DNC’s still-secret 2024 autopsy found supporting genocide is a "net-negative" for young voters. 🙉

ICE is terrorizing our communities, and Congress has the power to take action right now! Republicans gutted Medicaid and SNAP to bankroll ICE. It’s time to claw back ICE’s funding, ban its use of private data, and end qualified immunity for its agents.

Check out this app by City Controller Kenneth Mejia to help you create your own Los Angeles City Budget @controller.lacity.gov

LA’s Next Democratic Reform Isn’t a Candidate — It’s Ranked-Choice Voting