Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

Valentine's. Galentine's. Lakers in 5.

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This should infuriate everyone. Palantir must be destroyed. boingboing.net/2026/02/10/p...

Whether we’re confronting federal misconduct or debating police reform in the LA Charter, institutions default to self-preservation. They consolidate power unless the public organizes to redistribute it. We cannot let up. Accountability requires sustained, organized pressure.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

The planning profession is rooted in principles that put business ahead of people. I spoke to planners and housing justice organizers about how the profession could be remade and how some are already pushing back.

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me. Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

He said “god bless America” and listed every country in the Americas.

@raeforla.bsky.social let's shoot a video in the Valley 🌴

Ilhan Omar is a bad one! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 We don't give in to threats!

Compare Ilhan Omar to the cowardly white men of the GOP...

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis

Blue cities get scapegoated nonstop. Our leaders should praise people on the front lines—peacefully protesting, documenting the madness, demanding accountability—all while we grieve. Flip the script: Dems are the party of safe streets & equal justice. GOP is pro-crime.

And he WILL be brought to justice.

Abolish the Republican Party.

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

The worst Americans are killing the best of us, and our so-called leaders do nothing but continue to fund the madness! Opposing ICE is a moderate position. ABOLISH & PROSECUTE!!!

Today, the Los Angeles Metro board of directors voted unanimously to approve an underground heavy-rail option for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor project, connecting the San Fernando Valley to the Westside.

"Whether you're a blue-blooded capitalist or a card-carrying Democratic Socialist, I think corporate monopolies are a problem." - AOC

The U.S. is a third-world country until we normalize bidets.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

The doctrine of imperialism is a mother fucker.

I’m a content creator trying to get people offline. Is my business doomed? Or is social media overdue for a culture shift?

It’s not Susan who’s lazy, it’s us. Susan spins for our sins.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Amazing work from the young god, Nick Andert. @nickandert.bsky.social

Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?

Washington’s refusal to regulate AI is a corruption story. Just ask Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson.

Rae Huang has a plan to make LA affordable: lower rent & housing for all, fast & free transit, an economy for people (not billionaires), renewable energy, small business support, and public safety through mental health & crisis outreach. No corporate cash. She has my vote. @raeforla.bsky.social

The blockade of Venezuela is a disgusting echo of U.S. imperialism in Latin America. We were lied to about Iraq and WMDs, and an entire generation paid the price. Here we are again. We cannot let a wannabe dictator drag us into another forever war. www.axios.com/2025/12/17/t...

Our government is systematically seizing people, stripping them of their liberties, and sending them to for-profit prisons and detention centers. This is state-sanctioned human trafficking.

ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal record in Trump’s first nine months back in office. This has never been about safety.

Honored to be quoted in the San Fernando Valley Sun, speaking out against Metro’s plan to end the East SFV light rail in Pacoima instead of extending it through San Fernando to Sylmar. A Maclay Station would have transformed our downtown, empowered small businesses, and served future generations.

What systems are you willing to take responsibility for changing?

"If you've always had power, equity feels like a threat... Equity is not a threat. It is shared dignity." - Rabbi Sandra Lawson

If Americans wrote a new Constitution today, would it look completely different? In 2020, three ideological teams tried rewriting it. We're told the Constitution is either sacred and untouchable or hopelessly obsolete. In reality, democratic self-government remains the common ground.

Zohran Mamdani is the first person to say in the Oval Office, on camera that Israel is committing genocide and that the U.S. is funding it. Unprecedented times.

The "Obscene" Psychology of Zionism Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz says Holocaust education has "backfired" because kids now believe you fight the powerful hurting the vulnerable. She doesn't deny the carnage, she worries people can see it. A textbook case of cognitive dissonance.

AOC and Zohran Mamdani are saying now isn't the time to primary Hakeem Jeffries. "If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time." Now is the time to replace politicians with leaders who are committed to universal healthcare, housing and ending all support for genocidal and apartheid regimes.

A clone army of Lina Khans could save us.

Certified pedophiles.

Some of y'all voted for a pedophile three times in a row.

Jon Stewart can't believe Democrats would cave on the shutdown. But if you understand that Republicans and establishment Democrats function as one, it stops being surprising. It's not two parties, it's one corporate machine.

A jury has acquitted the DC Sandwich Guy who was charged with assault for throwing a sub at a federal agent. Dissenters warn this could embolden future sandwich-throwers—meanwhile, in an attempt at relevance, Quiznos has announced its new $5 Spicy Antifa. For Weekend Update, I'm John David Rivera.

Former President Barack Obama is wrong about litmus tests. In 2026 and beyond, the bare minimum for any Democrat should be free healthcare and a free Palestine.

Moderates have allowed authoritarianism to thrive. Socialism—not neoliberalism—is how we combat fascism. Likewise, transparency and accountability are antidotes to corruption.

Learn more about the $1.5B LAX ATMP Roadways Project, why it's a waste of money, and what you can do to stop it.

The imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort.

In a reactionary society, reason and empathy are seen as radical.