The Golden Gopher is the perfect melting pot bar of LA. It’s not a gay bar, not a trans bar, but fuck you if you have an issue with either. If you can’t handle the diversity of LA then you will quickly want to leave.

The vBulletin-based community I ran for eight years in the dying days of the Internet forum era generated, encouraged, or otherwise hosted incredible writers who went on to publish. It was literally partially a fan site for @stephengrahamjones.com and @paultremblay.bsky.social was part of it

i love how insane everyone is now

Among other things, the idea that the Dem establishment cheated to elevate Raman over Pratt to go up against Bass is deeply hilarious on multiple levels.

God, I love DTLA. I’m never gonna live there, but I always want to be able to take a train to 7th Metro and just find something going on

Bari Weiss banked on Pratt making it to the general to keep her already sinking ship afloat and now it turns out his campaign never had a shot lol The reason why Rick Caruso advanced and was competitive in the general is because he spent $100 million and Bass completely abandoned the Valley

The Onion didn't fuck around with this one, wow

Also, this is a good opportunity to look at Nithya’s record, see what you do and don’t like, and demand accordingly. Her coalition for the general is as fluid as it’s gonna get right now. You want better, you gotta apply the pressure. No one gets a free pass

It’s also a big mistake for Bass to go after Nithya like that because the oppo for Bass is a massive file of just LA Times articles. Her bullshit has been well reported even if it didn’t catch the attention of Angelenos at the time

So, as someone who’s not Nithya’s biggest fan: A) Bass is tacking hard right B) going after her on Hollywood is… a bad idea This is honestly pretty standard embattled incumbent reactionary shit

I made this for a previous time Derek's style critique was correlated to a political defeat (I can't remember which one specifically) but it still applies here.

Honestly every attempt to overturn Prop 13 fails because it doesn’t lock in on specific damage it’s done for people to hold onto, it just assumes voters know what it is and there’s no push to educate

The thing to remember about LA County politics is that the type people who hate the City of Los Angeles enough to vote for Spencer Pratt carved out hyper segregated municipal exclaves for themselves decades ago

It’s hilarious on its face, whether you like her or not. Everyone in LA who consistently votes in the city primaries knows who Nithya is.

If you have never heard of Nithya Raman then you just don’t follow LA politics. She was the first person to oust an incumbent Councilmember in 17 years when she beat David Ryu. The biggest scandal in recent LA political history was about an attempt to redistrict her out of her seat.

Both LA citywide candidates that used AI ate shit Pratt: 27% and dropping, not making runoff Sokoloff: 38% to Kenneth Mejia’s 62%, lost by first ballot drop

Spencer Pratt is handling his loss by saying that he led Nithya by 40,000 votes on election night, and now she is ahead of him by 3,000 votes, and the Homeless Count last said on average 43,000 people in Los Angeles are unhoused every night, and these numbers are very similar for evil reasons

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said it is time for the Democrats to ignore party leaders, embrace a “new vision,” and call for the abolishment of U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

useless post. maybe you should be worried about Orange Donald , in the white house

Yellow Donald is even more threatening, I don’t care for this creature

there are a lot of conspiracy theories out there these days but you’d think even these dipshits would draw the line at “there are a lot of republicans in Los Angeles”

California Post realizing they have even less political juice than the NY Post is probably the most hilarious outcome of all this

They fucked the Valley over across the board on top of specifically Nithya’s district. Our neighboring district, CD2, had Armenian-heavy homeowner blocks added because Paul Krekorian was gifting the district to Adrin Nazarian

Part of it is because the city is notorious for tearing down historical buildings, so our history is often buried in books about neighborhoods that no longer exist

A reminder that if you want Nithya to be more than another Bass you’re gonna need to support Estuardo Mazariegos for City Council

If you’re in line to dunk on Spencer Pratt: STAY IN LINE.

Fash: “LA is a socialist hellscape” Also Fash: “WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE DSA CANDIDATE BEAT OUR D-LIST REALITY STAR”

Trump should show up here at the L.A. County ballot processing center because he’d learn within five minutes this is democracy in action, not some conspiracy.

Wait, but is it Trans or is it bisexual lighting, those are different colors

I do not support all women some of you are bari weiss

I can say with full confidence as an organizer with 10+ years of experience in LA elections that in about 24 hours Spencer Pratt will be burnt toast in the mayoral race, happy Pride

This is why you should never trust anyone racing to make grand takes about LA elections 24 hrs after the primary. I scream this every election, I beg you to internalize this: ELECTION DAY IS NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF FINAL TALLY IN LOS ANGELES. PROGRESSIVES SHOW UP LATE IN THE TALLY.

New LA ballot drop. I’ve seen enough. By tomorrow or Monday Nithya will overtake Pratt and Pratt will not recover

no halftime talk, just play ‘squabble up’ and sub in all the players nodding their heads

I love you Freddie Freeman

what year is it

One day, I will not immediately jump in to build fundraisers after the primary. Today ain’t that day, but one day

I honestly don’t remember my first gay bar, it was probably Akbar, but my favorite gay bar is Cubby Hole in NYC

We need to start talking about Deloitte’s grip on American soccer

he’s sort of a generational poster though

This is related to the use of “influencer” around 2014/2015 to shove online creators into a single term.

If you post that the la mayoral race has been decided already you go in CA elections jail and are not allowed to post about the election for another three weeks. I don’t make the rules.

Can assume a few things for LA primary -- Mejia's cruising, Sokoloff just blew millions of his Mom's money in front of the City of Los Angeles and then lost lol -- Hydee Feldstein Soto is toast, lol -- Turnout's higher -- Incumbent CMs seem fine

Pour one out for my main man Raji Rab

the only radical center i respect is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Haha. Guess the honeymoon is over for Dems with the <checks notes> CIA lady. People really need to keep their powder dry before falling all over themselves giving props to centrists.

Cash for pregnant moms led to good outcomes all around in first-of-its-kind program in Michigan!

It got so bad I nuked Windows from all my devices and the second I installed Linux Mint on my desktop things felt much quieter