My 87 yo grandma mentioned podcasts three times within 2 hrs of being picked up from the airport. We HAVE to get the seniors off of youtube

People think that growing up in the LA area I must have all these celebrity stories but truly I have nothing on the previous 3-4 generations of my fam who lived on the south side of chicago c. 1910-1970

as of now my transition is protected by the fact that i work for a liberal city government. this is one of the better positions I could be in but the precarity is obvious and I'm haunted by a dangerous feeling of isolation from communal or activist practice

there is a certain condescension in the idea that “racism should be publicly unacceptable and come with consequences” is an attack on the “working class.”

christmas has gotten so far from its religious roots, wish we could celebrate our holidays like medieval christians (cross-dressing, being told by the bishop to stop cross-dressing, resolutely refusing to stop cross-dressing, threatening the bishop in defense of cross-dressing)

man we should bring back the pamphlet

who up libbing out rn

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

When administrators try to soft-pedal censorship of student press by cutting only the print edition, they are reminding us that paper is the medium of liberatory potential.

Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector. Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.

Excited to be helping make this happen!

What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color Every queer press org should be picking up this story

"The problem does not start with the individuals buying and eugenically curating pregnancies from working-class women, but with the “soft” eugenics, competitiveness, and individualism that permeates our culture’s entire approach to baby-making to begin with." www.thenation.com/article/soci...

who up perserverating?

SEPTA defunding is going to go down as a cautionary tale against fiscal responsibility. you can count every penny, achieve efficiencies that put your costs an order of magnitude below peer systems, never expand the network and focus only on maintenance, and still get curb-stomped

Four puppies cuddling. Pompey, 1 century CE.

This strike is bigger than one union, and bigger than one city. It’s a fight for every workers who’s been treated as less than, as disposable, as unimportant. All eyes on Philly, my friends. They’re striking for you, too.

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what is it called when people who aren't cops and don't have a warrant drag you away, because I don't think "arrest" is the word

PPD is bold rn for a few reasons, one of the big ones is that our mayor & city council have given them unfettered permission 2 brutalize unhoused ppl & visible drug users in Kensington regularly all year. They get funding, positive PR & citywide propaganda 4 mass incarcerating homeless folks

it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up

Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

thank you @ndlon.bsky.social and Pablo for helping explain why this Home Depot street corner is essential to understanding what’s going on in Los Angeles.

imo the coolest thing about these protests is that they satisfy their own material demand - bodies in the street making it practically harder for ice to kidnap people! they fundamentally aren't about 'optics' and anyone concerned with that gives the game away immediately

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

we're getting a half day because of a bernie sanders may day rally at city hall. don't tell me social democracy never did anything for workers

Today, April 18, 1800, lieutenant Jack Aubrey meets physician Stephen Maturin at a concert at the Governor’s Mansion, beginning their long friendship (🎥 Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, 2003)

Simple fact: to the extent that on-shoring occurs, it'll largely occur where there's active collusion between state governments and capital to fuck labor standards.

a court has officially ruled that transgender people can have warrior ethos

BREAKING: the Trump administration has announced a new policy of “sakoku,” banning almost ALL foreign trade except for a small Dutch enclave; said to be looking at confiscating and destroying firearms to protect traditional samurai class

call me time the way i prance along, fickle and faggoty

so glad the Week of Flowering Trees has finally arrived

Ancient critters

Fred Clark has talked about how at the time of Roe v Wade, it was mostly uncontroversial among Protestants that abortion was a private matter and caring about it was Catholic shit; the Southern Baptists praised the decision. They didn't become "pro-life" till segregation became untenable as a cause.

"That close-knitness is what made #Altadena feel unique and set apart from so many places in ever-evolving (and rapidly gentrifying) Southern California. It felt capable of holding a copious store of histories and memories..." @lynellgeorge.bsky.social: www.sierraclub.org/Sierra/altad... #LAFires

do i roll my eyes at a lot of DEI stuff? yeah, i wrote a whole essay about why i thought it was bullshit back in 2020. but trump et al aren’t saying, “corporate DEI policies mainly exist to protect corporate interests from discrimination lawsuits.” they’re saying “get the blacks out”

literary fiction is crazy. i’ll be like “what’s that book about” and the answer is “a guy”

RFK’s racist blathering harkens back to the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia where Black people—told we were immune—were asked to care for the perishing and neglected sick. 10% of free Black Philadelphians died.

RFK Jr's whole deal is just Progressive-era eugenics and I'm continually shocked at how many people don't see it

ME: *writing in my journal with the sole aim of pissing off future historians and archaeologists* I returned to my home - which is built in the usual style - by the normal way, and prepared and ate dinner in the way I often but not always do

Also here is a spreadsheet of displaced Black families from Altadena docs.google.com/spreadsheets...