COUNT I Kat Abughazaleh did, while law enforcement was in heated pursuit, paint what appeared to be the entrance to a cave on a sheer rock wall, causing law enforcement to forcibly bonk into said wall. COUNT II The same thing on a different wall, but then a train came out and ran us over???

So they’re admitting more cops don’t keep us safer, right? Washington DC and Chicago are number one and two, respectively, for police officers per capita. Chicago has 4.7 officers per 1,000 people — double the US average. But what they need is… more cops? www.wweek.com/news/2022/09...

Drug Checking Los Angeles makes a guest appearance in this great piece in the NYT today about the misguided war on harm reduction, where the casualties will be your kids and neighbors. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/h...

TRUMP IS COMING FOR YOUR GUNS “According to the White House… 59 firearms have been seized since the start of the operation Aug. 7…” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Everyone wants to talk about the cost of doing business in America. But no one is mentioning that anything “Made in the USA” didn’t just pay to make the item, but also for the *healthcare costs* of workers’ entire families. We will never be able to compete.

BREAKING: Drug cartels are feared to be among those that obtained sensitive court data due to a sweeping breach of the federal judiciary’s case filing system.

Thank you, everyone who came out to hear the brilliant @maxjordan.bsky.social, @morgangodvin.bsky.social @chelsealshover.bsky.social, and me chat about #LiberateMethadone. It shouldn't be easier to get the poison than the cure. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/781015...

Is anyone tracking the percentage of cars on the road with Trump bumper stickers?

Trump’s DOJ is an unabashed bringer of vengeance, and no one pretends otherwise: “‘After what they did to me, and whether it’s right or wrong, it’s time to go after people,’ Mr. Trump said on Tuesday of his desired Obama prosecution.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/u...

Impersonating an officer, ain't that a crime?!

“Mother of Methadone” book talk this Thursday in Culver City. I’m a panelist and finishing the book and loving it, it’s going to be a great talk. Learn how history shaped policy, and why we are so dysfunctional, hear me rant, and more! 7/24 at 7pm www.eventbrite.com/e/opioid-cri...

We knew cops could lie. But did you know ICE agents can lie and say they’re city cops, there to investigate the crime you reported? How naive of me to be shocked at the depravity, but damn. This is low. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Come here me, a methadone patient, rant as a panelist this Thursday in Culver City! www.eventbrite.com/e/opioid-cri...

Los Angeles people: Come see me speaking at a book talk with @maxjordan.bsky.social and “Mother of Methadone” author @melodyglenn.bsky.social. I’m on methadone, it’s gonna be a lively chat! Thursday July 24, register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/opioid-cri...

A little math about that prison camp in Florida. $450 million per year for 3,000 people is $150,000/person per year. The cost for one person receiving SNAP for one year is $2256, yet they're telling us that's too expensive.

ah the small government libertarian utopia realized

The Kremlin also didn’t want to have to explain what happened between 1939-41 under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact when they allied themselves with the Nazis to carve up Poland & other countries. That’s why Russian war memorials say WWII happened between 1941-45 instead of 1939-45. They lied in stone.

Harm reduction works! A “bad batch” of what I infer to have been sold as fentanyl caused 27 overdoses in Baltimore, ZERO DEATHS. Everyone was reversed with naloxone. A few years ago, this would’ve been a very different story. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/pu...

The fascist dictatorship that ruled Portugal until 1974 had a favorite tactic: deporting people to places they’d never been, specifically chosen because they were so hostile and disease-ridden they’d surely never return. The tried and true tactics of tyrants, from Tarrafal to Florida.

mi gente

A group in San Diego is patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed. boltsmag.org/how-vol...

Dear Americans: Medicare for All is not nationalized healthcare, it’s single payer, like Canada. The government pays for private doctors to provide care via fee-for-service. National healthcare is the VA system, where payer and provider are both the govt, and doctors are salaried govt employees.

The Dunning Kruger effect on full view today while simultaneously demonstrating all that is wrong with the American “Left.”

on the last day of the United States, when this country has finally descended into civil war, i will do a thread on how to dress for summer

Happy 249th Birthday America. You don’t look a day over 1938 Germany.

My sophomore year roommate at UT was a white girl born in Malawi to her white missionary parents. She checked “African American” on her app. Does the Times want to blow the lid off of this scandal? DM me booboo

Celebrated my freedom to shoot people and go into medical debt (but not my freedom from being shot or going into medical debt) by going to a political-prison-turned-museum documenting the fascist dictatorship in Portugal. The “unquestionable certainties” that undergirded the regime are familiar.1/

Worry not, Europe is poaching us gladly

I haven’t had a car payment since 2012. I just bought a “new” car, replacing my 2008 Prius with a 2012 Prius C. This coming from the crowd that are baffled at how I can afford to travel. One of your monthly car payments is my round trip to Europe boo, now multiply that by years!

Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July

Perfectly timed. Shade seasoned to perfection.

We’ve shifted money from helping people to hurting people.

“The effect is to tell Americans not to take any of this too seriously. Families are being ripped apart, but it’s all for the lulz. We are dancing on the edges of constitutionality, but it’s making great television.” @monicahesse.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The treatment of the TikTok ban might seem silly, but it is, effectively, a sign that the constitutional government we have operated under for more than 200 years is no longer in effect. Read the thread.

Trump officials are incensed about the popularity of the ICEBlock app, which shares the locations of ICE agents, and are threatening to prosecute its developer and CNN for covering it. Lawyers tell @thiccreese.bsky.social that would be blatantly unconstitutional: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Big win for the close the hospitals, open the camps caucus today.

We are going to see a lot of ppl claiming, understandably, that the BBB has now provided Trump w a massive ICE army. That is incorrect. It has provided him with the funds to TRY. A 2017 DHS-OIG report said ICE would need to interview 500,000 ppl to get 10,000 new hires. Not easy!

I was in Europe when Dobbs fell. I cried. Curious strangers wanted me to explain “what’s going on with US politics.” I am in Europe today. I am numb. No one asks, they already know. The distance makes it less visceral, but then I see clearly: it’s a choice, one among many, yet the one we took.

As swirling headlines reach puzzled Europeans, I insist my phone number’s country code is Canadian.

Maybe ICE will finally be able to afford badges and uniforms.

I know that Medicare/ Medicaid is Democrats’ native language & what they’re happiest speaking but I’d love for SOME prominent person to try the line “they increased the debt limit by $5 trillion in order to triple size of ICE & make its detention center bigger than the whole federal prison system.”

I was incarcerated with people who were getting deported. We were on the same ConAir flight, in the same shackles, sleeping on the same holding cell floors. They had committed no crime. In Pahrump at the private prison, BOP and ICE detainees were held at same facility. A prison is a prison.

they just passed a bill that allocates tens of billions of dollars to building concentration camps but don’t worry, the president wants you to know that waffle house is dropping its fifty cent egg surcharge.

It is done.

Medicaid can be funded again, food stamps and clean energy can be funded, taxes can be increased progressively. But an immigrant prison network with no resources for due process will be very hard to dislodge, and could easily be turned against the citizenry. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...

Imagine the Editorial Board takes if it was Mamdani who banned Airbnb 💀

Presenting on data that shows an average fentanyl user uses the equivalent of 9,600+ milligrams of IV morphine per day at #cpdd25 in New Orleans!

When are police aggressive, vs when are they civil? When they first had a warrant for my arrest, they knew I was a 24 yr old girl, former EMT, who always showed up for meetings with my probation officer, whose only “crime” had been being found in possession of the drug to which I was addicted. 1/

This is a map of Los Angeles. The arrow points to a red dot. That red dot (roughly) represents the protest area seen on TV. To me, the gross mischaracterization of what’s happening in Los Angeles looks like an excuse to deploy the military—to protect government assets like ICE.