Downtown LA outside the Metro Detention Center on the evening of Wednesday 9/24, Day 76 of sustained protest against ICE. Even when there are only a handful of protesters keeping watch, there are reminders of the community’s pain everywhere you look.

its the damnedest thing, the Ephemerol, you give it to a pregnant lady it makes the baby a scanner. they can't stop scanning. but the scanners get headaches, not so nice. Darryl Revok - tremendous guy, powerful guy, blew a guy's head up if you can believe it - he's, we're gonna be taking down ConSec

I am begging the media to be more specific. "He returned after show was preempted" is an insane way to describe what happened, not to mention incorrect. He was suspended. There was no show to preempt for nearly a week, and then it was preempted in some markets last night. @abc7.bsky.social

JD Vance: "If you want to stop political violence, stop telling your supporters that anyone who disagrees with you is a Nazi." What ICE is doing IS political violence. And, wild to tell people to "look in the mirror" to stop political violence while being dwarfed by an armored POLICE truck. [+]

Talking in the abstract like this lets you obfuscate the fact that *ICE themselves are engaged in a campaign of politically-motivated violence.* They are tackling people in Home Depot parking lots, brutalizing protesters, mistreating detainees, & more. THAT, too, is politically-motivated violence.

It may very well be an anti ICE attack but this rush to conclusions by federal law enforcement and quickly pushing a narrative only undermines authority and further sows distrust and division, especially if the actual motive is complicated by further evidence.

ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons, on Dallas: “We have three d—… individuals that are down at this time… my thoughts & prayers are going out to my officers & agents, that’s my biggest concern… This just shows the violence that’s being increased against ICE officers & agents.” They shot detainees!!

me telling somebody about Lorde’s body image issues leading her to withdraw from her friendships to the point where some of her peers thought she was standoffish even though she was just anxious

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

okay I know I had a lil existential meltdown about this the other day, but “this is too gay even for LA” is the best feedback I’ve ever gotten on my photography

Really wild to watch this Trump press conference on autism… even he keeps saying “I don’t know if it’s true or not, but” lmao

The apparent success of the boycott in defence of an incredibly wealthy white man, who has an extensive resources, cannot be where y’all put down your pitchforks. Take the win, turn the momentum to the defence of Mahmoud Khalil. Free speech, right?

A cheer goes up in front of the Jimmy Kimmel Live studio on Hollywood Blvd as the word spreads among protesters that ABC decided to reinstate Kimmel’s show!

We are not “united in action.” The people are acting, but your LAPD is meeting the people with rage and weapons. Your LAPD is “united” with ICE, making sure Los Angeles doesn’t come anywhere close to disrupting their mission. Tuesday, 9/16, DTLA —

Trump doing Biden impressions at Charlie Kirk’s memorial, recalling how Biden wanted to stop MAGA. “Can somebody inform him that MAGA means Make America Great Again? How can you say you’re gonna stop that?” Incredible coming from the guy who just designated “ANTIFA” as terrorists, lol.

Stephen Miller: “To those who try to foment hatred against us … You have nothing. You are nothing. You are wickedness, you are jealousy, you are envy. You are hatred. You are nothing. You can build nothing. You can produce nothing. You can create nothing. … We are the ones who lift up humanity.”

Watching this Charlie Kirk memorial service because I think it’s important to be aware of what’s happening. They are explicitly positioning this moment as a full-blown, Christian Nationalist religious revival. Thinking about how Mike Flanagan’s MIDNIGHT MASS is one of the best shows of my lifetime.

This fact-check says he was accusing Ms. Rachel of selectively quoting the Bible, which is true. But he's not saying "Look, the Bible says all kinds of wacky stuff, you can ignore some passages." He's saying "It's all true and if you believe some of it, you should believe all of it."

Despite noble intentions, DOIN' IT is one of the worst movies of the year, and I fear that describing why — that typing out some of the things that happen in it — will get me put on some kind of list. Perhaps the most conservative-sounding review I've ever written! medium.com/everythings-...

Despite noble intentions, DOIN' IT is one of the worst movies of the year, and I fear that describing why — that typing out some of the things that happen in it — will get me put on some kind of list. Perhaps the most conservative-sounding review I've ever written! medium.com/everythings-...

I got out of bed too quickly this morning and he was disappointed that I forgot about morning handholding time

y’know what, I enjoyed the Cardi B album quite a lot, good job Ms B

I haven’t posted on Twitter since early February, but I still have an account to occasionally lurk. Let me take you on a journey. 🧵

Each time I post protest photos online, more & more people accuse them of being AI. What an ontologically-troubling thing, to make art out of what you see with your own eyes, only for people to dismiss it as the hallucination of a computer trying to mimic reality. Hollywood Blvd 9/18 (I swear!) —

standing outside the former Jimmy Kimmel Live studio today on Hollywood Blvd I tried to imagine what the reaction would’ve been had Obama’s FCC threatened to yank Fox News’ license if they didn’t fire Sean Hannity. we’d still be sifting through the rubble.

Watch as a man outside Jimmy Kimmel Live on Hollywood Blvd claims this has nothing to with “free speech” because a private company can fire anyone they want. It’s a complete reversal of their usual opinion on “cancel culture,” made all the more ridiculous because the government DID step in.

There’s a big crowd growing outside Jimmy Kimmel Live studios on Hollywood Blvd, protesting against the FCC blatantly meddling in free speech

Watch as a man outside Jimmy Kimmel Live on Hollywood Blvd claims this has nothing to with “free speech” because a private company can fire anyone they want. It’s a complete reversal of their usual opinion on “cancel culture,” made all the more ridiculous because the government DID step in.

when the sex-negative TikTok kids hear about the kinds of things that happen in this Lilly Singh movie… my god… we’re gonna hear “she’s just *weird* for that” a previously-unthinkable number of times

“The anti-fascists are terrorists, and also, don’t you dare call us fascists or else you are fomenting violence that’ll lead us to be killed, you sick, dangerous, radicals." I know "hypocrisy" stopped being a national concept quite a while ago, but, yeesh, lol.

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

I think if you are reporting this news you should have to say exactly what those comments were. He said merely that Trump and MAGA were trying to score political points off the assassination. That is, transparently and on-its-face, TRUE. The Vice President hosted Kirk’s podcast this week!

This is the legacy moment for Disney CEO Robert Iger, a man who once toyed with a Presidential run as a Democrat. You stand up for unpopular free speech or you stand against all free speech. There's no middle.

Steamy PLAINCLOTHES is a thriller all about the erotics of shame. Tom Blyth is a Syracuse cop in the 90s who entraps men in mall bathrooms. When he finds himself in a stall with Russell Tovey, he must confront the fact that he’s not so different than his marks. Out 9/19! medium.com/everythings-...

Please enjoy these photos of the time Tab Hunter and Roddy McDowall hung out in their underwear and called "girls" together! And handled sausages together! And Roddy introduced Tab to his parents! And we are asked to note how “masculine” Roddy's interior decorating is!

Tonight’s peaceful, joyous Mexican Independence Day rally and march through DTLA was met at the detention center by LAPD, full of rage as they protected their ICE buddies. When Karen Bass tells the media that LA isn’t collaborating with the fascists, she is lying.

Tonight’s peaceful, joyous Mexican Independence Day rally and march through DTLA was met at the detention center by LAPD, full of rage as they protected their ICE buddies. When Karen Bass tells the media that LA isn’t collaborating with the fascists, she is lying.

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saw THE HISTORY OF SOUND a second time and am once again frustrated that there’s no soundtrack! The score is GORGEOUS! So are Paul and Josh’s voices! C’mon, Mubi!

Maybe we should put a pause on the “hunky white men being hunky and white in swamps” genre of photoshoot, considering the national conversation we’re having about alligators and swamps as LOL-worthy, lethal new ways that the government is cracking down on minorities?

I think this is one of the most infuriating, dangerous rhetorical moves to emerge in the Trump era. It happens on both sides and I’m sure I’ve done it too. They reduce hate speech to “he spoke words with which they disagreed,” we say Trump is merely attacking “people he doesn’t like,” etc., and [+]

“You are the flame that proved young people are going to be okay,” says the co-writer of ADOLESCENCE as Nate Bargatze’s historically-unfunny bit drains money away from the Boys & Girls Club. Mortifying!! #EMMYs

Nate Bargatze bailing out of a bit that involved wearing a blue-jeans tux to introduce Sydney Sweeney… yikes lol. Hard to watch. #EMMYs

“actual people” is fucking insane

Been listening to the expanded MAYHEM so much. What an incredible, incredibly-FUN run of songs this is!!!

Huntington Beach, CA - As Patriot Front, Ryan Sanchez and Neo-Nazi groups are leaving they began to pummel one man in a leather jacket, who told me he was there to mourn Kirk but “hated Nazis.” Attackers include members of the GDL and Robert Wheldon.

Huntington Beach, CA - Crowd a bit more apprehensive now, though many are discussing joining or taking Neo-Nazi literature. Saw some 10ish year olds with flyers in their hands. Patriot Front members all standing by a sign that says “crush the left.” Some chanting “unite the right/crush the left.

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

"happening now: Israeli army raiding the house of oscar winner Basel Adra after Israeli settlers attacked his village earlier and beat up his family member. Soldiers could try to abduct Basel into one of Israel's prisons which are effectively torture sites" -Yuval Abraham x.com/yuval_abraha...

Well well well! So far, I'm only finding social media posts about this, and news articles reference those social media posts... but... what a thematically-appropriate [read: existentially-troubling] development this is!