Great piece @rabcarian.bsky.social - I interviewed Downing for my book “A Place to Go, A Place to Grow” re his tireless suport in South LA. Amazing storyteller w/an activist’s heart - even got MacGuyver cast & crew involved. We need more like him today! enewspaper.latimes.com/infinity/art...

‘It has become clear that the administration is attempting a certain kind of psychological conditioning in the blue cities its agents are now terrorizing.’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

The extent to which the Trump administration is trying to pretend away what one former federal prosecutor called “the most documented crime in American history” is shameful. Commentary from @rabcarian.bsky.social at the Los Angeles Times.

RIP Bob Weir. Loved him, and have to say that his 1978 solo album "Heaven Help the Fool" is criminally underrated.

How do we live in a country so cold to human suffering? Bravo to @nickkristof.bsky.social for this heart breaking column. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/o...

Not a huge fan of criticizing fellow journalists, but this WaPo editorial on Venezuela is sub-literate: "Another bad outcome would be if the country falls into total chaos." Ya think? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Gee, maybe they can send the DOGE kids down there. After all, they did SUCH a great job here. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

Had my annual mammogram today. Always reminds me of what John Mitchell said about WaPo publisher Catherine Graham during Watergate. #IYKYK 😂😂😂

California county fairs: A hotbed of scum and villainy. Who knew? Great piece by @jessicagarrison.bsky.social

Move to California if you must. Malibu, even. But when you write about it, please don't try to channel Joan Didion. My column on Olivia Nuzzi & her new book: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

‘For President Trump, it’s starting to look a lot like lame-duck season… The signs of lame duckery grow as Trump’s popularity dips… Now members of his own party are beginning to stand up to him.’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

‘Expecting a thin-skinned man like Trump to be respectful to those who ply him with questions about his failures — especially when they are women — is a recipe for disappointment.’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

‘So, what, exactly, was the point of shuttering the House? Was Johnson trying to protect Trump from “incriminating” information in the Epstein files? Or simply currying favor with an increasingly erratic president by doing his bidding?’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Guys, can we PLEASE not call rape "underage prostitution"? As in: "That account...conflicts with Trump’s denial of ever knowing about Epstein’s solicitation of underage prostitution before Epstein’s 2008 plea deal." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... @iarnsdorf.bsky.social

This was Beyond the Valley of Predictable. Thanks to those who have quantified the death & destruction. SHAME SHAME on Musk and DOGE. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Steve Bannon updates the racist Obama birth certificate playbook for Mamdani: "I think this guy's citizenship should be checked. If the guy lied on his naturalization papers, he ought to be deported and put on a plane to Uganda." Mamdani was 7 when he moved to the US. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Solid column by @rabcarian.bsky.social. The Trump administration's extortion of UCLA goes beyond asking California taxpayers (ultimately) to pay $1 billion completely unjustified by law. Many substantive provisions of the draft substitute Trump administration policy preferences for the law.

‘In the Trump administration’s war on American universities, fighting antisemitism, while worthy, is just a pretext. Don’t be fooled.’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

‘If there’s one takeaway from Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir, it’s that the unrepentant child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein’s partner in crime, should never, ever be considered for the pardon or commutation’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

For the record, I do not give a you-know-what about @katieporteroc.bsky.social snapping at a reporter or a staffer. Are you freaking kidding me? Have you checked out the state of our democracy lately? I haven't picked a side in the gov's race, but give me a freaking break on this meaningless crap.

Excellent post by @markzbarabak.bsky.social on our Mean Girl assistant AG www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Just wow

Next time some Trump supporter says "BUT THE NAME-CALLING BY THE LEFT IS DANGEROUS!" show them this: #Hypocrisy

Border Czar Tom Homan was caught by the FBI accepting bribes - on camera - to deliver government contracts in exchange for $50,000 in cash. Pam Bondi knew. Kash Patel knew. Emil Bove knew. And they made the investigation go away. A corrupt attempt to conceal brazen graft.

Morning smile.

Exactly

‘This is about protecting America’s children. This is about restoring trust in our government. This is about standing with survivors. This should be beyond politics. It’s a moral issue’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

RIP to Giorgio Armani, who, among his many talents, put women in softly structured pantsuits and changed how we dress. Lovely obit by my former colleague Mary Rourke, who must have penned it 20 years ago! www.latimes.com/obituaries/s...

‘The Trump administration’s jihad against immigrants, particularly those with brown skin, is as un-American as it is sickening…It’s clear that no immigrant in this country is safe from his racist wrath.’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social @latimes.com www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Microplastics are just one way the world is trying to kill you www.latimes.com/opinion/stor... via @rabcarian.bsky.social

lol. Gavin. Too good.

‘What you have in people like Hegseth and Wilson are authoritarian men who hide behind their religion to execute the most unchristian of agendas.’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Unfuckingbelievable

I approve of this bird

I’m sorry but “traditional media” has been covering the shit out of this story.

‘In L.A. right now, despite missteps, Soon-Shiong’s paper has had a near monopoly on daily metro news coverage… That SoCal monopoly may now be under threat by a well-capitalized machine run by Fleet Street veterans.’ www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Over the weekend, the @latimes.com @rabcarian.bsky.social featured Keep Our Republic's Article III Coalition member, Judge Jeremy Fogel. He provided firsthand insights into judicial conferences & discussed the state of the judiciary today. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

‘It’s no secret that Trump harbors autocratic ambitions… And now he has trained his sights on the independent judiciary urging punishment of judges who thwart his agenda.’ Via @rabcarian.bsky.social www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Gym Jordan is going to be deposed soon in the case, because the students refused the settlement. It is going to trial. If you haven’t seen “Surviving Ohio State”, See it on HBO. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Thank you, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social !!

“It’s not just the large language models of AI that are hallucinating” @rabcarian.bsky.social points out the absurdity of attacking and deporting essential workers.

Took my niece to LAX to fly home this morning. Curbs at Terminal 7 were packed with news vans. What the heck? As we went through non-TSA-Precheck security, we were told we didn't have to take our shoes off. THAT was the big news story of the day, sigh.

‘Attacking feminism because you‘ve never experienced a time when women were not, for the most part, legally equal to men springs from the same ignorant well as believing measles vaccines are unnecessary because you’ve never experienced the disease for yourself.’ www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Paramount’s $16-million settlement with President Trump “will be remembered as one of the most shameful capitulations by the press to a president in history,” - @seth-stern.bsky.social director of advocacy for the Freedom of the Press Foundation. @latimes.com www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Aren't "a lot of people" saying that Melania Trump is here illegally?

Jesus

Spotted at SM #NoKings last week. Posting for no reason.

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