I was working with my Spanish teacher on expressions using "por" and all the examples I made up were about Dick Cheney, como: Por fin, el ex vicepresidente se murió. Toda la gente no está viviendo, por ejemplo el ex vicepresidente Por casualidad, oíste que el ex vicepresidente se murió?

LAPD Sgt Charnock just told two white, publicly drinking revelers that LAPD was about to start shooting things at the street to get people to clear the intersection.

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Whoa. Chicago mayor calls for a general strike; now we're talking www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

It was mass protests with no discernible objective in 2016 that convinced me to finally seek out an organization. Spending your time introducing people to organization is prob a more useful thing to be doing than shaming people that go to the "wrong" type of protest.

More feds and protesters have arrived. Maybe 100 neighbors here now. Close to 50 Feds. Agents appear armed with a full assortment of chemical munitions. Protesters moved 30+ feet back as agents with tear gas launchers moved to the front line. It’s also 86° in Chicago rn.

Wow with so many cops living in the city of Simi Valley I'm very surprised something like this could happen. How does anti-Black racism get fostered in the youth in a city full of cops? 🤨

Looking forward to discussing Assata Shakur's presentation to the New Afrikan Women’s Task Force from 1993 with @tchimurenga.bsky.social later today!

This activist's guitar was destroyed by ICE today. ICE fired multiple rounds of rubber bullets at us, and the guitar was struck. I am trying to raise $800 to help replace their instrument, which they rely on for gigs. I bet someone out here can straight up cover the cost. DM me.

Despite the Instagram rhetoric around "housing" by liberal politicians, by and large the government's response to (visible) poverty is criminalization, displacement and banishment.

At the Broadview ICE "processing facility" outside Chicago this morning. Protesters here for this morning's action are gathering off 25th now that Beach has been fenced off. A pair of men peering through the fence at ICE vehicles shout, "Get the fuck out of Chicago, you terrorists!"

This got taken down from Tik Tok seconds after I posted. 🤔

Lessons from Below: Learn from/with Palms Unhoused Mutual Aid (PUMA) and Build Your Own Abolitionist Network of Care Facilitated by Ndindi Kitonga is happening on October 4 and it's really going to be great. Sliding scale from $0 to whatever. It's IN PERSON.

Casey Wasserman listed his last home at $125 million which would have been the highest-ever sales price in LA County but ended up selling it to David Geffen for $68 million. Glad this person is making LA's deals with the White House!

Sure, let's put this guy in charge of a $7 billion budget where the decisions being made could bankrupt the entire city

After leaving his immigration hearing with his sleeping daughter in his arms, a man is confronted by ICE and CBP. He passes the child to his wife in the waiting room, shares tearful goodbyes, and is then detained and escorted toward the staircase where he’ll be brought to the 10th floor.

Immigration judge orders Mahmoud Khalil deported to Syria or Algeria Lawyers for the pro-Palestinian activist said they plan to appeal the immigration judge’s order, which was revealed in court documents filed Wednesday. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

post Luigi politics

The police told Trey Reed's family that he'd been found dead in his dorm room. They found out from the media that he'd actually been found hanging from a tree in the middle of campus. www.mississippifreepress.org/trey-reeds-f...

A (part of a) song I made about sweeps in LA

A classic Woody song I realized today was not written by Woody

LA Mayor Karen Bass signed an executive directive today to expedite the hiring process for new LAPD officers. It currently takes a year for applicant to apply and then hired. She wants it cut to 180 days by shortening the psych, background check, and medical exam process.

GOOD NEWS: Despite RFK Jr saying he would cancel $500 million in mRNA research, the House Committee on Appropriations has passed a spending package, that includes $1.1 billion for “advanced research and development” at BARDA, which includes research on mRNA vaccines.

This explains it better than I can

Re today's fatal shooting: 'Under the changes in HB 128, which went into effect on May 7, individuals who are 18 years old or older and have a current Utah concealed weapon permit (CWP) may carry a weapon on campus, including in an “open” fashion.'

World Cup hosts in 10 months btw

🎶Don't take your guns to work, son Leave your guns at home, Bill Don't take your guns to work 🎶 www.latimes.com/california/s...

How does one submit music for this lil soundtrack

There have been 30 officer involved shootings this year to date by Los Angeles Police Department officers. Last year at this date there had been 19.

The reviews are pouring in! "Dad, I can't believe you put music on Spotify that talks about peeing on City Hall." - Adeline, age 10 open.spotify.com/album/2508aJ...

In May I got arrested by LAPD. In June after my court date I played a set on the front of City Hall. For posterity, I put it on the streaming services open.spotify.com/album/2508aJ...

BREAKING: death of anti-ICE protester in Los Angeles @lapublicpress.bsky.social is reporting Skid Row resident Adrienne Villa was found dead in her jail cell while in LASD custody at the courthouse, hours after pleading not guilty to over a dozen charges of alleged assault/battery on a cop.

Last week, ICE arrested a six-year-old Queens public school student at her family's scheduled check-in. This morning, she was deported along with her mother. One of her siblings remains in detention. The cruelty of this federal administration knows no bounds.

Playing music for babies since 2015

Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped. Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)

starting to get concerned that our news media isn't meeting the current moment

Situation on 14th St and W St. NW, with federal agents -- no specific agency identified -- pulling cars over for checks. They arrested a Black woman in this car. BIG crowd of people shouting at police. "Fuck you!" "What is wrong with you!" "You don't need to terrorize people like this!"

Wow, wild. Anyway, here's a photo of Atlantic Owner Laurene Powell Jobs having a nice time with Ghislaine Maxwell.

Today at LA's Housing & Homelessness Committee they were talking about *time-limited subsidies being one of the best *permanent housing interventions we have, that are funded at $24k per year. Inside Safe, a shelter program, costs $40k per year per participant.