i have finished the unselected journals of emma m. lion and am now adrift. there is nothing to be done but turn to my grandfather’s wordsworth with dried flowers between its pages and hope for the best

You won't be able to fix it all. You will be able to love. - Helms Jarrell

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help i can't stop watching alyssa liu's short program and getting teary-eyed youtu.be/FpYOUUW3c0Y?...

Libraries are among the few public institutions that represent the kind of world we want to live in. They must be fought for.

I hope New Yorkers will challenge Mamdani about this. Too often, people feel they need to be absolutely for or against a politician — ignoring their missteps or throwing them out with the bathwater. You can like and/or believe in someone and still challenge them to deliver on their promises.

ALL THINGS ARE DELICATELY INTERCONNECTED

I think about this basically every day now.

This Friday, November 14, the Los Angeles County Department of Youth Development (DYD) will host its annual “Rooted In Us” youth summit, a free, interactive event designed to uplift youth leadership and community empowerment.

baseball is cinema, actually

got to experience MONUMENTS at @moca-la.bsky.social today and it completely took my breath away. can’t stop thinking about this first piece by Bethany Collins especially but the whole show was beyond. LA friends, go see it go see it go see it!

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness

For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings

“ “Who heals a wound that continually opens itself?”- Kara Walker www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

you guys you guys you guys THIS STORY youtu.be/xYcgQMxQwmk?...

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

ok but what do we call the precise stage of emotional distress when one simply must watch the last ten minutes of North & South three times in a row?

Here’s a graph about Medicaid that everyone needs to see: open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

An hour ago in Falls Church, Virginia.

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

Apropos of nothing I feel like one of the most important things to help your kids develop is an ability to self-regulate.

"Taken together, the thousands of lawsuits paint a picture of a government that failed to intervene as its facilities turned into hunting grounds for predators who held immense power over the children in their custody." www.latimes.com/california/s...

How many incarcerated firefighters are fighting the LA wildfires? What type of work are they doing? And how do they feel about it? I teamed up with @themarshallproject.org to answer all these questions we've been seeing online: www.themarshallproject.org/2025/01/11/l...

“To dismiss them as old-fashioned is to assume they are outdated because of the passage of time. But the collective pain of a high child mortality rate was eradicated not by time, but by effort.” theconversation.com/infectious-d...

The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approves so-called “sanctuary city” ordinance that bars city resources from being used to assist in mass deportations: ktla.com/news/local-n...

ok nature is healing @rwgilmoregirls.bsky.social is here ✨