“Those laid off now are finding it harder to quickly secure new roles,” one of the report’s authors said.

We are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings. trib.al/DB2iRVW

Last month, the company behind ChatGPT wrapped up a long-awaited restructure that that turned it into a for-profit entity valued at $500 billion, despite the fact that its products have yet to yield significant revenue streams.

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The number of times I’ve seen film crews at this park where people take naps and concerts happen… I will say it a million times. But the most dangerous thing in LA is the police (and now ICE).

As a mental health professional, I approve The Bear season 4 finale. And anyone saying otherwise is a sadist.

As long as immigration sweeps are happening in the communities that farm workers live in, farm workers will continue being detained and deported. Farm workers deserve REAL protections, so they can continue working without fear. www.npr.org/2025/06/16/n...

I love my little town. It was jam packed! We were corner hoping as each street corner had more and more folks join in.

While some kids are spending #FathersDay with their dads, recent raids in farm worker communities means we have kids who are tracking their dads to detention centers with airtags. #WeFeedYou

I’m so sick of hearing people get mad at news outlets owned by private corporations and the uber rich. Stop expecting them to be anything other than what they’ve always been and instead support independent news sources.

Remigration is a far-right European plan to expel minorities and immigrants from Western nations. This is neo-nazism.

By now, we've all seen the video of Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) being forcibly removed and handcuffed for asking a question during Kristi Noem's press conference. But what Noem said just moments before the video was taken is "classic authoritarian red-baiting," points out @davidcorn.bsky.social.

I spit out my drink with this conclusion hahahha

This is horrifying

Timeline cleanse

Oh no, an "insurrection" of dancing Imagine being the sourpuss deploying 700 very expensive Marines to ... what? Make LA be the town from Footloose?

More accounts of what’s happening please

I see tons of reposts of lies from Fox News and the govt. instead of reposting and giving them a platform let’s keep posting what’s happening on the ground. Trying to argue law, truth, and logic with these folks has never worked. Stop wasting your energy doing it.

No uber. No uber eats.

They’re making sure what they’re doing isn’t televised.

I don’t know I feel like if AI can write a whole executive order and lay off half the federal workforce, it should automatically skip the intro of every show I rewatch

Your tax dollars at work.

They do whatever they want. They’re unhinged.

Decades of evidence of terror from the LAPD.

The LAPD is so violent

I am on the other side of the world from Los Angeles and I just heard a news grab on our national radio station of Maxine Waters telling a cop "Are you gonna shoot an elected representative? If you shoot me, you better shoot straight" and she remains one of the best to ever do it

Literally. Stop trying to get approval from the system.

Peaceful protest don’t exist in LA cause the LAPD are violent af. LA unified school district has its own dedicated police department. We spend more on police in schools than mental health services. Folks not from LA can go ahead and stfu about anything peaceful now.

Dolores Huerta, a 95 year old labor organizer with deep roots going back even before the Delano Grape Strike in 1965, here in Boyle Heights speaking at a protest. She called the past several days of detainments throughout Los Angeles a “horrible assault.”

This is the pain and fear and moral injury we are trapped inside in the USA. This is how bad things are, now. Not even 5 months into this presidency.

Ok can someone please tell me if I can go to Canada to get vaccines every year?

Can we reframe “research” to internet searching. Cause I’m tired of people who have never even taking a research class talking about they did their research.

I think most folks from LA would claim a dirty dog over a dodger dog.

Does anyone know about potential vaccine access in other countries if we can’t have them here?

I feel like they should have a masking section on airplanes. It’s only logical.

Has anyone else heard from CSWE re APM? I received one acceptance last week and haven’t heard a word on anything else. Wondering what’s going on here.

I literally teach my social change students that engaging in movement work is simply a matter of showing up and letting people put you in leadership roles.

I think people are desperate to believe that personal choices are what keep us healthy. There is more control in that belief than trust in a medical system controlled by insurance companies.

Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

Ok folks teaching social welfare policy in the Fall…: what new readings are you including in your syllabi? I just edited my assignments to align to the political moment but I need some ideas for readings as well.

I think all researchers should start explaining their methods in plain language so the mass public can begin to understand what this all means. The more folks know the less they can be manipulated.

They want to track autism, miscarriages, abortion, birth control use but don’t want to track measles, bird flu, Covid or salmonella. Ask yourselves why that is. They’re setting the stage to blame people for their disabilities. To slate them for elimination. It’s eugenics & it’s escalating.

My absolute FAVORITE article on school social work! Just absolutely thought provoking and beautiful.

“When you fight a dictator you have to take a risk” - Maria Ressa on npr discussing the similarities between Trump and Philippines dictator Duterte

I was thinking the same thing…

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

BREAKING: The Gaza Ministry of Health says that in addition to the 92 Palestinians being killed by Israeli attacks in the last 48 hours, 219 wounded people have also arrived at hospitals in the Strip aje.io/ml918p