Mayor Karen Bass: “Only I can brutalize Angelenos!”

If I don’t win a golden ear this episode I don’t know wtf I’m gonna do…

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“From 2022 to 2023, 41.18 arrests increased from 91 to 260 in the 1st Council District, or by about 185%, according to data from the LA City Controller. The number of arrests dropped to 135 in 2024—a figure that’s still nearly [2x] higher than in 2022, when Councilmember Gil Cedillo was in office.”

Eunisses Hernandez called homeless encampment sweeps “inhumane.” Then, she joined LA City Council and things changed. Since taking office, arrests of unhoused people have skyrocketed in Hernandez’s district. lapublicpress.org/2025/11/hern...

The police raids and sweeps at Mountain View are unacceptable—as is the silence from Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez and her office. Pigs have repeatedly sexually assaulted and harassed women at the sweeps Eunisses's office orders. Everyone has been arrested and cited with 41.18. 1/

“appeared to be AI” implying the NY Times thinks there is a possibility the video of Trump flying a fighter jet and dumping diarrhea was real

"Some context. As a sound guy being quiet is huge. You don’t want a reputation as the sound guy that talks." Don't miss contributor @nickmandernach.bsky.social's story in @newenglandreview.bsky.social! buff.ly/Kd048Cx

Hugo Soto-Martinez once compared 41.18--an LA law that criminalizes existing in public--to racial profiling. Hugo later admitted he wouldn't repeal his district's 41.18 zones but claimed he wouldn't enforce them. During his first year in office, 41.18 arrests went up 522% in Hugo’s district.

HUGO KEEPS DISPLACING POOR PEOPLE ⚡️let’s get his phone beeping⚡️📞

Tonight! Convoy is performing at the Lyric Hyperion with a bunch of other great acts in a show to welcome back our pal Jimmy who had some real bad health luck this year! Come check it out! www.eventbrite.com/e/wed-like-t...

Something thats really wild is that @mayor.lacity.gov inside save program utilizes a “sweep” as the focal point for housing. So residents of an encampment have law enforcement and sanitation barreling down on them and have no choice but to be shuttled to any number of subpar temp housing facilities.

Here's Adam Schiff standing in support with Netanyahu just last week. As he collects record millions from AIPAC. bsky.app/profile/schi...

"As a writer, I’m a host . . . I want you to enjoy yourself." Senior reader Alicia Romero talks with NER author Nick Mandernach about lament & litany, finding the fun in failure, & the endearing humor in his story “Young Sheldon Room Tone" from issue 46.2. nereview.com/nick-mandern...

Proud to have a story on this list! Thanks to the editors at @wigleaf.bsky.social

Help us feed the people! Our food partners are temporarily pausing their meal donations. We are in need of funds to make 160 meals every Sunday for distro thru the month of July. tinyurl.com/lascdonate

Join us Sunday, June 22 for A REALLY, REALLY FREE MARKET in East Hollywood. Our city’s politicians spends billions on 🐷s who aid 🧊 and tear communities apart. We know the people in power are not coming to save us. They’re the ones waging the war against the poor and value property over people.

Jake Houlihan, an incredible WGSU member and strike line vet, was recently in a car accident and needs our support. If you can, please donate to get Jake the help they need!

Solidarity with staff and all workers. @wgawest.bsky.social must reinstate Fatima and stop their disastrous union busting.

Revoking access to health care for California's nearly 2 million undocumented immigrants will be a death sentence for thousands of people. Meanwhile, California is home to 197 billionaires.

My son had Medicaid (i.e. Medi-Cal) until he was almost three. If you think you don’t know someone who’s needed Medicaid… you do.

Union busting is and forever will be a tool to keep the working class down. Ask yourself, how does firing a dedicated union organizer from the Writers Guild staff help writers in any way? It does not.

This is a timeline of the union busting practices that have occurred in the recent weeks. Managers are still using problematic, union busting rhetoric in staff and 1:1 meetings. We await response from management on our 2nd and 3rd demands: stop union busting and reinstate Fátima Murrieta. #ItsTime

Check it out! My script TRICK PLAY made the inaugural BALLERS LIST! Check out how Henry Drysdale pulls together a rag tag high school team and learns to love baseball again.

Friendship is insanely funny and see it with a crowd if at all possible.

Donate to support Fátima Murrieta, WGSU Organizer who was unjustly terminated. Until she is reinstated, Fátima needs our support. ‼️ #ItsTime www.gofundme.com/f/stand-agai...

Saving bees from a pool with Nick Mandernach and Ross Copeland. #Podcast #bees

Love the pathetic reply you get after unsubscribing from emails: “Sorry to see ya go...we did our best but sometimes that’s not enough…here if ya change your mind 🥹”

New teaser image from my next episode of #TheGreatNorth I directed, Sunset Beeflevard! This sequence was a beast and @athsieh.bsky.social slayed it.

Solidarity with workers in @wgsunion.bsky.social this is sick.

Well said, Jake! #ItsTime ✊

This is also really rough- Youth Development, Disability, City Planning, Transportation, Animal Services, Civil, Human Rights, all taking job position hits. Does the mayor know that other people live here besides police officers and their cars?

BREAKING: The World Food Program says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel’s nearly 8-week-old blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the territory.

Solidarity with our Guild staff. You fight for us and we will fight for you!

I wrote a western short story and then someone agreed to publish it! I’m basically Elmore Leonard! a.co/d/9vQNEmC

Take a boat, find an arcade 🚤 🕹️ On Ep.244 improviser and writer @nickmandernach.bsky.social stops by to discuss his time with Captain America and the Avengers (1991) and harrowing boat trips in the marina. youtu.be/TvGTgE7xR6E?...

🚨Bring your donations this SUNDAY 12-2pm! We're especially in need of XL & XXL men clothes. Can't make it? Donate online: tinyurl.com/lascdonte

🚨Action Needed: City Council is trying to criminalize people for sleeping in their cars (again) even though the number of people living unhoused in LA is at an all-time high. Please take 3 minutes to make these calls/send emails--no later than 9am on Wednesday! Graphics by @ktownforall.org

WGA management must voluntary recognize our staffs union and rehire Fatima Murrieta! What an embarassment for @wgawest.bsky.social @ellenstutzman.bsky.social

Yes but also theres an idea that as long as you had due process the cruelty is ok and I really don’t like that. We need to end the idea that incarceration, deportation, etc is ok as long as we have due process. This also fails to take into account how our entire structure for due process is corrupt.

H. Marcuse is almost forgotten now, perhaps bc he was something like the leftist J*rdan Peters*n of the 1968 American student movements, a fact which sort of bewildered him at the time

KCRW interviewed our friend Charles about how sweeps have harmed him. Even when politicians like Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez, who authorized the sweep targeting Charles’s encampment, claim their sweeps are more “compassionate,” the outcomes are the same.

🧵 Statement from UAW President Shawn Fain on Attacks on Federal Workers: Yesterday, President Trump signed an order that tramples on the union rights of more than a million federal workers, stripping them of their ability to negotiate over their working conditions.

Join us this Sunday, March 30 for A REALLY, REALLY FREE MARKET in East Hollywood!

I wrote on a lawsuit filed last year against National Students for Justice in Palestine that presaged exactly what is happening now: the attempt to cast speech as terrorism thebaffler.com/latest/guilt...

Wondering how we determined the grades? The grades are based on public information, industry databases, internal Guild data, and writer reports about their recent experiences pitching/selling animated projects. Learn more about the process: www.wga.org/the-guild/go.... #WGAanimation

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Despite the rain, Mayor Karen Bass targeted an encampment in Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez's district with an Inside Safe operation this morning. As she's done repeatedly, Bass aide Janet Monteon threatened organizers and attempted to have LAPD arrest them while failing to cite a violation. Why?

Minimums chart for animation writing — it’s unbelievable.

I read this as a WGA report card: how well are we organizing projects in animation? There’s a lot of work to do. We need collective action on top of educating individual show creators. WGA members find your email and RSVP to the animation zoom meeting on 3/20!