New on Knock: Even as the international outcry grows against the starvation of Gaza, three Occidental College students face expulsion for protesting the genocide. Mohammed Ahmad reports. knock-la.com/occidental-s...

#ANDOR in Los Angeles (Photo from @davidridker.bsky.social )

6/19/25, Hollywood CA. Outside a Home Depot on Sunset Blvd, community members pack up food stands after street vendors were seized in a federal immigration raid.

$1M is a little less than 0.3% of what they pay their roster of players each year...

L.A. Taco has confirmed with the family of 20yr old Adrian Andrew Martinez, who was taken by ICE while working at Walmart in Pico Rivera, is a US citizen who was speaking up for his coworker that was detained. ~ @eltragon.bsky.social

The quesadilla stand around the corner that let my daughter use the tortilla press hasn’t been out all week. I sent them a few bucks.

Trump's proposal for housing is less of a budget & more of a demolition order. This administration keeps telling regular people they don't matter.

Trump's budget proposal: ❌ Slashes rental assistance ❌ Guts public housing ❌ Kneecaps fair housing enforcement ❌ Cuts homelessness services A budget is a moral document. Trump’s says: "Eat sh*t and die."

I heard there are going to be nationwide 'No Kings' protests on Trump's birthday, so that's fun. Remember, one 10,000 person march is ineffective. Ten 1,000 person marches spread out all over the city is the way to go.

The Trump regime wants to end public housing, set work requirements on federal benefits, and limit federal benefits to 10 years. All to fund his tax cuts. Tax money for the American people? ❌️ Tax money for the billionaire oligarchs? ✅️

Did you know that we were on track to completely solve homelessness by the end of the 70s? But then we started privatizing our housing and ushered in a new housing crisis. People don't talk about this enough

It's incredible when people come up to me, a public housing organizer, to tell me about the issues with public housing. They're just repeating old, untrue propaganda from Nixon and Reagan and don't even realize it. Com visit a project and talk to our members and THEN we can talk!!

Funny enough, the more "radical" I have become, the more sense I have started to make

#OtD 21 Feb 1965 Malcolm X, instrumental speaker and activist of the American civil rights and Black power movements, was assassinated while preparing to address a crowd of supporters in New York stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9...

We need to stop investing in privatized "affordable" housing. It is simply not affordable. Stop scamming poor people.

Homelessness is a symptom of capitalism and we will never solve it by investing in more capitalism. The only path forward is a socialized housing system. Public housing for all!

Organizers should never be afraid to lose a fight in the pursuit of what is right. If we don't ask for what our communities need, we will never get it!

How come more people aren't calling it what it is. A coup

If anyone is interested in covering protests in LA @knockdotla.bsky.social will publish your work!

A Gay Man’s Guide to Functioning Well in Women-Led Organizations 1. stop arguing and just do what you’re asked to do. The end!

There isn't ONE FAMOUS (M)BILLIONAIRE WHO WAS GOOD.

It's incredible to me that today we are doing everything except investing in the one proven solution to the housing crisis. It worked before and it will work again!

During the Great Depression, when our homelessness crisis was worse than it is today (1.5% of pop vs 0.17% of pop), we were able to solve homelessness by creating Sec 9 Public Housing. Almost immediately as soon as Reagan divested from these solutions, he birthed the modern homelessness crisis.

And just like that, the Trump administration has committed its first massacre

Did the plan collide with the helicopter or did the helicopter collide with the plan? Did they just like, not see the giant metal thing in the air getting closer and closer while they were flying in an area that they were not supposed to be in? Planes aren't exactly small....

When progressive politicians know they can't win a legislative fight, they should always opt for the choice that builds more power for their poor constituents. Always make the right show their hand. Never negotiate away the rights of the poor.

"The cheap, reliable labor force has generated more than $250 million for the state since 2000 — money garnished from prisoners’ paychecks, the AP wrote in December. Parole numbers have also plummeted in recent years." Slavery by another name indeed.

sorry for getting ✨️political✨️ on the good vibes and video games app again, but the human brain is not designed to withstand another 207 weeks of this shit so pace yourself and try to channel that anger, despair, and hopelessness into something productive. make some kick ass art, we will need it

The cost of Donold’s first deportation flights, carrying about 80 migrants each, cost up to $852,000 per trip.

What if we just stopped giving developers money and just built public housing instead?

If any journalists are interested in writing about public housing's role in solving the housing crisis, hit me up pls!

We simply need more section 9 housing in the US. I wish people were more open to understanding this.

While community-owned housing is a great alternative for renters looking for longterm stability, it still requires purchasing buildings. The idea that we are going to buy or fundraiser our way out of a housing crisis this severe is hard for me to imagine. The only solution is PUBLIC HOUSING.

*stares directly at camera*

In LA, existing price gouging laws might not be enough when it comes to housing. Advocates are saying a rent freeze and an eviction moratorium are necessary in light of the devastating fires across the area. truthout.org/articles/adv...

We need to stop letting people build in the firebelt as if it was ever safe to live there. Upzoning these areas is why these fires are so catastrophic.

The 100-acre Hurst Fire reported in Sylmar is less than 2 miles from Barry J. Nidorf juvenile hall. I've reached out to see if the youths held there will be evacuated.

#OtD 7 Jan 1919 Tragic Week in Argentina began. Police in Buenos Aires killed five strikers, and the city rose up. To crush the rebellion, right-wing mobs attacked Jewish areas while troops killed 100-700 people, injured 400-2000 and jailed over 50,000 stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1070...

My husband got a mandatory evacuation alert on his phone, but my son and I did not. We’re in the car with kids and pets now, but it appears the evacuated area is still pretty far from us here in Northridge. It’s surprising how hard it is to find accurate updated info. #HurstFire …1/

A must read in this moment. The Case for Letting Malibu Burn longreads.com/2018/12/04/t...

DOGE exists to help the extraction class disguise corruption, cronyism, and the brutal dismantling of consumer protection, labor rights, and the social safety net as as "innovative efficiency reforms" and from everything I've seen the U.S. press is super keen to help support the illusion

The amount of academic elitism on this platform is annoying. Instead of posting things in a way that is educational and informative, so many people just post their takes in academic lingo and I have no idea what they're saying. Touch grass!

"just immigrate legally bro"

The US is investing resources to solve homelessness in everything but the thing that will actually solve homelessness: public housing! It worked after the depression and it will work again

We have too many billionaires

The artist has the digital version of "Christ in the Rubble as a free download for sharing until Dec. 24 to "create more dialogue among Christians in the United States" Afterwards proceeds support Gaza. kellylatimoreicons.com/en-ca/produc...

Americans have really lost touch with what public goods are and why they are so so important