DAILY MEMO: Feds Abduct At Least 23 Workers Today, Highest in Weeks If you appreciate reporting like this, please consider becoming a monthly or yearly member of L.A. TACO so we can continue to bring you this vital information. @eltragon.bsky.social

so article i is just dead dead

Kid1’s bus back from his school trip is not arriving until shortly before midnight. He gets the day off from school tomorrow; I still have to go to work.

i made a template you can use to think about what "frame/negation/kirby" looks like for other issues. For example: Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $ Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $ Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy

This case was brought by Lina Khan’s FTC under Joe Biden, with the support of Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter, whom Donald Trump illegally fired, and the latter of whom the Supreme Court (also illegally) allowed to remain fired. Cases like this may not ever be possible without an independent FTC.

The pictures are amazing, but the alt text is *chef’s kiss*

Erwin Chemerinsky v. Pam Bondi

new Tony Hawk game but it's just him doing normal stuff like going to the grocery store or waiting in the airport security line

Here is the formal letter the NIH sent today to UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk. “These projects are fully reinstated, and the letter dated July 31, 2025 is rescinded without conditions. Funds will be made available immediately and are no longer suspended, terminated, or restricted.”

You know what's a little good news? Monarch butterflies. They seem to be having a real great year. Let's hope storms don't fuck them up during migration.

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

Science is awesome

Funfact: Die neue Bahnchefin Evelyn Palla ist nicht nur die 1. Frau in diesem Amt, sondern auch die Erste mit eigenem Lokführerschein. Bedeutet: Sie kann die Flotte, die sie jetzt leitet, auch selbst bedienen - eine Kompetenz, die sie von allen ihren 17 männlichen Vorgängern bislang unterscheidet😊

🚨This is not a drill🚨There is a new Taco Bell “inspired” restaurant on Kaiserstraße, and it’s GOOD! Price point is a little higher than the Bell though. I hope they are able to stay in business.

Cass Sunstein: not the man for the moment

DAILY MEMO: LAPD Sends Two Helicopters and Six Officers to Detain Black Woman Chasing ICE Out of Her Neighborhood @eltragon.bsky.social

I lent my good rain jacket and rain pants to Kid1 for his school sailing camp on the North Sea, and of course this is the weather for the rest of the week.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This was really nice! And congrats to the US in the 4x400 and 4x100!

Moin. Good morning. It's that time, y'all. Do you remember? youtu.be/Gs069dndIYk?...

I survived 13 kilometers, which actually turned out to be 14 as I had to run past all the relay teams from SAP to get to the exchange point. strava.app.link/n1F3u7f9PWb

H-1B visas now cost two Homans. (I also think @marisakabas.bsky.social could help here)

Heads up for folks in Germany who may have Disney + through Magenta: The directions Disney gives and the link on the D + homepage don't work. You have to change your TV contract through Magenta. I spent half an hour of my life figuring this out yesterday.

David Rose, the police officer and Afghanistan veteran with a wife and 2 small children, was murdered by a white, right wing extremist man a month ago over antivaccine conspiracies pushed by RFK Jr. and this administration. He did not get recognition from political leaders or even much news coverage

Meta should straight up be dismantled. There’s no regulatory environment with fines steep enough to solve a corporate culture this depraved.

State Senator Graciela Guzman is out here in front of the facility demanding the release of two of her constituents (who are U.S. citizens), asking to speak with federal agents. No response from them so far. Shes putting on a respirator.

Yikes. www.politico.eu/article/russ...

Finally finished a long (but productive!) work week and then had to go to the grocery store again to get snacks for Kid1 for his 8 hour bus ride to the Landschulheim tomorrow.

One of the comments said it best: They have the credibility they earned

i would like my government supervisors to know that i now think slim fit is good, dress sneakers are great, and "fun socks" are cool

DAILY MEMO: Rapid Responders Foil ICE Raid Again at The Same Car Wash Targeted a Third Time This Week @eltragon.bsky.social

These guys are unpopular and dumb as rocks, they did not discover a secret 'I win' button at the heart of all politics labeled 'mean tweets' or 'cancel elections.' Keep speaking, keep writing, keep marching, keep voting, force them to show the country what they are.

In short, force them to try to rule by naked force because they *do not* have enough force and the very nakedness of it will mean they have less and less. The Civil Rights movement overcame far more with far less, if we had a fraction of their courage, we'll win.

Here’s a copy of the 123-page lawsuit UC faculty associations and unions filed against President Trump today: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

a detail that appears with fairly regular occurrence in many personal accounts of the Nazi regime is how many individuals died from stroke, heart attacks, and similar health complications because of the stress and despondency that was inflicted on those whose lives were ruined by the regime.

A somewhat successful 1st day back at school. Everyone got to class on time (Kid2‘s school threw us for a loop by not starting until 9:30, but we avoided a repeat of the last day of school) & I only had to dive into the Wertstoff bin twice to find notebooks accidentally thrown out.

Shout out to those really ambitious spiders that spin a web across the whole porch that I walk through when I have to take the garbage out at night. One day you'll catch me sleeping but not today buddy.

Saint George and the Dragon, by Bernat Martorell, 1434–35, 📸 by Michael Dawson

Finally having the West Coast weekend sport experience in Germany - Track and Field World Championships have started in Tokyo. Drinking my coffee and watching sports rules.

SB 79 PASSED! APARTMENTS NEXT TO ALL RAPID TRANSIT STATIONS IN CALIFORNIA ARE NOW LEGAL! THIS IS HUGE!!!

Manifestations, violences... Comment la Gen Z a renversé le gouvernement du Népal La génération Z népalaise, comme d’autres à travers l’Asie, rêve d’un pays débarrassé de sa corruption et de ses nepo-babies.

Our Polish friends deserve much better from us.

Packing is fucking exhausting. IDK how we did it every other year growing up. The tiny jail cell of an apartment I’ve been living in does start driving me crazy if I don’t go out often enough, but I did NOT miss #moving 😩 Here’s an update: gofund.me/22f7dc2be

Pickling is weirdly addictive. I could chop vegetables and stuff them into jars all evening.

BREAKING: Federal judge in Los Angeles issues preliminary injunction against Department of Homeland Security to restrict use of force against press, legal observers and protesters. Judge in LA Press Club v. Noem calls out "surprising savagery" of DHS officers: "The First Amendment demands better."

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

a lot of media elites are outing themselves today

RAPID RESPONSE PROTEST: Protest Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett Wed. 9/10 in Yorba Linda @ Nixon Library 8:30-10:30am (she will be there from 10-11 promoting her book 👎). Post everywhere! Details and optional sign-up here: www.mobilize.us/event/840822/ Via @ocindivisible.bsky.social

This formulation is popular: contrasting SCOTUS' intolerance of race as an admissions factor with SCOTUS' tolerance of race as a detention factor. There are, in fact, doctrinal, historical, and logical distinctions between the positions, that one could use to dismiss this comparison. But... /1