Greetings! The “Wall of Sound,” a mobile audio death machine in the guise of a school bus has just parked in Bollywood for a guerilla dead city punch show. Nearby a low rider takeover on Bollywood boulevard. Strap the fuck in, Los Angeles. I’ll update as I can. Might be a bumpy ride.

No matter who you are, if you are running a platform or a making a product that collects user data, you need to have a plan for what happens when the government shows up and asks for it, you need to share that policy with that users, and publish a transparency report.

An organization that supports cancer patients like me over-collects data for people who sign up for their programming. And they have no sense of the problem when I complained. They think it is only about spam.

Everything Dem Leadership has done for 20 years has failed in every way. Pelosi & Jeffries have lost 8 of the last 12 elections. and they lost them to openly corrupt idiots whose policies are extremely unpopular. These people are catastrophically bad at their jobs. 1)

And #8: half the people who run this country are evil fuckers and would try to crash the system every 2.5 years and also be like "okay we've decided that women don't get healthcare any more" and "okay we've decided, no more funding for sickle cell anemia" and shit like that

Oh, a commenter just reminded me. #7: all the unexamined puritan shit that's like "oh I'm paying for her health care? well DID SHE DO EVERYTHING RIGHT IN HER LIFE? no??? she smoked weed once in college? well, no health care for HER"

These are the things that stand against us in enacting universal health care. We could absolutely do it, but we are going to have put a big knife through the back of a lot of capital in order to do so, and we fucking should.

6. The largest media corporations are owned by people who own both the employers and in some instances the health companies, and so they have an incentive to stoke fears of #3 and #4, which makes educating others very difficult.

5. Employers love the fact that people cannot just leave their jobs. A lot of employers. Economic precarity is to their benefit.

4. Our country's history in administering benefits programs has been so racist that many groups lack trust that they would be able to access care.

3. Our healthcare in this country is so bad that people are aware of all the ways that healthcare can suck. We are all shellshocked from random bills and denials of care coming after prior authorizations. It is EASY for naysayers to raise the specter of bogeymen when we are surrounded by monsters.

And they are going to point that out and I think there are maybe five politicians in office today who will say "well, we gotta do what we gotta do" about it. Everyone else? No.

That is going to have knock on impacts on stock portfolios, retirement portfolios--so, so, so many things. Capitalism has dug its fingers deep into health care, and it's going to hurt when we take them out. It just is.

2. United Healthcare is the third largest corporation in this country. Its compatriots are not far behind. Their combined spending power has enabled them to purchase every politician. And they basically have.

These reasons are presented not in any particular order, but. 1. This country is obsessed with brown people not getting "free" things (even if they are paying for those things). The white part of this country has deep-seated cultural aversions to that. We HAVE to fix that.

Y'all if you think that the reason we don't have universal healthcare is that it costs too much, I don't know what to say to you. We would get better healthcare for less money with universal healthcare. The cost is not the issue. There are many reasons we don't have universal healthcare.

Need a ped/bike path from santa monica to oxnard!!! Along with separate bus lane.

In Dem controlled “blue” regions, everything is in service of preserving Dem and their major donor’s power. That’s why we get the most craven piece of shit Dems. Sure we’ll have some good policy, but that’s just to maintain the status quo.

How did I only just discover that Don Jr is marrying the daughter of a prominent Epstein enabler? Her late dad, a banker, wrote Epstein a reference letter calling him "a gentleman of the highest integrity" to help get him tax breaks &… his island. Can’t make this stuff up.

The NYT sees itself not as a defender of journalistic principles or a champion of democratic values, but rather a theater critic for political actors. There are no real-world consequences here, no pain or suffering for the common people who aren't in their social circles. It's just a parlor game

Today’s a great day to contact your reps and local government and demand they stop using closed-off and objectively evil platforms like X/Twitter and Facebook as primarily ways to communicate to the public. I’d bet you money that adhering to these outdated systems has already killed people.

Official communications existing only on account-only private services is one of those tech abuse Rubicons that we crossed way too quietly - like smartphones being able to download random apps to your phone without permission, or purchased digital media just disappearing by corporate whim.

The corporate and govt controlled tech crisis that all the Linux nerds warned us about in 2010 has now accelerated to the point of being totally unsustainable and requiring major legal and cultural change if computers are going to work for everyday people again.

This a lot of you talking about Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign yesterday.

Construction crews ruptured an oil pipeline in east LA too?? Goddamn every day a catastrophe. We are so fucked!

This is how affordability is reached. Eventually the city will hold a substantial housing portfolio that allows them to establish price controls through a market power majority. They won’t have to legislate or mandate lower rents, they’ll just hold enough housing that private sector can’t compete.

We need the private sector actually competing in the market place to fill vacancies. Realizing the downward price drive. And so far just adding inventory simply slows the rate of rental price increase, but it hasn’t realized lower rents at all in Seattle 7/

In Vienna they get luxury apartments for around 400€ per month. Living spaces with real utility. The social housing sector services over 70% of their urban population and over 30% of that market is publicly owned. The rest is developed through grants and awarded to nonprofits for management. 3/

We need to end the practice of means testing.

The social housing market is so strong and in high demand in Vienna, that the private market just can’t out compete it. Rents and the housing market are extremely affordable across the board as a result. And there is a social cohesion baked in. The rich and the poor are living together. 4/

A few things regarding social housing and the Vienna Model. A publicly owned monopoly on housing allows the public sector to become the market price setter. This aids in eliminating high asking price holdout from private sector rentals. 1/

The model is self renewing, eventually the rents themselves will pay for more housing units to be built or acquired. What I love most about the Vienna Model, is that it is not means tested. Everyone in the city has access to social housing with out bureaucratic red tape and income limitations. 2/

This whole thread is excellent, but I especially want to highlight this post for my comrades in NYC. Until we develop a shared understanding of the impact of supply on housing prices in NYC that acknowledges this basic fact, the organized Left's approach to housing will be functionally capitalist.

We really got to go all in after this era. Just give people all the good things they need, no means testing bullshit. It’s so petty and so fucked just so some cruel assholes and rich guys can get their rocks off.

fuck, man. so sad. RIP Grizz

hey everyone wanna see what a manufactured hate campaign is shaped like???

The entire US economy is propped up by a product so toxic and insidious that everyone has to go on a weekly scavenger hunt just to remove it from products they're already using.

Are you wearing a mask bc of the pandemic, or the wild fire, or the toxic chemical explosion?

Howard Lutnick made this donation on April 1—four weeks after his Epstein testimony was on the books, but just a day after the quarterly filing deadline, ensuring the donation wouldn’t be disclosed before his testimony. (House GOP also said nothing about it fwiw) www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

I really like these types of efforts. This is trench warfare and we can do things at the hyper-local level to throw sand in the gears. www.amny.com/new-york/ice...

Morris was using similar data analysis on the night Youngkin won in 2021 to guarantee everyone that 2022 would be an historical blowout in favor of Rs. Of course, he will never mention this.

Whatever happens in the end, this is gonna be a movie.

It’s estimated that 762,000 people have already died due to the closure of USAID, and ultimately 14 million people will die altogether This will always be Elon Musk’s true legacy

What we need is a US Poasting Service

Trump’s dignity-free Cheerleader for Atrocities may be signalling the next step.

Abrego Garcia should apply for compensation from the weaponization fund

"Foreigners seeking permanent residency in the US will now have to leave the country to apply for green cards, a change with potentially far-reaching ramifications for legal immigration amid President Donald Trump’s sweeping crackdown." -- www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I know people would lose their shit over it but a government operated facebook type app could be good. A portal (yes i hate portals) that shows regional info, emergencies, access to applications, forms, services, important dates and so on.

It was not that long ago when government agencies had their own websites - and actually updated them. It is high time governments returned to controlling their own online presence instead of handing it over to genocidal maniacs like Elon Musk.

"I heard your donors are talking shit about me." from the President feels like one of those (second hand) quotes with real era-defining qualities. You can imagine generations of historians trying to distill the conflicts of the day into something similarly quick and pithy