the clown van from The Rehearsal landing in roku city is crazy work

new @lataco.bsky.social headshot just dropped 🖤 📸: Sean Maung

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

This is also the exact vibe of Charlie Kirk obituaries. Nary a mention of how he said he’d hypothetically force his daughter to deliver her rapist’s baby at age 10

As a public figure himself, Kirk did not restrict himself to politeness. He was incredibly crude and cruel about the deaths of other people. Reflecting on his life should reflect the truth.

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

Los Angeles’ best-kept secret? Hollywood Bowl is actually a free, @metrolosangeles.bsky.social-accessible public park 🗣️🗣️ @marinamasako.bsky.social hopped on Metro’s B Line to take you on a tour of the Bowl and all of its offerings.

keeping the gaylors in my thoughts today 🖤

accidentally stayed up all night watching BTS videos and i’m excited to announce i now have a Bias™️

When a Waymo blows past a stop sign or illegally stops in a red zone, by design, there is no driver present to take responsibility. But what happens when a self-driving vehicle gets pulled over in Los Angeles? By @marinamasako.bsky.social Full story: lataco.com/waymo-traffi...

is this anything

Watching a Waymo stuck in the middle of a block party, creating a surreal traffic jam because it can’t figure out how to briefly cross the yellow line to get past the crowd. Now the cops are here. They don’t understand the problem and are yelling at everyone but the car. The future is so stupid

If someone claims to be scared of the subway but isn’t scared of being in a car on the highway—which is exponentially more dangerous + deadly—they are not a serious person

The tone of this video is completely wild. It's filmed like a high school media class project. It looks like it too; the presentation and graphics are amateurish. And yet it's chilling, because she's a real government spokesperson dismissing reports of abuses in detention with finger quotes.

The Japanese American National Museum is on the front lines of the regime's assault on civil rights and human dignity. They have repeatedly sounded the alarm over parallels btwn how the govt treated them in WWII and how it is behaving today. AND they have refused to scrub their website.

Earlier today, U.S. Border Patrol agents conducted a raid in Little Tokyo near a press event held by @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social. Reporting by @shoton35mm.bsky.social @eltragon.bsky.social @marinamasako.bsky.social

kendrick has been trying to warn us

Tucked away next to the Audubon Center at Debs Park, which partners with @theodorepayne.bsky.social, Los Nogales Nursery is now open to the public for the first time. By @marinamasako.bsky.social Full story: lataco.com/theodore-pay...

Until the laws regulating AI-driven technology catch up, the robot cars employed by Big Tech currently operate as part of a new, privileged class of pseudo-citizens immune to rules of the road. By @marinamasako.bsky.social The full story: lataco.com/waymo-traffi...

“TK” is the most powerful tool that writers and journalists have. Don’t know a specific figure off the top of my head? TK. Can’t think of the perfect adjective? TK. Future me can figure that shit out. I’m living in the present and everything’s TK.

More than 200 #TeslaTakedown demonstrators showed up to the weekend rallies in Hollywood to protest Elon Musk and the Trump administration’s federal funding cuts to social security, healthcare, national parks, and education. By @marinamasako.bsky.social The full story: lataco.com/tesla-diner-...

being a journalist with social anxiety is so embarrassing like what do you mean the thought of calling a source on the phone still fills me with dread? and i have to work up the courage every time i ask people on the street for an interview? 😩

Earlier this evening, around 80 protesters chanted “Boycott Tesla” in front of Elon Musk’s new Tesla Diner in Hollywood. This weekend, 40 #TakedownTesla demonstrations were planned across the country in protest of the company’s CEO. 🎥: @marinamasako.bsky.social

maybe everything will be okay (my beta blocker just kicked in)

I talk a lot of shit about not using my women’s studies degree but now that I’m a journalist I’m grateful to have learned about the history of genocides, labor rights, white supremacy, and propaganda

super valuable breakdown of how ICE has built a propaganda arm and what goes into it:

The Border Patrol El Centro Sector employs five dedicated agents to make what are essentially ICE “fancams” for social media. But they’re not editing in CapCut like most people on TikTok 😳 Reporter @marinamasako.bsky.social shares five key takeaways from watching their social media videos.

hot take: fruit by the foot was more fun but fruit rollups had the superior texture

First of all: What? mattdpearce.substack.com/p/what-does-...

jon stewart singing a “go fuck yourself” musical number about billionaires and then immediately sucking the big pharma billionaire’s dick on live tv

Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), home to the largest dedicated clinic that treats transgender youth in the country, is ending access to transgender healthcare for nearly 3,000 patients. Full story: lataco.com/transgender-... By @marinamasako.bsky.social

LOOKING FOR VIDEO/PHOTO EVIDENCE: - No Kings protest in Downtown LA/City Hall - June 14 from 5:43pm-5:49pm (probably on earlier side) - Spring St near Temple St There's a line of police at intersection who shoot LLMs, lots of press around. DM me or email pressrights [at] lapressclub [dot] org.

i finally watched “how to with john wilson” and i didn’t realize that’s what all you white boys who make videos have been doing

LGBTQ+ rights groups are protesting what they call Children’s Hospital Los Angeles’ “cowardly and cruel” move to end care for transgender youth. By @marinamasako.bsky.social lataco.com/transgender-...

see now this is the kinda low stakes shit we should be automating instead of vehicles on the road that can kill you

say what you will about mr. krabs but at least he was paying a living wage

my grandma’s kinda cunt for this actually

i’m new to baseball but i don’t understand why guys don’t go “ope! my bad!!” whenever they accidentally hit someone

This Hour Has 22 Minutes literally predicting The Rehearsal

Briefly thought that Scarlett Johansson was playing a banjo and was suddenly 100% more interested in the franchise.

Protesters are gathering from dawn until dusk at the Japanese Fishing Village Memorial today, a San Pedro monument built to honor the local community of Japanese Americans who were forcibly removed by the government under Executive Order 9066. 👉🏽 lataco.com/ice-is-stagi... @marinamasako.bsky.social

Billions of dollars to turn this police state into a killing machine, to impoverish millions, to shove the elderly and disabled into a ditch An abhorrent, disgusting moment in modern American history

Will be seen by historians as a pivotal moment, a cliff over which this country was dragged by fascists and their sycophants, into a vast abyss of suffering the likes of which we haven’t yet been able to fully grasp

🔔 Join us for a conversation about protests and press freedom in Los Angeles, featuring @adamrose.bsky.social‬, @bencamach0.bsky.social, @acatwithnews.bsky.social, @tinadesireeberg.com, and FPF's Caitlin Vogus. 🕒 Wednesday, July 9, 3 p.m. EDT/12 p.m. PDT RSVP: freedom.press/reporting-un...

I’m always so confused by people that think opinion pieces don’t count as journalism. Someone told me I wasn’t a real journalist because I was “editorializing,” as if editorials haven’t been a part of newspapers for more than 100 years…

shohei ohtani

“[There] is damage right now. I won’t underscore that. But the overall greater goal — speaking out against the injustice to the immigrant community — is important," said Bill Fujioka, the board chair at the Japanese American National Museum. lataco.com/graffiti-lit... By @marinamasako.bsky.social

Do police horses belong at protests? After dozens of videos were shared from recent protests showing LAPD officers on horseback trampling people and riding horses in dangerous conditions, Angelenos have raised serious safety concerns. @marinamasako.bsky.social shares more the about recent incidents.

some of yall don’t have the attention span to watch a video longer than 30 seconds or read anything longer than a tweet but get mad when a post doesn’t speak to every facet of your personal experience of the world