“But ICE is wearing masks.“ Exactly, and the visual contrast between a masked secret police force and a group of free citizens exercising their First Amendment rights without fear is a very useful bit of political theater.

I don’t think this is a particularly hot take. As we keep telling a particular federal agency, wearing a mask generally indicates cognizance of guilt and an intent to do something illegal. Protest works best when done confidently and unashamedly

The arrests of Don Lemon, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lundy are unacceptable and a clear violation of the Constitution. This is a dangerous abuse of power that threatens the rights of every single American. They must be released immediately.

The America we love will survive the current authoritarian push (not to say putsch) only if enough of us — especially those of us fortunate enough to be in positions of leadership and influence — choose to condemn it, and loudly.

Is Donald Trump running for the Los Angeles City Council?

LA City Council says

I don't think there's any plausible scenario in which a big spurt in homebuilding wipes out the wealth of incumbent homeowners, but that's not really what Trump is talking about when says he wants to protect property values. It's a segregationist dog whistle, always has been.

Every city in America (but particularly in CA) is sitting on a gold mine of revenue that would take a stroke of a pen to unlock: it’s called zoning reform It magically turns one (prop 13-tax limited) property into *many* (reassessed) properties

Is it me or I have not seen a single ICE agent who's a woman?

Just emailed both of my US Senators asking them to abolish ICE and impeach Miller and Noem. Remember kids, poasting is fun but speaking directly to those in power is a much more effective way to make real change!

This E Line train has had to restart 3 times in the last 10 minutes

At its simplest: we cannot address the housing crisis with a policy that worsens our housing shortage. If Measure ULA is going to remain a durable source of funding for affordable housing and homelessness prevention, we need housing projects that actually get built and house families.

This is the way, make “ok, abolish only ICE” the moderate position.

No city squanders its potential like Los Angeles It could easily be the Tokyo of the Eastern Pacific, but instead it's a series of decaying strip malls from the 60s

Democrats should go for Steven Miller's head while the momentum is on their side. Tell everyone that he's the real president and Trump just does what he says because he has old-man pudding brain.

The groups and individuals in California that are fighting to block more housing production—many of whom claim to be fighting for progressive values—seem intent on delivering the White House to JD Vance.

Making it cheaper and easier to live in LA is essential. So many people *want* to live here, because it's amazing. We need to give them that chance. We need to be building as much TOD around existing metro stations as possible.

we’ve got a ways to go until 2030 so this could change but it’s pretty much an across the board disaster if it doesn’t building more housing isn’t just good policy, it’s existential politics

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This is a goddamn embarrassment. We should be ashamed of ourselves for ceding political power because we allowed population decline to occur in *literal paradise*. Housing abundance now.

No rest until Stephen Miller is on trial in The Hague

Long past time. Everyone involved with this reign of terror — including Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller — needs to be fired immediately.

The killing of Alex Pretti and the grotesque lying was an overreach by the administration. They've paid a price and had to pull back a bit. But it's when there's some disarray that the democratic opposition needs to intensify the offensive, and turn a marginal tactical success into a major victory.

If you are interested in knowing about edgy obscure stuff before it goes mainstream and feeling superior to uncool normies, you should take that energy to music or movies or fashion or whatever because any politics worth pursuing is necessarily earnest, inclusive, and deeply, fundamentally uncool.

We need everyone we can get in this fight against a fascist takeover. If your first instinct to someone being politically mobilized by all this is to give them a sneering "well, what took you so long?" you don't actually care about our winning this; you just want to be able to say you were right.

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Why is @mayor.lacity.gov funding ICE deportations?

One billion dollars for 1,000 homes? That’s an insane price of 1 million per home for “Affordable” housing. Repeal ULA, it’s literally still killing new housing in LA!

Call the piece of legislation that ultimately abolishes ICE the Pretti-Good Act

Tom Steyer could have 100x the clout he has today by buying up some papers with all the money he's setting on fire to not become governor of california

Today is a very special day! It is the second anniversary of when I adopted (well, trapped) Ellay! Happy Adoption Day Baby Girl!!

If they are doing this to white people in broad daylight imagine what they are doing to non-white people in detention facilities.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win

If the government executing us in the streets isn’t your red line, then you’ve already decided to endorse it. There’s no gray area left. No ambiguity.

I in fact don’t want better training for the ethnic cleansing goon squad. I want them in The Hague.

Seeing a bunch of normal ass midwestern moms and dads marching in -20 degrees knowing they might be tear gassed or worse really drives home what a cowardly lot of people the pundit class is

BTW this is one reason why we absolutely need swift justice and extremely harsh sentencing for rogue federal agents. These people only understand force and punishment. Nothing else will get through to them.

At a minimum, Democrats must commit to impeaching Noem, Bondi and Bovino, and prosecuting all of them once they are out of office.

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

I am so angry at @metrolinksocal.bsky.social right now. I was invited to a park cleanup in Diamond Bar today, conveniently very close to the Industry station! Except, the Riverside like doesn't run on weekends. At all. So I had to take the OC Line to Fullerton instead.....

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Many people are saying

Yes, they absolutely should. We cannot cater to hysteria. people like you should be tried, and locked up for spreading disinformation that threatens public safety, and specifically the well-being of children. Children are not the property of parents.

cannot adequately describe how great this is to see there are more of us than there are of them and they will not break us

"Parking meters cost $2.50 per hour and day rates range from $5 to $16." Every single time moochers fill their diapers over a city not letting them store private property on public land for free, you should check to see how little they're actually being asked to pay.

Get ready to mobilize, y'all! This is so necessary. ULA has killed housing and we need to reform it immediately.

Sepulveda is worth celebrating though. Arguably the single most important rapid transit project in the nation, and it will be a sea change for transit use in LA. It’ll be SO much faster than car travel that it’ll drive a LOT of elective transit usage

I am once again calling for a moratorium on the existence of Los Angeles until we can figure out what the hell is going on down there