According to the article, all she's been doing is TAPING articles onto the walls. TAPING. Not spraypainting, not carving, not damaging. Just TAPING. And they're calling that vandalism. This too is fascism.

Just finished this, and Jesus fucking Christ, what a book.

Graham Platner shouldn't be a United States Senator -- and neither should Susan Collins -- and I really really hope there's a way for both of those things to be true.

The majority of GOP Supreme Court judges voting against birthright citizenship is a reminder that most conservatives fundamentally hate America.

In 1998, I moderated a conversation between Mel Brooks and Joseph Heller. They talked for three hours. Ostensibly, the subject was Heller's memoir, Now and Then. But really, it was the Mel and Joe show. Here's the piece that came out of their conversation. www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

I’m sorry, some Democrats who keep losing are mad about the new Democrats who keep winning?

Wtf is wrong with establishment Dems? Why can't they look at Mamdani's win in NY and recognize how badly the party needs to change? Is it just money? The horror of sharing power? What about their living, breathing constituents, people who just want to live in a fair world without fear?

“The past isn’t separated from the present. In fact, it’s always present in the landscape, this matrix of meanings and images that’s right there." www.altaonline.com/books/a71375...

“You cannot hide flaws that are not flaws but are mere signs that you are part of this world, a place where terrible and wonderful beauties are coming to pieces at every moment and others are constructing themselves out of the remains." www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...

Angelenos still do not feel properly informed about the situation by officials (imagine how the tourists feel!) and I'm urging everyone to follow and support Boyle Heights Beat, who is putting out the best coverage with a newsroom that was built for this moment

UFC fightfest happening on a sweltering day in the shadow of a joyous global world cup and a citywide celebration of a team that only lost the one game he attended and slept through in the hometown that now boos him lustily the narrative resonances are simply too bountiful

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

go new york go new york go

The Jalen M. Brunson And The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts

The absolute bottom of the journalistic barrel is people in the media chiding Scott Pelley for having the gall to confront Bilton. If you want a job licking boots, become a bootlicker. You’re not a journalist.

So, this happened.

This also isn't something Metro or the dozens of other transit agencies in California are doing just because of upcoming megaevents. This is something that much every other major transit system in the world is already doing. We're catching up — and bringing 25 smaller agencies with us!

Tradition.

I’ve been waiting for this, it feels like, as long as I’ve been in Los Angeles. www.golden-state.org/d-line-wilsh...

Growing old can be a liberating experience. It allows us to rethink, to clarify or reassess. Late style, in other words, renders creativity more—not less—essential. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/0...

This is absolutely true.

Really looking forward to this one.

This is idiocy. Not only have seniors been paying into the system their whole working lives— ie, a work requirement—but how does a 90 year old with failing cognition and physical infirmities work?

As ever, I just want to hide out in the work.

David Foster Wallace‘s INFINITE JEST and @davidulin.bsky.social David L. Ulin‘s SIDEWALKING were both featured in the @latimes.com list of 101 Best Book Club Picks: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

I'm all in for this.

“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.” www.altaonline.com/culture/movi...

And yet, that figure on the shore: He is every one of us, isn’t he? He is every hungry reader who has ever undertaken to feel their way toward becoming a writer. www.altaonline.com/california-b...

Breaking: The president has signed an executive order on mail voting. He has no lawful authority to write the rules that govern our elections. He tried a year ago; we sued him; we won. A year later, he has tried again. He can expect the same result. 1/2

“In a would-be autocracy, even a small bookstore—with hundreds of books, classic, recent, and current—is a space of contrary narratives, where truth is recognized as both essential and complicated.” newrepublic.com/article/2076...

My favorite part of writing comes when, after numerous near misses and misfires, the right word asserts itself like a puzzle piece fitting into place.

"There is no such thing as the State And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die."

Mother-in-law just left after a five day visit and we have saged the house. How's your morning going?

Don't worry everybody, there's a 22 yo in charge of counter terrorism and Kash Patel fired most of the experts in Iranian militant groups.

“Believe the words you cannot bear to hear.” www.altaonline.com/books/nonfic...

’Tis the time’s plague, when madmen lead the blind.

This Sunday in Hollywood.

No, Gmail, I don't want an AI Overview.

I know That everything I look out upon will vanish. But I have Always been astonished at any sort of permanence, & so, Thank You. Before everything I look out upon has vanished: Thank You. www.altaonline.com/books/poetry...

This is some serial killer shit.

Atlantic City, 1935. My mother's father is in the center.

We have a cover.

I couldn’t agree more.

Thanks to @lareported.bsky.social for giving me the space to think through @metrolosangeles.bsky.social's D Line Extension, due to open in the next few months. lareported.substack.com/p/metro-d-li...

“Novels are far more than simple entertainment; they are a means of facing society’s failures head on.” www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...

“Comfort, for all else is futility.” 4columns.org/ulin-david-l...

Disconcerting? That’s my alma mater, speaking the hard truths.