I've been completely offline today and only just now saw the news. I think it's important to understand that this is going to keep happening as long as the Trump administration maintains its present course. And seeing as this admin is completely incapable of admitting to wrongdoing...

This is insane because 1. The Hybrid was the LPA - they already know what their *own* process said the community wanted. 2. I know for a fact they got somewhere on the order of 10,000 written public comments from South Bay Forward's campaign in recent days. And they still listened to the NIMBYs

Kinda feels like the Trump admin would love nothing more than to see one of these ICE agents get killed so they can use it as justification for a much more violent crackdown

In a sane country that message to the PM of Norway would get the 25th amendment invoked before lunchtime Jesus Christ

Look I'm sure there are many actual crimes one could charge Stephen Miller with, but I wouldn't hate it if we invented a new crime of "being Stephen Miller" to charge him with in addition

This was revealed to me in a vision

Ahh the simple pleasure of watching a nice lighthearted film where nothing bad happens to distract from the real world...

"You should be terrified" of ICE is definitely a winning message and conservatives should say it more often.

People We Meet On Vacation was genuinely a delightful little film

Finally some good fucking news

I am rapidly becoming a "whoever will prosecute the people responsible for this with the least mercy" voter

masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.

We need to have a serious conversation as a society about people taking the elevator just one floor when I have places to be!!

"We are going to run the country." Notably, this is not a thing you can just, do. The United States has no capacity to just pick of the reins of government of a country of 30 million. And I am willing to bet that they have absolutely no plans for how to actually achieve it.

This man belongs in the fucking Hague man

Sometimes I am reminded that the Pope is American and I'm flabbergasted all over again

I just have to believe that in 5 years these people will be just like utterly banished from public life when the pendulum swings back it's the only thing keeping me sane.

Finally watched Marty Supreme and I have thoughts. 1. Agree with the general consensus that this is a titanic performance from our boy Timmy. 2. Great performances all around. I admire Safdie's ability to get good performances out of people who aren't really actors.

I spend so much of my time as a PhD student among an unreasonably smart group of people (students and faculty at UCLA) that I am genuinely taken aback sometimes at how dumb a lot of people actually are.

Getting some mixed messages here ngl

Ok so do I watch Pluribus or nah?

The discourse around the historical accuracy of Nolan's Odyssey is so funny to me. "The Greeks didn't have the technology to shape wood like that but Nolan just wants to pretend!" My brother in Christ there is also a cyclops like right there what are you talking about?

rudolph you have to stop. your name too down in history. your ability too legendary. your nose too bright. they'll kill you rudolph.

As my Russian-Jewish great grandmother was known to say to my grandfather: "you know Victor, I stop long ago to give you advices. But now...I make a suggestion." Conservative Jewish leaders ought to think long and hard about who they're throwing in with www.city-journal.org/article/manh...

We are re-deriving Ibn Khaldun from first principles. That's the stage we're at and it's not a great indication of where we're headed...

Complaining about today's Wordle is a sign of weakness, a sign that you've never seen a Christmas pageant or one of the most iconic Vines of all time

Gotta be honest. I thought things would get bad quick. I didn't have "Trump proposing the Hunger Games" on my bingo card.

Oh...no...that's not...

Finally got around to watching Sinners. My god.

My sister just told me she hates me and hopes that I die.

This is unfortunately right

This is absolutely batshit insane from OU. Clown show shit

Saw "Wake Up Dead Man" yesterday and, as a spoiler free review, I'll just say: Rian Johnson has done it once again. What a film.

We're in crunch time of the fall quarter right now which means we are at the point where I end up ruining a bunch of kids' days when they get lower than expected grades. Hate this part of the gig man

The writers of this season of American government are getting a little too on the nose don't you think?

Oh

Trump's justice department engaging in misconduct? I wonder how they figured it out...probably had nothing to do with the big "we are doing misconduct" sign that they seem to be carrying over their heads www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...

Started my day in the East Village at 4:45am and will be at UCLA before 1:30pm. Phenomenal work by the species everyone.

Genuinely how evil do you have to be to ask states specially *not* to send out full nutrition benefits?

This is an article from the onion. If you'd told someone this would happen 15 years ago they would have told you that you had too active an imagination

PROP 50 rRRAAAAAAAHHHHH

I have it on reliable authority (my sister) that they are letting the cats vote in Seattle. What is this country coming to?

With news of Dick Cheney's death this morning, I am reminded of one of the greatest onion articles ever: theonion.com/doctors-reve...

The Trump administration was illegally withholding funds? Who could have seen this coming. What a shock this is.

Households receiving SNAP benefits buy almost exactly the same stuff as other households and to the extent that they don't, it's because they're buying items that are for kids. Somehow this is a terrible crime to many conservatives.

What counts as a scandal for republicans vs democrats is insane to me.

Freddie Freeman you absolute fucking legend

They have played nearly an entire second game worth of baseball tonight

How is this game still happening? What cosmic punishment is this?