I've said this before but I honestly feel bad for Dodgers fans, even when they win. There are few American franchises that are as openly contemptuous of their own supporters. L.A. deserves so much better.

National democrats are incapable of understanding that prosecuting corrupt, violent cops is extremely popular. There is a reason why most copaganda narratives include the purge of bad apples. This isn't just about loyalty to traditional state power; this is a man who is unable to play ball.

Me: I just think it's kinda weird that Kate Spade was David Spade's sister-in-law. Also, have you ever noticed that David Spade looks more like llama Cuzco than human Cuzco? The ICE agent pointing a gun to my head: Woah I'd never noticed that but you're right.

It's amazing how little this all matters. Half of the American power structure is publicly outed as members of an organized child sexual abuse cabal (and in many cases, lying about it under oath) and nothing changes. Not one resignation, nobody fired, nothing.

Nobody warned us that the polycrisis would be so ridiculously stupid.

As an industry event the Grammys are weird to me, because while I know lots of filmmakers who care about the Oscars, reporters who care about the Pulitzers, actors who care about the Tonys, etc, I can't think of a single musician I've met who takes the Grammys even remotely seriously.

You might enjoy my little essay on Greatness in Art in the age of AI, AKA, "Sinners is Great, actually, but greatness doesn't exist, also." www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/sinners-one-...

This is why everyone in the Bay Area should be reading the weekly events calendar on the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org website. We checked everyone's instagram so you don't have to!

They say you get more conservative as you get older, but the biggest change for me was that I was friends with more anarchists in my 20s and more communists in my 30s, and I'm not sure if that counts.

Bummer about Chomsky, too bad he's the only leftist intellectual in history, who could we possibly turn to now.

The goal cannot be to simply restore the Wiemar power structure that led us here.

huge anti ICE demo in Fruitvale Oakland now

Opening day ticket sales for Melania at my local AMC are going great.

You know those generic, soulless stories written for standardized tests to test teenagers' ability to recognize symbolism? Most Darren Aronofsky movies are just the cinematic version of that.

Checking in with my comrades in the group chat about whether going to therapy during the general strike counts as scabbing.

This makes sense because there is no global demand for electric cars but a very high global demand for household robotics. Definitely not an act of desperation at all.

Personal update: my cat still loves sitting in my lap and purring for hours while I work.

The real power center of the Republican Party isn't in their party anymore: it's the right-wing media ecosystem, which is primarily based in Silicon Valley. If you want to destabilize fascism, reigning in runaway tech corporations matters more than elections.

The new Melania movie was literally directed by a serial rapist who is in the Epstein files, all of this is public record, I feel like I'm losing my mind.

Thinking about how NYPD responded to the Ferguson uprising after Michael Brown was murdered by adding clips from Road House to their training program. nypost.com/2015/02/24/n...

The official state pokémon of Minnesota.

If the entire U.S. congress erupted into a bare-knuckle battle royale, Ilhan Omar would emerge victorious within minutes.

Absolutely criminal that Oakland recognizes "Oakland Civic Center" and "Oakland City Center" as two distinct neighborhoods, especially since they are almost (but not quite) right next to one another.

Being a writer/artist is so funny, if you rent a woodland airbnb cabin with your friends once a year you can just give it a name and say you "facilitate the Annual Bonny Doon Salon" on your CV.

I don’t think people realize how normal it is in Maine for there to be a street called like “Weed District Road” and everyone who lives there is called something something Weed and also captain Moloch Weed shipwrecked his cod boat there in 1692.

Congratulations to Greg Bovino on your impending run on Dancing with the Stars.

whats up @xlenc.bsky.social let me write for orb!!!

If you haven't been following the developments at Amazon Ring as closely as I have the last 7 years and you're wondering how we got to the current headlines that the doorbell cameras are "eyes for ICE" because of their Flock partnerships--read my report about shakeups at the company from last year.

Even for conservative Democrats, anything short of abolishing ICE would be absurd at this point. The bureau's public reputation is set for at least a generation. It will be completely impossible to recruit agents who aren't trying to replicate what they're seeing on TV right now, or worse.

Even as liberal an area as Oakland is taking money for information thru this program, as state shields against info-sharing only go so far boltsmag.org/alameda-coun...

Californians have permanently lost all remaining excuses for skipping protests over inclement weather.

I guarantee you that when they're going to try and give ICE agents legal protected status against employment and housing discrimination like veterans.

I love the Twin Cities so much. Truly one of the greatest places in the country. Defend them at all costs.

Demands for a new Nuremberg seriously lack ambition. The original prosecutions included fewer than 200 defendants, even if you count the post-IMT trials. Only 37 people were executed. Pretty much EVERYONE in the Nazi Party walked, and many remained in power.

Aside from setting off fireworks, does anyone actually have a plan for how to respond politically When It Happens?

You should take a moment to check out the Oakland Syllabus from @oaklandreviewofbooks.org because: 1. I helped make it and I feel proud. 2. I *guarantee* you will discover something new, no matter how well you know Oakland. 3. It is a living document! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/introducing-...

I don't know what to make of it, but lately the comments section on the sketchy site I use to pirate comic books is BY FAR the healthiest and most pleasant online community I know.

They should invent a World Economic Forum that doesn't have Katy Perry at it.

It's especially striking when settlers and the IDF raze Palestinian olive groves because Deuteronomy very, very specifically prohibits this even when at war. Israel doesn't just routinely oversee war crimes under modern law, but open blasphemy.

It feels kind of diagnostic of our current era of literature that the reading public finds unfinished stories so inconceivable. Unfinished works are very normal and not necessarily a problem! Don Juan, The Trial, The Canterbury Tales, The Good Soldier Švejk, Billy Budd... all unfinished! It's okay!

NYT is now straight-up just publishing maps that look like they're from regional meme pages on facebook.

When a crew of BART cops roll through a station on a fare evasion patrol, I play the role of the friendly tourist. I let them explain the entire fare system to me. I "forget" which card I paid with, and let them check every single card in my wallet. It can take five minutes or more.

A few years ago, the app I need to use to pay for my apartment building's washing machines started offering to help me gamble with my remaining balance. It was then that doom mounted the bleak horizon.

Being an ICE agent has to be one of the most humiliating experiences possible in the spectrum of human possibility. Imagine thinking you're going to start the Fourth Reich and then an old Norwegian woman who looks and sounds like Garrison Keillor says "Uf da" and spits in your face. Devastating.

Hanania has to be the most pathetic, sniveling little worm out of all them.

It would really be such a shame if it happened tomorrow. I sure hope it doesn't happen tomorrow. It probably WON'T happen tomorrow. But still, if it did, it sure would be a shame.

"San Diego dispensary owner convicted of selling counterfeit 5-Hour Energy drinks and defrauding grocery wholesalers" is kind of the platonic ideal of a Trump administration pardon recipient. It's almost too beautiful to be real.

What's funny about Trump's ongoing disgruntled relationship with the Nobel Prize Committee is that he's actually right. It WAS bullshit that Obama was awarded the prize in 2009. Trump is demanding the prize because he knows it is a token of prestige and power rather than merit or accomplishment.