Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says. The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp... By Julianne Le

we are going to win

We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.

Children need to be exposed to healthy, heteronormative role models like an adult man with a "cave" in the garage lined with pornography and his wife who collects hilarious text art about how she chugs wine because you were born.

"In St. Paul, at least one-fourth of students from Spanish-speaking homes have missed every day of school since Dec. 12."

Great read that made me nostalgic and grateful for the lost internet of my youth.

70% of all Harris voters in 2024 and 65% of all self identified Democrats believe Israel has committed genocide 60% of Democrats believe Israel kills children intentionally and whopping 77% overall have a negative view of Israel.

Mapped out, they just went down some of the busiest streets in Echo Park and Silver Lake, grabbing people as they went. If you go through any of these neighborhoods, as a resident or commuter, you pass by these spots

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

Now that LA has bankrupted itself for years due to LAPD pay raises + lawsuits, the parking cops have become ubiquitous. Of course, this means high-density + high minority neighborhoods in the city are double taxed to pay for police that routinely violate their rights & freedom. Obscene.

Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

finally found the difference between truth and beauty

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

Once heard a rumor that Ohtani was secretly Korean, the most Korean rumor I’ve ever heard.

“The question of who gets to live as long as they should isn’t moral but systemic. We often say that death is the great unifier as it’s the one thing that we all have in common. But sometimes, I look around and wonder if even the after-life is segregated.”

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Mood.

I doubt any of these people willingly open a Bible. Two brain cells and one parable would make them feel the heat of hell.

Bondi refuses to answer questions about allegations Trump's border czar Tom Homan took $50K in cash in exchange for his promise to funnel government contracts to "businessmen" who turned out to be FBI agents in 2024. After Bondi became AG, the investigation was terminated.

Got my contributor copy of Best American Mystery and Suspense 2025 edited by @stephcha.bsky.social & @donwinslow.bsky.social featuring my story "A Box Full of Soul". A dream come true to see it included among so many other great stories. @marinerbooks.bsky.social

Honored to remind you that my story BAD MAN DOWN pubbed by The Yard: Crime Blog has made it into BAMS 2025 edited by @stephcha.bsky.social & @donwinslow.bsky.social from @marinerbooks.bsky.social Preorder your copy today: bit.ly/4drzg5P

My story "A Box Full of Soul" will be in the Best American Mystery & Suspense 2025 edited by @stephcha.bsky.social and @donwinslow.bsky.social this October. Better preorder now!!

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

The longtime fear-mongering about crime in major cities is, of course, copaganda and is being used as a pretext for occupation. It has more to do with criminalizing and controlling specific populations i.e. Black, brown, unhoused, and poor people, and not others.

Funniest possible person to say nothing bad happened when he was a kid as a result of everyone having guns

I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point

imagine going to an apex predator's territory and seasoning yourself first. we are literally cooked

You may not like that it takes 100 years to pass some watered down social welfare program because of the constitution but that's also what protects us from dictatorship [some dumb slob does dictatorship in 6 months]

Too bad that our legal and institutional safeguards only work to prevent good policies. It would be cool if they also stopped the evil stuff

LA launched Vision Zero in 2015, with the goal of bringing traffic deaths to 0 by this year. We’ve failed. Cars killed 303 Angelenos last year. My own cousin Freddy lost his life in a hit-and-run in 2022. Our leaders should do more (invest more $, stop catering to commuters) to protect us.

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵

Oh shit, "Butterfly" is a @stephcha.bsky.social joint? CLICK.

Daniel Dae Kim hopes 'Butterfly' can be the 'KPop Demon Hunters' of spy thrillers

Want to read the only piece of prose fiction I’ve written in the last couple years? It’s 500 words and I wrote it in 2023, a little visit to an imagined future L.A. Please also enjoy original stories by Ivy Pochoda and Jonathan Lethem. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

The deliberate killing of five Al Jazeera staff has brought the total number of journalists killed by Israel since the start of the war to 237, according to Gaza's Government Media Office. 🔴 LIVE updates:

This is our satellite. Bought and paid for with taxpayer dollars, appropriated for this specific mission by the elected Congress. Those who would destroy it on purpose are our enemies.

i was reminded today of my favorite bit on twitter which was putting texts from my husband over pictures of tony soprano

A hunger strike at a South Florida immigration detention center state officials have named “Alligator Alcatraz” enters its tenth day, as detainees protest what they call inhumane and dangerous living conditions.

Read this perfect story today. Thrilled to teach it to my students next semester. Thanks @stephcha.bsky.social and @blacktopkid.bsky.social for your excellent selections in BAMS southwestreview.com/volume-108-n...

Aid groups report that Israel is refusing to allow any olives or other “fruits or vegetables with pits or seeds that could be planted” into Gaza. They will only allow in pitted olives.

Every blue-haired they/them liberal arts grad living in NYC is tougher than this sad little bitch.

Zichro L'MAAPACHA May his memory be for the revolution ❤️‍🔥 The activist & writer Awdah Hathaleen-- who worked on the film NO OTHER LAND, & brought so many Jews, Israelis & others to Umm Al-Khair to teach abt the realities of settler violence, was murdered by a West Bank settler w/terrorist record. +

It's simply amazing to me that the U.S. spent 70 years (1945-2015) constructing a post-WW2 military, economic, and social world order to its liking, only to turn around and decide it was actually the victim of this order the entire time.

NEW: Border patrol made false claims about Los Angeles protesters it jailed, misrepresenting basic facts of events that were filmed. I obtained records of officers acknowledging + "apologizing" for errors The DOJ is now dismissing cases, an embarrassment for Trump-appointed US attorney Bill Essayli

Reuters: USAID analysis found no evidence of massive Hamas theft of Gaza aid — challenging the main rationale that Israel and the U.S. give for backing a new armed private aid operation. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Happy birthday to Raymond Chandler, inventor of Google (Legitimately love this attempted mockery of science fiction. I'd easily read a novel or series in this style.)