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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.

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.)

L.A. had a small but growing network of city-run daycare centers that offered 12-hours of care with three full meals - all at $160 a week. A godsend when my son needed care given two working parents. Now that system is being dismantled due to budget cuts created by bloated LAPD salaries & lawsuits.

Congrats @linwoodbarclay.bsky.social, @atticalocke.bsky.social @michaelconnelly.bsky.social,Tana French,Gary Phillips,S.A. Cosby, @lauralippman.bsky.social, @meganabbott.bsky.social & @stephcha.bsky.social on being among @wsj.com 's best crime novels of the last 25 yrs. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

listen kid, u ever been so hungry u put on rollerskates and strap a rocket to yr ass?

I hate when someone unearths my pube-autograph to the world's most famous pedophile while I'm dying of cankles

BUTTERFLY incoming. Check out the trailer, then tune in August 13 to watch born action hero DDK tear shit up across South Korea.

He was never a big factor in terms of life

Oh grow up. There’s more to politics than your survival. For instance, my comfort

"Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs, the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people who need it" @hana-kiros.bsky.social, on spending $130,000 to burn food worth $800,000 www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Suspicious number of aliases

For the first time, asylum seekers must now pay a $100 application fee & an annual $100 fee for each year their case is pending — costs that are due regardless of financial hardship. Now's the time to open your wallets and contribute to funds that support refugees. Your country depends on it.

The Trump admin's new talking point on the Big Beautiful Bill: we're going to deport all the farm laborers and make people on Medicaid work in the fields to earn their health insurance.

You can kind of see how Germany went fascist, since it had little history of democracy and had just experienced the mass slaughter and humiliation of World War I. By contrast, America is going fascist because they let women be Ghostbusters.

I'm sure glad they're taking an axe to Medicaid which keeps me & 70 million+ other ppl alive in order to instead use the money to stand on top of a truck & aim weapons of war at a park where little kids were playing & will now be traumatized for life.

Here's the trailer to SHE RIDES SHOTGUN, the movie based on my first novel. Polly and Nate are out there in these streets. Check it out. Buy the book; get hep in advance. youtu.be/U9OkHjOnQPg?...

My mom is part of a gang of senior citizens who hang out at the Peet’s Coffee on Larchmont, in one of the wealthiest, whitest neighborhoods in central L.A. This morning, they were all abuzz with excitement over Zohran Mamdani.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

Protests big: defector.com/protests-big

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

The feds are going after LA groups helping immigrants and protesters. As government officials investigate political groups and non-profits, critical media coverage also targets the organizations. One man faces federal conspiracy charges for handing out face shields at recent LA demonstrations.

It's a truly jarring split screen that Kristi Noem's goons attacking Sen Padilla happened at almost the exact same time as 16 Dem senators crossed lines to vote with the GOP to invoke cloture on the crypto bill, forfeiting any leverage. Dems need to act like an opposition.

Get the fuck out of L.A. You do not “liberate” people from their own democratically elected leadership. You do not remove their senator in handcuffs for opening his mouth. This is a declaration of authoritarian power, and we need to reject it with everything we’ve got.

California Sen. Alex Padilla was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference and handcuffed. "I am Senator Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary." Video from @Elex_Michaelson on X via Padilla's staff.

Listening to the LAPD helicopters over Koreatown, remembering that they cost almost $3,000 an hour, and that only 1% of their flights are in response to incidents involving firearms. www.latimes.com/california/s...

Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"

It’s so much worse this time. It might not be clear if you don’t live in LA, but the supposed “riots” are tiny. They’re nothing like George Floyd in 2020. Protests are happening in a few blocks downtown and as resistance to specific ICE raids. This is 100% pretense for fascist subjugation.