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

“Surely I too can drink from the whites-only water fountain”

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.)

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.