3.19.26 - Firefighters and forestry workers from throughout the state work to contain and put down the Sandy Fire in Simi Valley, CA. (It helps me a lot to watch this) youtu.be/dTXXY_dc6kM?...

@darthbluesky.bsky.social these two took a plea deal to outside jail after much yelling. They shortly tried to recant, but they're clearly guilty.

This @ft graphic shows that trump suddenly got very interested in trading stocks

Saturday @angelcity.com

The best indication so far the WHCD Trump shooting wasn't staged? No evidence yet of huge insider bets just before it happened on Polymarket or Kalshi :-)

Normal people have absolutely had enough and they are starting to cook lmao

i'm not a fan of piker, but the sudden obsession with him is deranged. also pretty rich for the people who brought you "paul ryan is serious about poverty" and "sbf is For Real" to talk about poisonous contributions

These Pernicious Gambling Apps Will Embed Themselves Deeper and Deeper Into Public Life, Disintegrating Social Trust In Unpredictable and Dangerous Ways vs. No It Won't

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Morning run architecture

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Please pay attention to what's happening in Minneapolis, Minnesota. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY Reposts are appreciated.

Yes. They need to be torn down.

Minneapolis Police Chief O'Hara tells CBS he has received no cooperation or official info from the federal government. "Even when our officers initially responded to the scene, our watch commander was not given even the most basic information that is typical in a law enforcement-involved shooting."

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

nine years old

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Local perks of dealing with traffic. Walking down and buying tickets in line.

I made @lukeoneil47.bsky.social Hellworld’s Best of 2025 for my piece on the wildfires in LA. It’s surreal to be among my fav writers and their pieces. Luke’s Hellworld gives writers like me a place to publish stories that wouldn’t otherwise have a home. www.welcometohellworld.com/the-best-of-...

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

Things we learn: 1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban 2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal 3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants And much more. Read it.

To heal our divided nation I propose splitting Game of the Year awards into two categories: - Game of the Year That’s 3D and You Use a Sword and/or Gun to Explode a Guy - Game of the Year That’s Some Gay Bullshit Indie Meditation on Grief or Whatever

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

I wrote about No Kings Day in Los Angeles. What bothers me most about reflecting on police response to protests in LA is that the brutality begins to feel...expected. Like, "Oh, that's just LAPD." Frankly that's bullshit. Pretty tired of watching my neighbors get their shit kicked in by the cops.

Portland ICE facility now.

Here come all the fireworks around LA

Trump has not been to Altadena or mentioned it as far as I can tell. He has eviscerated federal disaster relief, wildland firefighting, and emergency management. And he has played a disastrous game of chicken over the billions in grants we need to move forward. themikerothschild.com/2025/10/16/t...

Still new for The Ten Four, but with significant updates and details on the ignition of the flames which eventually turned into the Palisades Fire. I've also embedded the federal criminal complaint. latenfour.com/2025/10/08/a...

"hand-to-hand combat with antifa every night"

In June 2025, Nick Stern, a British photojournalist, was shot by police with a less lethal munition while documenting protests against ICE in Los Angeles. I had tried to follow this closely. I didn't realize how close he came to losing his leg. Or worse. 😑

Contributed to this London Times piece. Kind of a cool bucket list thing to work with a paper of record that started in 1785! youtu.be/vnlMHkjNhaE?...

It’s both depressing and darkly hilarious how Lawfare posting has gone from “we got him on an Article 33, Clause 8, Subsection Alpha infraction, baby cannon time!” to *slams whisky bottle down* “the law is fake and I challenge John Roberts to a fistfight at the Walmart parking lot.”

Nick Valencia, who has been doing amazing reporting, just wrote about this: “These Are Abductions.” Newlywed Husband Says Wife Taken During Green Card Interview open.substack.com/pub/nickvale...

It's that time again! @vinnycaravella.bsky.social and I are streaming TOMORROW to benefit the National MS Society. Donate at blinkingguy.com

Not enough people are paying attention to a major target for Brendan Carr and the Trump admin’s crackdown on free speech: social media. It’s under bipartisan attack, even though it’s a crucial forum for reaching the public and fighting back. spitfirenews.com/p/is-anyone-...

Since Charlie Kirk was fatally shot, people on the left have been censored, punished, and targeted with more violence for telling the truth about Kirk's legacy. The cycle continues: mainstream whitewashing of violence begets more violence and the victims are blamed. spitfirenews.com/p/the-nation...

Not the radical left!

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

I wrote this story because the case of the Guatemalan children hasn’t received nearly as much media attention as it deserves. I wanted to highlight the full extent of the government’s depraved conduct. I hope you’ll read and share. Don’t look away. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

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I'm playing more Peak with my daughter, and we're raising money for the Colon Cancer Coalition. Come hang out! twitch.tv/notthatwills...

"Skater Kid continued taunting the agents, dancing around the projectiles." "Getting shot, getting tear-gassed, getting flash-banged multiple times, it didn't hurt as much as seeing my community of immigrants being just gripped by fear." #California #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing