Application fees are one of the least examined but most pervasive forms of class stratification in the arts.

The reports coming out of Minnesota of the brutality of ICE terror are harrowing. What's clear to me, however, is that the people are rising up to resist this violence head on. Resistance is everywhere. We may be on our own, but we are not alone. "Every time a whistle blows, they don’t win."

*whispers* The best free resource in Los Angeles? An @lapubliclibrary.bsky.social library card 📚✨ With a library card, you get access to WiFi, 3D printing tools, Adobe Creative Cloud, recording studios, legal help, student tutoring, and more. All for free. 🎥: @marinamasako.bsky.social

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

"i have dreamt it before, this terrible reckoning, this gaping..." Adi's first publication of the year is here! Asmaa Jama's poem "I have gone mad before, so I am not afraid" is live today, with art by Kaya Joan. Read here: adimagazine.com/articles/i-h...

It’s just kids playing Risk now. 🤡

These are L.A.'s nine best places for getting to know Venezuelan cooking, from its beloved arepas, tequeños, and cachapas, to its national dish of pabellón criollo. The full list: lataco.com/best-venezue... By Hadley Tomicki

2025 had an obvious conservative tilt and I need you weirdos to work double time next year. I need you to hike up your thrifted levis and look me in the eye and promise me you’re gonna get weirder this year to scare the squares. We can’t let them get comfortable.

In their approach to higher education, Trump and Newsom shared one thing in common this year: reducing funding for colleges and universities. bit.ly/4jadlD4 📸 Adriana Heldiz

“Something like the plate tracker helps to encourage and promote legal transparency and legal accountability, especially when they're going around, switching plates, trying to hide, trying to be undetectable,” said Sherman Austin. Full story: lataco.com/ice-license-... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

One week left! We’re still accepting Vol. XI: “PARA/SOCIAL” submissions for art and comics through December 31! Send us your creative ventures before the new year: tinyurl.com/ExpoParaSocial.

Delete that shit right now friends.

If you're feeling generous and want to help me pay my rent this month, please consider subscribing to the newsletter or dropping a tip in the jar (link in my bio). It's been an extremely lean month this month and my student loans don't drop til mid-January. Any bit helps.

After what we're seeing at CBS, if today is not the perfect day for everyone to find some independent journalism & nonprofit newsrooms to support... what day could be better?

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction." "How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

They held a four day trial to try to convict this guy. The jury took three hours to deliberate before they returned a not guilty.

From @sempervirensfund.bsky.social Soundscape of the Redwood Forest - online, free. "An immersive listening experience drawn from the living forest." "Step into this environment and hear the solitude of the forest come to life." Scroll down the site for more sounds. sounds.sempervirens.org

Registration now open. Thank you @asle-us.bsky.social ! www.asle.org/stay-informe...

There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom

California State University’s trustees will vote tomorrow on whether to increase how much the system’s 22 campus presidents and other senior executives earn. bit.ly/4oHbzv6 📝 @mzinshteyn.bsky.social 📸 Jules Hotz

Can't upload my lecture about societal collapse in a science fictional AI-run city built on a system of generational life debt to the sprawling Canvas site of my uber-capitalistic pro-AI university because Amazon Web Services are suffering a technical failure. (In this essay, I will...)

I just keep thinking about the first guy to put on the frog costume reading the news today and seeing frogs literally all over the world what a fucking thing, man that 25 year old did more for the country in a week than most of the NYT op-ed section in a lifetime

They are also line dancing in the street, lmao I love Los Angeles

#nokings Portland frog brigade

Please consider signing @wakasamemorial.bsky.social's open letter calling for the protection/preservation of Japanese American incarceration history, and the Wakasa memorial site and stone at the Topaz concentration camp in Utah: t.ly/jh2dE I wrote about it @citylightsbooks.bsky.social: t.ly/DbxB5

The big need for folks is going to be winter gear - coats, snopants, boots, etc. and don't forget the kids too. Remember, many many families lost EVERYTHING. The City of Bethel is gearing up for an influx of maybe hundreds of people evacuated from the impacted villages.

Protect the Portland frog at all costs 💪

FOLIO is open for submission for Volume 41: In-Between! Have work that's hard to define? Liminal? About being stuck in the middle? We want to see it! foliolitjournal.submittable.com/submit

Friends and colleagues in Native and Indigenous lit, the fantastic English Dept at App State is hiring: english.appstate.edu/news/we-are-...

🎉 Big news: we’re starting an SPJ Chapter in the Central Valley 🎉 If you are a working/retired/aspiring journalist in Bakersfield, Tulare or Kings counties, you should have received an email about it from me just now. Please let me know if you didn’t. (The rest of the Valley: stay tuned!)

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

Los Angeles, despite what its haters say, is a reading town, from its bookworms to its script-readers. It's full of great independent and time-honored bookstores that are almost as plentiful as the inspired authors this city has spawned. By Hadley Tomicki The full guide: lataco.com/best-booksto...

How do billionaire team owners not only pay a lower tax rate than some of their superstar players, but also a lower rate than the people who sell concessions at the games? ➡️ Revisit our 2021 story: https://propub.li/47ZbFJ3

Teachers, parents, and people who know high school aged creative writers, The Weight Journal is open for submissions! www.theweightjournal.com

Moderating this fun discussion of California myths at the California state library this week! Join on Zoom to learn more about Calafia, pulp novels, and Ramona

Willian Gimenez was abducted by ICE yesterday in Chicago. He had been part of a lawsuit against off-duty police and Home Depot employees for abusing day laborers. Latino Union says he was targeted for advocating for his rights as a worker. @bloomekatz.bsky.social and I report.

New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social: ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday. Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events. Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

holy shit dude using a fake deployment for wildland fire crews from a fire that’s only 13% contained during peak western US fire season to detain multiple firefighters and remove the crews from the fire is a scale of evil & dangerous I can’t fully communicate to people not from wildfire regions

who says Bakersfield doesn't have its charms

Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about

Understatement of the fucking year right here.

We are creating a Spanish language section on The Rumpus, for original creative work written in Spanish and are looking for a volunteer editor for this section. If this could be you, please send a brief letter of interest to [email protected] by Tuesday, September 2nd!