And check out www.slipsslips.net their second issue is forthcoming and I bet you can submit to issue three soon.

Some of these lines, "to swim through the inky black bruise of my memory spread out on the floor, spread out on the solar system" is what having a leaky brain barrier felt like to me before anyone said the words "leaky brain barrier"

I’m ready to share that in May the first poem I wrote and submitted post Covid infection appeared in the inaugural issue of slips slips.

For #perspective: • Google the total number of US military deaths from major conflicts since the #Revolution • Google the total number of US #Covid deaths

My periodic reminder that Sarah Palin (quite correctly) called for Rahm Emmanuel to be fired when he used the "R" word. And my periodic reminder that maybe a political reporter wants to ask her what should happen when Trump uses it. Like any reporter.

Introduce etc: Al Green The Violent Femmes x5 Blood Orange x2 Lilith fair 1997 Tom Petty once with tickets and once from a patio in the Hollywood hills where we could perfectly hear the last show of his life at the bowl 🥺

My upstairs neighbor is having a reggae phase but it's only first thing in the morning and it's only the Island records over produced versions of Bob Marley songs, help

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

"ZOSO, Gossip Girl." - someone having fun recommending Led Zeppelin IV to Gossip Girl Can we still do posts like this sometimes?

He really is Patrick Bateman. He spends a lot of time with his hair slicked back, coolly fighting the other side in a fashionable way, and then at night he runs out to furiously throw some homeless person’s last picture of their family into a garbage can.

Wow. @404media.co uncovered the names of additional dozens of people who were disappeared by the Trump administration on the March flights to El Salvador. www.404media.co/flight-manif...

I keep having to tell people eugenics didn’t start with Trump. It’s quite literally the foundation of America and needs to be discussed as such.

New — I did a brief history of the ‘Fork in the Road’ email to show how Musk screwed up by treating federal workers like fucking idiots, and how the pressure to resign is about breaking morale more than culling the workforce.

the groundhog just explained jungian shadow work to me in excruciating detail

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

"Look for the helpers." Friend, you are forty two years old. You are supposed to be the helper.

Incredible folks at @maskblocla.bsky.social distributed more than 10,000 masks in under 48 hours, and they’re still going. Any amount helps support that work, and if you have $100 to spare, Alice will send you a terrific gift.

At least 11 librarians in LA lost their homes in the LA Fires. A thread of their gofundmes:

It would be a tragedy if President Biden dIdn’t pardon Leonard Peltier, who deserves clemency if anyone does and who is emblematic of our nation’s grotesque mistreatment of Native Americans. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

If you’re good at internet sleuthing and want to put your skills to work to help wildfire victims you can check for LA county rentals that have suddenly doubled in price, publicly name and shame the agents doing this, and report them to the government because it’s illegal: oag.ca.gov/contact/cons...

Oh.

Ngl I keep forgetting abt this platform but I’m trying to do better. Thread of resources I’ve shared elsewhere for LA survivors and for those looking to support: Help Historically Black #Altadena rebuild: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

ABC 7 just asked the firefighters passing where they’re from and the firefighters said they were incarcerated they immediately panned lmao 😭 let it be known that the firefighters fighting near reseda blvd ARE THE PPL MOST OF U HATE

Let’s give them LAPD’s budget please!

Good morning from Los Angeles where price gouging rentals during a disaster is illegal! Even vacant units! Call (800) 593-8222 to report price increases over 10% to LA County. Idk who you tell in the rest of CA but it’s not legal here at all. Fucking landlords.

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INSULIN NEEDED - if anyone can spare insulin, especially the more shelf-stable pens, please bring them to: Bernie's Coffee Shop 6101 Wilshire Blvd before 6pm today

The Los Angeles city controller is the only authoritative government source on the budget. @lacontroller.bsky.social is now weighing in on the recent discourse. Make sure to send this & tag all the people on here that were talking about the LA Fire Department budget not being cut. They were wrong.

so much is too much right now

A trustworthy GFM for 🔭 who lost their homes or have been displaced due to the Eaton fire: www.gofundme.com/f/support-na...

Viva los water drop crews!!

Just gonna repost every water drop I see these videos are keeping my heart from exploding

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

California has deployed 400 incarcerated firefighters to fight the LA blaze. They make $26 over 24-hr shift. “We’re doing this heroic, crucial work, but many ppl inside cannot support their family, can barely afford hygiene supplies. Nobody is saving money,” Amika Mota, former firefighter, told me

@tyleraking.com The Mutual Aid L.A. team's resource list is up. Please boost, it's the best one I've seen: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

This happened.

I fucking love marching bands.

Billie Jean King looks great! #roseparade2025

I had just launched multiple k12 learning communities spanning New England and we followed school closures and policies closely in several states. I was bracing for the release of racial data and well, I’m sure a lot of marginalized folks know this is robustly evidence supported, unfortunately.

December 26th, 1862, the executions of 38 Dakota men were carried out on the order of President Abraham Lincoln in Mankato, MN in the largest mass execution in American history. After hasty “trials”, the execution was carried out by hanging in a public square. The men, whose cases were each reviewed

That half time show hit me right in the Texas corner of my heart 🤠

Happy every holiday, especially to folks who found this resonant. May we imagine and build safer and more loving community spaces for ourselves and each other in the new year. Aho 🪶

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Before you judge a disabled person for the way they’re coping with the messiness of life …consider the sickest you ever were. Maybe it was a flu or an infection thst required surgery Try and remember the pain, fatigue & crushing monotony of it Now imagine knowing it would never end. Then be kinder

The lesson the American left should learn from the S. Korean protests is that racism enables American authoritarianism more than anything else. The psychological wages of whiteness are a real currency white people of a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds are willing to be paid in.