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I’m having flashbacks

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Good work people!

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

I'm seeing SO MANY similarities between LA and 2020 Portland. The revved-up misinformation, the "city is burning" rhetoric, the fact that out-of-state RW agitators are the ones instigating things and causing the majority of violence. Difference is, now the agitators are federally funded.

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 12 hours ago • 508 comments

I read all 102 pages and here's what I've learned so far. A few bits: - Bike tax unchanged at $15. - Someone inserted provision for mandatory 12 foot lane widths on all freight routes. - Transit tax boosted over initial proposal. - Big win for "Great Streets" bikeportland.org/2025/06/09/t...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely right.

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

Sharing this piece from 2020 with my LA reporter friends. Now is a good time to be asking about weapons use policies for less lethal munitions. My good friend @jlevinson.bsky.social did so back during Portland's big protests and there were plenty of misuses happening.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

They shot at a reporter's legs a few days ago from behind while the camera was rolling. This is the same playback as 2020 in Portland but fewer protections from abuse.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

As an advocate, the lectures about how people should protest better — "Be peaceful!" "Don't wave flags of foreign countries!" — is so exhausting. There are 100,000+ people out in the streets of Los Angeles. When and where would the meeting be to tell people to stay on message and who would run it?

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

The last sentence is basically what I was emphasizing in my messages with my Senators & Rep who it feels like are somewhat sleepwalking through this "hair on fire" emergency along with the congressional Dems! I don't get where their sense of complacency comes from and it frustrates me to no end!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Yeah, what a farce!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

PCEF delivered 15,000 cooling units installed across the city, 18 months ahead of schedule. We need more of this type of government effectiveness!

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

One thing that I haven't seen said in the last 24 hours is that the Democratic Party had an opportunity, as an institution, to help shape, foster, and direct the grassroots popular uprising against Trump II. They made a conscious decision not to.

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

For those who live elsewhere, this is the heart of downtown #LosAngeles. My friends are here. My union is here (sup @wgawest.bsky.social). My teenager is here. People are passing out pastries & singing & praying. All we want is for our neighbors not to be kidnapped off the streets.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

Pretty suss that our Senators' offices in DC don't pick up the phone during work hours - No one has ever answered the phone at @wyden.senate.gov's office. I left him & @jeff-merkley.bsky.social voicemail from me asking them to get at least a little angry about Trump sending the military into LA.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

ODOT knows how to waste money to line the pockets of their contractors. Fences, boulders and counterproductive highway widening! Wish anyone in #orleg was interested in pressing accountability for their spending before giving more $ the way they are to school districts who have to cut every year.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Just to be clear: peaceful protest is as American as it gets. But when insurrectionists were beating cops in his name, Trump never deployed the National Guard. That tells you everything.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

This is the essence.

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

In today's episode of doomerism isn't a strategy, here's a list of things you can do today to make the world around you suck a little bit less: Pick ONE thing and do it. bsky.app/profile/itsa...

submitted 113 days ago • 10 comments

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

submitted 4 days ago • 102 comments

One way to be a patriot right now is not to engage in doomerism. These people are fascists and they’re very dangerous. But they’re also weak, undisciplined, and unpopular. And they’re losing.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Cannot stress enough that this is a pitiful action by a weak, scared, pathetic group of insecure, wannabe authoritarians, and they should be mocked until the end of time for wanting to bring in the military over some people protesting them at a Home Depot.

submitted 4 days ago • 50 comments

We should be scared about what’s happening right now in LA—the president calling up troops to subdue protestors without the governor’s agreement.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Nothing happening today stops until Trump is removed from office. He has defiled the constitution and violated his oath of office repeatedly. @democrats.org @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social need to get leaders who understand the seriousness of the crisis!

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

submitted 4 days ago • 102 comments

EVERYBODY WATCH. ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today. He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader. Don’t turn away.

submitted 5 days ago • 2019 comments

An American citizen and Los Angeles native, @seiucalifornia @seiuusww President David Huerta was injured and detained when ICE terrorized a working neighborhood. We demand his immediate release!

submitted 5 days ago • 36 comments

Don't let these men and their pissing match distract from the fact Republicans are still trying to rip away healthcare and food from actual children.

submitted 6 days ago • 66 comments

The PBA is running scared. Y'all don't even realize what a good sign it is that they are trying this stuff. This is desperation.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments