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Dozens of ICE vehicles posted up at Dodgers Stadium Gate E. Folks are suspecting that they may be bringing people here after conducting raids. Get these fucking fascist pigs out of our city.

submitted 6 hours ago • 44 comments

Catsimatidis is an all-time right-wing ghoul, but don't let that distract you from the fact that what he's threatening to do here is known as a "capital strike," wherein the ruling class leverages its outsized control over a key market to engineer a political outcome that protects private profits.

submitted 8 hours ago • 20 comments

For all the millions of word that have been written about how LLMs work, this is the only thing about them that most of us need to know.

submitted 10 hours ago • 8 comments

This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.

submitted 10 hours ago • 77 comments

I got a lot of requests, so here’s a gift link to my latest newsletter, about Democrats’ obsession with calling everything Trump does a “distraction.”

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

OH GOD

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

Some megaevent news: Airbnb is now a global sponsor for FIFA, partnering with the cities hosting the 2025 Club World Cup (happening now) and the 2026 World Cup. Airbnb is also a global IOC partner for the 2028 Olympics. For the next three years, Airbnb will be actively recruiting new hosts in LA

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

The LAPD says they need more $$$ in order to cover overtime to respond to the protests, according to this city report. LA city's response has so far cost $19.7 million. The LAPD costs make up nearly $17M, of which $11.7M is police OT, which the LAPD says it needs more funds to cover.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

🚨 There’s a lot of horrific news out of Washington right now—but you might have missed this: Senate Republicans just introduced a plan to sell off 120 million acres of our public lands. Let me break down what’s in the bill and why it’s a full-scale land grab. 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 233 comments

Gavin Newsom vetoed a data broker privacy bill that our legislature passed last year that would have allowed Californians to opt out of all data brokers with a single click.

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

It’s nice knowing that whatever’s going on in the world that we have a team of malicious idiots on it

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

About today's public transit discourse: I believe that riding public transit is a spiritual good for increasing your empathy and practicing minding your own business. It also helps you internalize that most people mind their own business, e.g. no one is looking at you.

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

You almost have to appreciate just how beautifully this illustrates the gerontocratic nature of American politics: the Ancient Umbrella is imbued with more experience simply because it existed longer.

submitted 3 days ago • 228 comments

See which of YOUR public lands congress wants to sell off to the rich www.wilderness.org/articles/med...

submitted 4 days ago • 87 comments

Anyway gonna shut it down for the night. Yes that man is hurting people and will continue to do so but he's deeply unpopular and is going to be more so. It's up to us to show actual solidarity with the most vulnerable and to do what we can from where we are to fight back. No throwing ppl under buses

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Kinda wild that we all get to pay taxes to fund a civil war against us

submitted 3 days ago • 410 comments

NEWS: Shohei Ohtani will be the starting pitcher for the Dodgers tomorrow night against the Padres, the team announced Sunday.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Wish the ESPN broadcast crew would call the game that's actually already in progress instead of spending the whole damn time yapping about the Devers trade

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Memo to Mark Walter, Stan Kasten, Lon Rosen and everybody on down the Dodgers’ executive hierarchy: Dig up, stupid.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

submitted 4 days ago • 159 comments

I'm not naive enough to believe the mayor can control the LAPD. But we would like to hear a single acknowledgement, a single word expressing concern about the countless documented instances of LAPD attacking protesters and journalists without reason. Instead, @mayor.lacity.gov eggs the cops on.

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Anyone who has ever lived in LA county will not be surprised it was the sheriff's department that escalated

submitted 4 days ago • 339 comments

This guy rules. I wish the rest of the Dodgers would step up.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

“Armed, masked ICE agents executed a raid Saturday afternoon at a swap meet in the city of Santa Fe Springs hours before a concert was to begin, witnesses said. … ‘If you looked Hispanic in any way, they just took you,’ Zaldivar said.” www.latimes.com/california/l...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

We laugh, but I teach my students a NY case in which State Trooper A killed State Trooper B when shooting at a guy fleeing a drug bust, and they successfully charge the guy running (who just ran, didn’t shoot) w murder. Not saying they’ll charge protesters for this. But also saying they could.

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

Remarkable. MSNC: "I want to reiterate this has been 100% peaceful." Seconds later, LA County sheriffs start firing on the crowd. Yet again, "law enforcement" deliberately escalated.

submitted 5 days ago • 1097 comments

we don’t talk enough about gang on gang violence

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

The cops are rioting again in LA

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submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

A woman is hospitalized and receives staples in her head after LAPD trampled her with their horses. LAPD also impeded her receiving medical attention.

submitted 6 days ago • 635 comments

Psssst. Ball’s different. Again. Drag is up, distance is down. Who knows why. www.nytimes.com/athletic/642...

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

This is illegal, not that the law means anything at this point.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

You gotta be fucking kidding me

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Not going to waste my time with Chait, but the problem with ‘the liberals told you so’ is that many Democrats are advancing the notion that the protests must be crushed, and local cops have been at the front lines from the beginning.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

If this isn't an argument for dissolution of the Senate

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Regional centers coordinate services for Californians with developmental disabilities. This means ICE stopped vans full of developmentally disabled people and questioned whether they had a right to be in this country.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

From the top rope

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HERE IS A THING that EVERY American can do: 1. Call your Senator. 2. Say the following: "I am requesting that you place a hold on the nomination of Bill Essayli as U.S. Attorney for the Central District of CA for directing federal agents to assault a U.S. Senator." 3. Call other Senator, repeat

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

the "experts" are: —two guys from something called the Network Contagion Research Institute which only punches left and is funded by an Israeli surveillance entrepreneur —a grad student who disagrees with the premise of the article —a guy from CSIS, which has zero expertise in domestic policy

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Karen Bass on TV whining about the World Cup and begging Trump for help, just the most feeble and craven political hack.

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments