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North SFV Los Angeles gay senior. Former journalist, lifelong union Dem with rescue dog and aversion to bullshit. I am here only to get news and discuss it. If you want to do something else, find someone else. I repost all gift links I see.
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@mayor.lacity.gov Scapegoating Crowley will cost you my vote in any future election. You should be ashamed of yourself.

NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

1. On Friday Night, it became apparent that historic LGBTQ+ clinic Whitman-Walker in DC had erased trans care and resources from it's website. The stated reason is harmful to us all. I make my case against it, and other orgs, erasing us for federal dollars. Subscribe to support my journalism.

#ResistanceUnited #Voices4Victory Meta laid off 5% of its workforce, then a week later more than doubled its executive bonuses from 75% of 200% of base pay. Kinda like what's happening with the federal government. Still think billionaires are on your side? Then I've got a bridge to sell you.

WI Supreme Court Race: If you care about abortion rights and FREEDOM then make a plan to vote for Judge Susan Crawford on April 1st‼️

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

Please proceed to the cashier’s window to collect your winnings. Thank you and congratulations on your successful wager

NEW: Whitman Walker, a LGBTQ health center in Washington DC, has scrubbed its site of descriptions of gender affirming care services. This is pure cowardice and stabbing the trans community in the back. While services are not affected, it will limit access to resources if patients can't find them.

The party of (theoretically) individualism and self-determination and steely-eyed frontier bootstrap bullshit sure seems happy to let a New York reality tv real estate bankruptcy magnet walk all over them and steal what power they had scraped together. Sad.

I was off by a workday but the rest stands.

"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

The senior military officer purges will put our troops in danger. Trump put a part-time airmen incharge of the military, jumping a slew of 3 and 4-stars with 30-40 years of military experience. Our enemy couldn’t be happier.

WTAF? One continuous unelected power grab after another.

It's so weird how the party that likes to claim their opponents are radical Maoists or Stalinists are engaging in purges of the military, the Justice Department, & dozens of other federal agencies at a scale that is far far far beyond anything any incoming administration in US history has ever done.

white guy DEI

The Trump / Musk administration’s extortion of vulnerable American ally Ukraine should be a #FrontPage and multiple day story. Will it be? h/t @reuters.com www.reuters.com/business/us-...

BREAKING: Donald Trump just fired General CQ Brown (left) and has replaced him with the less qualified Lt. General Dan Caine. DEI isn’t a problem if you’re white.

Tesla is recalling more than 375,000 vehicles due to a power steering issue.

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it would be gauche to edit my own wikipedia page but I do hope someone updates it to include the berryman nationalpress.org/award-story/...

We’re definitely seeing a spike in Washington DC jobless claims:

Superb piece by my friend @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social about supporting foreign criticism of Trump's America. It's not unpatriotic of us to feel this way. It's a rejection of fascism and an endorsement of the need for freedom around the world.

Man found guilty of attempted murder in Salman Rushdie stabbing trial

Elon Musk proposed closing Radio Liberty. Well, as a person who was thrown into a concentration camp and put through torture because of my writing for Radio Liberty, I can say that Europe is far from free. The work of the Ukrainian bureau of Radio Liberty is one of the main elements of ... 1/2

It's happening INFLECTION: The Backlash Begins As Elon Goes Wild talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/infle...

Here it comes. The #TrumpDepression

This was just done at the University of Cincinnati. The administration are also requiring RAs to inform on any potential trans students to assign them to separate dorms.

Even I know this is garbage.

Here’s my One Last Thing for this issue. The story of Jocelynn Rojo Carranza, 11, taking her own life over bullying about her family’s immigration status gutted me. Our culture and government failed her. Rest in peace angel 🙏🏽

The governor of Maine is a 77-year-old in the middle of her second term in office and therefore ineligible to run for a third. But King Trump here tries to intimidate her by saying she'll have no future career in politics if she dares to stand up to him. I think she's all good, man.

all of central Brooklyn is playing a game of Egg The Cybertruck with this one guy who keeps street parking in the hood

I am being told students (yall make me so proud) are covering up bathroom signs with hilarious cool art including ones advising people WHO CARES and JUST GO PEE but since I’m inundated with CPAC 2025 and other stuff at the moment, I’ll comment more after I figure out what is what exactly,

Malcolm X was assassinated 60 yrs ago today. See his timeless wisdom on the true meaning of “progress.” “If you stick a knife 9 inches in & take it out 6—that’s not progress. Progress is healing the wound. They wont even admit the knife is there.”

Tennessee pastor, Rick Sentell, has been sentenced to 8 years in prison for possessing images of prepubescent children being raped. newschannel9.com/news/local/s...

Houston police captain, Daryn Edwards, who was arrested for possessing videos of children being sexually abused & released on a 250k bond, has been arrested again for child rape charges & is being held without bond. www.khou.com/article/news...

BREAKING: USCP is arresting Enrique Tarrio for swiping his hand at a counterprotester who got in his face.

Steve Bannon giving a Nazi salute at one of the biggest conservative events in our country should be career ending. Instead, conservatives are defending and even praising him. Do not ignore this. This is how fascism takes hold. Do not let them gaslight you into ignoring the signs.

@kylegriffin1.bsky.social I have no other way to contact you easily; I assume your Twitter account is hacked and phishing me?

This is a big win for the crypto bros, Trump & his cronies who are making big bucks & catering to their wealthy crypto donors. Dropping the Coinbase lawsuit also legitimatizes opportunistic lawbreaking & advances the broligarchy's plans to embrace crypto as an alternate currency & destabilize the $.