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Something something history repeats National Guardsmen cross the street near Barbara Kruger's mural on the fourth day of the Los Angeles riots in 1992. (credit: Gary Leonard)

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the nytimes doesn't get LA and never will

submitted 12 hours ago • 15 comments

That officer took deliberate aim at this journalist and shot her. There's nobody standing near her.

submitted 14 hours ago • 55 comments

A reason im not moved by the “don’t give the trump administration the pretext they’re looking for” is that we would not dare say that about any anti-authoritarian protest movement in literally any other country

submitted 15 hours ago • 103 comments

oh wow you’re against violent protests yeah cool quick question who did you see being violent at protests for example did you see anyone firing any weapons or maybe hitting people with cars or using chemical weapons or beating people and dragging them away into unmarked vans is that what you mean

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

These are literally not crimes

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NEW: "John Mulaney, Natasha Lyonne and the Battle of the Bike Lanes." Natasha Lyonne thinks there's no space for bike lanes in Manhattan. But cars? 🤔 Why do intelligent people say unintelligent things about bikes? @awalkerinla.bsky.social joins us to discuss. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

🚨 Support Los Angeles immigrant communities 🚨 Please consider donating to one or all of the following orgs: Immigrant Defenders Law Center: give.immdef.org/donate LA Jail Support / Bail Fund: account.venmo.com/u/jailsuppor... Unión del Barrio: uniondelbarrio.org/main/support...

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Wrote this in the summer of 2020, definitely a good sign to be dusting it off now. "Less lethal" weapons are tools of colonial occupation marketed to police, and tools of police marketed to colonial soldiers. Anti-civilian weapons more than "less-lethal" www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

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Many Border Patrol vehicles and other unmarked cars just exited the anti-ICE protest area in Paramount, California. They were met with fierce resistance from protesters, with a number of vehicles being visibly damaged.

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This story is wild: Rather than just comply with court orders; the Trump admin has ICE offices and detainees living in a shipping container in Djibouti unde threat of rocket attacks wapo.st/4kPIACX

submitted 3 days ago • 63 comments

Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now

submitted 3 days ago • 233 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 3 days ago • 645 comments

Torrance is a sleeping giant and the populace is pissed. PTA Volunteer: “When something like this happens, it shakes all of us in the community. There’s not a child at our school that we don’t treat as our own" www.latimes.com/california/s...

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this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

submitted 3 days ago • 535 comments

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

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Cool to see this in the @wsj.com www.wsj.com/video/series...

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DeLauro uses her opening statement to tear Russ Vought a new one

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I keep waiting for Bad Bunny to do something that isn't awesome and so far no dice www.chicagotribune.com/2025/06/03/p...

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"When my time comes, just know I will live on in every 'whatnot' you hear. Whenever you see a momma who's so stupid, or so ugly, I'll be there. I love y'all and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it." - George "Not Dead Yet It's Just a Black and White Photo" Wallace

submitted 5 days ago • 62 comments

People around the world are starving now because of Musk’s cuts. They are dying of disease because of Musk’s cuts. They are being born with diseases they will carry with them for the rest of their lives because of Musk’s cuts. https://trib.al/91rI7x6

submitted 6 days ago • 93 comments

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

submitted 6 days ago • 862 comments

It's so beautiful to see residents helping other residents on NextDoor! Like Linda, who is helping others go through the process of opting-out of paying school parcel taxes! Because yes, in California that's a thing: in addition to Prop 13, you can opt-out of school parcel taxes if you're 65+!

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.

submitted 6 days ago • 456 comments

These people are just wrong about literally everything.

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FEMA head Richardson told staff that the agency would be returning to the same guidance for hurricane response as last year. Some were confused how that would be possible, given the agency had already eliminated key programs and sharply cut its workforce. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Seriously, download and skim the EIR even if you don't care about water resilience. The report pulls together cultural, environmental history of the South Bay Area. Want to know where the oil fields are? Where the Native American villages were (some are under oil refineries)

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

in a way it's actually really funny how little it took to completely undermine 200 years of declaration of how much America loves free speech

submitted 7 days ago • 45 comments

This no-kill animal shelter is in desperate need of kitten food, kitten milk replacement, and other supplies. If you post a screenshot in my replies showing that you donated at least $10 (even as a Chewy gift card), I'll answer a style-related question for you. Donation info in their thread.

submitted 7 days ago • 354 comments

Huge opportunity for a political party that believes government can do good things. Public opinion is finally shifting after 50 years of right wing anti-government propaganda. This isn't the time for cowering and throat clearing www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/p...

submitted 7 days ago • 118 comments

Eagle screech 🦅🏳️‍🌈

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Margaret Brennan totally exposes FDA Commissioner Makary for making it up as he goes and making conflicting recommendations in order to cast doubt on covid vaccines. He's so terrible during this interview that Brennan is left shaking her head as she wraps it up.

submitted 8 days ago • 1305 comments

Page One in Des Moines. @jemsinger.bsky.social

submitted 8 days ago • 1596 comments

lmao shout out to whoever put this sticker on a sidewalk in Brooklyn Don't rank Cuomo or Adams Do rank Zohran Mamdani #1!

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

This is some of the best YIMBY messaging and policy explanation out there.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o... "If there were justice in the world, Musk would never be able to repair his reputation, at least not without devoting the bulk of his fortune to easing the misery he’s engendered." – Michelle Goldberg

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