Los Angeles is lousy with derelict, vacant buildings and City Hall knows it. Here's a motion, not to compel owners to fix and lease them, but to find ways to wrap them in GIANT FREAKING BILLBOARDS. Come on! We need vacancy tax, eminent domain, restoration, reactivation--not ads!
I guess you could say he has an adze to grind.
This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.
Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'” That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers — answers he’s still waiting for.
One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind.
An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one."
The other said, "Take him anyway."
So they did.
Mohsen Mahdawi of White River Junction, Vermont was illegally detained by ICE during what was supposed to be the final step in his citizenship process.
Mr. Mahdawi, a legal resident of the US, must be afforded due process under the law and immediately released from detention.
DOGE abruptly cut a program called Charting My Path for Future Success—a research-based effort that helped teens with disabilities transition from high school into college, work, and independent living. Now it’s gone without explanation.
Republicans work for the Trump Regime and are violating multiple international laws with the Elsalvador plot. Do not let his Maggats normalize this.
Bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
Hey friends, I came across this in someones timeline. Never a truer word spoken about Mr Dicktator!!! Please share so those that voted for this nightmare can feel publicly shamed!Everyone deserves peace and morality in their lives. Well except the MAGATS that voted for this shit show. Repost, Linda💞
sick, semper tyrannis
The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from nearby farms and ranchers. Roughly $660 million that schools and child care facilities were counting on to purchase food has been canceled.
This will hurt both kids and small, local farmers.
Well that's just great. Now what is she going to eat?
This may be the fastest Presidency to recession in American history
FACT: Immigrants are our nation's strength! Immigrants make up 17% of all health care workers, 28.2% of physicians, 27% of direct care workers, and a staggering 38% of home health aides. #ProtectImmigrantFamilies #MOMSky
Of all of the Daily Mail's sins, posting this without a link is perhaps the worst one.
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I would have gone to Liza Bennett's parties if I knew they were like this
Ramadan Mubarak! 🌒
Just got my official termination notice. I will be unemployed, thanks to DOGE, at the end of the week.
Things are going to be tough.
But!
I've got books available (and more to come). Also, I'd like to help on any of YOUR creative projects.
Need a writer? Editor? Sounding board? I'm your guy.
Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office
Jeff Bezos will be censoring progressive opinions at the Washington Post. He says so himself today.
So ditch the Post and support independent journalism:
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It has begun: my department was in negotiations with an outstanding scientist for a faculty position. That faculty candidate has now withdrawn citing political upheaval, and is strongly considering moving her career to Europe.
The US is no longer the premiere destination for research scientists.
Dr. Charles Drew was a Black American doctor who pioneered blood banks making it possible to store blood plasma for transfusion saving countless lives. Many believe that Drew’s death was a result of being refused a blood transfusion because of his color.
"omg america supports a dictator in russia" wow you're going to be surprised when you hear about Chile, Venezuela, Paraguay, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, the Philippines, Spain, Guatemala, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Pakistan, Nicaragua, Indonesia, El Salvador, or Congo
Nadir Of Western Civilization To Be Reached This Friday At 3:32 P.M.
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Medicaid provides 40% of the funding for community health centers.
Medicaid supports 2 out of 3 people in nursing homes.
Medicaid provides health care to 41 million children.
Trump and his Republican friends want to enact massive cuts to the program.
We won't let them.
THE RAINCOAT When the doctor suggested surgery and a brace for all my youngest years, my parents scrambled to take me to massage therapy, deep tissue work, osteopathy, and soon my crooked spine unspooled a bit, I could breathe again, and move more in a body unclouded by pain. My mom would tell me to sing songs to her the whole forty-five-minute drive to Middle Two Rock Road and forty-five minutes back from physical therapy. Shed say that even my voice sounded unfettered by my spine afterward. So I sang and sang, because I thought she liked it. I never asked her what she gave up to drive me, or how her day was before this chore. Today, at her age, I was driving myself home from yet another spine appointment, singing along to some maudlin but solid song on the radio, and I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. My god, I thought, my whole life I've been under her raincoat thinking it was somehow a marvel that I never got wet. Ada Limón
I love how tender this is.
By Ada Limón.
Title From the depths / Wm. Balfour-Ker. Summary Print shows a lavish social event in a large ballroom attended by the well-to-do; the party is disrupted when a fist erupts through the floor, beneath which are the struggling masses of the less fortunate who provide the foundation support on which the wealthy rest. Names Ker, William Balfour, artist Created / Published c1906.
Yessssss.
While Trump appoints 13 billionaires to his cabinet and Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg see their wealth increase by $217 billion since the election, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, 25% of seniors live on $15g or less and millions cannot afford rent.
SAY NO TO OLIGARCHY.
