Price chart showing that less than 9% of confined people are held in private prisons.
Private prisons are bad, but they’re a small part of the system.
Mass incarceration is driven by public policy & spending — choices made by your *elected officials*
One thing not getting enough attention now that the U.S. has admitted to exterminating hundreds of elementary school girls is that many very powerful people lied about it.
Really moving piece on the importance of not forgetting about the ongoing effects of Armenians being ethnically cleansed from Artsakh. Leftists in the US have done a very poor job speaking up about this.
Roll for Democracy (flyer that looks like a D&D book) Live and Livestreamed! A fundraiser for LA Mayoral Candidate RAE HUANG! (Images of the players, and Rae Huang) Featuring players Brennan Lee Mulligan, Will Neff, Aabria Iyengar, Oscar Montoya, and Siobhan Thompson. Dynasty Typewriter Wednesday April 8th Show 7:00pm In-person tickets link: bit.ly/RaeRFD2026 Livestream tickets link: bit.ly/RaeRFDLivestream
Once again, it is time to ROLL FOR DEMOCRACY! With DM @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social, Rae and her merry band of adventurers will be at Dynasty Typewriter for a D&D one-shot that definitely probably likely won't at all have metaphors about capitalism!
Limited Meet and Greet tickets! Links below:
A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
What people want is for Newsom’s social media/comms person to run for office.
That is a paid professional, not actually Gavin newsom
Watch some of Shinichiro Watanabe’s Closet Picks on the Criterion Channel!✨
THE KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE
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THE COMPLETE JACQUES TATI
New on Knock: Two years after the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh, the Armenian diaspora in Los Angeles continues to feel the impact.
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Folks get in trouble because they think they have to decide what will *resonate* with working-class people [always treated as a monolith, by the way].
Unless you are a political operative, you really don't have to do this and political operatives mostly aren't good at this either.
Some people get mad when I say that most people don't actually know what to do so you have to offer ideas for what people can do. But I remain right about this.
*protecting your personal peace* is not the important thing when your country is murdering people across the world. please be serious.
The US and Israel bomb multiple Iranian cities, including capital Tehran. Iran hits back, launching missiles at Israel.
some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing
None of this stuff is going to be fast. It's a long-term struggle as it has always been.
It's not enough to tell people to be "outraged." What precisely is it that you want them to DO? This is where so much falls apart and where a number of people fall short. Part of it is that people do not actually know what they want people to do; the other part is that it's DIFFICULT to organize ppl
Melrose was supposed to undergo a complete streets makeover from Highland to Fairfax that would have installed stormwater gardens to mitigate flooding, among other critical safety improvements. The previous councilmember killed the project
I wonder if more people now understand that the "worst of the worst" rhetoric is part of how we got here re: ICE/CBP.
US President Donald Trump says that the first meeting of his newly created 'Board of Peace' will take place on Thursday.
The first month of President Trump’s immigration crackdown in Los Angeles put a dent in the area’s economy, costing business owners millions in lost revenue, according to a new county report.
By @suhauna.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/california/s...
valentine's day isn't just for couples, it's also a day to celebrate love. for instance, i would love it if housing prices came down.
The LAPD has one of the largest propaganda shops in town. Like totally out of step with every other part of government or organization.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Screenshot showing that the U.S. spends $54.3 billion on immigration policing and detention
Thanks to Trump's deportation agenda, immigration policing and detention now take up 13% of all government spending on the criminal legal system.
States are coming together to bring state charges against ICE agents. It's about freaking time!
www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/p...
Alex Pretti’s Sig handgun has history of accidentally firing — offering possible clue to why Border agent shot him
From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.
"working with local authorities" seems like putting cards on the table
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
Federal agents cosplaying in military uniforms murdered a man today who reportedly dedicated his life to saving critically ill Veterans. This cannot stand - we demand action.
