Raymundo Cabrera

Imagine all the cool, fast trains we could have with the billions we spend on bombs.

Reading people. Body language. Knowing how to connect with people totally unlike you and with different backgrounds and beliefs. Defusing tense situations. Gaining trust. High endurance, pain tolerance, and work ethic. Reaction time. Prioritizing order of execution. Anticipating people’s needs. Tons

thinking about how Savannah Guthrie had to cancel her trip to work the Olympics because of her mom’s kidnapping but the guy who heads up the investigative body handling the case was posting pictures of himself in the US hockey locker room today lol

Do we need a benevolent billionaire to break the billionaires’ death grip on our institutions? I don’t know how that plays but he’s pretty damn compelling as a fighter!

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

She’s getting ready for that County Executive position it seems.

Los Angeles is America's second biggest city. Basically anyone paying recognizes that the city is broken and that the people running it have failed. And yet, as of today, there is not a single serious challenger to the incumbent mayor. Why have Democrats just given up on the cities they run?

More like make the 60 Freeway crowded with zealots.

WE WON BITCHES

Zohran is going to kill the “YIMBYs and leftists are mortal enemies” idea and that alone will make the internet 23% less annoying to me personally. Big accomplishment.

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

I was hardcore rooting for the Blue Jays just so we can have a reprieve in Boyle Heights. Instead the bombs have increased in quantity and magnitude. So weird to live in a place that normalizes this to such an extent.

Donald Trump says that Barack Obama could have gotten the October 7th hostages released during his presidency, raising new concerns about Joe Biden's memory and cognition.

Really fucking disappointing that she’s bending to the NIMBY/suburban minded politicians aligned with Spencer Pratt of all people instead of the working class who desperately need LA to be a functioning, affordable big city.

this is the way

Over the past year I’ve been shocked by how many people who I know who weren’t really into casinos or gambling are full on spending significant chunks of money on weekly sports bets! It’s insane. Even teens betting with their parents accounts!

There's a reluctance to confront anti-social behavior in this country. For those who live in larger cities, I think a big part is the danger and total futility of talking to a mentally unwell person. For others, it has to do with a non-zero possibility that the person you're confronting has a gun.

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

Ya the rest of us aren’t doing any damn better. Higher Ed, in theory, has more safeguards via your unions and faculty governance. They are failing you and the rest of us! It’s sad to see :/

Keep picturing Patel dropping the casings in terror after reading “if you read this youre gay”

‘Overcompensating’ Renewed For Season 2 At Prime Video Benito Skinner's comedy series Overcompensating is getting a second season at Prime Video

A win for the gays.

Was working on a TOC planning project for RCTC a couple years back and our project team was so boggled by this station siting on our site visit.

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

Only the D line? That’s the worst exemption.

What would it mean to hold power ourselves? I don’t think people are cheering the drift away from democracy, moreso cheering necessary tactics against the party who doesn’t hold democratic values.

Until we pass a nationwide ban on gerrymandering (which we need), Democrats should gerrymander every state to the fullest extent. 52-0 in CA, 17-0 in IL, and so on. No more unilateral disarmament. Time to get serious about fighting back.

Our most charismatic and capable leaders on the liberal spectrum are just stuck a generation behind. They are playing by rules for a game that doesn’t exist anymore. I wish they could all get the memo so we can have a fighting chance.

Great reporting from @awalkerinla.bsky.social around the City of LA’s need for a Capital Infrastructure Program and associated advocacy efforts. Wild that we are alone among major cities for not having a CIP, though not surprising by looking around at our built environment.

The most important political development of my lifetime was the Midwest becoming the South.

I can’t wait!