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To quote the late and great MF DOOM: “If yer gonna hate, might as well get yer rumors straight.” Apt words when it comes to your L.A. team and its ownership group. The full guide: lataco.com/fascist-la-s... By @afroxander.bsky.social and Ivan Ehlers

An illustration of arms in red sleeves held straight up while a basketball flies in the space around.

Headline reads "‘How Fascist Is Your L.A. Sports Team?’: A Guide by L.A. TACO"

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Afroxander @afroxander.bsky.social · 22h

For comparison, below is a screenshot of the same search via Startpage. And as someone else pointed out, the text in the Google search comes from a reply to Mamdani's tweet, NOT his actual tweet linked by Google. Sheeeeeeesh...

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 29/09/2026

This is your regular reminder that if you have a story idea, want to leak something or want to share what you're seeing inside the government and/or your faith community, you can reach me via Signal here: jackmjenkins.60 There are also other ways to reach me in my bio.

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Afroxander @afroxander.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not even 24 hours after wrestling at last night’s PPV…this is terrible…

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Afroxander @afroxander.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Vintage Harry Kane PK there.

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James Nalton @jdnalton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

International football is not without its issues, but as the club game at the top level is being ruined by private equity and state ownership, the international game provides an alternative. This weekend's Morning Star column on Nations Leagues and extended international breaks.

Morning Star newspaper page with the headline "the positives of the nations league and international break"

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I don't disagree with the thread below but frame it somewhat differently as an academic who regularly sees people who read for a living fail in the way described here. From that perspective it seems more a cultural crisis than an educational one

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 25/09/2026

Here’s what to know about voting in the midterms: ✅You can vote by mail. ✅You don’t need to bring a passport or birth certificate to vote. ✅It is illegal for ICE or federal troops to be at the polls. Make a plan to vote, and vote early if you can. bit.ly/3UjBBrc

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026

i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups

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Afroxander @afroxander.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"What is unusual is for an administration to attack news organizations for relying on anonymous sourcing while simultaneously requiring reporters to grant its own senior officials anonymity in exchange for information."

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Embarrassing doesn't quite capture the fact that we're seeing Kavanaugh stops turn into Kavanaugh beatings, Kavanaugh arrests, Kavanaugh imprisonments, and then Kavanaugh deportations.

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daniel sieradski @self.agency · 23/09/2026

it's not enough that they stole all the web's content, they're also stealing all the web's traffic so that they can serve ads on what they stole and profit from it

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Finding the book you want is instant when shopping online. But it’s vastly more fun to visit a bookstore or library and browse your way to your next great read. The full guide: lataco.com/best-booksto... By Hadley Tomicki and L.A. TACO STAFF

The interior of a bookshop where five people are browsing the bookshelves set against a wall.

Headline reads "L.A.'s Best Independent Bookshops to Support Instead of Amazon"

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CalMatters @calmatters.org · 22/09/2026

Want midterm election news from reputable sources? Follow this news feed curated by our team: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

CNN PANIC is setting in now that David Ellison will control the network in a matter of weeks: "People are anxious and worried... Unlike other mergers ... that we've been through, we have the preview of CBS, so it's not like people don't have a sense of what's coming." www.status.news/p/david-elli...

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Ellison’s Bonta Blowout

David Ellison worked the phones over the weekend to secure a settlement for his Warners takeover—but the deal’s supposed safeguard for CNN is already drawing skepticism from inside the network as staf...

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 21/09/2026

Turns out when you keep firing at the press, you shouldn't be surprised when the whole thing backfires 'just a little bit.' Sideline the messengers and you don't silence them. You silence yourself.

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Afroxander @afroxander.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Over the summer, we spoke with fans of Chivas and Club América during their respective games in Los Angeles Tonight, the two Liga MX teams will face each other in CDMX for this season's Clásico Nacional. Who ya got?!

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Courtney/Lucy 🍉 from the river to the sea @magicalgurll.com · 17/09/2026

when you make a typo in the group chat

A photo from Stardom, a Japanese women's wrestling federation. Perfectly centered is a woman on her knees leaning forward against the ropes. Five women in fun, colorful, sparkly outfits are all mid-air launching towards her to deliver flying kicks to her back, lined up close to each other and about to land their attacks all at once.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Per David Graeber, another way to look at this is tribute. Universities are paying oligarchs $50 million/year in tribute. The payment is siphoned from the economy into the coffers of the ruling class, and it serves no purpose except to express loyalty.

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 17/09/2026

Mel Blanc screams are like Greek fire, we lost the technology to make sounds like this

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Micah @rincewind.run · 16/09/2026

bari weiss' entire career is built on the fact that she is really good at one thing: convincing powerful people that she is smart and competent and on their side david ellison is not playing three dimensional chess, he thinks bari weiss is amazing and she's going to build him a media empire

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Afroxander @afroxander.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

From what I’ve gathered from this and other sources: NBC4 LA news chopper crashed while the team onboard covered the site of a Metro bus crash on the ground.

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@LAhistory @lahistory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This mid-19th century Mexican flag was flown for Mexican Independence Day celebrations in Los Angeles. It's currently on display for the first time as part of the Autry Museum’s exhibit “Life, Liberty and Los Angeles.” #HispanicHeritageMonth #MexicanIndependenceDay

A color photo of a large Mexican flag in the Autry's exhibit gallery for "Life, Liberty and Los Angeles." A small bit of the museum description can be seen in the bottom right corner. It reads: The American Revolution inspired wars for independence across the Americas, from Haiti to Argentina. On September 16, 1810, rebels in Mexico launched a series of revolts against Spain and won Mexican Independence in 1821. Took this photo in July 2026.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

It’s wild you’re expected to celebrate SCOTUS not allowing the president to dismantle a voting method used by tens of millions at the 11th hour — and also, at the same time, it absolutely is a big deal and couldn’t be taken for granted.

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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I just learned that reporter Luis Galeano has been detained in Miami by ICE. This is part of wider trend by the US govt to target immigrant reporters, violating core US press freedom principles. Galeano is from Nicaragua & is believed to have a pending asylum case in the US. I will report more ASAP.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Next time, he should ask her if she'd like to disavow Donald Trump.

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Afroxander @afroxander.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

MEDIA JOB POSTING: Operations & Communications Associate position at the Los Angeles Reporting Collective www.losangelesreportingcollective.com/opportunitie...

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LARC - Opportunities at LARC

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 10/09/2026

Just heard the entire opinion team at Sacramento Bee—except the editor—also got laid off. I was the opinion editor at The Bee from 2018-2021. All gone.

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The NewsGuild-CWA @newsguild.org · 07/09/2026

🇫🇷 U.S.-based journalists at Le Monde are on strike this Labor Day! Journalists at the largest national newspaper in France are protesting several unfair labor practices and asking for management to negotiate in good faith and take its proposals seriously.

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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Tech companies don't even tell you what they do anymore, they just look at you like this

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Nick Lloyd @spaincivilwartours.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The burning of Basque language and liberal+ leftist books in Spanish by Francoist conquerors, Tolosa, Basque Country. 11 August 1936. Standard auto-de-fe ceremony, arms outstretched, in town after town across Spain. anything "Jewish-Masonic-Marxist-Separatist" or just books by Tolstoy, Darwin, etc

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This seems to baffle people who *don't* teach History -- you keep shoving it at us and saying, I dunno, seems like you could use it? -- instead of *listening* to us. We do this for a living. Trust us, this doesn't have a use here. Go tell your plumber you want him to use a GameBoy on your pipes.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Besides being deeply cynical, Chomsky’s supposed pragmatism has not stood the test of time...We may have manufactured consent once upon a time, but America has long since transitioned to a post-manufacturing economy." Very harsh but worthwhile read. strangematters.coop/noam-chomsky...

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Chomsky After Epstein - Strange Matters

Noam Chomsky – friend of Epstein, defender of dictatorships – was no model anti-imperialist. Can we do better?

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The NYT literally has a policy against crediting other outlets when at all possible, it's fucked

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsk... May 5, 2025

I took an investigative reporting course during grad school from a senior NYT journalist. Maybe the best class I took from a skills perspective. use what I learned all the time

Also: we got marked down for linking to local reporting instead of using NYT Authoritative Voice in assignments

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California Faculty Association @cfaunited.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

📣CFA Bargaining Update: Our Bargaining Team won tentative agreements on 4 contract articles in our first mediation session with CSU management and a state-appointed third party on Tuesday. More details on mediation in CFA Headlines. #FundTheClassroomNotTheBoardroom

Illustration of a megaphone announcing CFA's bargaining update from mediation with the CSU with details on tentative agreements for articles on administrative leave, summer employment, sick leave, and holidays.

The CFA bargaining team have reached tentative agreement on
Administrative Leave With Pay which entails Renaming Temporary Suspension to “Administrative Leave with Pay”

Summer Employment where Keeping Maritime named as a campus in the Summer Employment article

Sick Leave Benefits by Adding a chosen family member to sick leave policy

Holidays in which the state holiday on March 31st is now “Farmworkers Day”

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Afroxander @afroxander.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Ooooof...this unlocked something tucked away in the far regions of my brain!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is pretty fucking wild. I had assumed in a worst case scenario he would target blue zip codes and toss ballots based on technicalities but this is even worse than I imagined.

Not only is this system astonishingly untested, USPS has simultaneously implemented an
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batches, if any one ballot in the batch cannot be verified against the Portal, all ballots in that
batch will be rejected. For example, if a state election official brings a batch of 10,000 ballots to
USPS and USPS is unable to match just one of those ballots against the Portal – because, for
example, someone has recently changed their name after marriage or they’ve moved – then
USPS would refuse to mail the remaining 9,999 ballots as well. As the whistleblower notes,

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Afroxander @afroxander.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Grateful to have @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social contributing such important stories at @lataco.bsky.social - it's a difficult, but important, story to read.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"You people don't understand how much these tools are going to change the world." How they are changing the world:

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Shot On 35mm @shoton35mm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A shooting he had no knowledge of and a case of mistaken identity cost Luis Salinas his freedom. Then, another man confessed to the shooting. Will a judge free Salinas? Read the full 10,000 word investigation: lataco.com/luis-salinas...

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The Whole 'Hood Knows He's Innocent. Will He Finally Be Freed After 20 Years In Prison? ~ L.A. TACO

A shooting he had no knowledge of and a case of mistaken identity cost him his freedom. Then, the actual shooter confessed. Will a judge free him?

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