Ilissa Gold @goldni.bsky.social · 01/10/2026I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again - treating shade/shadow as a negative impact that needs to be limited or mitigated is a relic from the days when Boomers thought that rubbing on baby oil and laying out in direct sun was a healthy thing to do. 1205
Reposted by Ilissa GoldMax Dubler 🏳️🌈 @maxdubler.com · 01/10/2026People are going to clown on this but we need to remember that planning for local context is important: a city with Los Angeles, California’s semi-arid Mediterranean climate only gets sunshine ~300 days a year; so it’s important to make sure you can never ever find shade in the middle of the day. 19652109
Ilissa Gold @goldni.bsky.social · 02/09/2026To anyone who is remotely normal, teen pregnancies sharply declining is a good thing. Another reminder that when Tim Walz called these people weird, he was being generous. 040
Ilissa Gold @goldni.bsky.social · 27/08/2026static.klipy.comWell... We're Waiting MemeALT: Well... We're Waiting Meme 021
Reposted by Ilissa GoldDavid Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 22/08/2026It’s going to be stuffed to the rafters with surveillance devices of unknown provenance. It will need to be destroyed as a matter of national security. 812928
Reposted by Ilissa GoldConnor Webb @connorwebb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Why is @asmrickzbur.bsky.social hosting a fundraiser for Karen Bass with former Ticketmaster CEO Fred Rosen, who is opposing the Sepulveda line in AD51 and has a long history of berating civil servants and electeds with misogynistic hate— including these messages to @lindseyphorvath.bsky.social? 315532
Reposted by Ilissa GoldAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/08/2026El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?" 491277486140
Reposted by Ilissa GoldNithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 09/06/2026A few months ago this campaign was a long shot. Now, we're advancing to the general election. We got here because people across Los Angeles believe in something better: a city where Angelenos can afford to live, work, and build a future. Join our movement at nithyaforthecity.com 31984172
Reposted by Ilissa GoldCongresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove @kamlager-dove.house.gov · 06/06/2026Sore loser doing sore loser things. CA allows up to a week after election day for mail-in ballots arrive—and every voter receives a mail-in ballot so they can vote by mail like Donald Trump. There's no conspiracy. Stop complaining about things you're too dumb to understand. 1734585
Reposted by Ilissa GoldSam @samd.bsky.social · 12/05/2026I do not think it is ageism to point out that a slim congressional majority will be at risk if we nominate a bunch of representatives in their 80s and 90s 211198141
Reposted by Ilissa GoldAskAubry 🦝 🐆 @ask-aubry.com · 07/05/2026This headline from Justice Roberts and the red banner of what Tennessee just did to Memphis after the SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act.. 26251471664
Reposted by Ilissa GoldDavid A. Graham @dgraham.bsky.social · 23/04/2026No idea who this reporter is but if that's what you're seeing ... maybe write that, rather than waiting for TMZ? nymag.com/intelligence... 533242625
Ilissa Gold @goldni.bsky.social · 20/04/2026I’m undecided in the CA Gov race but want to vote for a committed YIMBY candidate. Katie Porter and Tom Steyer both appear to be that. My issue with Xavier Becerra is - when he was AG it was already clear that some cities had no intention of following state housing law without being forced to… 230
Reposted by Ilissa GoldMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15/04/2026It’s so creepy that these people see major declines in teen pregnancy as a bad thing. 56775155
Reposted by Ilissa GoldNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Orban, Bolsonaro, Trump, and all the rest of these goons want you to believe they are inevitable and, once in power, invincible. They are not. 02816603
Ilissa Gold @goldni.bsky.social · 09/04/2026At some point I might want to write about how treating shade and shadow as a negative under CEQA is a relic from a time when people thought sunbathing with baby oil was healthy. 1192
Reposted by Ilissa GoldDavid Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 09/04/2026The DNC Resolutions Committee has passed my resolution to hold Trump Administration officials legally accountable for their crimes. Assuming the whole packet passes on Friday, it will become the official position of the national Democratic Party. 532461455
Reposted by Ilissa GoldGarrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 08/04/2026It is hard to capture what a sweeping strategic defeat the war in Iran has been for the United States. I’m going to thread here some of the posts today that try to capture those effects. Here’s the first: 6327991110
Reposted by Ilissa GoldSenator Dr. John Brown stan account, Esq., PhD, MD, JD, LCSW @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 07/04/2026There's nothing more insufferable than the shitheads who spent the entirety of 2024 sinking the Dem nominee trying to claim the moral high ground because they thought they were doing it for the sake of the Gazans. They all unironically have the blood of those 150+ Iranian schoolgirls on their hands 3211013
Reposted by Ilissa GoldNithya Raman @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Los Angeles’ housing crisis is self-inflicted. For decades, city leaders have taken deliberate actions to limit new housing. Today, we announced our plan to fix this and triple housing production. 447379
Reposted by Ilissa GoldMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Netanyahu sucks, AIPAC sucks, but "we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby" is just code for "blame Jews." Trump wasn't forced to do this. Trump's supporters—like Kent—weren't forced to elect him and embolden him. They're not absolved of any responsibility. 1172742688
Reposted by Ilissa GoldKatie Porter @katieporterca.bsky.social · 05/03/2026No more aspirational goals. We need homes, we need them now, and we need them for the next generation. California was built on the future, but the future doesn't build itself. Let’s get to work. 09317
Reposted by Ilissa GoldEd Markey @edmarkey.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE. 301148362644
Reposted by Ilissa GoldAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/02/2026things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy 300261418799
Reposted by Ilissa GoldGravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 10/02/2026I was saying this the other day, but for all the thinkpieces about liberal echo chambers, no one discusses the right-wing echo chamber that enables people to think one of the most popular musicians in the world is some niche and offensive selection for the Super Bowl halftime show 4665134
Reposted by Ilissa GoldFooch @davidfucillo.bsky.social · 09/02/2026I don't speak Spanish, so maybe I missed something, but with this kind of show, he didn't need to make any kind of explicit comment about ICE or whatever. The show itself was a rebuke to the bullshit going on right now. 2327
Reposted by Ilissa Goldmechanical twerk @ruhee.ca · 08/02/2026No Kings includes Draft Kings 178258816019
Reposted by Ilissa GoldBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026No idea what Bad Bunny is even saying, but this is the biggest fuck you to MAGA ever imaginable 1150644
Reposted by Ilissa GoldKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Exactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle. 414195664974
Reposted by Ilissa GoldStan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Enough with this garbage about "healing the divide." This is America and it looks pretty damn united to me. Real patriots turn out for one another and that's why we'll bury this new Confederacy in the same trash heap as their ancestors. 5811189
Reposted by Ilissa GoldRep. Diana DeGette @degette.house.gov · 21/01/2026ICE should be dismantled immediately. I will not support funding for the Department of Homeland Security when ICE and Border Patrol agents are assaulting protestors, detaining and arresting people with impunity, inciting violence, and shooting and killing American citizens. Read my statement: 1323952832
Reposted by Ilissa GoldNed Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Literal gestapo shit. I don't know what to say other than that it happened here. 2487132
Reposted by Ilissa GoldEmily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 12/01/2026This might sound like snark but it's just an honest reply: The state's right to carry out violence at will is a top priority of any state, but certainly of a state that's a white supremacist patriarchy. And the use & abuse of women's & children's bodies is a feature, not a bug, in such a system. 211537
Reposted by Ilissa GoldKen Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 07/01/2026The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028. 15888642321172
Reposted by Ilissa GoldAshton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 07/01/2026When a cop murdered my big brother at a road block 21 years ago, their post-facto justification was that he tried to run over a cop. His foot released the brake after the officer shot him in the chest, and the car bumped an officer. 622929736
Reposted by Ilissa GoldMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 01/01/2026Need this energy when Trump leaves office. Take a fucking bulldozer to his bribe ballroom and rip his name off the Kennedy Center and whatever else he slaps his name on. 25869138
Reposted by Ilissa Goldthe Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 31/12/2025THE DAY CARES ARE LOCKED BECAUSE YOU MADE A GENERATION-LONG EFFORT TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE TO KILL THE CHILDREN INSIDE THEM YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING GHOULS 3072311685
Ilissa Gold @goldni.bsky.social · 19/12/2025This is especially a problem postpartum. “Sleep when the baby sleeps” well, can’t do that if you’re waking me up every hour! 020
Reposted by Ilissa GoldOren Hadar @futureis.la · 09/12/2025LA quietly stopped repaving all streets last July to avoid fulfilling its ADA obligations. The federal govt says when you repave a street, you have to update all the curb ramps. LA has tons of out of date curb ramps, so the rule makes repaving much more expensive. The city's solution: stop repaving!futureis.laLA has stopped repaving our streetsThe reason why is probably illegal 1117154
Reposted by Ilissa GoldMicah @rincewind.run · 29/11/2025a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration 304172948
Reposted by Ilissa GoldMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 23/11/2025The entire debate about whether Democrats should moderate or focus on economic vs identity issues is moot if the media is just going to report that they're doing SJW Shit irregardless 91088137
Reposted by Ilissa GoldSandstone @quartzen.bsky.social · 17/11/2025I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott 1038911529
Ilissa Gold @goldni.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Does MTG’s change of heart feel like a pro wrestling shoot to anyone else? 140
Reposted by Ilissa GoldAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 13/11/2025You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique 268234243573
Reposted by Ilissa GoldElad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Reminder: we are in this together. Whether you accept it or not, they’ll eventually remind you. 1451357
Reposted by Ilissa GoldGreg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10/11/2025This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems. 253228095929
Reposted by Ilissa GoldAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them. 20206192014999
Reposted by Ilissa GoldAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 05/11/2025the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates 7289411783