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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The validity of laws like this have been debated for decades. Now, we’re going to finally see whether they withstand federal court challenges.
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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 23h
I spoke to @psfrench.bsky.social for this great piece, flagging the tension inherent in the City Attorney’s charge to defend the City when it harms people while also seeking justice for residents. At the end of the day, you have to pick a side: LA deserves someone who will stand with its people.
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LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @controller.lacity.gov · 28/09/2026
If the Mayor & most of City Council DO NOT want to fight for transparency and accountability on LA28's finances, WE WILL. REMINDER: YOU ALL (LA taxpayers) are financially liable for UNLIMITED amounts if the LA Olympics goes over budget. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Los Angeles Times article that savs
LA Olympics organizers limit some financial disclosures. a times review shows
A picture of the LA Colliseum shows below the headline with stadium red seatsOrganizers of the 2028 Summer
Olympics in Los Angeles have given
vague and sometimes incomplete
annual reports to the city on details
of their preparations for what has
been described as the largest athletic
event in the nation's history, records show.

A review by The Times of five vears
of annual reports from LA28 shows
that the organization appears at
times to have curtailed the reporting
requirements that are spelled out in
its 2021 contract with Los AngelesThe private nonprofit organization's
yearly reports haven't outlined
progress on roughly two dozen
venues around Greater Los Angeles.
Nor have they included details about
contracts LA28 signed with companies providing such services as security and preproduction work for the opening and closing ceremonies.The incomplete updates leave the
with less city's taxpayers information than promised on matters such as who is winning business - and the attendant iobs and profits - from contracts that soared to $687 million in value last year. They also don't have as clear a picture on things like the progress on plans to install a running track at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and swimming pools inside SoFi Stadium in Inglewood
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KnockDotLA @knockdotla.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New on Knock: Axon, the maker of police body-worn cameras and TASERs, is working on an agreement with LAPD that would turn streetlights into ALPR surveillance cameras. @rosalindjones.bsky.social reports knock-la.com/axon-new-con...
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Axon Angles for New Contract with LAPD - Knock LA
The ALPR manufacturer is in talks with the department to sign a new MOU for an ALPR pilot program.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"In 2020, there were only six programs in the U.S. that sent unarmed responders, such as mental health clinicians, to certain 911 calls instead of police officers. Now, these programs — sometimes called alternative or community response — are in nearly 100 cities." www.npr.org/2026/09/22/n...
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How unarmed 911 teams are reshaping public safety in nearly 100 cities
Alternative response programs, where mental health clinicians respond to 911 calls instead of police, have proliferated since George Floyd's murder. What does it take to do this work well?
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Marissa Roy For LA City Attorney @marissaroyla.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This week, New York won $131 million for DoorDash drivers who were underpaid or paid late — and put nearly all of that money back in deliveristas’ pockets. Los Angeles’ City Attorney could be doing the same for our workers.
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DoorDash Agrees to $131.5 Million Settlement for Shortchanging Workers
The online delivery company agreed to give pay relief to workers and to accept monitoring of its methods after it underpaid — or didn’t pay — 264,000 workers.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 21/09/2026
Photos: Gaza’s children return to class in tents and ruins aje.news/4welr2
Palestinian students attend their first day of the new school year inside a tent classroom at a school in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip. [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]Displaced Palestinian student Samar Abu Salmi, 15, reads a list of names displayed in a school in Khan Younis. [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]Tents for displaced Palestinians cover the yard of a school-turned-shelter in Khan Younis. [Ramadan Abed/Reuters]Palestinian children sit in their classroom on the first day of the new academic year at a United Nations-run school in Nuseirat, the central Gaza Strip. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]
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Jordan Green @byjordangreen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of pages of newly released FBI documents shed light on the agency's role in the Greensboro Massacre. Two Klansman, including one who was a former FBI informant, separately warned the agency about the potential for violence. (paywalled) www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
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Bombshell memo on horrific race massacre exposes complicit FBI: 'They lied like crazy'
GREENSBORO, N.C. — In July 1979, a North Carolina Ku Klux Klan leader named Joe Grady summoned two FBI agents to a Waffle House to warn them “about possible violence in the future.”Earlier that month,...
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So many people got yelled at for months on here when they correctly pointed out that Gavin Newsom was a rat.
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Rob Pilkington @robpilk.com · 22/09/2026
weird day to be worried about state-run tv, gavin!
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Death and Gravity @bushidosquirrel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
the reason Newsom intervened in the merger is that he wants the fascist oligarchs to give him money so he can attain more power he’s a bad person
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KnockDotLA @knockdotla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Flock cameras are coming to West Hollywood. What does this increase in surveillance mean for a city that has publicly declared itself a safe place for the LGBTQ+ community? knock-la.com/flock-safety...
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Public Safety or Public Surveillance? Flock Cameras Raise Privacy Concerns in West Hollywood. - Knock LA
A city with a profound history of social justice now deals with the consequences of mass monitoring.
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Ground Game LA @groundgamela.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This evil bigot serves the same interests as Trump.
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Ground Game LA @groundgamela.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Remember when Bass gave LAPD a billion dollars and then we turned around and had a billion dollar deficit? Funny how that works
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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
There's a stretch of road in LA that's had 95 crashes and four fatalities since 2013. The city was set to put in protected bike lanes and a road diet. But some people leaned on @mayor.lacity.gov and she got the state to put a veto into an unrelated budget bill. Vote @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social
latimes.com
Planned bikes lanes on Forest Lawn Drive targeted in last-minute language added to bill
A street safety project at the center of a debate between Mayor Karen Bass and mayoral candidate Nithya Raman could be affected.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 11/09/2026
I would prefer to raise taxes instead. Denmark's tax take is 20 points of GDP higher than ours
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Inequality Media @inequalitymedia.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Trump's massive surveillance state and attacks on our civil liberties wouldn't have been possible without the PATRIOT Act. Watch this prescient warning from Russ Feingold, the only Senator to vote against its passage after 9/11.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 11/09/2026
Moskowitz has also favorably compared his own views to those of Tom Cotton and Lindsay Graham when it comes to war against Iran. Jeffries rewarded him anyway.
Moskowitz’s appointment also hands the Democratic party’s Middle East portfolio to one of its more hawkish voices on Iran. Moskowitz has positioned himself to the right of Vice President JD Vance and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff on Iran policy, saying that his views align more closely with Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), two of the Senate’s most prominent Iran hawks. Both senators have defended using military force against Iran, and Graham credited himself with persuading President Trump to go to war. Moskowitz also initially opposed the Iran War Powers Resolution introduced by Reps. Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) to restrain Trump from escalating against Iran, calling the measure the “Ayatollah Protection Act” and putting himself at odds with most of his own party and its leadership. He ultimately voted for the resolution once the US strikes had begun but framed his support as a defense of Congress’s war powers rather than opposition to the war.
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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
And what did the US military do with all those patriotic, newly joined up recruits?
The meme from untitled goose game has the goose asking "What did the US military do next?"
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Depending on the context, standing firm on human rights might lose you an election. You should still do it IMO.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 09/09/2026
People’s steadfast refusal to treat bigotry as a serious concern of material importance assisting bigots in forcing their targets to experience more and more material harm.
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Ground Game LA @groundgamela.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Bass is mighty quick to blame others for her own inaction.
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Ground Game LA @groundgamela.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A lot of politicians talk up their opposition to Trump but pursue his same ends when they think you’re not looking. Mayor Bass let LAPD brutalize and arrest us for standing up to the Gestapo, and here we are. We have confidence that Marissa Roy won’t continue these sham prosecutions
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
We are in the "fugitive slave act" stage of the fight over Trans rights, which means defending Trans people and their rights is more important than ever.
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KnockDotLA @knockdotla.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
100+ residents of Adelanto, CA showed out on 8/19 for a hearing about a proposed amendment to the city's zoning ordinances to allow the construction of data centers. The amendment was voted down 3-2 by the Planning Commission. City Council will have the final say. knock-la.com/potential-da...
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High Desert Residents Sound the Alarm on Potential Data Centers in Adelanto - Knock LA
A public hearing turned feisty as Adelanto residents and commissioners traded sharp remarks over a proposed Municipal Code amendment.
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Streets For All @streetsforall.org · 29/08/2026
STATE LEGISLATORS HAVE INTERVENED TO KEEP FOREST LAWN DANGEROUS A last minute, back room deal makes it harder for LADOT to move forward. This bill sets a horrible precedent, weeks after yet another person was killed on Forest Lawn. TAKE ACTION NOW: mailchi.mp/streetsforal...
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Ground Game LA @groundgamela.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“In our current housing debates, however, you’ll hear the same excuse thrown around: There’s no money for public housing. Only private development can alleviate the housing crisis. Well, at the beginning of Red Vienna, there was no money being thrown around at all for ANY type of housing.”
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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Connor Webb @connorwebb.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Why 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?
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Ground Game LA @groundgamela.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
“You tagged me in a video about a pothole on your street so I made a video about how I didn’t fix it!”
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Ground Game LA @groundgamela.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We came on here to repost the deranged anti-taco-stand comments and came across her support for the destruction of Hollywood instead. She straight up hates LA!
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Nick Andert @nickandert.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
So when Bass, with an almost unimaginable tone-deafness, bragged tonight that Sherman Oaks Homeowners Assn members have her cell number, I must point out that we have evidence direct from her mouth on how these calls influence her. In January, while public comment was ongoing in the metro board-
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"We are, in some ways, confined to prior agreements that were made as a condition of agreeing to host the games that include inherent risk," said LA's CAO Matt Szabo. Despite the dire warnings, 10 city councilmembers voted yes again last week. My analysis of the bad deal we just made with LA28
torched.la
The era of inherent risk
"There is nothing that we can propose to you that would eliminate that risk"
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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The police are defunding you
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Ground Game LA @groundgamela.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Incredible content
Karen Bass next to a no parking sign. The words “so we couldn’t” are superimposed as it’s a screenshot of her explaining that they didn’t actually fill the pothole
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Daisy Gardner @daisygardner.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
So psyched that @kpbssandiego.bsky.social and @andrewdyer.bsky.social covered our film!! www.kpbs.org/news/educati...
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Southern California moms take on anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups in new documentary
When extremists began protesting LGBTQ+ inclusive policies at school boards in Temecula, Chino and beyond, this group of mothers dug in to fight back.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 13/08/2026
A new story in my ongoing reporting on Prairieland, and it's about one of the most chilling things about this case: how the DOJ has attempted to cast ordinary activism as suspect and criminal. And: how supporters of the Prairieland defendants have refused to be broken apart by that.
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Trump’s DOJ Tried to Break a Texas Activist Community. It Failed.
Many of the activities used to incriminate the Prairieland defendants—who received extraordinary sentences—are the stuff of ordinary organizing. Their supporters weren’t scared off.
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Ground Game LA @groundgamela.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Tonight! Let’s talk about MEASURE A and where the money goes!
GGLA presents a training on
MEASURE A
What is it?
Where is the money going?
What does it have to do with you?

8/13 7-9 pm
HYBRID
DM for address or zoom link

Flyer is orange and shows a drawing of dollar bills drifting down onto a tent
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
THREAD. Contrary to what you are being told, 40 years of polling have established that shifting money away from police/prisons toward social services is one of the most popular public policies among *all* political demographics. But it's not just that, it goes way deeper.
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
When crime survivors are specifically asked about who they want to vote for, look at what they say:
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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Contrary to the talking points you are fed, shifting money from police to social services is enormously popular across all components of the income distribution:
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Alissa Walker @awalkerinla.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
It looks like at least one LA elected official is sounding the alarm about what's coming before council. @controller.lacity.gov
LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia
@lacontroller
Something SHADY is happening at City Hall !! We do NOT support the LA28 Olympics Contract that the City Council
will vote on tomorrow as written. „O It fails to provide transparency
$ It is not fiscally responsible
X It limits the City's ability to hold LA28 accountable
8:40 PM . Aug 11, 2026 • 2,759 ViewsLA City Controller Kenneth Mejia
@lacontroller
The people of LA were promised a "Zero-Cost" Games. That means ALL EXCESS CITY SERVICES provided to the Olympics should be REIMBURSED, and no $ should go to a "Legacy Entity" until
the City is made whole. Now it's Council's responsibility to protect our City & YOUR TAX
DOLLARS.
8:40 PM • Aug 11, 2026 • 417 ViewsLA City Controller Kenneth Mejia
@lacontroller
S ... Since LA TAXPAYERS ARE ON THE HOOK if the Olympic Games lose money / go over budget, LA28 must be transparent about how they're spending YOUR TAX DOLLARS BEFORE it's too late to do anything about
it. The City Charter empowers my Office to fight for taxpayers & YOUR TAX
DOLLARS.
8:40 PM . Aug 11, 2026 • 476 ViewsLA City Controller Kenneth Mejia
@lacontroller
S... I will ALWAYS use the full extent of my Charter authority-an authority no contract can negotiate away-to track City $ and bring transparency and
accountability.
*LA28 = Organization organizing the Olympic Games
*Contract = Enhanced City Resources Master Agreement ("ECRMA")
8:40 PM . Aug 11, 2026 • 290 Views
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Ground Game LA @groundgamela.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
More guns on the streets
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Jesus Lizard Superstar 🖤 🐀🐀🐀 @acekatana.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Padilla and Park on housing is full NIMBY
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Since Breitbart wrote a piece that largely just quotes this chapter of Let This Radicalize You (which MK and I reprinted here in my newsletter last year), I thought I would reshare the full text with you all. IMO, it's one of the best and most relevant things MK and I ever co-authored.
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Protest, Power, and the Violence Debate
"We are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating."
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Ground Game LA @groundgamela.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Is every other city just dead set on repeating our inhumane and counterproductive policies? Learn from LA’s mistakes, we’re literally the future
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 31/07/2026
Autopsies of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests often conclude that movements produced tough-on-crime backlash. My new study in Work and Occupations finds a different kind of movement outcome: BLM changed how local reporters cover cops and jails. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Beyond Police Stenography: How Disembedding Enables Critical Crime News Work

Prior research finds that crime journalists reproduced criminal justice organization standpoints through close working relationships with law enforcement. How do crime reporters relate to police sources today? Drawing on interviews with 58 journalists across 40 local newsrooms in 24 U.S. states, I find that disembedding from law enforcement organizations restructures many reporters’ source relationships, creating conditions under which some journalists enact a distinct professional identity through occupational activism. I argue that the critical crime journalist role is distinguished by a commitment to alternative sourcing practices, structural framing, and reinterpreted objectivity. Informants connect critical orientations to repeated exposure to official dishonesty and the influence of Black-led social movements against police violence. Critical crime journalists amplify civilian and prisoner voices and engage in contextual reporting, treating coverage as a vehicle to shift how readers understand criminalized people and the criminal justice system more broadly. These findings extend scholarship on occupational activism into crime journalism and identify pathways into this form of empirical and expressive occupational activism.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The core argument is that cities like Seattle are so addled by left-wing ideology that they have fallen into dystopia. In reality, the city has never adequately funded harm reduction programs and continues to rely on incarceration to address homelessness. What Powell wants is what we're doing.
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