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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

How well do you know your neighbors? 🏡 SLM intern Ethan Lam shared a collection of SLM stories on neighbors in our latest blog post! buff.ly/qgbWHgX

"Love your neighbor" painted on a city street wall.

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LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Have progressive LA politicians broken their promises on sweeps? Data show hundreds of CARE+ operations in the districts of Councilmembers who campaigned on ending sweeps.

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Have progressive LA politicians broken their promises on sweeps?

Data show hundreds of CARE+ operations in the districts of Councilmembers who campaigned on ending sweeps.

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Erin Whitehead @girlwithatail.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

New COLLEGE TOWN! Feat. @nickmandernach.bsky.social & @genetrat.bsky.social! Hosted by Jan & Beebo (me & Seth Morris!) Desperate for friends! Peeing in hedges! Trombone accidents! More! Produced by @scottaukerman.bsky.social @brettmorris.bsky.social @cbbworld.bsky.social comedybangbangworld.com

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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Yesterday, an unhoused community member was arrested at one of the three encampments @hugoforcd13.bsky.social swept around Echo Park.

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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Your community needs you. You need your community. Sign up to organize with us at tinyurl.com/joinlasc

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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Hollenbeck Park may feature nice views, but don’t sit down to enjoy them! You might get ticketed.

picture from the LA Times of Hollenbeck Park

Hollenbeck Park on a map overlaid with red—it is a 41.18 zone

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The Defend Frogtown Livestream is going live! www.youtube.com/live/Z7hnCnb...

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Defend Frogtown: Vendor Buy Out Fundraiser

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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

People wonder why homelessness doesn’t seem to be lessening despite record funds to homeless services and this is one of the reasons, contract fraud. And let it be known this is endemic to the Lib Dem project. Very grateful to @controller.lacity.gov for ensuring our $$ goes to us!

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Make Some Noise @makesomenoise.dropout.tv · 16/12/2025

Maintaining Bonds of Friendship with More Talented Peers That You Discover In College Badge ✅🥇

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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Mayor Karen Bass: “Only I can brutalize Angelenos!”

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Nick Mandernach @nickmandernach.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

If I don’t win a golden ear this episode I don’t know wtf I’m gonna do…

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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

“From 2022 to 2023, 41.18 arrests increased from 91 to 260 in the 1st Council District, or by about 185%, according to data from the LA City Controller. The number of arrests dropped to 135 in 2024—a figure that’s still nearly [2x] higher than in 2022, when Councilmember Gil Cedillo was in office.”

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LA Public Press @lapublicpress.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Eunisses Hernandez called homeless encampment sweeps “inhumane.” Then, she joined LA City Council and things changed. Since taking office, arrests of unhoused people have skyrocketed in Hernandez’s district. lapublicpress.org/2025/11/hern...

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Eunisses Hernandez called homeless encampment sweeps "inhumane." Then, she joined LA City Council and things changed.

Since taking office, arrests of unhoused people have skyrocketed in Hernandez’s district.

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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

The police raids and sweeps at Mountain View are unacceptable—as is the silence from Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez and her office. Pigs have repeatedly sexually assaulted and harassed women at the sweeps Eunisses's office orders. Everyone has been arrested and cited with 41.18. 1/

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MBC @matthewbriancohen.com · 19/10/2025

“appeared to be AI” implying the NY Times thinks there is a possibility the video of Trump flying a fighter jet and dumping diarrhea was real

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

"Some context. As a sound guy being quiet is huge. You don’t want a reputation as the sound guy that talks." Don't miss contributor @nickmandernach.bsky.social's story in @newenglandreview.bsky.social! buff.ly/Kd048Cx

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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Hugo Soto-Martinez once compared 41.18--an LA law that criminalizes existing in public--to racial profiling. Hugo later admitted he wouldn't repeal his district's 41.18 zones but claimed he wouldn't enforce them. During his first year in office, 41.18 arrests went up 522% in Hugo’s district.

THE LA REPORTER
LA Councilman went back on promise to end sweeps, mutual aid groups and unhoused constituents say
City Councilmember Hugo Soto-Martinez and his staff were honored Sunday by a tenant advocacy group for their work on housing and homelessness. But harmful sweeps that displace his unhoused constituents are still taking place in his district, mutual aid groups said.

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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

HUGO KEEPS DISPLACING POOR PEOPLE ⚡️let’s get his phone beeping⚡️📞

The graphic reads, “HUGO KEEPS DISPLACING POOR PEOPLE” and below that reads, “let’s get his phone beeping” with a hand drawn cell phone.

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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Tonight! Convoy is performing at the Lyric Hyperion with a bunch of other great acts in a show to welcome back our pal Jimmy who had some real bad health luck this year! Come check it out! www.eventbrite.com/e/wed-like-t...

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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

Something thats really wild is that @mayor.lacity.gov inside save program utilizes a “sweep” as the focal point for housing. So residents of an encampment have law enforcement and sanitation barreling down on them and have no choice but to be shuttled to any number of subpar temp housing facilities.

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web_rant @webrant.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Here's Adam Schiff standing in support with Netanyahu just last week. As he collects record millions from AIPAC. bsky.app/profile/schi...

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New England Review @newenglandreview.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

"As a writer, I’m a host . . . I want you to enjoy yourself." Senior reader Alicia Romero talks with NER author Nick Mandernach about lament & litany, finding the fun in failure, & the endearing humor in his story “Young Sheldon Room Tone" from issue 46.2. nereview.com/nick-mandern...

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Nick Mandernach @nickmandernach.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Proud to have a story on this list! Thanks to the editors at @wigleaf.bsky.social

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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Help us feed the people! Our food partners are temporarily pausing their meal donations. We are in need of funds to make 160 meals every Sunday for distro thru the month of July. tinyurl.com/lascdonate

HELP US FEED OUR UNHOUSED NEIGHBORS
STREET CARE
& Mutual Aid
Our 2 food partners are temporarily pausing their meal donations. We are in need of funds to make 160 meals every Sunday for distro thru the month of July.
what comes in a bag
DONATE:
TINYURL.COM/LASCDONATE
ARE YOU ABLE TO PROVIDE US MEALS? DM US!

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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Join us Sunday, June 22 for A REALLY, REALLY FREE MARKET in East Hollywood. Our city’s politicians spends billions on 🐷s who aid 🧊 and tear communities apart. We know the people in power are not coming to save us. They’re the ones waging the war against the poor and value property over people.

REALLI, REALLY FREE MARKET
Sunday, June 22nd 1-4 pm
Vermont/Sunset Metro Station
EVERYTHING IS FREE!
• Haircuts
• Art Station
• Birth
• CalFresh
Certificates
Enrollement
• Clothes
• Books
• Live Music
• And more!

• Hot Food

• Phones

• Medical Care

• Ticket Clinic

• Pet Supplies
What should you bring ?
• For Phones: ID, Medi-cal, and/or EBT card with receipt
• For Ticket Clinic: bring ticket and ID
• For CalFresh: ID and SSN

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Nick Mandernach @nickmandernach.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Solidarity with staff and all workers. @wgawest.bsky.social must reinstate Fatima and stop their disastrous union busting.

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Kris Rehl @krisrehl.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Revoking access to health care for California's nearly 2 million undocumented immigrants will be a death sentence for thousands of people. Meanwhile, California is home to 197 billionaires.

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David James Henry @davidjameshenry.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Union busting is and forever will be a tool to keep the working class down. Ask yourself, how does firing a dedicated union organizer from the Writers Guild staff help writers in any way? It does not.

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Writers Guild Staff Union (WGSU) @wgsunion.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

This is a timeline of the union busting practices that have occurred in the recent weeks. Managers are still using problematic, union busting rhetoric in staff and 1:1 meetings. We await response from management on our 2nd and 3rd demands: stop union busting and reinstate Fátima Murrieta. #ItsTime

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Miguel Parreño @miguelaparreno.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Check it out! My script TRICK PLAY made the inaugural BALLERS LIST! Check out how Henry Drysdale pulls together a rag tag high school team and learns to love baseball again.

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Alex Fernie @ferniecommaalex.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Friendship is insanely funny and see it with a crowd if at all possible.

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The Rob Stern Show @therobstern.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Saving bees from a pool with Nick Mandernach and Ross Copeland. #Podcast #bees

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Nick Mandernach @nickmandernach.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Love the pathetic reply you get after unsubscribing from emails: “Sorry to see ya go...we did our best but sometimes that’s not enough…here if ya change your mind 🥹”

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Aimee Steinberger @aimeekitty.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

New teaser image from my next episode of #TheGreatNorth I directed, Sunset Beeflevard! This sequence was a beast and @athsieh.bsky.social slayed it.

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Lilan Bowden @yourfriendlilan.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

This is also really rough- Youth Development, Disability, City Planning, Transportation, Animal Services, Civil, Human Rights, all taking job position hits. Does the mayor know that other people live here besides police officers and their cars?

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 25/04/2025

BREAKING: The World Food Program says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel’s nearly 8-week-old blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the territory.

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UN food agency says its foods stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel's blockade

The World Food Program says its food stocks in Gaza have run out under Israel’s nearly 8-week-old blockade, ending a main source of sustenance for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in the territory.

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Nick Mandernach @nickmandernach.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Solidarity with our Guild staff. You fight for us and we will fight for you!

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Kevin Seccia @kevinseccia.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

I wrote a western short story and then someone agreed to publish it! I’m basically Elmore Leonard! a.co/d/9vQNEmC

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Call Me By Your Game @callmebyyourgame.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Take a boat, find an arcade 🚤 🕹️ On Ep.244 improviser and writer @nickmandernach.bsky.social stops by to discuss his time with Captain America and the Avengers (1991) and harrowing boat trips in the marina. youtu.be/TvGTgE7xR6E?...

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Take a boat, play an arcade game - Captain America and the Avengers podcast with Nick Mandernach

YouTube video by Call Me By Your Game

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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

🚨Bring your donations this SUNDAY 12-2pm! We're especially in need of XL & XXL men clothes. Can't make it? Donate online: tinyurl.com/lascdonte

DONATION DRIVE
1533 N VERMONT AVE
FALLAS RECYCLING IN LOS FELIZ
SUNDAY, APRIL 27
NOON - 2 PM
PLEASE ONLY BRING THESE ITEMS:
• Tents
• Shirts
• Pet Food
• Tarps
• Pants/shorts
• Top Sheets
• Pop-up Canopies
• NEW Socks
• Blankets
• Folding Tables
• NEW Underwear
• NEW Toiletries
• Flashlights
• Gently-used shoes
• Water Bottles
• Metal Clamps
• Outdoor Heaters
• Cell Phones/Tablets
All clothing and bedding must be freshly washed!

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LA Street Care & Mutual Aid @lastreetcare.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

🚨Action Needed: City Council is trying to criminalize people for sleeping in their cars (again) even though the number of people living unhoused in LA is at an all-time high. Please take 3 minutes to make these calls/send emails--no later than 9am on Wednesday! Graphics by @ktownforall.org

Ktown For All needs your help!
16,000 homes are gone after the most devastating wildfires in L.A.'s history. Now City Council wants to ban people from sleeping in the only shelter they might have left: their cars.
We need you (yes, you!) to call & write City Council's Homelessness & Housing Committee, and say: NO on 85.02!
Deadline:
Wednesday, April 23 9:00am

Why is City Council trying to make it illegal for people to sleep in their own cars?
Car sleeping ban LAMC 85.02 is a cruel and shortsighted measure meant to paper over visible signs of homelessness while funneling taxpayer money AWAY from service providers, and towards increased policing and criminalization of poverty.
Sound familiar? We've been here before.

What they say...
"85.02 isn't about criminalizing homelessness.
It is about making sure that our communities have ….. health and safety protections."
- CM Bob Blumenfield
What WE say...
• 85.02 literally criminalizes homelessness.
• 85.02 has NO health or safety protections.
No provisions for trash pickup, portapotties, housing placements, and/or safe parking sites. It is purely punitive.
• 85.02 enforcement is going to push people out of their cars, and onto the streets.
• 85.02 will only make homelessness worse.

Members of the Homelessness & Housing Committee:
Nithya Raman....
Ysabel Jurado...
Bob Blumenfeld..
. (213) 473-7004
. (213) 473-7014
• (213) 473-7003
contactCD4@lacity.org
councilmember.jurado@lacity.org
councilmember.blumenfield@lacity.org
Call or Email, and tell them:
• Vote NO on the vehicle dwelling ban, 85.02.
• Criminalizing survival doesn't help anyone.
• Banning sleeping in cars will just lead to more people sleeping on the streets.
• Zone-based banishment bills like 41.18 and 85.02 are proven policy failures, and a waste of money that our city cannot afford.
Deadline for comment: Wednesday morning!

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Nick Mandernach @nickmandernach.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

WGA management must voluntary recognize our staffs union and rehire Fatima Murrieta! What an embarassment for @wgawest.bsky.social @ellenstutzman.bsky.social

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glennmrobinson.bsky.social @glennmrobinson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Yes but also theres an idea that as long as you had due process the cruelty is ok and I really don’t like that. We need to end the idea that incarceration, deportation, etc is ok as long as we have due process. This also fails to take into account how our entire structure for due process is corrupt.

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