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GenX in the western part of occupied L.A. www.laweekly.com/the-year-i-ate-pic… “Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.” -Eisenhower 'good govt' | LA | Lakers+Dodgers | postpunk + powerpop | great eats | el whimsy

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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
oh my GOD
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 06/10/2026
Everyone wants someone else to plan dinner parties & invite them.
derekthompson.org
You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner
We’re witnessing the death of hosting in America. The share of adults who say they regularly have friends over has declined 70 percent since 1975
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West is West @west-is-west.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
dark but yeah www.zocalopublicsquare.org/my-2030-doom...
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My 2030 Doomsday Plan for California | Connecting California
The AI End Times Are Coming. What If We Governed the State Like There Was No Tomorrow?
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Frank Shyong @frankshyong.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Japanese Americans once grew most of the state’s celery in Venice Beach. After a month of searching, I found some still growing wild in Ballona Creek this past weekend. wrote about it in Lunch Box. frankbear.substack.com/p/japanese-c...
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West is West @west-is-west.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Explains exactly why L.A.’s streets and corner curbs suck, from the perspective of why L.A. also lacks good bike lanes. Also brings some solutions, or at least steps toward loosening the stuck problems. futureis.la/p/how-to-bre...
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How to break the HLA stalemate
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Paul Hikari @paulhikari.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well, if they won't do it, I say we make the trailer go viral. youtu.be/FFTf1lzcs28
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MUSK | Official Trailer HD
YouTube video by Elevation Pictures
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office. Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor. Donors make huge profits while workers get shafted. Repeat. This is not a coincidence. It's a political-economic system that's been corrupted by design.
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West is West @west-is-west.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
All of these Trump Admin moves seem so inefficient. Why not just kill people directly? Maybe that comes soon. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/b...
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Trump Officials May Undo Nursing Home Mandates for Reporting Covid
The agency led by Dr. Mehmet Oz is proposing an end to weekly tracking of respiratory infections at the facilities where thousands of elderly residents died in the pandemic.
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West is West @west-is-west.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
lamaterial.com/p/la-mayor-p... @lamaterial.com
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Does the L.A. Mayor Have Real Power?
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and council member Nithya Raman have been debating the nature of mayoral authority. Does L.A. truly have a "weak mayor" system?
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The reporters and the press association should all do the logical things in response to Trump's ban on Politico, CNN, MSNOW. Everyone else's response should be to laugh at Trump for being a little bitch. CNN is too much for him? 🤣 A president crying out No Mas, No Mas. Low Energy. Sad.
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West is West @west-is-west.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
"ICE continues to quietly raise their arrest numbers across the nation, surpassing each previous month and breaking their all-time record in August, with 50,925 arrests. That trend is true here [in L.A.], as well." lataco.com/ice-watch-la... @lataco.bsky.social
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The City of L.A. Leads in One Thing: ICE Kidnappings ~ L.A. TACO
ICE is becoming quicker, sneakier, and targeting people as they go about their daily routines.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Our system has not completely collapsed but we are living through an attempted fascist takeover of the United States. If you’re not on the target list today, you will be tomorrow. Nobody gets out of this undamaged. The only path forward to save our democracy is accountability and overhaul.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/09/2026
I think it's under-appreciated how much the threat of physical violence by Trump supporters is an undercurrent in our politics, keeping a lot of people who might otherwise speak out quiet.
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Tariq Moustapha @thetariqm.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
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Canary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 05/09/2026
The Trump administration is forking out nearly $4 billion to get firms to abandon their offshore wind leases. Here’s how states and Congress members are fighting back.
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Trump’s $4B in offshore wind buyouts spur legal blowback from states
Interior is using tax dollars to pay firms to ditch offshore wind leases and invest in fossil fuels instead. California just became the eighth state to…
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Nazi Germany voted away its democracy, Britain voted away its prosperity, and the US voted away both. Propaganda kills and troll farms are a weapon of war. Half measures and civilian counter propaganda and fact checking isn’t enough. We can’t win a war against an enemy that controls our minds.
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Dooofy, aspiring cartoonist @dooofy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Here Are 19 - Yes, 19! - Ways Trump and Republicans Are Plotting to Rig and Steal the Midterm Elections
Attacking immigrants and Black voting power. Gutting election security. Voter purges. Threats of arrests and raids. And so much more. Trump’s assault on elections is truly unprecedented.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please don't overreact to Roberts Court decision on the contemplated USPS ballot moves They simply held that the injunction came too early in the process, before there was a final rule👇 Now we HAVE a final rule & we will litigate it. I'm as confident in our arguments here as in any of our cases!
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
BREAKING: In unusual 9PM Friday Federal Register filing, Postal Service finalizes regulation to deny delivery of mail-in ballots not matching addresses in database BUT says won't implement 'til court orders are lifted. #SCOTUS still quiet. Doc: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-17238.pdf
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fabstaface.bsky.social @fabstaface.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Crawford Kilian @crof.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Annals of Unsurprising Results: Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Undocumented migration does not raise crime rates, huge study finds
Analysis of neighbourhoods in more than 100 US cities finds no evidence that rising numbers of undocumented immigrants are linked with violent crime.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Trump aide Natalie Harp spent a summer sleeping in the locker room at Trump's Bedminster golf club to remain close to him after she was denied a room.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Exclusive: A rare bookseller suspected his books were being bought by AI companies. He stuck an AirTag in a book and we tracked it to a secretive Amazon facility in Las Vegas where they scan and destroy books called VGT3: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Can you guess how much the minimum wage would be today if it kept up with worker productivity over the years?
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/08/2026
Ossoff says that Trump doesn’t want to do his job but wants to “travel with Natalie”
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West is West @west-is-west.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Idunno, I'm pretty sure he was already doing crimes long before the midterms came around. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
bloomberg.com
Trump Pivots to Crime as War, Economy Imperil GOP Midterm Hopes
President Donald Trump turned to the issue of crime when he hit the campaign trail Friday as Republican prospects in November’s midterms continue to suffer over his handling of the economy and war in ...
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West is West @west-is-west.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
So on brand for Trump to produce cheap schlocky crap. Only this time, it's our national defense. Nice work, America. Maybe put the "TRUMP" name on 'em, and then watch the bankruptcies bloom or whatever www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Major US Defense Firms Race to Make Cheaper Missiles
Major defense contractors are trying to produce cheaper missiles more quickly, as the Iran war exposes stressed inventories of crucial Patriot interceptors and smaller firms offer more affordable opti...
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West is West @west-is-west.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
you love to see it la.eater.com/los-angeles-...
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L.A.‘s Old-School Movie Palaces Are Staging a Comeback
The Cinerama Dome, the Alex Theatre, and the Bruin are proof that locals still want to go to the movies
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West is West @west-is-west.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Spot on perfect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU_I...
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Scooby-Doo: The Mystery of the Reflecting Pool | Donald Trump Parody #ScoobyDoo #Satire #DonaldTrump
YouTube video by Midnight Oil Productions (Jason Moore)
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John Harwood @johnjharwood.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
"The new emphasis on small-dollar fraud comes as the administration has issued pardons and commutations to white-collar convicts, pulled back from criminal cases against multinational corporations and dropped charges against wealthy executives." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/14/u...
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Trump’s Justice Dept. Targets Smaller Fraud Cases (Gift Article)
As the Trump administration drops charges against corporations and the wealthy, it is also taking aim at small-scale fraud cases, including against the operator of a weathered food truck in California...
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West is West @west-is-west.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's an interesting idea, and I don't know the best answer among the nuances. I do know that I increasingly check the "other" box when demographic information is required. If the world isn't accepting Jews as fully "white", then I ain't gonna do it either. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...
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California May Let Residents Choose ‘Jewish’ as an Ethnic Identifier (Gift Article)
A bill would allow Jews to identify themselves as an ethnic group on state forms. Supporters argue it’s a step toward acknowledging the complex nature of Jewish identity.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
2/ Ask your governors and state representatives NOW to assure you that they would refuse this kind of unconstitutional & criminal White House intervention in the administration of elections which are expressly under the power of the states.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Trump's invasion of Greenland. US oil company preparing to sink wells despite not having permission from the local authorities. Greenland may have $1tn of crude. Trump seeking conflict and takeover. Will Europe capitulate to the madman?
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Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling
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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
American factory construction continued declining in official data released today as CHIPS Act projects finish, IRA projects get cancelled, and tariffs weigh on nearly all industries Total US factory construction is down 32% from its 2024 highs and 22% over the last year alone
A graph of US factory construction
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West is West @west-is-west.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
best war ever, our maga tacticians leading the charge yet the Trump, he scared, he want hide it .... 'no no it was the Thems!' www.foxnews.com/politics/tru...
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Trump rejects Iran blame for Minnesota cyberattack, points finger at 'corrupt' political foe
Trump dismissed claims that Iranian hackers targeted Minnesota water systems, instead blaming the state's governor for what he called gross incompetence.
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West is West @west-is-west.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I love this. la.eater.com/restaurant-n...
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Southern California’s Quiet Pizza Revolution
A slate of new Los Angeles and Orange County pizzerias are redefining “California pizza”
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov on Hegseth: “We’ve got Americans coming back from overseas in coffins from a war they lied us into.”
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Bits and Bobs @carmelseaotter.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
'In this scenario, Speaker Johnson’s designee, at Mr. Trump’s instigation, would produce a roll of new House members that included Republicans in races that Democrats believed they had won.' www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/o...
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Opinion | What’s the Worst Thing Trump Can Do in the Midterms? (Gift Article)
President Trump could accomplish on Jan. 3, 2027, what he failed to do on Jan. 6. 2021.
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West is West @west-is-west.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I mean, this shows that Fauci's power of scientific observation is sharp. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Fauci expressed disillusionment with ‘rambling, crazy’ Trump in journal
Former top US health official wrote about challenging interactions with publicity-fixated Trump during Covid
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West is West @west-is-west.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/u... NYT: “After Democratic Shake-Up, Susan Collins Holds Enormous Cash Edge in Maine” secure.actblue.com/donate/loc_t...
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DEFEAT SUSAN COLLINS!
Troy Jackson is a fifth-generation logger – now, he’s running for Senate to defeat Susan Collins. Donate any amount to join the fight and flip Maine blue.
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Maggie 🇺🇸⚾️ @lacentrist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I listened to Trump for about 15 minutes aimlessly rambling at the WH dinner. It was embarrassing to say the least but also filled with hate and nonsense. We have 2-1/2 more years of this demented old narcissist at the helm. He needs to be checked Your voice! November. YOUR VOTE.
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West is West @west-is-west.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Love this variety.com/2026/film/ne...
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The Cinerama Dome Lives! Iconic Hollywood Theater to Reopen Alongside New 14-Screen Alamo Drafthouse Cinema
Viva la Cinerama Dome! Sony is officially reviving one of Hollywood's most beloved movie theaters, which has been shuttered since 2020.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
In November, Mainers will defeat Susan Collins, and we will take back our Senate seat from the billionaires and corporations who think they own it.
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Ben DuBose @bendubose.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Well, this will be fun in a few minutes
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Yours in negritude, Ryan K. Smith @mewefree.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Two people tried to enter a screening of The Odyssey without buying tickets after hiding inside a miniature model of the Trojan Horse. 😂😂😂
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/07/2026
Ossoff: "Here's what's going to happen tonight: the world's most famous sore loser will deliver a prime-time presidential sour grapes address to pursue his 6-year-old grievances about the 2020 election, while his war in the Middle East spirals out of control & the cost of living continues to rise.."
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?
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Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Democrats tend to think politics is a contest of ideas, or a race to see who can knock on the most doors, but today’s politics is information warfare, pure and simple. Trump and the GOP are trying to take over the media; it's time Dems started fighting back. www.messageboxnews.com/p/trumps-stu...
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Trump's Stunning Admission About CNN
What Trump said about CNN wasn't a gaffe. It was a confession.
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