Joel Mandelkorn

Trans athlete bans always get used to police cis women's bodies. The athletes affected by this are disproportionately Black. There's a direct through line from this stuff to racism.

Task and Purpose is doing a great job covering the military’s presence in LA. I recommend following them to stay-up-date and informed about it.

This is beautiful. This is art. Btw, this filmmaker has been arrested by LAPD for filming an ICE kidnapping. More info in the comments.

Don’t care that it’s not come from the Reign, get behind the sentiment

wtf is a 'pro-vaccine group' it's not like vaccines have people in polos with clipboards pretty sure they just mean doctors and scientists and it's weird that a supposed standard of of objective journalism wouldn't say that

you gotta see this one!

pure villainy

Hey @gavinnewsom.bsky.social I asked GenAI how to fix traffic in Southern California, here you go dude

A Conversation with Charles Burnett (KILLER OF SHEEP) Imagine this peculiar back-and-forth as mere embellishment. There is a far superior interview—in Interview, no less—with the great Charles Burnett and Barry Jenkins “You’re Either a Storyteller or a L...

A Conversation with Charles Burnett (KILLER OF SHEEP)
By Jonathan Marlow www.hammertonail.com/interviews/c...

South LA businessowner sues LAPD for excessive force, says officers assaulted him over complaint Joe Ward-Wallace, the owner of South LA Cafe, said that when he tried to make a complaint about another LAPD officer, two officers assaulted and arrested him. The charges against him were eventually d...

Last April, South LA Cafe owner Joe Ward-Wallace approached two LAPD officers about a cop he saw driving recklessly in the community. In response, Joe was assaulted and arrested by the cops, denied bail, and held in solitary confinement for days. He is now suing LAPD.

It Pays Well To Deny Coverage As Cigna fights off a lawsuit claiming it systematically denied patients coverage, the health insurance giant just paid a departing executive $10 million in severance.

🚨NEWS: New documents show Cigna just paid a departing executive $10 million in severance - as the company denies 1 in 5 in-network medical claims and faces a lawsuit alleging that it systemically denied patients coverage. www.levernews.com/it-pays-well...

His girlfriend’s aunt Grace Layva says she and her family made numerous calls looking for him before they found out he was being detained in the Florence Correctional Center, which Immigration and Customs Enforcement uses to detain people. Another family member drove to the detention center, about 70 miles northwest of Tucson, but said officials wouldn’t provide any information or release him. ICE did not respond to a request for comment about the wrongful detention. The family later provided officials with his birth certificate and social security card. “He did say he was a U.S. citizen, but they didn't believe him,” Layva said. “I think they would have kept him. I think they would have if they would have not got that information yesterday in the court and gave that to ICE and the Border Patrol. He probably would have been deported already to Mexico.”

A Border Patrol official arrested a 19 yo citizen from Albuquerque in Arizona who didn’t have ID on him, claimed he ‘admitted’ to illegally crossing the border, abducted + ICE imprisoned him for 10 days, and would have deported him to Mexico if his family hadn’t tracked him down and provided his ID.

FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.

BREAKING: The FDA is planning to end most of its routine food safety inspections, according to CBS News.

www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...

BREAKING: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is firing 1,500 workers, and will soon have only about 200 remaining.

That means the CFPB will be largely unable to carry out its mission of overseeing financial institutions and regulating companies that scam consumers.

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'Players and league employees do not receive training on how to use the software, the league confirmed. “Training on how to use a tip line? What would that look like?” one league official said.'

this incompetence, in any league, but especially this one, is immediately fireable

They have and are literally doing things in every box. This isn't just journalistic failure by the NYT, it is disinformation.

The Age of the Double Sell-Out In the last three decades, youth culture has moved from a deep suspicion of commerce to a passionate defense of anti-anti-commerce to an entire generation of "creatives” who leverage the commercial ma...

My friend and yours @caseyjohnston.bsky.social linked to this piece in a recent newsletter, and it really got at the vibe of what a lot of things feel like culturally these days. Can we bring back SOME sense of shame and integrity? Like, just a little?

Paging Dr. Land Baron Nonprofit hospitals are building tax-exempt real estate empires — and working to crush politicians who stand in their way.

INVESTIGATION: Hospital chains are buying up billions of dollars of real estate, milking them for income while using charity status to avoid taxes that fund schools & emergency departments. Some are now using taxpayer-subsidized fortunes to buy elections.

Folks, this is a scam.

The GOP is helping Elon Musk and his friends loot the federal government and give themselves billions in federal contracts—and then wants to give them permanent tax breaks on the back end by cutting critical programs.

Let's call it what it is: a scam on the American people.

Like this angle 🤌🏼

The "Is it a constitutional crisis yet?!" discussion is so absurd: Of course you can construct increasingly esoteric definitions for why this current moment doesn't meet your exact criteria yet. But meanwhile, this is where we are: Masked agents of the states abducting people for writing op-eds.

A Dark Money Deluge To Kill Consumer Protections More than a dozen groups tied to conservative “friend of the court” Leonard Leo filed legal briefs pushing SCOTUS to further gut the government’s power to take on corporations.

More than a dozen groups tied to conservative “friend of the court” Leonard Leo filed legal briefs pushing SCOTUS to further gut the government’s power to take on corporations.

Ignoring massacres in Gaza City while protesting for democracy in Tel Aviv | Opinion ***

"Two hundred children and 100 women were killed in one day. Altogether, about 400 civilians were killed, and the number of dead is not yet final." www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025...

Aurora announces closure of all schools Thursday due to protest against education cuts In an update Wednesday, Aurora Public Schools announced that all APS schools will be closed Thursday due to a rally against education funding cuts.

Schools across Colorado shut down to enable teachers, administrators, etc to protest Dept of Education cuts. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

“How long will I be here?”

“I don’t know your case,” the man said. “Could be days. Could be weeks. But I’m telling you right now – you need to mentally prepare yourself for months.”