Jim Winstead

I’m late to becoming a Dodgers fan, but if a theme for me this year has been embracing Los Angeles, it has been an important part of that. http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/09/27/go_dodgers_

It wasn't the Rosslyn Lofts, it was the Rosslyn Hotel (the former annex) on the other side of 5th St.

Took a picture a few months ago, went to a night market last night, and let the two collide in thoughts about Chinatown in Los Angeles. http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/09/01/chinatown,_at_night

I finished another book, finally. (A few weeks ago, actually.) http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/09/01/the_martian_contingency

He was delivering strawberries in L.A. when Border Patrol stopped him. 'The wrong place at the wrong time' Angel Rodrigo Minguela Palacios was delivering strawberries to a tearoom in Little Tokyo when Border Patrol agents massed nearby where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a news conference. Minguela ended u...

Last week, Border Patrol agents massed outside of a @governor.ca.gov news conference. They wound up arresting Angel Rodrigo Minguela Palacios, a strawberry delivery driver with no criminal record and just there to drop off fruit to a tea room.

This is his story

www.latimes.com/california/s...

an @lataco.bsky.social x @msnbc.com crossover is something I've been wanting to make happen for months. so much respect and admiration for what @eltragon.bsky.social and the team have been doing all summer documenting ICE raids in L.A. honored to have him on while I'm filling in for Steph this week.

How a strawberry delivery driver was caught in a fight between Newsom and Trump Angel Rodrigo Minguela Palacios was delivering strawberries to a tearoom in Little Tokyo when Border Patrol agents massed nearby where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a news conference. Minguela ended up caught in the middle.

How a strawberry delivery driver was caught in a fight between Newsom and Trump

Photo of armed customs and border patrol agents and cars on the plaza in front of the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo.

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

CAA Climbing Theater

Sir Speedy Velodrome

Western Exterminators Cricket Stadium

Zankou Chicken Target Shooting Hall

in-N-Out Diving Pavilion

I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.

How a fizzled recall attempt actually helped Mayor Karen Bass During a tenuous moment for Bass, the recall threat helped her raise far more money than she would have otherwise been able to collect.

Resnick is also a major donor to the anti-recall campaign fund for @karenbassla.bsky.social. www.latimes.com/california/n...

This week I finally figured out how to do something in #Django that had frustrated me before. I am still fighting my way through discovering how to compose things out of Django's constituent parts. http://trainedmonkey.com/2025/07/26/using_autocompleteselect_in_a_django_admin_form

Andre the Giant has a posse.

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The important thing to understand about the current state of affairs is that Andreessen hired a partner at the most influential VC firm in the tech industry solely on the basis that the man strangled a Black man to death in my neighborhood.

Couple Charged in $40-Million Health Fraud Defendants stole identities of patients and doctors in a massive scheme, U.S. prosecutor says.

Twenty years ago, the owners were indicted in a $40 million alleged healthcare (MediCal) scam. Looks like one of them eventually pled guilty to some of the charges. www.latimes.com/archives/la-...

The claim by the owner of these businesses that their products come from liquidators is interesting. This story and store is at the intersection of a lot of the pervasive fraud and fraud-adjacency of the current economy. I can't remember if it has a Bitcoin ATM but it seems likely.

I'm sure this is unrelated. www.benzinga.com/24/12/426144...

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

it is funny how many people affiliated with the secret police have had to say "stop making fun of the secret police, the guy in the tac vest that covers him like a training bra is a hero, he tracked down and subdued two hospice orderlies using only the W-2 forms they file annually"

Poster reading: LITTLE TOKYO IS A COMMUNITY OF IMMIGRANTS WE ARE RESIDENTS, RESTAURANT WORKERS, NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS, MOM-AND-POP STORES, AND ELDERS! NO ICE IN LITTLE TOKYO

YouTube video by L.A. TACO The Smooth Tortilla Rolling Senator

Seems like a good time to re-up this clip from @lataco.bsky.social youtu.be/pwk9yrOVcSI?...

wow I wonder if the cops who lied about the sitting senator even though everything they did was on tape are also being less than honest about the presence of violent agitators at the protests in los angeles. they might even not have told the entire truth about other protests

My favourite one like this is Don Henley getting Brian to autograph a copy of Pet Sounds. Brian signed it "thanks for all the great music" then thought for a second, crossed out "great", and wrote "good"

That's my CVS! They usually put down the roll-down gate behind the windows in the evening, and what you don't see is that the windows only start about five feet above street-level. Also, that corner is filthy. There's a very active bus stop just around the corner (to the left).

The police chief is going to work hard to chase down people from bodycam footage, how hard is he working to root out the bad actors on his force? Why is the only consequence for this that the taxpayers have to shell out large settlements to victims of police violence?