Melrose was supposed to undergo a complete streets makeover from Highland to Fairfax that would have installed stormwater gardens to mitigate flooding, among other critical safety improvements. The previous councilmember killed the project
Crazy for DOOM (as King Geedorah) rhyming ‘biker with the best crank’ with ‘sniper in the west bank’ in 2003. RIP.
when someone I thought was normal says "seed oil"
Al Jazeera has published the names of every journalist killed since 7 Oct 2023.
231 Palestinian journalists have been slaughtered in Gaza. A whole generation of reporters wiped out while many of their colleagues in the West simply shrugged.
Sweet thank you!
Does #icanhazpdf work over here on Bluesky like it does on that other site? Was one of the best features tbh
losing my mind
Rest in peace, Professor Shoup (1938-2025)
We will keep up the good work.
Share your stories and thoughts with the parking reform community here: parkingreform.org/donald-shoup
Cost of eggs got you down? Try this vegan egg from a member of the @veganoutreach.bsky.social 10 Week program. Cheaper and healthier! Could add veggies too.
#eggs #costofeggs
Public health is one of those things that you won’t miss until it’s gone.
Info blackout at the CDC, FDA and NIH combined with Trump withdrawing from the World Health Organization is a recipe for disaster.
Americans and the world need this information to make informed choices about risks to health
With climate-change turbocharged windstorms pushing wildfires into our communities, it's critical to stay alert, be prepared, and stand in solidarity with each other.
We’ll be be continually updating our resource guide at dsa.la/emergency with newe, opportunities to respond, and organize.
"You pay every time you board a bus, and that makes you think about whether you want to ride it. If you paid every time you used a parking space, you'd also think about whether you want to drive. Free parking doesn’t mean free markets; it often means freeloading."
—Donald Shoup
One of the most helpful things you could share with people right now. Five free workshops for new organizers over December and January.
When your right-wing nudnik friends say "Do you have to make EVERYTHING political?" re: Paul Reubens' death, note that Reubens' humor was political *to him.* Pee-wee's biggest adventure was giving us a glimpse of a more inclusive world.
I feel like my generation experienced Peak Internet and we’re now on a downward trend.
Google Search sucks. You can’t trust Amazon ratings. Twitter & Reddit are at war with their users. Every useful news site is paywalled and every garbage one is free.
Turns out 2010s were the good old days.