Marissa Maciel

DAILY MEMO: The Kidnapping of Latino Workers Continues From California to Chicago

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One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

if you announce that you're breaking up with Nicole Kidman because she wanted too much sex you need to do it at a press conference where you're in a full body cast. just a little slit in the head area where a pair of wild, haunted eyes are staring out

Blue Books are making a comeback

“How to live to be 100” let me guess its living the grind lifestyle and partying with your bros all weekend long

Maybe the problem with modern journalism is that the people who get hired are the rich college kids who could take unpaid internships. The perspectives they bring to the news are not entirely relatable or relevant to the rest of us.

Maybe the problem with modern journalism is that the people who get hired are the rich college kids who could take unpaid internships. The perspectives they bring to the news are not entirely relatable or relevant to the rest of us.

The genocide-supporting paper of record came to town and talked to Jordan Schnitzer about the socialists on city council.

I’m not joking.

Wow the NYT really is scared of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 2 headlines devoted to intimidating readers about his policies. Shameful the paper of record is going so low.

"We've been forced into a 'free speech zone.' Its very existence implies that everywhere else is a non-free speech zone, that there are places where our First Amendment rights do not apply."

I am just so fucking proud of her.

/4 Chappelle: did you ever notice how princes drive like THIS and Malaysian guest workers under the kafala system drive like THIS

Riyadh crowd: [rapturous joy]

Chappelle: y’all a great, this is free speech culture

Chappelle: Y’all are more free than we are

Riyadh crowd: Wooooooo

Chappelle: Like if I tell jokes about trans people at home people say shit about me

Riyadh crowd: booo

Chappelle: but you guys clap

Riyadh: [applause]

Chappelle: you see THAT’s free speech

“Hopefully this isn’t a return to the rail-thin ‘heroin chic’ generals of the ’90s.” Abby Hackett, Unemployed

Pete Hegseth Rails Against Fat Generals
https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-rails-against-fat-generals/

The Prime Minister of Albania came up to Macron and Azerbaijani President Aliyev and joked about how Trump had resolved the conflict between Albania and Azerbaijan.

A package of assorted cheese with a cracker in a plastic container, from Westside Market, New York City on 77 Seventh Ave The label reads: Assorted cheese hell.....yes THE SKY IS DARK THE WIND IS COLD THE NIGHT IS YOUNG BEFORE IT'S OLD AND GREY. WE WILL KNOW THE THRILL OF IT ALL--BRYAN FREEY there is a barcode and it says 1 PCS Packed on: & Sell by: OCT 01 Total price $5.99

It's officially October 1st so that means you all have to repost Assorted cheese
hell.....yes

Self-Generation Incentive Program The Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) helps qualified LADWP residential customers install solar and battery storage systems by providing financial incentives. This program supports clean energy...

This is amazing: @ladwp.com, the Los Angeles utility, has launched a program that will install solar+battery systems on qualifying low-to-moderate-income households, *for free*.

Yes: free.

If you know someone eligible, tell them to apply!

Luke 16:21 “And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.” King James Version (KJV)

TIL my great grandpa named his dog Moreover because of this passage in the Bible

The bread is calling to me now brb

The guy literally calls himself Mr Beast are we really that surprised

MrBeast nearly burning a man to death and EA buckling under the leveraged buyout from hell are the exact same problem expressed differently. The rich will burn everything if it makes them a single extra dollar or feel one emotion, and they must be stopped

Riyadh comedy festival is actually a perfect example of our current situation: if people are offered money and attention they will 100% side with a dictatorship responsible for killing innocent people - even their own parents.

I am not Chicano/Hispanic or Native American. Can I be a SACNAS member? YES!! Our name is a testament to our founding during the Chicano and American Indian civil rights movements. Everyone is welcome to become a SACNAS member, regardless of gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, race, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, or religion (including the lack thereof or religious dress and grooming). We look forward to welcoming you to our SACNAS family! New/Potential Members sacnas.org

BS on Ohio State for this. SACNAS is open to anyone www.sacnas.org/memberships#...

Holding space for all the people doing their best right now*

*Avoiding Mr Beast’s murder traps

Question: is the voice in your head a monologue or a soliloquy?

Just an FYI my phone screen protector has a few spots that won’t clean off so if you’re lucky, when I look at your face on my phone you may have a big gap in your teeth, a patch on your eye, or a mole/beauty mark. It’s the poor-man’s version of a face filter.

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶

🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈

#FollowTheRainbow

Update: I’ve become hooked on cinnamon raisin bread.

Free name for a rail fan account: iamsteaming

EA privately acquired in $55bn deal by group of investors, including Saudi Arabia's investment fund and Donald Trump's son-in-law EA has officially been acquired by a group of investors including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund in a private tr…

Welp, EA is now owned by a group including the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund and Trump's son in law Jared Kushner (CEO of Affinity Partners).

Good luck Bioware - I wish your brand of queer centric RPGs good luck...

www.eurogamer.net/ea-privately...