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NEW: Ayman Soliman is locally renowned for helping the families of dying kids.

Now, friends say he’s been "tortured" in isolation as the Trump administration tries to deport him.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

& so to tenderness I add my action.

—Aracelis Girmay

Killing SB 79 will make Los Angeles a less affordable, less sustainable place -- it'll keep us on the same trajectory we've been on since SB 827 and SB 50 were killed almost a decade ago. Why is the mayor going out of her way to oppose it? There's no excuse for this.

“If you want to have loving feelings, do loving things.” - Anne Lamott

and to my grandchildren i leave 86 gigabytes of menswear photos to win any menswear argument online

I kinda think the way people use ChatGPT is sort of aspirational because it seems to emulate the way rich people have sycophants lying to them all the time until they lose touch with reality and also their entire minds

Chevron, Occidental and Civitas cited for falsified lab reports downplaying pollutants in Colorado groundwater Chevron, Occidental and Civitas were hit with violation notices for falsified lab reports that underrerported groundwater pollution levels.

"Colorado’s three largest oil and gas producers were hit with violation notices for falsified lab reports that minimized the levels of a wide variety of pollutants, including arsenic and barium in the soil and benzene in groundwater."

ARSENIC IN THE FUCKING GROUNDWATER!

EXCLUSIVE: ICE may have secretly done more third-country removals than previously known Flight data from private jets contracted by ICE show a spike in activity to 13 countries targeted for third-country removals.

EXCLUSIVE: ICE may have secretly done more third-country removals than previously known

Flight data from private jets contracted by ICE show a spike in activity to 13 countries targeted for third-country removals.

👀I've been working on this for two months.

hardghistory.ghost.io/exclusive-ic...

ICE Detained 6-Year-Old with Cancer for Over a Month: “He and His Sister Cried Every Night As Congress approved some $45 billion to expand ICE’s immigration detention capacity, including the jailing of families and children, we look at the case of one family. In May, plainclothes ICE agents...

ICE Detained 6-Year-Old with Cancer for Over a Month: "He and His Sister Cried Every Night

Deaf, mute and terrified: ICE arrests DACA recipient and ships him to Texas Javier Diaz Santana, who is deaf and mute, was swept up in a federal immigration raid at his job in Temple City, unable to communicate in handcuffs. His attorney says U.S. agents "don’t care whether y...

ICE is sweeping up people with disabilities now, making no accommodations for them.

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

Not that it makes him more deserving of freedom- I don’t think anybody should have to fear being snatched off the street by masked pigs- but Jon spends what has to be every single spare moment trying to improve the lives of normal people in our community

The Originalism Trap by Madiba K. Dennie: 9780593729250 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A rallying cry for a more just approach to the law that bolsters social justice movements by throwing out originalism—the theory that judges should interpret the Constitution exactly as conservatives....

I have something for that!!

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735353...

Our local NYC hero Youman Wilder was just on MSNBC talking about how he caught ICE agents questioning his players, asking "where you from? where your parents from?" Youman instructed the kids to not answer them & told the feds to back off.

Salute Youman! Listen to the whole clip (full in thread)

Nobody captured love, loss, and the fight for belonging more powerfully than Andrea Gibson did. Their words gave voice to the unseen and hope to the unheard.

Colorado is better because of their words. Our hearts are with their loved ones and all mourning this profound loss.

What To Do If A Loved One Has Been Detained By ICE ~ L.A. TACO In the heartbreaking event that someone you know has been detained by a federal immigration agent, you'll need to know what steps to take to locate them and hopefully, get some money on their books an...

@lataco.bsky.social is doing heroic work in this crisis. Started with tacos, moved on to human rights and democracy, by providing some of the best coverage of what's happening and what to do about it. lataco.com/what-to-do-i...

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Have just realized that the silly “Bezos wants to buy Vogue as a lavish wedding gift for his bride” story that’s been circulating is inaccurate - Bezos wants to buy Condé Nast which owns The New Yorker,Teen Vogue, Wired & Arts Technica because he is an oligarch who wants to crush all dissent.

‘Humanitarian city’ would be concentration camp for Palestinians, says former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says forcing people into camp would be ethnic cleansing, and anger at Israel is not all down to antisemitism

“It is a concentration camp. I am sorry”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Spending $200 billion on ICE is a terrible idea I've covered federal law enforcement for two decades. Here are the things that worry me most.

A detailed and astounding report on ICE’s meteoric rise of funding and hiring and how it is creating an undertrained, overly aggressive massive masked police force. Great work, Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Seems extremely bad that the military remains deployed in Los Angeles and there doesn't seem to be anything that people with power are doing about it.

I just listened as well, here is the audio - you can hear Kalief recount in his own voice what solidarity confinement feels like for a teen. I feel we owe it to him to listen since he should still be here and the system that killed him, which we can fight, heaps these evils on others everyday...

FDA vaccine official restricted COVID vaccine approvals against the advice of agency staff A top official at the Food and Drug Administration recently overruled government scientists on the availability of two COVID-19 vaccines

Vinay Prasad overrode the recommendations of a panel of scientists who said that 2025-2026 COVID19 vaccines should be recommended for everyone over the age of 12 years.

COVID19 remains a serious public health threat. He will get people killed. He doesn’t care. His ego wins, always.

we are really looking right into the face of evil

Here’s Your Cheat Sheet for Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science These graphics will guide you through science-based vaccine guidelines for children and adults

Vaccination schedules on the CDC website have already started changing under RFK Jr. So we published a guide to the evidence-based vaccine recommendations in place *before* all 17 members of the advisory panel were abruptly dismissed by the new admin. www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-... 🧪

my colleague @abemarquez.bsky.social was targeted by LA sheriff's deputies while yelling "press!" and showing his press pass. The police agencies we are dealing with during the ICE terror are ignoring press freedom.

Helen Chu is the hero who revealed that—contra daily briefings from the White House—COVID was spreading widely in the community in the US by late February 2020..