Sandhya, Iβm losing my goddamn mind
07.10.2025 02:59 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0@andreagtrrz.bsky.social
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Sandhya, Iβm losing my goddamn mind
07.10.2025 02:59 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I wish so bad I had a Zuri store near me
02.10.2025 21:51 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0My jaw dropped at just how many of them followed him
02.10.2025 21:32 β π 23 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Please tell me youβre an actual cheesemonger, Iβd love this
02.10.2025 18:49 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It says a lot of things that arenβt really my business
02.10.2025 04:56 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0East. Is. East. Of. THE RIVER.
29.09.2025 22:22 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Now thatβs a payoff
25.09.2025 20:04 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Scorekeeping is so impressive to me, mainly because I was a Very Serious Softball Player as an adolescent and it was someone *else's* job to keep score, so I never learned!
25.09.2025 00:13 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Love this - a way for the better funded bigger stations to show solidarity with the smaller at-risk stations
24.09.2025 23:54 β π 12 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0Deep cut for the 90s SoCal kids
24.09.2025 04:09 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Itβs still weird that Jimmy the Sports Guy of KROQβs Kevin and Bean fame became a late night host that the feds literally tried to censor
24.09.2025 04:08 β π 8 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0many of us who specifically covered those victims & worked to center those targeted & harmed by people like Kirk and his allies were pushed out of mainstream media in the past few years. it wasn't always a loud public firing, but the stories of how folks who did this work were treated would shock u.
21.09.2025 20:21 β π 724 π 200 π¬ 0 π 2Becoming increasingly clear weβre gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
18.09.2025 00:22 β π 40431 π 9036 π¬ 901 π 554Legacy media and cable news reduced Trump's aggression against Chicago to a question of whether troops would be sent immediately. When he said he was taking his fascist military spectacle elsewhere, those media players declared the situation overβwhile waves of federal agents attack our neighbors.
15.09.2025 00:28 β π 2654 π 968 π¬ 15 π 35Several people and I sued DHS and Kristi Noem, and won a preliminary injunction. Hereβs the meat of the judgeβs order:
11.09.2025 00:55 β π 284 π 85 π¬ 4 π 4Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentatorβs purposes.
10.09.2025 21:27 β π 5751 π 1010 π¬ 106 π 39BREAKING: Federal judge in Los Angeles issues preliminary injunction against Department of Homeland Security to restrict use of force against press, legal observers and protesters.
Judge in LA Press Club v. Noem calls out "surprising savagery" of DHS officers:
"The First Amendment demands better."
The Government, and now the concurrence, has all but declared that all Latinos, U. S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agentsβ satisfaction.
Sotomayor on the impact: "The Government, and now the concurrence, has all but declared that all Latinos, U. S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agentsβ satisfaction."
08.09.2025 16:32 β π 931 π 316 π¬ 10 π 34I dunno, man, it all feels pretty bad! Canβt say I like the idea of me, my friends, family, neighbors, etc, being hunted like animals
08.09.2025 16:46 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Oh, okay! Easy peasy, no problem! Papiere, bitte!
08.09.2025 16:42 β π 33 π 6 π¬ 0 π 1Asking for funding is a wildly uncomfortable experience but we gotta do it: this newsletter is reader-funded, and I've got some goals I need your help to accomplish. This month, I'm hoping to reach 50 paid subs to the newsletter.
If I reach 1000 by end of 2026, I'll fly to you and fight your bossπ
reminder that as trump looks to expand his terror to other cities, shit is still very much going down in LA
03.09.2025 02:30 β π 1824 π 635 π¬ 17 π 6I literally just shouted βWHAT THE FUCKβ
03.09.2025 03:04 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Yoooo yes
02.09.2025 19:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Donβt threaten us with a good time
02.09.2025 19:20 β π 13 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0I hope people read these stories and are encouraged to take their own action: wagingnonviolence.org/2025/08/la-u...
31.08.2025 23:36 β π 933 π 356 π¬ 6 π 0Local outlets have been reporting on these exact same community efforts in Los Angeles over the last few months, and itβs heartening to see that folks on the ground in DC have taken notice and are taking similar action for themselves and their neighbors.
31.08.2025 20:27 β π 202 π 73 π¬ 0 π 1Today was the day BlueSky finally became Twitter
30.08.2025 05:22 β π 1688 π 160 π¬ 15 π 16Just to give you a sense how far all this shitposting and chatter has spread, my 14 y/o nieceβwho only recently joined IG and has no other social mediaβjust told me her chats are blowing up about it too
30.08.2025 04:54 β π 148 π 18 π¬ 1 π 3i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
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