John David Rivera

Reading American history will break your heart a thousand times but it will also fill you with such admiration and awe for all the people who were excluded from the protection of America’s founding principles and fought to promote, protect and expand them anyways

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Galentine's.

Lakers in 5.

💔 Heart to heart on taxes and City of LA spending spending spending. 💔

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Palantir made $1.8 billion in 2025 by helping ICE deport people How surveillance company Palantir made record profits helping the Trump administration with 'unusual operations.'

This should infuriate everyone.

Palantir must be destroyed.

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Whether we’re confronting federal misconduct or debating police reform in the LA Charter, institutions default to self-preservation. They consolidate power unless the public organizes to redistribute it.

We cannot let up. Accountability requires sustained, organized pressure.

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Urban Planning for the People The planning profession is rooted in principles that put business ahead of people. Some people are beginning to push back.

The planning profession is rooted in principles that put business ahead of people. I spoke to planners and housing justice organizers about how the profession could be remade and how some are already pushing back.

It was transforming the biggest NFL stage in the world into a sugar cane plantation that did it for me.

Like, the multiple layers of turning an American icon into a plantation and highlighting the history of exploitation of Black and Brown bodies by the NFL and American colonialism simultaneously?

He said “god bless America” and listed every country in the Americas.

@raeforla.bsky.social let's shoot a video in the Valley 🌴

Los Angeles, Portland, Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Chicago, NYC, D.C.

The good people of this country—defiant in the face of tyranny—continue to inspire.

We're all we've ever had — and we're all we need.

Ilhan Omar is a bad one! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

We don't give in to threats!

Compare Ilhan Omar to the cowardly white men of the GOP...

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis

Blue cities get scapegoated nonstop. Our leaders should praise people on the front lines—peacefully protesting, documenting the madness, demanding accountability—all while we grieve.

Flip the script: Dems are the party of safe streets & equal justice. GOP is pro-crime.

And he WILL be brought to justice.

Abolish the Republican Party.

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position,

Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

The worst Americans are killing the best of us, and our so-called leaders do nothing but continue to fund the madness!

Opposing ICE is a moderate position. ABOLISH & PROSECUTE!!!

YouTube video by nandert LA Beat Back the Monorail

Today, the Los Angeles Metro board of directors voted unanimously to approve an underground heavy-rail option for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor project, connecting the San Fernando Valley to the Westside.

"Whether you're a blue-blooded capitalist or a card-carrying Democratic Socialist, I think corporate monopolies are a problem." - AOC

The U.S. is a third-world country until we normalize bidets.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

The doctrine of imperialism is a mother fucker.

YouTube video by Howtown What the actual science says about "brain rot"

Short-form video platforms weaken sustained focus and motivation.

TikTok and YouTube Shorts act like a crayon in our brain. 🧠🖍️

I’m a content creator trying to get people offline. Is my business doomed? Or is social media overdue for a culture shift?

It’s not Susan who’s lazy, it’s us. Susan spins for our sins.

YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

YouTube video by nandert 2025 Update on LA Metro Projects

Amazing work from the young god, Nick Andert. @nickandert.bsky.social

Frost: If you want to protect children, why don't you ban assault weapons instead of health care?