this is why they gave three hundred twenty five million dollars to a guy who had never thrown a major league pitch

already worth every penny

One of the the greatest games ever. One of the greatest World Series ever. 💙💙💙

A group of people gathered around a speaker’s podium at a street corner with a crosswalk, signal head and trees in the background

New crosswalk w/ HAWK signal at Franklin/Harvard in Los Feliz! Big thanks to @friedman.house.gov @cd4losangeles.bsky.social @ladotofficial.bsky.social Streets LA & others for making this happen

A child wearing a blue shirt holds up a red sun maid raisin box and a yellow fan. The child’s face is obscured by a happy face sticker with sunglasses. In the background is a high rise building with a huge mural of Shohei Ohtani playing baseball. Ohtani is depicted both batting and pitching.

Happy #CicLAvia!

Trump administration seeking $1 billion settlement from UCLA | CNN Politics The Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles, CNN has exclusively learned, marking the latest effort by the White House to shape higher ed...

In other mob boss fascist move, Trump is now trying to extort UCLA for $1B, force it to adopt his racist, transphobic, xenophobic policies & accept a “monitor” to control the university.

Hard no. UCLA is a California public university subject to CA law & built on CA values.

The answer is no.

at the core of all the trans people in public spaces "debate" is this:

I don't care if you don't personally like seeing someone in public

shut up, keep it to yourself, and let them live their fucking lives

If you are affiliated with a UC institution of live in a community that benefits from UC institutions, please consider signing this letter calling on UC Leadership to stand up to the Trump Administration. sites.google.com/view/ucstand...

Trump administration seeking $1 billion settlement from UCLA | CNN Politics The Trump administration is seeking a $1 billion settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles, CNN has exclusively learned, marking the latest effort by the White House to shape higher ed...

Illegal extortion that should be met with a giant 🖕🏻. No appeasement, no surrender.

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America is having a housing crisis because it chooses to have a housing crisis. Americans are being displaced because we want them to be displaced. Our cities are world capitals of homelessness because we invest resources in making them so.

ICE raided the Westlake Home Depot in Los Angeles this morning. LATU organizers snapped some photos from the raid—one sticks out: ICE agents rolling up in a Penske rental truck.

Wonder where they got the idea😬

Trying to avoid detection? Is this policy now? Are they now doing roving gangs in this?

Who would have guessed that last month we were getting a preview of what the LA28 fan zones might look like

August 1, 2025 Dr.Julio Frenk Chancellor Jniversity of California -Los Angeles 2147 Murphy Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095 Ref: Updated Notice of Award Suspensions Dr. Frenk: I write you with an update on our prior letter of July 30, 2025. This letter supplements our previous communication. Pursuant to 2 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) $ 200.339(c), and our previous communications, UCLA is officially notified that the National Science Foundation (NSF) is hereby suspending the attached list of grant awards to the University of California Los Angeles UCLA). UCLA should immediately cease all activities on these award numbers. The purpose of this action is to address concerns reported and observed in UCLA programs and ensure compliance with applicable Federal statutes and regulations, and the terms and conditions of these Federal awards. This action is effective 7/30/2025. Noncompliance: NSF has identified the following specific examples of noncompliance: . UCLA engages in racism, in the form of illegal race-based preferences in admissions practices; • UCLA fails to promote a research environment free of antisemitism and bias; . UCLA discriminates against and endangers women by allowing men in women's sports and private women-only spaces.

‼️ Trump's NSF is demanding UCLA violate CA law and ban trans women from college bathrooms, dorms, and sports, in order to restore illegally withheld NSF grants.

After other universities capitulated to these ridiculous demands, UCLA students and staff must ensure UCLA doesn't follow.

Link in🧵

the idea that there are certain people (usually white boys) who are special geniuses who need everyone to bend over backward and permit them to be self-centered, antisocial assholes, because they’re destined to do something amazing, is part of a very annoying political project

Manosphere should just be replaced with this:

We need a model of manhood that embraces integrity, fellowship and standing up for others. Instead the manosphere celebrates violence, exploitation and entitlement.

Ok that time may have just arrived

“Why are you taking my father away from me?” 💔 (New York)

@sandibachom.bsky.social films Trump’s ICE Gestapo

Disbar all of them

Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling (RNS) — ‘We think that it’s not a matter of if, but just a matter of when, the Supreme Court will overrule Obergefell,’ said Mathew Staver, head of Liberty Counsel.

And so it begins...

Evangelical legal group asks Supreme Court to overturn same-sex marriage ruling [Obergefell v. Hodges]

Kars for Kids jingle and there is no argument from anyone on this.

a lot of rank and file dems do not seem to understand that trans people are in an existential battle for our right to be part of society right now. the government today is trying to use employment law and federal extortion to ban us from bathrooms.

Exciting news: lots of young people across the country are entering politics, and among them, "the most common specific issue we're hearing candidates talk about is housing" 🏠🏠🏠📢

Democrats who support arming Israel are now in the minority

if a politician is willing to cede ground on trans athletes, it is just the reality of the policies involved that it means there’s an open door to ceding ground on other civil rights for targets of discrimination

A key danger here is that writing is a crucial tool for *thinking*, and I believe that a LLM-addicted society in which a lot of people’s ability to do that is degraded is in trouble, in a way that cuts deeper in a lot more diverse and worrisome ways than “dependence on GPS or calculators.”

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

the republican party is a criminal conspiracy against the american republic

this story is huge and you should share it far and wide

it turns out when you try to starve two million people to death decent people stop wanting anything to do with you