"Do you have a favorable or unfavorable view of Hasan Piker?"

Unfavorable: 15%
Favorable: 7%

Never Heard Of/Have No Opinion: 79%

Echelon / April 2026

thinking abt this bc there is currently a controversy on tiktok where people are misreading and spreading a statistic from this article, saying that 62 million men were either in or interested in a telegram chat about drugging and raping their female partners when really it was like 1000 people max

LA’s 2026 Budget Proposal: 510 new cops, ramping up 'Inside Safe', lagging street repairs Mayor Bass’ $14.9B spending plan benefits from a narrower estimated deficit of $25 million.

LA's 2026 budget proposal is here!

Highlights include 510 new cops, ramping up ‘Inside Safe’, lagging street repairs, and more.

What are your thoughts, LA? 👀

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I encourage people who hold this view about police drones to check out the etymology of the word 'surveillance'

The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.

How 2 fringe groups and a friendly judge helped pull off Sheriff Chad Bianco’s ballot seizure Emails obtained by CalMatters trace the development of a years-long case that ultimately led to the unprecedented seizure of 650,000 ballots.

Anat Rubin and I co-wrote a story for @calmatters.org about the people behind Sheriff Chad Bianco's "election investigation" -- sovereign citizens, Christian nationalists, and "constitutional sheriffs."
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I have really good lawyers at @facoalition.bsky.social. It also helps the county's excuse was absolute shit legally.

The suit was filed Friday and on Monday the county started producing records. Gotta be a world record.

"We are deploying resources and acting strategically to halt this spate of burglaries and to catch the perpetrators," said Mayor Bass. "This is why I have worked so hard to reverse the downward trend in the size of the LAPD. We need enough officers to act swiftly and strategically when crime patterns are revealed. This commitment to police hiring is reflected in the budget I released today."

The mayor also took the opportunity to make her pitch that fewer officers makes people unsafe.

"Following today's press conference with Mayor Bass, I want to speak directly to the residents of the San Fernando Valley," said LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell. "I understand your fear and frustration. Home is a sacred place and being burglarized is a violation. Every victim deserves the full attention of the LAPD. We have deployed every available resource — from the elite officers of our Metropolitan Division to burglary detectives and Senior Lead Officers to utilize advanced technology, coordinated intelligence, and real-time communication to identify, track, and arrest individual burglars and organized crews. The LAPD will remain focused, relentless, and committed to protecting every neighborhood."

Following a recent uptick of robberies in the wealthier hills of the Valley, the LAPD is deploying its Metro Division aka their militarized police division alongside helicopter patrols. The LAPD is also deploying mobile ALPRs and other “advanced technology.”

Newly released records detail police response to lawmaker attacks Authorities first identified Vance Boelter as a suspect within three hours of the start of the politically motivated rampage.

Newly released records on the police response to the assassination of Melissa Hortman show officers knew a woman was lying motionless on the top of the stairs inside the Hortman home but waited 30 minutes to physically check on her.

BRISKET

Zuck’s AI avatar is gonna get stuck in Sweet Baby Rays feedback loop.
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Biden would not have won in 2020 without the "defund the police" and Black Lives Matter movement.

I hope Dr. Steve Brule comes back, too.

Unarmed Crisis Response Model response teams answered several thousand calls and only needed the LAPD 4% of the time. The unarmed responders are cheaper to send, $35/hr vs $85/hr for an LAPD officer.

Ah yes, more money to the LAPD for de-escalation and mental health interventions. Just a few more hours of training given to people who have no business responding to calls for people in crisis.

I asked LAPD about this for a similar story, and while they say it can't be used to surveil First Amendment activity, they fly it over protests for "situational awareness." I guess the helicopters or undercover cops weren't enough.

I've been there plenty of times as a teenager because I enjoyed the act of smoking instead of pacing myself. Nowadays, it's the 1:1 CBD/THC ratio that keeps me firmly planted in reality.

Follow Liz for updates on the mayor's budget. I don't have the capacity right now to post about it. She's a good source on all things LA politics.

Also, happy LA City budget day. How much do you think the LAPD budget will increase this year?

May they both never eat spit-free food at a restaurant.

Happy 4/20. Don’t panic, but the police are coming and you’re going to stay this high forever.

A Forbes article about a father who killed eight children, with an embedded prediction widget inviting people to speculate on whether "Congress will pass new gun safety legislation before 31st December 2026"

ghoulish

'Bell removed Romeo and Juliet from his syllabus because “in Act III, Romeo and Juliet have sex, and that falls under this very broadly defined sexuality [topics ban].” He also didn’t teach about Joan of Arc this semester.'

What an actual lack of freedom of speech looks like in universities. 3/3

A concrete freeway. One the right side of the frame is a row of police officers, wielding batons, wearing helmets. Bottom left of frame is a person with their face covered with a bandana. His hands are up. One hand is holding a cell phone

The 101. Anti-ICE demonstrator faces a row of CHP officers in riot gear on the 101 Freeway. June 8, 2025.

This is also true for all other “contempt of cop”-style charges.

When I was doing police practices cases for the U.S. DOJ (RIP), I’d sit through interviews of police officers who believed a verbal insult was enough of a provocation for use of force & arrest. It was maddening.

I’ve watched two videos the past couple of weeks from the LAPD who, in an attempt to arrest someone, broke one person’s arm and another person’s leg.

What always irks me about the “shouldn’t resisted arrest” people when cops beat someone is it ignores the reflex people have to defend themselves. Getting unjustly pummeled by cops who are yelling at you would send everyone into fight or flight mode.

Now robots can join in on the millennial mid-life crisis run clubs.