When you accept the surveillance of children's bathrooms to force trans and GNC kids comply with your binary views of gender you open the door for the invasion of EVERY child's privacy.

Officials considered warning Altadena before Eaton fire, but no alert was sent Just before the Eaton fire broke out, an L.A. County official urged his team to issue a cellphone alert about increasingly dangerous winds to no avail.

Officials considered warning Altadena before Eaton fire, but no alert was sent

“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: the culture war is an actual war.

Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

When I'm feeling particularly hopeless about the future of professoring as a profession, I try to remind myself: That's what they want. They want us to not want to be professors anymore.

my favorite little thing about teaching is when we wave goodbye to each other before logging off of zoom - such a small, cozy act of warmth we gift each other on that cold app, and yet so Important To Me ☺️

On Not Surrendering in Advance, or During, or At Any Point Thereafter There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not ...

There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation. Which is why it makes my head explode when people surrender in advance verbally, which they do all the time about politics.

Annie and Lakeesha struggle in school. AI teacher assistants treated them very differently. A Common Sense Media study found that prominent teacher assistants that use AI generated recommendations that appeared to be rooted in racial stereotypes based on students’ names. About a third of tea...

"Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more-punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white" www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/06/a...

Trump to start building $200 million White House ballroom in September After paving over the Rose Garden and adding gold leaf in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump will embark on his most dramatic addition to the White House yet: a new, $200 million ballroom to be built adjacent to the mansion's East Wing.

This comes in the heels of an announcement that the current admin plans to build a $200million gold-trimmed ballroom in the White House. You have to understand that these tacky grifters do not intend to leave in 2028.

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CECOT was practice for the Florida concentration camp; this blatant dictator takeover is practice for the US. (Former FL Rep) Matt Gaetz already has a fully paid-for condo in San Salvador - it won’t be long until the average US American finds out that he’s not the only one in this admin who does.

A photo of protesters gathering to demand an end to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement workplace raids in Los Angeles on June 8, 2025, overlaid with the headline, "LA Protesters Aren’t Inviting Violent Authoritarianism, They’re Mobilizing to Stop It."

"Would the situation somehow be less violent were ICE left to snatch and disappear people without impediment?" interc.pt/4kT2vku

Knowing Steph*n Mill*r went to Santa Monica High with / was clowned by / lost an ASB election to *THE COBRASNAKE* is extremely niche millennial LA. He was just as much of a racist, small, y feísimo hijueputo then as he is now. You can be ugly inside or outside, but you should try never to be both!!!

Paramount, CA is putting out a call for environmental engineers to collect and preserve air, soil, and water samples from the tear-gassed areas for examination and documentation.

“We live and die in the shadows for those we hold close and for those we never meet” is such a powerful line applicable to so many current events and feels and worries and I cannot BELIEVE it comes from Mission freaking Impossible. We really do come to this place (Regal Noho West) for magic

Searches for 'JD Vance killed Pope Francis' soared. Why the meme went viral "JD Vance kill pope" and "JD Vance killed Pope Francis" were breakout Google search trends following the pope's death.

These memes aren't just jokes—they're symbolic tools of political critique, absurdist resistance, and cultural coping mechanisms in the age of spectacle.

Thanks to Grace Tucker for the thoughtful reporting!

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and an APA Pope and an MLA Pope

It’s time to reconsolidate a counterculture and politics against this shit. Science, art, medicine, poetry, philosophy as the beautiful life, the fullness of human civilization, that they want to destroy. Humanism, not cynicism, not slop, not tech “””nerd””” culture

(And what if I tell you that this boring beigeification of education, culture, fashion, media, etc is the point? To make you afraid to be different for fear of retaliation, judgment? Would it move you to move differently?)

Part of Learning is being wrong so we can approach Knowing by correcting mistakes & gathering information. Legislation like that of recent is not only going to prevent my students from learning - it will *make them afraid of learning altogether*. And that makes the classroom so damn boring for all!!

You know what’s a real bummer? I’ve already noticed many students are afraid to be brave in class &/ use critical thinking to extend their thoughts into fully formed ideas that they say aloud. So many young people are afraid of being perceived as cringe without realizing that IT’S THE POINT OF YOUTH

It Must Suck to Be Such a Whiny Little Bitch Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

One of the richest men in the world went on Joe Rogan's podcast to complain that companies don't have enough "masculine energy" anymore, whatever that means.
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Octavia's Bookshelf owner Nikki High doesn’t know the state of her own house in Altadena — most houses burned — but she's turned her Pasadena bookstore into a help center for fire victims.

Follow the IG/Threads accounts for updates. They still need first aid kits. We also brought bottled water.

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a lot of people think LA is a wealthy celebrity town as transplants make it look that way, but we are a city of economic inequity: the same is as true for SGV and the Valley as it is for the Palisades and Malibu. give time/$ where you can, mask up, and take care of each other. LA forever 💙

Eaton/Palisades Fires GoFundMe/Direct Financial Aid

my friend Victoria put together a spreadsheet of gofundmes for folks who have lost everything in these fires. january 2025 is eerily reminiscent of summer 2016 but the fires are much closer now and the impact is even more widespread

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

put some money on the books of the **incarcerated YOUTH** who are helping to put out the fires - type “firefighters fund” in the notes to make sure your money goes to these KIDS who should not have to do this labor in the first place
antirecidivism.org/donate

Displaced Black Families GoFund Me Directory

donate to displaced Black folks in beautiful, vibrant Altadena who need support after losing everything in the fires - Altadena is historically where Black folks could buy property and build homes away from the racist housing covenants of central LA
tinyurl.com/blackaltadena