As layoffs loom at LA's homeless services agency, workers say they could soon be on the streets too LA's homeless services workers are facing the unsettling prospect of losing their jobs, as they watch those with a higher pay-grade split up the agency they'd worked under to provide services for the ...

As layoffs loom at LA's homeless services agency, workers say they could soon be on the streets too thelareporter.la/p/as-layoffs...

Trump’s War on Drugs Journalist Radley Balko examines how Trump’s war on immigrants merges and expands the lethal policies of the wars on drugs and terror.

In the modern war on drugs, the U.S. has produced laws and policies ensuring that collateral damage isn’t just tolerated, it’s inevitable.

highly recommend this book by Adam Johnson of @citationspod.bsky.social, which soberly lays out the hard data of the discourse that center-left media has decided is acceptable, in which Palestinians are not allowed humanity

50501 BREAKING NEWS CONGRESS TEMPORARILY EXTENDS SECTION 702, WHICH THE FBI HAS USED TO SPY ON U.S. CITIZENS, FOR 10 DAYS AS REFORM DISCUSSIONS CONTINUE, REPRESENTATIVES FROM BOTH PARTIES COME TOGETHER AND REJECT TRUMP'S PROPOSED LONG-TERM EXTENSION WITHOUT REFORM. No Kings

Congress temporarily extended Section 702, which the FBI has used to spy on U.S. Citizens, for 10 Days.

As reform discussions continue, representatives from both parties came together to reject Trump’s proposed 18 month “clean reauthorization” (an extension without reform).

That’s the point — if we are aware of the scenarios and we are ready to mock and block, these stunts can be deterred or turned against Trump. One of them just failed hard in Hungary — because people were ready!

Electoral College cartogram showing which states are in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact and which ones could join in time for it to activate by 2028. Each state is sized and labeled according to its number of electoral votes. The states are spaced out enough to accommodate the changes in size but retain their general shapes and relative positions on the map. Current members are in solid orange, potential members are in light green, and nonmembers that are unlikely to join are in medium gray. Members have 222 electoral votes, potential states have 68, and the unlikely states have 248. The compact would only activate once states with at least 270 electoral votes have joined. The seven potential members and their electoral vote are Alaska (3), Arizona (11), Michigan (15), Nevada (6), New Hampshire (4), Pennsylvania (19), and Wisconsin (10). Democrats would need to gain the governor's office and/or legislative chambers to win unified power in these states, as detailed in the spreadsheet linked in this post.

NEW: Virginia just passed a law to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, giving it 222 of 270 electoral votes needed to activate.

This map and spreadsheet show which states could join to activate it by 2028 depending on the outcome of the 2026 elections docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Abby Martin Went To Israel. IT'S WORSE Than You Think YouTube video by Double Down News

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Wish I'd been taught that from age 9 onward.

The public DOES have a right to know.

Several speakers have also spoken on behalf of the city's access centers. One speaker noted that 22,000 people were served at these locations last year. Access centers save lives! They serve as the first line of assistance to unhoused folks. Funding needs to be restored, they argue.

At the Housing & Homelessness Committee mtg of LA City Council, several people from LAHSA are asking the city NOT to cut their funding. In this turbulent federal environment, they're looking to the city for continuity of funding and stability.

This is how Bruce Springsteen opened his concert in Los Angeles last night. 🔥🔥

Footage from @margaret_nagle on Threads.

Angus: This is a president who says the only constraint on his actions is not Congress, not the courts, not international law, but, quote, “my own morality, my own mind.”

There is no morality in a man accused of being a rapist…

If you havent seen this, make sure you read.

Ukrainian baby recovered from rubble of his home after a Russian terrorist attack

Russia continues to launch waves of terrorist attacks against Ukraine, on April 4–5 alone, 93 drones targeted residential areas including Odesa. Russia willingly strikes civilians in a psychotic symphony of death and destruction as revenge for its battlefield impotence.

Take heart — people are in the streets. Chicago marched through the Loop demanding accountability. You can’t bully the world into peace. You can’t terrorize people in the name of humanity.

#ImpeachAndRemoveNow

Mayor Mamdani chats with New Yorkers while walking the six miles from City Hall to Gracie Mansion, fulfilling the promise he made in his inauguration speech to “be outside” as Mayor — “because this is a government of New York, by New York, and for New York.”

No—he's lying. It was Pakistan that wrote up the ceasefire agreement, and Pakistan has said unequivocally that Lebanon was included. So this isn't a mistake Iran has made, this is Trump yet again covering for war crimes and vigilantism by Israel by lying to the American people. A Trumpist pathology.

The despot's mass murder tally to date is approximately 1,003,670, considering the war and the stopping of USAID (at least 88/hour are dying.) Pol Pot murdered 1.5 to 2 million people. The despot will surpass this number by the end of his reign of terror.

Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon.

Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.

Cyril Cox – "Late Afternoon Light" (2022)

Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez:

“The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket.”

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I said what I said.

We need to look at all options for removal immediately, including impeachment and invoking the 25th amendment.

One good use of the supposed two-week ceasefire is to get back to talking about the Epstein files

ICE loves hurting and killing women.

A critical agreement between Olympics organizers and LA is now 6 months late City Controller Kenneth Mejia called the delay "deeply troubling."

Blessings to LAist for staying on this very overdue agreement. Pretty wild that LA28 is selling tickets to an event and doesn't have a final deal in place with the host city!

The Commission's final report does not contain any info about an elected Public Advocate (see below) & proportional ranked choice voting (PRCV).

The Commission narrowly voted down recommending them, or even referencing them in the report, while multiple Commissioners in support were absent.