I think this movie has some problems.

Every voter should see this clip of Mehmet Oz, the Republican candidate for Senate in Pennsylvania, claiming that abortion should be a decision between “women, doctors, and local political leaders.”

Your body. Their choice.

walk five miles through the
ravening streets at daybreak:
morning ritual

Mike Davis, who wrote the vernacular of Los Angeles, died on Tuesday at age 76.

✍️ by David Ulin trib.al/TLT14xU

'Still, what is prescience but a form of paying attention? Davis didn’t create the issues he sought to highlight, but he had the presence to catalog them.' altaonline.com/books/a4093240… David Ulin

Today, Los Angeles lost one of its truth-tellers and greatest chroniclers: Mike Davis. His 1990 book, 'City of Quartz,' 'created a metaphor, or a bit of framing, that recast everything,' writes David Ulin in his appreciation of the author for Alta Journal. altaonline.com/books/a4093240…

These are Nazis. In my city. Get the fuck out of here.

Have fun in prison, traitor. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

The arrogance of Kevin de Leόn. (And a reminder that he receives $229k a year for this job that he refuses to give up.) latimes.com/california/sto…

CBC editor Anita Felicelli has produced an invaluable compendium of stories that dig deeper into the many facets of the book, w/stellar contributions from John Freeman, Col. Gustavo Arellano, J. Howard Rosier, Lisa Teasley & David Ulin. Find them all here. altaonline.com/california-boo…

Everything was more / than I took it for ...

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I would prefer not to.

For Yankee fans on the west coast — just saying — 10 am on Tuesday couldn’t be a worse time for Game 5.

Today in Alta Journal, José Vadi on Hua Hsu.

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Just popping on here to say that I'm not going to give an anti-Semite with dementia any space in my head or on this feed.

Still think they should have renamed the Cleveland team the Spiders.

Between these two choices I’ll take the third.