I was trying to figure out why Los Angeles feels so different. It's not just that a lot of rich people moved out, it's that the middle class don't live there anymore. All these neighborhoods are now super expensive so it sucked families out, and with them the teenagers that

Joseph Kahn This is depressingly true. Sunset Strip is a living museum instead of vital musical hub because there are no longer the nearby cheap apartments for musicians to live in.

Aaron Bushnell, Matt Nelson, and "Jane Doe" sacrificed their lives in protest of israel's genocide of Palestinians. It's been 286 days since the 27 y/o woman self-immolated in front of Atlanta's israeli consulate, wrapped in a Palestinian flag. We still don't know her name.

Brian and I did not even attack the idea of upzoning but said we need to do a lot more than that, e.g., rent stabilization, antitrust, and social housing. That was enough to trigger the YIMBYs.

Matt Nelson was a self described “nonviolent revolutionary communist” who’s been writing about Palestine for months. He cared deeply. This interaction caught my eye, Matt may have not changed the world yesterday but he sure tried with everything he had. Thats true power.

ok here's what i really don't get about sapporo's crusade to buy every medium-sized craft brewery in the US, smash any attempt at organization, and convert their operations to brewing sapporo premium who the hell drinks sapporo premium?

public art not only allows a city's people to reflect its creative abilities onto the built environment, but uplifts the spirit of residents and visitors alike

The guy behind Trump's new crypto scam has described himself as the "dirtbag of the internet. He said of crypto: "You can literally sell s--- in a can, wrapped in piss, covered in human skin, for a billion dollars if the story's right, because people will buy it.”

SRO Martha Stewart I read this book 20+ years ago and it was already saying the same thing about San Francisco motherjones.com/politics/1996/…

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BLM has already impacted this area with a large-scale wind energy project that regularly kills golden eagles. Time for BLM to stop the enregy sprawl in the special area! greatbasinwater.org/blm-targets-ba…

I'm going feral, im howling at the moon. I never knew how badly i needed this. Im tearing phone books in half and kicking cars over

why dont you pick up your guitar, and play this hypnotizing repetitive vamp over and over again?

Interesting subset of thrillers and action movies from that period reflected America's growing paranoia in the '90s by positioning rogue military, defense contractors, and intelligence agents as villains

After more than a decade of mounted police using brutal kettling tactics, Dahlia thinks that protestors are the ones attacking horses...and that it's special and brave for a police chief to condemn his victims. Zionism rots your brain.

This seemed to reach its peak between 1997 and 1999 when the government itself became the villain

the last Targaryen king literally tried to burn king's landing alive so he could become a dragon, what are you on

Should folks do a reappraisal and retrospective of Stealth (2005) in the age of AI and Paranoia?

This is one of those things that was so good for years I just assumed it was a reference to something. But no