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The “princess of prison reform” just endorsed mass incarceration advocate Rick Caruso.
.@KimKardashian endorsed LA mayoral candidate @RickCarusoLA in an enthusiastic pitch to her 313 million Instagram followers, saying he would help with crime and homelessness.
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LAPD kills a 14 year old girl cause they fired on a dude attacking someone with a bike lock inside of a crowded store. But tell me again how we need them because of retail theft.
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(1) The collective response to the fires is a reminder that Los Angeles has always been the exact opposite of its stereotypes.
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Either we abolish or we don’t. No politician statement, no non-profit statement, nor calls for reform or accountability will matter today, yesterday, or tomorrow. We either abolish or we don’t. There is nothing else to talk about.
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Los Angeles murder rates:
1988:15.7
1989: 18.2
1990: 19.9
1991: 20.8
1992: 21.3
2021: 6.7
Karen Bass, early frontrunner for LA mayor, says she'd get tough on crime to address a spike in violence “very reminiscent to me of where the city was in the ’80s and the ’90s” trib.al/MV4V2uX
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L.A has overly represented wealth, and exploited and documented poverty, but It’s a salt of the earth majority working class city where people work harder to survive than any other U.S city I’ve been to or lived in. L.A is not easy.
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This a month after LAPD was awarded a $213 million dollar raise, because some shrill gentrifiers hate looking at poverty.
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Los Angeles is not even in the top 50 of violent crime rates among cities in the USA, yet I hear more about how dangerous it is here than just about anywhere. Propaganda is powerful, especially in areas with valuable real estate. Don’t let special interests keep lying to you.
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And most importantly it’s a city that steps up in crisis, cares deeply for one another, and knows what it’s like to have to go above and beyond, cause simply surviving on the daily in this sprawling and poorly designed cauldron of a city makes us all dig deep.
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You gonna write on Kern, San Bernardino, Sacramento, San Joaquin, and Fresno next? They have the kinds of DA’s Greenberg would want, while having far worse crime rates than SF. This ain’t about “feeling safe” it’s about people like a Richie wanting the state to punish poor people
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The fact that measure A and Kenneth Mejia were the biggest landslides in the local election should seal the deal on the point that people want their money invested in something other than corrupt law enforcement institutions.
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It’s far from chill or laid back. It’s a tense and difficult place, and minor disagreements can escalate too quickly, unfortunately. Don’t honk your horn like it’s normal. In L.A it’s fighting words
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It’s not fake or “plastic”. Transplants chasing a dream clique up and create a phony feedback loop, and take it back home and spread the gospel after their dream failed, while the rest of the city takes their time to open up but when they do they are quite nice.
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It’s not a fad diet new age fake wellness obsessed culture. That’s exists in LA like anywhere else, but LA is actually a food obsessed city, and by food I mean absurdly delicious and greasy elite fare, and people take their spots seriously
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From top to bottom, the judiciary is colluding to maintain the authoritarian status quo. You can’t separate what’s happening at SCOTUS with what’s happening locally. When the people start to apply democratic mandates, judges take the mask off.
THREAD. A quiet catastrophe is unfolding in Los Angeles. A group of judges met in secret and decided to require a cash bail schedule starting on June 30. I have been unable to find a single news story about it, so I'll explain what's happening and why it matters.
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L.A has elected more so called progressives in recent years than at any time in my life, and this past year has been the most repressive and reactionary the city has been since the War on Drugs.
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It’s not going to stop. Our electeds keep funding it. Keep lying about the desire or ability to reform it, and media keeps claiming that the desire to be rid of it is a fringe analysis. This is unspeakable and intolerable horror.
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This is the kind of hysterical bullshit Ana Kasparian comes with consistently on this issue. Demanding a better system that creates more safety to her is “defending murderers” meanwhile police are on a killing spree and 56 people have died in LA County jails in the last year.
It’s incredible to me that people OPENLY defend the violent criminals who literally murder people. That ain’t reform.
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Voters voted against LASD. They didn’t vote for Luna, nor even against Alex. There is no faith in LASD, and at some point I hope journalists and the punditry take some time to accept this fact while everyone else continues to amplify it.
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In Wealthy San Diego County, with their right wing DA, tragic losses of private school teens to opioids are “accidental fentanyl deaths” needing more support for parents. Catholic school doesn’t count as an “open air drug market”.
Spike in accidental fentanyl deaths in San Diego County prompts outreach to parents latimes.com/california/story…
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Police violence doesn’t stop and start with responding to calls, mental health or not. Reducing it to that as an evasive political maneuver and nothing more. If we want this to stop, defund I.e contracting their presence in our lives in the only first step to consider.
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The cowardly silence of Los Angeles politicians right now is actually stunning. #LAPDShootings
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One of the top cops in LA feels too unsafe to show up at a hearing on deputy gangs cause families of people killed by his gangs are in the building wearing t shirts that say “Fuck the East LA Sheriffs”. The sheriffs routinely show up and lurk outside of their house to intimidate.
Who is not showing up today:
-- Sheriff Villanueva, whose lawyer told COC he fears for safety because public has shown up to hearings wearing "F the sheriff" shirts
-- Undersheriff Murakami, who relayed to COC that testifying would be too stressful & create adverse health risk
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Caruso’s weird celeb endorsements are a goldmine for Karen Bass and her team to riff on, and yet they stay doing the typical humdrum 1990’s style dry ass bullshit. It’s all so very strange. Meanwhile, Gina Viola keeps gaining traction for simply having an actual message.
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RIP Mike Davis. In real life he was exactly who you’d want to think he was. There’s a lot I want to say about his impact and what he meant to those of us from L.A, and everywhere, really, but right now I just feel sad, and grateful to have known him for a time.
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I really commend the city controller here. Calling out corruption puts vicious targets on your back, and comes at a great cost. Kenneth Mejia should be stood with my the so called progressives in city government, but they aren’t, and he’s having to do this alone from the inside.
Seeing City officials in the press ignore the severe impacts of these budget cuts, especially the ones covering for their poor budget decisions to cut a majority of departments' budgets & even AFTER Chief Crowley told them about the impacts these cuts have had, is DISGRACEFUL.
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The man who wrote “How to Rob” (shit was hilarious, too) is pearl clutching about a policy that lowered crime last time it was implemented. Anyway, I hope gentrifiers take his warning seriously and split.
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A lot of politicians don’t really think democracy is serious or even real. Civic engagement in L.A is. KDL wasn’t prepared for that. His political escalator (no pun intended) is now all the way off the rails.
RIGHT NOW:
Disgraced Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin De Leon JUST assaulted local organizer Jason Reedy.
@kdeleon is out here assaulting people AGAIN. He was caught on those racist anti-Black leaked tapes and now he’s assaulting Black folks. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
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DeSantis and Newsome are taking nearly identical approaches to homelessness, but branding it very differently. If you were looking for the case study in how red/blue performative politics is leaving everyone feeling disoriented, this is a good one.
Florida’s homeless will be banned from sleeping on sidewalks and in parks and other public spaces under a law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
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San Francisco likely has a lower crime rate that the areas many of y’all moved from. If you weren’t ready to be proximate to people experiencing poverty, you maybe could ask why emergency housing was closed or why there are something like 25 mental health beds in the city.
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Did this billionaire (son of a millionaire) just say “volunteers”?
This campaign wouldn’t be possible w/o the hard work of our volunteers that’ve dedicated so much time & energy into bringing our message to life. I am so grateful to them and every Angeleno who has put their trust in me. Together, we can and we will clean up L.A. #CarusoCan
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Hard to believe it’s been 30 years since L.A lit up. If you aren’t an abolitionist by now you have chosen not to pay attention.
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@cerisecastle showing everyone how it’s done. THIS is an article. THIS is coverage. I’m grateful to have this kind of journalism in LA. What a horrible horrible thing the LAPD did here. knock-la.com/lapd-officer-wi…
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If Rob Bonta intends to (rightfully) investigate the corruption and in our city council, I want everyone to know that countless families who’ve lost loved ones to racist state violence in Los Angeles are still waiting on him to do something about it.
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I recall Gavin’s team reaching out to advocates and organizers asking them to help fight the recall. Plenty of the advocates/organizers went for it, in the name of “harm reduction”. Harm hasn’t been reduced, and now he’s accelerating one of the most ominous right wing positions.
On homelessness, @ElonMusk has touched on a key issue.
California has made record investments — $15.3 bil.
But federal courts block local efforts to clear street encampments — even when housing and services are offered.
Courts must also be held accountable. Enough is enough.
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Growing up here vendors were everywhere & a part of everything. You woke up to them & went to sleep to them. The gentrification in LA has been so violent and hostile, but only to certain vendors. PDX/BK/ATX style vendors are treated well. The ones we grew up with not so much.
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The sheer volume of propaganda against defunding police and harm reduction speaks to the fact that it really does work. The story of the drop in crime in late 90’s was because of public health and harm reduction investments in response to the HIV crisis.
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Huntington Park is a small working class burb of L.A. Small municipal police forces in large counties are usually even less regulated (not that it matters) than the LAPD & have carte blanche within their little county fiefdom. The recent murder by HP cops deserves wide scrutiny.
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The same ol’ craven shit for 30 fucking years. This kind of reporting has destroyed families upon families. It’s not anything but a serious harm they’ve done.
There are a lot of bad thing in the New York Times, but falsely stating—with no source—that the Scorpion unit reduced homicides and “other crimes” in Memphis is one of the lowest points in the paper’s recent history.
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I hope that “Not being as bigoted as Nury Martinez” does not become some sort of accepted political baseline.
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I heard dudes at the barber shop talking about NFTs the way I’d heard my friends mom’s talking about herbalife 20 years ago.
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Getting performatively arrested and then turning it into a photo op in a city that cages more people than literally any place on the planet is insulting to them and their families, while also being a twisted interpretation of the practice of civil disobedience.
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Caruso is now running to the left of Bass on housing. She chose to go right on policing, so no sweat for him there. This is what happens when you are in service of donors and establishment and want to keep your spot in the club above all else.
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🧵 The minute the government giving people some of their own money back to help them survive began to be normalized, we were met with a wave of false stories about how it caused inflation. A similar thing happened with defund the police and the same will happen for tenants rights
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“The evil (I use this word precisely) of Clintonite neo-liberalism screams back at us from every Trump rally.”
- Mike Davis, 2016
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If you look up the areas with the highest rates of violence and drug use in the United States, neither San Francisco or Los Angeles are even close to the top 10, or even top 20. Why aren’t creeps like Shellenberger trying to scale the walls at treatment centers in Omaha?
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Many of us were wondering. Wondering because LAPD has stayed silent on the murder of an innocent child. This is really something to see.
William Jones Jr - the LAPD officer who shot and killed teenager Valentina Orellana Peralta and Daniel Elena Lopez in 2021 - is still coaching at Valencia HS. He is also now posting on socials as though he has overcome a year of bad odds: "The chaos is my calm." "📈2021
ALT William Jones posting that he is practicing at 6 AM with a group of Valencia Vikings football players
![Jones Jr. posting that the "chaos is [his] calm" in a purple t-shirt](/pic/orig/media%2FFbmDQmnUYAMf-iI.jpg)
ALT Jones Jr. posting that the "chaos is [his] calm" in a purple t-shirt
ALT "Leading leaders, these young men are special. I truly believe I was called to coach. Trust in HIM (God) and he will light 💡 your path & make a way, when there's no way 📈
ALT William Jones traveling to Tokyo to find some football
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😂 😂 😂 😂 OH, Alex. You don’t know that this “cafeteria” is a fucking film set? It’s not been open to the public for as long as I can remember. This location is where Walter Sobchak reminded the waitress that the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint.
Last night, Villanueva debuted a copaganda video on how detrimental the unhoused are for businesses
You’ll see @LACoSheriff blame a tent as the reason this restaurant wasn’t in business
Who wants to tell him that Johnie’s has BEEN CLOSED FOR 22 YEARS!!!
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Articles like this should have been happening steadily for the past two years, and it’s not about Trump, it’s about failed policies that both parties have pushed.
More proof that tough-on-crime policies do not work:
Conservative counties in California saw the HIGHEST rates of violent crime.
The fact is that criminal justice reforms not only make our communities safer, but also more equitable and just.
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Imagine posing for that picture.
For every cop posing with seized diapers from poor people, there is a journalist warning of a “diaper theft wave,” a non-profit calling for more “community policing,” a mayor blaming bail reform, and a professor who puts them all on a panel together called “the rule of law.”
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🧵 1) I’m seeing a lot of people circulating the NYT piece about Houston’s success combating homelessness in the form of the city and county working with community based service providers and housing agencies to put folks into homes, with fewer strings attached.
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The cover photo should have been of an angry gentrifier with an iPhone hysterically tweeting dispatches from Nextdoor app in between filming encampments from their car. LAmag out here writing in a voice that has nothing to do with the real communities of Los Angeles.
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Homicides are lower in LA than most big cities across the country. Violent crime has risen much lower under gascon than in other California counties with the “tough” policies you so desire. LA isn’t in the top 50 of American cities when it comes to homicide rate.
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An impulsive 🧵 on why the failure to #recallbonin is bigger than Mike Bonin. I lived in Oakwood Venice when I was a kid. I loved living there, and there were also serious problems. I saw death and drugs, and poverty was very much the norm. This was the late 80’s/early 90’s…
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We still don’t even know what really happened in El Monte. All we’ve gotten is one police press briefing after another. They’ve used the deaths of two of their own to beat the recall drum and falsely put this on the DA. What an ugly day for Los Angeles media.
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A generous tip is one of the few ways we can directly make a working person’s day so much better
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We need a Fahrenheit 9/11 style documentary about the manufacturing of consent that’s happening right now around police narratives amidst a scourge of craven state violence. One story after another for the past two years (at least) being quickly debunked as police propaganda.
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I see more energy from national press about Walgreens theft than I do about this horrific (and common) happening. Probation departments are no better than the police or sheriffs. latimes.com/california/story…
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It’s been annoying to see a multimillion dollar propaganda effort try and boil down L.A’s problems to it being progressive or something, when THIS is why L.A is the way it is.
In the full leaked audio, Nury Martinez said she was making backroom deals with @LA28 @RamsNFL @MayorOfLA:
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A lot of people don’t know that Pasadena/Altadena has always had a huge classic car & lowrider culture. It’s not as important as people’s homes but just one of the many examples of the death of our local culture that was already dying under gentrification. Just sad.
Homes and classic cars that were destroyed during Eaton Fire in Altadena EatonFires #wildfires #AltadenaFire #pasadenafires #altadena #pasadena #CaliforniaWildfires
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This is a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood, near where Rodney King grew up. LASD has committed atrocities there since at least the 60’s.
Deputies with @LASDHQ have shot and killed a man in Altadena. This is the third person they have killed this year.
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Next time LA hosts the super bowl I want a Suicidal Tendencies and Fishbone and Body Count to play, with a hologram of Arthur Lee, and cameos from Cal Worthington’s dog spot, and the guy who Larry H. Parker got 2.1 million dollars to after his motorcycle accident.
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So, the artists of Los Angeles brought attention to the dereliction of big developers, forcing city council to respond, but it’s the same city council who keeps giving raises to the police who are now arresting said artists?
City Council approves measure demanding owner of heavily-tagged downtown complex clean it up; if not, city workers will start cleanup and bill the owner abc7.la/49tW6Xh
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Over the past 5 years especially, Altadena’s black owned business have been rapidly pushed out as they began to try and turns Altadena into another Highland Park. Surely the fire will be a knockout punch to what was once one of the most historically significant black communities
Stories of generational Black owned homes burning to the ground in Altadena is a different kinda hurt.
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Hey @latimes, do you remember when LAPD beat and tased Gerardo Gomez several times in city hall chambers because he demanded to give public comment in favor of tenants rights? Was he being a bad actor and we’re they simply protecting democracy?
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🧵 re celeb endorsements. When you are an organizer, celebrities often bother you. Well, their people bother you. They want your work in service of their brand. It’s a waste of time. They offer very little and are notoriously cheap. It’s about them not the community.
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California has a lot of progressive people living here, unfortunately that gets conflated with the myth that we have progressive governance.
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I hope even the well meaning YIMBY’s confront the fact that too many of them see long underserved areas as simply blank canvasses for their urban fantasies, rather than places people have lived and are still trying to live.
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This thread is one strawman after another. I’m starting to think y’all will still find a way to blame Chesa when he’s gone cause the policies you seem to want create horrible impacts, and are doing so all over the country as we speak.
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Anyone in L.A should not be surprised. Now we just wait for the barrage of stories about this from the NYT and Atlantic, right?
This survey is an absolute disaster for LAPD, showing that most people support "proposals to redirect money from LAPD's budget":
- 52% of all Angelenos
- 58% of Black residents
- 61% ages 18-29
- 64% of police households!
Ignore LAPD's cherrypicking. Read the survey yourself!
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If you had any idea how often these celebs paw at the organizing and activist community seeing how those doing the work can “team up” (I.e be in service of their brand), and then they can’t even respect a MFing picket line.
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This program exists right here in L.A. Where Ana and Cenk live. They could literally come and observe it themselves. Dollars to donuts says they don’t know about it. laist.com/news/criminal-just…
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I recall liberals being disgusted that racism wasn’t a dealbreaker for Trump supporters, while now telling us that genocide isn’t a dealbreaker with Biden, and adding to that these weird platitudes about his character and skills as a “statesman”. Insincerity does not a base build
I don’t want to hear anyone say Biden is a good and decent man ever again. No matter what happens with this election, this is his legacy. politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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They’ve been so embarrassing on this, and shows how little she’s connected to what’s really happening in LA. I hope you do get a chance to debate them.
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Almost every blue check telling you to vote harder is a dem consultant. Their hustle is, at this point, only able to keep said hustle alive. Biden won in 2020 because abolitionist organizers mobilized to defeat trump cause these consultants couldn’t do it. Remember this.
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Liberal politicians bemoaning the #SupremeCourt decision while giving the majority of the money they control to the police (the ones who will be sent to crush your dissent) is a vibe.
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L.A city government loves to crown themselves for their lofty civic achievements.
New high contrast crosswalks at 1st & Grand Ave are now in place ensuring concert goers walking to the Disney Concert Hall and Music Center are safe and seen! Check them out! #LADOT #SafeStreetsLA #Crosswalks
ALT Before and after photos of the crosswalks at the intersection of 1st & Grand Ave in Los Angeles. The 'before' image shows a standard street near the Disney Concert Hall. The 'after' image shows a newly installed contrast crosswalkx
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Fascists: “we are fascists and want to bring about fascism”
Dem consultant class: “don’t call them fascists or talk about fascism”
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Is this a joke? (Don’t answer that). This op Ed clearly does not understand that the criminalization, corruption, abuse, toruture, and murder that the LASD perpetuates daily is a big part of the reason there is a crisis in LA. Tell me when they have ever made anything better?
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2) Please read the “Care First” document that was passed here in L.A County, thanks to the work collations like @JusticeLANow, which included @EunissesH, and understand that we have an even better policy template here in Los Angeles to do that and more! But our local government
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More on the scandalous relationship between L.A County and Accenture, and what it means for governments and the people who live under them everywhere.
THREAD 🧵 There's more to the story behind the scandal of LA County awarding an $8.6 million no-bid contract to Accenture. It involves the company’s quiet infiltration of important parts of our society – for massive profit.
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People have no idea how much being able to afford an apartment helps prevent the crime they all cry about. Being able to work and get a spot while you figure out your life has stopped countless people from resorting to “crime” or staying in abusive situations that end in violence
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Those who took to the #recallbonin hysteria will never understand Venice, no matter how much money you spend or space you take up. The community we had there was a joy you can only wish to comprehend. This wasn’t about Bonin, it was about you, and you failed.
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LA burger talk is too deep for Twitter. If you haven’t been to Hamburger Habit (not the habit), your local Tam’s/Tom’s/Jim’s, Apple Pan (cause Huell said so), Quick n Split (rip) or Tops, let alone Fatburger, then I don’t wanna hear shit. And I’m leaving off like 5 other spots.
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Great tweet. Needs to be said more.
Do you know how many illegal evictions there are in your city? The local news doesn't report on it every time a family is illegally thrown into the street, just when someone shoplifts deodorant. The biased curation of anecdote affects which law violations we perceive as urgent.
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The more you look at it, the more craven the new LA City budget appears to be. Folks are really struggling right now and truly deserve better. It’s a cynical, violent, and bad faith plan, and no matter how expected it was, I feel sad about it.
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The city of L.A has been using this weird interpretation of an old law to criminalize protest for a long time. L.A’s political establishment is bankrupt. Change is coming and they know it. Protest may make some of you uncomfortable but now is when you show solidarity.
We're outside the jail, where Ricci is being held on charges of felony "Lynching” (interfering with arrest).
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This is exactly how Trump moved in the 80’s and 90’s.
Class solidarity. The rich have it. Do you?
ALT MSNBC headline "The L.A. mayor's race has rich celebrities backing a pro-police billionaire" Rick Caruso is hoping the support of Kim Kardashian and Gwyneth Paltrow will boost the millions he's spent on this election.
ALT That cash has helped Caruso flood Angelenos’ consciousnesses with a tsunami of ads touting his “tough on crime” message and recent wave of celebrity endorsements. The praise from the likes of Kim Kardashian, Gwyneth Paltrow, Elon Musk, Wolfgang Puck and (most surprisingly) Snoop Dogg seems genuine and enthusiastic — but, when you look a little closer, it’s as shallow as the rest of Caruso’s campaign.
ALT Snoop and Kardashian and other celebrity endorsers are in community with Caruso because they’re really, really rich.
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The is why daycares are under staffed, rec centers are dilapidated, pools are closed, streets are trashed, and trees aren’t trimmed. But those police helicopters are more frequent and louder than ever.
What does this mean? 🤔
Most city departments are spending within their budget because of the amount of job vacancies they're trying to fill. HOWEVER, because of the city's budget deficit, they cannot hire to fill their vacant positions unless approved (they're frozen). 🥶
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Close the jails
🚨LA County Jail Lawsuit🚨
Most people in our jail system are recently arrested & have not been convicted. They are routinely denied clean water, functioning toilets, a shower, adequate food, or medication they need. @ACLU_SoCal has sued the county.
Abhorrent & dire conditions
ALT ‘Barbaric’ L.A. County jail conditions alleged as ACLU seeks federal intervention
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