"You couldn’t dream up a more fitting way to mark L.A.’s decade-long failure to make life less dangerous for pedestrians and cyclists... a Los Angeles police officer on Sunday arrested a guy trying to make streets safer"
Golden State
L.A.'s disgraceful end to the failed Vision Zero experiment
The city marks the end of the decade-long effort to eliminate traffic deaths with the prosecution of an activist who painted unofficial crosswalks ...
 #LosAngeles #WarOnCars #VisionZero #LAPD
New resource⚡️ Block it! Don’t Build It. Don’t Fill It. Don’t Fuel It A mini-toolkit to take action to slow down and disrupt the government’s kidnapping, detention, and deportation machine Info on strategies/tactics, ways to take action, and more:
Interrupting Criminalization
Block It! — Interrupting Criminalization
 (sharing verbatim from #InterruptingCriminalization on bsky) image
A report from Los Angeles about what actually happens when immigration enforcement arrives — how people mobilize, and sustain energy to defend their community (support local media!) https://lapublicpress.org/2025/11/avoid-organizing-burnout/ #uspol #LosAngeles #ICE #immigration
"in some letters declining the compact, much ink was spilled to reassure the Trump administration that universities were already complying with many of the proposed changes—without even being asked! These practices chill academic freedom" - my #USCAAUP chapter pres in LA Times
Los Angeles Times
Contributor: Fearing Trump, universities themselves restrict academic freedom
Some institutions may have avoided the ire of the federal government by preemptively undermining research and teaching.
 archive link: https://archive.ph/TxBWo #HigherEd #academia #AAUP #uspol
#trashtodon chimera near the #LARiver. 2022 image
We’re in a bad, bad place #uspol From: @npub1nzjh...pmgc https://med-mastodon.com/@bicmay/115424904339095963
Post a recent outside picture in the replies, I loved this one from @skinnylatte@ hachyderm.io
Hachyderm.io
Adrianna Tan (@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)
Attached: 1 image I went outside #SanFrancisco #MissionDolores
 and I'll post one of my own in a reply *edited to not blow up skinnylatte's mentions! But thanks for all the gorgeous pics people are sharing 😍
Oil Beach image
world's tallest donkey, world's longest-eared donkey
Huttoft sanctuary home to two record-breaking donkeys
Derrick is the tallest donkey in the world and his pal Bambou has the longest ears.
 https://archive.ph/PdVUK #asstodon #GuinnessBook image