100%, this is the moment when American democracy began to die

My book in Jlo - Ben Affleck drama?! Ben met w ex-wife Jennifer Garner & her daughter Violet, who brought my book w her? ''The teen was also seen carrying a book titled The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality And Disease Collide written by Steven W. Thrasher.  ''

Woah.
Google is effectively trying to buy out the United States by tendering a cashier's check for the claimed max damages from screwing industry with adtech market power abuses. US DOJ's adtech antitrust trial seeking to break them up is months away. 1/4

“Garrett Foster, an Air Force veteran, was murdered defending protesters' Constitutional right to assemble. By pardoning his killer, Governor Abbott shows disdain for our rights and the military members who defend them.” - Ted Spencer, CD member & Navy veteran

From certain angles driving toward West Hollywood or the Hollywood Hills can feel like driving toward the hillside areas of (deeply hilly and vertical) #Monterrey , Mexico, 🤓 iykyk

This is the pursuit suspect who for 45 minutes lead LAPD in a pursuit, slamming her van into patrol cars multiple times, causing at least one officer to crash and then crashing head on into innocent drivers on the 405 freeway. @foxla

NEW: Graduation season is also a time for ... meals after the long ceremony somewhere kinda nice or interesting. Here are some options for your grad 🎓 near UCLA, USC, Loyola Marymount, Cal State Northridge and Cal State Long Beach 🥳 Los Angeles Times: latimes.com/food/list/cele…

This was the window-busting, tree-toppling storm that blasted Houston.
📍 Mamajuana Cafe, downtown
🎥 Claudia Prats Sanchez

Tornado at the Wells Fargo Plaza in downtown Houston KPRC 2 Houston

Whenever a storm blows through Houston, the parts of town with buried lines always do better. Galleria/Uptown, Greenway, Med Center all mostly still have power. Downtown lost lots of windows, but the lights are still on. #houwx

Intense satellite imagery of the damaging line of severe thunderstorms that just tore through #Houston , Texas causing widespread damage and knocking out power to millions of people.

Radar indicated winds of 110 mph just above the surface as the storms moved through Houston,

A key component of fascist takeovers is the state sanctioning of far-right vigilante violence.

Last week artist Lauren Strohacker projected images of borderlands wildlife harmed by border policies on the wall in Nogales, Ariz. The images capture the beauty and cruelty present in the borderlands.

website: laurenstrohacker.org
Twitter: Lauren Strohacker

Matin Mehdizadeh appears to be the culprit that launched at least several of the fireworks via mortar into the encampment at UCLA. He was also involved in at least one press attack.

He also was involved in the attack on reporter doloresquintana . From piece for LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH -

🍷🍷🍷 California wine industry also getting grimmer and grimmer: Some large wineries are buying foreign wine in bulk and blending it with local grapes — as long as it remains under 25% — more Los Angeles Times: latimes.com/environment/st…

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'There were students that had head bleeds, brain bleeds from those rubber bullets.'

Medics and physicians who treated those injured in the attack on and sweep of the Palestine solidarity encampment recalled the violence they saw. dailybruin.com/2024/05/14/med…

Brown University begging a judge to find their students guilty of being in a school building after hours... embarrassing!

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The shocking state of the restaurant industry: ‘We can’t afford to be open. We can’t afford to be closed.’ An exhaustive and sobering study of where things stand now, by stephanie breijo #mustread 😔 latimes.com/food/story/202…