Researchers say a new law has created a massive 'homeless exclusion zone,' effectively banning the unhoused from vast swaths of the city. https://t.co/ASXMT04Rbf
@DavidJames0426 yup. the whole thing is a dog and pony show for the mainstream public and rich liberals to feel cleansed of the sight of poverty. I had to leave before they kettled everyone but the vids of the arrests tonight are brutal af 🐽
@hilaryagro Legalization/regulation is not always the anticapitalist solution. The first and most important thing is to decriminalize drugs and retroactively eliminate sentences (along with reparations).
problem is, Dems have wildly different constituents than Republicans. Dems have high trust in media, high trust in the establishment, and are generally conflict-averse. I think the media's disdain for M4A (and leftism generally) is a bigger hurdle than they might think.
she admits that corporate media will be against her, but still thinks the movement would be powerful enough to overcome that, citing Trump's election and the tea party as examples of aggressive "grass roots" movements that countered predominant media narratives.
Brie says the plan of FTV is to create a giant media spectacle that will popularize and bring energy to M4A - yet here she points out that it's hard to popularize an idea that the media is disinterested in or antagonistic towards, and how the energy gets squashed.
this right here seems to be the central disagreement with force the vote. the assuredness FTV people have that Dem voters would rally around AOC, in opposition of the establishment and mainstream media, seems like wishful thinking.
This morning the Hollywood Media District BID (yellow-shirts) showed up at a camp in Hollywood with the intent on doing a "clean-up".
The BID supervisor, Ayana, rudely entered the camp and began kicking unhoused people's property into the street.
I spoke to the hacker who scraped every post, photo and video from Parler before it shutdown and wrote about it for @motherboard https://t.co/WQ7ShCzt62
I’ve been spending the last few days reading hundreds of letters kids have written to Santa, a staggering amount of which are asking for food, warm clothes and for their parents to afford rent. .@MSNBC is spending airtime skewering one of the only senators fighting for them.
@thtbobabitch @gnargnarmusic Lolz he’s happy bc he thinks “ppl are down to be weird n shit, that they’re weirder than I think. Which gives me faith in humanity”. He thinks that fortnite picking up his song is a sign that society is healing which is “DJ-brain” nonsense
@MrBootyz@justin4100@Griz@gnargnarmusic Lol no he’s happy that he thinks “ppl are down to be weird n shit, that they’re weirder than I think. Which gives me faith in humanity”. He thinks that fortnite picking up his song is a sign that society is healing which is “DJ-brain” nonsense