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Gubernatorial Candidate Villaraigosa Should Love Ranked Choice Voting (Upd. Jun. 7)
Things are looking pretty rough for Antonio Villaraigosa. Here are the latest polls. These are from Real Clear Politics. I have to wonder, if the voters for Chiang and Eastin were to choose Villaraigosa as their second choice, and the polls used “ranked choice voting”, what would the numbers look like? Ranked choice voting allows …
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Downshiftism
This came across the LA Indymedia newswire. I’m interested in the reduction of consumption and production, but not so sure about the three postulates… but will consider them. Downshiftism – a philosophy established on the theoretical bases of the economic decrease. According to Jean-François Jaudon, this contemporary philosophy is defined by the three following postulates:…
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
Most narratives about HOLC/FHA redlining focus on the redlined areas. The narrative goes something like this: redlined communities were created, and Black people were forced to live there. While that’s generally accurate, it ignores all the other groups that suffered from the HOLC grading of communities. This post excerpts some of the Los Angeles County…
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There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
Black students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design say there are no design courses that consider race and justice. Here’s an outline for one. Source: There Are No Urban Design Courses on Race and Justice, So We Made Our Own Syllabus
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The Return of Public Housing
Bookmarking to read later; Statement in Opposition to Sb 827 – Luxury Development for the Rich, Displacement and Dispossession for the Poor
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Letter to Garcetti about Shipping Container Homes
Mr. Mayor: Thank you for finally doing something to help house the homeless people around the Plaza. It’s gone out of control, with rents rising, and whatnot. People don’t think it’s a big deal to live out of a tent or their car, anymore. That’s where we’re at, as a city and country, and I…
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Racism: NatGeo, Housing, Crossword
nemu98 asked on reddit: Why is the anglosphere so focused on race? 2025-09-16 The British Empire implemented racism in colonizing Ireland, and then applied it everywhere, to create a hierarchy of ethnic groups or races, with their white people at the top. If caste was available, they used caste. (Gershon, Britain’s Blueprint for Colonialism: Made…
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Re: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants
Source: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants I found that article on an aggreagtor, and replied to it, rather than the original. So I posted the response here, figuring it wouldn’t get approved. I then found the original, and looked at the comment section. Zerohedge commenters are a bunch of libertarians…
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On the Precipice of Another Great Depression
As we stand on the precipice of the cliff overlooking another Great Depression, we need to consider that the Depression wasn’t only rough on the working class. It was also a period of extreme racism, not only by people to each other, but by the government against communities of color. As the government started to…
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USCIS New Anti-Immigrant Mission Statement
Another brick in the fascist wall that Trump is building. The mission statement of the USCIS has change to become an anti-immigration agency. Source: U.S. agency’s new mission statement: America no longer a ‘nation of immigrants’
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Turn Audio Links into inline audio players
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Health Insurance; Prisoner Laborers; Macron Shits on the Left, Appoints Right Winger PM
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Racism: NatGeo, Housing, Crossword
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The Commodity Fetish
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Re: Oakland’s Homeless Americans Die Uncounted As Mayor Protects Illegal Immigrants
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The Purpose of Antisemitism in White Supremacy
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On High Rates of Infection in the Latino Communities
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
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Research Sparse about Less Educated Asian American Men in the Labor Market
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Dodging
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Eviction of Seniors to a COVID-19 Impacted Facility
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Claude-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Correction 7
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The Book Trust – an attempt to monopolize cheap book production in the 1800s
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Redlining was Part of the System of Segregated, Whites-Only Communities
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ChatGPT Rewrites with Style
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Creating Email Messages with Clickable Links that Add Events to Your Calendar
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Tom Bradley Speech, Draft: The Citizen: Power and/or Powerlessness
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Anti-Vaccine Mandate “Debate” Goes Weird Real Quick
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Gemini-Assisted WordPress Plugin: Corrections 3
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
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The Anti Nazi Parade – history of anti-fascism in Los Angeles (and some fascism)
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The New Normal – Fresh Food Costs More
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DALL-E has Problems with “Race Mixing”
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The Murder of Ee Lee
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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
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A simple refutation of the “Supply and Demand” argument about how new apartment construction will lower rents.
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Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism
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Fixing a Broken Rattan Chair
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SARS-CoV-2 in the Air
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Getting Meta’s AI, Imagine, to Produce NSFW Images
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Black Removal in South Central Los Angeles
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I Think There’s Under Counting of Covid-19
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My Top Favorite Conspiracy Theories
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Should Prisoners Have the Vote?
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On the Vice Asian American, Model Minority and Asian Hate, Panel Video
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Draft: The Disinformation Landscape, MRAsians, and the Left Avoiding Discussions of Some Issues of Interest