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Organizing LA block by block. follow the fam @knockdotla.bsky.social @power-la.bsky.social
Autopsies of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd protests often conclude that movements produced tough-on-crime backlash. My new study in Work and Occupations finds a different kind of movement outcome: BLM changed how local reporters cover cops and jails. 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The core argument is that cities like Seattle are so addled by left-wing ideology that they have fallen into dystopia. In reality, the city has never adequately funded harm reduction programs and continues to rely on incarceration to address homelessness. What Powell wants is what we're doing.
Powell interviews a local anti-homeless ghoul who notes that encampment sweeps don't result in meaningful change because homeless people just return a few days later. Yes, Michael. What is the solution to this? We should just incarcerate them forever for being homeless?
Same DA that dropped charges against Torrance police officers who killed an unarmed black man. And same DA who was supported and endorsed by CA Senate candidate Brian Goldsmith
Petty fascist DA Hochman is charging an LAPD officer with 16 felonies for blowing the whistle on virulent racism in the department. He’s sending a message about what sort of department he wants to see. www.latimes.com/california/s...
LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments charged with felony eavesdropping
Los Angeles County prosecutors on Friday charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues' racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job.
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Petty fascist DA Hochman is charging an LAPD officer with 16 felonies for blowing the whistle on virulent racism in the department. He’s sending a message about what sort of department he wants to see. www.latimes.com/california/s...
LAPD officer who recorded colleagues' racist comments charged with felony eavesdropping
Los Angeles County prosecutors on Friday charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues' racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job.
latimes.com
You're not going to believe this but Gavin Newsom is taking the side of capital over workers. In this case it's tricky because he's backing the very MAGA allies his cosplaying X account claims he's fighting. www.wsj.com/business/med...
Exclusive | Newsom Expresses Concerns About State Antitrust Suit Against Paramount
The California governor has told people involved in the suit that blocking the $81 billion deal could harm Hollywood jobs.
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Newsom is for sale to the highest bidder.
Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 6d agoLooks like Gavin Newsom is going to bat for California Forever, the Network State "tech utopia" project backed by Marc Andreessen and other tech billionaires. 70% of local residents oppose it. But the billionaires hired Newsom's favorite lobbyist. Welcome to Sacramento. nypost.com/2026/07/29/u...
Night Out for Safety & Liberation is back! This year we’re collaborating w/ Westside organizers for a family-friendly event w/ free food, kids activities & community to counter the annual National Night Out Copaganda, join us 🥳 🥳 🥳 @marvistavoice.bsky.social @groundgamela.bsky.social
New on Knock: Even if your city refuses to contract with Flock that doesn’t mean the threat is gone. Landlords are working directly with Flock to build a private surveillance network Story by Tracy Miller knock-la.com/la-landlords...
How LA Landlords Are Using Flock Safety to Build a Private Surveillance Network - Knock LA
Reflections after the end of LAPD's Flock Safety contract
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In my latest, I talk with @silkys13.bsky.social about the struggle against ICE. How are the government’s tactics shifting, and how must we respond? We also discuss the tremendous victory of fighting off the warehouse model for the regime’s concentration camps, and where the fight goes from here.
The Fight Against ICE Has Entered a New Phase
“This is a time to build on organizing on the ground and sustain it over time,” says Silky Shah
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This is a death sentence
Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X)@markanthonyneal.bsky.social · last wk.'Millions of women of childbearing age live in counties where there's no place to give birth. Nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts could devastate labor-and-delivery services in already struggling hospitals.' 19thnews.org/2026/07/mate...
Residents of Project Homekey Culver City allege inhumane and carceral conditions in this second installment from @rosalindjones.bsky.social "I don’t feel safe there anymore,” said Vince, a resident of the facility. Read the full story: knock-la.com/project-home...
“It’s a nightmare in there for us.” Additional Residents of Project Homekey Culver City Decry Carceral, Dehumanizing Conditions - Knock LA
Several residents from the interim housing program are speaking out about alleged theft of personal property by staff, mistreatment, and harassment by service providers and guards.
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LA’s housing crisis is a disaster of our own making: “A city audit found that across all 41.18 enforcement operations from 2021 through 2024, only two unhoused individuals transitioned to permanent housing through these efforts — at an administrative cost exceeding $3 million.”
KnockDotLA@knockdotla.bsky.social · 4w ago"The line is not a failure of the system. It is the system." Check out our latest from Kaylee Dunson about queue governance in Los Angeles and the disastrous effects it has on unhoused residents knock-la.com/inside-la-en...
“The expectation that families would divide themselves to preserve access to housing assistance ignores the limitations of fear & the strength of family bonds.” HUD’s efforts to end support for mixed-status families will undermine housing stability & ruin lives, warns David Arias in an op-ed.
HUD's efforts to end support for mixed-status families will ruin lives
HUD's proposed rule will ingrain discriminatory policies and make mixed-status households more economically vulnerable
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The Left(s) should get onboard with a massive expansion of public libraries across the country over the next 25 years. This is an affirmative project.
I don't want to hear politicians running on "we need to see each other as neighbors again" bullshit. No I want you to run on expanding the commons and offering actual SPACES in communities where people can gather across differences. That means no rhetoric but ACTUAL $$$ invested.
One thing that is apparent to those of us who study social movements is how often they lose & how quickly those losses are forgotten when they have big wins. Go back and watch Milk & see how often he lost. It’s eye opening. 🗃️
Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · last mo.Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.
In light of recent news about Cesar Chavez's extensive sexual abuse of women and girls, how do movements prevent this behavior in the future? Chicana activists reflect on building protective, democratic structures for social justice work. @rosalindjones.bsky.social knock-la.com/farmworkers-...
Farmworkers Betrayed: Chicana Activists Reflect on Cesar Chavez’s Legacy - Knock LA
In a virtual discussion, long-time Chicana activists discussed the legacy of Chavez and the pervasiveness of sexual violence in movement spaces.
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Anyone treating a 5-4 decision to uphold *basic black letter law* as a victory rather than an emergency is a collaborator
if you have feelings about SCOTUS after today, and after the last week, and after the last months and years, remember that at least you can vote for state supreme courts in many places this year, and those matter a ton too my state-by-state guide to every state supreme court contest:
Your State-by-State Guide to the 2026 Supreme Court Elections - Bolts
Abortion, redistricting, and ballot access remain heated issues as voters face dozens of supreme court races across 32 states this year.
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Also should be mentioned that Trump’s crypto haul is likely being used to launder money and at some point, if we fight our way out of this and the full story emerges, we’re likely to find that there has been a full-scale organized crime syndicate operating using American power.
The legal arguments for Trump's birthright citizenship executive order are vapid and embarrassing. Multiple lower court judges legit laughed DOJ lawyers out of the room. The fact that four Supreme Court justices twisted themselves into logical pretzels to buy it is a constitutional emergency.
The Constitution Is On Life Support
Four justices are prepared to stuff the Fourteenth Amendment’s promises in the garbage because Mister Trump demands it.
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The Dem messaging is that the birthright citizenship ruling is an uncomplicated win for numerous reasons: 1) they never miss a chance to claim everything is fine 2) they never miss a chance to frame Trump as the sole problem & exonerate his accomplices
Yeah this is not the tone of alarm I’m looking for, try again.
Hakeem Jeffries@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · last mo.Birthright citizenship remains the law of the land. Out of many, one!
This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question.
