GTMLosAngeles
@gtmlosangeles.bsky.social
Parent, poet, economist.
Neurofabulous. They/them.
Residing on Tongva land.
Protect trans kids.
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Neurofabulous. They/them.
Residing on Tongva land.
Protect trans kids.
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The Last Pride
If we knew it was the last one,
Would it be different?
Would the rainbows be brighter?
Would the music move us more?
Would we take better care of each other?
1/3
If we knew it was the last one,
Would it be different?
Would the rainbows be brighter?
Would the music move us more?
Would we take better care of each other?
1/3
June 3, 2025 at 11:10 PM
The Last Pride
If we knew it was the last one,
Would it be different?
Would the rainbows be brighter?
Would the music move us more?
Would we take better care of each other?
1/3
If we knew it was the last one,
Would it be different?
Would the rainbows be brighter?
Would the music move us more?
Would we take better care of each other?
1/3
Definitely NOT vibing with the whole ‘dead guy was such a great leader ‘ vibe today.
www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
Pope Francis: Gender ideology is the ugliest danger of our time - Vatican News
Addressing participants in the international Symposium
www.vaticannews.va
April 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Definitely NOT vibing with the whole ‘dead guy was such a great leader ‘ vibe today.
www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
Separate from my personal reaction to Hegseth’s behavior (anything that undermines the ability of the U.S. to bomb residential areas is a good thing), I am glad Congress now has the chance to engage in performative impeachment (as a warning shot to Trump himself).
April 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Separate from my personal reaction to Hegseth’s behavior (anything that undermines the ability of the U.S. to bomb residential areas is a good thing), I am glad Congress now has the chance to engage in performative impeachment (as a warning shot to Trump himself).
All that creative protest energy! But I have yet to see a video of ICE agents detaining Jesus - come on folks, step it up!
April 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
All that creative protest energy! But I have yet to see a video of ICE agents detaining Jesus - come on folks, step it up!
Reposted by GTMLosAngeles
They know they’re snatching American citizens, and that they’ll have to let them out. The point isn’t deportation- it’s to immiserate Latinos. Ten days is long enough to lose your job, miss your rent, get your kids taken.
As New York cops say, “you can beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride”
As New York cops say, “you can beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride”
A 19-year old U.S. citizen was traveling from Albuquerque to Tucson. He was arrested and detained by ICE for 10 days, before his family showed a judge his identification & he was finally released. news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...
U.S. citizen in Arizona detained by immigration officials for 10 days
news.azpm.org
April 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
They know they’re snatching American citizens, and that they’ll have to let them out. The point isn’t deportation- it’s to immiserate Latinos. Ten days is long enough to lose your job, miss your rent, get your kids taken.
As New York cops say, “you can beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride”
As New York cops say, “you can beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride”
So, I guess Musk is more or less out now, effectively? He gets to take his stolen data and contracts and return to amassing wealth in the private sector.
April 20, 2025 at 12:25 AM
So, I guess Musk is more or less out now, effectively? He gets to take his stolen data and contracts and return to amassing wealth in the private sector.
Do enough US citizens share contempt for the use of the authority of government to commit crimes sufficient to overcome our partisan polarization and terminate the Trump regime within the current Constitutional framework.
No, but why not?
1/
No, but why not?
1/
April 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Do enough US citizens share contempt for the use of the authority of government to commit crimes sufficient to overcome our partisan polarization and terminate the Trump regime within the current Constitutional framework.
No, but why not?
1/
No, but why not?
1/
Expanse s4e8
Holden: All we did was buy ourselves some more time.
Ngata: And that’s what we’re going to keep on doing.
Holden: All we did was buy ourselves some more time.
Ngata: And that’s what we’re going to keep on doing.
April 19, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Expanse s4e8
Holden: All we did was buy ourselves some more time.
Ngata: And that’s what we’re going to keep on doing.
Holden: All we did was buy ourselves some more time.
Ngata: And that’s what we’re going to keep on doing.
Anyone running the odds on who Judge Boasberg will appoint as special prosecutor?
Who is a current or former prosecutor that has really good knowledge of the executive branch?
Hint: her name rhymes with Paris.
Who is a current or former prosecutor that has really good knowledge of the executive branch?
Hint: her name rhymes with Paris.
April 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Anyone running the odds on who Judge Boasberg will appoint as special prosecutor?
Who is a current or former prosecutor that has really good knowledge of the executive branch?
Hint: her name rhymes with Paris.
Who is a current or former prosecutor that has really good knowledge of the executive branch?
Hint: her name rhymes with Paris.
Poet
You are not reading this poem.
You cannot feel the sunlight tickle my face,
Or the soothing, vibrating hum.
You cannot sway through the turns,
Or scream, “I love you, baby!”
At the top of your lungs,
Again and again and again.
…
1/2
#NaPoWriMo
You are not reading this poem.
You cannot feel the sunlight tickle my face,
Or the soothing, vibrating hum.
You cannot sway through the turns,
Or scream, “I love you, baby!”
At the top of your lungs,
Again and again and again.
…
1/2
#NaPoWriMo
April 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Poet
You are not reading this poem.
You cannot feel the sunlight tickle my face,
Or the soothing, vibrating hum.
You cannot sway through the turns,
Or scream, “I love you, baby!”
At the top of your lungs,
Again and again and again.
…
1/2
#NaPoWriMo
You are not reading this poem.
You cannot feel the sunlight tickle my face,
Or the soothing, vibrating hum.
You cannot sway through the turns,
Or scream, “I love you, baby!”
At the top of your lungs,
Again and again and again.
…
1/2
#NaPoWriMo
Has anybody figured out how to get a journalist invited into the Signal chat about invoking the Insurrection Act?
April 17, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Has anybody figured out how to get a journalist invited into the Signal chat about invoking the Insurrection Act?
Soon
I walked the dog around the block today,
The sidewalk’s gone but still some grass remains
Above the growing water: look behind
Me where the stones already sank. Bone-drenched
We don’t resort to swimming yet, but change
Is coming. Gather ’round, it’s coming soon.
...
1/3
#NaPoWriMo
I walked the dog around the block today,
The sidewalk’s gone but still some grass remains
Above the growing water: look behind
Me where the stones already sank. Bone-drenched
We don’t resort to swimming yet, but change
Is coming. Gather ’round, it’s coming soon.
...
1/3
#NaPoWriMo
April 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Soon
I walked the dog around the block today,
The sidewalk’s gone but still some grass remains
Above the growing water: look behind
Me where the stones already sank. Bone-drenched
We don’t resort to swimming yet, but change
Is coming. Gather ’round, it’s coming soon.
...
1/3
#NaPoWriMo
I walked the dog around the block today,
The sidewalk’s gone but still some grass remains
Above the growing water: look behind
Me where the stones already sank. Bone-drenched
We don’t resort to swimming yet, but change
Is coming. Gather ’round, it’s coming soon.
...
1/3
#NaPoWriMo
Say there’s 4 legs and you have control of 2. You need a majority. So you push hard on both those remaining 2 legs until one breaks.
Which will break first - courts or people?
Which will break first - courts or people?
April 16, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Say there’s 4 legs and you have control of 2. You need a majority. So you push hard on both those remaining 2 legs until one breaks.
Which will break first - courts or people?
Which will break first - courts or people?
April 15, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Now
If not now,
When?
If not here,
Where?
If not you,
Who?
If not now,
When?
If not here,
Where?
If not you,
Who?
April 15, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Now
If not now,
When?
If not here,
Where?
If not you,
Who?
If not now,
When?
If not here,
Where?
If not you,
Who?
Reposted by GTMLosAngeles
The constitutional crisis is here.
The President is disobeying lawful court orders. His advisors and allies are cheering him on. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains trapped in a jail in El Salvador.
youtu.be/HGTIELDTHOo?...
The President is disobeying lawful court orders. His advisors and allies are cheering him on. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains trapped in a jail in El Salvador.
youtu.be/HGTIELDTHOo?...
This Is a Constitutional Crisis
YouTube video by Sen. Adam Schiff
youtu.be
April 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM
The constitutional crisis is here.
The President is disobeying lawful court orders. His advisors and allies are cheering him on. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains trapped in a jail in El Salvador.
youtu.be/HGTIELDTHOo?...
The President is disobeying lawful court orders. His advisors and allies are cheering him on. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains trapped in a jail in El Salvador.
youtu.be/HGTIELDTHOo?...
This country can never justify locking even one person into a concentration camp in El Salvador.
Yet, even the one person the country admits was sent there in error will remain there.
I don't know if I more disgusted by the actions of this country or by the lack of public outcry from its citizens.
Yet, even the one person the country admits was sent there in error will remain there.
I don't know if I more disgusted by the actions of this country or by the lack of public outcry from its citizens.
April 14, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This country can never justify locking even one person into a concentration camp in El Salvador.
Yet, even the one person the country admits was sent there in error will remain there.
I don't know if I more disgusted by the actions of this country or by the lack of public outcry from its citizens.
Yet, even the one person the country admits was sent there in error will remain there.
I don't know if I more disgusted by the actions of this country or by the lack of public outcry from its citizens.
Reposted by GTMLosAngeles
I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."
But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.
1/
But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.
1/
April 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe."
But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.
1/
But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment.
1/
No Birds
We thought we heard birds
Chittering twitters
Sitting and shivering
Wondering whether weather wasted
This bitter land.
Once butter made burnt toast better,
But bovine flu turned the milk sour
And now we cower
No longer dreaming any ivory tower …
1/2
#NaPoWriMo
We thought we heard birds
Chittering twitters
Sitting and shivering
Wondering whether weather wasted
This bitter land.
Once butter made burnt toast better,
But bovine flu turned the milk sour
And now we cower
No longer dreaming any ivory tower …
1/2
#NaPoWriMo
April 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
No Birds
We thought we heard birds
Chittering twitters
Sitting and shivering
Wondering whether weather wasted
This bitter land.
Once butter made burnt toast better,
But bovine flu turned the milk sour
And now we cower
No longer dreaming any ivory tower …
1/2
#NaPoWriMo
We thought we heard birds
Chittering twitters
Sitting and shivering
Wondering whether weather wasted
This bitter land.
Once butter made burnt toast better,
But bovine flu turned the milk sour
And now we cower
No longer dreaming any ivory tower …
1/2
#NaPoWriMo
Them Bones
Them bones say sleep.
The oracle cast me,
Scatter tea or ivory? Deep
Clattering joints… hip, shoulder, knee,
Creaking and ponderous.
Knight, girding for battle?
Or, fated, much less wondrous,
That last rattle.
#NaPiWriMo
Them bones say sleep.
The oracle cast me,
Scatter tea or ivory? Deep
Clattering joints… hip, shoulder, knee,
Creaking and ponderous.
Knight, girding for battle?
Or, fated, much less wondrous,
That last rattle.
#NaPiWriMo
April 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Them Bones
Them bones say sleep.
The oracle cast me,
Scatter tea or ivory? Deep
Clattering joints… hip, shoulder, knee,
Creaking and ponderous.
Knight, girding for battle?
Or, fated, much less wondrous,
That last rattle.
#NaPiWriMo
Them bones say sleep.
The oracle cast me,
Scatter tea or ivory? Deep
Clattering joints… hip, shoulder, knee,
Creaking and ponderous.
Knight, girding for battle?
Or, fated, much less wondrous,
That last rattle.
#NaPiWriMo
Turning Back
With the weight of the city on my back
I tell my heart to stop turning back.
In the hum of the highway out the door
Your voice keeps on calling me back.
...
1/2
#NaPoWriMo
With the weight of the city on my back
I tell my heart to stop turning back.
In the hum of the highway out the door
Your voice keeps on calling me back.
...
1/2
#NaPoWriMo
April 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Turning Back
With the weight of the city on my back
I tell my heart to stop turning back.
In the hum of the highway out the door
Your voice keeps on calling me back.
...
1/2
#NaPoWriMo
With the weight of the city on my back
I tell my heart to stop turning back.
In the hum of the highway out the door
Your voice keeps on calling me back.
...
1/2
#NaPoWriMo
Feeling Good
Maybe they could not choose
Between being a coal miner’s daughter
Or a rhinestone cowboy.
Maybe they did not know if they
Were born to run or to break the chain.
Maybe they had sweet dreams
About west end girls.
All those years they lost,
Never knowing Nina.
#NaPoWriMo
Maybe they could not choose
Between being a coal miner’s daughter
Or a rhinestone cowboy.
Maybe they did not know if they
Were born to run or to break the chain.
Maybe they had sweet dreams
About west end girls.
All those years they lost,
Never knowing Nina.
#NaPoWriMo
April 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Feeling Good
Maybe they could not choose
Between being a coal miner’s daughter
Or a rhinestone cowboy.
Maybe they did not know if they
Were born to run or to break the chain.
Maybe they had sweet dreams
About west end girls.
All those years they lost,
Never knowing Nina.
#NaPoWriMo
Maybe they could not choose
Between being a coal miner’s daughter
Or a rhinestone cowboy.
Maybe they did not know if they
Were born to run or to break the chain.
Maybe they had sweet dreams
About west end girls.
All those years they lost,
Never knowing Nina.
#NaPoWriMo
Stocks move wildly on statements about tariffs. Good thing there’s an SEC to make sure no one is taking advantage of inside news …
“They’re using questionably legal layoffs to reduce the agencies’ capacity to regulate,” says Noll.
www.barrons.com/articles/dog...
“They’re using questionably legal layoffs to reduce the agencies’ capacity to regulate,” says Noll.
www.barrons.com/articles/dog...
Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Hunting for Cuts at the SEC
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency workers arrived at the SEC recently, aiming to streamline the regulatory agency beyond the hundreds of staffers that already have taken buyouts.
www.barrons.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Stocks move wildly on statements about tariffs. Good thing there’s an SEC to make sure no one is taking advantage of inside news …
“They’re using questionably legal layoffs to reduce the agencies’ capacity to regulate,” says Noll.
www.barrons.com/articles/dog...
“They’re using questionably legal layoffs to reduce the agencies’ capacity to regulate,” says Noll.
www.barrons.com/articles/dog...
Imagine claiming that you can bend the will of the most powerful democratic countries in the world by slapping some taxes on their imports, while at the same time claiming that you are powerless to get a tiny dictatorship to return one man from a concentration camp.
April 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Imagine claiming that you can bend the will of the most powerful democratic countries in the world by slapping some taxes on their imports, while at the same time claiming that you are powerless to get a tiny dictatorship to return one man from a concentration camp.