LightNews LightNews
banner
iaacm.bsky.social
@iaacm.bsky.social
180 followers 200 following 75 posts
Posts Replies Media Videos
iaacm.bsky.social
Austin Beutner can’t even take a position on the city policy he seems to be criticizing the most: utility rate increases. www.latimes.com/california/s...
Text from LA Times story linked to in tweet: “Beutner, speaking before a group of reporters, would not commit to rolling back any of those increases. Instead, he urged Bass to call a special session of the City Council to explain the decisions that led to the increases.”
November 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
iaacm.bsky.social
If Austin Beutner thinks highlighting the affordability crisis will fill the sails of his campaign as it did Zohran’s, he should remember that Zohran’s campaign offered tangible policies (free childcare, free buses, etc.) to address said crisis, not just “transparency” vaporware.
Graphic from Zohran Mamdani’s 2025 campaign for mayor of New York City displaying campaign platform points, including: freeze the rent, build 200,000 new affordable homes, no-cost childcare, fast and free buses.
November 11, 2025 at 7:19 PM
iaacm.bsky.social
“Karen Bass is the most progressive mayor we’ve ever had in L.A.”

— Nithya Raman, one of LA’s 4 “DSA” council members www.latimes.com/california/s...
Text from LA Times story linked to in post: ““Karen Bass is the most progressive mayor we’ve ever had in L.A,” said Raman, who co-hosted the election night party with the other three DSA-aligned council members, DSA-LA and others.”
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
iaacm.bsky.social
News comes via @UnrigLA on Twitter (@unrigla.bsky.social on Bsky), who noticed Huang’s name appearing among candidates in city campaign finance reports.
Post from Twitter from @UnrigLA observing Rae Chen Huang’s name appearing among candidates for mayor in Los Angeles’ 2026 election in city campaign finance reports.
October 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
iaacm.bsky.social
Zohran Mamdani’s campaign for NYC mayor has been inspiring. Here in LA, though, we’ve been facing a dismal choice in 2026 between failed Mayor Bass and someone to her right.

Until today. LA now appears to have the candidate it needs and deserves for mayor: Rae Chen Huang, a social housing advocate!
Expanded image of bio of new Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rae Chen Huang, with text reading as: “Rev. Rae Chen Huang is a senior organizer at Housing Now! CA, a statewide housing justice coalition in California. She is an ordained Presbyterian (PCUSA) pastor and community organizer in Los Angeles, and serves on the board of Creating Justice, an organization advancing economic justice through creative expression in Skid Row.” (This bio, from nonprofitquarterly.org, was attached to @UnrigLA’s tweet that appears in the skeet subsequent to this one.)
October 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
iaacm.bsky.social
Don’t be surprised if Trump unconstitutionally “federalizes” state and local police. Democrats have already built the architecture of fascism at the state and local level, where commanding officers of police forces like LAPD spew MAGA propaganda on official accounts. @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov
October 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
iaacm.bsky.social
In a pre-dawn raid, the National Park Service removed — and purposely split apart — a statue of Trump frolicking with Jeffrey Epstein that was under a permit to be displayed on the National Mall through Sunday.
Photo from CNN article, linked to in subsequent post, of a clean cut through Trump’s head as part of the bronze-colored statue.
September 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
iaacm.bsky.social
From the document linked to in the post…
Text from the document linked to in the original post: “Myth: Metrolink doesn’t own the right of way. “Reality: The San Bernardino and Antelope Valley right of ways are entirely publicly owned, albeit by constituent counties - but these counties are represented on the Metrolink board.”
September 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
iaacm.bsky.social
It doesn’t apply to California Highway Patrol, because apparently Newsom wanted it that way.
September 21, 2025 at 1:30 AM
iaacm.bsky.social
LA Mayor Karen Bass endorses (former?) member of Fix the Debt, a group of mostly corporate elites advocating for cuts to Social Security and Medicare. Bonus points for the backing of Curren Price the council member being prosecuted on multiple counts of embezzlement, etc.
September 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
iaacm.bsky.social
Image of Google Maps showing 296 Metro Bus route with a stop in proximity to the Griffith Park Carousel.
August 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
iaacm.bsky.social
The Bret Stephens “Gaza-is-not-committing-genocide” op-ed is actually rather timely considering someone made the comment below just the day before, to an NYT story blaming the starvation and massacres in Gaza on Israel’s “failures” to plan for post-war. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/w...
Comment to New York Times story referred to in post, and to which link goes: “Craig, WI, July 21 “Need Bret Stephens to tell me why this is actually good”
July 23, 2025 at 5:03 AM