Damien Newton
@DamienTypes
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Former editor of @StreetsblogLA, journalist and consultant to non-profits. Winner of journalism awards from @lapressclub (2012, 2018), @spjla (2013). he/him.
Los Angeles, CA
Joined March 2009
I think this falls under “don’t threaten me with a good time. “
President Trump on Sunday threatened not to sign any bills into law until the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act is approved by the Senate.
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Transit twitter bros and conservative anti-transit guys are equally as incapable of listening to anything I have to say and it’s pretty hilarious 😂
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Now this is a mic drop.
The President of South Africa is not in Chicago to “enjoy American freedom.” He is here to honour a man who stood with South Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle at a time when the United States was still supporting the apartheid regime and those who enforced it. He is here to
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The City Attorney's office did not respond to questions about the charges or the timing. But Mitchell's lawyers believe the move was retaliatory. It successfully got the civil case stayed until the criminal case is resolved.
la.streetsblog.org
Eleven months after Officer Joshua Sportiello punched Alexander Mitchell in the face, the City Attorney's office filed misdemeanor resisting charges against him. Was it in retaliation for Mitchell's...
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It is still absolutely wild to me, in all the bad ways, that Jacob Wasserman is still running the Olympics
The Olympics aren’t for you. Check out the first video in our series about the greedy elites behind LA28.
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We have an opportunity to change the makeup of the LA Metro Board of Directors. Not a new idea -- but I think we need Metro riders on the Metro Board. Riders are the ones most impacted by our decisions and having them on the dais would make Metro better and more accountable.
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This is a real, not the onion moment
BREAKING: Mamdani says he won’t ban snowball fights despite cops getting pelted with the frosty orbs in Wash Sq Park on Monday.
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It’s been a day since this bs was debunked before Donny weighed in. My parents clearly overpaid for my high school education.
It never ends. Imagine if the mainstream media actually spent even a few minutes looking into any of these things???
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So….we live in a white nationalist theocracy now. Cool. Cool.
.@SECWAR "If I may offer a few observation: Protecting the God-given life of an unborn baby is not political – it is BIBLICAL. Protecting our borders from criminals who steal from us, assault our loved ones, and poison our citizens is not political – it is BIBLICAL. Protecting
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Chappell Roan leaves Wasserman Music stating: “I hold my team to the highest standards and have a duty to protect them all.” And then there’s… -LA Olympics Committee: He’s our leader. -Bass: No comment. -Newsom: I need to talk to him. Because married men getting massages
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Jim Jordan: "You have a right to protest in the street, but that doesn't give you a right to go into the Capitol and disrupt Congress"
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It’s funny because he’s a pedophile.
🚨 LMFAO! President Trump just cracked up the entire National Prayer Breakfast "They said, you're speaking at 7! I said, really, that's WONDERFUL! I said, where? National Prayer Breakfast. I said, I'll be there, I'm afraid not to be! I need ALL THE HELP I CAN GET! ☝️🏻" 😂
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How did he break it?
CNN: Alex Pretti broke rib in confrontation with federal agents a week before death, sources say https://t.co/ePeTtiz8mi
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I’m trying to imagine, anyone possibly being dumb enough to believe that any app owned by Elon Musk is secure and would treat our data securely.
WhatsApp is not secure. Even Signal is questionable. Use 𝕏 Chat.
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“we may or may not invade you every four years depending on how worked up ~20,000 swing voters in Waukesha County, Wisconsin feel about trans kids playing volleyball” isn’t really a good sales pitch for maintaining international allies.
Let’s focus on preventing Trump from forcibly acquire Greenland, with all the global damage it will cause. But let’s also be clear that if he succeeds, the position of a Democratic administration in 2029 will be to return it to Denmark. And our Danish friends should know that.
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I’m sharing the Washington Post story on that Brooklyn case because this pattern isn’t new. What’s new is how brazen the denial has become.
washingtonpost.com
A Brooklyn man faced 10 years in prison for driving his car at a police officer — but it never happened.
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Today, I was on the scene where an ICE agent murdered a lawful observer. It was not an act of self defense, it was a blatant escalation of force with complete disregard for life. I, like many of you, am angry beyond words.
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The Trump admin cutting off all childcare funding during a cost of living crisis because a Jan 6 insurrectionist cameraman made a completely fake, debunked youtube of himself going to daycares outside of their business hours.
Turning off payments and forcing verification before taxpayer money flows out the door is one of the most important steps we can take to end the fraud in Minnesota. But there will be many more to come. Great job to @HHS_Jim and @SecKennedy.
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Imagine going through all that effort to be known as the drunk, rapey guy, but you’ll be known as the racist guy instead.
IF THE SHOE FITS… Justice Brett Kavanaugh isn’t happy that his name has become synonymous with racist immigration enforcement. ICE’s policy of detaining people based on ethnicity is called a “Kavanaugh stop,” named after his ruling that allows it. He’s afraid the name will
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