Linked is a LA times article about it. All this information has already been leaked and disseminated to media channels. This post is just summarizing some of it.

Earlier this week the National Political Committee (NPC) of DSA voted to take steps to rescind the endorsement of Nithya Raman, overriding DSA-LA, due to her weakness on BDS. Her consistent Zionist streak is in violation of R22, a resolution passed at the last national convention mandating candidates be actually anti-Zionist.

Raman has shown herself to be a cynical opportunist, angling to use the DSA as a launch pad into the democratic machine. She's been shifting more rightward overtime, and even a few days ago said she was both a DemSoc and a capitalist at the same time. This apparently didn't bother the local leadership of DSA-LA, but National, by one vote, finally took action.

By their ruling, has three days to reverse her positions and if she wants to keep the endorsement, which she won't lol. If she doesn't do it by January, Raman will be expelled from DSA entirely.

This has predictably set all manner of DSA rightists and liberals ablaze with fury. Many of them are curiously centered around LA and New York City lol. The DSA is finally taking baby steps towards being a real party, and that's butting into the political milieu of the US, which is allergic to actual, real, party politics.

It'd be better if just took definitive action on it, but it's a move in the right direction.

It's pretty funny honestly, but it's also kinda gross how they still pretend to be unbiased with their framing. Like, it's obvious they're trying to fearmonger lol.

Victoria 3 has always been pretty fun as a communist to play. It's not a perfect economic simulator, but its rooted in materialist analysis. You see it all. Building the economic forces, proletarianizing your people, and eventually building the drive for revolution. It's very fun.

The new DLC seems super promising so far, based on the dev diary. I'm so excited.

Some images:

A few days ago, Hasan Piker did a multihour long form interview with Norm Finkelstein, where they talked about a variety of topics. It included some discussion on his new book about the enablers of Israel's genocide, but touched on many different things.

I think it's very much worth listening to. I know people here have mixed opinions on Hasan, and Norm has sometimes said very Boomer things, but it's a wonderful interview. Norm has so much knowledge and wisdom, and you can feel it constantly. He sometimes phrases things weirdly, or has a take I might not agree with fully, but none of it is without thought or consideration. It's worth a listen.

The demonstrators arrived late at night with a plan to set off fireworks as part of a noise demonstration to show solidarity with those detained inside. A few of the protesters spontaneously broke off from the main group and vandalized cars in the parking lot, a guard shack, slashed the tires on a government van and broke a security camera. When a police officer arrived on the scene and drew his weapon, one of the activists fired an AR-15 from the woods, hitting the officer in the shoulder. The officer survived.

Zachary Evetts, Autumn Hill, Savanna Batten, Elizabeth Soto and Meagan Morris were sentenced to 50 years in prison. Maricela Rueda, another demonstrator, was sentenced to 70 years in prison. Benjamin Song, who fired the gun at the police officer, was sentenced to 100 years in prison

The ninth defendant, Daniel Sanchez-Estrada was not at the protest, but was convicted of corruptly concealing a document or record after prosecutors said he moved leftwing zines and other materials at the request of Rueda, his wife, after she was arrested. Sanchez-Estrada was sentenced to 30 years in prison on Tuesday.

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30 years for moving some pamphlets.

A little peek into some very depressing happenings on

See the first link at the bottom, for the main evidence dump and collation.

For a brief tldr, a convicted pedophile abuser, Brynn, got uncovered as a mod in a subreddit for trans women, /r/mtf. In leaked discord convos, the head mod, CedarWolf, was shown downplaying it, and suggesting they swap their account for a new, anonymous one. Cedarwolf is a mod on over 100 subreddits, most of them LGBT related.

With the news blown, instead of like dealing with it responsibly, they just locked down, deleted, and banned anyone who mentioned it on subreddits they controlled. They're going all in on damage control and pedo defense. They made a few posts trying to downplay the news as misleading or harassment, but the community was not accepting it. For a while, they locked the subreddit entirely, but apparently Cedarwolf stopped looking at it for a bit, as it's now entirely filled again with posts calling for them to resign.

The news stayed relatively quiet for a bit, but now it's to the point that Elon discovered it and is tweeting about it. Needless to say, this is fucked in so many ways. It's likely people were put at risk or harmed by the mod teams behaviors and actions, and it's also perfect propaganda bait for right wing shitheads as the news continues to slowly grow. Predictably, Reddit admins are choosing to stay uninvolved, given their "libertarian" lean.

(Also the pronoun use in regards to CedarWolf is deliberate. They aren't a trans woman, despite running a trans woman subreddit. They're he/they/she non-transitioning bigender).

I don't have the full list of all assorted evidence, as this is more just me being depressed and venting, but here's a few bits and pieces.

Main collection of evidence. User since deleted their account, so it's an archive link. Has pictures of discord screenshots, plus snips of the mod's sex offender registry. An ex, who's a reddit mod of /r/egg_irl, posted in the thread alleging that the modremovedd and abused her.

Post with various response/discussion links

Sex offender registry of Brynn

Elon Musk discovering the story through a TERF propaganda outlet and massively amplifying it.

Link - xcancel

Platner really is a level of organic stupid that we should be proud of. He's the pinnacle of American culture.

Love my non-political anime

Great interview. It shows how much of a soulless psychopath Ritchie Torres is. Honestly crazy this interview happened.

Two people were detained at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus last night, April 30, during an attempted screening of the new documentary The Encampments (2025), according to local reports and a university statement. Videos posted on social media show dozens of university police officers storming the campus in full riot gear at around 9pm as a group was gathering for the unofficial screening, hosted by the school’s suspended Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter.

The independent student-run community news platform Poppy Press reported that one of the two individuals detained during the screening shutdown was taken to the emergency room for injuries. Hyperallergic was unable to independently verify this or whether the two people detained were UCLA students.

Some videos of the incident.

https://nitter.tiekoetter.com/SJPatUCLA/status/1917817727554838723#m

https://nitter.tiekoetter.com/dailybruin/status/1917806471649321270#m

Members of the National Association of Letter Carriers are rejecting a tentative labor contract its leadership struck with the Postal Service. In total, 63,680 NALC members voted against the tentative agreement for the 2023-2026 contract, and 26,304 voted in favor. NALC President Brian Renfroe said in a statement Friday that NALC has notified the Postal Service management about the vote’s outcome.

“In a democratic vote, the will of NALC’s membership has been made clear — the tentative agreement that represented the best offer the Postal Service put on the table is not good enough for America’s city letter carriers. We have earned more and we deserve more,” Renfroe said.

Under the tentative agreement, letter carriers would get retroactive 1.3% pay raises for November 2023 and November 2024, and would receive another 1.3% pay raise in November 2025. Letter carriers would’ve received three of the seven COLAs retroactively, as a lump sum payment, and would receive additional COLAs each March and September for the duration of the contract.

Build a Fighting NALC, a coalition of letter carriers advocating for a more inclusive collective bargaining process for rank-and-file employees, is calling for $30-an-hour starting pay, an end to mandatory overtime and full COLAs for all bargaining unit members.