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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 6d

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Writings about policing, inequality, and a better world.

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 12h

“Tapestry” 2025
Analog collage. 12”x16”
Photographs from the artists archive.
Nonstndrd Creative

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 1d

Balcony Balatro & beer.

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 1d

Morning grind…

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Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah.bsky.social · 2d

Early in the year I was contracted to do a series for WaPo about the aesthetics of the Trump administration. That project was just cancelled.

You can read my final column — about Confederate monuments and Charlie Kirk — in my newsletter.

Thanks for reading!

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 2d

Wow. Thats wild.

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 3d

“Good Reception”
Digital illustration/collage
2025

Been on a roll lately (creatively speaking). Don’t know if it’s sustainable but it’s definitely fun (and productive)!

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 3d

😂😂

Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 3d

He took an L so big he went to court about it and took another one.

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Elizabeth: Ghost in the City @kikutowne.bsky.social · 3d

Using the AI for creative things kind of ruins people’s brains, like they get worse at using skills they used to have before using it. Lately that makes me wonder how long these Hollywood people who are all for it have been using it and rotting their brains with it, TBH.

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adam mahoney (he/him) @adamlmahoney.bsky.social · 4d

Also published by @lapublicpress.bsky.social ! lapublicpress.org/2025/10/ingl...

The Clippers promised progress. Inglewood's Black community paid the price

A federal investigation exposed a shady deal, but it has bigger ramifications for one of LA’s disappearing Black enclaves

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 4d

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Shot On 35mm @shoton35mm.bsky.social · 5d

My latest for L.A. TACO....

L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 5d

“The law does not permit this kind of prolonged deprivation of an individual’s liberty without any allegations or charges of violating the law,” said Jean Elizabeth Reisz, an attorney representing Marin, who is also a USC law professor.

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 5d

Algorithms serve companies not creatives.

My average newsletter open rate with almost 400 subscribers exceeding the reach of my Instagram account with over 4000 followers is the best case for investing in your own platform.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 5d

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 5d

“Tuesday Morning”. 2025
12”x16”, collage on paper
All photographs from my personal archive.

I challenged myself to wake up early and complete a new piece before I started work. As an artist who is also a father with a full time day job, I make work whenever I can. That’s always been my hustle.

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LAist @laist.com · 6d

L.A. has been the backdrop for countless movies and TV shows, but if that's all you know of our fair city, your understanding is only screen deep. LAist 89.3's daily program, 'AirTalk,' asked listeners: What are the most common mischaracterizations about Los Angeles?

The many ways people get LA wrong

Here's what you told us about the biggest misconceptions you hear — and push back on — about Los Angeles and Southern California.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 7d

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

California can’t claim no power in Congress, like DC—home to 700,000 people, more than either Vermont or Wyoming—can. But it’s time to think outside of the electoral box and start flexing our considerable leverage. We are the nation’s largest agricultural state—growing more than a third of the country’s vegetables and three-quarters of its fruits—and the fifth-largest food producer in the world. We produce the most milk and the most wine, copious amounts of rice and cattle, and, crucially, 90 percent of US avocados. Other states may be poster children for farms, but we’re No. 1. Hollywood is a $47.2 billion industry exerting, for better or worse, immeasurable global cultural power. The $623 billion tech sector is even mightier. Were California to secede, almost 15 percent of America’s GDP would go with it, and the US could slip behind China as the world’s biggest economy.

Short of actual secession, what could California do? It could learn from the Jimmy Kimmel showdown and lead a financial “countervalue” rebellion, using “the full weight of blue states’ market power, cultural influence and legal authority to raise the stakes of Republican red-state aggression,” Democratic strategists Arkadi Gerney and Sarah Knight wrote in the Washington Post, by imposing “regulatory and economic costs that bite hard enough to make the constituents of even the most insulated legislator feel the pain.” We could start by disinvesting our pension funds from red-state companies like AT&T, American Airlines, ExxonMobil, and Tesla. “The 15 blue trifectas (states where Democrats control the governor’s mansion and both houses of the state legislature), with their larger state budgets and more generous pensions, have state investments that total almost 75 percent more than the 23 red trifectas,” they note.

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 7d

Absolute madness.

Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 7d

This country is barreling head first into something and I think we’re all going to find out what pretty soon.

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 7d

Thank you! Appreciate it .

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 7d

Thank you !

Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 7d

“Unsurprised”
Digital illustration/collage, 2025.

Started working on this yesterday. The expression sums up the lack of surprise I have at everything happening right now. Things will continue to move in the wrong direction until we decide not to allow it.

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 7d

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 7d

And meanwhile, tech companies take turns volunteering their services to shape a digital landscape that serves the whims of the mostly overtly racist administration of my lifetime.

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