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writer/DJ/dad (he/him) 📍 Highland Park, Los Angeles

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sammyroth.bsky.social
More nonprofit local journalism coming to Los Angeles. You love to see it. thelalocal.org/news/welcome...
Welcome to The LA Local: We built this newsroom for you | LA Local
We interviewed hundreds of residents from across Los Angeles County and designed our newsroom to meet your needs.
thelalocal.org
January 14, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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claudiakoerner.bsky.social
The LA Local launched this week to bring more neighborhood-level reporting across LA County.

In two days, we've had two breaking stories with reporters in the field, tracking down details of ICE raids.

thelalocal.org/neighborhood...
2 workers arrested in apparent ICE raid outside Inglewood grocery store | LA Local
An Inglewood public works inspector told The LA Local the men had been working on a city drain system project when they were taken by masked men wearing clothes with ICE markings.
thelalocal.org
January 13, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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amandasmith.bsky.social
I am incredible parallel Parker because of a Zits comic strip I cut out of the LA Times and taped to my bedroom wall that had step by step instructions and I wish I were joking about this
maxread.info Max Read @maxread.info · 11h
why did so many millennials read so many newspaper comics? easily 60 percent of my reading diet in elementary/middle school was collected editions of calvin and hobbes, farside, dilbert, peanuts, doonesbury (!), foxtrot (?!?) and i know im not alone. historically unique phenomenon
markpopham.bsky.social good hyuck, babe! @markpopham.bsky.social · 12h
rather than talk about Scott Adams I want to talk about something weirder (me). Who else was really into Dilbert when you were 12. Who else was like, boy, I can't wait to work a cubicle job
January 13, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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You can tell they keep hastily updating it as more people quit because of the extra trailing space after "Six" (when I saw it earlier it was four)
January 13, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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prezoh.bsky.social
"bluesky is boring" then youre a fake ass poster. youre not supposed to mindlessly scroll youre supposed to post your every thought for the five people who care about u
January 13, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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I found this surprisingly inspiring. Most of my intrusive thoughts are worded as Nicki verse fragments too
jpbrammer.bsky.social JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 1d
I wrote about MAGA Minaj from the perspective of a Barb (a condition for which there is lamentably no known cure) johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/a-mf-monster
A MF MONSTER
Thoughts on MAGA Minaj from a Barb in recovery
johnpaulbrammer.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:14 PM
samgavin.com
Once again listening to BEACH HOUSE 3 and mourning lost possibilities
January 13, 2026 at 4:36 PM
samgavin.com
I will say nothing makes me feel older and less successful than when guys I went to school with reach new heights in their careers while mine stagnates
nba.com NBA @nba.com · 21h
Congrats to James Harden of the Clippers for moving up to 9th on the all-time SCORING list!
January 13, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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I swear to god I give my heart to ONE k-pop group and they just drag it through the mud
January 13, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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ktla.com
Federal agents targeting L.A. street vendors, immigrants' rights advocates say
Federal agents targeting L.A. street vendors, immigrants’ rights advocates say
Community members in Los Angeles are on edge after what appeared to be federal immigration officers targeting street vendors Monday morning.   A coalition of immigrants’ rights …
ktla.com
January 13, 2026 at 7:00 AM
samgavin.com
every time
ham net
January 12, 2026 at 9:49 PM
samgavin.com
SEATED in a movie theater in Northern Virginia, obviously
audrelawdamercy.bsky.social Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d
semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003

when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out
January 12, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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Going with Prolapse by process of elimination and also because it's really funny to see their name next to the other ones here
January 12, 2026 at 7:39 PM
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Three tracks that I would not have chosen to represent their excellent albums, and also Lola Young is here again. Judged on their own merits I'm going Sudan Archives.
January 12, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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These days I'm rarely proud to be an American but at least I'm not regularly forced to acknowledge the existence of Wolf Alice. Sombr is Benson Boone with a distortion filter and a better haircut. CMAT still not for me. Wednesday guitars sound good?
January 12, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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If I must pick a guitar song it will be Electric Rime
January 12, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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Tshegue song hits for me, others not so much. Anitta is a heavy hitter to be seeded this far down imo
January 12, 2026 at 6:02 PM
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I don't really like any of these, which is kind of a bummer since a lot of people I respect do like these artists, and I've enjoyed NBT's other work on balance. Going with Nina for overall production vibes although I cannoy identify with her lyrical sentiment at all
January 12, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Sometimes I search "Jane Remover AAVE" just to see what shows up. I like the other two especially the Fergie sample flip but Kim is my fav here.
January 12, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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I don't like Geese because they synthesize so many eras of "indie rock" of which I am a grizzled, unwilling veteran and they cherry-picked my least favorite elements from each. Confirming I have to vote for Bon Fuckin Iver here
January 12, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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I was okay with it having been 20 years since 2005. That was fine. 20 years since 2006 seems foul, even perverted
January 12, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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Has anyone done a comparison of young actors in old-age makeup with their actual selves late in life?
January 12, 2026 at 6:24 AM
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tape.bsky.social
got a job at the unsalted butter factory, shits hard as fuck picking out all the little grains of salt from the slippery ass butter but im fucking amazing at it
January 12, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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awalkerinla.bsky.social
One of the best stories written in the wake of last year's fires was by @sammyroth.bsky.social, titled: “Los Angeles is a climate disaster. The fires will change nothing.”

Glad to see him follow up with this very correct assessment that absolutely nothing has changed
I was right. The L.A. fires changed nothing
A year after Altadena and Pacific Palisades burned, "climate change" has exited the chat.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
January 11, 2026 at 5:38 PM
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I love the city of Chicago
January 11, 2026 at 4:37 AM