Notices by Ericka Simone (erickasimone@mastodon.social)

Everyday I sit around and wonder how a murderer like Travis Scott, a documented abuser like Chris Brown, a gooney fraud like Drake, or a multiple personality disorder having sociopath like Nicki Minaj are allowed to have careers, while the people with actual talent are sidelined. We haven’t even started on rock music.

I don’t know who to blame. The labels that create these monsters, or the absolute fucking idiots that continue to consume the music of people they KNOW are monsters. It’s gross.

WAIT. TAYLOR SWIFT GOT HER MASTERS BACK?

WHAT A FKIN DAY
#music

Let’s make sure we support @radiofreefedi and their amazing ongoing music showcase!
#Music #Musica #MusicFedi #Musicians #musiciansofmastodon

From: @radiofreefedi
https://musician.social/@radiofreefedi/114872666166980989

#ZohranMamdani just showed up at the #RTJ + #WuTangClan concert in #NewYork. My friends, who are backstage handling guest lists, are absolutely losing their minds over this dude. He and his wife are not acting like VIPs. They are in the pit, directly in front, rapping every word. They’re directing him backstage now and my phone won’t stop buzzing with photos and info.

The impact is impressive. The connection to the culture is genuine. I am praying for his success and protection at this point.

So an alliance of 20+ tow truck operators have come together in #LosAngeles. They’re having people follow ICE vehicles around, actively reporting their locations.

As soon as ICE parks their car ANYWHERE, usually improperly… the tow trucks quickly swoop in, tag the ICE vehicle for illegal parking, and tow their cars away as quickly as possible. LAPD is letting it happen, unchallenged.

They’re estimating over 30+ ICE vehicles being towed in the last week alone.

I love LA.
I really do.

@epicdemiologist I’m not trying to be rude, but I do wish you’d shut the fuck up and let people in LA tell you first hand of what they’re seeing happen in LA, along with SEVERAL VIRAL VIDEOS FLOATING AROUND OF IT HAPPENING.

Me, on day three of falling down the rabbit hole of #Gamergate enshittifying the entire internet, and in turn, the universe:

Nah bro… they’re really right and I cannot belieeeeeve it took me this long to put all of this together. I was hyperaware of the fallout from net neutrality being dismantled and stormfront/4chan going unregulated. But this is just…. OMG.

Me realizing the dismantling of #netneutrality, #twitter safety, #facebook moderation, coming of #CambridgeAnalytica and the #Gamergate situation all happened around the same time (2011 - 2015), directly driving the downslide into racism and misogyny on the internet, while realizing the first levels of #deadinternettheory started appearing immediately after:

Me, after reading a superviral post on tikkitytoks that connects the overwhelming shift towards misogyny and red pill content flooding the internet in the last few years directly to the mishandling and drama of #Gamergate, with some tying the fallout from Gamergate directly to the results *of the American election and young white males sliding into nazism:

@skinnylatte OMG WHOS PUPPY

ICE (….or the hired bounty hunters ICE has hired because yeah….) were trying to kidnap civilians around #Bellflower and #Pasadena today.

In Pasadena, a group of people literally followed 3 different ICE trucks around the ENTIRE PASADENA AREA honking their horns and using megaphones to alert EVERYONE to their presence. They did not relent the entire time. They eventually left the area.

In Bellflower, 20 miles south, however… they were not as kind. Thats all I’ll say for that one. lol.

Yesterday, *they* forced one of the world’s most followed #TikTok and #Instagram users (#KhabyLame) to self deport because he flew into Vegas for an event, and his Italian visa was expired by 2 days. So they denied entrance, and gave him the option to immediately self deport. He did.

The kids (under 25) are LIVID. The reaction is intense. Moreso than the reaction to LA. This is going to be the issue that wakes them up to how severe the situation really is.

Wow. Can’t believe there are people who honestly think #LosAngeles is some kind of war zone. Do not engage in that narrative. People who do usually have an agenda, and it’s probably aligned with fascists. It’s also a distraction tactic.

If anything, please be more concerned and aware with how they are treating and handling federal senators and union leaders when they check in on their constituents. Very violent. Very problematic.

Luigi is charged as a terrorist for tagging a CEO, but a man who targeted 3 individuals, including 2 senators, is not charged as a terrorist.

Do you guys see it now? Yet?

@skinnylatte just gonna pop up next to the house and not say hi?!?!

@jonahgibberish anarchists keep misusing anarchism as a way to hide their bloodlust for violence. Meanwhile, no anarchist has a full scale plan to rebuild after anarchy. Focus on them. Not me.

It’s funny. The governor of California doesn’t want military presence. The mayor of LA condemns the use of military in her city. The LAPD chief officer himself is baffled by the fact that the nazi is sending military, and does not want the military here.

Even the protesters are making it clear they have no smoke for LAPD. Only federal and ICE agents playing gestapo.

This is what you voted for because you hate Black women. Wild.

LA Native moment:

The #LosAngeles protests are not occurring in some random spot in DTLA. The protesters are specifically choosing to occupy the legendary Olvera corridor, with Los Angeles, Main and Alameda. These intersections are the birthplace of Los Angeles as a city, where 22 Latino families and 24 diaspora descendants/Afro-Latino families joined to establish El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de Los Ángeles in 1781.

They’re also directly across the freeway from the federal building.

…and this is why the kids were setting them on fire as they were “randomly” driving around or through their protests yesterday. Most people knew this once you read the terms and conditions.

https://gizmodo.com/waymos-driverless-cars-revealed-to-be-narcs-as-cops-use-them-to-probe-crimes-2000590426