Damien Newton
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Damien Newton
@DamienTypes
Former editor of @StreetsblogLA, journalist and consultant to non-profits. Winner of journalism awards from @lapressclub (2012, 2018), @spjla (2013). he/him.

@DamienTypes THIS. 😭



It’s cool to see the mayor highlighting transit signal priority—something I started working on as a college student with VM Foley. Making transit faster so people actually want to ride it will always be better than making it free without improving service.




THIS. #WorldBaseballClassic




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 honour a global icon revered by the very Black South Africans the apartheid state sought to crush and erase. He is here to honour a leader who came to South Africa, who walked the dusty streets of our townships alongside our parents and grandparents, and who gave moral courage to a struggle the world once tried to ignore. Ramaphosa is here to offer comfort and respect to @rep_jackson and the Jackson family who shared this extraordinary man with South Africa over many decades! You do not get to impose your politics on our history. Not today! President Ramaphosa will leave Chicago tomorrow and travel to Brazil on official business. You, meanwhile, can enjoy YOUR freedom to drop bombs across the world.


The Olympics aren’t for you. Check out the first video in our series about the greedy elites behind LA28.

BREAKING: Mamdani says he won’t ban snowball fights despite cops getting pelted with the frosty orbs in Wash Sq Park on Monday.



It never ends. Imagine if the mainstream media actually spent even a few minutes looking into any of these things???









