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Shot On 35mm @shoton35mm.bsky.social · 22h

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

L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 1d

“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 · 23h

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 · 1d

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 1d

“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 · 2d

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 · 2d

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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 · 3d

Absolute madness.

Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 3d

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 · 3d

Thank you! Appreciate it .

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 3d

Thank you !

Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 3d

“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 · 3d

In case this site is headed towards “success” by disregarding the communities that made it relevant…

If you enjoy my artwork and perspective, I have a dope newsletter that’s both free & awesome (ok, I’m biased). Here’s my latest, subscribe to get full access.

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 3d

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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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 3d

Dem messaging is based on the “economic anxieties” of people that don’t vote for them while the media doesn’t cover the daily atrocities in our largest cities.

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 3d

Wild how it’s inconceivable to both elected officials and mainstream media that I might care about the economy AND not want apartments ransacked with no cause (or warrant or people kidnapped by the government off the streets.

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 5d

New PROCSSS newsletter

“In an age of AI slop and the general devaluation of images as evidence of historical fact, it's more important than ever to document what's real.”

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Saturday Nights

A special gathering in Los Angeles + Recent Photographs/Artwork

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 5d

That would have been incredible to work on!

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 6d

“Four children who are U.S. citizens were taken into custody amid the operation at the apartment complex on Tuesday until they could be placed in the care of guardians or the state, the DHS spokesperson said.”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 6d

Senior citizen Rodrick Johnson “was among the US residents who were detained by federal agents during the South Shore raid … He told the outlet agents broke through his door, dragged him out in zip ties and left him tied up outside the building for nearly three hours before he was released.”

Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 6d

“She said she witnessed agents dragging residents, including children — some naked or improperly clothed — out of the building and into U-Haul vans. Children were separated from their mothers, she said.” people.com/ice-agents-o...

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 6d

Don’t believe the trolls, MANY of us knew this was our fight from the start.

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Kwasi B. @nonstndrd.com · 6d

What if I told you that ALL social media platforms are bad. There are no heroes, only opportunists.

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 6d

“We must understand that the unchecked expansion of ICE has given rise to further abuses of power, including the use of military personnel as a way to police American cities led by Black Democrats.”

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