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Who owns the soundstage?
We won the contract and are losing the building
Jul 26
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Chad Shields
"You will never see socialism in Beverly Hills"
The first entry in Common Sense, on the most successful program of collective provision in California.
Jul 20
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Chad Shields
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Common Sense
On the first hostile comment, and the start of a series.
Jul 17
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Chad Shields
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The Fence Goes Up First
What a camera on one Historic Filipinotown street says about who governs Los Angeles.
Jul 14
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Chad Shields
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The Council Sent the Reforms to Committee. We Should Take Them to the Voters.
On June 30 the Council referred two reforms to committee rather than place them on the ballot. Voters do not need its permission to amend their own…
Jul 4
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Chad Shields
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June 2026
The Refuge and the Return
Notes from Torre Pellice, where sanctuary was never safety.
Jun 23
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Chad Shields
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Planned Walls
Measure ULA, HACLA, and what a billion dollars can buy
Jun 15
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Chad Shields
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The Buttons They Handed to Schoolchildren
On a passage from The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
Jun 10
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Chad Shields
Fourteen to Zero
On pretextual stops (Council File 20-0875) and the structural ceiling of police reform in Los Angeles
Jun 4
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Chad Shields
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The Colonized Horizon - #3
Why do we dream in the language of capital?
Jun 1
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Chad Shields
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May 2026
From the Body to the Horizon
A note from inside the next essay
May 25
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Chad Shields
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The Body Politic - #2
On belonging, and the socialist city we have not yet learned to inhabit
May 22
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Chad Shields
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