Los Angeles tells city to 'Ride the D'

Wet Leg love the big D Line in "Chaise Longue" and chase it

I love riding the D! Just look at me.

It's a moral outrage. Who is running the marketing department for the City of LA? "Ride the D, Ride the D," it's everywhere. There's a double entendre in there, as if they aim to drain the main vein or choke a lizard. The "D" is the new D Line, of course, but some school-age kids might think it refers to a real Richard Johnson.

The Metro is the new partially underground way of getting around the west coast megalopolis, Earthquake Town. As we continue to await "The Big One," which we have been waiting for for the past 30 years since the last time they re-announced it's another 30 years, but it's coming. It's coming. And there's no need to ever ask after every temblor, "Is this the Big One?" Why?

Unisex hoodie, sexy crop top (shorts not included)

It's because when it's the Big One, you'll it's the Big One, because you won't have to ask, "Is this the Big One." Your certainty will obviate the question. Lately, Netflix is a Joke has taken over every venue in the city, even far off post-fire Altadena, at the Eagle Lodge on Woodbury.

Section 1 of the D Line Extension is a historic moment bringing rail transit for the first time to a part of Los Angeles' Miracle Mile on Wilshire Blvd. Commemorate this LA transit milestone with a comfy and stylish "Ride the D" dad hat to look like a real D Head! A classic dad hat never goes out of style—made of 100% organic cotton.

LA wants us to "ride the D"?

Who knew mass marketing worked so well?

Last week the Los Angeles Metro announced three long awaited subway stations on the D Line. The video has over 1M views across platforms. An hour after posting, the team quickly followed up with merch to celebrate, a shirt that simply reads “Ride the D.”

They did a full year’s worth of sales in under 24 hours. The design made it onto Late Night with Seth Meyers. They couldn’t have predicted one piece of merch could become this big of a moment.

We can't hardly wait for hardy May Eight!

When working in social, one is often asked to see the future. What format will break through? How can we get this to go viral? The truth is, even the best social teams surprise themselves.

Jane Ashley, who leads the social media strategy at LA Metro, told me: “We didn't anticipate that the announcement post would be completely eclipsed by something we barely officially promoted.” That’s the fun of working in this industry:

• LA Metro wants us to ride the D (Rachel Karten)
• Ride The D Crop Top – Metro Shop
• Ride the D? Reddit - the heart of the internet

Tartaria's grand stations, early buildings

WATCH: (Tartaria Vault) Tartaria's train stations that shouldn't exist way back in the 1800s

• (Tartaria Vault) Buildings not built when they say

Tartaria's trains shouldn't exist in 1800s

(Tartaria Vault) Jan. 16, 2026: #tartaria #hiddenhistory #oldworld Why do hundreds of grand railroad stations—across America, Europe, Russia, and Asia—display the same architectural impossibility:

• cathedral-scale halls,
• ornate copper roofing,
• electrical infrastructure built into their foundations, and
• heating systems that could warm spaces measuring hundreds of thousands of cubic feet, all supposedly powered by coal and steam?

Who built these heavenly cathedrals?

Archival photographs from the 1880s onward show these structures operating with pristine interiors and advanced climate control, with no documentation of the massive fuel consumption, boiler systems, or coal delivery infrastructure that would have been required to power such monumental buildings using 19th-century technology.

As I examined construction records, electrical consumption data, and architectural plans from the 1800s, a repeating pattern emerged: identical terminal designs appearing across six continents within decades, electrical conduit systems built before electricity was commercially available, and a suspicious absence of technical documentation explaining how these systems actually functioned.

These weren't simple train platforms—rather, they were power distribution hubs featuring towers that weren't decorative, copper elements that weren't ornamental, and foundation systems that suggest grounding rather than structural support, all constructed during the exact period when railroad time replaced natural time across the planet.

 

The ruins of Atlantis?

This investigation explores the forbidden energy theory—that railroad stations were nodes in a global power distribution network utilizing the rails themselves as conductors, drawing on advanced energy systems we no longer acknowledge, and serving purposes far beyond passenger transportation.

The deeper we examine the architectural evidence, the global coordination problem, and the technological impossibilities, the harder it becomes to believe these were simply monuments to industrial achievement rather than inherited infrastructure repurposed after original knowledge was lost or deliberately erased.

The material on this channel presents exploratory interpretations of history and imaginative speculation, conveyed through narrative storytelling rather than precise historical documentation.

NOTE: Viewpoints and visual representations are dramatized or intentionally constructed to support alternative narrative exploration. Visual elements may at times be created using automated or generative tools. The content shared should not be considered factual. #tartaria #forbiddenenergy #railroadmystery #hiddenhistory #oldworld #lostcivilization #architecture #energynetwork

Two new eagles have landed: Big Bear

Morning zoo's Ally Johnson and Kevin Klein feed each other for attention (kroq.com)

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We're just a national symbol, relax

Jackie and Shadow are the second and third most famous eagles in the country, only behind the nation's Nazi-like insignia. See Uncle Baldy on the top of flagstaffs and elsewhere. But for the parents of cute chicks, see the Friends of Big Bear Valley cam above the lake: Big Bear Bald Eagle Nest 2025 | Friends of Big Bear Valley. We have other charismatic megafauna, like bears for example. bigbeargrizzly.net | Big Bear Grizzly. Those interested may also like to see a long train ride in Norway (live), where it is currently snowing.

• Xochitl, Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The super train that can save Mexico (video)

Top Luxury, 2/17/24; Crystal Quintero, CC Liu, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Cuba's grown to be larger than Florida (Mandela Effect or geopolitical map making?)

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Mexico’s $4.5 billion Panama Canal rival

Can commerce remake economy?

(Top Luxury) The Panama Canal has powered global trade for over 100 years. There's no better way to transport goods from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific — but maybe, that's about to change.

• Spectacular eruption of Popocatepetl Volcano unleashes massive ash plume on Mexico City

Mexico is about to open a new project: the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. But what is this thing? And will it replace the Panama Canal?

• 0:00 Mexico’s $4.5BN New Panama Canal
• 0:27 The Panama Canal
• 4:35 The Tren Interoceánico
• 7:25 Mexico's New Rail Line
• 10:58 What happens to the Panama Canal?

Look at the size of North America, up from Mexico to Canada, Alaska, and the Bering Straits.

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Mexico: Lost Mayan city discovered in jungle

Alia Shoaib, Business Insider (businessinsider.com/), June 25, 2023; Crystal Quintero, Pfc. Sandoval, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Mexico's INAH teamed up with the University of Houston to make a startling discovery.

What will the Mexico's Ocomtun look like when it's restored? Mexico's INAH discovered this lost Mayan city in Balamku ecological reserve in Campeche, Mexico on June 20, 2023 (WQ).

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Lost ancient Mayan city discovered in the dense, remote jungle of Mexico by archaeologists

Archaeologists have discovered the remains of an ancient Mayan city in Mexico. The site is sprawling and had several pyramid-like structures measuring around five stories tall.

Mexico is rich in history and lore

Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) discovered an ancient Mayan city inside the Balamku Ecological Reserve in Campeche state, Mexico on June 20, 2023.

The lead researcher said that it must have been an important site between 250 AD and 1000 AD.

Deep in the jungles of Mexico, the previously unknown village was discovered in the Yucatán Peninsula by a team from the Archeology Council of the INAH.

White Latina (Ginger) jests with her Mexican mom

Post-Mayan culture lives on today, alongside Aztec customs, in modern Mexico and the USA.

Mexican pyramid: The Castle or Temple of Kukulkan (Chichén Itzá, México, wiki)

The site has several pyramid-like structures. measuring around 50 feet in height, Mexico's INAH said.

The site must have been an important center of the Central Lowlands during the Classic period dating back between 250 AD and 1000 AD, researchers said, based on ceramic collected from the site.

• [EDITORIAL NOTE: There are amazing and remarkable similarities between Mexican Buddhist (see Rick Fields' A Narrative History of Buddhism in America) archeological sites prior to Columbus and the arrival of European Christianity/Catholicism and Buddhist/Hindu archeological sites like Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, and others in the jungles of Cambodia near Siem Reap. Both jungles are the source of monolithic new discoveries every few years thanks in large part to LiDAR and growing scientific interest.]
• Ancient Maya masons had a smart way to make plaster stronger (msn.com) An ancient Maya city might seem an unlikely place for people to be experimenting with proprietary chemicals, but scientists think that’s exactly what happened at Copán, an archaeological complex nestled in Mesoamerica, in a valley in the mountainous rainforests of what is now western Honduras (just below Mexico).
• Impressive facts about the pre-Mexican Aztec Empire
• VIDEO: Scientists finally cracked the code of the Mayan Calendar (Dailymotion)

Mayan Calendar was more advanced than this later Aztec one.

Led by archeologist Ivan Sprajc, the team undertook a 60km (roughly 37 mile) journey through the dense vegetation of the Balamkú ecological reserve in Campeche state.

"The biggest surprise turned out to be the site located on a 'peninsula' on high ground, surrounded by extensive wetlands," Ṡprajc said in a statement. "Its monumental nucleus covers more than 50 hectares and has various large buildings, including several pyramidal structures over 15 meters [50 feet] high."

The cylindrical columns are believed to be entrances to the upper rooms. The researchers named the site Ocomtún, meaning "stone column" in the Mayan language.

"It is possible that they are markets or spaces destined for community rituals, but only future research will shed light on the functions of these groups, which represent a regional peculiarity," Sprajc said.

Sprajc said that the site most likely underwent changes between 800 and 1000 AD and then experienced the collapse of the Lowland Maya civilization in the 10th century.

Mexico's INAH also said that the discovery was made partly through airborne laser scanning carried out by the University of Houston, which helped locate the site in an area spanning 3,000 square km (roughly 1158 square miles) of the uninhabited jungle.

Now a train will ruin it all, collapsing caverns

The Maya are considered to have been one of the most advanced civilizations in the Western hemisphere before the arrival of European settlers enslavers, invaders, and violent occupiers.

They lived in an area that now encompasses parts of modern Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize and were known for their impressive architecture, love of ball games [including a game that was a mix of soccer (futbol) and basketball], advanced calendar systems, writing, and mathematics. Source

If the earth is a globe, then why...? (video)

Eric Dubay Flat Earth Videos (rumble.com); Eds., Wisdom Quarterly

(Eric Dubay’s Flat Earth) July 2022. Eric Dubay: Surveyors, engineers, pilots, and sailors expose the flat earth. Here's how. And how can Ushuaia, Argentina, get 17 hours of daylight on a flat earth? This, too, is explained. #FlatEarth #Firmament

In toxic train wreck East Palestine, Ohio

We went to East Palestine: What we saw may shock you

(More Perfect Union) March 9, 2023. We went down to East Palestine for a week to get residents’ side of the story after the Ohio rail disaster. People told us they’re getting sick and their pets are dying, while Norfolk Southern is trying to cover it up. The Holler | @heyjohnrussell reports.

ABOUT: More Perfect Union is a new nonprofit media organization with a mission to empower working people. Learn more: perfectunion.us. Follow on Twitter: twitter.com/MorePerfectUS, instagram.com/perfectunion, facebook.com/MorePerfUnion. 

Ohio train crash: Erin Brockovich is on it

Erin Brockovich, WBNS 10TV, 3/2/23; Jim Dore; Crystal Q., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Erin Brockovich answers every question about Erin Brockovich (vulture.com)

• Another train derails in Ohio, month after East Palestine wreck
• East Palestine train derailment mirrors Clark County train derailment
• VIDEO: Norfolk Southern train derails in Springfield, Ohio today

Erin Brockovich in East Palestine, Ohio: "Something is not right here"

Erin Brockovich (2000)

(WBNS 10TV) Activist Erin "Distracting Boobs" Brockovich says she is upset after speaking with residents in East Palestine, Ohio. Where's Julia Roberts to make another movie about the series of train crashes and toxic chemical releases in the Rust Belt/Frost Belt of old-time train lines? Well water is polluted, the air is polluted, fish and land animals are dead, people are suffering, and the government is mostly looking the other way. Pete Buttigieg wouldn't come until he was shamed into showing up. The train companies were afraid to go anywhere near the toxic crash site.

(ABC News) There was a real-life Erin played by Best Actress Julia Roberts

COMMENTARY

Capitalism is the best form of destroying the environment. "Who will pay for it?" we ask. Lawsuits will make sure someone profits. The "forever chemicals" ensure that life on the surface of the planet will suffer. What if we inject the contaminated water deep into the ground?! That way it will affect people we'll never meet, generations from now. It's not like we're Buddhists or Native Americans worried about people seven generations out.

Who's Erin Brockovich?

How to know the future ahead of time (video)

Ashley Wells and Dhr. Seven, Wisdom Quarterly; Spike (indra.com/8ball); Boomtown Rats

PegasusProject.net

Some people say there's no such thing as time travel. They say this while swiftly traveling into the future. Look at the "future." It's unfurling all around us. Sometimes the past reveals it's not over; it's still with us affecting things. Karma (personal "action" with the power to bring about subsequent fruits and results, phala and vipaka, in the future) is like that. There probably is no such thing as time in an objective sense. But there certainly is in a subjective sense. We're running out of time "Like Clockwork," according to Bob Geldof.

So we need to know this future we're heading into. Enter, the Magic 8-Ball. Thanks to Spike it's now digital for everyone's convenience. There are other ways to know: work with Dr. Bruce Goldberg, the hippest hypnotist around; stand next to future President Andrew D. Basiago, Esq.; get to know the devas (lit. "shining ones") on higher planes of existence where time is different enough that they can easily see our future coming, or meditate. Meditation reveals all, as we gain powers that make unseen devas (divinities, other-dimensionals) visible. Of course, we could just spin the Magic 8-Ball to divine the future while we're waiting.

Get to or from LAX for only $5 (instructions)

LA-electric-travel.com/LAX-via-Metro-Rail; Shoestring Travel Editors, Wisdom Quarterly

Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is L.A.'s biggest airport, one of the most used in the U.S.

It is far from many miles from most destinations, because L.A. is not really a city. It is an enormous megalopolis of about 50 cities and countless neighborhoods.

So people spend a lot on taxis (the worst choice), Uber and Lyft (convenient but overpriced choices), limousines (vans), and rides from friends and family. No public transportation was built all the way to the airport -- but this is all right because there is a cheap way to get to and from the airport.

• Arriving to LA from LAX via Metro train
• Departing from LA to LAX via Metro train

In fact, there are three transportation options to get to and from LAX Airport into your destination in the city.

• CHEAP: all Metro Rail (costs $1.50, $3.00, or $4.50)
• REASONABLE: The FlyAway Bus and Metro Rail $8.50 
• EXPENSIVE: private taxi cab $45 and up.

How to get into L.A. using Metro Rail

Come see the walled off Hollywood star of TV star Donald Trump. No foreigners.

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TRAIN: Getting into town from LAX via Metro Rail is very cheap. BUT it requires a free shuttle bus ride (5:00 AM to midnight) and changing Metro trains.

However, the change of trains is a good thing because once you're connected to the Metro rail system, you have easy access to explore the many diverse neighborhoods in the Los Angeles area, which include:

• Hollywood
• Beverly Hills
• Santa Monica/Venice
• other beaches
• Pasadena
• The Valley
• Long Beach (next to OC)
• Downtown L.A.
• Hsi Lai Temple, Hacienda Heights

For additional information on things to do or seeing Los Angeles by rail, go to LA Adventures: Eclectic Day Trips by Metro Rail through Los Angeles and Beyond.

Overview: Go cheap by Metro train

Take the FREE Green Line... More

• What is there to do in Los Angeles? (LAist.com)

Railroad ruins Thoreau's "Walden Pond" (audio)

Prof. Laura Dassow Walls, Host Mitch Jeserich (Letters & Politics, May 24, 2018, KPFA.org, Berkeley); Crystal Quintero, Dhr. Seven, Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

You could buy anything in the good ol' US of A. Negroes, need Negroes? Auction block.

We restored the trees and forests around Walden Pond, Mass. (Walden Pond Project)

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Laura Dassow Walls, author of Henry David Thoreau: A Life, talks about nonviolent Henry David Thoreau’s work on Civil Disobedience during the Walden Years.

Why would he, in apparent contradiction to nonviolence, support abolitionist (pro-abolition of slavery) John Brown’s armed raid on Harper’s Ferry?

Thoreau witnessed the disastrous coming of the railroad through Walden Pond, Massachusetts, the wiping out of the Native Americans, United States' deforestation, and the Industrial Age. More + AUDIO

Slaves revolt

US Marines enforce slavery, attack John Brown

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry was an anti-slavery movement effort in the U.S. Abolitionist John Brown tried to initiate a slave revolt in 1859 by taking over a U.S. arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

But Brown's valiant party of 22 was defeated by a company of U.S. Marines, led by First Lieutenant Israel... More

Photos in the Library of Congress are evidence of the USA's genocide of Native Americans

• GUEST: Laura Dassow Walls is the Willliam P. and Hazel B. White professor of English graduate program in history and philosophy of science at Notre Dame University.

☿ Liberation: Ireland's Condom Train (video)

TheJournal.ie; Dhr. Seven, Crystal Quintero, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

The Contraceptive Train ran on May 22, 1971. Feminists from the Irish Women's Liberation Movement bought condoms, spermicidal jelly, and aspirin (in place of the pill) to give out.

The Condom Train incident

What's the big fuss then? Ya eat these?

There is a new tribute to the 1971 Contraceptive Train, which changed Ireland's sexual landscape forever: a musical has been written about the Irish women's movement.

One Saturday morning in May 1971, 49 Irish women changed the social landscape of Ireland when they took a train from Belfast to Dublin.

Archive @irishtimes pic of Contraceptive Train in 1971. Mairin Johnston made the iconic IWLM banner in her kitchen! pic.twitter.com/ZJEk7vz8ll— Rough Magic (@RoughMagicIRL) Sept. 19, 2015 Source: Rough Magic/Twitter

Power to ♀☿ of the world!

The women were part of the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement, and they made news all over the world when they brought condoms down from Northern Ireland [UK], while contraception was illegal in the Republic [of Ireland].

It was a landmark moment in the Irish women’s movement, which became known as the contraceptive train. The story is being brought to the stage next month in the form of a musical, The Train. 

• The Contraceptive Train on Track for Abbey Theatre! Critically acclaimed musical "The Train" inspired by true story
  

Beginning split between Church and State

We could use more condoms in U.S.

While contraception was available in the North, the women couldn’t get their hands on the pill on the trip as they didn’t have a prescription, so they bought large amounts of condoms.

 

They also decided to buy hundreds of aspirin tablets [to mimic the pill] and publicly swallowed them at the station, as customs officials wouldn’t immediately know the difference.

 

India still won't allow saucy condom ads.

Director of The Train and Rough Magic Artistic Director Lynne Parker said, “The IWLM and The Contraceptive Train marked the beginning of the split between Church and State -- a schism that is ongoing.” More

Hey, YOU, prevent pregnancy with easy contraception. Sign banned in U.S. and Ireland.

• Ireland must remove the shackles from its women (CNN 2018) In 1971, 47 years ago, a group of Irish feminists boarded a train to and from Belfast, Northern Ireland (part of UK) so they could buy condoms, which were not available in the [South of the island known as the] Republic of Ireland.
• The "Contraceptive Train" spawns musical (The Irish Times)
• "By getting on that train, a group of brave women made the Catholic Church and the Irish state look ridiculous"
  
• RTÉ Archives: Condom Train and Women in the Media Journalist Nell McCafferty and broadcaster Marian Finucane reminisce about the 1971 condom train.



When God Was a Woman

• “A Basic Issue of Women's Liberation”: The Feminist This event, which became known as the “Contraceptive Train” or “Condom Train,” highlighted the hypocrisy of Ireland's laws on contraception. 
• Mary Kenny, a women's liberator (spiked-online.com) The one-time feminist firebrand talks to the spiked review about her...known as the "condom train" – an attempt to challenge Ireland's rigid...