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For the last 5 years, LAPD has received 3x the budget of LAFD.
The department that coordinates these incredible emergency responses, the Emergency Management Department, gets about $4million - less than .1% of LAPD’s budget.
When you talk to people offline about these fires, drop that in.
The department that coordinates these incredible emergency responses, the Emergency Management Department, gets about $4million - less than .1% of LAPD’s budget.
When you talk to people offline about these fires, drop that in.
January 9, 2025 at 6:14 AM
For the last 5 years, LAPD has received 3x the budget of LAFD.
The department that coordinates these incredible emergency responses, the Emergency Management Department, gets about $4million - less than .1% of LAPD’s budget.
When you talk to people offline about these fires, drop that in.
The department that coordinates these incredible emergency responses, the Emergency Management Department, gets about $4million - less than .1% of LAPD’s budget.
When you talk to people offline about these fires, drop that in.
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Hate when you're trying to discuss serious ideas, like re how eliminating the value form negates the negation of man's alienation from species-being, and dullards interrupt with shallow objections, like "why wouldn't bureaucrats who control everything just rule in their own interest?" Read a book 🙄
January 9, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Hate when you're trying to discuss serious ideas, like re how eliminating the value form negates the negation of man's alienation from species-being, and dullards interrupt with shallow objections, like "why wouldn't bureaucrats who control everything just rule in their own interest?" Read a book 🙄
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it's weird that people are homicidally angry at corporate America when a CEO hired four months ago fires the entire workforce of a 40-year-old company five days before Christmas with no severance and no benefits www.cnn.com/2024/12/20/b...
December 20, 2024 at 6:44 PM
it's weird that people are homicidally angry at corporate America when a CEO hired four months ago fires the entire workforce of a 40-year-old company five days before Christmas with no severance and no benefits www.cnn.com/2024/12/20/b...
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This isn't news to anybody, but I hadn't seen this until now and he really is just an evil person. Absolute piece of shit. Not sure what exact language is bannable here, but he should do something to himself.
December 12, 2024 at 3:23 AM
This isn't news to anybody, but I hadn't seen this until now and he really is just an evil person. Absolute piece of shit. Not sure what exact language is bannable here, but he should do something to himself.
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feel like cyberpunk has had its day. It’s time for cybercrossover and cyberpowerviolence to get the spotlight
December 12, 2024 at 7:42 AM
feel like cyberpunk has had its day. It’s time for cybercrossover and cyberpowerviolence to get the spotlight
@giftedgab.bsky.social welcome, Gab!
November 27, 2024 at 3:27 AM
@giftedgab.bsky.social welcome, Gab!
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So…upon further review, it appears that Pod
*gestures wildly at the smoldering wreckage of the Democratic Party*
Did Not Save America
*gestures wildly at the smoldering wreckage of the Democratic Party*
Did Not Save America
November 27, 2024 at 1:18 AM
So…upon further review, it appears that Pod
*gestures wildly at the smoldering wreckage of the Democratic Party*
Did Not Save America
*gestures wildly at the smoldering wreckage of the Democratic Party*
Did Not Save America
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Inside Red Onion State Prison, a supermax prison in Virginia, the conditions of solitary confinement are so torturous that at least three Black prisoners have set themselves on fire to get transferred to other facilities which have burn wards.
virginiadefender.org/2024/11/09/c...
virginiadefender.org/2024/11/09/c...
Crisis & Cover-up at Red Onion Super-Max
In May 2023, an inmate at Red Onion Super-Max set himself on fire in order to be transferred out of the institution where he feared for his life. At least two more men have taken the same desperate…
virginiadefender.org
November 25, 2024 at 2:52 AM
Inside Red Onion State Prison, a supermax prison in Virginia, the conditions of solitary confinement are so torturous that at least three Black prisoners have set themselves on fire to get transferred to other facilities which have burn wards.
virginiadefender.org/2024/11/09/c...
virginiadefender.org/2024/11/09/c...
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Try as Nancy Pelosi might to spin things otherwise, it is hard to deny that the Democrats are out of touch. @maxkiefel.bsky.social offers one way forward for the party: dump the consultant class and rebuild—from the bottom up.
The Consultant Con | Max Kiefel
Democrats need to dump the consultants and rebuild the party—from the bottom up.
thebaffler.com
November 25, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Try as Nancy Pelosi might to spin things otherwise, it is hard to deny that the Democrats are out of touch. @maxkiefel.bsky.social offers one way forward for the party: dump the consultant class and rebuild—from the bottom up.
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There's a weird unspoken capitalist rule that says we're only supposed to promote "new" stuff, but I think my book from last fall—The Age of Insecurity—has a lot to say about where we are/how we got here. You can listen to a slightly abridged version of it here for free:
www.cbc.ca/radiointerac...
www.cbc.ca/radiointerac...
www.cbc.ca
November 24, 2024 at 2:11 PM
There's a weird unspoken capitalist rule that says we're only supposed to promote "new" stuff, but I think my book from last fall—The Age of Insecurity—has a lot to say about where we are/how we got here. You can listen to a slightly abridged version of it here for free:
www.cbc.ca/radiointerac...
www.cbc.ca/radiointerac...
"red onion state prison" is worth a search or two.
November 25, 2024 at 1:37 PM
"red onion state prison" is worth a search or two.
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The Age of Insecurity
I found it! looking into see if I can find the original source of the data:
November 25, 2024 at 12:37 PM
The Age of Insecurity
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Migrants are dying in their thousands at the southern border, with women and children increasingly among those who perish.
www.newsweek.com/border-migra...
www.newsweek.com/border-migra...
Revealed: Deadliest Stretch of US-Mexico Border
Migrants are dying in their thousands at the southern border, with women and children increasingly among those who perish.
www.newsweek.com
November 25, 2024 at 12:01 PM
Migrants are dying in their thousands at the southern border, with women and children increasingly among those who perish.
www.newsweek.com/border-migra...
www.newsweek.com/border-migra...
Asked how I planned "to help rebuild the Democratic Party," my response addressed an end to corporate influence and a new Leftist ideology centering constituents' material needs.
After today's Harris fundraising letter, I'd have said, raze it to the ground and salt the earth so nothing can grow.
After today's Harris fundraising letter, I'd have said, raze it to the ground and salt the earth so nothing can grow.
November 25, 2024 at 5:59 AM
Asked how I planned "to help rebuild the Democratic Party," my response addressed an end to corporate influence and a new Leftist ideology centering constituents' material needs.
After today's Harris fundraising letter, I'd have said, raze it to the ground and salt the earth so nothing can grow.
After today's Harris fundraising letter, I'd have said, raze it to the ground and salt the earth so nothing can grow.
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Well, David Axelrod is cooked.
How is this not a sick joke?
thehill.com/homenews/cam...
thehill.com/homenews/cam...
Axelrod pushes for Rahm Emanuel as DNC chair
Democratic strategist David Axelrod pushed for U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel to become the new chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). “If they said, ‘Well, what should we do? Who…
thehill.com
November 14, 2024 at 4:37 AM
Well, David Axelrod is cooked.
Reposted by Jon Burke
Bluesky could use a little more Diarrhea Plane.
September 6, 2023 at 12:12 PM
Bluesky could use a little more Diarrhea Plane.
Reposted by Jon Burke
"the climate troll routine: bad faith accusations of scientific impropriety so as to set himself up as the wounded victim of left-wing intolerance." theweek.com/articles/695...
The New York Times' staggering own goal on climate change
Why did the paper of record hire a climate denier and then let him write a smarmy, illogical defense of his views?
theweek.com
September 6, 2023 at 11:00 AM
"the climate troll routine: bad faith accusations of scientific impropriety so as to set himself up as the wounded victim of left-wing intolerance." theweek.com/articles/695...
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🚨INVESTIGATION: How Warren Buffett's son took over a mid-sized city & imposed his personal law enforcement ideology on it, ultimately getting himself appointed sheriff.
Incredible reporting on the real-life experience of billionaire rule in America.
Incredible reporting on the real-life experience of billionaire rule in America.
American Oligarchy
How Warren Buffett’s billionaire son took over a U.S. city and made it his personal playground.
www.levernews.com
September 5, 2023 at 3:20 PM
🚨INVESTIGATION: How Warren Buffett's son took over a mid-sized city & imposed his personal law enforcement ideology on it, ultimately getting himself appointed sheriff.
Incredible reporting on the real-life experience of billionaire rule in America.
Incredible reporting on the real-life experience of billionaire rule in America.
My daughter picked up this library book of traditional nursery rhymes, and despite being a man in his 40s, I can't read this without laughing.
September 5, 2023 at 1:11 PM
My daughter picked up this library book of traditional nursery rhymes, and despite being a man in his 40s, I can't read this without laughing.
Grillin' it up on Labor Day. 🌭 🌭 🔨 🛠 ⚒️ 🍔 🍔 🍔
September 4, 2023 at 9:17 PM
Grillin' it up on Labor Day. 🌭 🌭 🔨 🛠 ⚒️ 🍔 🍔 🍔