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From ballot initiatives to local elections. ⤵️

submitted 57 days ago • 3 comments

All this talk of a new “Golden Age” feels really icky. Monarchs have golden ages. I don’t know that I’ve ever heard of an American Golden Age. Right?

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Israel’s Cabinet approved a deal early Saturday for a ceasefire in Gaza that would release dozens of hostages held there and pause the 15-month war with Hamas, bringing the sides a step closer to ending their deadliest and most destructive fighting ever.

submitted 67 days ago • 6 comments

I hate that this has to be said in a moment of tragedy. Disasters bring out the best in people—but also scammers looking to profit off tragedy. Before you donate, double check. Stick to orgs or verified GoFundMes for people you or friends know. Your kindness deserves to truly help. Sending love.🥺

submitted 73 days ago • 13 comments

We had tickets to see the Broadway production of Wicked at the Pantages Theatre today, at 2. They decided to cancel today’s shows around 12:30, at which pint we were already on our way to Hollywood, so we didn’t get the message until we arrived. A couple years ago we had tickets to Les Miz …⤵️

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

If you don’t have a local library card, it should be your New Year’s resolution to get one. It’s an easy resolution to keep and you’ll actually use it, trust me.

submitted 74 days ago • 358 comments

If you are in the affected California fires area, excellent advice! Keep your pets in to ensure their safety from wildlife fleeing the fires! Keep buckets of water out for them. Stay safe, my friends.

submitted 75 days ago • 21 comments

Here's some more info! #CaliforniaFires

submitted 75 days ago • 3 comments

Sen Adam Schiff has set up this link to accept donations in the wake of the catastrophic Los Angeles area fires split equally among LA Fire Department Foundation, United Way of Greater LA & LA Regional Food Bank secure.actblue.com/donate/q1202... #StrongerTogether #LAProud

submitted 75 days ago • 96 comments

I think Lex Croucher is my new favorite author.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

The LA Times has a good list of places offering discounted or free food and coffee to displaced families and/or first responders. Check it out and double check to be sure what deals are where. (added this to my running resources list) www.latimes.com/food/list/lo...

submitted 76 days ago • 12 comments

It’s Time to Get Ready, by Jared Yates Sexton Worth a read! open.substack.com/pub/jaredyat...

submitted 76 days ago • 8 comments

It’s weird, isn’t it, that Octavia Butler predicted this. Almost beat for beat. I don’t mean to be woo. And prophecy is above my pay grade & outside my expertise. I’m just saying. 😳

submitted 75 days ago • 10 comments

Let's all send our thoughts to the fire victims & thanks to Sally for gifting us this article. I hope you'll share this post, read the article & tell folks about the disinformation. We have a chaos agent about to enter the White House. Trump has no help to offer at all, just wicked cruelty & lies.

submitted 76 days ago • 9 comments

L.A peeps! A message from the owner at Calico Fish House. Anyone who has left LA and headed south. You are welcome at our restaurant, 16600 Pacific Coast Highway, 92649. We have a large parking lot, you can stay as long as you need and camp out. We will provide free meals for all of those affected.

submitted 76 days ago • 75 comments

Here is an ongoing list of LA restaurants that are offering shelter, food, and support to first responders and evacuees: bit.ly/LAaid

submitted 76 days ago • 85 comments

Just a reminder that if you are in the area of the fires, leaving a bucket of water out for wildlife (and displaced dogs and cats) can literally save their lives.

submitted 76 days ago • 25 comments

You will read countless times today that the LA mayor cut the LA Fire Department's budget by $23 million. That is a lie. The budget was actually increased by $50 million.

submitted 75 days ago • 901 comments

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

submitted 76 days ago • 455 comments

Don’t click on #Facebook ads. #advertising $META www.wired.com/story/metas-...

submitted 75 days ago • 9 comments

I don't know if the LA fire department is properly funded or not but the claim that the city cut its budget last year — which is circulating widely on the right — is false. As Politico notes, the budget actually INCREASED by $50 million. A portion of the funding was approved in a separate bill.

submitted 75 days ago • 445 comments

Just finished Death at Morning House by Maureen Johnson. It was a fun YA mystery, very similar to the Truly Devious series. My favorite quote was part of a theme that ran throughout the book, about how when evil is done in plain sight, we begin to think it is normal, and no longer question it.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

👇🏻

submitted 76 days ago • 122 comments

Here’s the truth about the water supply in Palisades. substack.com/@krassenstei...

submitted 76 days ago • 26 comments

For those evacuating with pets in LA: Hilton’s Homewood Suites, Home2 Suites, Embassy Suites, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton, Tru and Canopy brands are all 100% pet friendly. Even cats! And a lot of hotels are waiving pet fees atm. Good on u Hilton! Pun intended: that’s hot.

submitted 76 days ago • 78 comments

I think I’m finally finding my people on this platform. Many of them have the word “unhinged” in their profile.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

submitted 76 days ago • 193 comments

The best thing you can do is starve Meta for revenue. Never click on or buy anything through their ads. Never pay for an ad to sell a product or advertise an event. Never do anything again that will put one cent in Mark Zuckerberg's pocket!

submitted 77 days ago • 641 comments

As we witness these heartbreaking scenes from the fires in LA, an important reminder that incarcerated people make up over 30% of California’s forest firefighters. www.motherjones.com/environment/...

submitted 76 days ago • 25 comments

Good morning friends🦋. Todays tip: Your local library. Update your library card! Use it! Libraries have more than books. A lot have free passes to museums, plays and events. Go visit your local libraries!!!🦋🐾🦋🐾

submitted 76 days ago • 40 comments

ICYMI – Meta is shifting its trust and safety team from California to the red state of Texas. Maybe they should also ditch the title “trust and safety”?

submitted 76 days ago • 361 comments

Reps. Higgins and Biggs just introduced H.R.7 into the new Congress. What does HR7 seek to do? Well, despite its fluffy pro-women-sounding title, it is actually a demand for a nationwide abortion ban. Read that again. Summary here. Call your reps ASAP. www.tiktok.com/@usmcangryve...

submitted 76 days ago • 25 comments

submitted 77 days ago • 758 comments

Meta announced Dana White will join its board of directors. Trump ally, UFC President White hit his wife last year. Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta, founded by Mark Zuckerberg, has also announced it is ending fact checking. $META #CorpGov

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

THIRTEEN TWENTY-EIGHT DAY MONTHS. 364 DAYS. THE 365TH DAY IS A GLOBAL CELEBRATION. #FIXTHEMONTHS

submitted 81 days ago • 101 comments

My god… Trump won 91 percent of “news desert” counties by an average of 54 percentage points. localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2024/1...

submitted 81 days ago • 122 comments

Doing some curation of who I follow on here, and working to follow back. Still not sure how often I’ll post here, but looking for community.

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

the horrors persist but so do I

submitted 82 days ago • 147 comments

Duh

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Just a reminder that your local library has more than books! Many also have dvds, cds, video games, game systems, internet hot spots, streaming services, ebooks, audio books, park passes, museum passes, and so much more! Maybe it's time for a visit! ❤️📚

submitted 86 days ago • 543 comments

This is how you do it. Stand for something. And tell the revanchist haters or cowering appeasers to take a long walk off a short pier because you’re going to continue to make the world you want.

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

Yes okay it works youtu.be/66M8NwkRmew

submitted 97 days ago • 59 comments

What would you have done when Nazis were putting Jewish people in ovens? Would you have stood up? Would you at least have spoken up? Do you care about the fate of our immigrant community? If you do, please share this: www.chirla.org/resources/ad... Lives are at stake! Stand up!

submitted 99 days ago • 61 comments

Sometimes I’ll go get coffee and tell them my name is Frodo, that way when it’s ready they go “large Americano…for Frodo” and then I answer “For Frodo!” and nobody laughs and then I take my coffee and go drink it alone in my car

submitted 99 days ago • 100 comments

Not good. He's suing the Des Moines Register (and possibly Ann Seltzer), for simply reporting on a poll. Well done, ABC, for rolling out the red carpet for a new press suppression strategy. Well done. newrepublic.com/post/189441/...

submitted 99 days ago • 22 comments