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Sure, some notable people lost their expensive homes in LA But a lot more people lost their modest homes, their rented condo or apt Workers at the sandwich shop, baristas, food servers, cooks, supermarket & retail clerks, bank tellers, librarians, gardeners, janitors, etc have lost their jobs

submitted 43 days ago • 80 comments

CNN interviewed more than a dozen experts, and they said that no fire hydrants would have been able to stop the LA wildfires with the high winds. “I don’t know a water system in the world that is that prepared for this type of event,” said one expert.

submitted 43 days ago • 449 comments

I don't even have anything insightful to say today. I still can't believe he won after his actions 4 years ago today.

submitted 47 days ago • 2389 comments

MIND BLOWN 💥 Just after midnight on New Year’s, the richest 229 Americans maxed out their Social Security tax for the year. The cap is $176,100—so anyone making that salary, pays the same as Elon Musk. If the oligarchs who are about to run our government really want to fix SS—they’d raise the cap.

submitted 49 days ago • 113 comments

thrilled to run this essay in @thebarbedwire.bsky.social thebarbedwire.com/2024/12/26/b...

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Merry Christmas from Ireland. 🇮🇪 ✨🌲✨👏✨

submitted 59 days ago • 669 comments

we should be concerned about the impacts of social media on kids and teens, but i don’t think we’re worried nearly enough about what it’s doing to middle aged people and seniors

submitted 58 days ago • 127 comments

Nothing is more indicative of how authoritarian the political culture of the GOP has become than the fact that over the past few months its elected leaders have basically turned it over to an unelected rich guy who has threatened to primary them if they disobey orders. And no one has complained.

submitted 66 days ago • 112 comments

I'm glad Pete Hegseth has pledged not to drink if he is confirmed as Defense Secretary. So, I guess he can still sexually harass women, mismanage funds, discriminate against women service members, push for a Christian Nationalist agenda, and be a virulent Islamaphobe? Super duper.

submitted 80 days ago • 1373 comments

“Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.” ― Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519 🙏🏼🌍🕊️

submitted 83 days ago • 84 comments