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the mutual aid los angeles network (malan) has put together a spreadsheet with valuable resources for people affected by the ongoing los angeles wildfires and wind storm. the sheet is constantly being updated with resources such as shelter info, animal boarding info, addresses for distribution centers, volunteer opportunities and so much more.
please share this spreadsheet widely
In Praise of California
It has its flaws — what place doesn’t? — but it plays a big role in America’s greatness
if i have one word of, if not comfort, at least fear mitigation, it is that trump didn't win this election because his hate has spread or because he's gained more diehard followers
here's the results from 2020 for the popular vote
and here's this year, 2024
kamala lost because people didn't show up to the polls and vote for her for a wide array of reasons. and yes, it's infuriating and heartbreaking that other people don't see the threat that many of us do.
but apathy or ignorance isn't hate. we can feel angry or disappointed that people didn't show up, but those people also don't believe in donald trump enough to vote for him, and we can work from that. in fact, it appears that at least about 2 million people also changed their minds, at least enough to not turn up at the polls for him again.
no matter what the fuck they wanna say, maga is not growing. they have power in the government now, and it's scary, and we have hard work ahead of us to stop them in whatever ways we can, but i just wanted to take a moment to point out that the country has not gotten more hateful or more supportive of their bigotry, no matter what the fuck they wanna say. there's not more of them. they just feel empowered to get louder.
i think this is a good reminder, but it also emphases that Harris partially lost because people failed to vote for the least awful candidate. Trump's voter base stayed mostly consistent, but 15 million people who supported Biden failed to show up for Harris. And I'm sure most of them were either non-voters or people who "voted with their conscience". So here we are and I hope to God they get what they wanted, but if worse comes to worst, then remember that you were partially responsible for this and if there's even a democracy left at the end of the next four years, maybe learn from this.
Election 2024: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
If you are even a little liberal leaning
It is important to vote blue. Voting with "your morals" or for a third party is going to split the vote and enable the nuclear cheeto to win. How do we know? Well, once is a fluke, twice is a coincidence, and three times is a pattern...then eight times has to be fact.
Btw you can be intensely critical of the Democratic party and recognize that it is full of aged out of touch moderates who are refusing to meet the urgency of the moment,
and also recognize that voting for Democrats is extremely important because it allows things like the confirmation of Justices and prevents the literal fascist party from gaining more power and that harm reduction is an important end in itself
These things can coexist
Politics is a long game. Being disappointed and angry today does not obviate your responsibility to participate
I'm just going to leave this here, because this woman said what I've been trying to articulate for ages much more effectively and succinctly than I've been able to
2024 isn't even here yet, and we're already screaming at each other about presidential elections and how you shouldn't compromise or you should compromise or your third party vote counts or doesn't, and, as usual, forgetting that there are both primary and general elections and they work differently.
ALWAYS:
Vote your IDEALS in the primaries
Vote DAMAGE CONTROL in the general
(I'm so tired)
Noodle is an Angeleno (for now, anyway)
Artbound: Giant Robot documentary - KCET
I remember when buying GR magazine was the coolest thing, but then again, I was part of the Asian American clique that was starved for that culture. It’s still a fun treat to visit the gallery and store, but I don’t think I really appreciated how it was shaped by LA, as a hub of culture and multinationalism, and how it in turn affected LA culture, too, until I was watching this episode.
One driver demonstrated just how easily cars can enter the “protected” bike lanes on the new viaduct.
* sigh * sometimes we can’t have nice things
seriously - i want to see this bridge, gdit!
I think maybe it would help if some people saw "keeping the far right out of power" as a vital goal in and of itself
The embarrassment. The shame.
did you know that the letters in LA stand for:
Los
Angeles
Is this for real?
I promise
when you tried to gently warn the food writer who recently moved from new york about misidentifying the "East Side of LA" in his loquat piece and then you see latinx twitter descend...
— esther tseng 鄭怜欣 (@estarLA) May 30, 2021
I have a love hate relationship with how New York writes about LA. On one hand, I take great offense to the sheer level of condescension. On the other, I do love me some good schadenfreude.
What’s With the Scooby Doo Van That’s Always Buzzing Around L.A.?
Warner Bros. still owns a Scooby Doo van it occasionally rolls out for charity appearances, but the one you’re seeing is probably a lime-and-aqua replica created by Edmundo Alarcon, a former Disney tour guide from La Puente who retrofitted his 1981 Volkswagen in tribute to his favorite show. Notwithstanding occasional engine trouble, he now rents the van to an array of fellow Scooby aficionados through a website called Starcarcentral.com. Previous passengers include Tommy Chong, Cypress Hill, cartoon cosplayers, and “girls who want to take sexy Daphne and Velma pictures, like a cartoon fetish hentai thing, I guess,” says Alarcon.
Is anyone else ever genuinely shocked when you find out you have an impact on someone’s life? A coworker can be like “I’ve missed seeing you” and I’m just like “???? you?? missed me????? My presence has an effect on your daily experience???? I affect things??? W h a t ? ? ?”
