I love Los Angeles with every fiber of my being and the cast of local characters like this is way up there as a reason.

everything. He knows that. But for Bill, the only thing worse than writing is publishing. When the book comes out. When people buy it and read it. He feels totally and horribly exposed. They are taking the book home and turning the pages. They are reading the actual words."

Reading DeLillo as a soothing activity and as a reward have received this description of being a writer.

A single, charred pages from what appears to be a Marvel Comics guide to Wolverine, held in front of a red sky as Los Angeles burns.

This is Los Angeles. You step outside and breathe in the ashes of your friends' homes while charred pages from someone's beloved books glide to your feet on poison winds.

GET WRECKED, SATAN

A gentle reminder that it's not doom posting when you're currently undergoing doom. So let it rip if it helps.

‘It’s Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now’: Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ Changes Meta's decision to specifically allow users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill" has sparked widespread backlash at the company.

New: Meta employees are furious about a new policy that allows users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill." Some have resigned in protest. Some LGBTQ+ employees have started saying they if they are 'mentally ill' they should get leave of absences from work

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15,000 doctors sign letter begging Senate to reject RFK Jr for health secretary Kennedy, among other controversies, has spread misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine

Over 15,000 doctors have signed a letter imploring the US Senate to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation for Secretary of HHS.

The letter states:

“RFK Jr. is not only unqualified to lead this essential agency — he is actively dangerous.”

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"Virtue signaling": a phrase invented by those who've smashed their own moral compasses and are pissed off that others' can still find north.

Stopping by to thank everyone helping, supporting or encouraging friends, neighbors or brave safety and firefighters out here and there… Back to it.

Over 60 German and Austrian universities, the German Federal Court of Justice and multiple top German football clubs have announced that they will be withdrawing from Twitter (X), due to US oligarch Elon Musk's "discussion" (collaboration) with Germany's neo-Nazi party (AfD) Alice Weidl.

Let’s thank the Canadian and Mexican firefighters who have come to help with the fight in LA. Neighbors help, they do not threaten. See how that works Cheeto?

'Beautiful memories’: Pacific Palisades worker has emotional return to ruins of former eatery Albie Fuentes is joined by NBC News’ Jacob Soboroff as he returns to the ruins of Cafe Vida, the popular eatery he worked at for 15 years before the Palisades Fire.

Albino Fuentes has worked in the Palisades for 34 years and is as much a Palisadian as the people who lay their heads here at night. I’ve known him since I was eight years old. www.nbcnews.com/video/pacifi...

Symbols of hope amid devastation in Pacific Palisades YouTube video by NBC News

miraculously our synagogue survived the Palisades Fire. while a third of the congregation lost their homes, the temple remains as a spiritual home for them and people of all faiths in the Palisades. youtu.be/b3j06Gg_2jA

So many people have lost everything in the LA fire, but I’m also beginning to hear about cultural destruction - Gary Indiana’s archive, artist studios and storage (someone said all of Mike Kelley’s archive is gone), the Andrew McNally mansion …

Defunding WHO, disbanding pandemic defense is like shutting down Fire stations in LA - California this week!

When you're dismissing A-list celebrities and millionaires who lost their homes in the LA fires, realize that the overwhelming majority of fire victims are like this man

You have to admire the chutzpah of Ted Cruz attacking Karen Bass and Dems in LA right now.

Ted Cruz wasn’t on an official trip out of town when Texas snow storms hit & shut down his state - he fled to Cancun AFTER the crisis began, to stay at the Ritz & have a nice time.

250+ people died in Texas

Is Donald Trump 2.0 Our First AI Generated President? How Musk and Grok made Cambridge Analytica look quaint

Cambridge Analytica invented micro targeted advertising and used a backdoor to Facebook to give us Trump 1.0.
By eight years later, when Elon Musk pranced across the stage doing the ketamine shuffle with Donald Trump, everything had changed.
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Thank God Vanity Fair is keeping it REAL!

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Way to go Liz. This is just insane

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We all deserve so much better than Musk and Trump, especially Lady Liberty and all the wonderful girls and women in our lives. Can’t believe this is the country we have become. We will rise and #Resist to protect fundamental freedoms and rights. LFG!!

My New Year’s Resolution.
What’s yours?