Stanford graduates chant "Free Palestine" waving Palestinian flags as they walk out on Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai as he beings his commencement speech. Absolutely epic.
When a politician says they need "further study" or "it's complicated," what they mean is: "Doing the right thing requires a personal risk or sacrifice that I'm not willing to make so I'm going to do nothing and pretend the issue's beyond everyone's ability to comprehend."
@RJOHNSON19660@YsabelJuradoLA False. They pay sales taxes just like everyone else. Moreover, taxes aren't a pay-for-play scheme, or Donald Trump would have gotten no services at all some tax years.
The CLA shooting down many desperately needed government reforms is just an advisory body. It’s still up to the City Council Rules Committee.
That’s why you have to show up to give public comment at 1pm TOMORROW!
FIGHT FOR:
Ranked Choice Voting
Council Expansion
LAPD Reform
After we endured an incredibly toxic mayoral race that could’ve been prevented with Ranked Choice Voting, are we really about to let LA City Council pass on implementing RCV?
For many years, I took barbs for refusing to call Israel's policy in East Jerusalem "ethnic cleansing". After all, there were 60,000 Palestinians in East Jerusalem in 1967, and 400,000 today. Occupation sucked, and included war crimes, but it wasn't ethnic cleansing.
That has changed now.
There are 3 Palestinian neighborhoods, all of whose residents are being or are about to be displaced: Batan al-Hawa and al-Bustan in Silwan, and Um Haroun in Sheik Jarrah. The latter two are being razed, or will be razed in the near future.
And immediately to the east, the Bedouin hamlet of Khan al-Akmar, adjacent to E-1, is about to be expelled, part of an attempt to "cleanse" Area C between East Jerusalem and the Jordan River valley of its Palestinian residents.
Regrettably, I can think of no other term to use other than "ethnic cleansing".
The Charter Reform process shows that City Hall has nothing but contempt for LA voters.
No ranked choice voting
No council expansion
but hey, at least the CAO gets to be named the CFO!!
WHO IS THIS FOR??
I was just forced to resign from my job at NASA JPL!! Here's my latest Substack post about it... PLEASE subscribe to me over there, It's the main place I'll be communicating from
https://t.co/TvEDelYdMP
We understand there's a candidate at our Administrative HQ in Norwalk talking about ballot processing. Meanwhile, we are here at the Ballot Processing Center where the votes are actually counted.