@mattdpearce The Chairman of USC's Board was a family friend and they still had to commit fraud to get their daughter in? Just how bad were her grades?
this is your periodic reminder that the first generation of Americans to go to fully legally integrated schools for the entirety of their k12 career are millennials.
@mateosfo I ride the bus in LA everyday. We don't need free fares. We need RIGOROUS fare enforcement. Fare jumpers are responsible for almost all of the anti-social behavior that makes transit miserable. Lowering the barrier to entry for transit will ruin it.
@ZaidJilani I live in Los Angeles. The DMV office in my neighborhood (WeHo) is a model of efficiency. Better than almost any other public or private enterprise I frequent.
Everything hipsters were into 15 years ago went mainstream. You can buy raw denim at Uniqlo. Target has vinyl records. Your corner store has craft beer. Right wing chuds dress like urban lesbians and graphic designers did in 2010. Everyone drinks fancy coffee now. They won.
It’s crazy in retrospect how confident and hopeful my generation (millennials) were fifteen years ago. We were making ground-breaking music. We were going to end racism forever. The internet was making everyone kinder and smarter. We had such dreams of a better world.
FDR was super popular for the same reason Modi is: developing nations are easy to please. But once a chicken is in every pot people's needs get more complicated.
kanye had such a hold on menswear in 2010-2015 like you wouldn't believe. he had guys wearing long, slinky t-shirts that looked like dresses. black double riders, MA-1 bombers, and tan suede chelsea boots. his fall from those heights is crazy. no one cares anymore.
In December, NYT revealed that Elon Musk and SpaceX were failing to meet govt reporting protocol designed to protect state secrets while they haul in billions in Pentagon contracts.
This triggered three reviews, per NYT. One was from the Defense Department inspector general. 1/
BREAKING: A government worker reports that fresh-faced 19, 20, and 21-year-olds from DOGE are running 15-minute kangaroo courts to decide if federal employees keep their jobs.
Bureaucracy just turned into an episode of Shark Tank, but with interns holding the gavel.
@DTheKingpin This is the entirely expected and utterly unsurprising result of electing Donald J. Trump. A man whom I was promised, by "free thinkers," had been unfairly maligned.
America's enemies could not in their dreams have hoped for anything better than for the country to get embroiled in a pointless beef with their neighbor and arguably closest ally.
This is a five alarm fire.
The people elected Donald Trump to be President - not Elon Musk.
Having an unelected billionaire, with his own foreign debts and motives, raiding US classified information is a grave threat to national security.
This should not be a partisan issue.