Kurt Vonnegut said “We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective” and damn if that isn't exactly how this is all playing out
She also said the way she predicted these things was simply by thinking what would happen if the current problems she saw in the 80s were not taken care of. She simply noticed the patterns.
Every dollar that's wasted on overpolicing, surveillance, militarization, genocide, etc. is a dollar that's robbed from emergency response, disaster preparedness, crisis management, climate resiliency, humanitarian relief, etc.
Is now a good time to mention that last month over 25 Los Angeles schools rejected our offers of completely free air purifiers for every single classroom on their campuses?
The guy that normally overseas the LAFD and the Emergency Management Department is Deputy Mayor Brian Williams.
Unfortunately he’s on leave because he had his home raided by the FBI for MAKING BOMB THREATS against City Council.
This City’s leadership is so fucked.
learning about the Nestle baby formula lawsuit in college was a life altering experience for me. Maybe the first time as a young person I realized Companies can do Bad without consequences. Nestle caused hundreds of thousands of infant deaths and people don’t even know about it
It is really quite astonishing how bad Covid actually was. So many people want to either forget it or claim the world overreacted but it was an extraordinary disaster.
CBS edited their interview with Kate Winslet to remove the reference to the genocide in Gaza.
This is propaganda. The American people are the most propagandised on earth.
So the #TXGOP has been actively dismantling and underfunding our public education in TX. Now trump and musk are saying we need H1B visas b/c Americans aren't educated enough to fill tech jobs. Can the adults in the room connect the dots for them? #txlege
This is the same type of mentality German citizens had when Hitler was doing his thing.
It's wild how quickly a populace can be brainwashed into accepting genocide as a necessary evil.
Sociopaths.
Objectively hilarious that the exact people saying Democrats need to run right on immigration lose their minds as soon as Bernie calls for higher wages for H-1B workers and a crackdown of corporate abuse of guest workers (a position he's held for decades btw).
How backwards it is that the US, which spreads death and destruction around the world, is sanctioning Cuba, which spreads literacy around the world, instead of the other way around.
Learn about the reconstruction era and you will understand this country. Don’t and you won’t. It’s that simple. Until you see that white backlash is a feature and not a bug you won’t get it
i dont forgive muppet history & i probably never will!! josh and holly have proven time and time again in both words and actions exactly the kind of people that they are and what they stand for, and if they can't accept that people dont forgive them, then THAT is on THEM !!
They shouldn't HAVE to do this, but it's starting to feel like the Henson Co. should just start a Muppet History account where they share classic clips. Clearly there's a needs for this to exist and we have to get it away from these two nutbags. https://t.co/xiB1O25zrD