We need to bring back intellectual elitism. Sorry, but a virologist will always know more about vaccines than a yoga mommy blogger with a ChatGPT Plus subscription.
LA is experiencing a bio hazard event because politicians allow corporations to do whatever the fuck they want. Lineage Logistics is a multi-billion dollar corporation with over $5 million in penalties and now they are effecting the health of thousands because of negligence.
Live look at Los Angeles as some of the worst air quality in years suffocates the metropolis during the World Cup, all from a single 10 acre warehouse fire in Boyle Heights.
There is no wind. There is no atmospheric mixing. The smoke is just sitting here.
This is day 4.
Wanted to circle back to say if this happened in west LA it would be nationwide news. But such warehouses aren’t located in those communities. No it’s always the working poor that suffer from these disasters and it’s far more common than anyone realizes bc nobody is covering it.
Where are all the Palisades fire investigators and experts at now??? How come we don’t have national news covering the effects of air pollution that is affecting just as many people? What’s the difference? Demographic?
i just feel like 5 days of burning insulation, plastic, and solar panels sounds like the air is much less safe than it's being played out as
like weren't the solar panels and electric vehicles in homes burning last year a HUGE concern?
boyle heights resident cortisolmaxxing here
any la environmental health academics who can help a regular schmegular resident figure out what specific chemical and environmental monitoring our neighborhood actually needs to be demanding right now? please rt & tag!
Dear younger voters who went for Trump in ‘24, watch the speeches of Prez & Michelle Obama & Mamdani today then compare it to Trump speaking at the White House this afternoon. Ask yourself what kinda world you wanna live in & what real leadership looks like. Then get involved.
So Alabama is allowed to use their Republican approved map that favor Republicans but Virginia isn't allowed to use their voter approved map that favor Democrats????
Trump raped E. Jean Carroll, still owes her $86 million, and is now using the power of the federal government to keep targeting and harassing her. Abusers don’t stop abusing.
This is the first day in a world without CBS News Radio, which had been broadcasting since 1927.
Through eighteen presidential administrations, nine popes, five British monarchs, and numerous wars.
Nearly 100 years of journalism, gone like that.
Bari Weiss killed it.
The CFPB has deleted 15 years' worth of data off its website.
Every post that predates Trump's second term has been removed except for reports mandated by Congress.
In total some 1,700 pages on the website have been wiped out.
Martha Stewart went to prison for saving herself $45,673 using an illegal stock tip.
Donald Trump traded stocks 3,700 times between Jan—Mar of this year, totaling between $220–$750 million, and used the presidency to make his stocks go up… And he’s walking around a free man.