“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
Re-watching #Sinners and love all the foreshaddowing. For instance, Remmic's first scene (where he's literally in flames from being in the sun) is a subtle nod to the fact that he's Irish.
The city of Los Angeles is breaking down the makeshift shelters along the Arroyo Seco Flood channel in Highland Park.
Several of the residents who lived here are watching as their homes are demolished. Reporting for the @latimes
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you're not getting put into a camp. there are groups who are in real danger of getting put into camps and they're sleeping on benches and under awnings, and you're not gonna say much of anything when they're carried away.
takeaways from this:
1. it’s going to be fine. organize
2. the right is going to demolish america as a functioning government institution
3. the democratic party leadership needs to be systematically destroyed for the good of the future
4. we will all be okay