Jon Burke

Ok, but not introducing yourself going forward as 'The Infamous Taylor Lorenz' seems like a missed opportunity

For the last 5 years, LAPD has received 3x the budget of LAFD.

The department that coordinates these incredible emergency responses, the Emergency Management Department, gets about $4million - less than .1% of LAPD’s budget.

When you talk to people offline about these fires, drop that in.

Hate when you're trying to discuss serious ideas, like re how eliminating the value form negates the negation of man's alienation from species-being, and dullards interrupt with shallow objections, like "why wouldn't bureaucrats who control everything just rule in their own interest?" Read a book 🙄

On the call with staff Friday, Litwin apologized for the lack of communication. “We recognize the flow of communication has not been how we typically handle sensitive matters like this,” Litwin said. Detailing corporate employees’ benefits and severance, Party City’s Chief Human Resources Officer Karen McGowan broke down in tears several times on the short video conference call. “I certainly know this is a lot to take in,” McGowan said before she paused and teared up. “My apologies.”

it's weird that people are homicidally angry at corporate America when a CEO hired four months ago fires the entire workforce of a 40-year-old company five days before Christmas with no severance and no benefits www.cnn.com/2024/12/20/b...

This isn't news to anybody, but I hadn't seen this until now and he really is just an evil person. Absolute piece of shit. Not sure what exact language is bannable here, but he should do something to himself.

feel like cyberpunk has had its day. It’s time for cybercrossover and cyberpowerviolence to get the spotlight

Happy turkey day!

@giftedgab.bsky.social welcome, Gab!

So…upon further review, it appears that Pod

*gestures wildly at the smoldering wreckage of the Democratic Party*

Did Not Save America

Crisis & Cover-up at Red Onion Super-Max In May 2023, an inmate at Red Onion Super-Max set himself on fire in order to be transferred out of the institution where he feared for his life. At least two more men have taken the same desperate…

Inside Red Onion State Prison, a supermax prison in Virginia, the conditions of solitary confinement are so torturous that at least three Black prisoners have set themselves on fire to get transferred to other facilities which have burn wards.

virginiadefender.org/2024/11/09/c...

The Consultant Con | Max Kiefel Democrats need to dump the consultants and rebuild the party—from the bottom up.

Try as Nancy Pelosi might to spin things otherwise, it is hard to deny that the Democrats are out of touch. @maxkiefel.bsky.social offers one way forward for the party: dump the consultant class and rebuild—from the bottom up.

On my flight to Delhi, I got bumped up to first class. My flight home was in coach. I kinda wish I'd never known the difference because the return trip was awful.

There's a weird unspoken capitalist rule that says we're only supposed to promote "new" stuff, but I think my book from last fall—The Age of Insecurity—has a lot to say about where we are/how we got here. You can listen to a slightly abridged version of it here for free:

www.cbc.ca/radiointerac...

I voted for Harris because it was the closest thing to a vote for my daughters' bodily autonomy. But keep making assumptions, please.

Lastly, if your "decent people" can't stand up to MY criticism, then they're not prepared to lead at this point in history.

Can we be good now?

The level of condescension in your tone is wild. And for those of us who have been screaming about this authoritarian shit for years, it's good you are listening. We just wish you'd draw better conclusions.

Wait. Is the "bulwark against fascism" the Democratic Party?

No, I wasn't because they didn't have this level of coverage where I see kids, my daughters' ages, being massacred daily.

All of these stale talking points have been so thoroughly responded to already.

Oh, wow. "Real cost." I work in public health and worked three large hospitals throughout the Midwest over the last 20 years.

You literally have no idea what you're talking about.

How does one explain that genocide, in any form, is bad. Like you should KNOW that. The difference is Biden/Harris and the Dem Party made it seem like they were against that morally and then kept giving billions in aid and arms to Israel. I don't know how to make you feel empathy.

As someone with insurance who just had a partial nephrectomy, I call bullshit on your health care take.

None of what you said here is accurate. Not even slightly.

I think we fundamentally disagree about reality. And that's fine. I just hope if your perspective ever shifts that you will reconsider.

Also, literally begging you here: please don't give a single dollar to Harris anymore. I have a long list of orgs who could do so much more good with that money.

"red onion state prison" is worth a search or two.

The Age of Insecurity

Revealed: Deadliest Stretch of US-Mexico Border Migrants are dying in their thousands at the southern border, with women and children increasingly among those who perish.

Migrants are dying in their thousands at the southern border, with women and children increasingly among those who perish.

www.newsweek.com/border-migra...

There will come a point at which one of "the establishment's" endless compromises in core values or policy breaks you too. As of now, we know it isn't an international genocide or health care reform or immigrant's rights. And at that moment, the "anti-establishement left" will welcome you.

A fundraising letter from the Harris campaign, soliciting donations still, weeks after the election.

Asked how I planned "to help rebuild the Democratic Party," my response addressed an end to corporate influence and a new Leftist ideology centering constituents' material needs.

After today's Harris fundraising letter, I'd have said, raze it to the ground and salt the earth so nothing can grow.

Howdy!

Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts Platform’s coverage of US election crystallised longstanding concerns about its content, says Guardian

Some big news this morning

www.theguardian.com/media/2024/n...

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