Spare a dime for the LA Sheriff’s Dept., which is faced with the fearsome burden of enforcing a public-health order against … (*checks notes*) um, itself.
Anyhow, pity the poor LA county sheriff, who’s too busy clearing nonviolent unhoused people from beaches to handle the minor matter of public health during a pandemic. latimes.com/california/sto…
Sure, the LA county sheriff has a budget in excess of $3B. But what’s required to reform his ailing institution — starting by, I don’t know, getting the killer gangs out — is more public spending, not less.
(To be humble for a moment: for a mere half of the LASD’s money, I would accept the challenge of running an institution that does *not* nurture killer gangs:) laist.com/news/gangs-cli…
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Over 600K people died of COVID in the U.S., a huge swath of them unnecessarily. Yet millions balk at vaccination, even as a new wave sends those w/o shots to hospitals.
“‘Yes, I’m race conscious,’ he said. ‘In my ethnostate,’ he explained, ‘I would exclude, as a rule of thumb, non-whites, non-Europeans, wherever, however you want to define them. So, that includes blacks.’” buzzfeednews.com/article/aramro…
Still true: degenerates such as centimillionaire-by-inheritance William Regnery II are poster children for the importance of taxing the rich.
The WaPo ed board cannot at once be serious about acting to stem climate change and ardent in supporting “highway expansion.” Come on, now. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
The way to stave off “nightmarish highway congestion” isn’t by adding lanes. That only induces traffic. What it _does_ require: improving MARC, expanding Baltimore Metro, and investing in Northeast Corridor HSR.
Was just in traffic on the southbound 405 over the Sepulveda pass last Saturday, and let me confirm this to those who wonder: one more lane did not, in fact, fix it.
The conservative movement found it easy to rage in unison against Obama’s agenda because Obama was Black.
The conservative movement is fired up about ‘critical race theory’ and wokeness today because the people those are (irrationally) perceived to advantage are Black.
We’ve seen right-wing racial backlashes at the outset of the last three Dem presidencies: with Clinton, the storm around the nomination of Lani Guinier to a post at DOJ; with Obama, the Tea Party and birtherism; now, ‘critical race theory.’
It’s a pretty clear pattern.
(Before anyone pipes up in objection to my characterization of the Tea Party:)
Love to see news tonight of a Senate Republican filibuster for a bill to which no one expected objections — blocking a scheduled debate on the compromise 1/6 commission bill, which Republicans will filibuster.