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Los Angeles County residents are less satisfied with their quality of life than at any point in more than a decade, according to a report presented Wednesday at the UCLA Luskin Summit. The 2026 Los Angeles County Quality of Life Index found the overall score dropped to a record low of 52, with six of the nine categories measured reaching their lowest levels on record and eight showing year-over-year declines. Among the lowest-rated areas in the survey were education, transportation and cost of living, all of which saw steep declines and continued to rank as top concerns for residents.

Environmental sessions will explore issues such as extreme heat during major events in Los Angeles and the effects of plastic pollution on vulnerable communities.

Transportation discussions will center on improving safety and rider confidence on public transit systems, while additional panels will address economic inequality, including regulatory approaches to promote inclusive growth and reduce intergenerational disparities.
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Policymakers will continue their navel gazing while the city continues its downward spiral.
 
Politesse said:
Colonel Sanders said:
Language policing: this seems to go hand in hand with the grating term "micro aggression." The claimed reason for jumping up someone's ass for an innocuous word or two in a casual statement is that they're being corrected for their thoughtless, systematic bigotry. It's a baseless and vicious assumption with little thought behind it.
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What was the "innocuous word or two" in question, and what happened to the person who used them?
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Well, for instance, Leslie Neal-Boylan said everyone's life matters. The people who jumped up her ass evidently had no problem with lives mattering. So it looks like the innocuous word they were taking issue with was "everyone's", and for using it she was fired from her job as a dean at a government university.

A person cannot, by definition, have "systemic bigotry". Systemic bigotry is... systemic. If you as an individual choose to use racial slurs, it's likely there are systemic factors, especially if you didn't think it was a slur. But you as an individual cannot be "systemically bigoted", that makes no logical sense.
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The colonel didn't say anything about "systemic bigotry". He said "systematic bigotry". Systematic does not equal systemic. You as an individual can certainly be systematically bigoted. You as an individual can do a lot of things that make no logical sense -- for example, you can be religious.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
For transgenders, the left-wing was supporting their right to exist and the right-wing turned it into a holy crusade to stop transgenders from existing.
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What right are you referring to by "the left-wing was supporting their right to exist"? Do you mean the left-wing was supporting their right not to be killed? Are you claiming the right-wing is trying to kill transgenders?

If you mean the right-wing is trying to kill transgenders, what evidence do you have for it?

If you do not mean the right-wing is trying to kill transgenders, why do you call whatever the right-wing is actually doing "a holy crusade to stop transgenders from existing"?
 
Bomb#20 said:
What right are you referring to by "the left-wing was supporting their right to exist"? Do you mean the left-wing was supporting their right not to be killed? Are you claiming the right-wing is trying to kill transgenders?
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Not speaking for JH, but I believe you know that many folk on the radical right wish to cause trans people to not exist, by whatever means. I’m sure many would assert a preference for re-programming, vs murder. But at the end of the day I don’t think the “remedy” matters very much to most of them. Such is their visceral revulsion that no rationale is needed as long as they can be rid of “the trannies”.
YMMV.
Carry on.
 
Derec said:
What an idiotic cartoon! ... The idiot cartoonists is conflating illegal immigration with all immigration.
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The cartoon is just strawman after strawman after strawman. I don't think that's Brooks being an idiot. I think that's Brooks very intelligently knowing exactly how to go about throwing red meat to the choir he's preaching to so he'll get to keep being a paid propagandist. He has an audience who derive their ability to self-congratulate from having an outgroup to look down on so he's feeding them what they crave.
 
Elixir said:
Bomb#20 said:
What right are you referring to by "the left-wing was supporting their right to exist"? Do you mean the left-wing was supporting their right not to be killed? Are you claiming the right-wing is trying to kill transgenders?
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Not speaking for JH, but I believe you know that many folk on the radical right wish to cause trans people to not exist, by whatever means. I’m sure many would assert a preference for re-programming, vs murder. But at the end of the day I don’t think the “remedy” matters very much to most of them. Such is their visceral revulsion that no rationale is needed as long as they can be rid of “the trannies”.
YMMV.
Carry on.
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What do you mean by "many"? Do you mean "many" as in "hundreds or thousands", out of all the millions upon millions of people in the radical right? Or do you mean "many" as in "a substantial percentage"?

You know that "many" folk on the radical left are in favor of murdering CEOs of large corporations -- you know Luigi Mangione got an awful lot of attaboys. Knowing as you do that hundreds or thousands of folks on the radical left think that way, do you feel "the left-wing turned it into a holy crusade to kill CEOs" would be a fair-minded description of the radical left?
 
Bomb#20 said:
Politesse said:
Colonel Sanders said:
Language policing: this seems to go hand in hand with the grating term "micro aggression." The claimed reason for jumping up someone's ass for an innocuous word or two in a casual statement is that they're being corrected for their thoughtless, systematic bigotry. It's a baseless and vicious assumption with little thought behind it.
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What was the "innocuous word or two" in question, and what happened to the person who used them?
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Well, for instance, Leslie Neal-Boylan said everyone's life matters. The people who jumped up her ass evidently had no problem with lives mattering. So it looks like the innocuous word they were taking issue with was "everyone's", and for using it she was fired from her job as a dean at a government university.
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That is Ms Neal-Boylan’s narrative. It is not her employer’s narrative. The university says she was not fired for any one statement.

I know from long experience that university administrators tend to be duplicitous cowards in these situations, so her story is credible, but I suspect there was something else as well.
 
Goodhair up to some new shenanigans.
.How Newsom Boosted His Book Sales With $1.5 Million From His PAC
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In November, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California rolled out an intriguing offer to his formidable email list of supporters: Donate anything to his political group, and he would send them a copy of his forthcoming book: “Young Man in a Hurry: A Memoir of Discovery.”
“Make a contribution of ANY AMOUNT today and I will send you a copy,” he wrote.
It turned out about 67,000 supporters did just that. The books those donors received account for roughly two-thirds of the print copies of the memoir that have been sold.
On Wednesday, new federal records revealed that Mr. Newsom’s political action committee paid $1,561,875 to buy and distribute copies of his book through the donation program.
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