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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.
 
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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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Bomb#20 said:
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"?
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What do you mean by “substantial”?
How radical is “radical right”? If there are “millions upon millions” of them, are they the “radical right” or just “the right”?
Do you imagine I have COUNTED them?
The right’s acceptance and election of people who profess to want to “reprogram” or otherwise “cure” trannies, bespeaks a “substantial” number IMO. I don’t know for sure, but I’d bet that trans people fairly uniformly consider their numbers “substantial”.
Their representation as a percentage of “the radical right” depends entirely on where YOU draw the line between the right and the “millions upon millions” you assign to “the radical right”.
There are a fuck-ton more of them than we need, and that’s the opinion I was expressing. FWIW I suspect it is double digit percentages of “the right” with the qualifier, and perhaps a majority of what I consider the “radical right”.
“Many”, probably millions at least, or I would not have encountered them, nor would I have written that post.
 
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Ha! The Governor's office double-counted my retirement by accident and miscalculated the state budget to the tune of 2 billion dollars!

California has more money than projected after Gov. Newsom's administration miscalculated the state budget this year

The memo stated Gov. Newsom's administration made two errors. The first involved double counting CalPERS contribution rates for the upcoming year, which the LAO said was a $1.6 billion miscalculation. The second issue involved incorrect contribution rates when the administration calculated how much money the state would need to contribute to CalPERS in the years ahead. The LAO stated that mistake amounts to about $450 million.
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Absolute idiocy, but at least it is a "bank error in our favor", as an educator it's not every year that the May Revision has good news for us, usually they've miscalculated the other direction and people get downsized.
 
Politesse said:
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J.K. Rowling, Dave Chapelle, and Dawkins are examples. Each took hits of varying degrees and were harassed without relent on social media for innocuous and even accurate statements.
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What "innocuous and even accurate" statements are you referring to, and in what sense were they "canceled"?
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Rowling with her accidental like of a post on Twitter, which she unliked/took down as soon as she realized her mistake. She apologized but has been harassed ever since. The harassment got even worse when she essentially told those people to go F themselves, which I admire her for. She is still reviled among that crowd.

Dawkins pointed out that yes, there are men and women. Crazy stuff I know.

Chapelle took a trans comedian on the road to open for him. In his act he made a joke about how she bombed her first night out, but then got better after time went on. For that, he has been castigated.

Reasonable people don't like that shit. Also, things like that get associated with the Dem party, which the Dem party then tacitly supports these extremists by not publicly rejecting those extremists, so people associate extremist nonsense with the party.

Other terms like "white people problems" and "male toxicity," both of which are usually made in sweeping generalities are other things that exclude millions from the party. Why the DNC doesn't come out and reject those sweeping generalities is beyond me.

These attitudes come from a tiny percentage of the voting population but they have an outsized voice that damages the whole; and the Dems don't do anything to fix it.
 
Colonel Sanders said:
Rowling with her accidental like of a post on Twitter, which she unliked/took down as soon as she realized her mistake.
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Well, this is just a lie. Not that she took down the post, but what you're implying about it being an innocuous or unintentional act. She literally published an essay defending her social media bullshit, then started a multimillion dollar legal fund to defend religious nutjobs and child abusers. She has not in any way recused herself from her political positions, she's loud and proud about them. She's also the world's wealthiest author, and is currently raking in further millions from a tv show, presently airing, based on one of her books. She has not been "canceled" in any meaningful sense.

To the extent that I personally do not buy any of her products, as is my right as a consumer to decide, it's not because of some thing she re-tweeted, it's because I know a few cents of every dollar I gave her would immediately be donated to causes I do not support. If she doesn't want to be criticized for her political views, she should stop engaging in political activism.

Am I "canceling" Trump because I don't stay in his stupid hotels when I'm traveling? Are you "canceling" Trump when you buy steaks from someone else?
 
Colonel Sanders said:
Reasonable people don't like that shit.
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Criticizing people for lying about stuff on tv, you mean? Actually, I think plenty is reasonable people support freedom of speech, especially here in California. That means public figures are allowed to speak, and the public is allowed to respond. It's both or neither.
 
California’s budget mess just got a whole lot messier — and a whole lot more embarrassing. Top lawmakers sat on a staggering $2 billion accounting blunder for months while publicly warning of a looming budget crunch, according to a bombshell memo that’s now blowing the lid off the quiet deception. Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration built its January budget proposal around a projected $2.9 billion shortfall — but that figure was quietly thrown into doubt after officials discovered they’d badly botched the math tied to the state’s massive pension system, CalPERS. Instead of sounding the alarm, legislative leaders kept the mistake under wraps. The error — actually two separate miscalculations totaling roughly $2 billion — was flagged as far back as February by the state’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office, led by Gabe Petek. Yet despite months of budget hearings and public hand-wringing over deficits, the public was left in the dark.
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Newsom should definitely run for president.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
Derec said:
thebeave said:
Maybe Eric Swalwell is the single unluckiest person in the world?
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Live by the witchhunt, die by the witchhunt.
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I like how people like thebeave, Derec, and TSwizzle think rape is a serious charge and Swalwell is entitled to due process... but simultaneously that this is a "witchhunt". Which implies they don't believe the accusations are real at all, from the start, going from Swalwell is innocent until proven guilty to the Swalwell accusers are lying. Which oddly enough, perjury is also a crime, but the women aren't entitled to being innocent until proven guilty as well.
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Your implication is wrong. I don't know whether the accusations are true or not. Much of the interaction with ES happened via Snapchat, which does not preserve messages. At this point, the allegations are being investigated by the Manhatten DA and LAPD SVU. Perhaps we will find out soon what happened. The whole thing does have the vibe of a political witch hunt though:

How Eric Swalwell's fall was brought on by a network of women who organized online
"It was really three girls in a group chat that were figuring out how we were going to bring this story forward, consolidate a group of women together, and get their story told the right way," said Hunt, explaining how she and Albrecht teamed up with Arielle Fodor, another creator who had also been posting and receiving messages about Swalwell.
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Its a little odd that the alleged actions by ES against these women happened quite a number of years ago, but it was only when he was doing well in his bid for the governer that they decided to all get together and bring it to the public. Given his Federal and state political ambitions are dead now, The phrase " live by the witchhunt, die by the witchhunt" seems apropro to me.
 
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