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Ah, yes, because the real tragedy of these wildfires is the loss of celebrity (second) homes. Forget the ordinary people who lost their only homes or the firefighters risking their lives to protect what’s left. They’re just the extras on this Hollywood disaster set, apparently. At least Arnold Schwarzenegger had the decency to reject this… Read more.
President-elect Trump: Scrap your inaugural balls. Instead, redirect the hundreds of millions your billionaire donors gave for this occasion to aid Californians left homeless by wildfires. Then, challenge them to donate 10 times more to relief efforts than they did to your balls. Because nothing says ‘let them eat cake’ quite like Americans dancing in… Read more.
Republican Scott Jennings triggers viral outrage almost daily with his racist or misogynistic comments on CNN. But don’t blame him; blame CNN. Fox News has become a ratings hegemon by pandering to Americans who just want to be enraged or entertained – you know, like Romans before the fall. More to the point, Donald Trump… Read more.
Wildfires: California’s new normal Nothing underscores my take on the wildfires ravaging California more than the title of a commentary I published a few years ago — “Groundhog Day: California’s Burning.” Alas, wildfires scorching wide swathes of the state are the new normal. The Pacific Palisades fire, alongside the Eaton, Hurst, and Woodley fires, has… Read more.
A severe drought coupled with the human-induced climate crisis has sparked a fire season that has already seen more than three times as much land burned in California this year than during the same time span last year, officials said. The state recorded its worst fire season in 2020, with around 4.1 million estimated acres… Read more.
