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Ndp5's JournalHelp pets in L.A.
Getting pleas for more help from some L.A.-area animal care organizations, which are seeing a spike in burned and injured pets.
Here are some places in need of donations if youre so inclined.
- Los Angeles Animal Services (Mastercard/Discover only):
https://www.laanimalservices.com/donate-today#no-back
- Pasadena Humane Society:
https://give.pasadenahumane.org/give/654134/?mc_cid=184acdec86#!/donation/checkout
- LA County Animal Care Foundation:
https://ambvzmmw.donorsupport.co/page/FUNAFLEEQDU?clientId=17366531585862489930&elementTitle=Popup&elementName=January%202025%20L.A.%20Fire
- Best Friends Animal Society:
https://bestfriends.org/emergency-response/los-angeles-wildfires
The Atlantic on Democratic rebuilding & realignment
In some ways, the Biden administration and the Harris campaign tried to reorient the Democratic Party back toward the working class, which was once its backbone. Biden pursued policies and passed legislation to create jobs that dont require a college degree in communities that have been left behind. Harris studiously avoided campaigning on her identity as a Black and South Asian woman, appealing instead to a vague sense of patriotism and hope. But Bidens industrial policy didnt produce results fast enough to offset the damage of inflationno one I talked with in Maricopa County, Arizona, or Washington County, Pennsylvania, this year seemed to have heard of the Inflation Reduction Act. Harris remained something of a cipher because of Bidens stubborn refusal to step aside until it was too late for her or anyone else to make their case to Democratic voters. The partys economic policies turned populist, but its structureunlike the Republican Partys mass cult of personalityappeared to be a glittering shell of power brokers and celebrities around a hollow core. Rebuilding will be the work of years, and realignment could take decades.
The Trump Reaction will test opponents with a difficult balancing act, one that recalls F. Scott Fitzgeralds famous line about a first-rate intelligence holding two opposed ideas in mind while still being able to function. The Democratic Party has to undertake the necessary self-scrutiny that starts with the errors of Biden, Harris, and their inner circle, but that extends to the partys long drift away from the most pressing concerns of ordinary Americans, toward the eccentric obsessions of its donors and activists. But this examination cant end in paralysis, because at the same time, the opposition will have to act. Much of this action will involve civil society and the private sector along with surviving government institutionsto prevent by legal means the mass internment and deportation of migrants from communities in which theyve been peacefully living for years; to save women whose lives are threatened by laws that would punish them for trying to save themselves; to protect the public health from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nations security from Tulsi Gabbard, and its coffers from Elon Musk.
On Election Night, in a state carried by Trump, Deluzio outperformed Harris in his district, especially in the reddest areas, and won comfortably. What does this prove? Only that politics is best when its face-to-face and based on respect, that most people are complicated and even persuadable, and thatin the next line from the Fitzgerald quoteone can see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/the-end-of-democratic-delusions/ar-AA1v7flN
Robert Reich and the Democrats' internal battles
Robert Reich says there is a war for the soul of the Democratic Party which should now represent not just centrists or progressives but basically all Americans opposed to oligarchy.
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Did Harvard or oligarchs break America?
Not saying I disagree with everything in this sprawling piece, which could have been shorter. But I do disagree with David Brooks claim that income level is not the most important divide in our society. Its just that the key chasm is now between billionaires and everyone else.
Here is the crux of the article and why I think Brooks is in some ways still aiding and abetting the elite rights effort to shift the conversation from economic resentment to cultural divides:
When income level is the most important division in a society, politics is a struggle over how to redistribute money. When a society is more divided by education, politics becomes a war over values and culture.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/careers/how-the-ivy-league-broke-america/ar-AA1u4LW9
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