East Coast intellectuals ate his bullshit up, of course …

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Jan 12, 2025

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January 12, 2025 at 06:33PM
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PS: The LATimes once sent a reporter to fact check Davis’ “Ecology of Fear.” The conclusion –softpedaled in the lede–was inescapable: Davis was full of … blarney. His tall tales were wrong in key details, bent to fit a story. https://t.co/uvPRObDiYZ

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Jan 12, 2025

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January 12, 2025 at 06:30PM
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The resurrection of Mike Davis’ “Ecology of Fear” would be an especially high price to pay in the aftermath the apolcalyptic destruction. Davis made a big deal of noting that SoCal has tornadoes! His problem is that he couldn’t document a case in which LA’s tornadoes had killed… https://t.co/RZmAG9p3ws

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Jan 12, 2025

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January 12, 2025 at 06:24PM
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It’s especially convenient for liberal Democrats to say “Stop Blaming Politicians. L.A. Was Built to Burn.” when the politicians in question all happen to be liberal Democrats. But let’s put that aside for now …

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Jan 12, 2025

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January 12, 2025 at 06:19PM
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I’m on Team Decadence. As @lwoodhouse (Team Hubris) notes, “The area around Pacific Palisades, in particular, has been on fire countless times before. There was a huge conflagration in Malibu in 1929. Then 1930 and 1935. Then 1938 and 1943, and so on, averaging two per decade up… https://t.co/BUhyTVUnNV https://t.co/5FGvZGnmQ6

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Jan 12, 2025

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January 12, 2025 at 06:16PM
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.@bariweiss and @TheFP should stage a debate between the Hubris take (humans should never have built LA where it is https://t.co/4IfIFaAnvm) and the Decadence faction (CA doesn’t work anymore, they leave the reservoir unfilled, don’t clear brush etc) https://t.co/iwumpokIsa).

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Jan 12, 2025

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January 12, 2025 at 06:03PM
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Tucked away in the NYT’s big immigration editorial:

“Immigrants without specialized skills have pushed Americans out of some types of low-wage work because they are willing to accept worse conditions and lower pay. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicts the… https://t.co/j0TiSgdKEz

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Jan 12, 2025

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January 12, 2025 at 02:25PM
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Here’s Pacific Palisades being laid out in 1927. [from https://t.co/7asvyLZAUy]. Somehow it didn’t burn to the ground until last week. https://t.co/HW1rtibnLS

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Jan 12, 2025

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January 12, 2025 at 03:16AM
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Of course @Jbarro and @mattyglesias want to build way MORE housing in these places where WaPo says housing should never have been built in the first place. Yglesias wants “unlimited height” apartments.https://t.co/WAOVGi8nyt I sense some tension on the left here. https://t.co/wBfQOxVTtI

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Jan 12, 2025

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January 12, 2025 at 03:12AM
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.@WashingtonPost seems to say that much of LA should never have been built, including Pacific Palisades 100 years ago. https://t.co/vZsAGzQFb4

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Jan 12, 2025

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January 12, 2025 at 02:57AM
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????? https://t.co/6coFPoYNnj

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Jan 11, 2025

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January 11, 2025 at 02:30PM
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Has anyone else noticed that, aside from the famous riff in the chorus, Al Kooper’s organ playing on “Like a Rolling Stone” is kind of … awful? [He would probably admit this.]

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Jan 11, 2025

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January 11, 2025 at 05:26AM
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Solid “situationer,” as they call it https://t.co/V2qnHB13hk

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Jan 10, 2025

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January 10, 2025 at 05:03PM
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From @Politico’s defense of Karen Bass on the LA Fire Dept. budget: “[O]verall concerns about the department’s staffing level have persisted for a number of years.” Hmm. Let’s hear more about these “concerns.” … https://t.co/C5IopIm009

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Jan 10, 2025

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January 10, 2025 at 05:32AM
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“As urban growth spreads into wilderness areas …” Palisades has been there a long time. I don’t think it’s grown all that much in the last few decades. Hard to say ‘houses-encroaching-on-nature’ is the reason the hydrants couldn’t handle the fire. https://t.co/93A4O0s746

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Jan 10, 2025

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January 10, 2025 at 05:00AM
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This article https://t.co/v5J4UG35vT was flagged by Google AI to show that Californians whose homes are burned down won’t lose their Prop 13 assessment when they rebuild the same house. Hope it’s true! Prop 13 has problems but it’s the only thing keeping many non-rich families… https://t.co/sIkRtV7UI8

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Jan 10, 2025

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January 10, 2025 at 03:31AM
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It’s not that they ran out of water. It’s just that “we were not able to fill the tanks fast enough,” Oh, well then! … (‘We didn’t lose the game. We were just not able to score more points than the other team.’)

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Jan 10, 2025

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January 10, 2025 at 02:40AM
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Some people seem to feel this article https://t.co/eysy4kLG95 gets LA officials and planners off the hook for the failure of water to come out of fire hydrants. You see there was “unprecedented demand”!–i.e. there was a fire.

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Jan 10, 2025

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January 10, 2025 at 02:35AM
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Paradise Lost https://t.co/QI58ZfCohC PS You know who doesn’t seem to have lost focus on “the basics” despite White House ambitions? @RonDeSantis. Floridians can correct me if I’m wrong.

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Jan 10, 2025

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January 09, 2025 at 08:51PM
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ONE BILLION AMERICANS gotta live on a collapsing cliff falling (eventually) into the ocean. (Why do the YIMBYs always pick the nicest neighborhoods—Palisades, Beverly Hills flats–to make examples of? Plenty of non-descript and ex-warehouse neighborhoods that could be less… https://t.co/ck5irwC4lg https://t.co/WAOVGi8nyt

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Jan 10, 2025

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January 09, 2025 at 08:42PM
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The fire budget was apparently $837 M *before* the $17.6 M cut, not after. Apologies. Still. https://t.co/iBqdLMfOH8 https://t.co/2huVBLS8nx

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Jan 10, 2025

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January 09, 2025 at 08:35PM
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$17.6 million doesn’t seem a huge cut ( $837 million remained). Surely there’s that much flab. But a second prong of the Fireman First principle, IIRC, is that the people at the bottom who do the real work (not the people at HQ) are the ones who’ll actually get cut if it comes to… https://t.co/fO1ZtH1MT4

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Jan 10, 2025

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January 09, 2025 at 08:04PM
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Charlie Peters’ “Fireman First” principle says you always threaten to cut firemen in order to create a public outcry against budget cuts. You’re not supposed to actually do it. https://t.co/59hPXhPsuT

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Jan 10, 2025

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January 09, 2025 at 07:58PM
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Pacific Palisades is an example of a pleasant, walkable community that will never, ever be served by a subway or light rail. A funicular maybe. https://t.co/WAOVGi7PIV

— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 9, 2025

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January 09, 2025 at 06:47PM
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Huh. (I understand the Articles are no longer in effect. Still.) https://t.co/Ii0om4mGzh

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Jan 9, 2025

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