HOW TO BUDGET BADLY 📝 The City of LA spent $247M on Liability Payouts in FY2024 but budgeted ONLY $87M for FY2025. One month into FY2025 (July 2024) & we've already spent $39.5M or 45%. TOP LIABILITY PAYOUTS (JULY 2024): 🚔LAPD: $22.8M 🤕 Misc: $11.9M 🚌 Transportation: $2.4M

LA is the next Summer Olympics host city. Will we be ready? Compared to Paris, LA has: 👥2x the population 👥👥👥👥👥10x the unsheltered population 🚇1/10 the transit ridership 🚇1/4 the transit vehicles per million people ⚠️3x the road deaths

40+ athletes have tested positive for COVID and for, I would guess, most of them, it will be the end of their athletic careers.

‘Not everybody is going to make it through the games healthy’ This is an absolute abdication of responsibility. And you’d better believe the organization referenced what everyone else is doing as justification for their disastrous policies. nxsttv.com/nmw/news/usopc…

What happened to "we will require Covid mitigations when cases are high"?

Thinking of African American & Latinx b-boys and girls who created this culture while being harassed by the cops back then. 50 years later…this

🤯 Sooo, "living with covid" really means doing absolutely nothing to mitigate it? Hospital putting air cleaners *in storage*? Why?! Should we abandon clean water and handwashing, too? Absolutely shameful.

This is so amazing and powerful! 16 & 17 year old residents of Oakland and Berkeley are all set to vote in the November school board elections. They can pre-register to vote here: registertovote.ca.gov Please spread the word! oaklandside.org/2024/08/08/oak…

Mount Sinai has opened a new center focused on “long COVID” research and care for residents of the South Bronx and East Harlem, two neighborhoods that have faced the highest hospitalization and death rates due to COVID.

For The Sick Times I wrote about how people with #LongCovid and #POTS are navigating heat intolerance as climate change leads to increasingly extreme weather. thesicktimes.org/2024/08/12/cli…

Critical note to journalists covering the election: pandemics and climate change are the biggest health threats of our time. It's irresponsible to cover candidate stances on health issues without mentioning them. KFF Health News Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 Hannah Norman

I missed feeling this quake - I was parking the car at a grocery store. This was a M4.4 in South Pasadena, essentially the same location as the M3.4 on June 02.

Findings from a new study of the association b/w net worth & slaveholder ancestry among members of Congress show legislators whose ancestors enslaved >= 16 individuals had a $3.93 million (95% CI 2.39–5.46) higher net worth… journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

New piece from me, about how the Democrats' pandemic denialism reached brave new heights at the superspreader DNC this week, celebrating their "victory" over COVID as a million Americans were infected each day in an August surge. thegauntlet.news/p/the-planet-t…

No shade on Eric Topol here cuz he isn’t wrong. But I am so tired of hearing “transmissible variant” and “waning immunity” as reasons for every single wave! These are just facts of COVID — it is transmissible & immunity wanes. Abandoned mitigation is the cause we can change.

These ‘Bring Your Own Meat’ Grilling Parties From L.A.’s DIY Punk Community Are Raising Thousands of Dollars for Palestine Written by Javier Cabral lataco.com/punks-for-pale…

Honestly feeling like all of LAist work on this deserves a Pulitzer, because none of this happens without them.

This is EXTREMELY important. These people are suing on the basis of the Americans w/ Disabilities Act. This will likely go to the Supreme Court (much like Dobbs did). If they lose it means the overturning of the right to not be discriminated against for your disability EVERYWHERE