Mountain Fire burns over 20K acres; 132 structures, mostly homes, destroyed, 88 damaged A wildfire started in the Somis area on Wednesday morning and tore through 30 square miles by mid-day Thursday, destroying dozens of homes, sending residents to the hospital and forcing evacuations ... 11/7/2024 - 10:29 pm | View Link
Wildfire Tears Through Southern California Community After Burning Dozens of Homes Damage estimates were expected to begin ... were burning in the same areas of other recent destructive fires, including the 2018 Woolsey Fire, which killed three people and destroyed 1,600 homes near ... 11/7/2024 - 12:50 am | View Link
Rapidly Moving Brush Fire in California Burns Homes and Prompts Evacuations Firefighters were working to contain fires in Ventura and Los Angeles Counties amid dangerous ... after it swept across more than 14,000 acres in a matter of hours, burning homes and prompting ... 11/5/2024 - 11:00 am | View Link
Oklahoma Tornado Update: Photos and Videos Show Destruction After Storms Having suffered severe thunderstorms and tornadoes, people in Oklahoma are sharing the extent of the damage across the state. 11/2/2024 - 10:30 pm | View Link
Wildfires Are Moving Faster and Causing More Damage A small number of fast-moving wildfires cause almost all the property damage by forcing firefighters to focus on saving lives ... 10/28/2024 - 4:47 am | View Link
Today I bring you "You Must Be out of Your Mind" by Magnetic Fields, which I find strangely comforting.
John Pavlovitz: What The Hell Just Happened, America?
alicublog: Friday ‘Round-the-Horn: People Just Get Uglier and I Have No Sense of Time Edition.
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In the NBC video report above, titled, “Who is Susie Wiles, Trump’s White House Chief of Staff pick?” the “liberal media” outlet painted a glowing portrait of Wiles as, among other things, a “good listener.” She has definitely already proved herself that, though not in the way the NBC report meant.
C&L has already reported on Wiles’ conflict of interest as a tobacco lobbyist while running Trump’s 2024 campaign.
Welcome to Gilead. All the postmortems are really missing the point. The evangelicals did this.
This is your open thread for Sunday morning. Feel free to rant, scream or if you have positive things to say, go for it.
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The high stakes U. S. election this week is on track to match the record 66% turnout set four years ago, and surpass the routinely lower midterm election turnout that peaked at 49% in 2018. But as records go, these look sad when you consider that many democracies get closer to 80% of their voters to head to the polls.
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With between a third or half of all voters deciding to stay home, and most voters expressing dissatisfaction with the options they are being offered at the ballot box, it is worth taking a step back to understand how America elects its leaders.
The first episode of “The Double Life of My Billionaire Husband” pans out like a daytime TV melodrama: a female protagonist asks her father and evil stepmother for $50,000 to pay for her mother’s kidney dialysis treatment. Cue an evil stepsister, who snarkily says that the payment is assured—if the lead marries the illegitimate son of a prominent family, who is supposedly a grade-A loser.
Today is Sunday, Nov. 10, the 315th day of 2024. There are 51 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Nov. 10,1969, the children’s educational program “Sesame Street” made its debut on National Educational Television (now PBS).
Also on this date:
In 1775, the U. S. Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress.
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In 1898, in Wilmington, North Carolina, a mob of as many as 2,000 white supremacists killed dozens of African Americans, burned Black-owned businesses and forced the mayor, police chief and aldermen to resign at gunpoint, before installing their own mayor and city council in what became known as the “Wilmington Coup.”
In 1954, the U.