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@spacedglam Valley Girl, alas, would have to make the list somehow. Maybe on a double bill with…wait for it, Mildred Pierce

What’s the most LA movie ever?

@spacedglam @payphoneexhibit Saw it in the theater, which makes me old AF

@payphoneexhibit I want to see it in a theater! 😩

@researchUSAI The speed and eagerness with which the media and Demo aligned deep state alumni have proclaimed defeat and now openly cheer for it should be studied for years to come. The upside of social media is an electronic paper trail, there for all to peruse

US jets and Israeli attacks just lit up Iran's fuel depots at Mashhad Airport. Blasts echo through the northeast, fires raging as attacks push deeper. CENTCOM's Admiral Cooper reports undeniable progress. Week five, and Iran's navy sits dead in the water, no aircraft fly, defenses broke. Reapers shred their UAVs with Hellfires, footage confirms the hits. Tehran's IRGC fires back desperate Ghadr missiles at Israel and US spots in the UAE, posters mocking Trump and Netanyahu. But intercepts hold the line. Proxies stir. Hezbollah drones buzz Metulla, rockets scream toward Haifa Bay and tiny Malkia village on Passover night. Sirens wail, families dive for cover at the Seder table, kids asking Mom if the bad men return. IDF jets lift off, Nahal recon kills a gunman in close clash, over 40 Hezbollah thugs taken out in 24 hours. Two Israeli infants hurt by the fallout, but Iron Dome races to shield. Oil changes past $112, Brent over $110, US pumps feel the sting as Hormuz tightens. Iran bans US and Israeli ships, demands yuan payments, but yields to Philippine flagged tankers. OPEC+ targets quota hikes Sunday, quotas relaxing as Iran's grip slips. Trump calls Japan, France, South Korea, even China to patrol the Strait. Macron whines it's neither elegant nor serious, contradicts. Yet trusts NATO's bond under fire. China shields Hezbollah, demands Israel quit Lebanon, accuses US Israel of illegal hits. Qatar sends its tenth UN letter on Iranian aggression against its turf. Russia sneaks a second fuel ship to Cuba, mocks from afar. Ukraine drones slam 15 Russian refineries, cutting Putin's fuel. India sees no petroleum scarcity, shipments sail in balanced. US trade deficit widens to -$57.3 billion, jobless claims tick up slightly, but initial claims drop to 202K Factories hum. Google targets gas plants for AI power, manufacturing roars with record capital goods imports. Artemis II astronauts orbit Earth 24 hours, checks green for the moon flyby. America reclaims the stars. One F-35 pilot spots a Hezbollah rocket nest aimed at families. He dives, lights it up. Forty gone. Lebanese moms breathe easier tonight. Iran's negotiators wounded in Pakistan backchannel, wife killed. Plots in tatters. G7 and GCC huddle next week on Hormuz. UAE blasts Iran, vows stability. But Austria denies US flyover requests mid fight. Pilots geared up, wives by the phone... What whispers in Vienna's ear? Tehran's refineries next on deck. One mom's little girl peers out the bunker slit... Will dawn bring quiet skies?

@_MattHuff Because it’s in the City of LA, where we cannot have nice things

Respectfully to all parties involved, how is this LA Venice Blvd property 1 BLOCK from downtown Culver City, not something *more* than a 1 story, 1 star dialysis clinic?

@arojinle1 What is the verification process for the ladies in this event?

There's nothing you won't see on the internet. So, this woman named Becky is attempting the World Masturbation records. You need to see how friends, parents and her boss came to support her. The highlight for me was when they started saying we believe she can do it because she's been "training for months" They made it sound like it's the marathon she's preparing for. I hope it's just a skit

Iran has no ability to produce new missiles. Very soon it will run out. Just as it is running out of places to hide launchers. De-militarizing the Strait is a methodical and straightforward process…once we get assets into place. US moving cautiously on that front, looking to avoid casualties and bad headlines. Give it a few weeks.

No, this is wrong. War doesn't have a scoresheet, a scoreboard, referes, or judges. War exists for one thing only: to force, and enforce, a behavior change upon a people or state. Behavior change is accomplished by breaking the will of the enemy to oppose the change, or physically removing their ability to engage in the behavior. Destroying the other's armed forces is usually one way to victory and forcing the behavioral change, because they are then powerless to resist further pressure. But behavior change usually requires directly applied force at the populace level: someone with a lethal weapon telling the citizenry "you can't go there/do that/meet there/etc." That is the "boots on the ground" issue that is so difficult (not impossible, but very difficult) to enforce or change via air power alone. Air power (and even drones) give one level of response only to the people you're trying to force a behavior change upon: indiscriminate lethal force, often unconnected to the behavior attempting to be changed. In this case, the U.S. is, in fact and deed as well as theory, losing this war. We have been unable to enforce a desired behavior change upon the Iranians. We have killed the decision-makers. We have destroyed many of their tools of power and behavior enforcement. But we have been spectacularly unsuccessful in forcing a behavior change. We have also been spectacularly unsuccessful in even removing their ability to conduct undesirable behavior in the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, or of successfully hittingand destroying our allies, our bases, and regional infrastructure with missile and drone attacks. Indeed, their behavior has only gotten more undesirable from the outset,not better. We have had a negative impact on behavioral modification, and we have accomplished this at gret cost and loss ourselves. It doesn't matter how many pieces of military equipment of theirs we destroy. That isn't how one wins a war, and it isn't how one guages success or failure of a military operation. Too many have clearly forgotten this, or possibly never understood it, especially the jackwangs who are supposed to be running things in our government. We're not only losing, we're losing bigly, yuge, by the only yardstick tht matters. This is an abject and thoroughly humiliating defeat (so far) by an inferior and largely destroyed military, and it is going to have world-altering ramifications.

Reality in the Iran War is somewhere between the doomers - who claim we're losing - and the triumphalists The US & Israel have struck Iran 18k times so far (WSJ). The Iranians seem to be hitting targets ~10 times a day, with dozens more intercepted. That's about a 60:1 ratio 1/

@LAPDCARRANZA @nithyavraman Lillian for Mayor. Thank you for this

Stop the gaslighting! We all saw the videos of the threats, vandalism, ADW with cement rocks and attack on law enforcement. City leadership (YOU) has a responsibility to accurately describe events. When documented acts of violence are downplayed or omitted, it undermines public trust and accountability.#ComplyNowComplainLater #LAPD #lawandorder @LAPDHQ

Angelenos should not be kettled, arrested, or punished for exercising their First Amendment rights — including the right to document what they see. If you were detained or arrested for bearing witness or for “unlawful assembly” after you were already being contained, that demands accountability. I’m calling on the City to drop charges against people who were peacefully exercising their rights, and to conduct a full, transparent review of LAPD crowd-control tactics and any coordination that put immigrant communities and protestors at risk. As Mayor, I will take every legislative, legal, and administrative action I can to Trump-proof LA and make clear that ICE is not welcome here — and I will hold our police department accountable to upholding that.

@JosephKahn A lot of people bought their houses in the pre-woke era before the social contract shifted beneath our feet

I've never understood why anyone lives in Los Angeles proper if they're not in the entertainment business from a pure cost of living pov. San Diego at least has better public schools and is safer (if you're trying to raise a family), with all the California beauty.

@shagbark_hick The low rent meccas were in abundance in California as recently as the 90s. Also Oregon, N. Idaho. Now they’re in the rust belt. Whereas before you could kind of have your Mediterranean weather AND genteel poverty, plus your brotherhood of oddballs.

Worse, there appears to be no will to create a "low-rent intellectual scene" in the USA. I suspect this is largely because the youth are more immobile than ever. To create a "mecca" for artists, thinkers, and so on, you need several things: 1. You need a low-rent place 2. You need footloose "thinking people" who are willing to relocate to that low-rent place more or less on a whim. 3. There must be ample cheap bars and cafes in that place. 4. Those present must be FAR more interested in studying, debating, reading, writing, loafing, and making art than in working a job. Numbers 1 and 3 already exist in amplitude. There are tons of American towns that are super low-rent with ample cheap bars and cafes. Probably thousands of such towns exist -- some of them even exist on Amtrak, relatively close to major cities, or near substantial airports. It's numbers 2 and 4 that just don't seem to exist. Very few young intellectual types seem disposed to move across state lines on a whim -- especially to a low-rent, low-wage place. Moreover, most younger thinking people are lately taken with chasing high wages in order to finance an increasingly socially-requisite luxury lifestyle -- they're just not interested in "slumming it" so they can write novels and such. This is strange, because most of them do romanticize times and places when great artists, writers, and thinkers were "slumming it," discoursing into the night, living in motels, Patti Smith wandering Brooklyn in the 80's, McCarthy in El Paso, etc. I do not think it's a dramatic overstatement to say that because of this state of affairs, America's cultural and intellectual influence is stagnant or perhaps even on the wane. Our art sucks, our novels suck, our intellectual classes suck, our universities are death-spiraling, and there are no more "vibrant and cheap" havens for thinking people anymore. This is largely because our increasingly small pool of thinking people has been immobilized, atomized, and psyopped into running the rat race.

@micsolana Don’t think suicidal empathy is the correct term for this woman. The level of aggression in her voice suggests a wish to partake, to align herself with the droogs.

impulse of the woman on the bike, furious at the man being attacked for refusing to stand down, is a much bigger problem than the roving gangs of clockwork orange youth. there need to be very strong taboos against the morally inverted karen.

@olcaytux It’s not “their waterway”. The Strait of Hormuz belongs to the world. Would you abide Spain or Morocco demanding a million dollars from every ship transiting the Mediterranean?

@olcaytux "Permission". The IRGC is now straight piracy. Hitting a tanker is like shooting a cow in a feedlot and pretending you're a big game hunter.

@GetMentalWealth @emmysteuer This was my question as well, though Emma has a point

@emmysteuer actual lies or just grand talking?

This was the biggest culture shock I’ve ever experienced coming from a small town. I didn’t understand what was happening at first

Hard disagree on fourplexes in SFH neighborhoods. Absolute dealbreaker. If she wants to win she should sign a pledge agreeing never to do this. There are hundreds of miles of low rise along the commuter thoroughfares waiting to be developed vertically. Pick the low hanging fruit.

@DisgracedProp I’ve been calling it Bento Box.

We still don't have an agreed upon name for these hideous monstrosities

@DoctoraNataliaa “Levels” are a female construct, designed to thwart the mating ambitions of other women: ‘girl, dump him, he’s not on your level.’ I know no man who thinks like this.

Hoy hablaba con una doctora amiga que también es divorciada y me decía que le cuesta encontrar pareja a su nivel. ¿Creen que los hombres se sienten intimidados por mujeres con tanto éxito?

@maddenifico Why are you running IRGC propaganda on your timeline? Is this what you want to be remembered for?

Iran is now releasing cartoons that Trump can understand. 😂🤣👇

@Post_Thirty If you see an attractive woman in SF, she’s a tourist

The number one requirement for any city in the US to have a great nightlife and social scene is an abundance of good looking White women. Without that, the social scene becomes a replica of San Francisco.

@harrisondubay ‘Anorexia alley’. I’m using that!

Why are Anglos obsessed with houses that don’t touch. What is the anorexia alley achieving

@jamesonhaslam Okay, I’m envious. My siblings span three states.

file this under things that make sense in a SoCal beach city