"The iconic Eames House, Getty Villa, and other Los Angeles landmarks are still at risk of destruction amid raging wildfires across Southern California. But what are the other buildings impacted by the Palisades fires?"
"For some design geeks... the heart and soul of L.A.’s architecture resides not just in its museums and office towers but also in its exalted, often otherworldly houses."
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| Will Roger's house, January, 2025. |
"The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges"
— Marcel Duchamp
"Composer Arnold Schoenberg's archive destroyed in LA fires"
— BBC News
At the Senate hearings on the nominee for Secretary of Defense: "Hegseth’s past comments [about women in combat] didn’t distinguish women who meet certain standards from other women; he said women shouldn’t serve in combat, period. As recently as November — shortly before Trump picked him — he said, 'I’m straight up just saying we should not have women in combat roles.'"
"U.S. securities regulators sued Elon Musk in federal court in Washington on Tuesday in an enforcement action arising from his $44 billion purchase of Twitter, now called X."
"Donald Trump raised alarm last week when he refused to rule out military intervention to bring Greenland and the Panama Canal under US control"
— Guardian
"Amid the parade of surreal images from the last few days, few have been stranger than this one: a FEMA disaster recovery center for L.A. fire victims inside the former Westside Pavilion. Alongside the escalators and signs for the now-defunct movie theater in the carcass of what was once L.A.’s premiere shopping mall, dozens of government agencies have gathered to offer fire aid."
"For President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters, the fires are a parable of liberal ineffectiveness. And the villains are Democratic politicians like the feckless mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, who had left town just as the National Weather Service issued warnings about the increased dangers of the approaching winds. But the edging out of the Los Angeles middle class has been a long-running, bipartisan project. Today, the budget-slashing values of Ronald Reagan and the taxpayer revolt remain woven, by law, into the fabric of California life."
— OpEd in NYT by Héctor Tobar
"Over the past month, we’ve learned that Donald Trump’s inauguration fund has received million-dollar donations from, among others, Google, Meta overlord Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Apple boss Tim Cook. Hard to know whether it’s encouraging or quite the opposite to find them being so public about it."
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