"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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There are no words for what is going on.
cette revue de presse est sidérante, et le titre de votre article me semble assez proche en effet de la réalité. C'est une triste chose, au delà des pertes humaines de voir combien d'oeuvres d'art et d'archives se sont volatilisées en cendres. Mais il semble que l'aveuglement au désastre continue plus que jamais. A l'heure où il faudrait un Roosevelt, c'est Trump qui est aux affaires, et c'est vraiment dramatique
Hello,
The wildfires are devastating. It is sad to see Will Roger's landmark home destroyed. I pray for all the people who have lost their homes and businesses. Take care, have a great day.
It is simply awful.
Great quotes Mae, and so many truths and fears too.
There is just so much destruction and loss in Los Angeles and it isn't over. So sad.
Yes, burning in more than one way....
Everything you said/wrote here is so spot on in every way. (There was an article in today's NYT on architecturally significant buildings lost in the fires. The fires, the destruction to lives, home, animals, property, the environment, just breaks me. And that doesn't even begin to include Dumpster Don's fire that is beginning to get bigger. Get me out of here!
It is very sad about the LA County fires -- and all the destruction. What's in the news these days is alarming.
It must feel unbearable in American to be facing such horrific fires in such an iconic part of the country as all the world fear such an uncertain future with Trump in control of the country we all looked to for stability and support.
In response to your quotes I had one from a local newspaper in Australia that shows one way in which the LA fires are impacting people far beyond American:
"Former Fire and Rescue NSW commissioner Greg Mullins said fire services around the world were confronting a new paradigm in which the ability to call on help from other nations while their firefighting resources lay unused in winter was evaporating.
“What they’ve been talking about for years is a 12-month fire season in California, rather than four months that ends in November,” Mullins said.
“Fire season used to be quite distinct. The North American fire season would finish and ours would start. We’d be able to share things like large aircraft and if we had big fires, we could call them and get specialist firefighters, incident management personnel.”"
https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/fire-seasons-are-becoming-a-constant-global-threat-this-may-leave-australia-on-its-own-20250109-p5l30j.html
As an Oklahoman, the Will Rogers ranch destruction was sobering. (We live very close to his museum here.) It is all so sobering and sad and there are no words. At. All.
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