Los Angeles fires: What social media shows me today

From a distance, I see this on socials.

Holy cow. Just woke up to this view from mid-Wilshire looking downtown

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— Lainna Fader (@lainna.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 10:23 AM

This Maxar Technologies sat image with SWIR shows what was on fire in Altadena, California this morning at 10:45 a.m. local time. Nearly everything.

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— Paul P Murphy, CNN (@paulpmurphy.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 8:36 PM

at the end of a 14hr flight into LAX, the pilot told us not to be alarmed if we smelled smoke, the plane wasn’t on fire, just the city

— maura quint (@mauraquint.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM

People outside of LA truly don’t understand how apocalyptic this is. It’s worse than it’s ever been. Entire residential neighborhoods are burning to the ground.

— Kumail Nanjiani (@kumail.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM

In 1998 brilliant Mike Davis wrote ‘The Case for Letting Malibu Burn’. 30 years later the wealthiest aren’t necessarily any safer from climate disaster, they’re just richer. I predict more events like the King & Queen of Spain getting shit thrown at them in Valencia. longreads.com/2018/12/04/t...

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— Aaron Stewart-Ahn (@badideas.bsky.social) January 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM

With each disaster, it is important to say: This is happening because it makes some people rich, and those people are planning to escape on their own lifeboat without you. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/lifeboat-c...

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— Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM

"villainy in action" is too accurate www.newsweek.com/california-i...

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— Peter Butler (@peter-butler.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM

"last year LA City Council approved the mayor's budget to cut $23 million from the LA Fire Dept, as well as cuts to many other departments, so they could give the LAPD a $138 million increase"

Can't speak to this source, but the article says it was a $23,000,000 cut to FD and a $138,000,000 increase to the PD. patch.com/california/l...

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— anonymoustroll.bsky.social (@anonymoustroll.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM

As we witness these heartbreaking scenes from the fires in LA, an important reminder that incarcerated people make up over 30% of California’s forest firefighters.

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— Dr. Lucky Tran (@luckytran.com) January 8, 2025 at 1:41 AM

“Will pay any amount.” Feels like one of those futile pleas we’re going to hear from wealthy people more and more in the era of climate change.

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— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM

if the blue check doesn't make this obvious, this guy is a Trump-y CEO who posts about how taxes should be eliminated.

— Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM

I mean…

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— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 2:03 AM

He also appears to own a Cybertruck and was celebrating “liberal tears” on Election Day, which should come as no surprise.

— Matt Novak (@paleofuture.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM

After losing my third home in a tragic wildfire caused by the George Lincoln Rockwell Foundation Data Center for Industrial Spying, I am opening a seed round for my new firefighting startup, Dousr. It’s an app that trains poor people to run into burning buildings and rescue your valuables

— CHOAM Nomsky (@thielman.bsky.social) January 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM