Reposted by Larry GrossLaura J. Nelson @laurajnelson.bsky.social · 09/01/2025I love Los Angeles with every fiber of my being and the cast of local characters like this is way up there as a reason. 2617
Reposted by Larry GrossMatt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 09/01/2025Reading DeLillo as a soothing activity and as a reward have received this description of being a writer. 1331
Reposted by Larry GrossBadly Licked Bear @badlylickedbear.bsky.social · 09/01/2025This is Los Angeles. You step outside and breathe in the ashes of your friends' homes while charred pages from someone's beloved books glide to your feet on poison winds. 211493324
Reposted by Larry GrossKaren Dalton Beninato @kbeninato.bsky.social · 10/01/2025A gentle reminder that it's not doom posting when you're currently undergoing doom. So let it rip if it helps. 320031
Reposted by Larry GrossJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 09/01/2025New: Meta employees are furious about a new policy that allows users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill." Some have resigned in protest. Some LGBTQ+ employees have started saying they if they are 'mentally ill' they should get leave of absences from work www.404media.co/its-total-ch...404media.co‘It’s Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now’: Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ ChangesMeta's decision to specifically allow users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill" has sparked widespread backlash at the company. 370111853320
Reposted by Larry GrossRogue Citizen One @roguecitizenone.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Over 15,000 doctors have signed a letter imploring the US Senate to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation for Secretary of HHS. The letter states: “RFK Jr. is not only unqualified to lead this essential agency — he is actively dangerous.” 1/ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...independent.co.uk15,000 doctors sign letter begging Senate to reject RFK Jr for health secretaryKennedy, among other controversies, has spread misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine 702238037166
Reposted by Larry GrossDiane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 09/01/2025"Virtue signaling": a phrase invented by those who've smashed their own moral compasses and are pissed off that others' can still find north. 292648757
Reposted by Larry GrossGuillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Stopping by to thank everyone helping, supporting or encouraging friends, neighbors or brave safety and firefighters out here and there… Back to it. 495040323
Reposted by Larry GrossAnonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Over 60 German and Austrian universities, the German Federal Court of Justice and multiple top German football clubs have announced that they will be withdrawing from Twitter (X), due to US oligarch Elon Musk's "discussion" (collaboration) with Germany's neo-Nazi party (AfD) Alice Weidl. 436131543398
Reposted by Larry GrossTracy @tracyskates.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Let’s thank the Canadian and Mexican firefighters who have come to help with the fight in LA. Neighbors help, they do not threaten. See how that works Cheeto? 2183
Reposted by Larry GrossJacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Albino Fuentes has worked in the Palisades for 34 years and is as much a Palisadian as the people who lay their heads here at night. I’ve known him since I was eight years old. www.nbcnews.com/video/pacifi...nbcnews.com'Beautiful memories’: Pacific Palisades worker has emotional return to ruins of former eateryAlbie Fuentes is joined by NBC News’ Jacob Soboroff as he returns to the ruins of Cafe Vida, the popular eatery he worked at for 15 years before the Palisades Fire. 727660
Reposted by Larry GrossJacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 11/01/2025miraculously our synagogue survived the Palisades Fire. while a third of the congregation lost their homes, the temple remains as a spiritual home for them and people of all faiths in the Palisades. youtu.be/b3j06Gg_2jAyoutu.beSymbols of hope amid devastation in Pacific PalisadesYouTube video by NBC News 1652368
Reposted by Larry GrossHari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 11/01/2025 So many people have lost everything in the LA fire, but I’m also beginning to hear about cultural destruction - Gary Indiana’s archive, artist studios and storage (someone said all of Mike Kelley’s archive is gone), the Andrew McNally mansion … 77517
Reposted by Larry GrossDr Oddman - #AntiFa @droddman.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Defunding WHO, disbanding pandemic defense is like shutting down Fire stations in LA - California this week! 10392152
Reposted by Larry GrossLarry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 11/01/2025When you're dismissing A-list celebrities and millionaires who lost their homes in the LA fires, realize that the overwhelming majority of fire victims are like this man 692279791
Reposted by Larry GrossMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/01/2025You have to admire the chutzpah of Ted Cruz attacking Karen Bass and Dems in LA right now. Ted Cruz wasn’t on an official trip out of town when Texas snow storms hit & shut down his state - he fled to Cancun AFTER the crisis began, to stay at the Ritz & have a nice time. 250+ people died in Texas 37547881022
Reposted by Larry GrossBob Morris, MD, PhD @rdmorris.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Cambridge Analytica invented micro targeted advertising and used a backdoor to Facebook to give us Trump 1.0. By eight years later, when Elon Musk pranced across the stage doing the ketamine shuffle with Donald Trump, everything had changed. open.substack.com/pub/drbobmor...open.substack.comIs Donald Trump 2.0 Our First AI Generated President?How Musk and Grok made Cambridge Analytica look quaint 0229
Reposted by Larry GrossMorgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 15/12/2024Thank God Vanity Fair is keeping it REAL! 813308136249
Reposted by Larry GrossAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/12/2024Way to go Liz. This is just insane 792245785559
Reposted by Larry GrossBrian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 22/12/2024We all deserve so much better than Musk and Trump, especially Lady Liberty and all the wonderful girls and women in our lives. Can’t believe this is the country we have become. We will rise and #Resist to protect fundamental freedoms and rights. LFG!! 481630431
Reposted by Larry GrossNadine Smith @nadinesmith.bsky.social · 23/12/2024My New Year’s Resolution. What’s yours? 540222294607
Reposted by Larry GrossGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 24/12/2024The irony is thick here. 4259396185882
Reposted by Larry GrossNYC🚕🗽BLUEGIRL🦋 @nycbluegirl.bsky.social · 06/01/2025100% . Best thing ever! 172
Reposted by Larry GrossKOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 11/01/20251910.craftsman.on.burns Kris and Dave 5439
Reposted by Larry Grosstomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 11/01/2025Wild theories blaming aid to Ukraine or Israel for L.A.’s wildfires are gaining traction online, fueled by partisan agendas. These claims distract from real issues like climate change, governance failures, and Santa Ana winds, undermining the ability to address such crises effectively. 1/2 2215
Reposted by Larry GrossSardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 11/01/2025 My soul is nothing now but the dream dreamt by matter struggling with itself! Paul Valéry, Dance and the Soul: Eryximachus (trans. William McCausland Stewart) 1258
Reposted by Larry GrossBeing Liberal ®🗽🏳️🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 11/01/2025A while back in 2012, Tom Toro published a cartoon in The New Yorker that remains the strongest accusation of the corporate greed. 7454124
Reposted by Larry Gross🦋🦋Donna Gutman🦋 @donnagutman.bsky.social · 11/01/2025We are living in Al Capone’s world. Absolute fealty 012
Reposted by Larry GrossElizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 11/01/2025I spent a year in Saskatoon, after I finished university , I love Canadians, I am now an ex pat living in the US , currently in Los Angeles , I love Canadians even more. Thanks Canada 🇨🇦 sorry about that fat bastard. 413925
Reposted by Larry GrossMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/01/2025"Right-Wingers Blame California Wildfires on Anything but Climate Change" Diversity! Migrants! Salmon! For Zeteo, @katmabu.bsky.social breaks down the right’s most ridiculous claims about the LA fires and what's actually responsible for them. Watch/share/subscribe:zeteo.comRight-Wingers Blame California Wildfires on Anything but Climate ChangeDiversity! Migrants! Salmon! Kat Abughazaleh breaks down the right’s most ridiculous claims about the LA fires. 29758641290
Reposted by Larry GrossRuben Garcia @gorubenruben.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Oralè Resister LA Fires: who you going to call? Mexico! #MexicanFireBusters Mexican pilots, Mexican FireFighting Helicopters and Mexican Firefighters on the ground. All here to help Angelinos Save lives and homes. Thank you Mexico! #LAFire #MexicoHelpsLA 317746
Reposted by Larry Grossclaire de lune @clairempls.bsky.social · 11/01/2025it’s so hard to wrap my mind around the fact that the version of los angeles i’ve known, the one i fell in love with, will never exist in the same way again. defies comprehension 71358
Reposted by Larry GrossMaggie 🇺🇸⚾️ @lacentrist.bsky.social · 11/01/2025A friend of mine took this shot near LAX. Please keep the people of LA in your thoughts. Fire Sky. 845160
Reposted by Larry GrossRuben Garcia @gorubenruben.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Oralè Resisters L A Fires Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum has announced she is sending more reinforcements to fight fires in Los Angeles! She Se Puede #LAFire #Mexico #ClaudiaSheinbaum 425155
Reposted by Larry GrossRuben Garcia @gorubenruben.bsky.social · 11/01/2025Oralè Resister LA Fires: who you going to call? Mexico! #MexicanFireBusters Mexican pilots, Mexican FireFighting Helicopters and Mexican Firefighters on the ground. All here to help Angelinos Save lives and homes. Thank you Mexico! #LAFire #MexicoHelpsLA 8456109
