The first woman and second-ever Black person to serve as mayor of L.A. is under attack by conservative trolls like Elon Musk and Donald Trump.
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass tour the downtown business district of Pacific Palisades as the Palisades Fire continues to burn on January 8, 2025.(Photo by Eric Thayer/Getty Images)
It was a perfect recipe for a disaster in Los Angeles: 10 months of drought after a summer of record-setting heat. Bone-dry scrub grass and vegetation — near-unlimited wildfire fuel. Hurricane-force winds barreling down from mountains, packing gusts of up to 90 miles per hour.
But apparently Karen Bass — the first woman and second-ever Black person to serve as mayor of Los Angeles — was supposed to snap her Black Girl Magic fingers and stop the massive, Santa Ana wind-driven, climate change-fueled fires in her city that have killed at least 10 people and burned entire neighborhoods to the ground. On TV, in social media and in the newspapers, conservatives are blasting Bass for an environmental disaster that’s out of her control.
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The devastation in L.A.’s Pacific Palisades neighborhood — as well as other parts of Los Angeles County, like Altadena and Pasadena, where Bass isn’t even in charge — is unprecedented.
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