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The traumatic toll of the fires on the L.A region’s children cannot be underestimated and may portend long-term difficulties, child development experts say.

While Reid was considered the most left-leaning of MSNBC’s hosts, her departure does not portend a change in direction at the network, which has a tribal following among political progressives.

The gags were mild and inoffensive, the perfect way to portend the remainder of the show, which felt the same way.

But for those of us who watched it closely at the time, it was a troubling portend of what turned out to be a full-blown fascist movement.

And China’s current economic troubles could portend less trade and less generosity for faraway governments.