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Noting the city’s famously-hot real estate scene, she presciently observes: “They say the only thing that would cool the housing market in L.A. is a catastrophe. An earthquake, a terrorist attack, or fires that rolled down from the canyons en masse and engulfed the city streets.”

That makes them not exactly ideal for releasing en masse.

The charges against the 12 appear to represent the most serious prosecution en masse to date in California of those arrested during demonstrations and encampments that roiled campuses last spring in protest of Israel’s war in Gaza.

Essentially US consumers en masse got richer with cheaper goods, but the quid pro quo was a profound loss of manufacturing to East Asia.

Such a pyramid thrives on a culture of playing football, en masse, for fun.