is this companies hunkering down and getting into a defensive crouch because of an upcome coming recession that they see, or is this deeper and broader and elon musk seems to have its own orbit happening, its own gravitational pull, if you will. i don t know how to summarize the elon musk situation. those are not macroeconomic forces as much as, i don t know what forces to describe them as. but there are, as you said, halle, so many different reasons that these various companies are retrenching. we saw it of course with twitter as it was restructured under elon musk. he cut half the work force. over the weekend, he has cut the contractor work force on who we depend to keep violent content off the platform, like twitter. these are the content moderators that make sure that extreme content doesn t get on there. then you have of course meta laying off 11,000 people, the largest cut in the history of that company, and that happens right in the shadow of the twitter layoffs. and now you h
with community, we should use our faith community leaders, our neighborhood leaders, and we should do it together, understanding that there you know there are times when crime does a spike. and we have to come together to help ensure everybody make sure everybody is safe. yeah, one thing i the things that i watch happen, i think that i ve seen democrats in the kind of defensive crouch trying to change the subject. i think that s in the wake, and particularly of reform, like bail reform that s happened here in new york, which i think it s been quite affective, all of this is a show that it is not driving the crime increase. again, when you look at this comparative the these data stats, you see them in places that didn t have bail reform. right? but an affirmative message of public safety, that isn t just like hand waving, i saw this pew polling, and i love to get your thoughts on it: 81% black registered voters a violent crime is very important to the midterm votes, compared wit
special. joining me now live is uso o and ceo j.d. crouch. j.d., welcome. great to be here. mike: so what ice your wonderful organization doing to make the holidays better for military families, particularly the youngest members of those families? right. this kicks off our busiest time of year, the holiday season. this is what people miss the most, they miss the time around the thanksgiving dinner table, the christmas celebration and halloween. we ve got halloween things going on all over the world at our 250 locations from guam, they re doing a big holiday parade. we re up at fort bragg with a monster bash going on there. in germany the kids will be doing holiday activities. so it s every one of our usos is really activate ad. and it s about the kids but it s also about the service members. we ve got service members in poland and romania right now, and they re missing their holiday parties as well. we re going to have halloween activities for them and a way for them to connect bac