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Part of the l.a. skyline....

L.A.'s newest tourist attraction? Abandoned high-rises covered in graffiti

LOS ANGELES — Few people walking around downtown could look away from the spray-painted towers that have become an unlikely attraction in a city known for spectacle.

Crowds surrounded the popular Kobe Bryant statue outside Crypto.com Arena on Wednesday, and dozens of concertgoers lined up early for a rock show inside.

But the real draw for many near the intersection of 11th and Figueroa streets was the colorful graffiti decorating 30 floors of an abandoned real estate project.

bass was elected in 2022... this story is from feb 2024... they don't care how it looks.

There was noise about having someone buy the property, remove the graffiti and develope the property, but I don't know what happened...

bass is lying about the grafetti only showing up after the ice protest...

It’s been getting worse for probably the last decade, along with all the homeless living everywhere.

The ice protest were only really around the downtown area - the same area she called for curfews for...

The rest of the city is grafetti covered, because, like they do with shoplifters, robbers, etc, they won’t prosecute or punish anyone

Sure, on tv, the downtown l.a. area is pretty clean and grafetti and homeless free....

for about 2-3 blocks around city hall.... then it turns to doo doo

It’s all smoke and mirrors

Like a petulent child, scowling with his arms crossed, little big man rand paul said he was going to vote no, unless he got what he wanted....

So, after meeting with Trump while golfing saturday, and JD today, grand standing rand still wouldn’t budge, because he thought he would be king, and get everyone else to bow down before him and cut the debt celing for his vote....

I hope rand paul just changes party and admit he sides with the democrats already.... he does more to oppose Trump, than he did against the left

Thune can only afford three Republican defections and still pass the bill.

Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) are hard “no” votes.

how convenient randfand left out this information from the article

Trump apparently went golfing with lindsey graham, eric schmitt, and rand paul saturday, to talk and negotiate for support and votes.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports/trump-golfs-republican-senators-schmitt-graham-paul-ahead-big-beautiful-bill-vote

I guess rand paul stood firm on his demand increasing the debt ceiling be taken out....

rand probably also asked his cuts to funding of the border wall,

and halving the border patrol budget.

It appears rand paul didn’t get Trump to bend the knee to rand, so rand voted no....

Like I said previously, he might as well become a democrat, the way he stands in opposition to Trump

Likely bought and paid for mike lee was expecting a big windfall from hedge funds and equity group, as they bought up thousands and millions of acres of land, as they would be the only ones able to front the millions of dollars each lot would be sold for.

Thankfully, there appeared to have been enough opposition that it caused him to reconsider it, and hopefully, it tanks his career....

Remember, this isn't the only bad thing mike lee is responsible for. lee is also the one that has been mostly responsible for the large number of H1b visas that get issued every year...

opps... parliamentarian - spelling

The senate parlitarian is partisan, as she got her position from harry reid..... therefore a leftist.

which is likely why she took out suppressors and short barreled firearms out of the bill, even though their registration is by paying a tax, therefore is a budget item.

There’s a concert, and fireworks afterwards, at the National mall.

The protesters likely hope to cause problems among the people gathered there for the fireworks.

The leo can’t really use teargas or be aggressive with all the families that will be there.

After the no kings protest didn’t spark continued riots across the country, they had scheduled no kings 2.0 for july 17, supposedly for john lewis, because they thought they could get more support from using him as a facade.

no kings have since then, rescheduled for july 4th, in hopes of screwing up 4th of July celebrations across the country....

And to do that, they probably have mobilized antifa and dsa to instigate and provoke things and create violence.

It seems mike lee is a big proponent of selling off the land...

which would likely get bought by hedge funds and equity firms, not individuals...

who would then lock it up for themselves or developement.

I would like more lands open up for use, but not for sale like this.

rand paul may as well switch parties, considering how much he's been opposed to Trump and his agenda

It looks like the salt caps got raised because of 3 big tax states

A couple of the senators likely would be happy to not pass the budget bill, and go with a c.r., as they would be able to stick more pork into it, while publicly calling for more spending cuts.

And little big man rand paul still wants everyone else to bow down to his demand of not increasing the debt limit, or he'll vote no...

lol...

the source in this thread, is a site created by mark elias... the leftist lawyer who worked for clinton, created and pushed the russian dossier and collusion with Trump, and multiple lawsuits against Trump

To be clear.

This Supreme Court decision does not say anything about the legality of birthright citizenship.

What it does say, is that there are limits to district judges issuing nationwide injuctions against presidential executive orders.

It means that current injunctions that were filed against Trump’s EO have been partially stayed, so Trump’s EO now should apply nationwide

However, Trump will need to take the determination of what was meant in the 14th Amendment and birthright citizenship back to the Supreme Court again, for a final determination.

I don’t know what this means yet, for instance, for all the babies that have been born during this time period the district judges had issued their nationwide injunctions.

Definately rand paul.....

rand is probably in media doing interviews or articles twice a day, blabbing his big mouth about how he opposes the budget bill and opposing Trump on the border and border security

murkowsky, bless her heart, will likely die in office the way alaska set up ranked choice voting to keep her in office.

Trump needs votes to pass things, and rand paul doesn’t do anything except for special interest....

Mandonna Kashanian had been given an order of deportation

She appealed her deportation orders, all the the way to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

They upheld her deportation.

There is no stay of deportation - because she would have had to take it to the Supreme Court and won a judgement from them.

the reasons for upholding her deportion order, from the decision:

she was granted non immigrant student visa because she got married.

She divorced her first husband before her student visa exipred.

Sje was given an order of deportation which she appealed

At some point, she entered into a sham marriage with a 2nd husband and divorced him

in 1992 her appeal was denied and she was ordered to be deported again

At some point, she had married a 3rd person, and had a child with him in 1993

she appealed again

The BIA denied this motion in 1997 in part, because she had left the country, so was not initially present in the U.S. continously for 7 years.

she appealed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

She and her family are lying about having a stay of deportation, unless there is a Supreme Court judgement that I don’t see

thank you.... I get suspicious too about a lot of these “completely innocent” stories, and was lucky there was a hit that showed up on a search...

Is what you posted, from this arrest of Kashanian?

If not, then assumes facts not in evidence still holds.

Besides, it looks like she had appealed her deportion all the way up to the fifth circuit court of appeals...

and they upheld her deportation

Looks like rand paul wants cuts to medicaid and medicare....

but not ones that involve illegal aliens?

Must be his open border pro (illegal) alien immigration side objecting