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So on Thursday Newsom was again roasted online when he announced that California is getting its own $1 coin to honor innovation in the state and asked the internet for submissions. He was already going to invite some choice responses from that simple invitation, then he made it worse by beginning his tweet with, "Calling all members of the Tortured Coin Designers Department," a reference to Taylor Swift's new album, "The Tortured Poets Department."

By the end of the year, homelessness was up exponentially, with Inside Safe, her signature program to combat homelessness, only moving 255 people to permanent housing so far out of the 46,000 in LA, despite $67 million already going into the program.

On Tuesday a 2-1 Democrat majority of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit invalidated a good West Virginia law protecting girls’ sports against invasion by male-bodied transgender students. The Richmond-based tribunal held that West Virginia’s Save Women’s Sports Act violates the federal Title IX law, which was enacted to protect girls’ sports, and also that West Virginia’s protection of girls’ sports may further violate the Constitution. The Biden-appointed judge who wrote this absurd decision repeatedly used the propaganda term “sex assigned at birth,” as if sex were arbitrary and merely “assigned” to a newborn. On the contrary,...

(The Center Square) - California housing permitting collapsed 45% from 135,565 homes in 2022 to just 74,720 in 2023, according to the California Department of Housing and Community Development’s data at time of the story’s publication. Housing experts say rising interest rates are largely to blame for the phenomenon as rising construction costs and interest payments make fewer projects pencil out for developers.

“California suffers largest job-growth drop in US – 54% cut in job creation between 2015-19 and 2019-23.” “California’s job-creation shortfall ranks as the largest among the states, as the Golden State fell from No. 1 for new jobs in 2015-19 to No. 3 in 2019-23,” the Orange County Register reported. It was in state government jobs that were created – not private sector jobs. The OCR presented the receipts: “Look at the chill in the state’s largest job markets … Los Angeles County: 195,500 slower job growth – 79,000 hires in 2019-23 vs. 274,500 added staff for 2015-19. That’s a...

Shocking body camera footage showed at least eight officers dressed in tactical gear and carrying automatic rifles jumping out of an armored vehicle and approaching Johnson, who was just wearing a black bathrobe and a bonnet, the following day. They then proceeded to use a battering ram to get into Johnson’s garage even though she explained to them how to open the door, and broke ceiling tiles to get into her attic — standing on top of one of her brand-new dining room chairs, according to a lawsuit Johnson filed in December 2022.

If 10 million cubic yards of sediment were to settle in the river, we’d see the equivalent of six lanes of freeway piled eight feet deep for nearly 100 miles. There are 192 river miles below the lowest dam, Iron Gate. In total, the river is approximately 250 miles long. For most of February, turbidity levels in the Klamath River hovered around 500 to 1,000 units over a stretch of at least 100 miles, according to U.S. Geological Survey measurements.2 These turbidity levels are 10 to 20 times what juvenile salmon can survive, according to a 2001 research report by...

Big Fani came in like a wrecking ball and destroyed a marriage, then went on to not just lie about it but completely twist the timeline—which, by the way, is very important to this story. She brought her married beau on board, a DEI-type hire who had zero business handling the tasks he was given, and threw a ridiculous amount of money his way. Money that, surprise surprise, she ended up spending on herself. And the cherry on top of this crooked sundae? Their secret rendezvous took place in a “safe house” funded by Georgia’s taxpayers. After stirring up all...

The vendors typically set up stalls in the parking lot of Two Guys Plaza in the El Salvador Corridor on Vermont Avenue, a bustling area filled with markets, businesses and street food vendors. However, the plaza’s owner shut down for business after being found in violation of zoning laws, leading to the eviction of around 30 vendors.

Beverly Hills is supposed to plan for more than 3,100 new homes, most of them affordable, but because the state has denied the feasibility of the city’s plans, “Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Curtis A. Kin blocked the city from issuing all building permits except for new residential development,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

The Mayor and city officials kicked out the low-income disabled adults who paid rent, and moved in some “homeless” while the renovations were taking place. The hotel used to house 180 paying residents. The newly named St. Clare has 134 remodeled studio apartments. How fortunate for the ‘vagrants, ‘criminals,’ ‘druggies,’ and ‘junkies’ who have chosen this lifestyle. Each apartment has a bathroom and kitchenette. The first group of 80 residents will start moving in this week. The final 54 residents are delayed due to supply chain problems, according to the city.

This week we sat down with Joe + Serena Wailes, the parents of an 11-year-old girl shocked to discover on her school trip that she had been assigned to share a bed with a boy who identified as a trans girl.

In 2022, 817,000 Californians moved to other states. California also lost a net of 407,000 residents to other states between July 2021 and July 2022.

The Great Depression was a well-executed plan to seize assets, impoverish the population, and remake society. What comes next is worse..

Several years ago, I realized I could save hundreds of dollars on prescription drugs by not using my health insurance. Instead, I pay using cash and a drug discount program like GoodRx. I realized this savings because my insurer/PBM had an incentive to keep list prices high. In plain English, my insurer overcharged me for my prescriptions so it could collect big rebates from drug companies.

Why is it that the medical authorities will not tell anyone who is Type II diabetic to quit eating fast carbohydrates? Ditto for anyone who is overweight, obese, or has deteriorating metabolic markers such as body mass, A1c or fasting glucose? It makes no money. It is a fact that if you do not take in carbohydrates it is extremely difficult to be Type II diabetic. Why? Because your body then has to manufacture glucose and, while it can, that is metabolically difficult and thus it generally won't. Your cells run on ATP, not glucose and there are two metabolic...

Here you go, you guys. After McCarthy promised but failed to do it, House Speaker Mike Johnson has released the January 6th tapes — all 44,000 hours of them!

The details for the $770,000 loan that AG James has been hiding and withholding from her financial disclosures are nonexistent in James’s 34 page 11/3/2017 mortgage agreement that was recorded with the Office of the Register within New York City’s Department of Finance. Additionally, James never mentioned the $770,000 loan from French in her financial disclosure form when she was running for office to become New York’s Attorney General. Her failure to disclose this loan on her financial disclosure forms is not only unethical, but it is highly illegal. This dark money loan fails to conform to the norms of...

“When you call border patrol they say ‘Mr. Shuster, we cannot do much about this our hands are tied,’ if you call the Sheriff, they don’t even bother to come over.”

“she was not required to pay rent because the city had never approved the unit for occupancy and that its shower was constructed without a permit.” Because of those code violations, the city determined that Jovanovic couldn’t evict Hirschhorn