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Spencer Pratt’s sister is making a dramatic U-turn. A short time after publicly torching her brother’s bid for Los Angeles mayor and warning voters supporting him would be “a vote for stupidity,” Stephanie Pratt is now singing a very different tune. “I admit I was the first person to tell people that they were idiots if they voted for my brother,” she wrote in an email to Vanity Fair. “Wow, was I wrong. He has spent every day since the fires, finding the facts, the mistakes, the negligence and uncovering the truth that they never wanted us to know.” Shortly...

A ratbag group of cop-hating Black Lives Matters activists were handed the floor at City Hall as they launched a campaign to block extra funding to hire more police in Los Angeles. Everyday Angelenos were left frustrated as they were locked out of the first public budget hearing — while lefty activists led by Black Lives Matter–Los Angeles and People’s Budget LA were given 20 minutes to air their radical views. At stake is the city’s $14.9 billion budget, the single most consequential decision City Hall makes each year. The group, led Friday by Melina Abdullah, demanded the council shift...

A Democratic Socialists of America member vying to be Los Angeles’ own Zohran Mamdani went off the rails on live radio — lashing out at a reporter while bungling basic questions, including getting her own age wrong. The tense clash erupted during a sit-down with KNX News when mayoral hopeful Rae Huang tangled with veteran City Hall reporter Craig Fiegener — growing increasingly frustrated as he pressed her on key issues such as taxes and policing, according to audio of the exchange obtained by The Post. The fireworks started almost immediately, as Huang hyped the “Overpaid CEO Tax” — a...