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  • LA Mayor Karen Bass claims she’s pulling out all the stops to rebuild Pacific Palisades, but residents say she’s ‘full of crap’

    05/28/2025 10:47:53 PM PDT · by Beowulf9 · 49 replies
    https://nypost.com ^ | May 27, 2025 | Jared Downing and Alex Oliveira
    LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass is catching heat for her claims that new homes are springing up across the Pacific Palisades just months after wildfires leveled the neighborhood. “Karen Bass is full of crap,” Pacific Palisades resident Sara Trepanier, a physician and single mom of four who lost her home to the devastating blaze in January, told The Post Tuesday. Trepanier’s candid words come just a day after Bass proclaimed on X that “homes are under construction throughout the Palisades,” lauding her efforts to “cut red tape” on building permits and “get families home.
  • LA Mayor Karen Bass claims she’s pulling out all the stops to rebuild Pacific Palisades, but residents say she’s ‘full of crap’

    05/28/2025 10:11:04 PM PDT · by Beowulf9 · 20 replies
    NY Post ^ | May 27, 2025 | Jared Downing and Alex Oliveira
    LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass is catching heat for her claims that new homes are springing up across the Pacific Palisades just months after wildfires leveled the neighborhood. “Karen Bass is full of crap,” Pacific Palisades resident Sara Trepanier, a physician and single mom of four who lost her home to the devastating blaze in January, told The Post Tuesday. Trepanier’s candid words come just a day after Bass proclaimed on X that “homes are under construction throughout the Palisades,” lauding her efforts to “cut red tape” on building permits and “get families home.”
  • Death metal pioneer Brian Montana killed in shootout with California cops

    05/01/2025 2:20:01 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 39 replies
    ny post ^ | May 1, 2025, | Jared Downing
    Police shot and killed a death metal pioneer in San Francisco this week after an argument with a neighbor over tree clippings turned violent. Brian Montana, 60, guitarist for the band Possessed, died in a shootout with cops after he pulled a gun on a neighbor during an argument... One neighbor sustained non-life-threatening injuries in the shootout, during which Montana took cover behind parked cars and landscaping and used three different guns to shoot at cops for almost half an hour, according to authorities, per CBS Bay Area. “[Montana] fired multiple times at officers using a handgun, shotgun, and rifle...
  • How China has amped up its factories and is threatening to crush US industry with a new ‘tsunami’ of cheap products

    04/09/2025 6:39:40 PM PDT · by daniel1212 · 97 replies
    nypost.com ^ | April 9, 2025, 7:49 p.m. ET | Jared Downing
    <p>The Communist country of 1.3 billion people has shifted that much cash into amping up its factories in just four years in an effort to overwhelm manufacturers around the world with an influx of cheap goods.</p><p>President Trump’s 125% tariff on all Chinese imports into the US...is actually just the latest protective measure against China.</p>