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Los Angeles Democratic Mayor Karen Bass has faced a number of criticisms over her leadership amid the wildfires destroying large portions of the city. ** The move came after more than $17 million in cuts the previous year. If Bass did not want to spend money on fighting fires in a state which lives under a constant threat of such disasters, then the question of what the city funded instead must be raised. The budget resolution for the 2024-2025 fiscal year, which said on the front cover that the document was submitted by Bass herself before being modified and adopted...

There are no federal laws that require private employers to provide paid sick leave, but 15 states and Washington, D.C., currently have laws mandating private employers provide paid sick leave to eligible employees. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 21 percent of private industry workers in the U.S. did not have access to paid sick leave. Voters in Alaska, Missouri and Nebraska voted in favor of passing ballot measures entitling workers to paid sick leave.

MSNBC contributor former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said Monday on “Deadline” that “it’s just crazy” there are educated people that don’t see how desperate and sick former President Donald Trump is. McCaskill said, “This split screen is phenomenal. On one side you have lying and name calling and dark, dark stuff—our country is in ruins, our country is a hell hole, our country sucks, isn’t everything terrible in our country, aren’t we awful, we are so awful—and, by the way, let me think of all the good names I can call the other people. Then the other side is smiles...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) said that hearing Democrats publicly state their concerns that President Joe Biden couldn’t serve another four years in office “made me sick,” “It made me sick the way people were so quickly going and airing their concerns publicly, when they had the White House’s phone number.” Commentator Mike Barnicle asked, “The sitting President of the United States is a man known — noted for his compassion, his decency, his empathy, and, above all, his character. So, my question to you, were you at all surprised at the level of...

Hundreds of parents brought their children, as young as babies and toddlers, to wave rainbow flags, pose with a drag queen, and do LGBTQ-themed crafts at the “Kids’ Pride Parade and Street Fair” in Montgomery County, Maryland, on Sunday. “Pride is for everyone. That’s the whole point of Pride is to be inclusive of everybody,” a local Takoma Park mom of a 2-and-a-half-year-old child in a stroller told The Daily Signal. “So I think it’s for kids, adults, everybody.” Families marched in the Kids’ Pride Parade at 10 a.m., waving rainbow and transgender flags and signs with messages such as...

Bill Maher joked that 'we've all been' imagining Donald Trump being raped if he is sent to prison for his 34 felony convictions. The comedian said it was a 'puzzling paradox' that rape jokes were 'completely unacceptable and unthinkable' - unless they were about prison. Maher said such jokes would be made more often since the former president's convictions for falsifying business records last Thursday.

**SNIP** But that isn’t what made the Hur report so poignant, so interesting—so funny. It’s something neither party nor much of the news coverage mentioned at all; the biggest missing detail from the stories elected officials told about the Hur report isn’t any legal technicality in the decision not to prosecute Biden for holding on to classified documents. It’s what Biden held on to, and why. The centerpiece of the investigation is a lengthy memo Biden wrote in 2009 to then-president Barack Obama, which investigators found—along with classified materials used to draft it—tucked in a cardboard box in Biden’s garage...

Actor Larry David, Seinfeld co-creator and Curb Your Enthusiasm star, has unleashed a stream of invective against Donald Trump in an interview where he derides the presumed Republican 2024 presidential candidate as a “little baby” who’s “thrown 250 years of democracy out the window.” The insults flowed in an interview with CNN’s Chris Wallace scheduled to air in full on Friday. The preview clip, as released by the news network, starts with the Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace? host asking David, “So how much has the whole 2020 election and everything that has flowed from it pissed you off?”

The video begins midway through a 2012 NBC News special entitled, "Living a Transgender Childhood," showing Johanna Olson-Kennedy of the Children's Hospital in Los Angeles discuss sex-change possibilities with Vanessa Romero and her young son Joey Romero — referred to in the video as Josie and who now reportedly goes by Sadie Croft. "You are in the perfect place to begin on [puberty] blockers," says Olson-Kennedy, who runs the L.A. hospital's Center for Transyouth Health and Development. The narrator indicates that Olson-Kennedy, who has elsewhere compared teen girls cutting off their healthy breasts to taking the SATs, "promises to begin...

President Joe Biden gained a “reputation” during his first three years in the White House for reportedly using curse words when speaking about former President Donald Trump. Although Biden vowed to restore “decency” to the White House, he failed to make good on his promise, according to Politico’s Jonathan Lemire, Lauren Egan, Myah Ward, and Ben Johansen, who acknowledged Biden’s habit of cursing his political opponents: The president has described Trump to longtime friends and close aides as a “sick fuck” who delights in others’ misfortunes, according to three people who have heard the president use the profane description. According...

The director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) told people to stay home if they are sick in a holiday message Friday. “We continue to see a lot of respiratory illness right now. Flu, COVID and RSV are spreading in most of the country,” Mandy Cohen said in a Friday video posted to the CDC’s account on X, formerly known as Twitter. “And as we gather with family and friends this time of year, I want to give you a few reminders,” Cohen continued. “I know it’s hard, but if you’re feeling sick, please stay home. Avoid spreading germs...

Respiratory disease season is in full swing, with influenza, RSV, and COVID-19 case counts rising in various parts of the U.S. Hospitals in some states are also reporting upticks in pediatric pneumonia diagnoses, which experts say seems to be unrelated to the recent spike of pneumonias reported in China. On the heels of last year’s severe flu and RSV reason, all this contagion has some people wondering if SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, may be to blame. Some studies suggest the virus leaves its mark on the immune system even after an acute illness passes, raising an important question:...

RFK Jr. and Joe Biden are far more disgusting than most Americans realize...This goes way beyond politics. pic.twitter.com/RNJSHdcog4— Brenden Dilley (@WarlordDilley) October 23, 2023🔥 Hell is for children 🔥w:@BrandieWithABee @JScottHolt47 @itsreallyleah @miguelifornia @WarlordDilley pic.twitter.com/LMqKBxlx5q— littlememzz (@littlememzz) October 23, 2023

New details have begun to emerge about the barbaric evils that innocent Israeli citizens were forced to experience at the hands of savage Palestinian Islamic terrorists with Hamas during their unprecedented terror attack two weeks ago.A woman named Shari, who did not want to give her last name because she wanted to protect her family, works in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Rabbinate corps and it is her job to clean the victim’s bodies as best as possible to prepare them for burial.“We wash the bodies and prepare them for burial. We try to bring them dignity in death,” she...

A daycare worker is set to be released on bail today despite being accused of taking explicit photos of toddlers and sending them to her transgender girlfriend for her 'sexual gratification'. Lindsay Groves, 38, is charged over snapping nude images of children aged three and four in a bathroom at Creative Minds Early Learning Center in Massachusetts - before sending them to former Democrat lawmaker Stacie Marie Laughton, 39. Laughton represented District 31 in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, as a representative-elect from 2020 to 2022, until she resigned in December of that year after being charged with stalking Groves. The...

NEW YORK — An advocacy group for young religious LGBTQ Jews has launched a project to provide mental health guidance tailored to the community on social media, in the first initiative of its kind, as surveys show that such youth in the US are at a higher risk for emotional issues and harassment. The “TikTok therapy” video series will offer advice on topics such as how to discuss dating someone from the same gender with Orthodox parents, or navigating LGBTQ issues that come up in conversation at Shabbat dinners, said Jewish Queer Youth (JQY), a New York-based group that focuses...

The National Association for Rational Sex Offense Laws (NARSOL) met in Houston for their annual conference, where they discussed eliminating what they deem “discriminatory” and “dehumanizing” sex offender registries, drawing praise from Mayor Sylvester Turner. NARSOL says they exist to advocate for the abolition of registries and to “discourage discrimination towards those accused or convicted of a criminal offense.” Their founder, who goes by the pseudonym “Alex Marbury,” was originally concerned with changing age of consent laws and has founded several LGBTQ activist groups. While the organization claims they have no stance regarding age of consent, they have a history...

Bill Barr has been on every leftwing media Sunday show spewing his poison. He has smeared Trump more than he has ever criticized the worse drug dealers, arms dealers, international terrorists, terrorist states, or the Biden crime family and the millions of dollars they received from our enemies, including communist China. Barr knows he’s lying. He knows the thug prosecutors against Trump have acted appallingly. He knows all this. But on Father’s Day he spends part of his morning on CBS trashing Trump without any serious challenge. I think Barr is sick and getting sicker.

— Association needs to move from passive support to proactive protection, delegate saysHow should the American Medical Association (AMA) respond to the rapidly increasing number of state prohibitionsopens in a new tab or window on gender-affirming care for adolescents? Delegates considered the topic during committee discussions at the AMA House of Delegatesopens in a new tab or window meeting Saturday. The AMA already has a policyopens in a new tab or window in place for gender-affirming care, and a new draft resolutionopens in a new tab or window moves the policy forward from "passively supporting" gender affirming care to...

OMAHA, Neb. -- Norfolk Southern became the first major North American freight railroad with deals to provide paid sick time to all of its workers Monday, but the other railroads are making progress, with nearly 65% of all rail workers securing this basic benefit since the start of the year.