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A vandal at UCLA spray painted all over signs set up on the quad meant to generate a debate about the pro-life cause, according to a video of the incident posted by the group. The pro-life organization Justice For All was invited to UCLA by the school’s student pro-life club, LiveAction, to host an event “centered on promoting peaceful dialogue between pro-life and pro-choice people, and building common ground for dialogue,” a campus source told The College Fix. Members of Justice For All recorded the incident and released video footage of it on social media on Thursday. It shows a...

Another radical leftist has been caught calling for violence against President Trump. As TGP readers know, leftists across America have issued countless calls for violence against members of the Trump Administration for weeks, including the president himself. This situation has gotten so dire that agitators are now accosting the children of these officials. On Saturday, UCLA Criminal Law Professor Peter Arenella posted a tweet saying that the U.S. Military must launch an insurrection against Trump in order to stop America from becoming an ally of Russia. Yes, he actually said the U.S. military must destroy democracy to prevent America from...

A group of Venezuelan nationals are suing the Trump administration’s Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), Kristi Noem, claiming the decision to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for approximately 600,000 Venezuelans in the United States was illegally motivated by race. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, is being brought by the ACLU Foundation of Northern California, the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law, California, the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network on behalf of the Venezuelan TPS designees. . . “The Secretary’s decisions also were motivated at...

UCLA administrators said last Wednesday that they would be suspending two Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) organizations after masked campus activists outside the home of UC Regent Jay Sures. They vandalized his property and surrounded his wife in her car as well. In a broad campus message, Chancellor Julio Frenk stated that the UCLA Office of Student Conduct implemented an interim suspension while internal judicial procedures over the groups Students for Justice in Palestine and Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine occurred. The conduct proceedings and suspensions are indefinite. These groups will no longer be able to apply for...

Liu Lijun, a Chinese graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), has reportedly had her student visa revoked after organizing pro-Palestine rallies on campus. Liu was arrested in May 2024 during protests related to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, which began on October 7, 2023. According to the Telegraph India, the revocation of Liu’s visa follows an executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump, which aims to address antisemitism in response to the conflict. The order focuses on what the Trump administration has described as a rise in antisemitism across U.S. campuses and communities....

‘We will find you, and we will deport you’: Donald Trump to pro-Palestine protesters in new executive orderUS President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday aimed at combating antisemitism in the wake of Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. The Trump administration promised "immediate action" by the Justice Department to address what it described as "an explosion of antisemitism on campuses and streets" across the US. The order threatens visa cancellations for international students involved in pro-Palestine activism on campuses. Following this order, the US has reportedly revoked the visa of Liu Lijun, a Chinese student...

A new UCLA study found that the Eaton fire disproportionally impacted Altadena’s Black community and that systemic inequality and redlining contributed to fire vulnerability.

Was Tokyo Rose a charming radio host or a vicious propagandist who committed treason from the DJ booth? Historians still haven’t settled the matter. She was convicted in 1949 but received an official pardon on this day, Jan. 19, in 1977, when the case for treason appeared less clear-cut than it had in the bitter years after World War II. Iva Toguri d’Aquino was born in the U.S. to Japanese parents and, by all early accounts, she grew up as a devoted patriot. She earned a degree in zoology from UCLA in 1940 and had begun doing graduate work there...

Ben Rich from 1975 to 1991, was the Director of Lockheed’s Skunk Works, the division responsible for development of several advanced technological aircraft including the U-2, the SR-17 Blackbird, the F-117 Nighthawk stealth bomber, and the F-22 Raptor. In a presentation about the infamous Skunk Works program, Rich made several unusual comments that had many in the audience scratching their heads. During the presentation, Rich hinted on more than one occasion that more, undisclosed, top-secret advanced technologies have been developed since the F-117 was introduced. Of course, Rich could not go into specifics. Jan Harzan, director of Mutual UFO Network...

WESTWOOD, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Police are searching for the suspects who allegedly yelled a homophobic slur at a UCLA student near campus and threw wads of paper at the victim. According to the UCLA Police Department, the incident happened on Christmas Eve around 6 p.m. The video featured in the media player above is the ABC7 Los Angeles 24/7 streaming channel The student was walking westbound on the north sidewalk of Weyburn Avenue when a black Mercedes-Benz convertible with four occupants drove up next to the victim, police said. That's when police said one of the occupants yelled a...

A UCLA student is suing multiple California health care providers and hospitals for medical negligence, alleging she was wrongly diagnosed with gender dysphoria and then “fast-tracked onto the conveyor belt of irreversibly damaging” puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgery, according to her lawsuit. Kaya Clementine Breen, 20, said she experienced sexual abuse as a young child, and by the time she was 11, she “began struggling with the thought of developing into a woman and began to believe that life would be easier if she were a boy,” according to her suit filed last week in Los Angeles County Superior...

UCLA Student kicked out of class for voting for Donald Trump The class was having time to “mourn the loss of our country” after Donald Trump won, she said she voted for Trump. “I got kicked out of the class. I was told to leave that class and not return for the remainder of the quarter because I was quote unquote, a threat to my fellow students' safety.” “Because I voted for Donald Trump. I was a threat to their safety.”

California is about to become home to the nation’s second electric vehicle-charging roadway — with construction due to be completed ahead of the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. The multimillion dollar UCLA project, funded with state grant moneys, will concentrate on a half-mile stretch of road in Westwood, according to the Los Angeles Times. And it will come as the university prepares to host the Olympic Village — where all of the competing athletes stay during the games. “A wireless inductive option is a game changer,” Clinton Bench, director of the UCLA Fleet and Transit, told the Times. “When a...

A jury convicted 34-year-old Shawn Laval Smith for the brutal murder of Brianna Kupfer. The UCLA student was killed at a furniture store in Hancock Park two years ago. This horrifying crime should spark outrage over the growing dangers in Democrat-led cities like Los Angeles. Smith was convicted for the Jan. 13, 2022, attack on Kupfer. Jurors confirmed a special circumstance of murder while lying in wait. They also found that he used a knife during the crime.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the University of California, Los Angeles, cannot allow pro-Palestinian protesters to block Jewish students from accessing classes and other parts of campus. The preliminary injunction marks the first time a U.S. judge has ruled against a university over the demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war on college campuses earlier this year. U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi's ruling came in a lawsuit filed in June by three Jewish students at UCLA. The students alleged that they experienced discrimination on campus during the protest because of their faith and that UCLA failed to...

Beckett Law, a religious freedom advocacy group, has taken up the cause of three Jewish students at UCLA. The students claim that in the wake of the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel, they faced mounting antisemitism, which included barring them from access to areas of the campus. The students are also represented by Clement & Murphy, PLLC. In the lawsuit, Frankel v. The Regents of the University of California, the plaintiffs claim that pro-Hamas/anti-Israel protesters set up barricades on the Los Angeles campus, effectively creating a "Jewish Exclusion Zone." Beckett Law states that after creating the encampment, protesters not...

It’s November 2023, and, following the October 7 attacks by Hamas terrorists that killed some 1,400 Israelis and at least 31 Americans, thousands of demonstrators march through New York City, calling for the destruction of the Jewish state. Chants of “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” echo through the streets, along with “there is only one solution: intifada revolution.” Among the crowd is the infamous Palestinian American activist Linda Sarsour, who warns through a megaphone that a cabal of wily Jews has conspired to place “their little posters” (of kidnapped Israeli civilians) across the city, seeking...

The ‘iDIVERSE’ program bars white and Asian researchers from applying.. The University of California, Los Angeles, medical school was hit last week with whistleblower allegations that its admissions office has for years discriminated on the basis of race, in violation of California law, by holding black and Latino applicants to lower standards than their white and Asian counterparts. The allegations triggered an email message from the dean of the medical school, Steven Dubinett, who denied the claims and said that students and faculty "are held to the highest standards of academic excellence." He subsequently told an obscure Los Angeles Times...

Custom made Mansory Rolls Royce worth over half a million dollars with U.A.E. license plate spotted at the @UCLA protests. Still think these are grassroots protests? Think again. May 29, 2024.

We have already seen how diversity, equity, and inclusion policies get people killed when it comes to criminal justice policies. Now, we may be investing in a future where we see how it gets people killed in the operating room. Several faculty members at the University of California, Los Angeles, blew the whistle to journalist Aaron Sibarium that UCLA’s medical school has been admitting students who do not reach the expected academic requirements because the students instead reach DEI requirements. Dean of Admissions Jennifer Lucero blew up on one admissions official for questioning the subpar qualifications of a black student...