Category Archives: Los Angeles

We Had Better Learn From the Lesson of Los Angeles

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Anyone who grew up watching Dragnet has an idea of what Los Angeles used to be like:

Then liberals got ahold of it. Here’s what it’s like now:

To glimpse a society’s future, look to its schools. Los Angeles Unified School District is in a financial tailspin as it loses students by the hundreds of thousands and spends a fortune to settle sexual misconduct claims. Chris Bray blames moonbattery:

Remember the list of demands the United Teachers of Los Angeles submitted to the district when the school board proposed to return to in-person learning during the pandemic. They weren’t coming back to the classroom, teachers said, until America defunded the police, imposed punitive taxes on the rich, implemented Medicare for all, gave free homes to all of the homeless, and eliminated all forms of standardized testing. Weirdly, an institution full of hallucinatorily insane actual communists is experiencing a financial crisis.

Teachers are getting laid off because LAUSD cannot afford to pay them. Meanwhile,

The LAUSD’s “Climate Resilience Committee” met on Wednesday afternoon, hashing out agenda items like “climate literacy” and “green schoolyards.” The meeting was staffed by the district Eco-Sustainability Office, led by Chief Eco-Sustainability Officer Christos Chrysiliou. On a base salary last reported a couple years ago at $221,894, his total pay and benefits hit $286,394 in 2024.

Bray visited LAUSD headquarters in an attempt to discover why the FBI was serving search warrants on Superintendent Alberto Carvalho.

I passed the school campus that sits just up the street, and I passed the decrepit RVs that people live in next to the campus. And I stepped through the piles of garbage that the residents of the RVs throw onto the sidewalks. Signs on a school fence warned that the RVs were parked in a “SAFE SCHOOL ZONE” where there would be special penalties for breaking the law. I watched a shirtless dude with an interesting amount of fidgety energy spraypaint a wall near one of the signs, possibly signaling that he wasn’t concerned about the warning.

Law enforcement has been rendered largely irrelevant.

This pile of garbage from homeless people and drug addicts sits outside the back end of the Miguel Contreras Learning Complex, by the way, where students can attend several different specialized high schools, including the School of Social Justice.

It isn’t just Lost Angeles.

Blue states, and blue cities, have gone floridly and relentlessly insane. … Blue state leaders have meetings about demanding that the climate not be allowed to change anymore, surrounded by homeless people dying of drug overdoses in piles of garbage.

Bray concludes:

[T]he madness and depravity of blue states and cities is a political liability that has to be tied around the necks of Democratic Party politicians.

Democrats have reduced many American cities to dystopian hellholes out of a grim postapocalyptic science fiction movie. Let’s not let them do it to the rest of the country.

On tips from RoCar, David Kight, and Angel.

Karen Bass Escalates Obstruction of Immigration Law Enforcement

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Insurrection is a federal crime. So is treason. So is the obstruction of federal law enforcement. All this brings us to the communist Mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass.

Via California Globe:

Bass issued an executive directive on Tuesday prohibiting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from using city-owned property for staging operations.

As in Minneapolis and Philadelphia, local police are played off against federal LEOs, setting the stage for a hot civil war:

The order also mandates increased LAPD oversight of federal agents and strict adherence to recent state laws curbing immigration activities…

This latest action targets public areas such as parking lots and garages, where ICE has reportedly gathered for enforcement raids, building on existing city rules that already bar federal agents from non-public spaces without judicial warrants.

The obvious intent is to make it impossible to enforce immigration law, as a follow-up to Joe Biden’s handlers inviting millions of illegal aliens into the country in the largest invasion in human history. Incidentally, Bass was nearly picked to be Biden’s DEI VP.

Bass also wants ICE agents to be forbidden to wear masks, so they can be identified, be doxed, have their families terrorized, and be assassinated for bounties offered by Mexican cartels. It would be difficult to overstate the malevolence of Democrats like Bass.

No country can long function when the mayors of its largest cities openly side with foreign invaders and prevent the enforcement of national law.

On a tip from abcanc.

Palisades Fire Allowed to Burn on Behalf of Endangered Plants

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Zohran Mamdani’s choice of a lesbian DEI hire to head the NYFD suggests that New York will follow the Los Angeles model of firefighting. To grasp what this means, consider that the disastrous Palisades Fire was allowed to get out of control lest the bulldozers that could have stopped it damage endangered plants.

The Los Angeles Times reports:

An hour after midnight Jan. 1, as a small brush fire blazed across Topanga State Park, a California State Parks employee texted the Los Angeles Fire Department’s heavy equipment supervisor to find out if they were sending in bulldozers.

Using bulldozers to clear flammable brush could have prevented the fire from spreading.

“Heck no that area is full of endangered plants,” Capt. Richard Diede replied at 9:52 a.m, five hours after LAFD declared the fire contained.

“I would be a real idiot to ever put a dozer in that area,” he wrote. “I’m so trained.”

That is, trained by moonbats to prioritize allegedly oppressed plants over people and their property. Evidently fire doesn’t harm endangered plants.

The exchange between the state and LAFD employees is part of a batch of newly-released text messages and depositions from California State Parks staffers that offers new details of the state’s actions and interactions with firefighters in the critical days after the Lachman fire ignited and rekindled Jan. 7 into the deadly Palisades blaze.

We already knew that the ineptitude of the moonbats in charge played a major role:

In October, The Times reported that a battalion chief ordered firefighters to roll up their hoses and leave the burn area Jan. 2, even though crews warned that the ground was still smoldering. The LAFD also decided not to use thermal imaging technology to detect heat underground.

The problem goes beyond Karen Bass to Gavin Newsom. Some Los Angeles moonbattery is passed down from Sacramento:

Palisades residents have also sued the state, which owns Topanga State Park, alleging it failed in the week between the two fires to inspect the burn scar after firefighters left and make sure a “dangerous condition” did not exist on its property. …

Testimony and texts from state environmental scientists show that California State Parks’ initial concern when the fire broke out was whether the fire was on park land and whether firefighting efforts and equipment would harm federally endangered plants and artifacts. …

In 2020, the city of Los Angeles agreed to pay $1.9 million in fines as part of an agreement with the California Coastal Commission after L.A. Department of Water and Power crews bulldozed hundreds of federally endangered plants in Topanga State Park. The city had been working to replace aging wooden power poles to make the power lines more resistant to strong winds and fire.

LA bureaucrats weren’t about to make that mistake again.

Regarding the price of this foolishness, as noted at PJ Media:

Twelve people died in the fires during three weeks of January 2025, with 6,837 structures destroyed (and another thousand or so damaged), more than 23,000 acres burned, and total damages currently estimated at about $25 billion with a B in the Palisades, Topanga, and Malibu areas of Los Angeles County.

But at least the devastation will Democrats to replace nice neighborhoods with government-subsidized slums.

On tips from R F, abcanc, and Franco.

Los Angeles Named Most Rat-Infested City in USA

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The City of Angels? More like the City of Rats.

From the Yelp Infestation Index:

Los Angeles earned the unenviable title of America’s #1 rodent hotspot, with more Yelp searches for rodent services than any other city.

Taking #2 in the rodent rankings is San Francisco… New York City lands at #3, which is hardly surprising…

No, it sure isn’t.

These findings help explain how vermin get elected to rule over jurisdictions like Los Angeles, where the mayor is an actual communist, and San Francisco, where Gavin Newsom and Willie Brown have been mayor. Democrats must be registering rats to vote. The strategy should work well for Islamocommunist Zohran Mamdani, who has been endorsed for mayor of New York by rats like Hakeem Jeffries and Kathy Hochul.

If rats are more prevalent where ultraleft politics prevail, it could be because they thrive on filth and decay, both of which are inevitable products of moonbattery.

On tips from abcanc.

$2 Million Payout to LA County CEO for Emotional Distress Over Having to Run for Office

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Leave leftists in charge, and government degenerates into a looting spree. Los Angeles County recently paid out $2 million to its CEO to settle her claim that she was harmed by a ballot measure passed by voters that would force her to run for office:

CEO Fesia Davenport had requested the settlement for what she claimed was “reputational harm, embarrassment and physical, emotional and mental distress caused by the Measure G.”

The greed of these barnacles is astonishing.

Measure G will transform the CEO job from an appointed position into an elected one starting in 2028. Voters approved it last year after most of the county Board of Supervisors placed it on the ballot.

She alleges that the wording of the proposal implies she has not provided strong leadership, thereby hurting her feelings.

She also wrote that she deserved compensation from her career as the at-will CEO being cut short by the shift to elected CEO in late 2028, which she said also would lessen how much retirement she’d earn.

Davenport is 56 years old. Note that she takes it for granted that voters would not choose her voluntarily, even in woke LA County.

With pay and benefits, she has been pulling in a staggering $810,319/year, compliments of taxpayers. For their money, taxpayers got LA County’s historic first black CEO.

On a tip from R F.

Up and Coming Democrat Talent: Maebe A. Girl

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When you look at the moonbats running California, you might be tempted to take solace in the thought that at least they can’t get any worse. But Democrats always find a way to get worse. They do this by representing their degenerating base.

Introducing California State Senate candidate Maebe A. Girl:

Maebe A. Girl (born Maebe Pudlo, July 27, 1986) is a nonbinary, transgender drag performer and politician running as a Democrat for the California State Senate, District 26, representing areas including Silver Lake, Boyle Heights, and Los Feliz in Los Angeles.

Mr. Girl is yet another historic candidate running on an identity politics platform:

[He] announced [his] candidacy on June 9, 2025, with the goal of making history as the first transgender person and first drag queen elected to the California State Senate.

Regarding Girl’s other qualifications for office,

Maebe was responsible for forming the Silver Lake LGBTQIA Advocates Committee -the first queer-focused committee in the Los Angeles Neighborhood Council system. [He] also co-founded the LGBTQ+ Alliance of Los Angeles Neighborhood Councils, which was recognized as the first city-backed initiative for the LGBTQ+ Community in the City of Los Angeles.

Vote for LGBTers and you get representation for LGBTers — at the expense of everyone else. Not that he does not have other policy positions:

[His] primary policies include, but are not limited to: Universal Healthcare, Housing for All, Education for All, Environmental Justice, Racial Justice, LGBTQIA+ Rights, Immigrant Rights, Reproductive Rights, Tenants’ Rights, and Alleviating Homelessness.

Girl’s motto is the all-caps slogan “KEEP FASCISM OUT OF CALIFORNIA.” “Fascism” is a catch-all term for any resistance to leftism. It specifically includes enforcement of immigration law.

Despite the name, this guy does not pass for a girl:

You thought that after Gavin Newsom, California liberals would recoil in horror and find less repellent political candidates? On the contrary. Maebe A. Girl represents the next logical step in the progression of progressives.

On a tip from Wiggins.

What ICE Agents Are Afraid Of

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When Democrats shriek that ICE agents defending the country from foreign invasion are “fascist,” they point to agents wearing masks as evidence of sinister intent. California Governor Gavin Newsom even signed a bill into law banning them from wearing masks, while repeatedly taunting officers with the words, “What are you afraid of?”

In the unlikely event there is anyone who does not know perfectly well what ICE agents are afraid of, this should help:

Three activists opposed to President Donald Trump’s immigration raids in Los Angeles have been indicted on charges of illegally “doxing” a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, federal prosecutors said.

Investigators said the women followed the agent home, livestreamed their pursuit and then posted the agent’s address online, according to a statement Friday from the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Anti-American liberals have targeted the children of ICE agents. Given that moonbats have been firing on agents (e.g., Alvarado, Dallas), the threat is serious.

Unlike Gavin Newsom, ICE agents are not provided with extravagantly expensive security on the taxpayer dime, so they need to defend themselves and their families, just as they defend our country.

On a tip from Chuck A.