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• Knute Rockne, All American
• Reagan as George Gipp
• A disinformation deluge on California policies
• The owner of the LA Times takes the red pill
• Thousands rally in downtown Los Angeles, shut down 101 Freeway to protest Trump’s immigration policies
• California Democrats delay vote to ‘Trump-proof’ the state and protect immigrants
• Gavin Newsom heads to D.C. to meet with Trump officials about wildfire disaster aid
• Trump says California's High-Speed Rail project should be investigated
• Inspector General: High-Speed Rail off schedule for Merced-to-Bakersfield route
• Citing LA fire victims, Trump orders more water for Central Valley agriculture and less for fish
• Newsom issues order to ‘maximize’ water capture during storms. Critics say it sounds just like Trump
• California fires don’t justify an energy industry shakedown
• California’s Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy
• Long Beach is considering a major hike in waste collection fees. Expect a higher trash bill

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Julie Hamill: @hamill_law

• California Justice Center
• ExxonMobil sues Rob Bonta over defamation campaign
• Rob Bonta gives back more fraught campaign funds

Seneca Scott: @SenecaSpeaks21

• What’s next in the Oakland FBI corruption case?
• Barbara Lee officially launches campaign for Oakland mayor
• “If we do not change course, we will be roughly $115 million negative. We have already breached into our emergency reserve.”

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• Conservatives chalk up win as PepsiCo agrees to ‘viewpoint neutrality’ in ad-buying
• Alleged Hijacker Brought Back to U.S. After 32 Years
• List of Cuba–United States aircraft hijackings
• The Hijacker at Pump #4
• Donald Trump lays out two demands in exchange for California wildfire aid
• Wildfire of the Vanities: California’s political model has failed
• Revived effort to put California secession on the ballot gets OK to collect signatures
• California attorney general charges L.A.-area real estate agent with price gouging in wake of wildfires
• How a rumor about ICE on Muni spun out of control
• Yuba City and Sutter County want to skirt high PG&E rates. They found a way
• California Democrats are building a giant political slush fund

Edward Ring at Trump’s Los Angeles Wildfire Roundtable:

• Trump Speaks To Los Angeles Officials, Police About Wildfires During CA Trip
• Edward Ring: Fire prevention and resilience in California

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• Cracks emerge in House GOP after speaker's threat to saddle California wildfire aid with conditions
• Trump is trying to end birthright citizenship. Now, California is suing him
• Trump wants to ‘drill, baby, drill.’ California wants to push electric cars
• Moss Landing, the world’s biggest grid battery, caught fire again
• How California could benefit if Trump actually dissolved the Education Department

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• Speaker Mike Johnson suggests 'conditions' needed on federal aid for LA wildfire victims
• Newsom adds LA wildfire funding to Trump-proofing special session
• Gavin Newsom and California Democrats reach $50M deal to Trump-proof the state
• Newsom on “Meet the Press”
• California’s wildfire insurance catastrophe
• As LA fires rage, California’s insurance commissioner imposes 1-year ban on policy cancellations
• LA Times Owner Calls Paper’s Karen Bass Endorsement a Mistake: ‘We’ll Accept Some Blame’
• Did Mayor Karen Bass really cut the fire department budget? The answer gets tricky
• Firefighter salaries from Transparent California
• Incarcerated Firefighters Do Risky, Low-Pay Work. Many Say It’s The Best Job Behind Bars.

Julie Hamill on evacuated kids

• Inverse condemnation
• Julie Hamill’s California Justice Center

Edward Ring on fire mitigation from cisterns to robots

• California’s ‘Impenetrable’ Environmental Bureaucracy Left L.A. Hills Primed to Burn
• Edward Ring on the Mike Rowe podcast
• Edward Ring & Steve Hilton, “Modern forest management”

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• Mayor out of the country as Los Angeles burns, residents plead for help
• Trump, Musk unleash on California Democrats over wildfires
• Biden awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Hillary Clinton, George Soros
• George Gascón Admits He's Behind Soros Progressive Prosecutor Project, Secured $50M Seed Donation to ACLU
• Some Anti-Israel Protesters Are Paid
• Fact-checkers, targeted by MAGA loyalists, blast Zuckerberg’s assertion their work was ‘biased’
• Accountability is key to fixing Facebook: Will Swaim
• California GOP lawmaker introduces bill to ban transgender girls from women’s sports
• Serena Williams on playing against men
• Oakland's city employee counts show a dramatic shift in service priorities over five years
• The case for (and against) Barbara Lee

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• Trump allies warn California leaders, including LA Mayor Karen Bass, that they could go to prison over sanctuary city laws
• How Harmeet Dhillon can tame the beast at DOJ
• California restaurant cites ‘Ladies Night’ discrimination lawsuit as cause for closure
• Lima Chef John Marquez
• Amid threats to rewrite the Constitution, Senator Wiener calls for rescinding California’s calls for Constitutional Convention to protect civil liberties and democracy
• Trump-supporting urban planners propose destroying Presidio in SF
• Disney removes transgender storyline from upcoming Pixar streaming series
• Gov. Gavin Newsom doubles down on opposition to Prop. 36
• California manicurists face uncertain future as bill’s exemption nears end