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Trump Reveals What Would Cause Him To Invoke Insurrection Act To Put Down LA Riots

President Donald Trump said that he would invoke the Insurrection Act in response to the Los Angeles riots if “there’s an insurrection.”

As riots broke out across the streets in L.A. in response to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in the area, Trump ordered 2,000 National Guard troops to deploy to the city. Hundreds of Marines were then deployed to downtown L.A. to help control the riots, raising the question of whether Trump would consider using the Insurrection Act, which allows the deployment of U.S. troops to ease domestic unrest.

“Will you invoke the Insurrection Act to deal with the situation in California?” RealClear Politics White House correspondent Phil Wegmann asked Tuesday.

“If there is an insurrection, I would certainly invoke it, we’ll see. Can I tell you, last night was terrible. The night before that was terrible as you have seen on your networks,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

“People were with heavy hammers pounding the concrete, pounding the curbs and handing these big chunks of concrete to people and they were taking that concrete going up to bridges and dropping it into the roof of a car. They were throwing it at our police. They were throwing it at our soldiers that are there, and we got it stopped and we have them in custody right now. Look, if we didn’t get involved, right now Los Angeles would be burning just like it was burning a number of months ago with all the houses that were lost. Los Angeles right now would be on fire. We have it in great shape. We’re not playing around.”

“How will you determine whether or not there is an insurrection?” Wegmann followed up.

“Well you take a look at what is happening. I could tell you there were certain areas of Los Angeles last night you could have called it an insurrection. It was terrible these are paid insurrectionists,” Trump began.

“These are paid trouble makers. They get money. When you take a look at what they do, when they show up … everyone is like, ‘what is he doing?’ The one guy is pounding the curb, breaking the curb and handing big pieces of granite, in some cases it’s granite, and concrete to other people and running out with it and watch the other people and they try to throw it into the face of the soldiers, throw it into the face of the police and they hurt people badly,” he continued.

The Insurrection Act of 1807 gives the president the authority to use the National Guard and military in order to combat “unlawful obstruction or rebellion” within U.S. borders. It was first signed into law by Former President Thomas Jefferson after it was believed that then-Vice President Aaron Burr was plotting to acquire the Louisiana Territory and other land in the Southwest. Former President George H.W. Bush was the last to use the act in 1992 to quell Los Angeles riots. Before him, Eisenhower used the act in 1957 to enforce school desegregation in the south.

The unrest began over the weekend after ICE agents arrested 100 illegal immigrants, including drug traffickers and gang members, in raids across the city. The protests eventually turned into violent riots where some anti-Trump protesters burned cars and threw Molotov cocktails, rocks and fireworks. Some property was defaced with slogans like “KILL ICE.”

There were nearly 1,000 rioters that descended on the city as they caused damage to federal buildings and assaulted ICE agents, slashed tires and destroyed government property Friday night, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

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Reagan Reese

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Justice Department Paves Way To Rein In Federal Land Grabs

The Justice Department (DOJ) said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump has the authority to revoke national monument designations made by previous presidents, including two massive tracts of land in California that former President Joe Biden locked off from development.

The new legal opinion issued by the DOJ disputes a 1938 ruling that stated monuments designated by previous presidents cannot be undone. The opinion provides a pathway for potentially reducing the amount of federally-controlled land, a policy priority that the Trump administration has hinted at for months.

Under the Antiquities Act, presidents have the authority to “declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be national monuments.” However, previous rulings limited the president’s ability to reverse those declarations.

“If the President can declare that his predecessor was wrong regarding the value of preserving one such object on a given parcel, there is nothing preventing him from declaring that his predecessor was wrong about all such objects on a given parcel,” the opinion read.

The opinion singled out the 624,000-acre Chuckwalla National Monument and the 225,000-acre Sáttítla Highlands National Monument in California, which Biden designated in 2025 just before leaving office. Biden’s declaration prevented the extraction of oil, gas, and other natural resources, but the latest DOJ ruling states that Trump can revoke his predecessor’s proclamation.

During his first term, Trump reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah. At the time, he argued that state and local management would be more effective than federal oversight.

“Your timeless bond with the outdoors should not be replaced with the whims of regulators thousands and thousands of miles away,” Trump said at the time. “I’ve come to Utah to take a very historic action to reverse federal overreach and restore the rights of this land to your citizens.”

However, critics argue that such a change would destroy lands with cultural and scientific significance.

“This opinion flies in the face of a century of interpretation of the Antiquities Act. Americans overwhelmingly support our public lands and oppose seeing them dismantled or destroyed,” the Wilderness Society said in a press release in response to the DOJ opinion.

Federal lands are especially concentrated in western states, where roughly 46% of the land was federally owned as of 2020.

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Melissa O’Rourke

Reporter.

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Group Stoking Anti-ICE LA Riots Tied To Pro-Chinese Communist Millionaire

A socialist group that promoted the chaotic anti-deportation protests in Los Angeles that began Friday is tied to a network of groups bankrolled by a pro-China millionaire.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) spoke out in support of the mob rioting against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) over the weekend, posted to X to call for more action on Sunday and created signs that protesters were seen carrying. The PSL shares personnel overlap with groups funded by American tech mogul Neville Singham, whom The New York Times described in August 2023 as sitting at the center of a “lavishly funded influence campaign” promoting pro-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda.

“The people of Los Angeles and surrounding areas have taken a courageous stand against [President Donald] Trump’s reign of terror targeting immigrant families,” the PSL said in a Sunday statement. “In response, the administration has falsely labeled those taking to the streets in protest of the brutal war on immigrants as ‘rioters’ and called in thousands of National Guard soldiers for a crackdown.”

Trump mobilized the National Guard on Saturday to quell the riots, which have included crowds blocking traffic, vandalizing property with anti-ICE messages, starting fires and throwing objects at law enforcement in support of illegal migrants. At least 56 people were arrested over the weekend, NBC News reported.

“National Guard go away! ICE out of LA!” reads a Sunday X post from the PSL at 12:45 a.m. that called for “mass mobilization.” The group later posted videos of protesters gathering in the streets with supportive captions, omitting scenes of unrest that reportedly led to more arrests on Sunday. The PSL did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

Singham, the pro-China businessman, has donated tens of millions of dollars to the PSL-linked group People’s Forum through various shell organizations since 2017, the New York Post reported. The People’s Forum was founded by Claudia De La Cruz, who ran as the PSL’s candidate for president in 2024 and was a “central committee member” of PSL.

The PSL is not required to disclose its funding publicly. De La Cruz described the organization as “member-funded” in October 2024.

PSL founding member Ben Becker, along with former PSL candidates Karla Reyes and Yari Osorio, have held leading roles at Breakthrough BT Media Inc, a Singham-funded media organization pushing pro-CCP narratives, according to the Network Contagion Research Institute. Breakthrough BT Media Inc’s 2023 tax filings show Becker as editor-in-chief, Reyes as chair, Osorio as treasurer and De La Cruz as secretary.

The DCNF could not reach Singham directly for comment. Thoughtworks, a software company he founded, did not respond to an inquiry.

The People’s Forum did not respond to a request for comment. The group referred to Singham in 2021 as “a Marxist comrade who sold his company & donated most of his wealth to nonprofits that focus on political education, culture & internationalism.”

“I categorically deny and repudiate any suggestion that I am a member of, work for, take orders from, or follow instructions of any political party or government or their representatives,” Singham told the New York Times in August 2023.

The PSL has praised the late murderous dictator Mao Zedong for his communist revolution that established the modern Chinese communist regime. The group also denied the 1989 massacre of pro-democracy protesters by CCP troops at Tiananmen Square, as the Chinese government does.

The group’s social media posts, however, claimed L.A. protesters were resisting “repression” from the Trump administration.

The PSL’s anti-Israel stances and open support for Hamas terrorism came under scrutiny when former PSL member Elias Rodriguez was charged with killing two Israeli Embassy workers in May to make a statement for Palestinians. The PSL deleted an article featuring Rodriguez and said it had “nothing to do” with him after the murders.

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Hudson Crozier

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Instead of Shutting Down Immigration Riots, Newsom Suing Trump For National Guard Deployment

Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom plans to sue the Trump administration for deploying the Army National Guard to California in response to anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) riots, he said Monday.

Newsom accused Trump of acting illegally by sending in 2,000 guardsmen to Los Angeles as riots raged over the weekend.

“He flamed the fires and illegally acted to federalize the National Guard,” Newsom wrote on X, adding, “We’re suing him.”

“We don’t take lightly to the president abusing his authority and unlawfully mobilizing California National Guard troops,” state Attorney General Rob Bonta echoed in remarks to reporters, according to the Associated Press.

Newsom’s legal threats come after Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan said that he is considering asking the Department of Justice (DOJ) to prosecute California officials for “fomenting the anti‑ICE riots.”

Rioting began following ICE raids in LA, part of a broader push by the agency to ramp up illegal immigrant deportations. According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the LA raids led to the arrest of several violent illegal alien criminals. ICE has made over 100,000 arrests since the beginning of Trump’s second term, and border crossings have fallen to historic lows, according to the White House.

Although Newsom has repeatedly insisted that California officials had the situation under control, the scene in LA suggests otherwise. Rioters were seen setting fire to police vehicles and autonomous taxis and tossing rocks at federal law enforcement officials.

In the face of California’s lawsuit, Trump is standing by his move to deploy the National Guard, saying in a social media post, “We made a great decision.”

Newsom’s current feud with President Trump is a continuation of California lawmakers’ repeated attempts to derail ICE operations. Democrats in the California Senate moved to pass legislation aimed at severely limiting ICE agents’ ability to effectively operate in the state. LA leaders designated the city a sanctuary city for illegal immigrants following Trump’s inauguration.

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California — A State of Disaster

“The American People will never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the name of liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation without knowing how it happened.” Ronald Reagan spoke those words warning that the socialist/progressive stealth agenda is to transform America from a constitutional republic into a top-down, central and controlled socialist government.

Ronald Reagan was a long-time Democrat until he became acutely aware just how seductive the democrat platforms and beliefs were. He then sought the office of Governor of California beating long-term, very entrenched politically, Democrat Pat Brown who, as Governor of California, was putting into place the quote I led with just now. Reagan won by clearly laying out how the Democrat Platform and belief system was hell bent on reversing what our founders gave us, and then, as is extremely evident today, those carrying the Socialist Democrat flag have no qualms putting into place an agenda and philosophy our founders, if here today, would not hesitate to pick up arms and march against such treason. Since Reagan, the California political elites have seen to it that no conservative would ever again interfere with their plans for a socialist utopia no matter the cost to the mere citizens. I would venture to say that now, years in the making, under Newsome as California Governor, these anti-Republic monsters have succeeded. Just look at these facts.

California has a $12 Billion deficit. The 13% income tax is higher than any other state and they also have the highest sales tax, highest gas tax on top of highest gas prices, highest utility prices. Don’t mention the large numbers of illegals housed and cared for with all sorts of state handouts; $5 thousand-dollar monthly living allowance. Schools that are failing miserably and in the lower 1/3 of schools in the nation. Poverty reaching 25% of the population, while the socialist rich live in their comfortably numb bubbles and not at all subject to their own philosophy and socialist ways. The socialist/Marxist government officials have shuttered nuclear power plants, petroleum plants and distribution centers but opened vast acres of solar panel and wind propelled energy which is painfully not working and creates its own waste hazards.

What about the $30 Billion high speed rail system north to south in California? This project was going to provide clean transportation, swift and easy movement, and it would clear traffic on freeways. You ready…not one mile of track has been laid!!

Consider the Rogue’s Gallery of Marxist believing public office holders, Pat Brown like I mentioned, Jerry Brown, his son, Nancy Pelosi, Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, Willie Brown who “handled” Kamala Harris, and of course currently Gavin Newsome. Doesn’t end there. California has 50 members in Congress with 40 of them being unapologetic socialist acolytes. There is not one state-wide Republican office holder. Most of the judges are avowed liberals appointed by Newsome.

The California political model is being duplicated in such states as Oregon, Washington, Illinois, Wisconsin, and New York. But Trump and the MAGA movement of citizens reaching a critical point of having had enough! Elections have consequences. We have a most critical election coming in 2026. I pray We the People will have had enough of those in elected and appointed offices who are not at all bashful working on distorting our founding principles to fit into a Marxist box and presented to the public as a new idea, a new approach to life problems.

I pray the words of Ronald Reagan ring in your heart, and we do not awake one morning to a country we were never, ever meant to become.

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EXCLUSIVE: School District Piped Taxpayer Cash Into Clandestine Clubs Turning Kids Into LGBT Activists

A California school district took federal funds from a disease prevention grant and funneled them into student LGBT clubs focused on gender ideology and queer activism, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

The Genders & Sexualities Alliance (GSA) Network — which backs over 4,000 LGBT student groups in the U.S. — uses the clubs to engage kids on topics such as transgenderism, sexuality and queer activism, all while leaving parents in the dark, documents show. The Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) burned nearly $60,000 in HIV prevention grant funds from the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the GSA clubs.

The CDC grant funds Healthy Oakland Teens, a school-based program with the goal of reducing HIV and STD’s among the district’s middle and high school student population.

OUSD’s 2018 grant application revealed it used part of the Healthy Oakland Teens funding to pay school staff members, called “LGBTQ Liasons,” to oversee middle and high school GSA clubs and help create a school climate that “affirms” LGBT students. A July 2023 award letter shows an additional $50,000 of grant funding paid elementary school staff to run similar LGBT programs for younger students.

OUSD describes its GSA clubs, which are student-led under the supervision of an adult staff member, as a place where students who identify as “LGBTQ+, Non-Binary, or as an ally” can meet weekly to “do activism.”

It’s unclear how funding school GSA clubs prevents HIV and STDs. The OUSD did not respond to requests for comment.

A slide describing GSA clubs from an Oakland Unified School District resource about gender identity and expression.

Across the county, GSA clubs serve as a student hub of gender ideology and queer activism.

OUSD’s 2018 application for the HIV and STD prevention grant lists decreasing LGBT bullying as a primary goal. Of the thousands the district carved out for LGBT programming, $20,000 went to hire an LGBT consultant to “help OUSD host its annual GSA day for all middle and high schools” and develop “materials and training to help teachers create welcoming classrooms for LGBTQ students.” More than $10,000 of grant funding was earmarked to cover the costs of GSA day, a full-day event with “workshops, student-led advocacy, and celebration” for LGBTQ students, according to the grant application.

From 2018 to 2023, OUSD received more than $3 million as part of the “Healthy Oakland Teens: Promoting Adolescent Sexual Health in Full Service Community Schools” grant from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), according to the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) grant database.

HHS and CDC didn’t respond to a request for comment.

Pages from the Oakland Unified School District gender support plan document used by school staff, which was obtained by the DCNF through a public records request.

‘Choose A More Accepting Family Member’

Through a public record request the DCNF obtained OUSD’s “gender support plan,” a document outlining how staff can “support” a student’s new gender identity by socially transitioning them to another sex at school, without notifying their parents.

The document directs staff to ask students to rate their parents’ support and list “go to adults” on campus they can contact. The gender support plan also recommends students be connected to their school GSA club and “LGBTQ Liason.”

Students are asked to list the name and pronouns they’d like to be called at school and which they’d like staff to use when contacting their parents or guardians. A disclaimer at the top of the form states that if parents do not affirm their child’s chosen identity, in order to “maintain privacy” the gender support plan should not be placed in the student’s file.

OUSD’s “behavioral health unit” offers a resource for “transgender” and “questioning students” which recommends students seek out “accepting adults” at school, particularly if their family is not supportive of their new identity.

“Get a sense of how your family feels about LGBTQNB people. Choose a more accepting family member to connect with first,” states the OUSD resource.

“If you think you won’t be safe if you tell your family, it is best to wait. Find accepting adults at schools and family members who are the most accepting to start with.”

Genders & Sexualities Alliance

The Gay-Straight Alliance Network, which originated in San Francisco in 1998 to provide peer support for gay teenagers, changed its name in 2016 to Genders & Sexualities Alliance Network as part of an effort to move beyond “the limits of a binary gender system,” according to its website. The organization, which includes more than 4,000 GSA clubs and 40 statewide organizations, now has a focus on mobilizing students for queer activism.

“GSAs have evolved beyond their traditional role to serve as safe spaces for LGBTQ+ youth in middle schools and high schools,” states the GSA Network website.

“GSA Network is a next-generation LGBTQ racial and gender justice organization that empowers and trains queer, trans and allied youth leaders to advocate, organize, and mobilize an intersectional movement for safer schools and healthier communities,” its website states.

The GSA Network did not respond to the DCNF’s requests for comment.

The GSA Network advisor handbook, a guidebook for GSA advisors, tells adult leaders to anticipate “possible resistance” from parents and to “be discreet” when contacting students noting “it might not be safe” to use the term “GSA Club.”

“When calling youth, it may not be safe to mention ‘GSA club’ or another trans or queer reference. Alternatively, club leaders can say they are from a student leadership program at (insert school name),” the GSA advisor handbook states.

The GSA clubs have not gone unnoticed among parents.

Erin Lee, executive director of Protect Kids Colorado, told the DCNF a teacher invited her middle school daughter to a GSA club disguised as an after-school art club, where she was taught about puberty blockers, transgenderism and LGBTQ identities, without parental consent.

“My child was lured into a confidential GSA club disguised as an Art Club in her 6th grade classroom. She was deceived by her ‘trusted adult’ teacher about what the club entailed, and parents were completely kept in the dark about what the club really was,” Lee said. “We were not prepared in any way for our little girl to be attending a secret gender and sexuality club.”

“They talked about sexual attraction, how being uncomfortable in your body actually means you are ‘trans,’ puberty blockers, polyamory, unsupportive parents, and suicide,” Lee told the DCNF.

After attending the GSA meeting, Lee’s daughter began identifying as transgender and wanted to transition to another sex. Her involvement with the GSA club “led to a months-long emotional decline of gender and sexuality confusion that required counseling and included suicidal thoughts,” according to a lawsuit the Lee’s filed against the Poudre School District, where her daughter attended school, in March 2023.

“They planted seeds of distrust towards parents; they manipulated her feelings; they violated her innocence; they lied to her. And they lied to us. They tried to keep it all a secret and persuade her to keep the secret, too,” Lee told the DCNF.

The district told the DCNF the lawsuit filed by the Lees was dismissed in a federal district court, and that decision was affirmed by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Megan Brock

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Trump Demands ‘Bigger, Badder’ Alcatraz To Lock Up Nation’s Worst Criminals

President Donald Trump announced Sunday evening that he wants to bring back one of America’s most feared prisons — Alcatraz — and make it bigger than ever.

In a Truth Social post that lit up the internet, Trump said that the infamous island prison off the coast of San Francisco should be “rebuilt, enlarged, and reopened” to incarcerate the nation’s “most ruthless and violent offenders.”

Trump slammed what he called a “justice system too afraid to act” and took aim at activist judges, sanctuary cities and the Biden administration’s border failures, saying that violent criminals are allowed to roam free while Americans live in fear.

Trump outlined a plan to direct the Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, FBI and Homeland Security to carry out the reopening of Alcatraz — this time, with a significant expansion. Trump described the future facility as a “symbol of Law, Order, and JUSTICE.”

The original Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary operated from 1934 to 1963 on a 22-acre island in San Francisco Bay, a mile and a quarter from shore. The rocky fortress housed some of the most notorious criminals in American history — including Al Capone and Robert Stroud, the so-called “Birdman of Alcatraz.” With icy waters and shark-infested currents, it was widely considered inescapable, though 14 escape attempts were documented.

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California: Newsom Gives Taxpayer Funds for Anti-Terror Program to Mosque Whose Imam Defended Oct. 7 Hamas Massacre

Of course. If the mosque hadn’t supported jihad terrorism, it wouldn’t have gotten the funding.

“Gavin Newsom Awards Antiterrorism Grant to Mosque Linked to 9/11 Hijackers, Pro-Hamas Cleric,” by Chuck Ross, Washington Free Beacon, May 1, 2025:

California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) recently awarded taxpayer funds under a state antiterrorism program to a San Diego mosque that has been linked to 9/11 hijackers and whose imam defended the Hamas attack on Israel.

Newsom, considered a top 2028 presidential contender, awarded nearly $200,000 to the Islamic Center of San Diego in March as part of a program to help religious institutions and nonprofits beef up security to protect against potential terrorist attacks, according to state records.

“Today more than ever, our state stands together to support our communities. Californians deserve the right to worship, love, and gather safely, without fear of violence,” said Newsom, whose administration has given another $500,000 to the San Diego mosque in previous years.

The Islamic Center of San Diego, led by Imam Taha Hassane, has condoned anti-Israel violence over the years. Hassane, who joined the center in 2004, defended Hamas’s slaughter of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7, saying in a sermon weeks later that “resistance [against Israel] is justified,” the Washington Free Beacon previously reported.

“We cannot accuse somebody who is fighting for his life to be a terrorist. The terrorist is the one who started the occupation, not the one who is defending himself,” said Hassane, whose remarks prompted his removal from San Diego’s Human Relations Commission.

Hassane’s wife, Lallia Allali, resigned from her job with the San Diego school district after she posted a cartoon following the Oct. 7 attacks that showed a Star of David beheading five children. She currently teaches courses on “Islamophobia” at the Islamic Center of San Diego.

The Islamic Center of San Diego gained notoriety in the wake of 9/11 after revelations that two of the al Qaeda operatives who flew the plane that hit the Pentagon—Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar—prayed regularly at the mosque. An official at the mosque also allegedly helped the terrorists receive a $5,000 wire transfer from the nephew of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11. Other mosque leaders hosted a welcoming party for the hijackers when they arrived in San Diego in 2000, according to the 9/11 Commission report….

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Comrade Newson and His Filipina Marxist Attorney General Sue President Trump Over Tariffs

The Communist Chinese cheerleader Comrade Governor Newsom is suing the Trump Administration for the tariffs imposed globally initiated to equalize free balanced trade between the United States and other nations.

Newsom is having another one of his Trump Derangement Syndrome episodes as he tries to save his very close relationship with his pals in Communist China and its tyrannical leadership.

Newsom and his waterboy state attorney General (Filipina born) Rob Bonta want a ruling to stop the tariffs because they are hurting California consumers and businesses. Seriously? Sounds like they are worried about Chinese stores going under, not American.

Rob Banta is the same low IQ attorney that tried to eliminate cash bonds for criminals, just let them walk free from jail with no bondsman. He also banned private prisons. He even prosecuted companies for so-called excessive carbon emissions.

Perhaps the State Department should look at Comrade Banta’s immigration status and send his Marxist ass back to Quezon City in the Philippines where he was born and then he can focus on their air quality which is actually bad unlike California.

Newsom is also crying that more than 60,000 businesses in California export goods, apparently mainly to Communist China. Well the solution is to export California goods to friendly countries, not a country hell bent on invading Taiwan, a country trying to take complete control of the South China Sea and threatening the Philippines, Thailand and Australian economic fishing zones.

Newsom is also saying that tariffs will affect the procurement of construction materials critical to rebuild parts of Los Angeles, (Pacific Palisades) an illegal immigrant controlled city burned to a crisp from the fires his administration created by lack of forest management and failing to provide water to the fire fighters to save a fish.

Newsom says he needs timber, wood, steel, aluminum, and drywall products which are all available for procurement in the United States but Newsom wants to purchase these products from Communist China and the future 51st state of the United States Canada.

Newsom also fails to mention that the Mayor of Los Angeles a Communist Cuba government sympathiser, has yet to issue a single building permit so new home construction can begin using debris clearing as an excuse.

So while Comrade Newsom reminisces on his past trips to Communist China to discuss the fraudulent climate change agenda and his unconstitutional ban on the sale of new gasoline powered vehicles, lawn mowers, leaf blowers. BBQ grills and farm equipment.

With zero diplomatic experience, he actually spent more time meeting with his Communist Chinese pals discussing trade agreements of which California and the United States were always on the losing end of the deal, but not anymore. Not with Trump running things.

Governor Newsom and other Communist sympathisers in the Democrat Party have zero objectives to make America and California great again. They are concerned only with appeasing their handlers in the Chinese Communist Party leadership who have made significant inroads into state and local government blue states like California.

It’s very difficult for the Communist Chinese to infiltrate the Trump Federal level of leadership so they focus on weak local blue state operations like California. Vermont, Colorado, Minnesota and Massachusetts. Just follow the money and the politicians frequent trips to Beijing.

Governor Newsom and a few others like him are a bigger threat to our republic than the Communist Chinese because he (they) have control internally of their states like California. But, Trump will win and he will make America great again no matter how many of these low life bottom feeding Marxists cockroaches in the local and blue state governments try to stop him.

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CALIFORNIA: George Soros-Owned Radio Station Doxes Undercover ICE Agents

A radio station owned by George Soros reported the live locations of undercover Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents operating in San Jose, California, an area known for violent gang activity.

This is incitement to violence and murder against law enforcment. PULL SOROS LICENSES.

George Soros-owned radio station doxes undercover ICE agents operating in San Jose, California

George Soros-owned radio station doxes undercover ICE agents operating in San Jose, California

By: Katie Daviscourt, The Post Millenial, Jan 30, 2025:

The incident occurred on January 26 when KCBS 740 AM radio host Bret Burkhart described the unmarked vehicles being used by ICE and the exact locations where ICE agents had been operating.

A radio station owned by George Soros reported the live locations of undercover Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) agents operating in San Jose, California, an area known for violent gang activity. The incident occurred on January 26 when KCBS 740 AM radio host Bret Burkhart described the unmarked vehicles being used by ICE and the exact locations where ICE agents had been operating, according to Newsbusters.

Burkhart was relaying information posted to social media by the Rapid Response Network, a leftist group that fights deportation initiatives. NewsNation confirmed on January 27 that ICE was conducting operations in the area at the time, meaning the host potentially blew the agents’ cover and put them in danger.

“Here’s what’s happening,” Burkhart said. “San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan and head councilmember Peter Ortiz confirmed today that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are currently carrying out an operation on the east side of town. The Santa Clara County Rapid Response Network, which is a community defense projecting system for immigrant communities against deportation threats, first reported the activity on its platforms.”

“The county response network said agents in San Jose were in unmarked vehicles, including a black [omitted], a gray [omitted], and a white [omitted]. ICE agents were also reported outside a residence on South [omitted] roads, and officers were reportedly at the target on [omitted],” he continued. “Stay with KCBS, we will be tracking it for you.”

This comes as federal authorities are currently carrying out mass deportation operations across the United States at the direction of President Trump, targeting violent illegal immigrants convicted and/or charged with serious crimes, including murder, child rape, and assault with deadly weapons.

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‘Excuses Go Up In Flames’: California Dems Paved The Way For Los Angeles To Be Consumed By ‘The Big One’

Southern California was known for years to be vulnerable to potentially devastating wildfires, but Democratic officials did not take sufficient action before proceeding to botch the response to fires currently devastating the Los Angeles area.

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom failed to follow through on a signature 2019 initiative to revamp the state’s approach to wildfires and neglected to adequately manage wildfire kindling while a key reservoir reportedly sat empty in the lead-up to the fires that have rocked Southern California this week. While there is nuance to these shortcomings, the results of the crisis makes clear that California’s top officials failed to effectively handle a predictable and dire emergency, according to emergency management and policy experts.

“We saw this coming, and we have said, ‘I told you so’ every time there’s been a super fire. This time, the super fire happens to be even more catastrophic, because it’s happening in one of the most densely-populated areas in the United States,” Edward Ring, director of water and energy policy for the California Policy Center, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “It’s the same message, which is that we have neglected our water infrastructure. We have mismanaged our forests and chaparral in the name of environmentalism, and we’re paying the price.”

“Anybody who says this is being politicized should be ashamed of themselves, because every time this happened in the past, the people defending the policies blamed it on climate change, which is a completely politicized issue,” Ring added. “And instead of making the hard decisions that might challenge environmentalist priorities, they did things like outlawing gasoline engines and mandating electric cars. Things like that have nothing to do with land management, they have absolutely nothing to do with the actual problem that needs to be solved.”

Ring said that inadequate use of prescribed burns and the regulation-induced decline of timbering in California have increased the density of vegetation available to fuel fires, making “the whole state a tinderbox.”

Republican Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy, who has fought wildfires in the past, also said in a Wednesday Fox News interview that “the big one” was foreseeable, adding that the devastation unfolding in Southern California is largely attributable to government mismanagement of the emergency. Some forecasts, including those issued by the National Interagency Fire Center and the California Office for Emergency Services, warned that Southern California was at high risk for serious fires in January before the fires began ravaging Los Angeles.

Joe Rogan also recounted in July 2024 that a Southern California firefighter once told him that the area had been fortunate to avoid a massive fire emergency, but that the region’s luck would run out one day when the conditions were right for a devastating blaze that could threaten the entire city.

Newsom launched a $1 billion executive order in 2019 to bolster the state’s preparedness and resiliency for wildfires. However, a 2021 investigation by CapRadio — a California-focused National Public Radio outlet — concluded that Newsom’s administration was falling short on some key facets of the program while embellishing its success publicly. Specifically, the report found that “Newsom overstated, by an astounding 690%, the number of acres treated with fuel breaks and prescribed burns” in forestry projects identified as critical for wildfire preparedness.

The 2019 executive action was taken in response to the Camp Fire of 2018, a massive fire started by downed power equipment that ravaged Northern California and killed 84 people. In response to that fire and others, news outlets and subject matter experts repeatedly pointed out that California’s lax approach to forest management creates danger by allowing fire fuel to accumulate too much.

Additionally, California’s water infrastructure has attracted scrutiny for its role in the ongoing crisis amid multiple reports that fire hydrants in some of the hardest-hit areas failed to dispense water for firefighters battling the flames. A huge spike in water demand reportedly overwhelmed underground water storage tanks and their pumping systems in higher-elevation areas as fires jumped through neighborhoods.

“The Governor is focused on protecting people, not playing politics, and making sure firefighters have all the resources they need,” Izzy Gardo, Newsom’s communications director, said in a statement provided to the DCNF.

The state has dealt with water scarcity issues for years, and it has not built a new major reservoir since 1979 despite major population growth over the same period of time. California also allows billions of gallons of runoff water to enter the Pacific Ocean each year instead of harnessing a portion for use because the state lacks sufficient infrastructure to capture meaningful volumes of stormwater, The Los Angeles Times reported in March 2024.

However, the fire hydrants failing happened primarily because the city’s water infrastructure could not handle a massive demand spike rather than a lack of available water in the wider system, according to Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) CEO Janisse Quiñones. Additionally, a large reservoir in the vicinity of Pacific Palisades — one of the hardest-hit communities — was empty and offline when the fires exploded into a full crisis, The Los Angeles times reported Friday.

In 2014, California voters chose to enact Proposition 1, which authorized a $2.7 billion bond that would be used to fund new water storage, reservoir and dam projects. Not only did this funding fail to result in any new major reservoirs in the state, but officials actually moved in 2022 to get rid of Northern California’s Klamath River dams in order to protect salmon and steelhead.

Newsom announced Friday that he is calling for an investigation probing the factors that led up to fire hydrant failure and the reported unavailability of that articular reservoir.

Rick Caruso, a former Republican candidate for Los Angeles mayor and former head of the LADWP, said in a Thursday interview that there is ultimately no excuse for crucial infrastructure to fail when it is needed most.

“I think that career politicians have making excuses down to a fine art, and you see it rolling out and trying to explain why there wasn’t water,” Caruso said during the interview with Fox 11 Los Angeles. “Nobody wants to hear an excuse for why they lost their home, why they lost their business. The reality is, they were not prepared enough … The preparation just wasn’t right. It wasn’t enough.”

Notably, Quiñones was hired in May 2024 to run the LADWP and take home a $750,000 salary, according to local outlet ABC7. Her salary is significantly higher than that of her predecessor, and the city council said at the time that the compensation increase for the position was meant to attract top-tier talent from the private sector.

Apart from Quiñones, eight of the top ten highest-paid Los Angeles city employees in 2023 worked for the LADPW, according to analysis by OpenTheBooks, a government transparency group.

Other municipal officials have also received sharp criticism for their actions before and during the crisis. As of Friday morning, at least ten people have died, while early projections for total damages from the fires range from about $50 billion to as much as $135 billion.

Democratic Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was in Ghana when the fires broke out as part of a delegation sent to the country by President Joe Biden. On her way back to the U.S., a Sky News reporter confronted Bass at an airport with basic questions about the disaster, but Bass ignored the questions until she was able to get away from the journalist. (RELATED: Citizens Arrest Arson Suspect Possibly Connected To Los Angeles Fires: REPORT)

Bass addressed the fire in public remarks delivered on Wednesday night in the city, though she received criticism for making a gaffe that indicated her prepared comments had not been adequately edited before she got up to the podium.

Additionally, Bass approved a budget for the Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) for the current fiscal year that contained $23 million less than the prior year’s amid ongoing negotiations between the city and the firefighters’ union, according to The New York Times. The city set aside unappropriated cash expecting that a deal would eventually be reached — which eventually happened in November 2024 — before moving the funds over to the fire department’s accounts, with LAFD ultimately receiving $53 million more than last year all in.

Either way, LAFD Chief Kristin Crowley complained about the budgeting issue — including reductions in funding available for overtime pay — in December 2024, writing in a memo that the cuts presented “unprecedented operational challenges ” for her department.

Crowley’s leadership of LAFD has also been scrutinized in light of the unfolding disaster. She took over the top job in 2022, with her official LAFD bio page and media reports touting her sexual orientation as a key credential.

Throughout her tenure atop LAFD, Crowley has emphasized the importance of fostering diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in her department to complement the LAFD’s official 2021 “racial equity action plan” suggesting that a demographically diverse fire department is an effective one.

“Politicians and officials can spin whatever narrative they want to cover their tracks,” Frank Ricci, a former fire department battalion chief in Connecticut who now works as a fellow for the Yankee Institute, told the DCNF. “But, when it comes to emergency management, the brutal truth is this: your preparation is only as good as its performance in a crisis. If your systems fail when they’re needed most, all your excuses go up in flames.”

Representatives for Bass and the LADWP did not respond to requests for comment.

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California: Man shoots and critically wounds two kindergarten children as ‘countermeasure’ to U.S. ‘involvement with genocide of Palestinians’

The rhetoric about the actually nonexistent genocide of “Palestinians” is so overheated that it is driving the psychically marginal to violence. 

“Mentally ill Calif. school shooter fired at kids as ‘countermeasure’ for US involvement in ‘genocide of Palestinians’: note,” by Alex Oliveira, New York Post, December 5, 2024:

The mentally ill gunman who shot and wounded two kindergarteners at a small California school Wednesday wrote that he was deploying a “countermeasure involving child executions” in response to “America’s involvement with genocide and oppression of Palestinians,” in a twisted note he left behind.

The shooter who turned the gun on himself after opening fire in the playground of the Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists was identified Thursday as Glenn Litton, a 56-year-old homeless man who was sprung from jail just two days before the shooting, according to police.

Litton, who was pronounced dead at the Oroville school, had a long history of mental health issues, alarming criminal behavior, and past stints in prison, Butte County officials said at a press conference Thursday.

Glenn Litton, 56, was identified as the shooter who opened fire at a playground at the Feather River School of Seventh-Day Adventists, shooting two kindergarteners before turning the gun on himself.

Cops believe his deranged writings — in which he called himself a lieutenant of “the international alliance” — stemmed from his compromised mental state.

“Countermeasure involving child executions has now been imposed at the Seventh Day Adventist school in CA, U.S. by the international alliance,” he wrote in the disturbing note recovered by investigators.

“I, Lieutenant Glenn Litton of the alliance carried out countermeasure in necessitated response to America’s involvement with genocide and oppression of Palestinians along with attacks towards Yemen.”

Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea characterized those writings as delusions coming from his mental illness, saying he “pulled information from various sources, and it all came together in his mind to create a reality that is false.”

Litton – who attended a separate Seventh Day Adventist school when he was young – critically wounded two boys, 5 and 6, who attended the school of just 35 students.

Days before the attack, the shooter had scheduled a meeting with the Feather River School’s principal and arrived for the meeting Wednesday using a false name under the pretense of enrolling his grandson in the school.

But he had no grandson, police noted, and shortly after the meeting he stormed into the school’s playground and opened fire on students as they returned to class….

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America’s Blue Bastions Have Crept Right Amid Rampant Crime And Homelessness

America’s most liberal cities and states have shifted their policies to the right in recent elections, as crime and homelessness remain large issues in Democratic strongholds.

Left-wing policies in blue states like California and Colorado and cities such as Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Oakland were rejected by voters last week, with voters passing anti-crime ballot measures and ousting liberal district attorneys and mayors. Some of the policies voters supported include tougher drug penalties, harsher prosecution of criminals by district attorneys and more funding for law enforcement.

“I think people are realizing that it’s not a good idea to cut millions upon millions of dollars from your local police department’s budgets, [and] it’s not a good idea to publish lists of crimes that you’re no longer going to prosecute,” Zack Smith, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “And so what you’re seeing is politicians who formally supported those positions are starting to walk back some of their most radical previous policies.”

San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins was reelected by a wide margin, fending off a challenge from left-wing candidate Ryan Khojasteh, who worked for former District Attorney Chesa Boudin, according to multiple sources. Boudin was recalled in 2022 after facing widespread criticism for being too lenient on crime.

Boudin prohibited all cash bail in 2020, saying it unfairly targeted racial minorities, according to the San Francisco Gate. The policy was opposed vehemently by the San Francisco Police Officers Association, saying San Franciscans will “pay a heavy price for it.”

Jenkins, who has received praise for her tougher crime policy compared to her predecessor, will now serve her first full four-year term.

In 2023, Jenkins increased the yearly number of convictions in the city for the first time in eight years, according to city data. Many metrics of crime in San Francisco decreased in 2023, with homicide down 7% from 2022, larceny-theft down 11% and rape down 7.2%, according to San Francisco Police Department data.

Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price was recalled by a whopping 25 points in her election in early November. Under Price, crime in the county surged, with auto theft in 2023 more than doubling, robbery increasing 19%, burglaries 14% and theft under $200 in value increasing 31%, according to county statistics.

Price vowed to decrease the juvenile conviction rate and not “overcriminalize the youth,” according to her campaign platform. The same year she took office, a juvenile crime wave plagued the city, with police arresting suspects that participated in as many as 20 robberies, according to CBS News in May 2023.

Prison populations plummeted under Price’s leadership, going to levels not seen since 2003, according to the Chronicle in November 2023. Additionally, Price neglected to onboard attorneys sent by Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom to help prosecute drug crime, which prompted Newsom to rescind the offer. Additionally, a presentation used by Price’s office to train victim-witness advocates taught that “the carceral state grew out of chattel slavery” and repeatedly claimed that there was racial bias in criminal justice.

Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao was also recalled along with Price, losing her bid to stay in office by a wide margin, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Oakland Police Officers’ Association President Huy Nguyen told the Daily Caller News Foundation that managing the Oakland Police under her leadership was like “trying to keep a patient in the ICU alive.”

Thao cut the Oakland Police’s sworn officer count from 728 to 678 since 2022 as of August. Oakland lacked a police chief for nearly a year after Thao fired LeRonne Armstrong for alleged misconduct during an investigation into a hit-and-run involving a police car and a weapons discharge by an officer. An arbitrator report exonerated Armstrong for wrongdoing in September 2023, according to NBC Bay Area.

A city-wide crime report in December 2023 showed motor vehicle theft was up 44% for the year, robbery up 38%, violent crime up 21% and overall crime up 17%. Voters accused Thao of ignoring the city’s crime and homelessness problem while touting improvements, according to the LA Times.

“The progressives in Oakland did the same thing they did in San Francisco. They ignored the crime. They ignored the poverty,” Recall Sheng Thao spokesperson Seneca Scott told the LA Times. “They need to do some soul-searching.”

“Overall, the trend is toward moving toward more common sense crime policies, putting more police on the street, empowering them to do their job’s responsibly, and then having district attorneys who actually prosecute crimes,” Smith told the DCNF. “And I think what many people are realizing is that being a law and order district attorney doesn’t mean that everyone is necessarily going to prison for first-time non-violent offenses.”

Portland, Oregon, recently ousted its mayor Ted Wheeler in favor of Keith Wilson, who won handily in the ranked-choice election, according to The Associated Press. Wheeler assumed office in 2017, campaigning on improving homelessness programs, housing options and a slew of other left-wing policies, according to his platform in 2016. Since 2017, Portland’s homeless population has increased from 4,015 in 2017 to 6,297 in 2023, according to homelessness advocacy organization Do Good Multnomah.

Wheeler tried to correct the problem on his way out, signing into law a homeless camping ban in May, which would potentially fine or jail homeless people who refused shelter, according to Oregon Public Broadcasting. However, the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office said they would not allow the use of county jails to enforce the law.

In Wilson’s campaign, he addressed issues of lack of police resources by promising to provide aid to an “overtaxed” police department by sheltering homeless people that tie up manpower. He also promised to end open drug use and homelessness in the first year of his administration by creating more “emergency” homeless shelters in order to reduce street encampments, citing his experience with his homelessness non-profit Shelter Portland.

Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon lost his seat by a 20-point margin to independent challenger Nathan Hochman, according to an unofficial tally. Hochman will assume the office as the city continues to reel from crime, with violent incidents overall remaining above pre-pandemic levels, according to FBI data.

Gascon faced heavy criticism during his tenure for leniency in prosecuting criminals. He promised upon taking office to not pursue the death penalty, not to try minors as adults and wouldn’t give life sentences without parole, according to Bolts Magazine. (Watch The Daily Caller’s documentary ‘Rigged’ HERE)

For example, Gascon did not seek the death penalty for the murderer of Los Angeles Police Department Officer Ryan Clinkunbroomer. A convicted murderer reportedly called Gascon his “champ” in 2022 after he did not include gang membership and firearm enhancements on his charge. Violent crime in Los Angeles also jumped by 12% and property crime by 15% from 2021 to 2023, according to CalMatters.

“It’s mostly a vote on Gascón,” Mark DiCamillo, director of the UC Berkeley IGS poll, told the LA Times in November. “Hochman is the other candidate in this race and he’s in that fortunate position of running against an unpopular incumbent.”

Tough-on-crime ballot measures also won decisive victories at the ballot box.

Californian voters at large passed Proposition 36, which raised penalties for retail theft and drug possession. The measure effectively reversed the 2014 Proposition 47, which downgraded theft under $950 from a felony to a misdemeanor while lowering drug possession penalties. Robberies in California were up 3.8% and shoplifting was up by almost 40% in 2023 compared to 2019, according to the Public Policy Institute of California.

Colorado passed Proposition 128, which requires those guilty of certain violent crimes like second-degree murder, first-degree assault, class two felony kidnapping or sexual assault to serve at least 85% of their sentence to be eligible for parole, raising the threshold from 75%. Voters also passed Proposition 130, which allocated $350 million to the state’s various police departments through the Colorado Department of Public Safety.

Additionally, Colorado voted to amend its constitution, removing the right to bail in first-degree murder cases where a conviction is highly likely, according to the state legislature.

In Arizona, voters passed Proposition 313, which requires a life sentence for those convicted of child sex trafficking. Proposition 314 was also passed, which toughens a slew of laws on illegal immigration and fentanyl, including empowering state and local police to arrest illegal immigrants outside of ports of entry.

In addition to local and state elections, the recent presidential election showed a massive swing toward Trump and Republicans.

San Diego County shifted towards president-elect Donald Trump by seven points, Los Angeles County by 14 points and Fresno County by 16 points compared to 2020, according to the San Francisco Chronicle. Latino voters mostly drove the shift rightward.

Nassau County in Long Island, New York, saw a 14-point swing to Trump and Miami-Dade County in Florida swung 19 points to the former president, according to The New York Times. Miami-Dade was last won by a Republican candidate in 1988, according to CBS.

Price, Gascon and Thao’s offices did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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Phillips 66 to Close its Oil Refinery in Los Angeles, CA by end of 2025. Residual result of Newsom’s Marxist Free Market Interference

The Communist dictator of California Gavin Newsom, the poster child for China and Venezuela’s economic policies, a bottom feeding trilobite who kisses the feet of Marxist presidential candidate Kamala “Chameleon” low IQ Harris and the dictator of Communist China signed a price control oil refinery regulation initiative making energy regulators require oil refineries in California maintain a certain level of refined gasoline on hand.

Obviously this law is not required because oil companies in California do this anyway without the need for interference from the Newsom Communist ran government.

This interference in free markets, which is our republic’s bedrock of entrepreneurial spirit called capitalism and risk taking, will soon have severe consequences not only for the citizens of California but will have a significant residual effect on gas prices for the citizens of Nevada and Arizona who depend on refined gasoline from California.

Instead of lowering taxes and eliminating the incredulous regulations regarding so called green initiatives which in itself are the root cause of high gas prices in California, Gavin Newsom instead blames the oil companies for price gouging. Apparently only California suffers this so-called fake price gouging and other Democrat controlled states like New York and New Jersey.

Gavin Newsom is a massive threat to the economic strength and freedoms of all Californians including surrounding states like Nevada and Arizona while the Democrat Communists continue to say that Trump is the real threat to Democracy.

Marxist Democrats do understand the United States is actually a Constitutional Republic not a Democracy but they want to change that ideology and turn us into a third world banana republic they can control starting with energy, the driving force of our country.

Founding Father James Madison made it very clear in Federalist Paper Number 10 we are a constitutional republic but the Democrats with their Marxist indoctrination in our public schools avoid teaching this to our children so it’s up to us “We the people”

The fallout from Gavin Newsom’s interference in free market gasoline production and regulations will have consequences and as I mentioned in past missives oil companies and refineries will shut down and stop doing business in the great state of California.

Call me Nostradamus as my predictions are coming true. Not only did Chevron shut down its corporate hub in California, moving instead to Texas, as I predicted it would, but the oil company Phillips 66 announced on October 16th 2024 it will shut down its Los Angeles oil / gasoline refinery by December 31st 2025.

This notice came out a few days after Newsom signed his Marxist price control oil refinery regulation bill into law because Phillips 66 is rightfully concerned about free markets being strangled. without naming the Newson plan.

“With the long-term sustainability of our Los Angeles Refinery uncertain and affected by market dynamics, we are working with leading land development firms to evaluate the future use of our unique and strategically located properties near the Port of Los Angeles,” CEO Mark Lashier said in a statement.

Closing the oil refinery will impact the loss of 600 full time jobs and over 300 contractors including truckers that deliver l fuel to gas stations with California losing another 8% of its once free market share of refined gasoline with this closure.

Thus, this interference by the Communist Governor Newson will result in job losses and another significant rise in gasoline prices not only in California but also in Nevada and Arizona. Phillips 66 has already closed its refinery in San Francisco costing Californians another 5% of its refined gasoline capacity resulting in more gas price increases in 2023.

Governor Newson also directed the Communist ran California legislator to go after oil companies in the past politically claiming they are making too much money, which translated means free markets, the factors which create wealth and jobs are not welcome in California under this administration.

The Governor of Nevada and Arizona have written a letter of concern to Newson regarding his Marxist price controls and interference in free markets regarding his regulating of oil companies commentating in part:

“We’re concerned that mandating refinery inventory would directly raise the cost of fuel for all of our constituencies and create further economic instability in the region.”

So Governor Newsom is running California like Nicolas Maduro, the installed Communist dictator of Venezuela, a nation my family fled from 6 years ago.

If I was running an oil company in California I would call a group meeting of all oil company CEOs and recommend the total discontinuance of refining ALL gasoline and shut down ALL diesel and gas shipments to gasoline stations in California bringing the economy to a grinding halt until the current Marxist insane government has been removed from office by the voters.

Even millions of illegal immigrants living in the state in violation of congressional law are also contributing to giving California a nice 50 electoral vote count, they can now vote unmolested in California without showing an ID or proof of U.S. citizenship, surely they need gasoline right or perhaps they can ride a bike or walk to the polling station?

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Third Assassination Attempt on Trump at Coachella

This won’t be the last one. Does the FBI really want to thwart these attacks?

The suspect — identified as 49-year-old Las Vegas resident Vem Miller — was caught at a checkpoint about a quarter-mile from the rally with fake VIP passes to the rally and fake press passes — as well as unregistered weapons, including a loaded shotgun, a handgun and a high-capacity magazine, according to the Riverside County sheriff’s office.

WATCH: Third Trump assassination attempt thwarted

Triple threat: Armed man arrested outside Trump’s Coachella rally — and sheriff says it was possible third assassination attempt

By Alex Oliveira and Joe Marino, NY Post, Oct. 13, 2024:

Local cops arrested an armed man outside Donald Trump’s Coachella Valley rally on Saturday, and the local sheriff said it may have been a third assassination attempt against the former president.

The suspect — identified as 49-year-old Las Vegas resident Vem Miller — was caught at a checkpoint about a quarter-mile from the rally with fake VIP passes to the rally and fake press passes — as well as unregistered weapons, including a loaded shotgun, a handgun and a high-capacity magazine, according to the Riverside County sheriff’s office.

Miller did not have a valid ID when he was stopped at the rally checkpoint, and was detained after police searched his vehicle and found the weapons, law enforcement sources told The Post.

“We probably stopped another assassination attempt,” Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said, according to the Riverside Press-Enterprise.

However, law enforcement sources told The Post that the FBI does not believe this was an assassination attempt, and the former president’s life was never in danger.

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Dearborn Muslims Hold Hizb’Allah Rally Chanting “Death to America,” “Death to Israel,” “We’re Going to Win,” “Look at the Universities!”

“DO YOU HEAR YOURSELF?”

As Elon Achieves Unimaginable Scientific Milestones, California REFUSES Elon Musk’s SpaceX Launches Because of His Tweets

Gunmen Open Fire on Jewish school in Toronto on Yom Kippur

Far Left Democrat Icon Says He Wouldn’t Have Been Able to Stop Himself From Murdering, Kidnapping, Raping, Sexually Mutilating Jewish Women and Children on Oct. 7th

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