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'Denmark, almost alone in the western world, has a very strong centre-Left, and the main reason is that, uniquely, it followed its voters on immigration. ... They actually did what the voters wanted.' On Danish exceptionalism, by @edwest

On Danish exceptionalism

There is no ‘getting to Denmark’ without Danes

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@Danielsrotaryo1 Immigrants are not citizens (of Denmark), by very definition. And if you read the piece, one of the policies adopted was to forcibly break up immigrants' *self-created* ghettos to promote assimilation into Danish society and prevent formation of parallel societies

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@KyleMcn12667834 @edwest Immigration from the third world does not "compensate" It's a net loss even into the next generation

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@KamalaHarris What if "someone" is a violent MS-13 gang member AND illegal immigrant (Edwin Ramos)? Who was caught with a criminal associate concealing a gun—used the *night before* in a DOUBLE HOMICIDE—down a storm drain? As SF DA, you RELEASED Ramos—who later slaughtered a family

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There's something very funny about San Francisco city leaders magically unlocking the power to clear drug addict encampments because they want to impress Xi Jinping on his visit ‘They just said we had to go’: S.F. clears homeless hot spots ahead of APEC

‘They just said we had to go’: S.F. clears homeless hot spots ahead of APEC

All seven intersections are in the two neighborhoods that have long been at the epicenter...

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7 months

TIL *Robert Maxwell* was largely responsible for the way the scientific journal system evolved

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@lukerosiak academics do it because the open access journals are less prestigious it is a scam, though (source: phd with multiple papers published) also, did you know Ghislane Maxwell's father is responsible for the current system of journals?

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@exjon @BiasedGirl 😬 ✅ Highest poverty rate ✅ 33% of Americans on welfare ✅ 25% of homeless (70% unsheltered) ✅ Near-last school rankings ✅ Worst roads ✅ Highest property crime ✅ Medieval diseases, 💩, 💉 ✅ Trillion-$ pension deficit ✅ Middle-class exodus ✅ Power blackouts ✅ 🔥🔥🔥🔥

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@redsteeze @AFP “For some reason they were nicknamed Memory Holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction … it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air”—George Orwell, “1984”

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"the wealth generated from California’s tech sector is so tremendous that it ends up distorting the state’s entire political economy. “Wokeness”, he posited, plays the same role as Wahabbism in the similarly afflicted Saudi Arabia."

Peter Thiel: wokeness is like Wahhabism

Miami The third annual National Conservatism conference kicked off Sunday in Miami, Florida, bringing together a who’s who of figures associated with the so-called “New Right.” Topics of discussion...

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Staggering, nearly inconceivable levels of cartoonish incompetence Newsom *genuinely thought* that the gargantuan one-time flood of federal funds during the pandemic would continue forever ... and budgeted accordingly Beyond satire

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"An El Salvador-style mega-prison. But for Commie teachers."

Laura Powell

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Just discovered it's against the law in California for a public school teacher to promote communism.

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The homelessness budget for San Francisco (pop 800k)—$1.1 billion in FY 2021–22—is nearly 80% of the *entire* city budget for Jacksonville, FL (pop 950k) SF runs this colossal, unaccountable slush fund entirely on the basis of no-bid contracts (!)

Why SF leaders question homeless contracting plan

Supes are hesitant to back five-year extension of contracting policy.

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1 year

Federal workers in San Francisco were advised to work remotely for the foreseeable future due to crime and public safety concerns outside the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building 😬 The area is home to one of the city’s most brazen open-air drug markets

Crime is so bad near S.F. Federal building employees are told to work from home, officials said

Officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services advised hundreds of...

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2 years

"If you sign up for my master-class now, I will teach you to buy low & sell high—by implementing my tried and tested formula of marrying Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. While other chumps are looking at fundamentals, I'm looking at fun bags" — Paul Pelosi, financial investor

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Get Rich Like Nancy Pelosi's Husband

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The University of California, Berkeley used diversity statements to weed out candidates for faculty positions, according to public records the university finally released more than *two years* after FIRE requested them.

VICTORY: FIRE forces Berkeley to turn over records related to DEI hiring policy after two-year delay

The University of California, Berkeley used diversity statements to weed out candidates for faculty positions, according to public records the university finally released.

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4 years

I had completely forgotten about Kamala calling for Twitter to ban Trump on the debate stage (4 minute mark)

The Columbia Bugle 🇺🇸

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4 years

Tucker Carlson On Corporate Rule In America "Corporations, which are now more powerful than they have ever been, are colluding with one another and with the political class to silence any opposition not to some ideal, they don't have those, but to their rule."

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@politicalelle Californication ✅ Highest poverty rate ✅ 33% of Americans on welfare ✅ 25% of homeless ✅ Near-last school rankings ✅ Worst roads ✅ Highest property crime ✅ Medieval diseases 💩 💉 ✅ Trillion-$ pension deficit ✅ Middle-class exodus ✅ 11 of 29 highest unemployment metros

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The neo-Marxist militant Left have controlled American academia for so long now that we have now arrived at the point in time when the *second* generation of terrorists are getting installed into the system

Ousted SF DA Chesa Boudin to Lead New UC Berkeley Criminal Justice Program | KQED

Boudin, who was recalled from office last year, won’t run again for the job in 2024.

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3 years

Freezing Texans without power addressing their thermostats right now

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Bridget Phetasy

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Us: we figured out your little game and we want to play. Them: how about owning nothing, living in pods and eating bugs?

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@GavinNewsom California: ✅Highest poverty rate ✅33% of Americans on welfare ✅25% of homeless ✅Near-last school rankings ✅Worst roads ✅Highest property crime ✅Medieval diseases, 💩 💉 ✅Trillion-dollar pension deficit ✅9 of 12 highest unemployment rate Metro Areas ✅Middle-class exodus

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California has a drug addiction problem disguised as a homelessness problem 54% of homeless people in SF decline shelter when offered San Diego recently passed an encampment ban to finally tackle the problem

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Somebody paid $3.7 million in cash for Newsom's new mansion, laundered the transaction through a LLC to conceal the source of the money, and gifted it to him Not an iota of concern from either the authorities or servile state media such as the LA Times (D-El Segundo)

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California regulators have launched an investigation into whether recall election gubernatorial candidate Larry Elder failed to properly disclose his income sources, according to the Fair Political Practices Commission.

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Blatant money grab: SFUSD to re-open for a *single day* in order to qualify for $12 million in state reopening grants Possibly the clearest metaphor for teachers unions regarding children merely as tokens to get their hands on taxpayer money

S.F. wanted to bring seniors back to get $12 million in state funding. But the plan might fall short

In what some are calling a blatant money grab, the deal between the district and teachers...

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@GavinNewsom Your forest management is as bad as your energy management Years of poor forest management and kowtowing to Green New Deal evangelists at the expense of actual science (fire ecologists) led us to this point

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5 years

Burying the lede: "A retired forestry and wildfire expert who spent years researching fires in California told The Chronicle that forests around Paradise contained about 2,000 trees per acre...A healthy forest should have between 60 and 80 trees per acre"

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@lyndseyfifield @RollingStone That's why they don't like cameras and photographers

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As Thomas Sowell observed back in 2004: "Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children"

Western Civilization's Growing Intellectual Dead Zones

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"We inflicted coldly calculated, premeditated multi-generational economic devastation on your communities ... and now you're saying that you don't even trust us?"

Axios

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People in the Midwest are more distrustful of major American institutions than any other part of the country, according to data from the Edelman Trust Barometer.

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This 👇 Imagine trying to survive as your livelihood is destroyed and business ruined by a bewildering & unpredictable series of edicts from unaccountable bureaucrats in Central Planning trying to turn the entire economy on and off again like toddlers playing with a light switch

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L.A. County should reimburse every single one of these businesses that spent thousands making modifications to move outdoors and retrofit for safety. Maybe start with some of those fat county salaries? None of the people making the decisions have to worry about their livelihoods.

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@iowahawkblog “Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you’ll be a mile away and have his shoes.”

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@redsteeze It's a good thing George Stephanopolous and Katie Couric weren't attending dinner parties at Epstein's place after he got out of prison

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4 years

Local criminal generously allows mugging victim to keep pocket change after assaulting them and stealing their wallet

Mayor Karen Bass

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We're delivering assistance to Angelenos facing economic hardship during the COVID-19 pandemic. Starting Monday, with our new Early Pay LA program, @LADOTOfficial will offer a $20 discount on parking citations paid within 48 hours.

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@toad_spotted Random danger and unspeakable horrors can strike at any time in New York Sometimes the neglected sidewalk just crumbles beneath your feet and you plummet into a rat-infested chasm

New York sinkhole: Man's horror over fall into rat-infested chasm

The ordeal in the Bronx left the man "afraid of rats going inside his mouth", his brother says.

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In case anyone is under the impression that Progressive-run cities will change course and step back from the brink, White SJW Ladies will literally get *murdered*—and their circle of friends will demand that the killer isn't prosecuted Stockholm syndrome

Beloved Oakland bakery owner dies after violent robbery, friends say

OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) — Jen Angel, a beloved local bakery owner and social justice community activist, died on Thursday from injuries she suffered in a violent robbery, according to her clos…

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4 years

"We pigs are brainworkers"

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@AlanMCole Needs to be in this format

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@BridgetPhetasy ...All while being forced to sue their own government in a class-action lawsuit for more than $100 million in permits and fees that they were *still* obliged to pay—to the very same authorities forcing them to shut down Taxation without economic operation

California restaurants demand more than $100 million in liquor, health permit refunds

Slammed by the coronavirus, California restaurants demand refunds of more than $100 million in liquor and health permit fees and tourism assessments.

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@lulumeservey "It could never happen here"

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@BarackObama And how did that work out?

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"Three to five generations” "Don’t worry. We’ve got this figured out. We’ve done the models" Staggering levels of sneering contempt for the working class, mixed equally with hubris

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Only in California could legalizing marijuana actually result in: ✅ The black market increasing ✅ Seizure of illegal grows rising ✅ Sales of legal marijuana contracting ✅ A $100 million taxpayer bailout for the legal industry 🤦‍♂️

California Seizes 1.2 Million Dangerously Untaxed Marijuana Plants

Plus: Seattle businesses embrace private security in response to a police officer shortage, the FDA is set approve "mix and match" booster shots, and more...

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@Behind2020

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@BecketAdams @redsteeze Kamala's going to plant drugs and a handgun on Biden's podium in the next debate and then arrest him and throw him in prison

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@a_centrism "I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better." ― Theodore Dalrymple

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@redsteeze

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@GavinNewsom You're asking for a federal bailout of California public sector union pensions—which you and your predecessors underfunded for years whilst incinerating tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer money

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4/ California was *already* headed for fiscal doomsday—even before the pandemic HALF of California cities were not even saving enough money to pay pension benefits in just FIVE YEARS, according to State Auditor Elaine Howle In a spell of record growth😲

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Seems like this should be a much bigger story on the old timeline?🤷‍♂️ Pentagon confirms UFOs are real, capable of rapidly navigating water, air & space with an unknown propulsion system and they appear to be extremely interested in our nuclear technology

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California government: "Hey, sorry that our draconian lockdown made you LOSE YOUR JOB You probably have rent and bills to pay. But we are so thoroughly and ludicrously incompetent and TERRIBLE at our jobs—we need a few weeks just to get our 💩 together"

California halting new unemployment claims for 2 weeks during ‘reset’ with staff, technology

You won’t miss a check if you’re already in the system.

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'The US sent “gender advisors”... US programs gave “trainings to 1,105 Afghan men in which they could discuss their own gender roles and examine male attitudes that are harmful to women.” One initiative was called the “National Masculinity Alliance”'

How feminism failed in Afghanistan

The world watched this week as images of women were painted over on beauty parlours in Kabul. The symbolism was impossible to miss. After twenty years of limited — though steadily increasing —...

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Burying the lede: "A retired forestry and wildfire expert who spent years researching fires in California told The Chronicle that forests around Paradise contained about 2,000 trees per acre...A healthy forest should have between 60 and 80 trees per acre"

Trump on California’s wildfires: ‘Forest management is so poor’

President Trump weighed in Saturday on the Camp Fire in Butte County, the most destructive...

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Now CA has declared a state of emergency because of coronavirus—it's a good time to remember that *RESPIRATORY THERAPISTS* are among the *many* health professions NOT exempted from the destructive, idiotic #AB5 bill "The impact for patients could be huge"

Some sectors warn that AB5 could hurt workers, raise prices

As California moves forward with legislation that could turn many independent contractors...

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"The goal of the move is to create a kind of private surveillance system for gun-related commerce in the United States." Corporate America yet again acting as an arm of the Progressive machine in order to accomplish what they cannot achieve legislatively

Analysis: What the New Credit Card Code for Gun Stores Means for Gun Buyers [Member Exclusive]

Is the technical change to categorizing gun dealers relatively meaningless or a major threat to gun buyers? Perhaps both?

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@amnestyusa Gun Homicide Rate Down 49% Since 1993 Peak; Public Unaware

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@BridgetPhetasy The "Believe the Science" part from Squealer is particularly prophetic

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@Kookee2k2 @RonColeman @lyndseyfifield @RollingStone Berkeley was also the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement in the 1960s … now also apparently its graveyard🤔

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In 2006, then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the state would invest more than $200 million in a powerful set of medical weapons to deploy in the case of large-scale emergencies and natural disasters such as earthquakes, fires and pandemics.

California once had mobile hospitals and a ventilator stockpile. But it dismantled them

They were ready to roll whenever disaster struck California: three 200-bed mobile hospitals that could be deployed to the scene of a crisis on flatbed trucks and provide advanced medical care to th…

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The Progressive Fire Department has arrived to pour gasoline on the fire

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Obama on Boulder shooting: 'Disaffection, racism and misogyny' drives killings

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@robbystarbuck Mainstream Media Jedis: "These aren't the shootings you are looking for"

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@Steve_Sailer Last year Gavin Newsom’s wife proclaimed Angela Davis a "Golden State Trailblazer" for Women’s History Month Both Newsom and his wife grew up in Marin County, so it seems likely they are both well-acquainted with this piece of history

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3/ This is California "acting to end gun violence" A FELON on probation caught with ILLEGAL guns (plural!) does not even set foot in jail—he is set free on "pre-trial diversion" & murders a 71-year-old just days later in a robbery

Suspect in Twin Peaks killing released from jail days earlier

City officials are now questioning the release of Lamonte Mims, a 19-year-old former...

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@GavinNewsom 🤔 If this is a "successful economy".. ✅ Highest unemployment rate ✅ Highest poverty rate ✅ 25% of homeless ✅ 46th in education ✅ $31+ billion EDD fraud ✅ Trillion-$ pension deficit ✅ Depopulation + middle-class exodus ... I shudder to think what failure look like

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@Rizzydam @suvyboy @GrayConnolly San Francisco streets are so filthy an infectious disease expert who researched health conditions caused by extreme poverty compared SF to the dirtiest slums in the world "The contamination … is much greater than communities in Brazil or Kenya or India"

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@RichardHanania This is actually an entire genre of journalism at the NYT now—they positively rejoice in the fact that they have created a generation of Woke Stasi Inoffizieller Mitarbeiter youth informants

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"Many students believe the only consequence their peers will take seriously is having their college admissions letter rescinded" Generation Cancel Culture now act like lefty journos and try to get each other cancelled by offence-mining peers' social media

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"Commuters remain strangely unwilling to use the filthy, violent, dangerous Bay Area Robbery & Terror (BART) murder train for their local transit needs"🙄 Bonus points for using the phrase "luring them back" for a strategy of enticing crime victims back

BART has lost nearly 10 million passengers on nights and weekends. Can it lure them back?

Night and weekend ridership continues to plummet on BART, as passengers grow more...

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@redsteeze You ALSO don't get away with literally *manufacturing* part of this crisis four months ago by REDUCING the number of beds by THOUSANDS And then shriek “manufactured crisis” at the OTHER SIDE And then stage photo-ops of you crying at a fence

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A stark contrast between the current trajectories of Gavinezuela and Argentina

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California will soon become one of the first states to provide free health care to all low-income immigrants living in the state illegally.

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California sharpens legislative knives as it prepares to slaughter its golden goose: ✅New wealth tax would target *all* wealth held worldwide ✅Residents still liable for 10 years (!) after fleeing state ✅Includes unrealized gains, start-ups pre-IPO etc

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@GavinNewsom "Too much on the line" ✅ Highest poverty rate in US ✅ 2nd-highest unemployment ✅ 33% of Americans on welfare ✅ 25% of homeless ✅ 46th in education ✅ Homicidally incompetent forest management ✅ Trillion-$ pension deficit ✅ $31 billion EDD fraud ✅ Middle-class exodus YES

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Progressives: "Give up your cars and use public transit!" Public transit in Progressive-run cities: "A man wearing a balaclava and pacing up and down a BART train this afternoon slashed a fellow passenger across the back with a meat cleaver."

Man with cleaver slashes passenger on BART

A man wearing a balaclava and pacing up and down a BART train this afternoon slashed a fellow passenger and caused chaos inside the train.

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"We know there is a tsunami outside. We know it's going to hit the beach. We just don’t know when” "We anticipate many hotels won’t survive. Industry data shows 1 in 4 properties already are struggling to pay mortgages, risking foreclosure"

'Tsunami' of hotel closures is coming, experts warn

The Luxe Rodeo Drive is the first L.A.-area luxury hotel to go out of business because of the pandemic. An unusually high loan delinquency rate may mean more hotel closures are likely to follow.

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We live in an age where a billionaire sociopath will financially engineer the largest increase in homicides in American history—and then proudly boast about it. What a time to be alive

George Soros

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While I didn’t contribute to Alvin Bragg’s campaign, I have supported many other reform-minded prosecutors. Anyone who wants to know why should read this article I wrote in @WSJ .

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The last guy you would expect to forget about the EULA

Barstool Sports

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UPDATE: Bill Gates Just Hired An Army Of Attorneys To Lead His $130 BILLION Divorce Because He And Melinda Never Got A Prenup

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@brandondarby @latimes According to the MSM, they are not "violent cartels", but "austere pharmaceutical scholars"

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4/ This is California "acting to end gun violence" California has the toughest gun laws in the nation But each year, CA *declines* to prosecute 10,000 people who ILLEGALLY try to purchase firearms The laws are intended to restrict *legal* gun ownership

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Each year, California *declines* to prosecute 10,000 people who ILLEGALLY try to purchase firearms This should make it *crystal clear* that any new "gun control" laws are aimed at LEGAL gun owners—and not criminals

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A $100 million-a-year privately run rehabilitation program for former prisoners does not even collect data on whether parolees have found jobs—or recidivated California spent $600 million to house and rehab former prisoners—but can't say whether it helped

California spent $600 million to house and rehab former prisoners — but can't say whether it helped

Gov. Newsom wants to invest in California prisoner rehabilitation. A CalMatters investigation found the state does not know if a key program works.

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@lwoodhouse @ShellenbergerMD FWIW this is already de facto policy and happening in practice in CA schools now This school in SF didn't report a gun threat (among many other incidents) because of a commitment to "restorative justice"

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A teacher resigned after being beaten by students in front of his classes—prompting him to wear a padded bike suit to work—and receiving a gun threat He was barred from reporting violent incidents to police under the school's "restorative justice" policy

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🧵1/ You may have noticed Newsom stopped tweeting about the mass shooting in Sacramento He has, however, enthusiastically moved his virtual campaign stump to Texas and is now fundraising off of dead children to advance his career The reason why: Progressive gun policy failure

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@RobProvince @AmericanHomocon @sahilkapur @gregorykorte @jcarrollhtx

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Texas Constructs Border Wall To Keep Out Unwanted Refugees From California

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@redsteeze And Yelp knew the truth THE WHOLE TIME

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@micsolana

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Narrator: "the Council serves at the behest of the ruling monarch, known to his subjects as the Burger King"

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NOW: CA’s brand-new Fast Food Council is meeting for the first time. All 11 councilmembers are now taking the oath of office. Per the the law that established this council, its members will develop standards, rules, and regulations for the CA fast food industry.

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"Since 2016, CA has lost the headquarters of 11 Fortune 1000 companies, including Tesla, Oracle, McKesson, Charles Schwab, and Hewlett Packard Enterprises. What did California policy makers do in 2022 to stem this tide of departures? They made it worse"

California In 2022: Policy Makers Continued To Send People And Businesses To Other States

California has the highest living costs in the country. Its tax and regulatory burdens are also among the highest. Its schools are failing at an alarming rate, with only one out of four students...

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These empty shelves are not a result of coronavirus panic buying, or store closure. They are a direct result of CA decriminalizing theft via Prop 47. “They have to call police four times a day” Year-over-year larceny incidents are up 16% #Californezuela

Walgreens says near-empty Van Ness & Market store isn't closing — it's just theft

Many shoppers assumed the store's empty shelves heralded a closure — but Walgreens says it's all due to shoplifting.

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"Lockdowns are racist" Am I doing this right?

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Telework occupations—that is, jobs that could be performed entirely from home—disproportionately employ white, college-educated workers. RAND experts:

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Los Angeles is attempting to pass a Quartering Act to force hotels to provide lodging for the Nonprofit Industrial Complex's vast army of meth-head foot soldiers

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A little more about the initiative that would require all L.A. hotels to call into the city and report the number of vacant rooms every evening, and then accept homeless guests paying with city vouchers for "fair market value." On the March 5 ballot, City of L.A., for real.

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The Great Divide

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We talk a lot about bubbles but literally no bubble is as thick as the one between people who have spent this year baking bread and getting paid and the ones who don't sleep at night because the business they put everything into can't open for no reason involving science.

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@TheRalphRetort Evergreen:

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A transgender 3 year old is like a vegan cat. We all know who's making the lifestyle choices.

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Another member of the Lincoln Project has resigned in order to "pursue other opportunities"

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@neontaster "And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth 'Reality control', they called it: in Newspeak, 'doublethink'." 1984

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"We're all in this together" Lockdowns for thee Mai Tais in Maui at the $500-a-night Fairmont on my unnecessary junket trip for me California Lawmakers Defend Attending Conference in Hawaii

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For anyone who is somehow surprised that journos were stupid enough to fall for the "fired Twitter employees" Ligma Johnson prank, this actually aired on a Bay Area TV channel:

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I wonder how many people are aware of the sheer magnitude of this contrast over the last decade

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Here’s @GovRonDeSantis saying a man told him he had moved from California to Florida because the state was so much better governed. The guy was @GavinNewsom ’s father-in-law. Holy crap. What a line:

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@Mellecon @rosemcgowan I don't recall her speaking out and posting Iranian flag GIFs last month when the murderous regime butchered 1,500 of its own people

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Biden’s campaign was backed by $145 million in dark money donations, a type of fundraising Democrats have decried for years. The record-breaking amount of anonymous donations means the public will never have a full accounting of who helped him win

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@karol @LibertyJen Gavdafi generously giving California residents permission to watch a sunset

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"Just call a social worker" In 2018 there were three homicides in just five days on BART

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@GavinNewsom The entire gun control Narrative is built atop 2 enormous lies: 1⃣ Progressive cities have the strictest gun laws in the nation—but do not enforce them against criminals 2⃣ Policy objectives of reducing gun crime & decarceration are *mutually exclusive*

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9/ The reason Progressives think shiny new legislation *in and of itself* is the magical answer is b/c they all have a dirty secret They don't enforce even the most basic—one could even call them "common sense"—gun laws on criminals in states that they control Anarcho-tyranny

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LMAO, the entire state is a Potemkin village After San Francisco temporarily cleaned up for Xi's visit, Sacramento cleans up for Hollywood Homeless camps in Sacramento cleared for Leonardo DiCaprio movie filming

Homeless camps in Sacramento cleared for Leonardo DiCaprio movie filming

(FOX40.COM) — Parts of Downtown Sacramento look clearer than usual as officials remove homeless camps from Cesar Chavez Park amid scheduled filming for a new movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio …

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@karol 💯 If this administration was serious about tackling the "root causes" then combatting the narrative used by cartel smugglers—rather than reinforcing it—would be paramount

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@HillaryClinton Fact check: false

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