Is Karen Bass the most corrupt mayor in America? She appears to have discovered the perfect grift for City Hall: ask companies for money while they have vast amounts riding on decisions made inside City Hall.
The political landscape in LA is undergoing a seismic realignment, as evidenced by fresh polling from the LA Times & Berkeley. Once considered a significant underdog, Nithya Raman has not merely closed the gap with Mayor Karen Bass but has shot up to command a growing landslide.
@CraigFiegener@unitehere11@nithyavraman@knxnews Karen Bass may be America’s most corrupt mayor. She’s had endless corruption scandals and she has treated LAHSA’s homeless budget like per personal ATM.
Jeffries represents a dangerous departure from democratic values that ultimately undermines the party’s core mission. Elevating him to Speaker of the House anchors the party to a status quo that fails to meet the moment, making true recovery of our democracy nearly impossible.
In Washington’s unforgiving transactional theater, the absolute first rule of engagement is simple: never grant your opponent a consequence-free concession. See Instagram for full article. https://t.co/WfHNLnoU2P
For eighty years the freedom of the seas rested on a simple assumption: that navies, not networks of cheap drones, decided who could sail where. That assumption is crumbling.
The epoch of American stewardship has ended with startling rapidity under the recent administration; an unforeseen rupture rather than a measured fade. What once looked like managed abandonment has accelerated into something closer to deliberate disassembly.
The administration’s Iran policy promises the orderly satisfaction of unilateral power: sanctions tightened, & adversaries warned. Yet the policy’s defining feature may not be control but dependence. Washington can impose costs on Tehran. It cannot dictate how Tehran absorbs them
History, has often been unkind to Napoleon Bonaparte. For 2 centuries Britain has labored to cast him as a warmongering tyrant so that Waterloo would become their most cherished trophy, rather than the 7th attempt by Europe’s old monarchies to crush France’s liberal revolution.
The administration’s new memorandum ordering the U.S. Navy to tear out its Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) & replace with outdated, legacy steam catapults represents an alarming retreat from reality. #usnavy#aircraftcarrier#iranwar
When billions in LA taxpayer dollars yield empty rooms for the homeless, contracts for husbands, & fabricated crises, the diagnosis is clear. Karen Bass’s mayoral governing style is to reward her inner circle, suppress audits, & force taxpayers to foot the bill for the cover-up.
Sixty-five years on, Eisenhower’s prophecy unfortunately reads less like a historical curiosity than a corporate operating manual. Eisenhower feared that a permanent arms industry would warp democratic government. That warping now appears complete. #usmilitary
The battle for LA City Hall has taken a familiar turn. In the race for mayor, big business Super PACs have backed the incumbent, Karen Bass, over her progressive challenger, City Councilmember Nithya Raman, by a staggering 36-to-1 margin. It is an alliance born of shared anxiety.
Bots have haunted social media for over a decade. Ai has dramatically increased the political threat. Powered by large language models, they adapt regional slang, generate unique synthetic faces, & autonomously coordinate propaganda campaigns at machine speed.
Nithya Raman offers a pragmatic, transformative 3rd path. She models a governance style inspired by Northern European nations like Denmark & Sweden; proving that a robust, regulated market economy coupled with a vast social safety net is the most viable future for Los Angeles.
America’s military is a magnificent instrument designed for 1991. It clears skies, dominates oceans, & moves divisions across continents with breathtaking speed. What it cannot do is occupy Iran in today’s world.
To attempt an amphibious assault today is an entirely different endeavor from the past. The battlefield has undergone a shift more profound than the tank’s impact in 1939.
@Smoking_Gun13@Fidelity@Fidelity I mailed a CMA deposit on June 29 with a generic deposit slip. Your automated lockbox scanners rejected the two California State Warrant checks, and they are likely sitting in your unposted exception queue. Front-line supervisors refuse to search. Please escalate.
Mayor Karen Bass’s, agencies spent $2.6 billion to buy 32 motels to house the homeless population via Project Homekey. Yet, 70% of these rooms sit vacant, rotting under Byzantine permitting & scandals like Shangri-La’s $114 million default & Dr. Kellum’s infamous ethical cloud.
Can Nithya Raman, an urban planner with a master’s from MIT in that field & a movement modeled on Zohran Mamdani’s & endorsed by Bernie Sanders, actually fix a city hall this broken? The honest answer is: probably, & she is unusually well suited to try. #nithyaraman