Mark Selmi

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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.

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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.

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@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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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@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.

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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.

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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