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America is the best.

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@BonnieESpeck @GrrrGraphics This didn't age well

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@ClownWorld Thats funny

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@Styx666Official Love that song, mgmt

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@RyanAFournier Maybe youre the bitch.

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Damian is facing a tough battle to secure split custody and have equal time with his son, Dorian. The emotional toll of past abuse and ongoing legal challenges are overwhelming. Consider donating or sharing this campaign to help ensure them a better future https://t.co/YkKkxK5256

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@seanmdav Anybody is allowed to change their mind about killing innocent civilians on the other side of the world.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

I want a full refund, plus interest.

[Clown World ™ 🤡 @ClownWorld]

Pray for the Syrian Christians

[Chris Josephs @Chrisjjosephs]

Turns out you really can just do things

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@RidingFarNow @AveryWarwick @GavinNewsom @elonmusk 'Riding' Another useful idiot.

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@OscarEnjoylife @AveryWarwick @GavinNewsom @elonmusk Accountability is not 'playing politics'. CA policies and corruption are on display.

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@Lelerium3737 @AveryWarwick @GavinNewsom @elonmusk 3737 is useful idiot, or AI bs.

[Boston Mom @LaGrecca333]

My children are still relatively young, 11, 9, and 4. I am definitely concerned about what their future prospects will be. I always thought that a college degree was imperative. Now I am seriously questioning what the return of investment will be on a degree? I also want them to not be brainwashed by Marxist and to not delay things that really matter like having a family.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass claimed her $17.5 million cut to the LA Fire Department budget did not impact the department’s ability to prevent or fight fires. But the LA Fire Chief told CNN that “the $17 million budget cut… did absolutely negatively impact” the Department’s ability to respond to the fires.

And a video released yesterday by NewsNation, which was shot by a former employee of Kamala Harris, shows that it took the LA Fire Department 45 minutes to respond to the Pacific Palisades fire. “It could have been confined,” said attorney Michael Valentine. “It wouldn’t have touched any of the homes.”

It is impossible to stop fires from starting in Los Angeles. The challenge is to put them out before they become catastrophic. And the video provides evidence that firefighters could have responded earlier.

“ By 10:50, the plume had spread considerably, twice as large,” reported Rich McHugh. “Eight minutes later, the size of the fire seems to have doubled yet again. Still nobody fighting the fire.  At 11:13 a.m., nearly 45 minutes after Michael's wife called in the fire, you see a chopper come through at 11:23. A helicopter comes in, begins to dump water on it. But at this point, the fire is massive and moving quickly down this ridgeline.”

And now, a second firefighter has come forward to say that “There wasn’t sufficient funding for predeployment and I’m sure that played a role. The fire prevention department has taken huge cuts too and it limited their resources.” Specifically, this person said, “There were not enough mechanics, engines, or fire stations.”

LA has been cutting the budget of the LA Fire Department for years, leading to rising response times.”You’re supposed to be in route in 30 seconds and there in three to five minutes, but now it’s 10 minutes and on the extreme end 30 minutes,” said the firefighter. “The other day they had a cardiac arrest call that took 30 minutes and there was a pediatric call two weeks ago and the station that was available was very far away and it took them a long time to get to the kid.”

The whistleblower said staffing and equipment shortages create two tragedies. The first are unnecessary deaths and the second is the impact on the firefighters. “They just can’t make it to places fast enough and it’s a hazard to the public,” said the whistleblower. “A family member is dying and it’s 30 minutes to show up and then they’re yelling at the firefighters who are trying to do their job but there’s not enough of them. Some of that stuff really affects them.”

The LA Fire Department budget is $820 million and significantly more is needed. The number of calls LA firefighters make in a year has tripled over the last 30 years while staffing has declined by one-third, according to another whistleblower. The LA Firefighters are currently owed significant backpay and have filed a lawsuit against the city.

Said the whistleblower, “Nobody understands why this is going on. Why is there no money? Why can’t we pay people? We’re 80 fire stations short. Why aren’t we building them? Why aren’t we paying firefighters their contracted wages?”

All of this is particularly mysterious because California is by far the richest state in the United States and has the highest taxes. The center of Big Tech, the most profitable industry in the world, and with an annual GDP of $3.8 trillion, California is the fifth-largest economy in the world. California has the highest income tax at 13.3 percent, the highest sales tax at 7.25 percent, and one of the highest corporatetaxes at 8.84%.

Where is all the money going?

While California’s firefighting budget rose since 2018, it was, obviously, not enough. And California’s nonpartisan Legislative Analyst Office reported that Governor Gavin Newsom slashed funding by $101 Million in the 2024 budget and cut millions for prescribed burns, forest fire monitoring, and $12 million for home hardening.

And the state funding that Newsom cut could have been used to harden homes to fire and reduce vegetation around homes in LA. Bass proposed cutting the Fire Department’s funding by an additional $48.8 million next year.

The priorities of the leaders of California and Los Angeles over the last decade have been homelessness, climate change, and providing services to undocumented migrants,

Since 2019, California has invested $27 billion in homelessness, or about 4.5 billion per year. That amount does not include spending on firefighting, police, or emergency medical services for the homeless. Nor does it include the $40 billion the state spent on affordable housing.

California spends over $30 billion per year to provide benefits and services to migrants who came to the US illegally, according to a recent cost analysis by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The California Budget and Policy Center estimates that they contribute up to $9 billion annually in state and local taxes.

And California will spend over $48 billion on climate programs over the next seven years, or about seven billion annually.

As such, California spends about $41.5 billion per year on the homeless, illegal immigrants, and climate change. If just 2% of that money, or $1 billion, had been spent on LA’s Fire Department, it could have more than doubled its budget.

What’s more, there is evidence that all of that spending on homelessness made the problem worse. Since 2019, homelessness increased by 40%. And the homeless cause over half of all fires in Los Angeles.

The spending has distorted other priorities...

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[Capitol Report_NTD @capitolreport]

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill called the “Crucial Communism Teaching Act” on Friday.

We spoke with Rep. Burgess Owens (R-Utah), one of the 33 co-sponsors of the bill. Here’s what he had to say.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

The left photo shows a soldier before being sent to the front in 1941, the right one after returning in 1945.

This is what elevated cortisol does to the body. Avoid stress, and most importantly, vote out politicians who see war as a solution.

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@Danthedevilman @ksorbs I know who Sorbo is. I don't know who you are....

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@mattgaetz Like I'm in hell.