Californication | Anarchy and Exodus

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FT | Checking out of Hotel California

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Yes. To paraphrase myself, the pro-California era ended with the first Trump campaign.

California-optimism and California being on the cutting edge materially, culturally, politically; is no longer our experience. Lots of hands killed that golden goose; and while God only knows how it shakes out, someone is going to come along and eulogize or summarize that period in American history.

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It shouldn't go without mention here (and quite a few writers I think have articulated it better than I could) that our presidential candidates are very much caricatures of their locales and that entrenched Californian dominance remains on the ballot.

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AG - Victor Davis Hanson | Woke DEI + Green Nihilism = Dresden in California

California’s DEI “humanism” and Green New Deal environmentalism ensured the cruelest imaginable treatment of thousands of people and unrivaled destruction of the natural ecosystem.

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AG - Victor Davis Hanson | Woke DEI + Green Nihilism = Dresden in California

California’s DEI “humanism” and Green New Deal environmentalism ensured the cruelest imaginable treatment of thousands of people and unrivaled destruction of the natural ecosystem.

A wonderful truth bomb by VDH, thanks for posting.

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Oracle Ana seems to have mixed feelings about Gavin too

Governor Gavin Newsom :: Misgovern a Grown Oven

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Former mainstream media: "Mostly peaceful protests."

US ABC reporter says not to bring in law enforcement to the LA riots because “it’s just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn.”




Reddit: "Please wave the American flag at the protests. Otherwise, it sends the wrong message."

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Former mainstream media: "Mostly peaceful protests."

US ABC reporter says not to bring in law enforcement to the LA riots because “it’s just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn.”




Reddit: "Please wave the American flag at the protests. Otherwise, it sends the wrong message."


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nypost.com/2025/06/08/us-news/some-la-migrant-protests-fueled-by-taxpayer-funded-group-with-dem-ties-another-with-ccp-link/

Some LA migrant protests fueled by taxpayer-funded group with Dem ties — another with CCP link

By Chris Nesi

Published June 8, 2025, 9:13 p.m. ET

One of the groups leading anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles is a taxpayer-funded activist organization with ties to the Democratic Party, while another has links to the Chinese Communist Party.



The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA) — which received tens of millions of dollars in government grants during the Biden administration — staged a rally last week to denounce Immigration and Customs Enforcement arresting illegal migrants across the city, including those convicted of heinous crimes.



Protestors at the Los Angeles Federal Building demonstrate against ICE detentions.

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CHIRLA staged a rally last week to denounce Immigration and Customs Enforcement arresting illegal migrants across the city.

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Protests against ICE have escalated since then, with more than 1,000 rioters taking to the streets, assaulting immigration officers, slashing tires and defacing public buildings, the Department of Homeland Security said, prompting President Trump to call in around 2,000 National Guard troops Sunday to quell the violence.



According to financial records obtained by DataRepublican, CHIRLA received nearly $34 million in government grants, mostly from the state of California, in the fiscal year ending June 2023, a jump from the $12 million it received the previous year.



Protestors at the Los Angeles Federal Building hold a sign that reads "ICE OUT OF LA!"

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Protests against ICE have escalated since then, with more than 1,000 rioters taking to the streets.

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Watch arrogant way NYC anti-ICE protesters mock mom begging them to let her get to work




Trump shows he called Newsom during LA riots as California gov claims there wasn't 'even a voicemail'

The radical group also received around $450,000 in grants for “citizenship education and training” between October 2021 and September 2024 from the DHS — the very agency the group was protesting last week. The federal agency cut ties with the group and terminated any further funding in March, including clawing back nearly $101,000 that had yet to be paid out.



A CHIRLA spokesman denied that the group had anything to do with the violence in a statement to The Post on Sunday.



Protestors march with signs advocating for immigrant families.

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CHIRLA received nearly $34 million in government grants, mostly from the state of California, in the fiscal year ending June 2023.

He said CHIRLA “organized a press event on Thursday” to protest the roundups and had “been sending legal observers to immigration courts and detention centers on Friday, Saturday and today as part of the LA Rapid Response Network.



“We have not participated, coordinated, or been part of the protests being registered in Los Angeles other than the press conference and rally cited above,” the rep said.



Rioting broke out in LA on Friday as federal authorities resumed the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, conducting numerous raids in recent weeks and netting “around 150” arrests, according to Trump’s hard-nosed border czar Tom Homan.



Protestors holding signs that read "ICE OUT OF LA!" at a demonstration in Los Angeles.

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The radical group also received around $450,000 in grants for “citizenship education and training” between October 2021 and September 2024 from the DHS.

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Another group that was behind some of last week’s protests is the Marxist Party for Socialism and Liberation, which played a part in virulent past anti-Israel campus protests at Columbia University and which was once associated with suspected DC terrorist Elias Rodriguez.



PSL has ties to the Chinese Communist Party through funding from socialist billionaire Neville Singham and his wife, Jodie Evans, founder of activist group Code Pink, according to a 2024 report by the Network Contagion Research Institute. Singham sank millions of dollars into backing the groups after selling his software company, ThoughtWorks, for $785 million in 2017.



Protestors holding signs that say "ICE OUT OF LA!" at a demonstration.

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Rioting broke out in LA on Friday as federal authorities resumed the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Singham’s ties to the Chinese government and Communist propaganda are well-documented. The New York Times published a lengthy 2023 expose on his far-reaching money machine, which has steered millions to China-praising nonprofits from South Africa, Ghana and Zambia to Brazil, New Delhi and beyond.



The PSL did not immediately respond to a Post request for comment Sunday.



Rioters gathered Friday after the recent protests to attempt to stop ICE agents from carrying out the immigration sweeps, leading to officers deploying tear gas and other less-lethal methods of crowd dispersal.



Protestors demonstrating against ICE detentions outside the Los Angeles Federal Building.

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Another group that was behind some of last week’s protests is the Marxist Party for Socialism and Liberation.

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More than a dozen arrests were made Saturday, said Bill Essayli, the United States attorney for the Central District of California, on X.



Images and videos showed hundreds of protesters clashing with riot gear-clad federal agents who were attempting to apprehend illegal immigrants near a Home Depot in Paramount, Calif.



California Gov. Gavin Newsom and embattled Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass decried the raids, the latter claiming federal agents used tactics that “sow terror in our communities and disrupt basic principles of safety in our city.”



Protestors hold a sign that reads, "The Real Criminal Is In The White House."

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Rioters gathered Friday after the recent protests to attempt to stop ICE agents from carrying out the immigration sweeps.

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In a statement on X on Saturday, Newsom wrote, “Federal government is moving to take over the California National Guard and deploy 2,000 soldiers. That move is purposefully inflammatory and will only escalate tensions. LA authorities are able to access law enforcement assistance at a moment’s notice.”



In a fiery response to Newsom and Bass on Truth Social Saturday, Trump said, “If Governor Gavin Newscum [sic], of California, and Mayor Karen Bass, of Los Angeles, can’t do their jobs, which everyone knows they can’t, then the Federal Government will step in and solve the problem, RIOTS & LOOTERS, the way it should be solved!!!.”

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As a former judoka, my compliments on a well executed takedown.