Mar 3, 2017 – For 17 days in February, millions of gallons of raw sewage flowed into the Tijuana River in Baja California, then into the Pacific Ocean, contaminating beaches in southern San Diego County – and it looks like Mexican authorities intentionally allowed it to happen. Officials estimate that over 143 million...

Mar 1, 2017 – As we reported last week, California State Senator Janet Nguyen (R-Garden Grove) was led off the Senate floor by the Sergeant-at-Arms when she attempted to offer a different perspective on the legacy of former Sen. Tom Hayden, a vocal anti-war protester and Communist sympathizer, than her colleagues had given in...

Feb 26, 2017 – Throughout February, California Rep. Steve Knight’s offices have been targeted by protesters demanding he listen to their “concerns” about repealing Obamacare and hold a town hall meeting so they can rant and make a spectacle. A few nights ago they took it up a notch, deciding to protest at his...

Feb 26, 2017 – …but it’s okay because she’s a woman, and a “refugee,” right? There are things to be outraged about, and this story (and the many levels of fail demonstrated therein) is one of them, so we’ll get straight to the facts. The next Women’s March, “the Day Without a...

Feb 24, 2017 – California State Senator Janet Nguyen was born in Saigon, Vietnam about a year after the city fell. Her family came to the United States as refugees when she was five, and was raised in Southern California. She is the first Vietnamese-American state legislator, representing a heavily Vietnamese area of Orange...

Mar 15, 2017 – In a huge reversal of fortune, former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca today was found guilty of “obstructing a federal investigation into abuses in county jails and lying to cover up the interference.” The jury verdict comes after years of investigation into corruption at Los Angeles County  jails,...

Mar 9, 2017 – Two people are in custody after an attack at a Dusseldorf train station which injured four. Anti-terror police swarmed Central Station and are still searching for two more suspects. Impressions from #düsseldorf #attack pic.twitter.com/7Z767Yi7kI — DC (@fxcplus) March 9, 2017 several people were wounded in axe...

Mar 8, 2017 – In late February, as we reported, California State Sen. Janet Nguyen (R-Garden Grove) was unceremoniously removed from the Senate floor while attempting to give an “alternative viewpoint” on the memory of late Sen. Tom Hayden. The removal of Nguyen, a Vietnamese refugee, made national news, and Senate leaders, after...

Mar 7, 2017 – For National Pancake Day (yeah, I guess that’s a thing – but really just an excuse to eat) the Internet’s latest wannabe celebrity lifestyle mama, Chelsea Clinton, couldn’t pass up an opportunity to virtue signal to all of the other moms just tryin’ to get by. Spinach pancakes for #NationalPancakeDay...

Mar 7, 2017 – Political patronage is not a new concept. A certain amount of it is expected, and no one protests too much when the “backup” jobs are handed out to those whose election hopes failed. But even then, one expects the job handed out to be something the loser is at least...

Mar 23, 2017 – It’s difficult to keep up with all of the information coming out of the House Intelligence Committee this week. As the week started, many were satisfied with one quote from Rep. Devin Nunes, who on Sunday said that there was no wiretap of Trump Tower. As Streiff and a few...

Mar 20, 2017 – The man who was arrested March 10 after jumping the White House fence and jiggling the door knob on the White House residence after roaming the grounds for 20 minutes posted a number of disturbing videos to his YouTube page, including one claiming he’s the author of the Trump-Russia dossier....

Mar 16, 2017 – President Trump’s 2018 budget blueprint was released this morning, and the freak-outs, outrage, and depiction of Republicans as heartless killers of children, old people, and dreams started almost immediately. News stories immediately popped up decrying the proposed elimination of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funds PBS and NPR...

Apr 3, 2017 – It looks like Jared Kushner will win the “What did you do this weekend?” story contest at the White House this week. President Trump’s senior adviser (and son-in-law) visited Iraq with Gen. Joseph Dunford. It was unclear what Mr. Kushner, who has been expanding his reach in his father-in-law’s administration, planned...

Mar 30, 2017 – North Carolina’s “bathroom bill” deal (?) is all over the news, but former Fox NFL Sunday weather girl (and current LA radio talk show host) Jillian Barberie went on a Twitter rant AGAINST gender-neutral bathrooms Wednesday night. Inspired by the story of a mom’s recent experience with a man...

Mar 29, 2017 – Immediately after President Trump signed an “Energy Independence” executive order at the EPA Tuesday, rolling back Obama-era regulations, California Governor Jerry Brown was ready for the “Countermovement” to begin. Of course he was. Governor Moonbeam is longing for some ’60s era activism and protesting, and since it got way...

Mar 27, 2017 – After Rep. Devin Nunes held a press conference March 22 stating he’d seen documents showing that members of the Trump transition team had been incidentally surveilled, unmasked, and the information shared “far and wide” in the intelligence community, politicians and pundits have been wondering who the source was, and where...

Apr 11, 2017 – Monday’s “OMG” social media news story was about security personnel dragging a passenger off a United Airlines flight in Chicago. The passenger, Dr. David Dao, refused to leave the plane when asked and was violently removed by aviation police. Tuesday’s “OMG” story is the micro-analysis of Dr. Dao’s life...

Apr 10, 2017 – Four people were shot at Northpark Elementary in San Bernardino, California this morning. Police believe it was a domestic violence situation. We believe this to be a murder suicide. Happened in a class room. Two students have been transported to the hospital. — Jarrod Burguan (@RetSBPDChief) April 10, 2017...

May 7, 2018 – In the aftermath of the Parkland shooting, as members of the press and government officials were looking into the shooter’s past behavior for any warning signs or red flags, a controversial alternative school program called PROMISE was mentioned numerous times. PROMISE (Preventing Recidivism through Opportunities, Mentoring, Interventions, Supports &...

May 30, 2018 – The Manhattan DA’s office has issued a statement saying that “A Grand Jury has voted to indict Harvey Weinstein on charges of Rape in the First and Third Degrees, and Criminal Sexual Act in the First Degree.” Harvey Weinstein has been indicted by a grand jury on charges of first...

May 30, 2018 – Tuesday morning Roseanne Barr sent out a tweet that sent Twitter into a frenzy, and, perhaps setting a new reactionary record, ABC canceled her show within hours. Do they realize how ironic canceling the show over Roseanne’s tweet is? The “reboot” of Roseanne had been a surprise ratings...

May 30, 2018 – Last week I shared the story of a Portland couple whose private conversation, held in their own living room, was recorded and sent to one of the husband’s telephone contacts by their Alexa device. I said that scenario was Reason 7,483 Why I’ll Never Allow Alexa in My Home. (Clearly...

May 25, 2018 – Since the time Alexa was released I have been adamantly opposed to having it or any similar device in my home. They’re not eavesdropping, sure. Any time I shared that fear I was looked at as if I was a wacky conspiracy theorist. Now there’s a story illustrating precisely why...

May 24, 2018 – Asm. Phil Ting couldn’t get it done in 2016, but he took political advantage of a tragedy to run a massive expansion of California’s Gun Violence Restraining Order law through the Assembly on Monday. GVRO’s have received a lot of (unwarranted) love from Republicans and conservatives this year who...