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California drops case against David Daleiden for exposing Planned Parenthood baby parts scandal

California prosecutors have finally agreed to dismiss the remaining counts against the investigators of Center for Medical Progress (CMP) for using undercover video to expose Planned Parenthood’s criminal fetal organ harvesting side business, putting an end to a nearly decade-long attempt to punish pro-life journalism.

Starting in 2015, CMP began releasing a series of secretly recorded conversations with officials from Planned Parenthood and the National Abortion Federation that set off a firestorm of controversy and a string of revelations about the abortion industry breaking multiple federal laws against profiting off human tissue, altering abortion procedures for the sake of procuring more useful tissue samples, and potentially even committing partial-birth abortions or infanticide, as well as video examples of abortion workers displaying callousness toward the humanity of the children their “work” killed. 

Neither the Obama nor first Trump administrations took action against the abortion organizations over the revelations, but the pro-lifers who exposed their activities were instead hit with various lawsuits and felony charges on claims of trespassing, misidentifying themselves with fake driver’s licenses, and recording people without their consent.

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Trump Says He Sent Troops To “Turn On The Water” In California

President Trump issued an emergency directive to send active duty troops to California to help battle the fires that are still destroying people’s lives.

“The United States Military just entered the Great State of California and, under Emergency Powers, TURNED ON THE WATER flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest, and beyond,” Trump announced on Truth Social.

“The days of putting a Fake Environmental argument, over the PEOPLE, are OVER,” the President asserted, adding “Enjoy the water, California!!!”

The move comes after Trump signed an executive order Friday titled “Emergency Measures to Provide Water Resources in California and Improve Disaster Response in Certain Areas.”

“For weeks, residents of the Los Angeles area have watched raging fires consume their homes, belongings, beloved pets, and childhood memories. Almost immediately, firefighters were unable to fight the blaze due to dry hydrants, empty reservoirs, and inadequate water infrastructure,” the order reads.

It continues, “Today, at least 28 people have lost their lives and thousands more have lost everything else, with some damage estimates calculating hundreds of billions of dollars in damage.”

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Gavin Newsom’s Bay Area ravaged by surging crime as LA burns: ‘It’s a war zone!’

California residents in the Bay Area are fed up with the mounting crime and calling on Gov. Gavin Newsom to send help as Los Angeles continues to battle wildfires that have destroyed several communities. 

As looting is on the rise in Southern California as communities work to pick up the pieces left by wildfires, Newsom is calling for looting in fire evacuation zones to be a felony after prosecutors urged him to issue harsher penalties.

“Preying on people at their most vulnerable is despicable, these criminals are among the worst kinds,” Newsom said in a statement provided to Fox News Digital on Thursday afternoon. 

Newsom said “looting has never been legal here” and that “it will not be tolerated” as the state continues to battle the ravenous inferno that broke out on Jan. 7. 

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Calif. ‘Bolder Than Most’ Rapist Released Despite Victims’ Concerns For The Community 

A labeled “bolder than most” serial rapist has been released from prison despite the opposition from his victims. 

According to a report by Fox News Digital, court documents stated that Alvin Ray Quarles would break into homes and motel rooms in California between 1987 and 1988, forcing husbands and boyfriends to watch as he sexually assaulted their partners.

In several instances, he reportedly threatened to rape the female partner and forced frightened couples to perform sex activities while he watched, only stopping when the man was unable to continue.

In 1989, Quarles, who is now 62, admitted to four charges of forceful rape and was given a sentence of 50 years in state prison. According to documents, authorities suspect he assaulted over a dozen women over that time.  

According to NBC San Diego, Quarles served ten years in a sex offender treatment program at Coalinga State Hospital following his 25-year sentence in state prison.

Quarles will be released under a conditional release program for sexually violent predators who have been diagnosed with a mental illness that increases their likelihood of committing new crimes, the San Diego Sheriff’s Office said Tuesday.

NBC San Diego also reported that Quarles was diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, voyeuristic disorder, and sexual sadism disorder.

Quarles will be under 24-hour supervision at a Liberty Healthcare facility in Campo, California, and will be registered as a sex offender for the rest of his life. The department wrote that it, the district attorney’s office, and the SAFE task force were not “responsible for the selection of this location.” 

According to NBC San Diego, his release requirements include on-site law enforcement or security personnel and round-the-clock GPS monitoring. 

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California Secessionists Just Took Their First Major Step Towards a Bid for Independence

The California secessionist movement is fast becoming a political reality, even though it stands no realistic chance of ever succeeding.

In a crucial first step towards their long term goal, secessionists have successfully filed a ballot initiative proposing that the state become its own country and secede from the United States.

The initiative has now been cleared for signature gathering and will require 546,651 valid signatures by July 22nd in order to become a formal ballot initiative.

If successful, voters would be asked in 2028 the following question: “Should California leave the United States and become a free and independent country?”

According to the guidelines set out by its organizers, if over 55 percent of voters said “yes” on a turnout of over 50 percent, would constitute “a vote of no confidence in the United States of America.”

It would also then declare that the “will of the people of California” is to become an independent country.

On this basis, state authorities would be required to create a commission on the viability of California becoming an independent country.

The cost of this initiative and the associated commission is estimated at around $10 million, as well as $2 million in annual state costs to keep the commission going.

There are currently no provisions for secession under the U.S. Constitution.

In 1869, The Supreme Court ruled in Texas v. White that unilateral secession is unconstitutional, meaning that Congress would have to approve any departure.

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CAUGHT ON VIDEO: Orange County, CA Election Worker Repeatedly Scans Huge Stack of Ballots THREE TIMES — Election Official Responds

In a bombshell revelation, TGP contributor Joe Hoft and his team at JoeHoft.com have raised serious questions about ballot counting procedures in Orange County, California.

Reviewing video footage from the Orange County ballot counting facility on the evening of Friday, November 8, 2024, three days after the election count should have stopped, Joe identified a troubling incident: an election worker appeared to process a large batch of ballots through a voting machine three separate times.

“We don’t know if there is a legitimate reason for the worker’s actions,” Joe wrote, adding, “But the worker pushed the same batch through the machine three times. (Each ballot is to be counted only once.)”

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UFO sightings spark intrigue over Fresno skies

Unusual aerial phenomena have been reported over Fresno in recent days, with one incident involving a confirmed unidentified flying object (UFO) captured on camera.

The Mutual UFO Network described the footage as an “interesting find.”

The sighting occurred early Friday morning when a light was recorded in the sky by a FOX 26 tower camera just after 4 a.m.

The light appeared to hover over downtown Fresno.

Earl Grey Anderson from the Mutual UFO Network reviewed the footage and said, “Where you see that object move at the clip it moves and it’s hovering again. That one I would probably actually give an unknown classification to which is a UFO.”

Anderson noted that there were no space launches on Friday and no unusual stars or planets visible.

“What I thought was very interesting about the second video is the clip. It suddenly moves. I’m not sure what distance we’re looking at there. It wasn’t light speed or anything like that but that was awfully fast,” he said.

“You’ve got an interesting capture there somebody saw what I would technically call a UFO.”

Four days later, another strange sighting was reported. A private pilot had an exchange with the Fresno tower on Tuesday afternoon, inquiring about drone activity.

The tower responded, “We don’t pick up drone activity on the radar. We filter out the small stuff.”

Shortly after, the tower contacted a Fresno police helicopter flying over the city to investigate a reported drone sighting near Highway 41 and Herndon, flying at approximately 3,000 feet.

A second pilot reported an object following him at 3,500 feet.

The initial pilot who alerted the tower called in again with another unusual sighting, miles away.

“I think I saw something over downtown about 3,500,” the pilot said. The tower confirmed, “You saw something over downtown at 3,500?” to which the pilot replied, “Correct. It looked like a white object.”

Efforts to reach the Federal Aviation Administration in Fresno for more information on Tuesday’s sightings have not yet been successful.

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Follow the Science? 95% of California’s Wildfires Are Started by PEOPLE, Not Global Warming!

California, the bluest of blue states, is being blown apart by wildfires. You’ve seen the news and watched the footage; the devastation is almost unimaginable. Los Angeles is literally going up in smoke.

Gonna take quite a few “carbon offsets” to mitigate all that burning, eh?

It’s also created a vexing problem for Left Coast liberals, California politicians (again: liberals), and the mainstream media (again once more: liberals). After all, when a calamity strikes, someone’s gotta take the blame.

And in California, there just aren’t any Republicans around anymore: No one in the GOP is in a position of authority. California is a one-party state.

So who do they blame?

If only Inauguration Day had come a month earlier! Then, Gov. Newsom could’ve at least blamed Trump for dragging his feet. Maybe he could’ve even pulled a “Katrina” and blamed everything on the chief executive, washing his hands of the whole mess!

But with Biden in charge (at least, on paper) the Democrats don’t have anyone to point fingers at. And if no single human can be blamed, what do you do?

Answer: You blame Global Warming.

(Which, of course, allows you to ALSO blame Republicans, Trump, capitalism, and the free market — liberal boogeymen one and all.)

At breakneck speed, the mainstream media hopped aboard the Global Warming bandwagon. Here are just a few of the headlines:

Time Magazine: L.A. Fires Show the Reality of Living in a World with 1.5˚C of Warming

New York Times: ‘We’re in a New Era’: How Climate Change Is Supercharging Disasters

ABC News: This Is How Climate Change Contributes to the California Wildfires

LA Times: Intensifying Climate ‘Whiplash’ Set the Stage for Devastating California Fires

New York Times: Scientists Say Musk Wrongly Downplays Climate Role in L.A. Fires

Bloomberg: Climate Change Risks Cracking California’s Insurance Market Wide Open

Sacramento Bee: It Isn’t Lack of Water or DEI Making LA’s Wildfires Worse. Experts Say It’s Climate Change

Associated Press: Climate Change Contributed to a Week of Wild Weather That Upended Life in the US

The Guardian: How the Climate Crisis Fuels Devastating Wildfires: ‘We Have Tweaked Nature and Pissed It Off’

Washington Post: The Los Angeles Fires Won’t Affect Climate Denial. They Should.

Keep in mind, all of these headlines are just a few days old! The media is working overtime to gaslight Americans. (And I’m pretty sure gaslighting folks during a wildfire is a really bad idea.)

The irony is that the Democratic Party has long claimed to be voice of “science.” Unlike those unenlightened, knuckle-dragging Republicans, the liberals are the ones who fearlessly “follow the science,” bravely going wherever it leads.

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The Infamous Delta Smelt Fish Has Not Been Seen in Nearly a Decade – California Allowed Its Cities to Burn to the Ground Over a Fish That They Can’t Even Find Anymore

The tiny Delta Smelt fish have not been seen in the wild in California in over a decade.

And yet, California Democrats flushed annual water flow into the ocean to save this little fish that they can’t even find in its natural habitat.
Now several cities are burnt to the ground.

They sacrificed entire communities for a fish that doesn’t exist.

A 2021 report by Dan Bacher in the Sacramento News revealed that there have been NO DELTA SMELT seen in the wild since 2012.
They’re extinct.

For the seventh September in a row, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife has caught zero Delta smelt during its Fall Midwater Trawl Survey of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.

The last time Delta smelt – an indicator species for the broader ecological health estuary – were found in CDFW’s September survey was in 2015. Only 5 were caught by state biologists at the time.

After that, the only year that Delta smelt were caught during the entire four-month survey was in 2016, when a total of 8 smelt were reported.

The final results of Fish and Wildlife’s four-month survey of pelagic (open water) fish species, conducted from September through mid-December, won’t be available until around the start of next year. The current September 2022 data is available here on the annual state surveys webpage.

Recent research has shown that the water releases are not providing the benefits to the small fish that they originally thought. Their population numbers are nearly nonexistent in the wild.

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Maxine Waters Suggests People in California Can’t Get Services Because the Rich ‘One Percent’ Don’t Pay Their ‘Fair Share’ in Taxes

California Congresswoman Maxine Waters appeared on NewsNation this week to talk about the devastating fires in her state.

Waters, who never missed an opportunity to be politically toxic during Trump’s first term, has been conspicuously quiet since the 2024 election. During her appearance with Chris Cuomo, she claimed that she did not want to talk about Democrat vs. Republican. Cuomo correctly points out to her that politics is involved here because California’s governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass are both Democrats.

Waters then pivots to the victims of the fires and suggests that some of California’s richest people, the one percent, are not paying their ‘fair share’ in taxes. California has the highest taxes in the country.

From Breitbart News:

“The first thing we’ve got to understand is, services cost money and we should be willing to get the richest people in this country, the richest 1% that is protected, make sure they pay their fair taxes so that we can have the money to provide the services. With that money and with those resources, the people who have been selected or elected to do the job should do the job.

I don’t care who it is. It could be Democrat, it could be Republican, it could be whatever. But the fact of the matter is, we all should have heavy hearts right now, but we should have faith and we should be on point by making sure that we do everything to help the people that need us. Dammit, you can do the politics later. You can come and talk about Gavin Newsom later. You can talk about the Democrats later.”

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