##  In the News

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### [When the Last-Minute Power Play Failed: Sacramento Finally Ran Out of Time](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33319:when-the-last-minute-power-play-failed-sacramento-finally-ran-out-of-time&catid=375)

September 07 2026

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### [Follow the Money: How Does a $3,662 Apartment Become “Affordable Housing”?](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33300:follow-the-money-how-does-a-3-662-apartment-become-affordable-housing&catid=312)

September 03 2026

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### [Newsom’s Next Immigration Gamble: Defy Federal Law And Dare Washington To Fight Back](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33283:newsoms-next-immigration-gamble-defy-federal-law-and-dare-washington-to-fight-back&catid=375)

August 31 2026

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### [As California Debated Sharing Data On Drivers, Homeland Security Subpoenaed 17 Million Records](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33308:as-california-debated-sharing-data-on-drivers-homeland-security-subpoenaed-17-million-records&catid=425)

September 03 2026

#  SAY WHAT?

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  [### Republicans Across the country are Quietly Giving Up On Anti-Trans Bills

Written by Molly Sprayregen on April 22 2021.

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 Written by Abby Zimet on April 19 2021. Posted in [SAY WHAT?](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=376).

## [Ranting Again](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21583:ranting-again&catid=376)

In the latest performative theatrics aimed at obscuring the fact they can only obstruct, but not govern, a furiously mask-averse Jordan spent this we…

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### [Rip It Out To the Studs: This Was No Accident](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21557:rip-it-out-to-the-studs-this-was-no-accident&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on April 15 2021.

### [Former Fox Host Storms Off Camera. Couldn’t Handle Confrontation with Blunt Black Lesbian](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21536:former-fox-host-storms-off-camera-couldn-t-handle-confrontation-with-blunt-black-lesbian&catid=376)

Written by Bil Browning on April 12 2021.

### [On Baseball as A Communist Plot: 794 Idiotic GOP Strikes and They're Out](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21515:on-baseball-as-a-communist-plot-794-idiotic-gop-strikes-and-they-re-out&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on April 08 2021.

### [Manchin May Sink the Equality Act ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21493:manchin-may-sink-the-equality-act&catid=376)

Written by Alex Bollinger on April 05 2021.

### [Speaking Out for Women of Color Nominees … Time for ‘Real People’ to Make Policy](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21470:speaking-out-for-women-of-color-nominees-time-for-real-people-to-make-policy&catid=376)

Written by Mary Frances Betty on April 01 2021.

### [It’s Time to Defund Fox News](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21443:it-s-time-to-defund-fox-news&catid=376)

Written by Michael Arceneaux on March 29 2021.

### [An Open Letter to California’s Future Queen](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21425:an-open-letter-to-california-s-future-queen&catid=376)

Written by Joe Mathews on March 25 2021.

### [Why Is Amazon Abusing Its Workers? Because It Can](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21409:why-is-amazon-abusing-its-workers-because-it-can&catid=376)

Written by Robert Reich on March 22 2021.

### [Shocker! Japanese Court Rules Same-Sex Marriage Ban is Unconstitutional ](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21387:shocker-japanese-court-rules-same-sex-marriage-ban-is-unconstitutional&catid=376)

Written by Bil Browning on March 18 2021.

### [Long Arc of the Universe](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21371:long-arc-of-the-universe&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on March 15 2021.

### [Four Former Presidents Campaign For Vaccine. One Former Lump of Vile Putrescence Doesn't.](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21354:four-former-presidents-campaign-for-vaccine-one-former-lump-of-vile-putrescence-doesn-t&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on March 11 2021.

### [White House Warns States That Their Anti-Transgender Bills are Illegal](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21338:white-house-warns-states-that-their-anti-transgender-bills-are-illegal&catid=376)

Written by Alex Bollinger on March 08 2021.

### [Jen Psaki Masterfully Shuts Down Reporter’s Dumb Question about Trans People](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21323:jen-psaki-masterfully-shuts-down-reporter-s-dumb-question-about-trans-people&catid=376)

Written by Bil Browning on March 04 2021.

### [And Behold, the MAGA-ites Sinned Bigly, and They Were Cast Out, and the Lord Your God Saith Unto Them, Jesus, Really?](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21305:and-behold-the-maga-ites-sinned-bigly-and-they-were-cast-out-and-the-lord-your-god-saith-unto-them-jesus-really&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on March 01 2021.

### [Compartmentalizing Woody Allen … or Not](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21284:compartmentalizing-woody-allen-or-not&catid=376)

Written by Elizabeth Keyes on February 25 2021.

### [Trump Reported Making More Than $1.6 Billion While President](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21263:trump-reported-making-more-than-1-6-billion-while-president&catid=376)

Written by Jordan Libowitz & Caitlin Moniz on February 22 2021.

### [Texas Officials: ‘It's the Wind's Fault, Nobody Owes You Anything, Quit Crying, The Weak Will Parish (sic)’](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21248:texas-officials-it-s-the-wind-s-fault-nobody-owes-you-anything-quit-crying-the-weak-will-parish-sic&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on February 18 2021.

### [Black People have been Telling America about Itself for a Long Time. Someday It Might Listen.](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21230:black-people-have-been-telling-america-about-itself-for-a-long-time-someday-it-might-listen&catid=376)

Written by Scott Woods on February 15 2021.

### [GOP Whine: Why Won’t Dems Play with Us? All We Did is Try to Kill Them!](https://www.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21213:gop-whine-why-won-t-dems-play-with-us-all-we-did-is-try-to-kill-them&catid=376)

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