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“Earlier today former Senator Barbara Boxer was assaulted in the Jack London Square neighborhood of Oakland,” her representative wrote in a Tweet. “The assailant pushed her in the back, stole her cell phone and jumped in a waiting car. She is thankful that she was not seriously injured.”
Hopefully a new illegal alien did the new crime & that gets back to the Communist Democrats running things that the shit they been pulling on the rest of us is now getting close to them & they are not exempt from it...
 

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Dafinch is a hopeless, friendless recluse whose ONLY joy in life is
trolling this forum. Badly, I might add. Pity this poor creature.
 

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Just another weekend in California - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...l-products-girls-mandates-ethnic-studies.html


  • Governor Gavin Newsom has signed several notable bills into law in recent days
  • They include a bill that will see California public schools and colleges stocking their restrooms with free menstrual products
  • In another 'woke' bill, large department stores must now display products including toys and toothbrushes in gender-neutral ways
  • It does not completely outlaw traditional boys and girls sections at stores but says large stores must also have a gender neutral section to display
  • On Saturday Newsom signed off on a new law banning gas-powered equipment that uses small off-road engines
  • Gas-powered equipment includes generators, lawn equipment, pressure washers, chainsaws, weed trimmers and even golf carts
  • Under the new law the machinery will have to be battery-powered or plug-in
  • Newsom has also signed into law America's first ethnic studies requirement for high school students after five years of debate
  • Students who begin high school in 2026 must pass one semester of a class outlining the past and current struggles of America's marginalized groups
 

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legal in California = shitting in public and stealing up to $950 worth of merchandise from CVS and Target
illegal in California = gas-powered leaf blowers, weed whackers, and backup generators
 

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California is proof of how uninformed most voters are.
The fires, the lack of water, the homelessness, the poor education, the crime, the bad roads, the high cost of living, high taxes, high fuel prices compared to other states, etc , etc are all directly linked to Democrats
 

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Walgreens is closing five more stores in San Francisco. It turns out having to give merchandise away for free to criminals isn’t good for business.
 

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  • San Francisco has seen 32 per cent increase in car break-ins and 25 per cent increase in auto thefts in December compared to the same time last year
  • Car owners seeking to avoid having their windows smashed by thieves have resorted to keeping their trunks open
  • Experts are advising against this practice, saying it's an open invitation for more crime
  • Between January 1 and November 29, there were 19,270 car break-ins reported in San Francisco, which translates into nearly 20 break-ins per 1,000
 
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California city to give universal income to transgender, nonbinary residents​

Palm Springs will set aside $200,000 for the program​


A California city is planning to give universal basic income (UBI) to transgender and nonbinary residents.

Transgender residents in Palm Springs, California are eligible to receive a UBI of up to $900 per month solely for identifying as transgender or nonbinary — no strings attached.

The new pilot program will have $200,000 set aside for allocation after a unanimous vote by the Palm Springs City Council last week.



The street pedestrian crossing is painted in rainbow colors as viewed on March 7, 2022 in Palm Springs, California. Palm Springs is a city of nearly 50,000 that has become an important tourist destination for the LGBTQ community as well as a relaxed environment for older retirees.

The street pedestrian crossing is painted in rainbow colors as viewed on March 7, 2022 in Palm Springs, California. Palm Springs is a city of nearly 50,000 that has become an important tourist destination for the LGBTQ community as well as a relaxed environment for older retirees. (George Rose/Getty Images)
The city stated that the program is only for individuals who meet a poverty threshold.

Former San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio, a Republican who served as the first openly gay member of the city council, called the program "outrageous and discriminatory."

"We're completely opposed to guaranteed or universal basic income programs, because they ultimately cause inflation and raise the cost of living on everyone — they don't work," DeMaio said in a statement.

"But at least some of them have minimum income requirements to qualify, whereas this one is no-strings-attached 'woke' virtue signaling to the LGBT community in a way that is not only offensive but discriminatory," he continued.

Twenty transgender and nonbinary Palm Springs residents will receive the free money funded by the taxpayers for 18 months, with advocacy-based health center DAP Health and LGBT advocacy group Queer Works managing the program.

A six-month design period will be the precursor of the program’s implementation, in which the group Mayors for a Guaranteed Income will be involved providing guidance.

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Advocates for transgender people march from the South Dakota governor's mansion to the Capitol in Pierre, South Dakota, on March 11, 2021.

Advocates for transgender people march from the South Dakota governor's mansion to the Capitol in Pierre, South Dakota, on March 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Stephen Groves, File)
DAP Health CEO David Brinkman claimed to reporters that the transgendered population is "one of the most marginalized populations in our city who face some of the highest levels of housing insecurity, joblessness and discrimination."

Queer Works CEO Jacob Rostowsky also claimed in a press release that transgender and nonbinary people "are highly marginalized in our society in general, especially economically," and told the Desert Sun that the city of Palm Springs would have to match any state funds.

"Our project's budget is estimated at about $1.8 million," Rostowsky said. "And so when we look at what other [programs] that have been successfully funded have done, their local cities have provided nearly a match to that funding."

Palm Springs Mayor Lisa Middleton, who is transgender, pointed to the transcript from the city council's March 24 meeting where she "expressed strong reservations in general to guaranteed income programs."

"I specifically stated that I did not believe such programs could scale up to adequately respond to the over 37 million Americans living below the poverty line, the over 6 million Californians or the over 400,000 in the County of Riverside living below the poverty [line]," Middleton said in an email, praising Brinkman for his work and expressing her "concern for the financial vulnerability of the transgender community."

Signage is seen outside a restroom at 21c Museum Hotel in Durham, North Carolina.

Signage is seen outside a restroom at 21c Museum Hotel in Durham, North Carolina. (AP)
"Transgender Americans suffer extremely high rates of under and unemployment. Transgender Americans face enormous challenges living full and authentic lives," the mayor said. "Those challenges have increased substantially in the past few years as transgender children and their families have been targeted by extremist legislators and governors."

Middleton added she believes a UBI program is a "county, state and federal responsibility," not a "municipal" one.


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"My vote to affirm that evening was procedural to provide $200,000 to DAP in order to help them in the application for state funding. In advance of the vote I specifically stated my belief that guaranteed income programs were not the long-term way to proceed. I did not commit to any future funding of guaranteed income programs."

Other members of the Palm Springs city council did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
 

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