A 31-year-old novice climber is lucky to be alive after falling 1,500 feet down California’s Mount Shasta. 
The female climber suffered a serious fall while ascending the Left of Heart variation, a steeper section of the Avalanche Gulch route on Mount Shasta, according to the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ShastaTrinityNF/posts/pfbid025d934YrNPnZtnCLAAdSSrk28aiQM6hJZpN6wN1M6cwBW4We7wgFNGnukq29roZckl">U.S. Forest Service</a>. Mount Shasta is the second-highest peak in the Cascades and the fifth-highest in the Golden State. 
The woman, who has not been publicly identified, was with three novice climbers when she plunged 1,500 vertical feet—from an elevation of about 13,000 feet to approximately 11,500 feet—before coming to rest on the mountain.
Moments later, three U.S. Forest Service Climbing Rangers, with assistance from the California Highway Patrol, launched a rescue response.
Due to heavy cloud cover, Climbing Ranger Falconer left the helicopter and continued the rescue on foot to reach the injured woman, aided by one member of her party, who helped carry rescue equipment. 
“The patient was found alert, in good spirits, and suffering from a suspected fractured right ankle along with additional injuries consistent with the significant fall,” the U.S. Forest Service said in a social media post. “After being stabilized and packaged in a SKED rescue litter, Climbing Rangers Falconer, Jordan, and MacArthur, along with members of the climbing party, carefully lowered the patient to Lake Helen.” 
Later that evening, rescuers evacuated the woman from Lake Helen before she was transported to Mercy Medical Center in Mount Shasta for further treatment.
The route the woman and her group were climbing is considered &#8220;steep and rigorous,&#8221; requiring climbers to carry specialized gear—including crampons, an ice axe, and a helmet—as well as possess basic snow travel skills, according to the <a href="https://www.shastaavalanche.org/general-route-description/avalanche-gulch#/view/observations">Mount Shasta Avalanche Center.</a>
“Don&#8217;t consider this route as a cakewalk,” the center said. “Though not an overly technical route, it does follow a 7,000 vertical foot ascent that exposes the climber to steep snow and ice, rock fall, and weather extremes.”   
Over the decades, <a href="https://www.siskiyous.edu/library/shasta/documents/MS_Fact_Sheet_references_34pp.pdf">nearly 50 people have died</a> on Mount Shasta since recordkeeping began in 1916. 
“This incident serves as an important reminder that Mount Shasta is a high-altitude mountaineering environment, not a hike,” the Forest Service said. “Even experienced climbers can encounter rapidly changing weather, steep snow and ice, rockfall, and hazardous fall conditions.”

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A notorious California Democrat who is looking to fill Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s congressional seat is again supporting legislation that protects sexual predators who commit crimes against children.
If passed into law, California&#8217;s AB-2691 would prohibit individuals convicted of sexual assault or human trafficking from holding public office in California. But thanks to Sen. Scott Wiener, an amendment was added to carve out an exception for those who committed crimes against children.
The bill unanimously passed through the California Assembly and was referred to the <a href="https://selc.senate.ca.gov/members">Senate Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee</a>, where it was amended to provide protections for convicted pedophiles. The committee, which is chaired by Wiener, <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2691">amended the bill</a> to clarify that the term &#8220;sexual assault&#8221; does not include several violations of California&#8217;s <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?lawCode=PEN&amp;division=&amp;title=9.&amp;part=1.&amp;chapter=5.&amp;article=">penal code</a> involving the sexual assault of minors.
At a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAV_owqdREs">June 30</a> hearing on the bill, Greg Burt, vice president of the California Family Council, stated that the amendments were so shocking that he and his colleagues couldn&#8217;t believe they were real.
&#8220;When we read the June 24th amendment to AB 2691, our honest reaction was that it could not be real. We assumed we&#8217;d misread it. We sat in our office and tried to imagine how anyone could stand up and defend it. So I&#8217;m here today, generally hoping someone will tell us why crimes against children are being carved out of this bill,&#8221; Burt stated.
&#8220;Barring people convicted of felony sexual assault and human trafficking from holding public office is good policy. We want to support the bill, but the amendments — we were told this committee chair demanded — exempt convictions for felony sodomy, oral copulation, and sexual penetration against children.&#8221;
Wiener, who is <a href="https://www.scottwiener.com/meet-scott">running</a> for Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s congressional seat, has a history of pushing legislation that protects sex offenders. In 2019, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-signs-bill-that-could-alter-sex-offender-registration-for-gay-sex-with-minors">Wiener</a> introduced a bill, which is now <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB145">California law</a>, that shields young adults from mandatory registration onto the sex offender registry if the sexually victimized minor is at least 14 and within 10 years of their age. Wiener is known for his LGBTQ+ activism and has spearheaded multiple bills in the California Senate that push <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-scott-wiener-nancy-pelosis-likely-replacement-probably-thinks-youre-a-bigot?author=Susannah+Luthi&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Meet+Scott+Wiener%3A+Nancy+Pelosi%E2%80%99s+Likely+Replacement+Probably+Thinks+You%E2%80%99re+A+Bigot">transgender policies</a> into state law.
<a href="https://senate.ca.gov/sd37">Senator Steven Choi</a>, the Republican Vice Chair of the <a href="https://selc.senate.ca.gov/members">Senate Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee</a>, said at the hearing that he &#8220;could no longer in good conscience support&#8221; AB-2691 because the bill &#8220;excludes heinous crimes like sodomy of a minor or sexual penetration of a minor.&#8221;
&#8220;I supported this bill but I now believe that this bill must be opposed because of the absurd message that it sends — namely that it&#8217;s okay to have pedophiles and the child groomers in elected office. Until the highness of crimes involving minors are restored in the definition of a sexual assault under this bill, I will not be able to in good conscience support this bill,&#8221; stated Choi.
Wiener responded to Choi&#8217;s comments by defending the amended bill, claiming those who opposed the changes were doing so due to &#8220;pure politics and pure political cynicism.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;ve been in politics a long time, and every time I think I&#8217;ve seen the height of cynicism in politics, there are some people who manage to set a new world record in political cynicism,&#8221; Wiener stated.
Wiener voted in support of AB-2691, which <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billVotesClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2691">passed</a> the committee with the pedophile protections in place in a 4-1 vote.
At the same hearing, Wiener openly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dems-kill-bill-to-ban-sex-offenders-from-public-office?author=Jacob+Wheeler&amp;category=undefined&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;row=3&amp;rowHeadline=Latest+News&amp;rowType=Vertical+Carousel&amp;title=Dems+Kill+Bill+To+Ban+Sex+Offenders+From+Public+Office">opposed</a> AB-2753, a bill that would prohibit anyone on the sex offender registry from holding public office.
&#8220;I will be voting no on this bill and recommending that the committee vote no,&#8221; Wiener stated and explained that California&#8217;s sex offender registry was &#8220;extreme and broken&#8221; before he and other legislators started &#8220;fixing it.&#8221;
Wiener recommended changes be made to the bill in alignment with analysis provided by the Senate Committee on Elections and Constitutional Amendments, which states the bill creates concerns for members of the LGBTQ+ community and does not provide flexibility for changes in law over time in determining what constitutes a sexual offense.
&#8220;The bill does not make allowances for changes in law over time, so things that may have been sex offenses in the past, such as consensual sex between two men, would preclude a person from running for office under this bill,&#8221; states the <a href="///Users/meganbrock/Downloads/202520260AB2753_Senate%20Elections%20And%20Constitutional%20Amendments.pdf">analysis</a>.
Wiener did not respond to The Daily Wire&#8217;s request for comment.

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Democratic Sacramento lawmakers, led by far-left senator Scott Wiener (D-CA), killed a bill that would have banned registered sex offenders from running for public office in California.
The legislation, <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billHistoryClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2691">AB 2753</a>, would have expanded the list of felony convictions that disqualify people from running for elected office to include sexual assault and human trafficking. Current law covers felonies involving bribery (accepting, giving, or offering), embezzlement or theft of public funds, extortion, perjury, and conspiracy to commit any of those offenses.
On Tuesday, the State Senate&#8217;s Elections Committee rejected the proposal in a 2-1-2 vote, <a href="https://www.kcra.com/article/california-senators-kill-bill-barring-registered-sex-offenders-from-running-for-public-office/71787622">according to the local KCRA outlet.</a> The push for the bill followed an attempt by registered sex offender Rene Campos to run for Fresno City Council. He pleaded no contest in 2018 to a misdemeanor charge of possessing child sexual abuse material, KCRA reported.
Voting yes were Democratic San Diego State Sen. Sabrina Cervantes and Republican State Sen. Steven Choi; the committee’s chairman, Democratic San Francisco State Sen. Scott Wiener, voted no, while two other Democrats abstained.
The proposal passed the State Assembly unanimously before reaching the State Senate, according to <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2691">legislative records</a>. 
Wiener, who is on track to replace former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in Congress, blocked the legislation. 
“There are a lot of people who go in the sex offender registry for lower-level offenses, who I don’t know that everyone would believe they should be banned from running for office if they want to. This is potentially a very dangerous road we’re going down to say that ‘minor crimes’ are going to ban you for life for running for office,” Wiener told local <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPZQDnrjcxc">ABC10 outlet. </a>
“We live in a democracy where people get to run for office, including people who have a lot of flaws,” he added. 
The bill, introduced by Fresno Democratic Assemblymember Esmeralda Soria, would have barred all individuals on California’s sex offender registry from seeking office under the state’s three-tier system, which keeps Tier One offenders on the registry for up to 10 years, Tier Two for up to 20 years, and Tier Three for life.
&#8220;I&#8217;m extremely disappointed, and I feel like I&#8217;m still trying to process what we just saw,&#8221; Soria <a href="https://www.kcra.com/article/california-senators-kill-bill-barring-registered-sex-offenders-from-running-for-public-office/71787622">said to KCRA</a> after the failed committee vote. 
Wiener’s objection comes after a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-lgbtq-activist-politician-gets-run-out-of-trans-march?author=Catherine+Maxwell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=WATCH%3A+LGBTQ+Activist+Politician+Gets+Run+Out+Of+Trans+March">viral clash</a> with the community he most often champions in the California Legislature. Over the weekend, San Francisco leftists screamed obscenities and chased Wiener out of the city’s transgender march — all because of his stance on Israel.
“You stopped being queer the moment you started supporting Israel, you piece of sh*t!” one of the march attendees shouted.
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Scott Wiener showed up to the trans march and for the first time we kicked his ass out. It&#8217;s sad because while he&#8217;s written some good legislation for queers, hes ultimately a genocidal-supporting center right shill. Trigger warning: broken man walking away defeated. Vote Connie! <a href="https://t.co/TXIB7omxde">pic.twitter.com/TXIB7omxde</a>
— Dimitry Yakoushkin (@decadimitry) <a href="https://x.com/decadimitry/status/2070677434845077698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2026</a></blockquote>

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Residents in a Southern California neighborhood say their homeowners association is threatening to fine them unless they remove American flags displayed outside their homes, sparking outrage as the nation approaches its 250th anniversary.
Terri Collins and neighbors Amy and Chris Cooke, who live in San Marcos in San Diego County, said their HOA warned they could face a $100 fine if they continued flying American flags outside of their homes. 
“I’m not taking my flag down,” Terri said. “They can fine me, $100, $200, $1,000, I’m not paying it.”
Terri said she has flown the Stars and Stripes for 35 years and described the neighborhood as very patriotic because it is near the former Miramar Navy Air Station, the original home of the Navy&#8217;s TOPGUN school, adding, “all the Top Gun pilots lived here.”
The homeowners said the Ambiance Owners’ Association has enforced these rules ever since President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2024 election. According to the neighbors, several residents crumbled under pressure to take down their flags after receiving warning letters from the HOA. 
“Once the members allow use of a common property by an owner to express what is essentially a political or affiliative view in a flag, other owners will want to do the same and the common area will degrade,” a letter from the HOA board stated before the 2024 election. 
The HOA told homeowners they could display flags only in “exclusive use” areas, such as backyards, while front-facing common areas were off limits. The Cookes said their $100 fine stemmed from the size and placement of their flag. 
Congress passed the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/42">Freedom to Display the American Flag Act</a> in 2005, which generally prevents HOAs from banning residents from displaying the American flag while allowing restrictions on how it is displayed, including the size, placement, and type of flagpole. 
Michael Kushner, an HOA attorney from Aliso Viejo, said “the law is crystal clear,” adding that the HOA is “barking up the wrong tree.” 
“I would tell these people to stand firm and under no circumstances should they remove that flag,” he said. HOAs “count on the fact that homeowners don’t know better and might be scared.”
“We are outraged, if you want to fly your flag fly it, this is America,” Amy Cooke, a 62-year-old visitation supervisor for children, <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/06/28/us-news/patriotic-californians-explode-at-hoas-crazy-anti-american-demand-ahead-of-fourth-of-july/">told</a> the California Post. “We are the land of the free and home of the brave, this is crazy.”
The Cookes said they have flown their flag for more than 20 years to honor Chris&#8217; grandfather, Alexander Christie, a Navy sailor who was killed aboard the USS Princeton during World War II while attempting to rescue fellow sailors in the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Christie received the Purple Heart and the Navy Cross.
The Cookes secured a 15-minute Zoom call with the HOA board on Tuesday. If the board doesn’t back down, they said they plan to take legal action. 
“We’ve never sued anyone in our life. We’re just here to fly our flag and be left alone,” Chris said. “There’s enough division, we shouldn’t have to do this, but we don’t want to be pushed into submission.”
California Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton also responded to the HOA’s stance. 
&#8220;I hope everyone in that neighborhood not only ignores their HOA but doubles and trebles the number of American flags they display on this very special anniversary for our nation,” he said.
The Cookes and Terri are still planning to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary, despite the dispute. 
“There’s a significant difference between some random flag for whatever you support and the American flag, the symbol of our country,” Amy said. “It’s not just a flag. It’s a symbol.”

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You’re paying more for groceries, gas, and everything else. Politicians blame tariffs and supply chains. Another real culprit is hiding in plain sight: <a href="https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/">California’s unelected Air Resources Board (CARB)</a>, which is writing energy policy for the entire country and sending us the bill for its climate fantasy.
You never voted for CARB. Your senators didn’t. No one in your state did. Yet federal waivers let this rogue agency impose extreme emissions rules that exceed federal law, jack up costs for every business serving the national market, and have no real-world effect on the climate.
CARB’s rules drive up trucking, shipping, and freight costs in California, and those costs hit every American because <a href="https://centerforjobs.org/ca/trade-reports/california-trade-report-for-march-2025">California ports move nearly 40%</a> of all U.S. imports. That is not a regional impact. That is a national tax levied without representation.
Congress and the Trump administration took important steps in response last year. In June 2025, the Congressional Review Act (CRA) was used to <a href="https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2025/05/up-in-the-air-congress-nullifies-clean-air-act-waivers-for-california">revoke three major Biden-era CARB waivers</a> covering electric vehicle mandates for passenger cars, heavy-duty trucks, and engine emissions.
That was the right call. The <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/06/statement-by-the-president/">bipartisan support</a> it received proved that people across the political spectrum are fed up with California making expensive decisions that the rest of the country has to live with and pay for.
But California refused to accept defeat. <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CRA-Response-EO-N-27-25_-bl-formatted-GGN-Signed-6-11-954pmFinal.pdf">Gov. Gavin Newsom immediately signed an executive order</a> directing agencies to circumvent Congress. CARB kept enforcing the voided rules anyway. The Department of Justice had to sue the state in August 2025 to force compliance.
This isn’t a state defending its rights. It’s a state defying democracy by attempting to impose its ideology on the rest of us by any means necessary.
Active waivers are still doing real damage. The <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/10/20/2023-23261/california-state-nonroad-engine-pollution-control-standards-ocean-going-vessels-at-berth-notice-of">At-Berth Regulation, operating under a waiver</a> granted by the Biden administration to CARB in 2023, requires cargo ships docked at California ports to shut down their diesel engines and either plug into the state&#8217;s grid or pay fines of nearly $50,000 per day.
CARB has collected tens of millions of dollars in penalties since 2025. Shipping companies do not absorb that cost. They build it into freight rates. Freight rates flow into wholesale prices. Wholesale prices hit you at checkout.
CARB put the <a href="https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/barcu/regact/2019/ogvatberth2019/2nd15dayattb.pdf">price tag at $2.23 billion</a> by 2032. They called that figure reasonable. It is not reasonable when the people paying for it never get a vote.
The same scam runs with <a href="https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/our-work/programs/drayage-trucks-seaports-railyards">drayage truck rules</a>, forcing zero-emission vehicles on an impossible timeline. The technology and infrastructure aren’t ready. The costs simply roll through the supply chain to every American.
Californians can choose this path. The rest of us never did. California has every right to its own policies. It has no right to export the costs to families in Ohio, Georgia, Texas, and Wisconsin.
Right now, they get to feel virtuous about their climate agenda while spreading the bill to people who had no say in writing it. That is not environmentalism. That is cost-shifting dressed up as moral leadership.
On June 12, 2026, the EPA <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-fulfills-statutory-obligation-transmitting-four-california-waiver-rules-congress">transmitted four additional CARB waivers</a> to Congress for action under the Congressional Review Act. These cover strict vehicle emissions, greenhouse gas standards, and small off-road engines. This latest move confirms the administration is systematically reviewing California’s overreach and that the legal path for ending At-Berth shipping and drayage trucking waivers is wide open.
There is a straightforward solution. The At-Berth shipping and drayage trucking waivers should be the <a href="https://www.hklaw.com/en/insights/publications/2026/06/epa-sends-4-more-california-vehicle-emission-waivers-to-congress">next ones submitted</a> to Congress under the CRA. The administration has implicitly confirmed that these waivers are eligible for review. The precedent is set. The legal authority is established. What is needed now is the political will to use it.
Midterms are coming. Lawmakers who want to campaign on lowering costs now have a clear, concrete chance. One state should not dictate national energy and shipping costs while sticking the rest of America with the bill.
Call your representatives today. Demand they end CARB’s power to run national policy from Sacramento. The tools are in place. The only question left is whether Congress will use them.
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Frank Lasee is the president of Truth in Energy and Climate.

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San Francisco leftists screamed obscenities and chased LGBTQ activist and California state Sen. Scott Wiener (D) away from the city’s Trans March — all because of Wiener’s stance on Israel.
Video posted to X shows Wiener, a Jewish gay man running to replace U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in the House of Representatives, walking through crowds gathering for the march while multiple participants scream at him.
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Scott Wiener showed up to the trans march and for the first time we kicked his ass out. It&#8217;s sad because while he&#8217;s written some good legislation for queers, hes ultimately a genocidal-supporting center right shill. Trigger warning: broken man walking away defeated. Vote Connie! <a href="https://t.co/TXIB7omxde">pic.twitter.com/TXIB7omxde</a>
— Dimitry Yakoushkin (@decadimitry) <a href="https://x.com/decadimitry/status/2070677434845077698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2026</a></blockquote>
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“You stopped being queer the moment you started supporting Israel, you piece of sh*t!” one of the march attendees shouted.
The video started with the person behind the camera applauding Wiener’s legislation on LGBT issues.
But the scene became chaotic as the person behind the camera brought up Gaza and other attendees at the march recognized Wiener.
“I think your policy on the genocide of Gaza is terrible,” the person filming Wiener said while leftists in masks surrounded the state senator. “I think you do not belong here.”
Other leftists in masks surrounded Wiener while he walked, calling him a “genocidal piece of sh*t” and yelling, “We f*cking hate you!”
Former MTV reality star Spencer Pratt, who recently ran a viral campaign to become mayor of Los Angeles, reminded Wiener of the state senator’s own accusations against him.
“Hey, Wiener guy! Remember when you called me a ‘McBigot’?” Pratt wrote on X. “How does it feel now that the Frankenstein you created is coming for you? Every stupid communist learns this history lesson the hard way. Enjoy!”
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Hey, Wiener guy! Remember when you called me a &#8220;McBigot&#8221;? How does it feel now that the Frankenstein you created is coming for you? Every stupid communist learns this history lesson the hard way. Enjoy! <a href="https://t.co/BYhKjn9URC">https://t.co/BYhKjn9URC</a> <a href="https://t.co/cCCr2u2PBp">pic.twitter.com/cCCr2u2PBp</a>
— Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) <a href="https://x.com/spencerpratt/status/2070882480262095147?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 27, 2026</a></blockquote>
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In the video, leftists repeatedly accused Wiener of betraying LGBT people because of his stance on Gaza and Israel.
“It sucks because you’ve been wonderful, you’ve been wonderful for trans people, and you’ve been terrible, and you’ve been terrible, you’ve been terrible, you’ve been terrible on Gaza!” one person said as Wiener continued walking.
Dimitry Yakoushkin, who posted the video to X, accused Wiener of being “center right.”
“Scott Wiener showed up to the trans march and for the first time we kicked his a** out,” Yakouskin wrote. “It’s sad because while he’s written some good legislation for queers, hes [sic] ultimately a genocidal-supporting center right shill.”
Following the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks against Israel, Wiener criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but stopped short of referring to Israel’s response as a genocide. In January 2026, he <a href="https://x.com/Scott_Wiener/status/2010464312792404192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2010464312792404192%7Ctwgr%5Ee6c1c84cedf25d317cfb673a50cecc827b3c17e9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fabc7news.com%2Fpost%2Fstate-senator-scott-wiener-changes-course-gaza-calling-israels-actions-genocide%2F18392065%2F">posted</a> a video saying he does “believe Israel has committed genocide in Gaza.”
His reversal did not save him from the leftists at the Trans March, however.
“You’re a piece of sh*t on Gaza!” the person filming the video at the march yelled at him. “How could you do that? How could you betray queers? How could you oppress people?”

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President Donald Trump offered some advice — from his own experience — to former MTV reality TV star Spencer Pratt in the wake of his loss in the Los Angeles mayoral primary election.
Trump mentioned Pratt while speaking to the Faith &amp; Freedom Coalition on Friday, jabbing at California&#8217;s long, drawn-out ballot-counting process, which he and numerous others argue opens the doors wide for anyone with the desire to commit election fraud.
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&#8220;It&#8217;s happening in California, where the ballots still aren&#8217;t in,&#8221; Trump began. &#8220;They&#8217;re still not — can you believe it? You know what&#8217;s happened? They&#8217;re cheating. The kid won. Or he was certainly in the top two. I don&#8217;t know him, I never met him. Spencer Pratt.&#8221;
The president then advised Pratt to keep pushing back, adding, &#8220;And he went away quietly. We didn&#8217;t go away quietly. He shouldn&#8217;t go away quietly; he should protest, because it was, in my very strong opinion, a rigged election. That kid should be in the runoffs.&#8221;
Trump went on to describe how Pratt — solidly in second place when the polls closed on Election Day — had seen his lead chipped away and then eventually obliterated as mail-in ballots overwhelmingly favored Democratic Socialist City Councilwoman Nithya Raman.
&#8220;The woman who edged him out after like a long time,&#8221; Trump referenced Raman with a chuckle. &#8220;Days. Days and days. And then you&#8217;d hear reports: &#8216;Spencer Pratt is not doing so well&#8217; even though he was strongly in the lead.&#8221;
Despite his loss, Pratt has promised to continue his efforts to expose the failures in the city&#8217;s leadership — beginning with incumbent Democrat Mayor Karen Bass, whom Pratt and many others blame for the disastrous response to the deadly Palisades Fire. He has also promised to continue his efforts to help clean up Los Angeles.
While Trump did not officially endorse Pratt, he spoke positively about him when asked — and Pratt, who is a registered Republican, made it clear from the beginning that his campaign was interested in results over partisanship.

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A <a href="https://apnews.com/article/palisades-fire-trial-los-angeles-california-rinderknecht-arson-62699af71cf549d569709353c5c5b464">dramatic mistrial</a> rocked a Los Angeles federal courtroom Friday when jurors threw up their hands in the scorching arson case against the man accused of igniting the deadliest wildfire in California history — and prosecutors are already promising round two.
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U.S. District Judge Anne Hwang pulled the plug on the trial of Jonathan Rinderknecht, 30, a former Uber driver charged with torching what became the catastrophic January 2025 Palisades Fire, after jurors spent 13 agonizing hours over two days going nowhere fast. The panel fractured 10-2 in favor of walking the guy — leaving prosecutors fuming and victims of the <a href="https://www.redfin.com/news/los-angeles-wildfires/">$51.7 billion disaster</a> stunned.
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&#8220;We have people on both sides that are dead set,&#8221; the deadlocked jurors wrote, telling the judge that no amount of extra time or re-read testimony would budge anyone. Hwang agreed, ruling that forcing further deliberations would amount to coercing the two holdout jurors pushing for conviction.
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Defense attorney Steve Haney called the lopsided tally a &#8220;pretty resounding indication&#8221; his client is innocent. But First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli wasn&#8217;t buying a word of it, vowing to drag Rinderknecht back into court before a fresh jury and secure guilty verdicts on all three felony counts — arson, malicious destruction by fire, and timber set afire.
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The prosecution had painted a vivid portrait of a rage-fueled young man seething over wealth inequality who allegedly sparked a brush fire on New Year&#8217;s Day 2025 in the ritzy Pacific Palisades hills. Their theory: the blaze smoldered underground for a full week before explosive Santa Ana winds — gusting up to 90 mph — transformed those buried embers into an unstoppable inferno on January 7. The resulting catastrophe <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/a-year-after-the-la-wildfire-disaster-key-numbers-show-how-it-unfolded-and-the-toll-left-behind#:~:text=31%20lives,12%20in%20the%20Palisades%20Fire.">killed</a> 12 people, incinerated more than 6,800 structures from the Palisades to Malibu, and burned for over a month before firefighters finally got it under control.
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Prosecutors leaned hard on Rinderknecht&#8217;s digital footprint — ChatGPT diary entries dripping with class resentment, Reddit searches for &#8220;lets kill all the billionaires,&#8221; and even a look-up of a tech CEO&#8217;s home address. An ATF agent testified that Rinderknecht&#8217;s own account of his movements that night contradicted his phone&#8217;s location data.
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The defense countered that not a shred of physical evidence put a lighter in their client&#8217;s hand. They argued fireworks — not Rinderknecht — ignited the initial blaze, with witnesses recalling teenagers sprinting down a nearby trail that night. And they hammered home a simple point: their client called 911 more than a dozen times and stuck around to watch firefighters work.
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&#8220;No arsonist sets a fire and then calls 911 to put it out,&#8221; Haney told jurors.
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Apparently, 10 of them agreed. The fight, however, is far from over.
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The old &#8220;Baywatch&#8221; featured lifeguards in signature red bathing suits rescuing beachgoers in the ocean, but in 2026, the lifeguards are rescuing beachgoers on land. 
L.A.&#8217;s homelessness crisis made its way into the &#8220;Baywatch&#8221; reboot as filming featured a homeless man attempting to attack one of its lifeguards, The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/06/24/entertainment/baywatch-scene-shows-the-scary-realities-of-visiting-venice-beach/?utm_campaign=capost&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter">reported</a>. The scene takes place on Venice Beach when a homeless man approaches Hassie Harrison’s character with a knife. Stephen Amell’s character rushes in to intervene and fights the homeless before Amell knocks him to the ground and paramedics aid the fallen attacker. 
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A video of the cast filming a scene for the new “Baywatch” reboot blurred the lines between the fantasy and reality of living in modern-day Venice Beach. <a href="https://t.co/O0Y9eBFyo3">https://t.co/O0Y9eBFyo3</a> <a href="https://t.co/GzZVkHsqni">pic.twitter.com/GzZVkHsqni</a>
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The fictitious scene is grounded in reality as L.A.&#8217;s large homeless encampments continue to plague residents, including near Venice Beach, where encampments have grown this year and attracted drug users, KTLA <a href="https://ktla.com/news/local-news/large-homeless-encampment-in-venice-continues-expanding-attracting-crime-drug-activity/">reported</a>. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass cleared out the encampments in 2023, but residents of the area claim the homeless residents stayed in the area after their tents were cleared and eventually expanded their encampment. 
Venice resident Craig Riveiro told KTLA 5, “Mothers and babies cannot walk on the sidewalks. It hurts the mom-and-pop businesses. It hurts the residents. It caused mayhem.” Other residents say the area has become a hotspot for crime, drug activity, and safety hazards. 
Bass, who declared 2026 as her goal to end street homelessness in L.A., blames government bureaucracy for the failure. 
“We haven’t ended it,” she <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/karen-bass-grilled-over-broken-homelessness-promise-blames-bureaucracy-slowed-progress">said</a> in May. “Basically when I said that, it was at the beginning of my term. I am very committed to achieving that goal. I didn’t anticipate some of the bureaucratic barriers that I would experience, but I am prepared to take those on now.” 
Bass, who advanced to the mayoral general election over outsider Spencer Pratt, also claimed people who work in the government are reluctant to end homelessness. &#8220;The city and the county never made that commitment before, and I found something that surprised me. I found a lot of people who work internally in the system who were very resistant to ending street homelessness.&#8221;
While homeless individuals represent a small percentage of the population, the R Street Institute estimates that they are responsible for about roughly <a href="https://www.rstreet.org/commentary/the-crime-and-safety-blindspot-do-homeless-populations-pose-an-increased-risk-to-public-safety/">15%</a> of violent crimes in the city. 
Earlier this month, the federal government halted all funds going to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) after the city failed to deliver results after nearly $1 billion in the last five years. 
The Trump administration will keep the suspension in place until the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) completes its investigation into the LAHSA. “Under President Trump’s leadership, HUD will fund results, not corrupt failure or the homeless industrial complex,” <a href="https://www.hud.gov/news/hud-no-26-048">said</a> HUD Secretary Scott Turner.
“Year after year, hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars were funneled to LAHSA with little accountability. Meanwhile, homelessness skyrocketed,&#8221; Turner added. &#8220;Taxpayers will no longer bankroll an organization that puts its own self-interests ahead of the Americans it was created to serve.”

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A former California State Parks superintendent faces 31 criminal charges for secretly recording nearly two dozen naked lifeguards in a Southern California locker room and sending those explicit images to two other men. 
Starting in August 2024, Kevin Pearsall, 59, of Long Beach, allegedly set up a camera inside the Bolsa Chica State Beach Lifeguard Headquarters men’s employee locker room in Huntington Beach, California, according to <a href="https://ocdistrictattorney.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Kevin-Pearsall-6.24.26.pdf">Orange County prosecutors</a>. 
Almost a year later, a California State Parks officer found a USB flash drive in the men’s employee locker room, which prosecutors say included videos of state employees undressing. California State Parks then contacted the California Highway Patrol to investigate the device, which was found to contain hidden camera footage.
The employee locker room is not open to the public but accessible to full-time personnel, seasonal lifeguards, office staff, maintenance, and park aides, according to authorities. The hidden camera captured both audio and video from August 2024 through July 2025. 
“The CHP investigation identified 23 different men who had their genitals or buttocks filmed by the hidden camera placed in the employee locker room by Pearsall,” the Orange County District Attorney’s office said. “None of the men agreed to be recorded.” 
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Authorities allege Pearsall sent nude images of three victims to two other men and made sexually explicit comments about his employees’ genitals.
“Instead of protecting his employees, Pearsall used his position to spy on the men who worked for him while they were in the place where they should have been the safest and then share those intimate images of his victims,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said. 
“These victims had their privacy violated in such a disgusting way, and we will do everything we can to ensure they receive the justice they deserve,” he added. 
From 2023 through July 2025, Pearsall served as a California State Parks Superintendent, a sworn law enforcement position overseeing the management and operations of state parks in Orange County. He was first hired by California State Parks in 1994. 
On Tuesday, June 23, Pearsall turned himself in on a $500,000 arrest warrant and was released by a judge on his own recognizance, according to prosecutors. He has been charged with five felony counts of eavesdropping, 23 misdemeanor counts of secretly filming another, and three misdemeanor counts of unlawful dissemination of private recordings. His next court appearance is set for August 6. 
If convicted on all counts, he faces a maximum sentence of 18 years and eight months in prison.

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A 13-year-old visiting Disneyland was hospitalized after exiting a ride before it finished and plummeting the 50-foot drop on his own in Anaheim, California.
The incident happened around 6 p.m. on Sunday, June 21, when the boy was riding Tiana&#8217;s Bayou Adventure, one of the park’s water rides. He climbed out of the ride and descended the 50-foot drop on his own. A park cast member was immediately forced to stop the ride. 
The boy was taken to a local hospital for a precautionary evaluation before being released, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/travel/disney-scare-unfolds-after-teen-exits-log-ride-moments-before-50-foot-plunge">according</a> to a Disneyland spokesperson. He suffered minor injuries from the fall. 
The ride remained closed for the rest of the day and reopened on Monday, June 22.
The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health’s Amusement Ride &amp; Tramway Unit <a href="https://www.ocregister.com/2026/06/22/disneyland-visitor-falls-down-50-foot-drop-on-tianas-bayou-adventure/">evaluated</a> the incident and did not find any operational issues with the attraction.
<a href="https://x.com/DisneyScoopGuy/status/2069556763196879270?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2069556763196879270%7Ctwgr%5Eff69a86828b054cdff439bd105959bb404f731dd%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fthedisneyscoop.com%2Fvideo-shows-13-year-old-sliding-down-tianas-bayou-adventure-drop-at-disneyland%2F">Video</a> of the horrifying fall was posted online, and witnesses took to <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Disneyland/comments/1uc9cf7/tiana_closure_tonight_621/">Reddit</a> to describe the incident. “He attempted to exit the ride vehicle at the top of the final drop,” one Reddit user said. “The ride stop mechanism failed to engage or was already past the threshold for the vehicle to enter free fall.”
“Luck was on his side,” another Reddit user wrote.
The ride currently does not have seat belts or lap bars.
Tiana&#8217;s Bayou Adventure, which is based on the movie Princess and the Frog, opened in 2024 as a replacement for Splash Mountain, which many on the Left claimed echoed racist tropes. In 2024, The Smithsonian magazine <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/what-changes-splash-mountain-tianas-bayou-adventure-reveal-about-how-americans-see-themselves-180984630/">wrote</a> that the original ride was a &#8220;racist whitewashing of American history.&#8221;
&#8220;For some, Splash Mountain represented nothing more than a ride with a fun soundtrack and a chance to get wet under the sun in Florida or Southern California,&#8221; the magazine argued. &#8220;But for those who understood the ride’s deep roots, extending back before Disney even existed as a company, it represented something much more troubling: a racist whitewashing of American history.&#8221;

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A 34-year-old black man faces an attempted murder charge after allegedly attacking and strangling a woman inside a California Target store — just hours after being released from custody for prior convictions. 
On June 17, Rejean Morgan Tabor is accused of entering a Target in Simi Valley, California, approaching a woman from behind, and strangling her while covering her nose and mouth, according to the <a href="https://da.venturacounty.gov/mediacenter/newsreleases/#docaccess-50967b0c4d8ac38edccc6303decb24b1">Ventura County District Attorney&#8217;s Office</a>.
<a href="https://x.com/ChaosLensX/status/2069507270140977318?s=20">A dramatic video</a> captured the final moments of the violent, seemingly random attack, showing multiple bystanders rushing in to save the woman as she fought for her life.
“Her eyes are bloodshot, she’s hurt, call 911,” one bystander is heard saying.  
“He was choking her, she’s almost dead, I don’t know who that guy is,” another bystander said. 
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Random Attack at Simi Valley Target (June 17)
34-year-old Rejean Morgan Tabor walked into the store and suddenly choked a woman from behind at the checkout. Witnesses said she was nearly unconscious eyes bloodshot, and struggling to breathe.
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Tabor, who had been released from custody less than 24 hours earlier, turned his vengeance on the Good Samaritans. 
“As other shoppers rushed to help, Tabor allegedly attacked multiple Good Samaritans who intervened. One woman was pushed to the ground while attempting to pull Tabor away from the victim. Another shopper was allegedly bitten, struck, and scratched while helping free the victim from the attacker,” prosecutors said. 
Target shoppers recounted a harrowing scene. 
“Yeah, he was choking the sh*t out of some lady over there in the clothes, and I dove down to try and pry him off, and then I got scared. He looked crazy,” one female shopper said. “I’m just rattled because the lady looked like she was near death.” 
Before police confronted and arrested the suspect, Tabor allegedly threw a glass bottle at a Target employee and attacked a 16-year-old customer from behind.
“The alleged attack inside Target occurred less than 24 hours after Tabor was released from custody on mandatory supervision following his completed sentencing in two separate Ventura County criminal cases,” authorities said in a news release. 
The woman attacked was taken to a local hospital and is in stable condition, <a href="https://ktla.com/news/california/ventura-county-target-attack-new-details/">local outlet KTLA reported.</a>
In addition to attempted murder, Tabor faces charges involving four additional victims, including two misdemeanor counts of battery, one misdemeanor count of assault, and one misdemeanor count
At his first court appearance, no plea was entered, and proceedings were suspended after his attorney raised concerns about his competency, according to local prosecutors. He remains jailed on $750,000 bail and is scheduled for a competency hearing on July 16.

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