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California spent nearly $24 billion on homelessness and housing-affordability programs over five years. So why is homelessness still such a major problem—and what really happened when someone proposed taxpayer-funded “sexual relief clinics” at a Los Angeles City Council meeting? In this episode of The Brief: Insights From The Inside, Shabbos Kestenbaum interviews Tanya Tsikanovsky, a first-generation American, community activist, and West Hollywood City Council candidate, about California's homelessness crisis, government spending, the cost of living, and the debate over local housing policies. They examine the viral public comment about sexual-relief clinics—a citizen's suggestion, not an adopted city proposal—along with the state's homelessness spending, budget challenges, and the controversy surrounding West Hollywood's Fountain Avenue bike-lane project. Tanya also shares her family's experience leaving the Soviet Union, reflects on the American Dream, and discusses debates over gender identity, sexual orientation, and LGBTQ+ spaces. What can California's challenges teach us about how government decisions affect everyday residents?

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French intelligence identifies who's behind the violent left-wing riots across France and mass migration is right at the center of it. Elon Musk pledges $11 billion in SpaceX stock to every kid in America. The U.S. government bans a Chinese AI tool from every federal computer over spying fears. And a police officer in Illinois becomes a hero after racing into a burning home to save a sleeping man.

Apparently, nothing says "I deserve a better education" like looting a Louis Vuitton. Must be where they keep the textbooks. And if you have questions about the destruction? Don’t worry. The media is here to remind you how "peaceful" everything is. How reassuring. Today, I'm breaking down the footage coming out of France, the headlines asking us to look past the chaos, and the conversations about immigration, assimilation, and protecting our Christian heritage that apparently we’re just not supposed to have. We’re also talking about the AI images circulating online, because this conversation needs actual evidence—not fake photos making everything harder to untangle. I love a Parisian café moment as much as the next girl, but sipping a cocktail while everything falls apart around you is not a strategy. At what point do we finally say enough?

happens all the time over there