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Conservative: Newsom-Bass’ ‘Give Up’ Governance
“In the minds of the progressive Democrats who run” Los Angeles and California, “ICE efforts to arrest and deport those who have entered the country illegally are unpopular among their constituents and, therefore, must be illegitimate,” marvel’s National Review’s Jim Geraghty.
Indeed, “Democrats and large swaths of the media” insist Los Angeles “would not be beset by so much widespread violence and unrest” if ICE “had never tried to enforce immigration law” there.
That is: LA is “so primed for violence, such a powder keg of anarchic malcontents, that the US government must simply throw up its hands and concede that it cannot enforce immigration law there.”
Then again, that’s how Gov. Gavin Newsom and “Mayor Karen Bass approach governing — when a task is too difficult, they just don’t even make the attempt.”
Whistleblowers: FEMA Is Built To Fail
“In a real national emergency, FEMA will not be the answer,” charge Barry Angeline & Dan McCabe at The Hill.
“We were brought to Puerto Rico to fix FEMA’s broken disaster recovery processes after Hurricane Maria struck in 2017.”
After two years, simply 5% to eight% “of cost estimates had been completed.” Eight years later, “recovery remains incomplete.”
“We thought reform was possible. We were wrong.” The core downside is “FEMA’s unique DEI mandate: 80 percent of positions had to be filled locally, regardless of qualifications.”
Unqualified employees harassed us for being “the straight old white guys.” “Merit was irrelevant.”
“President Trump has spoken of dismantling it. He cannot do it soon enough.” “He should devolve emergency operations to the states via block grants.”
“It is not ending FEMA, but continuing to fund FEMA that is radical.”
Energy beat: Panic as Climate Policies Work
California Democrats are splitting over “the state’s burdensome climate policies,” that are driving away jobs and boosting vitality prices, reviews The Wall Street Journal’s Allysia Finley.
After two main refineries introduced plans to close down, a USC research “projected that gasoline prices could rise to more than $8 a gallon because of the constricted supply.”
Lawmakers who backed restrictions that triggered the shutdowns at the moment are “up in arms” and lashing out at Gov. Gavin Newsom and his regulators.
But “the goal of California’s climate regulations is to raise gasoline prices to goad people to buy electric cars.” Dems simply don’t wish to “pay a political price” for his or her own insurance policies.
Newsom says people ought to simply take trains. Then again, he’s “term-limited, so he won’t face irate voters next November.”
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Tech Beat: Musk’s Exit Is Big Tech’s Gain
“Few tears will be shed in Silicon Valley or at Big Tech firms over Elon Musk’s precipitous fall from White House grace,” chortles Axios’ Scott Rosenberg.
Tech leaders now hope “they can get back to dealmaking and policy-setting without worrying about a key competitor whispering in the president’s ear.”
As “AI is exploding, defense tech is booming, and crypto firms are champing at the bit,” the winners could also be “MAGA-friendly tech firms” reminiscent of “Palantir and Anduril in defense tech,” Meta, or “Jeff Bezos and his Blue Origin firm.”
And Vice President JD Vance has a likelihood “to reassert his primacy as the Trump administration’s ambassador to tech.”
Libertarian: Feds’ Endless Energy Waste
“Energy Secretary Chris Wright recently canceled” $10 billion in Biden-era grants and loans, however that hardly scratches the floor of wasteful vitality spending, moans Reason’s Jeff Luce.
The prime “egregious examples” embrace “a $332 million grant” to Exxon Mobile, which earned $33.7 billion in 2024 and does “not need taxpayer support,” plus “a grant of up to $170.9 million” to ketchup-maker Kraft Heinz, and “$575 million in grants (which are still active)” to greenify the factories of large steel-producer Cleveland-Cliffs, “which generated $19.2 billion in revenue” in 2024.
But “federal backing for favored energy projects” will proceed, because the Energy Department is reportedly “considering financing a $44 billion pipeline in Alaska.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
