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Speaker 1: looking back at Karen Bass's years as a Fidel Castro groupie.

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Speaker 1: belief in a real hard form of socialism or communism. Really,

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Speaker 1: one o'clock hour on the podcast, among other things we've

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Speaker 1: the last couple of days about the immense amount of propaganda.

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Speaker 1: You know, for six months, all the left wing radicals

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Speaker 1: I don't think most people understand that. In this last

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Speaker 1: Trump called the Big Beautiful Bill, Department of Homeland Security

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Speaker 1: enforcement and deportations and everything related manpower, technology. I mean,

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Speaker 1: And they've got the law, the Constitution, and the Supreme

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Speaker 1: Well, of course, because the protests didn't change anything. I

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Speaker 1: But this story is written by Anchi, Orianna Hernandez and

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Speaker 1: Anumita Kawar. They ride a little more than a month

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Speaker 1: after mass demonstrations against federal immigration raids gripped Los Angeles,

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Speaker 2: Movement hasn't stopped. It's transforming.

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Speaker 1: Its spontaneous nature has shifted into a methodical one. As

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Speaker 1: That's gonna stop the federal government. They got one hundred

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Speaker 1: parking lots. Organizers are hosting smaller demonstration demonstrations, coordinating know

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Speaker 1: So the little pip Squeak, the socialist Hugo Soda Martinez,

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Speaker 1: We're in this for at least three and a half

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Speaker 1: more years. What are the values that we're leading with.

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Speaker 1: What's the core messaging that we're trying to uplift. What

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Speaker 1: the values? Your values are disrupting law enforcement and trying

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Speaker 1: You're allowed to have those values. We're also allowed to

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Speaker 1: And also, the Trump administration said in a statement in

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Speaker 1: Attack on federal law enforcement will never be tolerated. The

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Speaker 2: You got that Hugo. Doesn't matter how loud you shout.

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Speaker 1: I guess you could keep throwing rocks and bricks, but

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Speaker 1: Washington Post special. It's talking about the riots. They drew

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, this is after acknowledging the burning waymow cars

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Speaker 1: we'll have more coming up, but meet he's in full, unapologetic,

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Speaker 2: Now they're just lying and lying and lying. More coming up.

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Speaker 1: You might have heard of Deborah's news that there was

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Speaker 1: has an intriguing article. This is really mysterious. The couple

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Speaker 1: And Caravella, according to US attorney Bill of Sale, was

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Speaker 1: That doesn't seem smart to me. You obviously can't make

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Speaker 1: gonna do when all hell breaks lose? Nobody's gonna stick

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Speaker 1: around to help you now, cal State Channel Islands, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I cannot believe we pay this guy tax money. Oh

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Speaker 1: he's a philosophy and mathematics lecturer. Yeah, I'd love to

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Speaker 1: to hit him in the head with a tear gas canister. Well,

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Speaker 1: it looks like the people who run cal State Channel

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Speaker 1: this one, it is our understanding that Professor Caravello was

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Speaker 2: Is that true?

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Speaker 1: Somebody got the Constitution is throwing a tear gas canister

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Speaker 1: by the First Amendment. I wasn't aware of that. If confirmed, Oh,

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Speaker 1: Confirmed is he's been charged with a federal crime. Now

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Speaker 1: abduction and disappearance of Caravello. Well, he didn't disappear. He

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Speaker 1: enforcement took him away. These abductions, Oh, they're abductions. Now,

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Speaker 1: they're not arrest they're abductions. The California Faculty Association says,

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Speaker 1: these abductions are an attack on our constitutional rights to

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Speaker 1: The California Faculty Association is described as a labor union

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Speaker 1: And then the National Review points out, just as a reminder,

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Speaker 1: One of the criminals they arrested was previously deported in

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Speaker 2: Wow, that didn't make the headlines, did it.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to John Cobels on demand from kifay.

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Speaker 1: This is too stupid, This is too stupid. This is

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Speaker 2: Oh, you're not going to talk anymore. You're not going

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Speaker 4: That was stupid.

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Speaker 4: It really is beneath us. John, I'm appalled that we're

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Speaker 2: Do you remember a few days ago we had an attorney.

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Speaker 1: On who's representing many of the Palisades' residents who got

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Speaker 2: It started the fire all over again.

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Speaker 1: But they're all hard working, aren't they. Karen Bass was

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Speaker 2: By the way, were.

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Speaker 1: Allegations that the LEDWP failed to meet its inspection schedule

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Speaker 1: You vote for these people and you don't force them out.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why. I'm gonna go home and think

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