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Before Hollywood, I was living in a van in Hawaii and waiting tables at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. One day, the incredible Rae Dawn Chong walked into the restaurant, and naturally, I went up to her table and said, “Hey, you’re a movie star! What are you doing here?”
She asked if I could act, and I said, “Fuck yeah, put me in your movie!”
She asked for my phone number. The only problem was I didn’t have one. So I gave her my buddy Mike’s number instead. A couple days later, Mike casually mentions, “Oh, by the way, someone called you.” ARE YOU KIDDING ME, MIKE?!
I called her back, and sure enough, she was serious. I drove over to pick up the script, went back to Mike’s house, and read all 120 pages three times in a row. First script I’d ever read. My character's name was Devon, and I remember thinking, “Sweet! I could totally play a Devon!”
I showed up to the audition with every line and inflection mapped out in pencil. Rae told me I could act and offered me the part. I asked if we were shooting in Hawaii. Nope. Los Angeles.
I had about $60 to my name, a bag of clothes, and some rollerblades.
Then Rae told me they'd fly me out. And I remember thinking right then and there, my life just changed forever. I'm going to be an actor.
That little movie was Cursed Part 3, a low-budget horror comedy that opened the door to Hollywood for me.
I'll forever be grateful to Rae for taking a chance on a kid working at a shrimp restaurant. Everybody starts somewhere, and this is where it all began for me.
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The CEO of CA High-Speed Rail just resigned. The Rail Authority will move on to its 6th CEO. It has yet to lay a single track.
We cut off federal funding for this doomed project so our transportation dollars can go where they're needed. It's time for the state to follow suit.
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Palmer Luckey says analysts claiming it's too expensive to manufacture in the US are lying to protect megacorps
"I think I have a more realistic view than almost anybody. One of the problems with all these analysts that are telling you that it's going to cost $37,000 to build an American iPhone or $100,000 to buy an American computer."
"They're trying to prop up a status quo that the megacorporations want to keep going. They want to outsource everything. They want to hire cheaper non-American labor."
"They are willing to say and do anything to convince you that it can't be fixed, that it can't come back, that America is this helpless, neutered, post-relevant empire, and it is just not the case."
"How do I know that? Because I have to make stuff in America every day because I work in the defense industry. The stuff that Anduril makes every day is not actually that different from a computer. My drones are basically computers. They have memory, a GPU, a CPU, sensors, batteries, a rugged integration."
"The only difference between an Anduril attack drone and a laptop is a keyboard and a screen. That is not that hard to figure out, especially for a guy like me who started Oculus and comes from the consumer electronics space."
"We're not going to let people lie about what America can and can't do anymore. We're just going to do it."
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That's not true. LA County sampled 200 names from our list and claimed 38% were U.S.-born based on their registration forms. We reviewed their work and confirmed with USCIS that all 200 were foreign-born nationals, so the claim dropped from 38% to 0%. Read the declarations in evidence explaining this. Everything is available online.
.@USAttyEssayli isn't really telling the truth here. Not only did LA County officials look at the ballots, but so have many other local officials. They've said the allegations don't hold up.
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I’m done pretending this shit is normal.
No city should have a "fentanyl alley". I’ll clear it all up by the end of 2027.
Wild moment Steve Hilton finds himself in the middle of maniac fighting security on streets of LA trib.al/Cr4Zh6U
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Power bills are so high in Los Angeles they’re now reaching $2,000-$3,000+, even the mainstream media is reporting it
In response a spokesperson for LADWP just came out and said “We keep very close eye with our financial service office to make sure that our rates are as affordable as possible”
You can’t make this up… These people are so damn corrupt
You literally have people getting $3,000 bills. You have businesses complaining about $20,000-$30,000 power bills. You have a woman who has a $2,000 residential water bill, mayor Karen Bass is even saying if you can’t pay current bills because they are so high then don’t pay it all right now
Then you have the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power gaslighting everyone saying they make sure their rates are “affordable”
They literally just increased bills another 7% this last year too on top of all their other fees….
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Yes, believe it or not, realizing that millions of people would do TikTok dances if I was murdered for not voting the way they wanted me to or having different beliefs is quite radicalizing. Crazy, I know.
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That teacher was so brave… She deserves a medal herself! Report say she threw her phone at him and wrestled him trying to get the gun. Hero!
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Thanks but we got this.
As the next governor I will reverse your insane and destructive prison closure program so we can actually keep dangerous criminals behind bars and stop the overcrowding of county jails.
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John Kobylt did LA a great service by having on Karen, because he made Bass show her ass. He's the only one who's actually held her accountable on her most obvious lies, and man did she look horrible. If more journalists held these commies accountable we'd be in a better place.
One of the main topics John covered with @MayorOfLA Karen Bass was the homeless issue & he pressed Mayor Bass about why LA isn’t following a city like Denver’s lead when it comes to clearing homeless encampments on the street! @KFIAM640
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Stay tuned, bro.
Any credible allegation of voter fraud should be taken seriously and investigated.
That being said, the action by Trump’s DOJ — charging just 28 individuals — suggests they have no evidence to back up their claims just last week of TENS or HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of illegally registered voters.
Yes, non-citizen voter registration and voting does happen in isolated instances — in California and the rest of the country alike — but it is so rare that the Trump admin is parading around town about .0001% of California voters.
If the feds were serious about this, they would have done this long ago — not in the middle of people voting, which inherently and needlessly sows distrust and doubt in our democracy.
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Did not expect Wired to publish a topic like this. Especially with such honesty and dispassion the way all journalism should be. American liberal ex-pats regret their decision to leave “Trump’s America”.
wired.com/story/they-fled-tr…
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The bill to raise California's gas tax was uniquely bad. It raised the tax immediately and made it go up automatically every year.
We were one vote from killing the bill, but Richard Pan voted yes. Now we're paying $6.14 per gallon and Pan still says, "I do not regret my vote."
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In 2017, Los Angeles County ALONE was shown to have over 1 million illegitimate entries on the voter rolls — dead, moved, non-citizen, ineligible. You can stop gaslighting the public, and start admitting that California has a grossly flawed system of election administration.
Let’s be clear about the facts: California has more than 23 million registered voters — the 28 cases of alleged voter fraud announced this morning represent .0001% of that total.
Isolated cases of voter fraud occur in red and blue states alike. As I’ve said repeatedly, any substantiated allegation of voter fraud should be taken seriously and, when supported by the facts and law, prosecuted.
We have safeguards in place to protect election integrity, and they’re working.
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Did you know that @RoKhanna (worth over 100 million), who supports the revolution in France, evades taxes via three golf clubs owned by his minor children in Ohio?
A true man of the people!
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.@MarkRuffalo if you want to pay more tax just write a check to the California Franchise Tax Board and send it to 9646 Butterfield Way, Sacramento, CA 95827. No one, least of all Gavin Newsom, is stopping you.
And if you want to help working people, vote for my Working Class Tax Cut: First $150k Tax Free.
To find out how much you would save, check out
savewithsteve.vote/
Thanks!
It’s beyond sad. It’s beyond disappointing; at this point, it’s disqualifying for anyone with ambitions for higher office as a Democrat, or a Republican, for that matter, to be fighting to keep billionaires from being taxed while kids don’t have health insurance and the cost of living goes sky-high.
These billionaires are also the ones hellbent on replacing entire workforces with the AI they are developing with our tax dollars (watch the “Musk” doc). We are also living through the largest wealth gap in modern history. At this point, the only way to balance out the economic forces that have bought our politicians and keep rigging the game against working people is through taxes.
Let’s hope Gavin gets some sense and walks this back. It’s crazy that this is what he chooses to spend his political capital, and part of his legacy, doing. He vetoed the bill that would have put a “kill switch” on AI for our protection. He vetoed a bill that would have gotten forever chemicals out of cookware. Time and time again, he goes with corporate interests over the well-being of the people, even after his own bipartisan legislature votes for something.
And here we go again.
Gavin, we aren’t looking for the Democratic version of Trump. That was a good goof. Please try something else. It’s tired.
The people need a champion, man. A real, bona fide champion who isn’t just tough in tweets or press conferences, but tough when it comes to the real imbalances people are struggling with every day: billionaires vs. people and the planet.
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Just because I can understand why my toddler gets mad, it doesn’t mean she’s right and it doesn’t mean I allow her to destroy the house.
We are either a civilized society or we are not.
From the high schools of France to the streets of Madrid to the universities of Tirana, young people are telling their governments the same thing: in an age of massive wealth inequality, they want a future they can believe in.
In France, students and teachers are asking for safe schools, enough teachers and smaller classes.
In Spain, for affordable rent and housing.
In Albania, for good jobs and an end to corruption.
@JDVance says this is what happens when a nation lets in too many immigrants from the global south.
He is not just morally wrong, but misreading the moment.
The is what happens when nations let wealth and power accumulate in the hands of a few.
This is what happens when young people lose hope in their future.
In America, let us listen to our young.
We need an economic and political transformation.
America's Next New Deal.
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This cuck has just signed even more taxes and regulations into law in a state with the highest of both in the nation. He has destroyed America’s most beautiful state like a one-man cancer. And he is yearning to do it to the most beautiful country in the world as well. #POS
