• Not safe at home, mayoral edition
• “The guns were decades old”
• The Trump/Mamdani bromance
• The administration’s historic post-fire response
• “You’re walking down the street, you happen to look Latino, or somebody hears you speak Spanish. A car rushes up in front of you. Masked men jump out with rifles and throw you in the car”
• What does “sanctuary city” actually mean?
• Like, no really, what does it mean?
• “You know, that’s a good question”
• “There’s a number of people who have literally disappeared”
• ICE effect on restaurants: Worse than COVID
* Trump effect on border: Closed
• “The Future of the Democratic Party Is Local”
• You lost me at L.A. being governed worth a damn
• Fire rebuilding? “I understand that people are angry”
• Me, 10 years ago: “Affordable-Housing Problem Lies, in Part, with Government”
• “The insurance industry … has been devastating a lot of homeowners”
• The heavily regulated insurance industry, you mean?
• “The Case for Letting Malibu Burn”
• Why prevent Palisades homeowners from rebuilding duplexes?
• “Don’t take your lot and turn it into a five-story apartment building”
• “We want to get affordable housing built in this city, but I think that if you impose it on a neighborhood, then you will have hardcore NIMBYs”
• “I didn’t appreciate that, because they were getting ready to change low-income areas, wipe out the single-family homes, and turned it into massive apartments”
• “I’m protecting them from the predations of private developers”
• She really did almost become vice president
• “I love podcasts…. Maybe I wanted to become a newscaster”
• What Karen Bass learned from Angela Davis
• About those eight trips to Cuba
• “What fascinated me about Cuba is that they provided free health care to their population, and free education”
• The LAUSD’s construction boom for non-existent students
• “We could always put more money in our schools”
• “Judge me by how fewer encampments you see on the street. Judge me by crime decreasing. Judge me by affordable housing units being built”
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