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- Democratic Socialist Nithya Raman Set To Oust L.A. Mayor Karen Bass
On Wednesday night, the private election-watcher Decision Desk HQ called the razor-thin mayoral race in slow ballot-counting Los Angeles in favor of challenger Nithya Raman over the fire-embattled incumbent Karen Bass. If and when that call is confirmed, L.A. will join New York City and Washington, D.C. under the mayoral rule of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Raman, an Indian-born 45-year-old City Councilwoman and former owner of a homelessness nonprofit, was up 51.7 percent to 48.3 percent with 72 percent of the vote counted as of 7:20 a.m. West Coast time. The full count might take as long as another week. That the race is close at all is testament to the political dysfunction of America's second-largest city. Bass, the 73-year-old machine-politics lifer who came alarmingly close to being Joe Biden's vice-presidential pick in 2020, is remarkably, if deservedly, unpopular, with an unfavorability/favorability rating of 65 percent to 32 percent, according to a recent Berkeley IGS/Los Angeles Times poll. She was inexplicably in Ghana during the ruinous and predictable Pacific Palisades fire in January 2025, breaking a campaign promise to not indulge in her precious overseas trips. And she did not impress upon return, redirecting blame elsewhere for the city's many emergency-planning shortfalls, then presiding over an agonizingly slow rebuilding process. California's top-two jungle primary system produced two main challenges to Bass's power of incumbency: The reality TV populist Spencer Pratt to the right (in the absence of more experienced candidates, such as Austin Beutner or Bass's 2022 opponent Rick Caruso), and then on the left a late-breaking challenge from Bass's former ally Raman. Bass and Raman scratched out the top two slots, 34.3 percent and 29 percent to Pratt's 25.5, after which the colorful outsider lamented that "Angelenos are now stuck with two morons responsible for all their problems and now have to choose between dumb and dumber." Those seeking a Raman comp with New York Mayor and DSA kingmaker Zohran Mamdani have to overcome a rather large gap in observable charisma. Mamdani, with his perma-smile and social media slickness, has an approval/disapproval rating of 69 percent to 28 percent, while the more tongue-tied Raman, who did not impress at mayoral debates, sits slightly underwater, at 42 percent/49 percent. Her colleagues on the City Council don't like her. Even the DSA has a fraught relationship with their latest poster child; the day before the election,… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - Why do veterinary fees and sausage rolls vary in price across London?
Location is not just the only factor on why prices differ across London, as Anna O'Neill finds out. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - How Trump’s Undermining of the Constitution Helped Cause a “Blue Tsu...
Trump promotes the IEEPA "Liberation Day" tariffs. April 2, 2025. (CNP/AdMedia/Newscom) On Tuesday, Trump and the Republican suffered a massive electoral defeat, losing control of both houses of Congress. Many have called it a "Blue Tsunami". The defeat was caused by multiple factors. But Trump's unconstitutional actions on tariffs, the War in Iran, and immigration played a major role. Violations of the Constitution don't always result in political setbacks for the perpetrators. But in this case they did "bigly." As Texas GOP Senator Ted Cruz put it, "Tariffs have made everything too expensive, and the Iran war has dragged on too long." This connection is perhaps most obvious in the case of tariffs. Since returning to power in January 2025, Trump has engaged in a series of massive tariff power grabs, repeatedly attempting to usurp congressional authority in this field, and use it to impose the highest tariff schedule since the Great Depression. He started with the IEEPA tariffs. When the Supreme Court invalidated them, he tried again with Section 122 and Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, and the Section 338 tariffs against Canada. In each case, he illegally tried to transform relatively narrow delegations to the executive into a blank check to impose tariffs at will. The net effect of these actions has been to raise prices for consumers, reduce economic growth, and impose some $700 billion in new taxes on Americans over a 10-year period (unless courts end up striking down the new tariffs, too). The tariffs also failed to produce the promised increase manufacturing employment. Most relevant for present purposes, affordability and price increases were clearly a huge issue in the election. And most voters have come to realize that tariffs increase prices, and damage the economy. Exit polls reveal that 66% of voters believe Trump's tariffs have hurt the national economy (compared to only 21% who believe they helped), and a similar percentage (64%) believe they hurt the economy in their area (only 14% believe they helped it). Numerous other polls show widespread opposition to the tariffs, as well (e.g. here and here). They became a major issue in the elections, linked to the broader issues of price increases and "affordability." Polls, pundits, and even Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance all agree the Iran War was a major factor in GOP losses. The military stalemate combined with resulting energy price increases have… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - May Court Order Parent to “Immediately Cease All Disparagement of” O...
From McWilliams v. Meghrian, decided Monday by Georgia Court of Appeals Judges Jeffrey Watkins, Christopher McFadden, and J. Wade Padgett: This appeal arises from a child custody modification proceeding in which the trial court, [among other things,] … permanently enjoined … Mother … from making any "disparaging" statements about Father "via social media or other means" and modified child support. Mother appeals, and for the reasons below, we vacate the trial court's final order and remand for further proceedings. The parties are the parents of one child, born in 2008…. Mother argues that the final order and accompanying parenting plan included unconstitutional prior restraints on speech. The final order directed Mother to "immediately cease all disparagement of [Father] whether via social media or other means." The final order also adopted and incorporated the parenting plan proposed by Father, which provided that the parties "will not speak badly of each other or the members of the family of the other parent." … During the final hearing, the trial court stated, "So, Ms. McWilliams, when we're dealing with, you know, parents—and I understand what you said. You're putting your truth out there and saying your truth. Disparagement doesn't care about the truth. It just means that you're putting down another parent." Mother responded, "Yeah." The court concluded: And so publicly like that is something that you just—you can't do, and so we want to be careful about that. There's a reason that we're careful about that. Things on social media get back to kids. They just do. And I think that we're all—we're all cognizant of that in this day and age, but we have to be careful about what we put out there. And if we can't say anything nice, we just don't need to say anything at all, and that's the best rule to live by in terms of this. So that's—that's kind of what we need to—what we need to work on there…. As to Mother's failure to assert her constitutional challenge before the trial court, it is true that "[b]ecause this Court is a court for the correction of errors, we will not consider matters, even of constitutional magnitude, that were not raised and ruled upon in the trial court." However, the injunction, in its objectionable form, was not entered until the final order. And Mother raised the issue in her application for discretionary review, which was… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - Wendy’s rejects $1.4 billion takeover proposal from Nelson Peltz’s Trian
Wendy's said the $1.4 billion takeover proposal does not reflect potential gains from the burger chain's turnaround strategy. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago - 6 dead, more injured in Brooklyn house fire
Six people died and seven more were injured in a house fire in Brooklyn's Sunset Park neighborhood that stated around 1:40 a.m. EST Thursday. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
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