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### [Remembering Ken Draper: CityWatch and Transparency Are his Legacy](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=29355:remembering-ken-draper-citywatch-and-transparency-are-his-legacy&catid=12)

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### [Brace Yourself For A Worse Housing Crisis](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33148:brace-yourself-for-a-worse-housing-crisis&catid=398)

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### [Be Prepared to Protect Our Democracy in November From a Trumpian Plot](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33204:be-prepared-to-protect-our-democracy-in-november-from-a-trumpian-plot&catid=9)

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### [Nithya Raman Loses the Homelessness Gavel — Her Record Explains Why](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33174:nithya-raman-loses-the-homelessness-gavel-her-record-explains-why&catid=396)

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  Written by Abby Zimet on September 27 2021. Posted in [SAY WHAT?](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&id=376).

##  [ Truth Is Truth: Fuck These Guys ](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22669:truth-is-truth-fuck-these-guys&catid=376)

The somewhat good news is that there are a bunch of people still out there valiantly trying to prove democracy does work, though the verdict on that remains admittedly, terrifyingly unclear. Last week, the House January 6 Select Committee…

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- [SCOTUS Is Definitely Not A Bunch of Partisan Hacks Says Partisanest Hack Ever](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22570:scotus-is-definitely-not-a-bunch-of-partisan-hacks-says-partisanest-hack-ever&catid=376)
- [An Unwillingness To Abide Lost Cause Idolatry Any Longer: Robert E. Lee Comes Down At Last](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22538:an-unwillingness-to-abide-lost-cause-idolatry-any-longer-robert-e-lee-comes-down-at-last&catid=376)

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## [Elvira comes out & discusses 19-year relationship with a woman in new memoir](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22634:elvira-comes-out-discusses-19-year-relationship-with-a-woman-in-new-memoir&catid=376)

“There on the doorstep stood my trainer, T, holding a trash bag full of her belongings, looking sad and bedraggled,” Peterson wrote. “She’d split from her longtime partner, spent some time in rehab, and now had no place to go.” Peterson w…

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### [667,000 and Counting: In America, Fucking Remember](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22604:667-000-and-counting-in-america-fucking-remember&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on September 20 2021.

### [SCOTUS Is Definitely Not A Bunch of Partisan Hacks Says Partisanest Hack Ever](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22570:scotus-is-definitely-not-a-bunch-of-partisan-hacks-says-partisanest-hack-ever&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on September 16 2021.

### [An Unwillingness To Abide Lost Cause Idolatry Any Longer: Robert E. Lee Comes Down At Last](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22538:an-unwillingness-to-abide-lost-cause-idolatry-any-longer-robert-e-lee-comes-down-at-last&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on September 13 2021.

### [It Looks Heroic, But You Broke Us](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22511:it-looks-heroic-but-you-broke-us&catid=376)

Written by Abby Zimet on September 09 2021.

### [Grand Bargain’ of Workers’ Compensation Under Siege](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22494:grand-bargain-of-workers-compensation-under-siege&catid=376)

Written by Dan Walters on September 06 2021.

### [Leaving the Bitter Graveyard of Empires: In Afghanistan, Everything Is Crying](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22469:leaving-the-bitter-graveyard-of-empires-in-afghanistan-everything-is-crying&catid=376)

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### [Repugnant, Still: Hunger for the Blood of Black Citizens](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22438:repugnant-still-hunger-for-the-blood-of-black-citizens&catid=376)

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### [What Courage Looks Like: Birds Of No Nation](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22368:what-courage-looks-like-birds-of-no-nation&catid=376)

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### ['Hard to Imagine Worse Idea': Biden to Resume Fossil Fuel Leases on Public Lands and Waters](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22336:hard-to-imagine-worse-idea-biden-to-resume-fossil-fuel-leases-on-public-lands-and-waters-2&catid=376)

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### [OMG WTF: We Told You So](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22288:omg-wtf-we-told-you-so&catid=376)

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### [Grifters Gonna Grift!](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22270:grifters-gonna-grift&catid=376)

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### [To Make the World A Human Dwelling Place For All: I Can't Believe What You Say Because I See What You Do](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22237:to-make-the-world-a-human-dwelling-place-for-all-i-can-t-believe-what-you-say-because-i-see-what-you-do&catid=376)

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### [Frankly, This Is America. It Shouldn't Be, But I Guess That's the Way Things Are](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22173:frankly-this-is-america-it-shouldn-t-be-but-i-guess-that-s-the-way-things-are&catid=376)

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### [The Stupid Is Killing Us: You Do Not Know What You Are Talking About, Quite Frankly](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22152:the-stupid-is-killing-us-you-do-not-know-what-you-are-talking-about-quite-frankly&catid=376)

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### [Court rules that care facilities have a free speech right to misgender transgender elders](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22123:court-rules-that-care-facilities-have-a-free-speech-right-to-misgender-transgender-elders&catid=376)

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### [California Republicans wanted to honor Nancy Reagan for a year. This bi Democrat wasn’t on board.](https://mail.citywatchla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22104:california-republicans-wanted-to-honor-nancy-reagan-for-a-year-this-bi-democrat-wasn-t-on-board&catid=376)

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