How the insurance crisis overtook California
Insurance Commissioner Lara’s 2023 regulatory overhaul promised to ease California’s insurance crisis
but instead delivered major concessions to the industry.
Under Lara’s watch, the state’s insurer of last resort exploded
from 123,657 policies in 2019 to over 645,000,
leaving January wildfire victims underinsured.
Six of nine insurers filing under new rules
add zero new policies in high-risk zones
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"This is not some grand heel turn, or some brainwashing that DHH suffered. This is straight up a midlife crisis turned fash speedrun."
(Original title: Jordan Petridis: DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis)
https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/…
FL Christian School Teacher Gets Child Porn Charges - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/11/christian-school-teacher-arrested-on-child-porn-charges/
Man faces federal charges in Vance home vandalism (Ashleigh Fields/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5674416-man-facing-federal-charges-in-vance-home-vandalism/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p99#a260106p99
Donald Trump has pardoned the former Tennessee House speaker and his former top aide in the state legislature
just weeks after they were sentenced to prison on public corruption charges.
Glen Casada, 66, was sentenced in September to three years in federal prison on charges
related to a kickback and bribery arrangement involving the legislature’s state-funded constituent mailer program.
Cade Cothren, 38, previously Casada’s chief of staff, was also convicted of fraud…
DeSantis says Florida looking 'very seriously' at bringing state charges against Maduro (Kimberly Leonard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/06/desantis-florida-charges-maduro-00712253
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p96#a260106p96
"For Afghan women, the stakes could not be any clearer. Every gesture towards normalization tells them their rights can be traded away for political convenience. Every meeting that sidelines the issue of gender apartheid reinforces the message that their lives are secondary to geopolitical interests. "
UN Report Details Deepening Crisis for Afghan Women and Warns Against Normalising Taliban Rule - Feminist Majority Foundation
https://feminist.org/news/un-report-details-deepening-crisis-for-afghan-women-and-warns-against-normalising-taliban-rule/
The Civil-Military Crisis Is Here -- The leaders of the U.S. military may soon face a terrible decision. (Tom Nichols/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/10/civil-military-crisis-trump-hegseth/684486/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p131#a251007p131
It took big Democratic wins for right-wing media to admit that the affordability crisis is getting worse (Zachary Pleat/Media Matters for America)
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/it-took-big-democratic-wins-right-wing-media-admit-affordability-crisis-getting-worse
http://www.memeorandum.com/251106/p66#a251106p66