Mike’s Blog Round-up

Since the Los Angeles wildfires broke out on January 7, a strain of online panic has painted the city as functioning a lot like The Purge, the horror movie about a 24-hour period where all crime is legal. Take a purported conversation that former Tinder executive Brian Norgard relayed in a Twitter/X post that’s been seen over 2.5 million times.

President Joe Biden is running out of time, and so are federal prisoners awaiting clemency for marijuana-related criminal charges stemming from a tough-on-crime approach he helped promote. That fact is on display, literally, on a website launched by the Last Prisoner Project, one of several advocacy groups that have called on the president to make use of his clemency powers before Donald Trump takes office on January 20. In December, the president commuted the sentences for 37 inmates facing the federal death penalty to life in prison.

State lawmakers are wading into a conflict over a massive fence between the billionaire owner of a historic ranch property and local communities in southern Colorado. Lawmakers last week introduced a bill that requires local government approval of large fencing projects on Sangre de Cristo land grant properties. The bill aims to halt further expansion of a controversial 8-foot-tall fence topped with barbed wire that the owner of Cielo Vista Ranch is building in the San Luis Valley. The construction of the fence — which locals estimate spans at least 20 miles of the ranch’s border — enraged some locals.

The special counsel is still peddling easily debunked lies about what happened on January 6, even in this official document.

More scandal in the anti-Israel movement?

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