Nine Thousand-Plus Words of Anti-Zionist Propaganda

Phyllis Chesler, Substack   "I do not enjoy responding instantly, immediately, to every bit of breaking news, braying about the most immediate, the very latest item to cross my screen. But there are patterns. I cannot help but see them.

"Thus, sometimes, a consistent, even normalized, outrage calls out to me, demanding a response. So here I go, about to repeat myself; I've been doing so for the last 25 years.

"Take today's New York Times. It's my hometown newspaper, and I read it every single day, pay for it too. Invariably, on their front page, there is a four-column photo of Palestinian suffering--and there it is, yet again, today. It is not enough. On page 8A, there is an almost full-page story titled "Gazans Face Lethal Risk Getting Food From New Aid Hubs." That's just in case the photo is not enough.

"Anti-semitism is also discussed at the bottom of the front page, one that sympathetically features New York City's anti-Zionist, pro-Palestine, pro-Globalize the Intifada candidate, Zohran Mamdani. This piece continues for a full page on A19--actually, it is two stories, one about Mamdani and the inevitable rift between Jews over his candidacy and another one titled "Young Muslims Got Behind Mamdani, and Their Parents Listened."

"This is still not enough for the Gray Lady. On pages A22 and A 23, there are two opinion pieces, one full-page opinion piece by M. Gessen titled "The Story of Antisemitism Needs to Be Rewritten," and one by David Brooks titled "Netanyahu Was Right on Some Things." Even as Brooks spells it out, he feels he must make sure that you know that he "detest(s) Bibi and Trump...but it would be a catastrophe...if we have to be against everything they are for." I guess Brooks is taking no chances in terms of endangering his bully pulpit.

"And M. Gessen? She/he/they first focuses on how Mamdani, who is a Shia Muslim, has been suffering in a world of Islamophobes, how he has been falsely attacked as an Islamist "fundamentalist." She/he/they then goes on to admit that antisemitism does exist--however she may define it--but nowhere does she mention the Red-Green Alliance, nowhere does she write a single word about how Islam has historically and theologically persecuted, exiled, and murdered infidels, including Jews, in Muslim countries and that, even more importantly, Muslim countries such as Iran and Qatar have donated many billions of dollars over a sixty-year period to brainwash Americans in the media, on campuses, at the United Nations, and to support terrorism against America, against Israel, against their own dissidents, and especially among their own women.

"Where Gessen can, she focuses the reader's attention on alleged Israeli racism, colonialism, and apartheid--but says nothing about Islam's long and still ongoing history of colonialism, imperialism, conversion via the sword, its practice of slavery--and its repeated and ongoing genocides of all infidels, Jews, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Baháʼí, Armenian Christians.

"You can't call any of this fair and balanced--no, it is not at all, nor objective, not even "proportionate" in terms of its coverage of this particular burning issue.

"The pro-Mamdani, mis-definitions of antisemitism, and the outright anti-Zionist articles all add up to 9,258 words in this single edition. My God! Compare that to the coverage of Ukraine in their pages, which today constitutes only 2,517 words.

"From this single edition, which is not at all unique, one might conclude that the NYT is endorsing Curtis Sliwa for Mayor--or is it Mayor Adams?" . . .

California remade in Newsom's image

 

Broc Smith

Farewell Fisherman’s Wharf   "San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf is now a sorry, empty shell, awaiting demolition and major changes. This video shows almost all the restaurants and retail shops at the former iconic tourist destination, including Ghirardelli Square, totally empty, even amid a working wharf. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CtYx6OeFUkc. As a native of the San Francisco Bay Area, this video sickens me." . . .

(To my mind, “revitalization” should include hiring and stationing more police in the area.)

 ‘It feels empty’: is Hollywood film and TV production in a death spiral?  "Like the once proud industrial factories of the midwest, the dream factories of southern California are in decline. Last year was the worst for on-location filming in Los Angeles since tracking began 30 years ago apart from pandemic-hit 2020. Of all the TV shows and feature films that North American audiences watch, only one-fifth are now made in California.

"This is because Hollywood is facing intense competition for film production from domestic rivals such as Atlanta and New York, and international challengers such as Australia, Britain and Canada, all offering more aggressive financial incentives. California’s politicians stand accused of resting on their laurels too long." . . .

Huge Fail: Gavin Newsom Uses Taxpayer Resources to Bully, Attempt to Silence a Palisades Fire Victim

Spencer Pratt perceived SB 549 as a proposal that would be typical of the political left, to take advantage of a disaster and turn it to suit their own agenda. He spoke out on the matter. In return, the Governor of the State of California used his official Press Office to try to browbeat a citizen into shutting up.

The Crisis of Antisemitism on Campus and Where It’s Coming From

 

The Crisis of Antisemitism on Campus and Where It’s Coming From    "On October 7, 2023, crossing the Gaza border during a ceasefire, Hamas and other Islamic terror groups slaughtered 1,200 Israelis and took 240 hostage. The magnitude of this unprovoked act should have ignited widespread outrage and solidarity with Jews and Israel. Instead, students and professors on many university campuses celebrated Hamas, vilified Israel, and expressed virulent antisemitism that had built up over the years, through slurs, flagrant discrimination, and even assaults.

"Prof. Russell Rickford, who teaches history at Cornell, described the Hamas attack as “energizing” and “exhilarating,” and called it a “symbol of resistance.” He later defended his comments, saying he was referring to Hamas’s breaking through a “wall of apartheid” — whatever that means. Five days after the attack, student groups at Cornell justified it and blamed Israel for it. Similar displays of anti-Israel sentiment and blatant antisemitism appeared on other campuses as well. Jewish students and professors reported feeling unsafe, facing hate speech and unprovoked heckling.

"An April report by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) revealed 1,694 antisemitic incidents in 2024, marking an 84% increase from 2023." . . .

Mein Kampf 100th Anniversary: Has the World Learned Anything?

Keep all this in mind when laughing at memes mocking intelligence-challenged politicians such as New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Texas Representative Jasmine Crockett, or New York’s Communist-Democrat mayoral candidate Zohan Mamdani. One of them might soon be writing a book called “My Struggle.” 

"Sales of the two volumes continued to be slow as many Germans viewed Hitler as more of a comic (funny moustache, short, feminine speaking mannerisms, etc.). At first, they didn’t take him or his left-wing National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) seriously. In “Hitler Was Incompetent and Lazy—and His Nazi Government Was an Absolute Clown Show,” Tom Phillips writes about how many viewed Hitler as a fool:

In fact, this may even have helped his rise to power, as he was consistently underestimated by the German elite. Before he became Chancellor, many of his opponents had dismissed him as a joke for his crude speeches and tacky rallies. Even after elections had made the Nazis the largest party in the Reichstag, people still kept thinking that Hitler was an easy mark, a blustering idiot who could easily be controlled by smart people.

In Hitlerland, Andrew Nagorski discusses the American media’s early impressions of Hitler and the Third Reich:

Yet you had Americans meeting Hitler and saying, ‘This guy is a clown. He’s like a caricature of himself.’ . . .

Joy Reid Loses Her Race-Baiting Mind After Piers Morgan Points Out She's Always Race-Baiting

RedState  

"Reid would later slam Morgan for ambushing her in the interview and suggesting he was race-baiting for his “very white audience.” Pot, meet kettle."

"It was your Shtick"

"Piers Morgan and former MSNBC personality Joy Reid got into a tense exchange when the former accused her of playing "the race card" and pointed out she was likely fired from her job for being boring.

"And, as evidence that we are living in Bizarro World right now, Reid fired back by claiming any suggestion that she is a race-baiter is, in itself, race-baiting.

"The heated back-and-forth kicked off when Morgan played recent clips of Reid saying she got canned by MSNBC for saying Americans care more about the plight of Ukrainians than Palestinians because of their skin color, and later claiming President Trump doesn't like her because she's a black woman.

" 'Joy, I mean, let’s be honest. I don’t think you were fired after all those years because of your skin color or because you’re a black woman. I think you were fired because your show just got increasingly unpopular," Morgan said. "Why play the race card?"

" 'I love the fact that your ‘play the race card’ is your version of the race card. You literally are so fixated on trying to racialize conversations with me, Piers, I find it actually quite charming ..." Reid fired back.

"Morgan interjected, "You racialized more conversations in your tenure at MSNBC than any host in history."

"The fireworks were something to behold.". . .

Reid, of course, was unceremoniously fired by MSNBC back in February when, to Piers' point, the recent election results made it clear that people were tired of the race-baiting and false accusations that every time a liberal is criticized, it's because the critic is racist.

Reid's show, “The ReidOut," had been a staple of insanity on the network for five years, which worked well in the era of Biden's presidency, but wasn't going to translate once the adults were back in the room.

Never Start Your Argument by Posing With an Elmo Puppet

Jewish World Review 

 . . ."But how did these "major news sources" perform in questioning authority in the Biden administration? Look no further than their propagandistic coverage of Biden's mental state."

"When former Labor Secretary Robert Reich can muster equal enthusiasm for radical leftist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and for PBS, that might help people locate precisely where PBS is on the political spectrum.

"In a new video, Reich began by posing with an Elmo puppet. Doesn't every leftist begin their PBS argument with Elmo? Supposedly, President Donald Trump opposes "Sesame Street" because they once made a puppet called "Donald Grump." I'm sure he loved that parody when it happened ... 20 years ago.

"Reich asked: "Why is Trump so hell-bent on defunding PBS? It's part of a larger plan — one where he can control not just what we do, but what we think." It's a conspiracy theory: "Trump is waging a war on the American mind!"

"Once again, Trump is painted as a dictator. Reich claimed: "Throughout history, tyrants have understood that their major enemy is an educated public. Slaveholders prohibited enslaved people from learning how to read. The Third Reich burned books. The Khmer Rouge banned music. Stalin and Pinochet censored the media."

" 'Fact-checkers" could ask: How is Trump just like slaveholders, Hitler, Stalin, Pinochet and the Khmer Rouge? Where has Trump prevented people from reading, burned books, banned music or censored the media? And how is taking taxpayer subsidies away from PBS anything like book banning or reading prevention?

"The Left always associates itself with education. Reich said Trump believes, as they say in Orwell's novel "1984," that "ignorance is strength." Reich claimed Trump favors teaching children "our country has never been wrong." That's what they claimed about the Florida education standards under Gov. Ron DeSantis.

"Leftists are firmly in control of universities and suppress all dissent. But Reich pretended the opposite: "As a professor, I know firsthand how education empowers young people's minds. We can't have a functioning democracy if people cannot deliberate critically about it. That's why authoritarians replace education with indoctrination. Instead of teaching students to think for themselves, authoritarians seek to instill blind allegiance and to suppress dissent.' " . . .

Obama’s ‘Scolding’ Offends Democrats; He is facing backlash even from his own party.

 The American Spectator 

 "Another referred to Obama as “very scoldy these days,” which she claims does not go over well with the voter base anymore. Yet another anchor on the program was interested in “who [Obama] is holding up, and who he’s not mentioning.'” 

"Former President Barack Obama is receiving media criticism for the exhortations he shared with his floundering party at a fundraiser in New Jersey last Friday. The fundraiser, aimed at raising money for gubernatorial candidates and the Democratic National Committee, was hosted by New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy at his home. 

"It is no secret that since the 2024 election, the Left has been struggling to maintain a unified front. While some of the party is digging its heels into radical agendas and ideologies, others are trying to move on from the loss by changing their views or leaving the party altogether.

Obama’s Advice to a Failing Party

"Obama’s speech focused on how to elevate the Democrat Party going forward, according to reports of the speech gathered by CNN.

“ 'I think [success] is going to require a little bit less navel-gazing and a little less whining and being in fetal positions,” said Obama, who has not been publicly involved in fundraising since the previous election cycle. “And it’s going to require Democrats to just toughen up.”

"It is unclear whether Obama was criticizing the extreme progressives or the aspiring moderates in his party. Either way, the former president implored his base to stop “looking for a quick fix” and “waiting for the messiah”; instead, posited Obama, Democrats must focus on the candidates up for election this year. He praised Democrat nominees for governor in Virginia and New Jersey who will be up for election this November, calling them “great candidates.”

"In preparation for the next election cycle, Obama suggests the “DNC [get] what it needs to compete in what will be a more data-driven, more social media-driven cycle, which will cost some money and expertise and time.”

"Democrats trying to walk back progressive viewpoints seem to fit the bill for success described by Obama: They try to discern what Americans want via data in hopes to become relevant again. However, Obama notably refused to condemn the most radical candidates in his party, such as Zohran Mamdani.

“ 'There’s been… some argument between the left of the party and people who are promoting the quote-unquote abundance agenda,” said Obama. He argued that these positions are not contradictory to one another; rather, Democrats have just “got to figure out how to do it.” Presumably, “doing it” means uniting as a party. 

Democrats Bristle at Obama’s Non-Advice

"Though Obama used swaths of motivational language, according to the CNN report, his vague encouragement and simultaneous chastisement did not sit well with Democrats, who have been dissatisfied with the politician for some time now.

"During an interview with David Axelrod, Obama’s former senior advisor, CNN anchors questioned and ridiculed Obama’s decision to advise his fellow Democrats as though he himself held all the answers to their problems." . . .

Gavin Newsom's Four Hour, Curse-Filled, Gaslighting Interview Previews His Presidential Campaign

PJ Media

"Four hours of gaslighting and cursing. 

"I've watched most of Newsom's latest venture in podcast politics in a four-hour-long Shawn Ryan Show interview. It was a curse-word-filled apologia of his time as governor and how everything is great in LaLa Land. 

"Here are some highlights.

"Gavin Newsom is in favor of gun control, but he's not. He presided over and encouraged the dumbest decriminalization of felonies, prompting massive theft rings to prey upon shop owners, causing a mass exodus of people and retail outlets, but California is one of the toughest on crime. He's not running for president, but he is. 

https://x.com/i/status/1944895145062650138

"He got bamboozled by the Trump administration on COVID, but his state lost BILLIONS in fraud. He got scammed, but he's a smart businessman. His state spent billions to solve homelessness, but billions are missing, and homelessness went up. Tech entrepreneurs and major companies left California, but they're coming back because of how well he's running the state. His regressive energy policies gave California more energy than ever! 

"There was little to no pushback, nor was there a scintilla of fact-checking, as Newsom held court for the four-hour show, offering up spin, distraction, and deflection against an unarmed host. In a way, Ryan did us all a favor by peacing out of his own interview by giving Newsom enough rope to hang himself so that we could get these gems. 

"Shawn Ryan gave Newsom a gift of a "California-compliant SIG Sauer P365 X-Macro pistol," which Newsom enthused over, "Oh, wow. By the way, man, this is too cool, the fact you would give me this… The last thing people would expect is that I respect this gift.”

Gavin Newsom attempting to answer a simple yes/no question. pic.twitter.com/wLBlhTBe9n

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) July 14, 2025

Trump Ends Boondoggle on Rails – PJ Media  

. . . "Imagine if a private consortium had been handed $11 billion and told to build a rail line from L.A. to San Francisco. Given the right contractor, it would have been completed by now, including terminals, security, solar roofing, and possibly even a profit margin, potentially while under budget.

"Instead, the decision was to give it to the same folks who bring you the DMV and Caltrans road construction schedules. 

"The result? 

The project has produced fewer deliverables than an intern with no login credentials. (Shocked face.)

"And the price tag keeps climbing. Inflation. Material costs. “Unexpected” underground conditions. Litigation delays. You name it, the excuses are printed, bound, and preloaded into press briefings.

The Green Mirage "Supporters often wrap this train in the green flag, arguing it’s about clean energy and climate progress. That argument evaporates when you realize that not one soul has been riding it. Phantom trains don't save emissions. Pollution isn't reduced by running diesel trucks full of construction supplies across 119 miles of scorched farmland for a decade.

"There’s nothing green about wasting billions. There’s nothing sustainable about a project that can’t even sustain momentum."

Yet Californians, when given the chance to remove this man by popular vote, chose to keep him. He must have told his people that he alone gave them that beautiful coast and the coastal people believed His Loveliness.

Language:

Related: West Coast, Messed Coast™ — ICE Is 'Gestapo' Sent by 'Hitler'

Butler: The Riveting Untold Story of the Shooting of Donald Trump; Salena Zito’s witness to the near assassination of the president is a must-read.

 The American Spectator  

"In her fascinating insider’s account, Salena Zito talks about still much more: the Milwaukee convention, Thomas Matthew Crooks and his family, Corey Comperatore and his family, and, yes, the epic failure of the Secret Service to protect Donald Trump."

. . . "Of course, we knew right away that Trump was not killed. I still marvel at turning to my wife amid the trauma and saying, “Wow, Trump just shook his fist in the air and said, ‘Fight! Fight! Fight!’” We weren’t really worried about the former president. Our concern was for our son, his friends, and the tens of thousands of others. Those bullets fired by Thomas Matthew Crooks had to hit flesh somewhere. A fatal victim was a firefighter from Buffalo Township, Corey Comperatore. My son was fine. But Corey — someone else’s son, husband, father — was not.

"I figured that my longtime friend Salena Zito — also a longtime friend of The American Spectator — was there. A fellow Pittsburgh-born, lifelong native of western Pennsylvania, who I first met when we both wrote for the late Dick Scaife’s Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Salena has distinguished herself as one of America’s best on-the-ground reporters with her “The Middle of Somewhere” dispatches. And no journalist knows or has covered Donald Trump like Zito. She was the one who in a September 2016 interview with Trump for the Atlantic coined the brilliant formulation: “Trump’s supporters take him seriously but not literally, whereas his critics take him literally but not seriously.” She predicted a Trump victory that November, claiming he would win our home state of Pennsylvania.

"Zito certainly would not have missed Trump’s Butler appearance on July 13, 2024. She attended with the intention of doing a scheduled interview after his speech. She experienced much more than an interview. She saw everything, heard everything, and then repeatedly heard from Donald Trump over the next 24 hours in an intimate way no one else did. What she experienced was so remarkable that she has written a book titled, Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America’s Heartland.

"The book is riveting. This review cannot do it justice. I’ll underscore some highlights, but I strongly advise getting the book for yourself and for friends." . . . More...

The Judicial Tyranny of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

 Larry Elder 

. . ."Scalia, in 2007, said: "Over the past 40 or 50 years, the philosophy of a living, or evolving, Constitution has become popular. It is enormously seductive. You think everything you care about passionately is there in the Constitution. Everything comes out the way you want it to. ... (The Constitution) is not an empty bottle to be filled up by each generation. 

"How can you tell if the newest Supreme Court Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is an "activist" judge? She admits it. Worse, she appears to think it is her job, if not her duty, to engage in (left-wing) judicial activism.

"In an interview with CBS News, Jackson explained what she hopes to accomplish in her many dissents. "I just feel that I have a wonderful opportunity to tell people in my opinions how I feel about the issues," she said, "and that's what I try to do." She added, "And I'm not afraid to use my voice." This sounds like a podcaster rather than a judge.

"You might be forgiven for thinking judges are supposed to interpret the law as intended by the legislature and apply the law to resolve disputes before the court.

"Chief Justice John Roberts, for example, compares the role of a justice to that of an umpire whose job is to call balls and strikes. "Judges," Roberts said, "are like umpires. They don't make the rules, they apply them." As to judges deciding cases based on policy or on "how (they) feel about the issues," on their weighing in on policy, Roberts said, "I don't think you want judges deciding cases based on what is good policy ... there are legal questions here."

"Justice Amy Coney Barrett, in her majority decision that reined in the power of district courts to impose nationwide injunctions, scolded Jackson for departing from this conventional view of the role of a judge. Barrett wrote, "We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary."

"Jackson's judicial philosophy mirrors that of then-Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall who described his judicial philosophy as follows, "You have to do what's right and let the law catch up." . . .

Exclusive | George Soros funneled $37M to groups backing Zohran Mamdani

 NY Post

 "George Soros’ Open Society Foundation has indirectly funneled over $37M combined to the Working Families Party and other left-wing groups who helped Zohran Mamdani win NYC’s Democratic mayoral primary."

https://www.terrellaftermath.com/

"That’s rich.

"Socialist Zohran Mamdani has declared billionaires shouldn’t exist, but it’s unlikely he’d be the front-runner to become the Big Apple’s next mayor if it wasn’t for one — far-left kingmaker George Soros, financial records reviewed by The Post show.

"Mamdani recently told NBC News’ “Meet the Press, “I don’t think that we should have billionaires, frankly” while doubling down on his plan to jack up property taxes on “richer and whiter neighborhoods” if elected mayor.

"But in less than a decade, Soros’ ultra-woke grant-making network Open Society Foundation has indirectly funneled a combined $37 million to the Working Families Party and at least other nine left-wing groups whose endorsements and get-out-the-vote groundwork played a pivotal role in helping Mamdani upset ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the Democratic mayoral primary, the foundation’s records show.

"Since 2016, the far-left, socialist-friendly WFP — which helped score Mandani the Democratic line by brokering cross-endorsement deals that squeezed out Cuomo — has pocketed a staggering $23.7 million from Soros through its nonprofit fundraising arm Working Families Organization Inc.

"And at least another $13,944,005 went to the nine nonprofits and their offshoot fundraising entities — including the Make The Road Action ($3,515,00), and social justice nonprofits Community Voices Heard ($2,635,000) and Move On ($2.3 million), and the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace Acton ($650,000), according to records." . . .  More...

Mamdani to 'Discourage,' Not Condemn, 'Globalize the Intifada'    "Democrat leaders in Congress have reportedly been able to push New York Democrat mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani to at least "discourage" the antisemitic "globalize the intifada" mantra – albeit stopping short of calls to condemn it.

"After public admonishments from Jewish Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., Mamdani told a private New York business leaders meeting that he will not spread the "globalize the intifada" propaganda and will "discourage" others from using it, The New York Times reported.

"Past remarks refusing the condemnation of that antisemitic speech have damaged the Mamdani campaign in New York's Jewish community and led to tepid support with congressional Democrats." . . .

The Ideological Hustle Masquerading as Journalism

 Charlton Allen 

"When entire sectors of an economy depend on illegal labor, federally prohibited drugs, and resistance to immigration enforcement, the problem isn’t federal enforcement." 

“ 'Advocates say.” Two words that signal attribution—but have become a shield, a cudgel, and a journalistic sleight of hand. This phrase, and others like it, are increasingly used in what is presented as mainstream reporting but is actually laced with opinion.

"But “advocates say” is not journalism—it’s an ideological hustle that holds the truth hostage. It is, well, advocacy.

"Consider this lede from the Los Angeles Times:

A federal judge … temporarily blocked federal agents from using racial profiling to carry out indiscriminate immigration arrests that advocates say have terrorized Angelenos, forced people into hiding and damaged the local economy.

"A lot is going on in that snippet from the Times, but it is illustrative of what we are seeing more and more in mainstream media reporting on the Trump administration—particularly in the context of immigration enforcement.

"So, let’s take it apart:

• “Indiscriminate” and “racial profiling” are a legal oxymoron. If the government is targeting by race, it’s not indiscriminate. If it’s indiscriminate, it’s not targeted. You can’t have both—unless you’ve abandoned logic, emotional restraint, and the premise that words have meaning. But that contradiction doesn’t matter when emotional impact is the goal—and critical thinking has been replaced with narrative scripting. This isn’t journalism. It’s ideological storytelling, spoon-fed for mass consumption.
• “Terrorized Angelenos”? No evidence. No sourcing. Just a free-floating assertion from unnamed “advocates”—repeated uncritically as if it were fact.

"Terrorized? No. Hamas terrorizes. Hezbollah terrorizes. Al-Qaeda terrorizes. ICE enforces federal immigration law. They do not terrorize anyone by executing their duties within the bounds of the law." . . .

Charlton Allen is an attorney and former chief executive officer and chief judicial officer of the North Carolina Industrial Commission. He is founder of the Madison Center for Law & Liberty, Inc., editor of The American Salient, and host of the Modern Federalist podcast.

CA bill to let LA buy fire-destroyed lots for low-income housing

 MSN

"The Center Square) - The California Senate passed a bill to allow Los Angeles County and other municipalities to use property taxes to fund “Resilient Rebuilding Authorities" that would have to use at least 40% of their funding for building low-income housing. Senate Bill 549 now has a hearing in the state Assembly scheduled for Wednesday.

"As a funding mechanism, the bill would allow the RRA for the Los Angeles wildfires to “Issue, receive, and administer funds, including, but not limited to, tax-increment financing, federal loans and grants, state loans and grants, and philanthropic grants, to support recovery.”

"RRA-LAW would then be able to use taxpayer funds to oversee most of the construction process, and would be granted the power to “Purchase lots at a fair price for land banking,” “purchase critical construction materials in bulk,” and “Support the reconstruction workforce by partnering with trades, facilitating training and workforce development, and creating temporary workforce housing.”

"RRA-LAW would also “Facilitate reconstruction of lost rental housing stock, including by promotion of accessory dwelling units, senior-serving housing, and replacement of affordable housing lost in the fires.”

"The remaining funding could be used for “multifamily affordable housing projects,” “transit capital projects,” and “transit-oriented development projects.”

"Wednesday's hearing is set for just over a week after Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the allocation of $101 million in taxpayer funds for “multifamily low-income housing development” in communities in Los Angeles devastated by the Palisades, Eaton and Hughes wildfires.

"In conjunction with the governor’s funding announcement, which provides per-unit funding of up to $450,000 in loans and up to $90,000 in grants, funding from RRA-LAW could make it easier for more income-restricted housing to be built in the Los Angeles area.

"In Los Angeles, 73% of city planning applications for new units are for income-restricted housing. In the previous four years, income-restricted housing represented only an average of 30%, meaning the latest data reflects a precipitous drop-off in production for standard, market-rate housing."