Filmmaker Justine Bateman warned that California Governor Gavin Newsom needs to be removed immediately following the disaster of the fires in Los Angeles “before something worse happens” in the state. In a post on X, the 58-year-old actress called on voters in the Golden State to watch how insincere Newsom appeared in a video of him talking about working with President-elect Donald Trump to provide resources to those affected by the Southern California fires, while at the same he has set aside tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to fight Trump. “I really want other CA voters to see the lack of sincerity, the dismissiveness, the dedication to pretentiousness, and the dereliction of care for the citizens of California,” Bateman wrote. “He has always demonstrated this. In every video.” “You cannot trust this kind of person with any role, and especially not one upon which our wellbeing depends,” she added. “Gavin Newsom needs to be removed, before something worse happens here.” I really want other CA voters to see the lack of sincerity, the dismissiveness, the dedication to pretentiousness, and the dereliction of care for the citizens of California. He has always demonstrated this. In every video. You cannot trust this kind of person with any role, and… https://t.co/tvO977cWKn — Justine Bateman (@JustineBateman) January 15, 2025 In an earlier post, Bateman said not only should Newsom be replaced, but Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, too, following the mismanagement of the city’s resources, which led to the disaster of the three fires in LA. “We already knew that the city and state was being mismanaged, before these fire disasters,” the filmmaker said. CELEBRATE #47 WITH 47% OFF DAILYWIRE+ MEMBERSHIPS + A FREE $20 GIFT “This will only get worse. I am not willing to find out how unprepared the city and state is for a major earthquake, structure-destroying mudslides, water system poisonings, power grid collapses, or any of the other things that could befall us here,” she added. “We have all the demonstration[s] we need to want something different.” The actress’ comments were similar to ones she made during her appearance with Jesse Watters on Fox News. “If you are going to run a city or run a state, you have to take care of the basics, and that’s make sure that your fire and your police department are well funded,” Bateman said, noting that it includes being prepared for when disasters occur in the area like fire, earthquake, rain, and the mudslides afterward. “If you are not doing everything you can to [mitigate disasters] if they arise, then get out,” she added. “You are useless to us. If you can’t cover the basics, get out of our city. You are useless to us, you are a liability and you have destroyed people’s lives because you didn’t do your job.” “You didn’t do what we paid you for and you should resign out of shame and responsibility for the people whose lives you’ve destroyed right now,” Bateman continued. Related: Patricia Heaton Blows Up On LA Mayor As Fires Rage

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom will order U.S. flags to be raised to full-staff on Inauguration Day as President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office. Newsom joins Republican governors around the country who have said that U.S. flags in their states will be raised to full-staff for the inauguration. Izzy Gardon, a spokesman for Newsom, confirmed to the Associated Press on Wednesday that the governor will direct the raising of the American flags on Monday. Following the death of former President Jimmy Carter on December 29, U.S. flags will fly at half-staff for 30 days. Republican Governors Ron DeSantis (FL), Greg Abbott (TX), Kay Ivey (AL), Bill Lee (TN), Kim Reynolds (IA), and Kelly Armstrong (ND) announced earlier this week that U.S. flags in their states will be raised on January 20 and then lowered again to half-staff on January 21. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) also ordered U.S. flags at the Capitol to be raised on Inauguration Day. Earlier this month, Trump said, “Nobody wants to see” the American flag at half-staff during the inauguration, adding, “no American can be happy about it. Let’s see how it plays out.” The president-elect also blasted Democrats who he said were “giddy about our magnificent American Flag potentially being at ‘half mast’ during my Inauguration.” “They think it’s so great, and are so happy about it because, in actuality, they don’t love our Country, they only think about themselves. Look at what they’ve done to our once GREAT America over the past four years – It’s a total mess!” he wrote on Truth Social. CELEBRATE #47 WITH 47% OFF DAILYWIRE+ MEMBERSHIPS + A FREE $20 GIFT Newsom’s decision to join Republican politicians in ordering flags to be raised to full-staff comes as he faces intense criticism from Republicans, including Trump, on his handling of the state’s wildfire prevention after fires erupted across Southern California last week. Last week, Trump accused Newsom of refusing “to sign the water restoration declaration put before him that would have allowed millions of gallons of water, from excess rain and snow melt from the North, to flow daily into many parts of California, including the areas that are currently burning in a virtually apocalyptic way.” Newsom shot back, saying Trump’s criticisms are “incomprehensible to anyone that understands water policy in the state,” NBC News reported.

A convicted pedophile and illegal migrant was released from a Connecticut prison last month after his sympathetic parole board mulled how to best help him avoid deportation. The Trump administration, the parole board decided, would not be able to get its act together fast enough to deport the illegal migrant pedophile before his 30-day immigration detainer runs out. “They can’t elect a Speaker of the House,” one board member scoffed. Guerino Magloire, 52, was serving five years in prison for felony second degree sexual assault against a child between 13 and 15 years old. He was convicted of sexually assaulting the child on March 11, 2020, just as pandemic lockdowns were starting, and he was sentenced in November the next year. During his parole hearing on New Year’s Eve, Magloire said he cannot promise he will not offend again. “I can’t say I promise that it’s not going to happen because that’s not always a thing, when you say, ‘Oh I promise,'” Magloire told the parole board. “No, I’m not going to say I promise, but I will definitely try to do my best, my best to keep myself away from situations like that again.” Magloire scored as a moderate to high risk on an evaluation used to predict whether a male sexual offender will reoffend. Despite those red flags, the parole board released him that day from Carl Robinson Correctional Institution north of Hartford. "I can't say I promise It's not going to happen" His words to the parole board. He can't promise he won't offend against children again. pic.twitter.com/lhd7jyfrzk — Mandoo (@Mandoo95431769) January 13, 2025 When the S3X offender realizes Trump Means Business. pic.twitter.com/sVvNtSiiii — Mandoo (@Mandoo95431769) January 13, 2025   Magloire is in the country illegally. He came to the United States from Haiti in 1984 when he was 11 and currently has an immigration detainer, meaning Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is ready to deport him as soon as he is released from prison. His parole board lamented the situation. The board included two women, Rufaro Berry and Deborah Smith-Palmieri, and one man, Michael Pohl. “Unfortunately the person who’s taking over our current administration, he’s going to make sure that people like yourself are deported back,” Berry told Magloire. “It’s unfortunate that I think that the moment that we say that you’re going to be granted, or if we grant your discretionary parole, the process will begin.” “I want to be perfectly clear,” she told the convict. “If we grant your discretionary parole today, you’ll be transported to a halfway house where you’ll wait for ICE to pick you up, and you will be returned. You won’t reunite with your family. That’s not going to happen, sir.” “Oh, so they’re going to take me right back?” Magloire asked. “They’re going to take you right back in a matter of days,” Berry responded. “So even though the country is in turmoil the way it is?” he said. “That’s not our concern. That’s out of our control,” she said. Magloire shook his head. “Yeah,” Berry said. Berry suggested Magloire might have a better chance of fighting his deportation detainer in prison than if he is “sent out of the country and trying to get back.” However, another board member, Pohl pushed back with a different perspective. “So my take on this is that we parole him today because they can’t elect a Speaker of the House — I don’t think the Trump administration is going to be in a position in the next 30 days, which is what they hold him, to deport him,” Pohl said. Berry responded enthusiastically — “Really!” — when she learned the ICE detainer would last only 30 days rather than 90. “I don’t want to make less of what happened in this offense,” Pohl added quickly. “No, of course not,” Berry said. The board took a brief recess to speak with the detainer supervisor and questioned Magloire about where he was in the process of fighting the deportation order. In the end, all three parole board members agreed to release Magloire, deciding he would have the “best opportunity to dispute this immigration detainer if he is granted discretionary parole.” Magloire sobbed and folded his hands, saying, “Thank you, I will not disappoint you again, I will not let this happen.” “I cannot be in here no more,” he said. Magloire was on the sex offender registry as far back as two decades ago. In 1998, he was convicted of injury or risk of injury to or impairing the morals of children. That did not stop him from trying to get a job as a custodian at an elementary school a few years later in 2007 and even showing up to the school, causing an uproar among parents. Stamford police said they found evidence Magloire may have worked one day at Newfield Elementary School before his background checks were complete. The school district denied this, claiming Magloire showed up before he was hired. Magloire’s current offense happened in the Waterbury area, where local police arrested him and the city’s courts convicted him after he pled guilty, according to the parole hearing docket and inmate information from the Connecticut Department of Correction. He was originally denied parole in May of 2023. At several points during Magloire’s recent parole hearing, board members appeared to appreciate the serious nature of the situation. Both Berry and Pohl expressed concern with Magloire saying he cannot promise not to offend again. Magloire had stated, “I did say that I can’t promise not making a mistake.” “For you to sit here and say that I can’t make that promise, while I respect your being honest, I really struggle with that statement because nobody else’s child deserves to suffer through this ever again,” Berry said. When Magloire blamed his offense on drinking alcohol and “being around certain friends,” Berry pointed out that while alcohol might lower his inhibitions, “you already had those thoughts in your head about sexually offending.” However, none of the board’s concerns were enough to deny his parole. Smith-Palmieri noted that Magloire completed a sex offender program and “got all he could out of the program” despite some “intellectual deficiencies” that may have interfered. “I feel so remorseful for the pain of the child that I made a mistake on,” Magloire said, asking the parole board to tell the child’s mother that “I apologize for that.” “At the time I wasn’t thinking too well, clearly,” he said, but now he has a “clear mind not to do the wrong.” At least one of the parole board members is open about his political leanings online. Pohl is also the chairman of the Manchester Democrats, and an X account that appears to belong to him is a hodgepodge of Democrat retweets, as well as a retweet of a post about Connecticut’s prison population being at a nearly two-decade low. Pohl also apparently posted “Class” in response to Bill Clinton wishing Joe Biden a happy birthday and in another post, “Don’t ever let them forget what happened” on January 6, saying local Republican leaders remained silent.

The Washington Post is attempting a rebrand as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office again on Monday, as evidenced by the revelation of a new mission statement that was first reported early Thursday morning. The new mission, which comes as the newsroom is still in disarray after the paper’s refusal to endorse a 2024 presidential candidate — or, perhaps more accurately, the paper’s refusal to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race — prompted a number of high profile exits. On Wednesday, in reaction to those exits and other concerns, some 400 employees signed a letter to the outlet’s billionaire owner Jeff Bezos, The New York Times reported. In the letter, they called on Bezos to meet with them to discuss recent leadership decisions that they claimed had “led readers to question the integrity of this institution.” The old mission statement — “Democracy dies in darkness” — was adopted as Trump took office the first time, as the Times noted, and was meant to be a reminder of the outlet’s role in holding the government accountable. The new mission statement takes a broader approach — and suggests that the outlet intends to prioritize reaching all Americans: “Riveting Storytelling for All of America.” Whether or not the new mission statement will stem some of the outlet’s internal chaos remains to be seen — but critics are already predicting that little is likely to change. CELEBRATE #47 WITH 47% OFF DAILYWIRE+ MEMBERSHIPS + A FREE $20 GIFT “The actual statement is even funnier. To be honest, WP’s stories are better than many airport paperbacks. Russia collusion coup attempts, unsubstantiated rape smears against political opponents, COVID being from a wet market, etc,” The Federalist’s Mollie Hemingway posted. The actual statement is even funnier. To be honest, WP’s stories are better than many airport paperbacks. Russia collusion coup attempts, unsubstantiated rape smears against political opponents, COVID being from a wet market, etc. https://t.co/VedhvAosf2 — Mollie (@MZHemingway) January 16, 2025 “Quick don’t look is this the statement for Disney Plus, Max, or The Washington Post,” Tim Miller posted. Quick don't look is this the statement for Disney Plus, Max, or The Washington Post https://t.co/PNYeFERs0h — Tim Miller (@Timodc) January 16, 2025 The Daily Wire’s Ashe Short added, “lol democracy died in darkness the past 4 years. Now it’s about ‘storytelling.’ What ‘stories’ will be told? Same ones over the past decades that paint one narrative to the detriment of the truth?” lol democracy died in darkness the past 4 years. Now it’s about “storytelling.” What “stories” will be told? Same ones over the past decades that paint one narrative to the detriment of the truth? https://t.co/iVqPDYz8LL — Ashe Short (@AsheSchow) January 16, 2025 “The last one ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’ … died after the @washingtonpost conspired and covered up the mental incapacity of the ‘Commander -In -Chief,'” Chris LaCivita said. The last one “Democracy Dies in Darkness” ..died after the @washingtonpost conspired and covered up the mental incapacity of the “Commander -In -Chief” https://t.co/s2xSqzukmN — Chris LaCivita (@ChrisLaCivita) January 16, 2025  

Bob Uecker, who played major-league baseball for six years for the Milwaukee Braves, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, and Atlanta Braves before starting a legendary career as the Milwaukee Brewers’ broadcaster for a whopping 54 years, died on Thursday at the age of 90. Uecker’s career was anything but legendary; he finished his career with a lowly .200 batting average and only 14 home runs with 731 at-bats. “To make people laugh is a good thing. I used to get questions from my kids about, ‘Why do you do that? Why do you talk about yourself the way you do?’ I said, ‘Because it’s funny and it makes people laugh,” Uecker said. “Could he hit?” the legendary slugger Hank Aaron quipped. “I’m just glad I didn’t take his advice. (Hall of Fame pitcher Warren) Spahn, (Hall of Fame third-baseman Eddie) Mathews, myself, we would talk about hitting and everybody would tell, ‘Bob, this conversation you’re out of.” “I roomed with him in St. Louis,” former Cardinals star catcher and later famed broadcaster Tim McCarver recalled. “And from day one he was screamingly funny.” “If the ball club was going bad he could say something that could make everybody laugh, relax,” Aaron remembered. Uecker would joke about signing with his hometown Milwaukee Braves for $3,000 in 1956, “That bothered my dad at the time because he didn’t have that kind of dough. But he eventually scraped it up.” CELEBRATE #47 WITH 47% OFF DAILYWIRE+ MEMBERSHIPS + A FREE $20 GIFT “He’s very funny on the air. But he’s an exceptionally good broadcaster,” Bob Costas declared. “You really feel the game through him.” “I think where he really shines is when the game is 11 to 2, and it’s the sixth inning, because then you have to go to plan B, and he starts telling stories,” Pat Hughes, his broadcast partner from 1984-1995, said. “That aspect differentiates him maybe, from any other play-by-play man that’s ever lived.” “Bob is a comedic genius. And no one would have seen it had he not gone on Johnny Carson and done what he did,” McCarver asserted. Carson laughed so often at Uecker’s jokes that he had Uecker on frequently, more than 100 times, and called him “Mr. Baseball.” Uecker’s frequent appearances on “The Tonight Show” led to TV and movie roles. But in the end, it was baseball for which he was famous. Milwaukee adored Uecker. McCarver noted, “When a man has two statues of himself, one outside the stadium and one inside the stadium, that gives you an idea of just how much Bob Uecker has meant to the city of Milwaukee.” Our statement on the passing of Bob Uecker: pic.twitter.com/OGbzM8QL11 — Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) January 16, 2025