It was a surprise to many that Gov. Gavin Newsom didn’t show up at a photo op event commemorating the start of federal debris removal in the wake of the California wildfires. Maybe it shouldn’t have been, once news of the photo op — and photos of what was being done with the American flag — got out.
In a series of videos and photos, Joel Pollak, senior editor at large for Breitbart and a resident of Southern California, showed both the American flag and Californian flag flying from, as he noted, curiously clean construction equipment on freshly swept roadways.
Pollak said, he’d received word that Newsom was scheduled to be at the event in Pacific Palisades, his neighborhood, “to take credit for a federal fire relief operation that belongs to President Trump,” Breitbart News said in a post.
Joel Pollak, Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News, reported he had received intel that Gavin Newsom was staging a photo-op in his neighborhood in the Pacific Palisades to take credit for a federal fire relief operation that belongs to President Trump. pic.twitter.com/4wOq3EKqJC
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) February 11, 2025
Pollak went on to note that “residents still have questions about the state’s poor preparation” to fight the wildfires and why Newsom would be taking credit for what the federal government was doing.
However, as you may notice, both Old Glory and the California standard are hanging from the arms of the backhoes — which, as Pollak noted in another post, were spotless. […]
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Independent Journalism Is Dying
Ever since President Trump’s miraculous victory, we’ve heard an incessant drumbeat about how legacy media is dying. This is true. The people have awakened to the reality that they’re being lied to by the self-proclaimed “Arbiters of Truth” for the sake of political expediency, corporate self-protection, and globalist ambitions.
But even as independent journalism rises to fill the void left by legacy media, there is still a huge challenge. Those at the top of independent media like Joe Rogan, Dan Bongino, and Tucker Carlson are thriving and rightly so. They have earned their audience and the financial rewards that come from it. They’ve taken risks and worked hard to get to where they are.
For “the rest of us,” legacy media and their proxies are making it exceptionally difficult to survive, let alone thrive. They still have a stranglehold over the “fact checkers” who have a dramatic impact on readership and viewership. YouTube, Facebook, and Google still stifle us. The freer speech platforms like Rumble and 𝕏 can only reward so many of their popular content creators. For independent journalists on the outside looking in, our only recourse is to rely on affiliates and sponsors.
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Independent media is the future. In many ways, that future is already here. While the phrase, “the more the merrier,” does not apply to this business because there are still some bad actors in the independent media field, there are many great ones that do not get nearly enough attention. We hope to change that one content creator at a time.
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