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Hearing Karen Bass is furiously trying to get the reservoir filled for the election, reportedly screaming at LADWP staff “you’d better at least get the water to ankle height so it’s deep enough for me to drown you in it if Nithya gets a photo op in front of an empty reservoir” 👀

New Start, California: The Floriston Fire is moving at an extreme rate of spread, with spot fires already reported 1 mile out. The fire is burning in Nevada county, California, and westbound I-80 has been closed. A very large order has gone in for Tankers, helicopters, crews, engines, and dozers. Full response underway. Winds are in the teens, with an RH in the low 20s. This thing is moving.

Santa Ynez Reservoir is empty. The cover is already torn. So cut a hole in the damaged cover, fill the basin with six million gallons of standby firefighting water, and let the helicopters dip until a new cover can go on in the winter. That is not a study. That is a weekend of work and a pile of water sitting where the last fire had nothing. Little cost. Big benefit. DWP has a groupthink problem. I have been saying this for nearly two years. Do something. @LADWP @MayorOfLA @TraciParkforLA

If Karen Bass can't fill a reservoir, she can't fill the seat of Mayor. If Karen Bass can't clean up a warehouse in Boyle Heights, she can't clean up the city of LA. She's now running a rubber hose through 6 miles of flammable brush to prime the fire hydrants in the Palisades.

Thankfully…we got some rain. Fire season is FAR from over in #SoCal. This fire won’t do much, but should let everyone know that we need much more rain to end the season.

Just when you thought Gavin Newsom couldn't get any more scummy, he's now pushing a new bill, SB1153 to protect more utility companies from wildfire liability, this time exempting water districts from having any responsibility to maintain a water supply for firefighting. The fact that they are pushing this is a tacit admission that the LADWP is absolutely liable in the Palisades Fire case, otherwise they wouldn't need this. Remember, LADWP infamously drained BOTH of our reservoirs in the Palisades right before the fire, leaving us bone dry and defenseless. The Santa Ynez Reservoir was specifically designed for firefighting purposes, which is why its 117 million gallons, and has a dedicated helispot for fire copters. Spokespeople lie about this fact, and use climate change, yet again, as their get out of jail free card, saying that fire hydrants aren't meant for "climate-driven wildfires". You can't hate these people enough. yahoo.com/news/us/articles/c…

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“PG&E is just choosing to hold us hostage in order to get legal changes that will exempt itself from liability for its own negligence. So we need to just say no to PG&E." former CA Public Utilities Commission President Loretta Lynch #BailoutBlackmail consumerwatchdog.org/energy/…

Amid wildfire liability fight at the state capitol, California's three major power companies largely did their bidding behind closed doors. We asked PG&E, Southern California Edison and SDGE for interviews for California Politics 360. One declined, the others didn't respond.

PG&E appears to be engaged in a ‘capital strike,’ where it withholds paid-for-services in exchange for a political result #BailoutBlackmail consumerwatchdog.org/energy/…

PG&E is retaliating against the Legislature for holding them liable for causing fires. They promised Wall Street analyst to cut California programs to increase profits to shareholders if we didn’t sign their bill. Now they’re delivering. sfchronicle.com/california/a…

“The legislature should not respond to blackmail by PG&E. This is not the first time the company has engaged in a ‘capital strike,’ which it tried during the electricity crisis at the turn of the century” @RaisingHellNow #BailoutBlackmail consumerwatchdog.org/energy/…

OCFA remains actively engaged in fighting the #GibbyFire and is in unified command with CAL FIRE, the U.S. Forest Service, CHP, OCSD, and OC Parks. Firefighters continue working from the ground and air. Please continue to avoid the area.

.@JamesGallagher, who represents the city of wildfire-ravaged Paradise, releases a video calling out @GavinNewsom's disastrous record on wildfire and utility reform. "Apparently everyone is responsible for California's problems, except the people who have been running the state." Here's some hard truths per Gallager: -Ironically, the last time Newsom did utility reform, all of those folks-the hedge funds, the insurance companies, the trial lawyers-they all got paid. -The wildfire victims? Well, they got devalued stock and broken promises. Then, to make matters worse, my burned-out constituents faced skyrocketing electricity rates from the very same utility who burned down their town (PG&E @PGE4Me). -Rate increase after rate increase was approved by Governor Newsom's appointees, and that utility (PG&E) profited billions, while they, the victims, paid the price. -The energy policy of California is a total disaster. We pay the highest rates in the nation, and we still have old infrastructure that is sparking wildfires. -Insurance costs are soaring. People are losing their insurance, and they would soar even more under the governor's last-minute proposal. Good thing the legislature actually finally told him no. Solutions? - We should be putting more money into modernizing our energy infrastructure, diversifying our energy portfolio instead of mandating green new deal policies. -Let's get away from the big utility model. Let's bring our power more local to make it more affordable. Let's increase competition. Let's invest in clean hydropower, solar with storage, geothermal, and nuclear power. -We need to remove the buildup of dead and dying trees, brush, and undergrowth that have made our public lands a giant tinderbox waiting for a spark. "Governor Newsom, stop pointing fingers. After eight years, California's problems aren't somebody else's legacy. They're yours." piped.video/8cZs5IohvQg?si=epTM… via @YouTube

SoCal Edison burned down my community and hasn’t spent a dime reinvesting in Altadena. This proposal didn’t do anything to change that. This proposal only rearranges the chairs on the deck of the Titanic when all Californians are desperate for meaningful utility reform.

Watchdog Calls On CA Utility Commission For Order To Show Cause Why PG&E Isn’t Spending $2 Billion It Was Authorized To Spend On Ratepayer Improvements consumerwatchdog.org/energy/… via @consumerwd

.@PGE4Me delaying infrastructure upgrades after wildfire deal collapsed in Sacramento, @NoahBaustin reports: subscriber.politicopro.com/a…

🔥🔥🔥CALIFORNIA WILDFIRE CORRUPTION DEJA VU: Right for whom? That's the question. The utilities that cause the deadliest and most devastating fires in California and then raise rates on consumers to pay for them while making record profits are THE PROBLEM. California has the 2nd highest utility rates in the country, next to Hawaii, which also had a major fire caused by a utility and then saw utility bills go up to pay for it. 😡 And the Newsom-appointed public-utility commission, which is supposed to provide oversight, has done nothing to ensure these utilities don't kill again. And indeed they continue to do so -- just last year when an old SoCal Edison transmitter killed 19 in the Alta Dena fire. Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom and his wife have taken at least a combined $700,000 in campaign donations and $$$ for her gender-justice nonprofit from PG&E, which caused the deadliest wildfire in state history and was found guilty of manslaughter for killing 84 people in the Paradise fire because of neglected maintenance on its equipment. 👉We have a whole chapter dedicated to this in our book, 💰Fool's Gold: The Radicals, Traitors and Con-Artists Who Killed the California Dream and Now Threaten Us All💰. The Newsoms are so close to PG&E that Jennifer Siebel Newsom screened one of her indoctrinating "gender-justice" films in the atrium of its corporate skyscraper headquarters in downtown San Francisco and listed the company as an associate producer of two of her films. Under pressure in 2019 after the Paradise fire, the Newsoms swore off taking money from PG&E -- but the utility still donated $300,000 to get Newsom's signature care-courts homelessness ballot initiative over the finish line (it barely passed in early 2025 -- and provides $6 billion more for homelessness after the state spent $24 billion with little to show for it and no accounting of how the money was spent). This is a follow-the-money issue -- plain and simple.

California's powerful electricity companies prevailed at the state capitol today as lawmakers scrapped a wildfire liability plan that left out their #1 wish. How much of a role did the stock market play in what just happened?