September 24, 2026 Blind Item #17 - Beach City The state A++ lister has hated this beach city since COVID. It’s been a pet project of his to try and undermine it using targeted legal tactics and huge fines, all in an attempt to change its voting demographics. The city pays these fines then offsets them with earnings from its very popular seaside events. So it would not be above the A++ lister to have certain non-native but protected sea life dropped off on the beach, right as they are about to have one of their biggest festivals and right as the city is about to get hit with another round of litigation for defying him, in an effort to have it closed. Fat chance.

3rd time I've made this so good! Thanks @ChefGruel

The cinnamon in your cabinet is almost certainly cassia, which is a different plant. Real cinnamon, the kind sold as Ceylon or true cinnamon, comes from Cinnamomum verum and it's grown mostly in Sri Lanka. Nearly everything sold in America as cinnamon is cassia, one of 3 related species grown in Indonesia, China and Vietnam. FDA does not require the label to tell you which one is in the jar, so most of the time it just says cinnamon. You can tell them apart by looking at a stick. Cassia is one thick hard curl of bark that you could hit someone with. Ceylon is thin and layered like a cigar and it crumbles when you press it. They don't taste the same. Cassia is hot and aggressive and it's what American baked goods are built around. Ceylon is lighter and more floral. A small jar of it costs 3 to 4 times as much per ounce as regular cinnamon, but buy it in a bag and it's about the same price. McCormick's regular cinnamon is harvested in Indonesia, which makes it cassia. Their gourmet jar is Saigon cinnamon from Vietnam, and that's cassia too.

LATEST: LAX’s long-delayed People Mover has been pushed back again — now expected to open January 2027 at the earliest. It was originally supposed to open in 2023. The project is now more than $1 BILLION over budget.

the dead giveaway for the Hoston jury story is that it mapped perfectly on the plot of 12 Angry Men. Down to the questions she claimed she asked as she sequentially picked off each juror.

Timely thefederalist.com/2026/09/23…

NEW: A flea-borne typhus outbreak is under investigation in L.A.’s Wilshire Center after 7 people got sick and 6 were hospitalized. The disease, historically associated with earlier eras of poor sanitation, is re-emerging in L.A. County. Health officials say fleas are the key exposure.

🚨 LA has 50,000 street vendors. Only 687 have permits! Small businesses pay tax, rent and insurance, while vendors camp out and STEAL their customers. Sacramento Democrats legalized this madness in 2018. I’ll BAN it. ENOUGH of the unfair competition!

California’s Democratic nominee for governor, Xavier Becerra, as head of HHS, once led the department responsible for a child-migrant facility costing $92,608 per cot — and it may have sent kids to trafficking rings. The facility cost taxpayers $782 million. Roughly 8,450 unaccompanied migrant children passed through in under a year. Its job was to care for kids and place them with safe “sponsors” (family members or other relatives). According to interviews obtained by Pirate Wires, the facility prioritized speed over safety. A case manager said sponsors submitted obviously fake IDs, and ID checks were “routinely ignored.” Another worker allegedly raised alarm bells about ~200 migrant kids who’d gone to a single location; when this worker contacted a child trafficking hotline, they were promptly fired. A separate investigation by Chuck Grassley found that HHS, under Becerra’s watch, sent kids home with sponsors tied to MS-13. And a 2023 New York Times investigation found that some kids were released to trafficking rings, where they ended up cleaning slaughterhouses, suffering chemical burns, or performing hard labor prohibited for minors (in some cases, children died). Becerra is leading in the polls. He brands himself the “safe choice” given his 30-plus years in government… and claims to “protect” “marginalized communities.” …But his record tells a very different story. Our full investigation, via @nicolewizman1 👇

What's your expert opinion on this rump roast I cooked today? All tips welcomed from others, too! @ChefGruel

The Clairemont pool was scheduled to be closed six months for repairs beginning in 2024 and reopening early 2025. More than two years later, the pool is still closed. Community members have been left without a place to swim, teams without a place to practice, and kids without a place to learn how to swim. According to city emails, much of the delay is due to an internal contracting and procurement issue. Public pressure has now forced the city to come up with a plan to reopen the pool sometime next year, but this is yet another example of public facilities being closed due to poor planning, budgeting, and management practices. Will anyone be held accountable for the delay?

I’m demanding answers from DHS and ICE about today's shooting in Austin. They must preserve every piece of evidence, release the body cam footage, suspend the agent, and brief Congress. ICE has lied before. We deserve the truth.