Company Admits Poll Showing Bass Leading Raman Was Fake

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Somebody made up a poll. And a sitting mayor fell for it. Median Strategies, the outfit behind a survey claiming Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass held a nearly 12-point lead over City Councilmember Nithya Raman, came clean this week: it was all fiction. The company announced Monday it’s shutting down its “polling project” entirely, scrubbing every release it ever published. Don’t cite them, don’t trust them — they said so themselves. The confession, buried on the company’s own website, reads less like a correction and more like a confession from a science experiment gone rogue. Median Strategies says it built

Poll: The ‘S’ Word Doesn’t Scare Democrats Anymore

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Democrats used to argue about how much government. Now they’re arguing about whether capitalism itself deserves a seat at the table — and capitalism is losing. A new CBS News/YouGov poll, taken August 12–14 among 2,287 U.S. adults, finds that 58% of Democrats hold a favorable view of socialism, while just 32% feel that way about capitalism. Only 18% of Democrats view socialism negatively; half view capitalism that way. Call it a 26-point swing toward the left’s oldest dream, and it’s not a blip. It’s part of a trend that’s been building since 2016. Break it down further and the

FBI Data Shows Steepest Crime Decline on Record

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Donald Trump is headed to Long Island Friday to make a case midterm voters can feel in their own neighborhoods: the country is getting safer, and he wants credit for it. New FBI figures, confirmed to the White House ahead of Friday’s official release, show the steepest one-year drop in violent crime the bureau has ever recorded. The murder rate fell 18.1 percent from a year earlier. Robbery was down 18.5 percent, rape 7.6 percent, aggravated assault 7.2 percent. Property crime told the same story — motor vehicle theft down 22.7 percent, burglary down 15.8 percent. The FBI’s full 2025

The Hate-Watchers Who Got Caught Paying the Haters

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For years, the Southern Poverty Law Center told America who the extremists were. Now federal prosecutors say the SPLC was paying some of them. Heidi Beirich, once one of the group’s most senior officials, was arrested Wednesday. Prosecutors say she helped run a scheme that funneled donor money — millions of dollars, raised to fight hate — into the pockets of the very people spreading it. Beirich, 59, of Palm Springs, faces charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to submit false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealed money laundering. The SPLC is charged

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