If California Governor Gavin Newsom or Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass look up the word 'nemesis' in the dictionary, they're likely to see a picture of journalist Christopher Rufo staring right back at them.
In just the past couple of months alone, here are some of the MASSIVE scandals plaguing California and LA under Newsom and Bass's 'leadership:
- More than $114 million wasted on a bridge for cougars and butterflies,
- Free sex changes (that don't actually change anyone's sex) for homeless illegal aliens,
- Nearly $500 million for a 911 emergency call system -- that didn't work and had to be scrapped, and
- Charging taxpayers $189 million for free iPads for state prisoners, many of whom used the devices to groom minors on the outside.
You may ask, 'Can it possibly get any worse?'
The answer, unsurprisingly, is, 'This is Newsom and Bass we're talking about. Of course, it can get worse.'
In his latest investigation for City Journal, Rufo and Kenneth Schrupp have found that Mayor Bass loves homeless, mentally ill, vagrant meth addicts so much, she's actually importing them from outside of the city, state, and often even the country.
Mayor Karen Bass has turned Los Angeles into a magnet for the street homeless. The numbers are shocking:
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) May 19, 2026
• 64% are from outside the City of LA
• 40% are from outside California
• 6% are from outside the United States pic.twitter.com/4HHsSQM2Xw
Rufo and Schrupp's investigation noted that this data used to be tracked by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority (LAHSA) and the RAND Corporation, but mysteriously (wink, wink), they started hiding the numbers in 2025, allegedly to 'save costs.'
Another reason might be that the massive migration of homeless people to Los Angeles violates progressive pieties—and these groups would rather suppress those data than face their implications ...
... If these groups wouldn’t publish or promote this information, we decided to get it ourselves. We spent two days recreating RAND’s 2024 study of L.A.’s homeless population, using a slightly larger sample size to ensure precision. We approached people on the streets of the same three neighborhoods—Hollywood, Venice, and Skid Row—and, after identifying ourselves, asked more than 200 homeless a simple question: 'Where are you from, originally?'The results were astounding: 64 percent of the L.A. street homeless said they were from outside the City of Los Angeles, and 53 percent said they were from outside Los Angeles County—a significant increase compared with the LAHSA and RAND studies. Nearly 40 percent told us they were from other states, mostly from states that voted for President Trump in 2024. Six percent told us that they were from other countries, including Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea.
If you extrapolate the numbers from Rufo's sample, this would mean that nearly 40,000 of LA County's homeless population are imported.
Los Angeles has become a magnet for the homeless all over the world. We replicated a RAND Corporation study and found that more than half of LA's street homeless are not from LA. Instead, they're coming from other parts of California, other states, and other countries. pic.twitter.com/W7UVDpCzI6
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@christopherrufo) May 19, 2026
Meanwhile, Los Angeles spends more than $1 billion on homeless services every year.
Are you furious and fed up yet, Angelenos?
Over HALF of LA’s homeless aren’t even from there. Venezuela? North Korea? Blue cities turn into magnets for global chaos while burying the data. Billions wasted with worsening results.
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) May 19, 2026
But remember, @spencerpratt isn't allowed to rebuild his burnt down house. https://t.co/gt21zrO4wH
It's not just the wasted money, either. Remember that not only do California and Los Angeles not require voter ID, but even asking for identification at polling places is prohibited. Mix in some old-fashioned ballot harvesting, and you have a pretty good recipe for how Bass plans to stay in power, despite her egregious failures.
This is the kind of voter fraud that Democrats insist isn't happening, yet Harmeet Dhillon just convicted a Los Angeles activist of (with an assist from undercover reporter James O'Keefe).
LA woman illegally paid homeless people to register to vote — including at her own address: Fedshttps://t.co/887k8poKoM pic.twitter.com/lq0cb5DfYs
— California Post (@californiapost) May 18, 2026
Are you furious and fed up NOW, Angelenos?
Schrupp spoke about the investigation yesterday, accurately describing the situation as the 'homeless industrial complex,' which only serves to enrich and empower politicians like Bass and her friends at the expense of locals (not to mention taxpayers across the country when federal assistance is factored in).
"It sounds crazy to say, but there is, there is a homeless industrial complex."@CityJournal reporter @kennethschrupp just wrote a piece where he found 64 percent of the LA street homeless were from outside LA.
— MTS (@MTSlive) May 19, 2026
"Why is this still happening? How does the city of LA benefit from… https://t.co/4zataZJCcc pic.twitter.com/zOdRlZ0OI0
And the fraud is built into the system, with blue cities like Los Angeles only requiring that homeless individuals prove they have been living there for less than a month.
And knowing LA, we can only imagine how 'thorough' that proof-of-residence scrutiny is.
When a homeless person applies for aid in a city or county, they need to establish that they've been a "resident" for 14-30 days. Then, they can get cash aid, food stamps and full scope medi cal. That process is called "immediately prior" but 30+1, you can be from anywhere. pic.twitter.com/BmFVp143cL
— T Wolf 🌁 (@Twolfrecovery) May 20, 2026
How about now? Furious and fed up?
"Incentives explain outcomes." -Elon Musk https://t.co/BqarCxwPrS
— Dean Cain (@RealDeanCain) May 19, 2026
Bingo.
Hey, Southern California has great weather, and the city will give you free money and free drugs (and even free choppers if Bass has her way). What foreign drug addict wouldn't want to live on the streets there, terrorizing mothers and their children?
Everyone knows this from cops to social workers but Democrats will insist they are all locals.
— AltAzn (@Alt_Azn) May 19, 2026
It’s because they want that sweet NGO money. https://t.co/6Fis4epVbW
Yet Lyin’ Karen Bass @MayorOfLA calls them all “Angelenos” and “UNHOUSED neighbors” so she can cook the data
— KarenBassProgressReport (@KBassProgReport) May 19, 2026
LA needs real, honest leadership to solve this crisis. The count is higher today than when Karen took office
She’s gotta go. https://t.co/a4b9dzI2Zv
No wonder Spencer Pratt is surging in the polls.
It appears that Angelenos may truly and finally be, in fact, furious and fed up.
On the Statue of Liberty in New York, the famous Emma Lazarus poem reads, 'Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.'
America has no similar statue on the West Coast, but if there were one in Karen Bass's Los Angeles and Gavin Newsom's California, the poem might read, 'Give me your meth heads, your loons, your fodder for our grift mill, yearning for free teeth.'
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