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The FlashReport Main Page has been updated with all of the big stories in California...The FlashReport Blog is constantly updated with over 24 different correspondents penning items of interest to those who follow California politics and policy.

THE HEADLINES

• SDIM Podcast: Fleischman Riffs on This Week’s Winners & Losers in California Politics - the Prop. 50 Version
• Weekend Political Reading Recommendations!
• LAT $: Taking inspiration from Mamdani, democratic socialists look to expand their power in L.A.
• CalM: ‘We feel alone’: L.A. fire survivors call for California’s insurance commissioner to resign
• CalM: California lawmakers found money for these pet projects even as they slashed the budget
• LAT $: California city tried to stamp out 10-year-old’s beehive project. Saving the bees was a lesson in love
• SFC: California Democrats had a good election. They’re terrified about the next one
• CalM: Increasingly irrelevant, California’s Republican Party is even more isolated after Prop. 50
• LAT $: Opposition to single-payer healthcare separates Villaraigosa from others at candidate forum
• CalM: What veto drama and a Texas trip tell us about a potential shift in California’s homelessness strategy
• OCReg: Number of fentanyl deaths in Orange, LA counties sharply drops as law enforcement pushes against the crisis
• Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments
• OCReg: Debra Saunders: Trump’s biggest election loss happened in California
• OCReg: Greenhut: Mamdani’s win offers worst possible temptation for Democrats
• CG: Democrats No Longer Serve We the People – it’s all Political Theatre
• SacBee: Election roundup: Truckee voters back Measure G for new library, EDH picks Kinghorn
• Proposal to change decades-old city seal sparks passionate debate in South Lake Tahoe
• SFC: S.F. criminal court system confronts crisis amid lack of public defenders
• SFC: S.F. families stunned by decision to close private school owned by Chinese investors
• SJMN: Bay Area air travelers confront cancellations as federal shutdown drags on
• FresBee: Gavin Newsom pardons Fresno Pismo’s manager held by ICE more than 130 days
• LAT $: L.A. County stores must immediately stop selling kratom and 7-OH products, health department warns
• Riverside OKs $100,000 in emergency food aid as federal shutdown continues
• SDUT: Full CalFresh benefits for November are being restored, says San Diego County
• SDUT: San Diego County jails will test wearable health devices aimed at preventing in-custody deaths