Spencer Pratt received 108,193 votes (30.3%) in the June 2, 2026, Los Angeles mayoral primary, placing him second behind incumbent Karen Bass.  With 45% of votes reported as of late evening on Election Day, Pratt advanced to the November runoff alongside Bass, who led with 36.5% (130,429 votes).

Early returns showed a different dynamic, with Bass holding 38% and Pratt at 28% based on mail-in ballots processed before Election Day.  The shift in percentages reflects the counting of ballots cast on Election Day, which were expected to favor Pratt.

Outcome: No candidate secured the majority needed to win outright, triggering a top-two general election.

 Third Place: City Councilmember Nithya Raman finished third with 20.0% (71,470 votes).

 Context: Pratt, a Republican and reality TV star, challenged the Democratic establishment in a race heavily influenced by issues like homelessness and wildfire recovery.

 (No results for Gubenatorial election.)

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The Average Monthly Mortgage Payment Is Up 44 Percent To $2,005, But American Families Are Paying Even More For Health Insurance

   

U.S. households are being financially squeezed at a level that we have never seen before. I have often said that we are in a long-term cost of living crisis that never seems to end, and that is not an exaggeration at all. Just about everything has been getting more expensive in recent years, and as a result our standard of living has been going down. In many areas of the country, you now have to earn six figures just to live a basic middle class lifestyle. The numbers that I am going to share with you in this article may be hard to believe, but they are very real. Inflation has been out of control for many years, and hard working American families are being absolutely crushed.

 For the first time in U.S. history, the average monthly mortgage payment now exceeds $2,000…

  Today, what the average American family is paying for health insurance each month is even higher than the average monthly mortgage payment…

The numbers don’t lie. The average American family now pays over $2,200 a month for health insurance; surprisingly, that’s more than the average monthly mortgage payment of $2,000. Let that sink in. Keeping a roof over your head costs less than keeping your family covered.

 https://citizenwatchreport.com/the-average-monthly-mortgage-payment-is-up-44-percent-to-2005-but-american-families-are-paying-even-more-for-health-insurance/

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TIM POOL: IT JUST WENT NUCLEAR. ANTI-DHS RIOTS IN NEW JERSEY.

  

Man spends up to 300K to move his oceanfront home 150 feet back from the ocean

   A homeowner on North Carolina’s Outer Banks relocated their beachfront house farther inland to avoid it collapsing into the ocean, a fate that has already claimed several neighboring homes.

 https://x.com/i/status/2061884795169243451  Watch on X. Still not posting on 4UM.

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"The only effective solution against evil and violent people, are good people more skilled in violence." -- Bushido (Japanese Code)

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Bitcoin just looks broken at this point. Even Saylor is selling now. Bitcoin was 69k in 2021 before Saylor and ETFs bought $160 billion

 https://citizenwatchreport.com/crypto-positioning-stress-hits-as-leverage-and-sentiment-unwind-across-majors/

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 Chinese SPR oil reserves do not exist. The grain depots in an earlier era were sold. The politicians at the local level stole everything.

200 clans run China. From tonight's show on Lei's Real Talk.

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Iran Sends Missiles, Drones Targeting Airbases Across Gulf After US Nighttime Attack On Qeshm Island

War returning? Explosions, sirens reported in Kuwait, KSA, UAE & Bahrain...

 (Iran is doing "Love Pat for Love Pat' strikes. Bibi initially gave into Trump's demand he cool the genocide in Lebanon.

But Defnse Minister Katz demanded that Trump not be allowed to determine Israel's war policy. It seems that Iran was given 

one or two nuclear bombs from either North Korea or Pakistan. But that could not have been done without China's permission.

The next shoe to drop might be another strike by Israel in Lebanon or the US in the Gulf.  Iran's counter move might be to close

Bab al-Mandeb Strait and/or to send a few missiles and some drones into Israeli bases that support the effort in Lebanon. 

Either one will push oil prices higher. Diesel fuel in the US will break the economy if it goes above $6.50. Also, fuel and fertilizer 

prizes will kill at least 300 million people worldwide. )

 https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/hezbollah-idf-trade-fire-amid-nominal-ceasefire-trump-says-iran-deal-coming-over-next

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Bitcoin Battered, Black Gold Bid As Job Openings Battle Hormuz Closings

“Clients are tired...” (Bitcoin is dropping.)

 https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bitcoin-battered-black-gold-bid-job-openings-battle-hormuz-closings

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Cliffwater Private Credit Fund Gates Investors For Second Straight Quarter After Redemption Requests Soar To 17%

Cliffwater's private credit fund has again gated investors by capping redemptions at 5% in the second quarter after investors looked to pull more than three times that amount, or 17% of shares

 https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/cliffwater-private-credit-fund-gates-investors-second-straight-quarter-after-redemption

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 Whistleblower Leaks Stanford's Private Foreign-Funding Records, Exposing CCP-Linked Donors

Some of America's top universities have become soft targets for foreign espionage and influence operations, creating potential gateways for adversarial powers to access sensitive research, elite policy networks, and federally funded innovation pipelines.

 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/whistleblower-leaks-stanfords-private-foreign-funding-records-exposing-ccp-linked-donors

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"The Value Didn't Arrive": Bain Finds Cost-Savings From AI Are Falling Far Short Of Projections

“Companies that don’t validate their reinvestment math against what automation actually returned, rather than what it was supposed to return, are compounding risk rather than managing it.”

 https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/value-didnt-arrive-bain-finds-cost-savings-ai-are-falling-far-short-projections

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High-Dose Vitamin D Lowers Diabetes Risk In Some Peopleby Tyler Durden

 Authored by George Citroner via The Epoch Times,

A specific variation in the vitamin D receptor gene may determine whether high-dose supplementation lowers diabetes risk in prediabetic people.

Nearly 115 million Americans are on the road to diabetes. New research suggests an inexpensive, widely available supplement could slow that journey, but only for some of them.

A genetic quirk in roughly 70 percent of prediabetic adults may determine whether high-dose vitamin D can meaningfully lower their risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

The research builds on the D2d trial. More than 2,000 U.S. adults living with prediabetes were randomized to either take 4,000 units of vitamin D or a placebo for up to 3.5 years. Initially, the trial did not find any significant changes across the participants. The recommended daily allowance is 600 to 800 units for average adults.

However, when scientists analyzed participants' DNA, a more nuanced picture emerged: those carrying specific variations - known as AC or CC - in a gene called ApaI responded strongly to supplementation. Over the 3.5 years of the study, participants carrying the AC or CC variant had a 19 percent lower chance of developing diabetes. The roughly 30 percent with the AA variation saw no benefit at all.

"Diabetes has so many serious complications that develop slowly over years," study lead researcher Bess Dawson-Hughes said in a statement. "If we can delay the time a person spends living with diabetes, we can reduce some of those harmful side effects or lessen their severity."

The distinction matters because prediabetes - defined by higher-than-normal blood sugar that hasn't yet crossed into diabetes territory - affects more than two in five U.S. adults, and often progresses silently. Identifying who stands to benefit from vitamin D intervention could allow clinicians to target supplementation far more precisely than current blanket guidelines allow.

1 Gene Affects How Your Body Responds To Vitamin DVitamin D in the blood is converted into its active form in the body. Vitamin D receptors are highly prevalent and present in many cells throughout the body.

When vitamin D binds to cell receptors, it helps cells do what they are supposed to do. In pancreatic cells, vitamin D facilitates the release of insulin to regulate blood sugar.

People with the AC and CC variations were responsive to vitamin D and, therefore, derived more benefits from supplementation.

 https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/high-dose-vitamin-d-lowers-diabetes-risk-some-people

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US Bill Would Prevent Chinese Connected Cars In Canada From Entering United States

"Vehicles today can collect and transmit massive amounts of data - geolocation of drivers, mapping of critical infrastructure, full-motion video, and more..."

 (Chinese EV cars have good and bad points. I saw one that failed a crash test at 35 mph. Others are great.)

  https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-bill-would-prevent-chinese-connected-cars-canada-entering-united-states

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Dems Have A Voter Problem. Gerrymandering Was Never Going To Fix Itby Tyler Durden

 Authored by Ryan Young via RealClearPolitics,

In November 2024, 47% of Virginia voters cast ballots for Republican congressional candidates. Under the map Virginia Democrats tried to push through, those voters would have ended up with exactly one Republican district out of 11. Going from a 6-5 to a 10-1 split was what Democrats called "restoring fairness."

  To get it done, Democrats bypassed a bipartisan redistricting commission that Virginia voters had specifically created in 2020 to end partisan map-drawing. They drafted the new map behind closed doors. They passed a constitutional amendment on Oct. 31, 2025, even though early voting for the general election had been underway since Sept. 19 - violating the state constitution's requirement that an intervening election occur between the two legislative votes. They missed the requirement that amendments be posted publicly 90 days before a vote. And they put a ballot question before voters asking whether they wanted to "restore fairness" - language a circuit court judge called "flagrantly misleading."

Every step of this process required ignoring a rule or deceiving a voter.

That is not a party making a policy argument. That is a party that has decided winning at any cost is more important than following the rules.

 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dems-have-voter-problem-gerrymandering-was-never-going-fix-it

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