{"id":2573921,"date":"2026-02-26T11:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/weirdly-a-city-full-of-insane-actual-communists-is-experiencing-a-financial-crisis\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T11:29:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:29:39","slug":"weirdly-a-city-full-of-insane-actual-communists-is-experiencing-a-financial-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/weirdly-a-city-full-of-insane-actual-communists-is-experiencing-a-financial-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"A City Full Of Insane Communists Is Experiencing A Financial Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fweirdly-a-city-full-of-insane-actual-communists-is-experiencing-a-financial-crisis%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2573921&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An opinion piece recounts a night in downtown Los Angeles after President Trump\u2019s state of the Union, during which the author notes FBI raids at the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) headquarters and the superintendent\u2019s home, while offering theories about the examination. It argues that LAUSD has been in a steep financial and enrollment decline\u2014dropping from about 650,000 students to under 400,000 in a decade\u2014and contends district leaders blame ICE raids and national politics for the losses, claims the downturn began during the Biden years.The article describes a budget crisis marked by thousands of layoff notices and the district\u2019s large borrowings to settle decades of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/proposed-bill-would-give-n-y-gov-power-to-detain-citizens-deemed-a-public-health-hazard\/\" title=\"Proposed bill would give N.Y. Gov. power to detain citizens deemed a \u2018public health hazard\u2019\">sexual misconduct claims<\/a>, while noting the board\u2019s focus on climate initiatives, including a climate Resilience Committee and a high-paid Eco-Sustainability Office. It also depicts visible urban hardship around school facilities and Skid Row, using these scenes to criticize Democratic governance in blue states and cities as failing, and concludes by citing Chris Bray, a former Army sergeant and UCLA PhD who writes on substack.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The night after President Donald Trump&rsquo;s tough and confrontational State of the Union Address, I drove over to Downtown Los Angeles and spent several hours walking laps around an office building. The FBI was supposed to be inside, <a href=\"https:\/\/laist.com\/news\/education\/fbi-raid-lausd-superintendent-alberto-carvalho\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">serving search warrants<\/a> on the office of Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, while other agents searched his home. No one has said yet what the FBI is investigating, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2026-02-25\/fbi-raid-lausd-search-warrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">there are theories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The LAUSD has been nosediving like a broken airplane. Ten years ago, the district had almost 650,000 students. Today, enrollment has fallen below 400,000. In one decade, a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >major urban school district lost<\/a> a quarter of a million students. With sociopathic shamelessness, district leaders <a href=\"https:\/\/lapublicpress.org\/2026\/01\/la-school-enrollment-ice-immigrant-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blame ICE raids<\/a> &mdash; you knew that was coming &mdash; and Donald Trump, the shiny orange object that blue states and cities always use to mask their failures. But the decline was already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laschoolreport.com\/enrollment-continues-to-decline-in-lausd-a-trend-many-large-public-school-districts-are-also-experiencing\/#:~:text=Here%20are%20some%20enrollment%20numbers%20for%20LAUSD:,a%20plan%20that%20may%20help%20boost%20enrollment.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">well underway during the Biden years<\/a>, obviously preceding the return to the enforcement of immigration laws.<\/p>\n<p>Shedding hundreds of thousand of students, the LAUSD has plummeted into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/news\/lausd-layoffs-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">financial crisis<\/a>, recently sending out thousands of layoff notices. Aggressive budget cuts land precisely as the district struggles to finance the settlement of a long series of sexual misconduct claims.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>The Los Angeles Unified School District is borrowing $250 million to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-democrat-congressman-alcee-hastings-dies-at-84\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Democrat Congressman Alcee Hastings Dies At 84\">settle sexual misconduct claims<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are wondering if this is in addition to the $500 million that the Los Angeles Unified School District borrowed less than a year ago to settle sexual misconduct claims,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tzJNCzKfQw\">pic.twitter.com\/tzJNCzKfQw<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheKevinDalton\/status\/2026361636873974171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>All of these problems have to be solved in the face of a daily flood of radical politics. Remember the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/teachers-union-demands-far-left-policies-returning-classrooms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">list of demands<\/a> the United Teachers of Los Angeles submitted to the district when the school board proposed to return to in-person learning during the pandemic. They weren&rsquo;t coming back to the classroom, teachers said, until America defunded the police, imposed punitive taxes on the rich, implemented Medicare for all, gave free homes to all of the homeless, and eliminated all forms of standardized testing. Weirdly, an institution full of hallucinatorily insane actual communists is experiencing a financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p>While federal agents searched district headquarters and school staff contemplated their layoff notices, members of the school board were inside the building, working on the crisis. Sorry, I&rsquo;m not being clear: They were working on the <em>climate<\/em> crisis. The LAUSD&rsquo;s &ldquo;Climate Resilience Committee&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/lausdca.new.swagit.com\/videos\/376382\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">met on Wednesday afternoon<\/a>, hashing out agenda items like &ldquo;climate literacy&rdquo; and &ldquo;green schoolyards.&rdquo; The meeting was staffed by the district <a href=\"https:\/\/eso.lausd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eco-Sustainability Office<\/a>, led by Chief Eco-Sustainability Officer Christos Chrysiliou. On a base salary <a href=\"https:\/\/transparentcalifornia.com\/salaries\/search\/?q=Christos%20Chrysiliou\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">last reported a couple years ago<\/a> at $221,894, his total pay and benefits hit $286,394 in 2024. On a positive note, apparently he&rsquo;s the guy who&rsquo;s finally going to stop the climate from changing, so maybe drop him a thank you note.<\/p>\n<p>Walking around LAUSD headquarters on Wednesday, I never found the FBI. And I never found Carvalho, who wouldn&rsquo;t have answered my questions anyway. But I passed the school campus that sits just up the street, and I passed the decrepit RVs that people live in next to the campus. And I stepped through the piles of garbage that the residents of the RVs throw onto the sidewalks. Signs on a school fence warned that the RVs were parked in a &ldquo;SAFE SCHOOL ZONE&rdquo; where there would be special penalties for breaking the law. I watched a shirtless dude with an <em>interesting<\/em> amount of fidgety energy spraypaint a wall near one of the signs, possibly signaling that he wasn&rsquo;t concerned about the warning. The great thing about Los Angeles is that the contradictions are never so subtle that it takes a lot of energy to find them.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>This pile of garbage from homeless people and drug addicts sits outside the back end of the <a href=\"https:\/\/contreraslc.lausd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Miguel Contreras Learning Complex<\/a>, by the way, where students can attend several different specialized high schools, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/contrerassocjushs.lausd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">School of Social Justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Driving home, I passed through Skid Row, where hundreds of dogs live in tents with drug addicts. A particularly aggressive animal rescuer named Joey Tuccio &mdash; an activist solving problems local government won&rsquo;t bother with &mdash; recently found eleven dogs on Skid Row trying to chew their way out of their cages, because they had no food or water. The homeless woman caging the dogs threatened to stab anyone who tried to let them out.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This dogs are dying in their cages with no water. They are trying to chew their way out. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MayorOfLA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MayorOfLA<\/a> says this is not neglect. Call (323) 307-7401 and demand they are removed NOW. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MjA3qZqkSm\">pic.twitter.com\/MjA3qZqkSm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; JoeyTuccio (@joey_tuccio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joey_tuccio\/status\/2025655497886679309?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Blue states, and blue cities, have gone floridly and relentlessly insane. Blue institutions can&rsquo;t do anything useful, and don&rsquo;t try to do anything useful. There is no problem they can solve. Blue state leaders have meetings about demanding that the climate not be allowed to change anymore, surrounded by homeless people dying of drug overdoses in piles of garbage. (Their dogs <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/joey_tuccio\/status\/2025994337096736910\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">also overdose<\/a>, by the way, because they&rsquo;re surrounded by drugs.) Places run by Democrats aren&rsquo;t going to change course. They don&rsquo;t know how. They&rsquo;re lost.<\/p>\n<p>Even if the Trump administration doesn&rsquo;t choose to intervene to address a serious list of the problems blue cities have brought on themselves &mdash; and remember that <a href=\"https:\/\/admin.cdn.sos.ca.gov\/elections\/sov\/2024-general\/sov\/16-president.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">just under 1.2 million people voted for Trump<\/a> in 2024 in Los Angeles County &mdash; the madness and depravity of blue states and cities is a political liability that has to be tied around the necks of Democratic Party politicians. Everything in the blue cities is failing. It&rsquo;s a death cult. Noticing the widespread fraud, as Trump said on Tuesday night, is only a start. <em>Nothing<\/em> here works. Say so.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sca_esv=9e963a6684c14a11&amp;biw=1947&amp;bih=1099&amp;sxsrf=ANbL-n40-O4JwU_7NWZRS-ALDOwNZ0CVRQ:1772075960211&amp;q=hemorrhaging&amp;si=AL3DRZFDAVqZP1Zdos1X7Mt7QaPLJp_RJK8XsxsWeOnnUE6pqLBjR7v5zO0Okyub-8g-6bXL6-Xjy_lphPvsQ-1wfJ8Ps2HvBEiCLIYV15cJ_artWFRWqPcwK32ffGG5jFOluRF9uiR3K6CjVePssO0VOQKG8Ciydw%3D%3D&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwi0if6wmfaSAxUeIUQIHVY0Ab0QyNoBKAB6BAgpEAA&amp;ictx=1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Chris Bray is a former infantry sergeant in the U.S. Army, and has a history PhD from the University of California Los Angeles, not that it did him any good. He also posts on Substack, at &#8220;Tell Me How This Ends,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/chrisbray.substack.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post-SOTU, I walked downtown LA as FBI raided LAUSD HQ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":2573922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/homeless-stories.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,33651],"tags":[74647,9168,5894],"class_list":["post-2573921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","category-the-western-journal","tag-city-politics-2","tag-economy","tag-politics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/homeless-stories.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2573921"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2573925,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2573921\/revisions\/2573925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2573922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2573921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2573921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2573921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}