Comedian Whitney Cummings Mocks Los Angeles Fire Dept. for Focusing on Lesbian Diversity Hires (VIDEO)

Comedian Whitney Cummings mocked the Los Angeles Fire Department for their focus on hiring lesbians after she was forced to flee her home due to the out-of-control fires ravaging the city.

Eleven people have been killed and countless homes destroyed after several fires broke out in Los Angeles on Tuesday.

Cummings posted a video complaining about diversity hires on social media and wrote, “I love a lesbo but LA fire is run by THREE lesbians? Are you allowed to just only recruit people in your dating pool?”

I love a lesbo but LA fire is run by THREE lesbians? Are you allowed to just only recruit people in your dating pool? pic.twitter.com/ZA3ez92aUA

— Whitney Cummings (@WhitneyCummings) January 10, 2025

In the video, Cummings said, “I came across a video of the fire chief, a lesbian, love it, great. Failed at lesbians! Tried to be one, didn’t take. I don’t think I’m a lesbian I just live in Los Angeles, and the men are so effeminate that honestly at this point dating a woman is like the straightest thing you can do.”

“So anyway, about recruiting more lesbians into the LAFD to be firefighters. I think lesbians should be firefighters, fine. I’m not thinking about your genitals or your preferences when I need a hero, right?” Cummings asserted.

“But is that not like … why is that OK, that would be like a gay [saying], ‘We need more gay men in here!’ That’d be like me going, ‘We need more hot guys in here to be firefighters.’ That would be like a dude being like, ‘We just need more hot blondes. That’s what we need, and I will not stop until there are more people that I am attracted to or that are in my dating pool,'” she continued.

“Isn’t that essentially just recruiting people in your dating pool? To work in your office?” Cummings concluded. “Wait, all the people in charge of L.A.’s fire response are lesbians named Kristin? I do not recall voting on a prop that said we could recruit our fire team off of Grindr. What?!”

Cummings blasted the left for being pro-censorship on her podcast earlier this week.

“I always thought of myself as a pretty liberal person,” Cummings said, “But I don’t think the Left is as liberal as it used to be. It’s like the Left became the party of censorship.”

“It’s just wild to me that we are in a time where, if you are on the left and you don’t criticize your party, how much do you even care about your party? Do you know what I mean? It’s like what’s going on on the left – I had to say, like, I finally just broke,” she said.

Cummings also posted an emotional video on Tuesday while evacuating her home in Topanga.

“I am evacuating my home. It’s so hard to leave the podcast studio behind,” Cummings tearfully explained. “I know that sounds insane. I have everything, like my son’s birth certificate. But just to leave … all this.”

Celebrities including Anthony Hopkins, Billy Crystal, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, Adam Brody and Leighton Meester, Paris Hilton, Anna Faris, and Eugene Levy have lost their homes in the fires.

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Days before Trump takes office, Mayorkas issues sweeping immigration orders

DHS also issued a final rule to expand the H-1B visa program to allow U.S. employers to hire more foreign workers for “specialized” jobs.

With just days before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office, outgoing Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas issued a swath of immigration orders that appear to be designed to prevent illegal border crossers from being deported and open up more ways for foreign nationals to stay in the country.

DHS extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to citizens of El Salvador, Sudan, Ukraine and Venezuela.

El Salvador

El Salvador’s TPS was extended through Sept. 9, 2026, “due to environmental conditions in El Salvador.” TPS is granted to 232,000 current beneficiaries.

Under the Biden administration, 306,455 Salvadoran illegal border crossers were reported, including violent members of the MS-13 gang members who’ve been connected to a series of violent crimes committed against Americans, The Center Square reported.

Sudan

Sudan’s TPS was extended for 18 months “due to ongoing armed conflict and extraordinary and temporary conditions … continued political stability … human rights abuses” among other reasons. It applies to 1,900 current beneficiaries who are Sudanese citizens or “individuals without nationality who last resided in Sudan who have been continuously residing in the United States since at least August 16, 2023, with or without lawful immigration status.”

TPS was granted to Sudan after President Joe Biden continued to extend national emergency orders citing national security threats related to terrorism, threats posed by Afghanistan, Sudan, Syria, and other countries, foreign threats related to weapons of mass destruction, and Islamic threats that escalated under his administration, The Center Square reported.

Ukraine

Ukraine’s TPS was extended for 18 months “due to ongoing armed conflict and extraordinary and temporary conditions in Ukraine.” It applies to 103,700 current eligible beneficiaries.

This was after President Joe Biden sent another $63 million in assistance to Ukraine on Dec. 2 and after $3.4 billion was sent by the U.S. Treasury Department for budget aid through the 2024 Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act passed by Congress. The federal government has sent more than $30 billion to Ukraine since February 2022.

Venezuela

Venezuela’s TPS was extended for another 18 months with no end date “due to extraordinary and temporary conditions … severe humanitarian emergency … due to political and economic crises.” It applies to those who arrived in the U.S. by July 31, 2023. Those arriving after that date are ineligible.

TPS was granted for approximately 600,000 eligible current beneficiaries from Venezuela.

Under the Biden administration, a record more than 1 million Venezuelans illegally entered the country, including violent members of the prison gang Tren de Aragua. TdA members are now confirmed to be operating in at least 22 states, The Center Square first reported.

Visa programs and waivers expanded

DHS also issued a final rule to expand the H-1B visa program to allow U.S. employers to hire more foreign workers for “specialized” jobs.

The rule was issued after DHS last month added another nearly 65,000 H-2B visas through a different visa program for fiscal 2025 after already filling 66,000 H-2B visas.

The visas are used in the hospitality, tourism, landscaping, seafood processing and other industries. The most recent round allocates 20,000 visas to workers from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Haiti, Colombia, Ecuador or Costa Rica and 44,716 supplemental visas for returning workers who received an H-2B visa, or were otherwise granted H-2B status, during one of the last three fiscal years. The visa programs have been criticized for taking jobs away from American workers, tied to those who’ve committed crimes and been involved in forced labor conditions, according to multiple news reports.

DHS also expanded the visa waiver program to include citizens of Romania “to allow most citizens and nationals of Romania to apply to travel to the United States under the VWP for tourism or business purposes for up to 90 days without first obtaining a U.S. visa.” The authorization is generally valid for two years, however, some countries have waivers dating back to 1991.

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Whitmam County Commissioners issue moratorium on wind energy projects

“This is a huge step in the right direction, and we couldn’t have done it without all of your support,” a Facebook post read. “Thank you to everyone who has worked tirelessly to get us to this point.”

Members of a community group opposed to plans for a large wind farm project near Kamiak Butte in Whitman County are celebrating a decision this week by county commissioners to place a moratorium on new commercial wind turbines.

Commissioners cited the need to update regulations on wind energy projects.

Save the Palouse, a nonprofit organization formed in opposition to the project, posted news of the six-month moratorium on social media.

“This is a huge step in the right direction, and we couldn’t have done it without all of your support,” a Facebook post read. “Thank you to everyone who has worked tirelessly to get us to this point.”

As previously reported by The Center Square, the proposed Harvest Hills Wind Project could provide power to 90,000 homes for 25 to 30 years as part of the state’s goal of reaching 100% clean energy by 2045.

In a Thursday interview with The Center Square, Rick McNannay, president of Save the Palouse, detailed the group’s objections to the wind farm.

“One of the biggest issues we have is them saying there’s going to be this windfall of taxes coming in,” he explained. “That’s absolutely not the case. In the beginning, there is tax revenue, and then as the equipment gets older, that depletes, and citizens are expected to pick up the difference in those taxes because people become used to having that influx of money.”

McNannay said his group is also concerned about losing beautiful views across the county that draw people from all over the world.

“We’ve got a huge photography business going on in this area,” he said. “Every time you go around a corner and look out over the rolling hills, there’s somebody stopped taking a picture. There are photography groups that come from all over the world to take pictures here.”

The state trying to exert control is the biggest issue for McNannay.

“Olympia is telling our local government in Whitman County what is best for us here,” he said. “That doesn’t sit well with me.”

McNannay noted the recently approved Horse Heaven wind and solar project in the Tri-Cities, which moved forward despite community objections and an initial recommendation from the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council to scale back the project's size.

As reported by The Center Square, Gov. Jay Inslee then pressed EFSEC to approve the initial much larger project, which may ultimately include 222 turbines about 500 feet tall or 141 turbines about 670 feet tall. Plans also call for solar arrays and battery storage, stretching from Horse Heaven Hills just south of Kennewick for about 24 miles from Finley to Benton City in the Tri-Cities metropolitan area.

The project is likely to be delayed by a series of lawsuits.

“EFSEC isn’t even involved in our project at this point,” McNannay said, noting his organization has secured legal counsel, fearing the developer could go straight to the state to try and get the ball rolling despite the moratorium adopted this week by Whitman County Commissioners.

“We need to get control of our counties back to the county, and the more pushback each community gives the state,” he said. “Hopefully, they’ll step back and decide they need to start taking into consideration what the counties want.”

According to the project developer’s website, “The Harvest Hills wind project will provide low-cost, reliable energy and create economic growth for Whitman County. The project will bring 200 megawatts of clean energy and is designed to integrate within existing farms and ranches, adding resiliency to the Washington energy system.”

This project is under development by Steelhead Americas out of Portland, Ore., the North American development arm of Vestas, the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturer.

Despite the moratorium, developers are hosting a community meeting about the project on Tues, Feb. 4, at the Lewis Alumni Centre at Washington State University in Pullman.

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