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CALIFORNIA SUCH AN EVIL PLACE…
LOS ANGELES — A star-studded benefit concert featuring everyone from Billie Eilish to Lady Gaga raised about $100 million for victims of the LA wildfires in January — but struggling locals say they have yet to see a dime from it eight months later.
The massive, much-ballyhooed FireAid event — which drew heavy-hitter supporters such as former Veep Kamala Harris and her hubby, Doug Emhoff — has doled out the dough to 197 charities, many of which are focused on a variety of niche, woke and DEI causes not directly related to helping fire victims.
One charity is focused on buying uniforms for kiddie choir singers ($100,000) and another offers pet health care ($250,000).
Organizers — who have been accused of being tone-deaf — said in their defense that they never claimed FireAid Inc. funds would go directly to helping victims.
An audit released Monday by the Annenberg Foundation, which is managing the funds, showed how the money so far has been spent — and the causes that are being funded are all over the map.
The beneficiaries ranged from the Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation ($100,000) to a group making podcasts about the wildfires ($100,000), to the local YMCA ($250,000).
Several grants went to nonprofits that focus on political advocacy for minority groups, including the NAACP Pasadena ($100,000), the Los Angeles Black Worker Center ($250,000), My Tribe Rise ($200,000), and the CA Native Vote Project ($100,000), which conducts voter registration drives for Native Americans across the state.
One group got $500,000 to seed burned forests with restorative fungi and bacteria. Another half-million-dollar grant went to a group that provides mental health care for musicians.
Missing from the list were the names of people with burned-down houses.
“There are a lot of people in our group chats who are like, ‘What’s the FireAid money being used for?’ Because I don’t think any of us have seen any of it,” said Ben Einbinder, who has become a community organizer since losing his home in the Palisades.
Some 10,000-plus SoCal residents lost their homes in one of the costliest natural disasters in state history, and many are furious over where the FireAid money has gone.
“It’s just a s—tshow, to be quite honest,’’ said Pacific Palisades resident David Howard, whose house burned down.
“And it’s disheartening because people are suffering enough.”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/10/us-news/fire-victims-baffled-at-how-100m-in-charity-concert-money-was-spent-its-a-s-tshow/
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🚨BREAKING: Newly released emails show Fauci directed colleagues to “delete this after you read it”—dating back to Feb. 2020.
He denied it under oath. These documents are now public, and Fauci will finally testify before Chairman Rand Paul.
9:16 AM · Sep 10, 2025
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https://x.com/SenRandPaul/status/1965766261918630136