Or even those Californians, such as many in San Francisco and Los Angeles, who are just fed up with the perception that California is soft on criminals.
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Anita Chabria,
Los Angeles Times,
31 May 2025
The Forgotten Gender Nonconformists of the Old West Livia Gershon
April 27, 2018
In the Old West, cross-dressing was sometimes a disguise for criminals on the lam.
No decent person, let alone a political movement downstream of the biblical, Judeo-Christian tradition, as American conservatism necessarily is, should lift a finger to welcome such a wretched reprobate to our shores or shield him from justice.
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Newsweek,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
Imagine Millennial filmmakers asserting a new neorealism to examine the intimate, fraternal, and familial relations of those infamous Martin, Brown, and Floyd reprobates.
New threats emerge, including a ruthless new villain (Bill Skarsgård) and a blind assassin from Wick’s past, played by Donnie Yen in a standout performance.
—
Emily Blackwood,
People.com,
6 June 2025
Nicholas Hoult plays the film’s villain, the megalomaniac super-genius Lex Luthor.
Xavier Crump, 28, of Oakland, was charged with forcible oral copulation, second-degree robbery, criminal threats and being a felon in possession of a firearm, court records show.
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Nate Gartrell,
Mercury News,
28 May 2025
Carroll was charged with one count each of unlawful possession of a weapon by a repeat felony offender, a class X felony, and unlawful possession of a weapon by a felon, a class 2 felony.
In the early days of the Trump Administration, Kirk’s case was pursued in a rhetorical climate of law and order in which wrongdoers would be held accountable.
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Mike Fox,
Oc Register,
12 May 2025
Harmonies abound as Elliott and Aaliyah take turns bemoaning the wrongdoer, culminating in a double-time shakedown from Da Brat.
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