Spencer Pratt has announced that he is “teaming up” with Kenneth Bass, the brother of Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass (D).

Kenneth Bass and his wife, Cindy, joined a lawsuit last month filed by Palisades fire victims against the mayor that blamed the city for the deadly disaster in 2025. The couple claimed that their Malibu home was a “total burn down” and that they suffered smoke inhalation and emotional distress.

'I hope their Thanksgiving dinner isn’t too awks.'

The master complaint, filed last year, alleges “a series of cascading failures,” including that the city failed to maintain an adequate water supply. It further accuses the city of engaging “in a campaign of misinformation and misrepresentations” in an attempt to conceal its responsibility for the destruction.

The attorney representing Kenneth and Cindy Bass told the New York Post that their family connections to the mayor are “irrelevant,” adding, “As non-public citizens they are entitled to respectful privacy as they pursue their legal rights along with all represented victims.”

Bass’ office responded that there was “nothing new” about her brother joining the lawsuit.

“Thousands of people are plaintiffs in this action, which names 18 public and private-sector defendants,” a Bass spokesperson told The Hill.

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The Jan. 2025 Palisades Fire caused 12 deaths and destroyed thousands of structures.

The city and the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, which was also named as a defendant in the lawsuit, deny wrongdoing. The city attorney’s office stated that it “remains confident” that the city “is not liable for these disastrous wildfires.”

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On Sunday, Pratt announced that by filing a lawsuit against the city, he was effectively joining forces with Kenneth Bass.

“I am proud to be teaming up with Karen Bass’ brother in suing his sister for her reckless negligence that led to the destruction of our homes,” Pratt wrote in a social media post. “I hope their Thanksgiving dinner isn’t too awks. I know ours hasn’t been the same since last year…”

Pratt and his wife, Heidi Montag, filed a separate lawsuit against the LADWP last year after their home was destroyed in the fire. Their complaint similarly alleges that the city failed to maintain an adequate water supply.

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After years of accusations and abuse, those who have warned about previously concealed biolabs performing potentially dangerous work have seemingly been vindicated.

On Friday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard broke "new ground" with the release of new information regarding the existence and United States' funding of "more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine."

These four labs alone ... cost the American taxpayer over $9.25 million.

Blaze News previously reported that Gabbard has been calling for the investigation and increased oversight of the alleged foreign labs for at least four years, during which time she has been called a traitor for "parroting false Russian propaganda" by failed presidential candidate Mitt Romney, for example.

Now in a position to take action on this issue, Gabbard has begun the release of never-before-seen evidence of United States-funded biolabs, many of which are in Ukraine and which she said "could be at risk of compromise due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war."

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"Many of these U.S. government-funded biolabs are currently or have previously engaged in research using hazardous and highly contagious pathogens and in some cases included dangerous gain-of-function research, with very little visibility or oversight," Gabbard said in the announcement.

Gabbard called out some of the biggest offenders in what she characterized as a "cover-up," adding that the administration is committed to uncovering the information about these labs that has, until now, been concealed.

"Despite the obvious potential for catastrophic global impact that research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have, politicians and so-called health professionals like Dr. Fauci as well as entities within the Biden administration's national security team lied repeatedly to the American people about the existence of U.S.-funded and supported biolabs," she said. "Not only did they lie, they threatened those who attempted to expose the truth."

This first release, found here, shows the location of "over 40 labs built and supported" in Ukraine, including a biosafety level 3-designated lab for human research and an "unknown" lab at the same level that is also marked as a location for biological weapons storage. Microbes at a lab with biosafety level 3 designation "can cause serious or potentially lethal disease through respiratory transmission," according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention training page.

The ODNI document notes that a biological weapons repository may contain dangerous pathogens, including but not limited to: "anthrax, tularemia, tuberculosis, swine fever, Newcastle disease, MERS, SARS, Marburg, Ebola, Lassa, the plague, rickettsia, etc."

Most importantly, perhaps, is the third page of the document released by ODNI, which shows four examples of biolabs built and funded by the U.S. government.

The examples — together with the total cost in U.S. dollars, including design and construction, lab equipment, and furniture — are listed as follows: Kherson Diagnostic Laboratory, Kherson Oblast Laboratory Center, $1,728,822; Institute of Veterinary Medicine of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences, $2,109,375.23; Central Reference Laboratory, Ukrainian Research Antiplague Institute, $3,492,551; Zakarpartska Diagnostic Laboratory, Zakarpartska Oblast Laboratory Center, $1,920,432.

These four labs alone, according to this information, cost the American taxpayer over $9.25 million.

The press announcement noted that this information release was published in cooperation with Executive Order 14292, signed by President Trump.

In this executive order, titled "Improving the Safety and Security of Biological Research," Trump ordered the ending of federally funded biological research in foreign countries that lack adequate oversight and in "countries of concern."

Gabbard has directed the intelligence community to learn more about these labs, and she claims they are already "learning new details ... on clinical trials that are under way at these facilities and that are raising significant ethical, financial, and security concerns regarding the supposed public health initiatives and U.S. national security."

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Japan managed to sneak out a tie against the Netherlands after falling behind twice in a World Cup match on Sunday, but it was the Japanese fans who went viral after the game.

Making the trip to watch their team at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, fans saw a late goal in the 89th minute earn Japan a 2-2 draw against its Dutch opponents. After the game, though, Japanese fans truly went to work.

'Return it the way you found it.'

Viral videos from all over the stadium quickly hit the internet, showing the Asian visitors whipping out blue garbage bags and methodically cleaning up their sections of the stadium.

The fans first used the bags as a way to celebrate their team, raising them in the air and letting them ripple like a wave until impressing the world by using the same bags to gather garbage later on.

"There's a Japanese culture ... which means we should be cleaner [than when] we came here," a fan told Singapore outlet CNA. "So this is our mindset and this is very obvious that we are to clean up the stadium and that will [showcase] our good Japanese culture."

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KDFW reported on comments from a Japanese teacher who further explained why the fans were all acting in unison.

"Japanese sports fans at world events who clean up the stadium are behaving much the same way they did when they learned how to enjoy sports as school boys and girls," said Koichi Nakano, a politics and history teacher at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan.

A popular Japanese phrase apparently embodies the idea: "Tatsu tori ato wo nigosazu," which reportedly means "return it the way you found it."

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Beloved NFL quarterback Jameis Winston was also among the Japanese crowd cleaning up the garbage. At 6'4", Winston stuck out like a sore thumb in the crowd of fans, but seeking no attention, he grabbed a blue bag and helped the Japanese supporters with their mission.

The New York Giants quarterback happened to be in that section of the stadium while reporting on the game for Fox Sports and decided to join in.

Japan's next game is Sunday at 12:00 a.m. ET against Tunisia, taking place at Estadio BBVA in Guadalupe, Mexico, where the Japanese fans will most likely show up their Tunisian counterparts.

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