At last night's city council meeting, anti-picnic activist Ara Najarian ended his 4th tenure as "mayor," and viewers had to listen to him and his colleagues fall all over themselves to talk about how great he is and how well they all worked together (when he wasn't fearmongering about LGBTQ+ inclusive books in schools , accusing queer community members of crimes , or suing the city for not letting him be mayor when he wanted ). Ardy Kassakhian will be the next "mayor." (At

Readers forwarded us an email that appeared to be sent out by former County Supervisor Mike Antonovich, but was actually written by Louis William Barnett, Concerned Republican of Glendale and a life-long high-level party operative. Warning of "Socialists" in Glendale, the text rambled on about bike lanes (a right wing proxy for "woke" ), electric rates and public pensions. The message endorsed an extremist slate before inviting the recipient to a gathering in Oakmont. Barnet

Glendale City Council candidate Carolyn Kaloostian has flown under the radar so far during this election season. A quick look through social media suggests that she is part of the Alex Balekian and Lisa Cusack Glendale MAGA contingent. Like Balekian, she seems to be suggesting that being a doctor makes you a good city council candidate. Ah yes, working for a massive private healthcare system is EXACTLY like running local government! Like known MAGA extremists Balekian and C

Candidates running for city council, school board, and city clerk determined to keep the city safe from bike lanes and queer people.

Former GUSD Board Member Armina Gharpetian (and wife of Extremist-endorser Vartan Gharpetian!) took to social media last week to call for School Board candidates in her former trustee area.

Early out of the gate with not one but TWO pieces of junk mail, we have City Council Candidate Evelina Poghosyan Sarian. Sarian's campaign Christmas greeting was sent in English and Armenian earlier this month. Notably, the Armenian message was rather heavy on the Christian and Armenian messaging. The more bland and neutral English version sounded like every politician of the last 5 years run through ChatGPT. See below: So who is this lady? Based on publicly available social

Glendale Extremist Network and why we exist.

Election season is slowly gearing up in Glendale, and that means the clown car of candidates is starting to fill up! From rooftop jams to glamour shots to anti-bike hysteria, we've got some real special people running for the three at-large seats on City Council this June.

New day, same old freaks continuously rebranding to try to force their weirdo views on everyone else, Glendale Community College Edition. Multiple-arrestee J. Emilio Martinez was filmed harassing an actual GCC student who told him to take his propaganda elsewhere. In the video, Emilio appeared to ask the GCC police for help because he was unable to handle the negative attention he was so desperately seeking that day. Always the victim, these snowflake fascists! (We're not pos

This weekend a joint effort of the LA County GOP and its supposedly younger sibling the LA county "Young" Republicans led a local canvassing effort to push for No votes on Prop 50. Reminder: Prop 50 is California's answer to Texas's corrupt n plan to re-district the state to create more Republican-led districts and tip the scales in Congress. (Texas didn't even put the issue to voters, they just redistricted). An assortment of elder millennials claim to have knocked 1000 door

Hey! We have a critical election coming u p November 4th. Haven't figured out whether to vote YES or NO on Prop 50? We think that highlighting some of the Prop 50 opponents will help you decide. A special shout-out to GUSD Parents [sic] Voices, who are helping their very confused followers by debunking their own envelope hole conspiracies and reminding people that voting online is not a thing. (It's almost like being a fascist makes it harder to turnout voters!) BTW: at leas

Vartain Gharpetian and Lisa Cusack join in a vigil in Glendale for a slain rightwing podcaster.

Now that MAGA has all the power federally, the local extremists of Glendale seem to be preparing to take another run at City Council and possibly School Board seats for the upcoming June 2026 election. Here's what we've seen: PATRICK MURPHY / GLENDALE CITY COUNCIL: La Crescenta Facebook Warrior Patrick Murphy appears to think that he can leverage his dozens of comment likes into a full-fledged campaign for Glendale City Council. (He does know he'll have to come down the hill

With fascist majorities in the House, Senate, Supreme Court and Presidency, our local extremists continue to whine about their favorite usual topics -women, bike lanes, affordable housing, etc. Anything to detract from the Epstein situation, right? Trump's failure to honor his campaign promise to "release the Epstein files" about the notorious sexual abuser seems to have driven a wedge between our extremists and their dear leader.

You'd think that with ICE raids in Glendale paralyzing businesses and causing fear, Glendale's leaders would be focused on supporting the heavily immigrant population of our fair city. Instead, Ara Najarian took time during his comments tonight (hi Ara! You should be paying attention to the meeting, not reading this!) to call out utility box art that he finds "offensive." He wants all submissions for the program to come before council for approval. That the utility box art N

For the last two weeks violent and aggressive ICE raids have been deployed on the people of the greater LA area. Widespread protests and...

Glendale's Biggest Hypocrite and Big Boy Mayor, Ara Najarian, posted a statement via the City social media channels ahead of Saturday's No Kings protest. Organized with the help of East Area Progressive Democrats, the diverse crowd at Glendale City Hall swelled at one point to nearly 8,000 people according to estimates. It even made the New York Times!

The City of Glendale moved with uncharacteristic speed, taking less than a week to rescind the contract once it came to light that detainees were being housed in subpar conditions, and as ICE ramped up their goon squad patrols targeting the people who make our cities function. Rather than celebrate the rule of law and good governance, Glendale Parents [sic] Voices (neither parents nor voices in most cases, just shitposting lies online) doubled down on accusing random LGBT

Both at the council meeting and within the web of social media accounts they are connected to, familiar public comment performance artists Maro Yacoubian, Ray Shelton, and Mike Mohill accused multiple community members by name. Later, an immigration attorney revealed Glendale's contract with ICE to house detainees is still in effect in possible violation of state law.

Ara Najarian continues to suck at being a kind, compassionate person.