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Bass, who ousted Crowley in February, said that folding the Equity Bureau into the department’s Professional Standards Division has nothing to do with anti-DEI campaigns.

Since Hamas took control of Gaza in 2007 by violently ousting political rivals, a year after winning national elections, there have been three major wars with Israel and two smaller conflicts.

Like the Justice Department mass resignations in early March, the ousted Defense Department trio did not go quietly.

On Feb. 21, Bass ousted Crowley, complaining that she had not heard from the chief, amid worsening wind forecasts, until after the fire broke out.

If the results hold, Lee, 78, a progressive icon who represented Oakland and surrounding areas in Congress for nearly three decades, would replace ousted Mayor Sheng Thao, a progressive elected in 2022.