jon@flashreport.org. RT ≠ agreement. Publisher of the FlashReport Website in CA Politics since 2005. I write a lot on CA at sodoesitmatter.com

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This year, the way the brackets have come out, if the @Dodgers end up facing the @Padres, it’ll be for the top spot in the National League. With only four teams left in baseball.
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I don’t suppose I have any friends who subscribe they could send me a copy of this? Most curious.
An outside super PAC boosting Rep. Ken Calvert in his member-on-member contest against fellow Republican Rep. Young Kim has poured more than $2 million into the race since mid-August alone. @AnthonyAdragna has a look at the FEC records: punchbowl.news/article/defen…
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Four runs for the Dodgers all with two out in the 10th. No pressure Giants. 100 wins for the season is looking pretty good here! And an end of the season sweep of the Giants!
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lol.
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Sounds like the chief of staff and buyer bots handled it smoothly—photos in, price checks across Amazon and Walmart Plus including tax and delivery, verbal confirmation, order placed, items on the way. Glad that worked out for the lightbulbs and detergent.
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Embracing the technology here. I needed some new lightbulbs and dishwasher detergent. I took pictures of what I needed and sent it over to my @grok @bot chief of staff. It had my Grok Bot buyer bot engaged who checked for the products through my Amazon Prime account and my Walmart plus account seeking out the lowest price factoring in total cost, including tax and delivery options. It brought me back my options through the chief of staff. I quickly gave some input verbally and they placed the order and the detergent and lightbulbs will be at my house in a few hours. Never once did I have to personally go onto the Amazon or Walmart websites nor input by typing the product that I wanted just the photos.
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This is great. Chicago guy in Italy = full pizza mode.
Comme vous le voyez sur ces images, à Naples, même un Pape ne peut résister à la pizza. Parce que là-bas, elle n’est pas seulement une spécialité… c’est presque une religion et je suis un de ses fidèles. 😂
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Jon Fleischman retweeted
Dubai has opened a new autonomous vehicle testing facility. It has already hosted trials involving Tesla vehicles. The facility includes: • Approved public roads • Closed testing zones • Highway environments Dubai is aiming to have 25% autonomous transportation by 2030.
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Jon Fleischman retweeted
At Langers Deli by MacArthur Park I saw it with my own eyes: 10:30am on a Tuesday, people smoking crack and injecting fentanyl in the middle of LA while four taxpayer-funded nonprofits hand out the pipes and needles every single day. That’s Becerra’s Sacramento machine making problems worse! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
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This is the myth of "bringing manufacturing home"—the globalization of manufacturing happened because Americans wanted higher-paying jobs and low prices for consumer products, and we "offshored" lower-paying jobs. Watch what happens to the prices of goods if you bring a lot of manufacturing jobs "back" to the U.S. -- $500 Nike shoes? Yeah maybe!
Americans wouldn’t pay $10 more for jeans 👖 to boost US-made blue jeans, according to a Cato Institute/Morning consult survey conducted in March. Only 44% would support a tariff on blue jean imports if it increased the price by $10. ow.ly/rToy50ZQm1X
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"The media is unbiased." Why say the word abortion in a headline when you can say "Reproductive rights..." It's constant. Every day I see editorial bias on mainstream media "news" pages. And there are calls for favorable tax treatment for this bias. It will probably happen. The media have their own free speech rights, to be biased. But taxpayers shouldn't subsidize it. latimes.com/california/story…
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This is gross. Under the cover of “antitrust“ it’s a left-wing shakedown. Securing union concessions and Moore. The worst is how comfortable Banta is in basically saying we sue Over legitimate antitrust concerns but then we bring our political issues to the negotiating table. We couldn’t actually get raining in of the free speech rights of Paramount in a courtroom, but we can make them give them away in order to settle our case. @ZavalaA does a great job securing and conducting interviews with people that matter. So disheartening that our Attorney General is a shakedown artist. Using the coercive power of government to achieve his political desires.
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My full interview with Bonta here: kcra.com/article/attorney-ge…
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On this, the last day of the regular MLB season, I want to pay tribute to all of the players on all of the teams that aren’t making the playoffs. Baseball is truly America past time and these are all American heroes for being in the majors.
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Jon Fleischman retweeted
Many Republicans are simply trying to avoid the issue, hoping to navigate past the economic headwinds by looking for other “positive things” they have done for constituents, said Matt Rexroad, a Republican strategist. But Mr. Rexroad expressed skepticism that either tiptoeing around the war or criticizing it forcefully would work. “Republicans have a huge storm coming,” he said, “and it’s going to be pretty brutal for them all the way around.” nytimes.com/2026/09/27/us/po…
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Jon Fleischman retweeted
Have you heard of California's "prison-to-college pipeline"? It is state-funded. But the state can't tell us who's enrolled, how they're doing, or whether any of it's working. (Link in comments)
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Anyone want to th quiet part out loud? New entitlement spending goes on the national debt, so "free" childcare paid for by the descendants of the kids. Oh yeah, we aren't even covering the current costs of entitlement spending.
There are about 20 million Americans below Kindergarten age. If we paid $1,000 a month for each, it would cost roughly $2.4 trillion over a decade. And still would not cover the full cost of child care, which is often far over $12,000 a kid.
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Jon Fleischman retweeted
In 1967, the United Methodist Church had about 11M members. In 2004, they had about 8.1M members. In 2024, the United Methodists have dropped below 4M members. They have lost half their membership in the last two decades.
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Eventually, these bills will have their day in court, but this is a reminder that Gavin Newsom does not believe in individual liberty tied to individual responsibility. He’s a collectivist who believes more power for the state.
The California Governor has signed multiple gun control bills, including the 3D printer bill (AB-2047) and the bill requiring 4 hours of training for a firearm safety certificate (SB-948): gov.ca.gov/2026/09/26/govern…
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BREAKING: Leaked audio reveals Los Angeles teachers union boss calling @realSonjaShaw "a real threat" to their socialist agenda. She said the union needs to "prevent this MAGA lady from being in charge of public education." "That would cause a huge problem for us."
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