The Supreme Court just stopped the Postal Service from making sure mail-in ballots go only to living, registered citizens. 35 words. Unsigned. “Fairness” beat the law. Midterms are weeks away. sbcurrent.com/p/the-scourge-… #ElectionIntegrity #MailInVoting #SCOTUS #Midterms2026 #VoterID #USPS

Karen Basura says we don't need an election because a Republican cannot win, and Xavier Basura is "already the governor". This is so revealing. This is what happens when you have one-party rule: these politicians take you for granted and don't even TRY to earn your vote. Becerra isn't even campaigning. If you democrats actually want your politicians to DO something for you, you need to hand them an L once in a while, to keep them honest so they actually TRY to earn your vote. More got done in LA in the few months that I was campaigning than in a decade or more, all because I put a little fear in this vile reptile. Now that there's no opposition in the race, that's over for LA, and voters will get nothing. It's just dumb and dumber. These scummy politicians feel entitled to your vote, they know you'll vote blue no matter who, and they can do the worst job imaginable, steal your tax dollars, let your cities rot and burn to the ground, knowing that you'll take it because of partisan allegiance and nice weather. The best thing for democrats in California is to hand a democrat just ONE loss, so 4 years from now they actually feel like they need to TRY and earn your vote. Then maybe you'll get a better crop of democrats. If you keep rewarding them with your vote, they'll keep getting worse and worse.

A new governor isn’t enough. The attorney general decides whether the laws voters pass actually survive. Michael Gates says California’s rescue hinges on that race. open.substack.com/pub/califo… #CAAttorneyGeneral #RescueCalifornia #CAPolitics #Election2026 #GatesForAG #Prop39

Purely Political: RFK, Jr. He was a hero when he sued Big Pharma. A “danger” the second he backed Trump. Same guy. Different rules. Time to call the double standard. sbcurrent.com/p/purely-polit… #RFKJr #DoubleStandard #BigPharma #Trump #MediaBias

The tar still seeps. The Chumash used it. Your sneakers hated it. Now every “green” fix creates three new problems. Paper or plastic? Smelt or water? Owl or fire? John Summer on California’s unending environmental Catch-22. sbcurrent.com/p/the-perpetua… #PerpetualPismoParadox #SantaBarbara #ClimateCatch22 #PaperOrPlastic

A father writes what no parent ever wants to put on paper. His daughter, a brilliant clinical psychologist who once helped veterans to fight addiction, spent the last decade in the grip of alcoholism. Rehab, hospitals, wellness checks, endless hope and heartbreak. She died alone. They kept asking if they could have done more... sbcurrent.com/p/going-back-h… #ShesGoneBackHome #AddictionAwareness #Hope #FamilyLoss #RecoveryIsPossible

Google co-founder Sergey Brin left California for Nevada. He’s still spending over $100 million to pass Props 41 and 42. Prop 40 is a one-time “billionaire tax.” Buried in it: lawmakers could later expand it to more people with a two-thirds vote. It also sits outside California’s spending cap and can tax assets retroactively. Props 41 and 42 are the counterpunch. If 41 or 42 get more Yes votes than 40, Prop 40 dies. You don’t have to like Brin. These two measures protect your nest egg from becoming the next target. open.substack.com/pub/califo… #YesOn41 #YesOn42 #NoOn40 #CABallot2026 #Prop40 #WealthTax

Santa Barbara County will open 16,000 acres of farm and ranch land to solar and batteries while blocking cities from annexing land for state-mandated housing. Oil takes far less land and already coexists with agriculture. The power often leaves the county. The housing shortage does not. sbcurrent.com/p/the-intersec… #HousingCrisis #EnergyHypocrisy #Solar #Oil #California #AffordableHousing

They say Prop 40 is a “one-time” 5% tax on California billionaires. History says otherwise. Europe tried wealth taxes. Then repealed them. Our income tax started at 1% on the rich. Vote NO before “them” becomes you. open.substack.com/pub/califo… #Prop40 #VoteNoOn40 #CAPolitics #WealthTax

A young sailor learns his WWII-veteran grandfather has died. He almost stays aboard ship.The next morning he watches civilian planes vanish from his radar as America is attacked. Seventeen minutes. Innocence gone. Heroes who ran toward the fire.Twenty-five years later, retired Cmdr. Bob Smith writes why we still cannot forget. sbcurrent.com/p/the-day-the-… #EmptySkies #Navy #NeverForget #Veterans #America #WakeUp

How to Bankrupt a Country (while telling everyone you’re saving it) They promised they were saving the country. They’re bankrupting it instead. Time to see the playbook. sbcurrent.com/p/how-to-bankr… #NationalDebt #BankruptCountry #FiscalHypocrisy #GovernmentSpending

Driving Ms. Feinstein They swore she was still steering. The guy behind the wheel knew better. Time to ride along. sbcurrent.com/p/diving-ms-fe… #Feinstein #DianneFeinstein #DrivingMsFeinstein #CAPolitics

Sparkle Beach Ken Doll!! @spencerpratt nails that twat begal

They called it lost. It wasn’t. It had been locked away-out of sight, out of mind, and, for a long time, out of reach. Then someone opened the right door at the right time. What turned up wasn’t just an object. It was a reminder of how easily things (and people) disappear into systems that are supposed to keep them safe. sbcurrent.com/p/locked-and-f… #SantaBarbara #KathyIreland #LockedAndFound #SBCurrent #HiddenTruth

We barbecue on Labor Day. Unions still celebrate May Day. Same socialist roots: from Haymarket to today’s public-sector unions that expand government, starve roads and housing, then blame capitalism. Andy Caldwell on labor’s origins and the affordability trap. sbcurrent.com/p/labor-day-an… #LaborDay #Socialism #AmericanWorker #DoubleStandard

Prop 38 isn’t a science bond. It’s an $8.4 billion taxpayer loan with half the money written so it lands at one UCLA-linked institute whose billionaire co-founders put the measure on the ballot. Private capital already floods this research. California’s last “cures” bonds produced almost nothing in royalties. Heads they keep the upside. Tails you get the bill. Vote No. open.substack.com/pub/califo… #NoOn38 #CABallot #CA2026 #TaxpayerFirst

Mail-in voting without citizenship or ID checks isn’t “access”, it’s a vulnerability. In 2020, mail ballots jumped from 33 million to 70 million as late “found” votes flipped the overnight lead. Now Trump’s EO 14399 requires verified citizen lists before ballots go out. 23 blue states sued, a judge blocked it nationwide, and the Supreme Court just lifted the stay 6-3. Jackson’s dissent called it a “Kafkaesque nightmare.” Is this election security or the next battle over who actually gets to vote? sbcurrent.com/p/the-scourge-… #MailInVoting #ElectionIntegrity #VoterFraud #AbsenteeBallots

California is walking away from a $1,700-per-taxpayer federal scholarship credit that could put billions toward private school, homeschool, and tutoring for kids stuck in failing classrooms. Why? Because the CTA said no. Lou Segal on the money Sacramento won’t take, the union that blocked it, and the students who lose. Read “The Wolf in Teachers Union Clothing” at California Current. open.substack.com/pub/califo… #TeachersUnion #SchoolChoice #ScholarshipTaxCredit #EducationReform #FailingSchools

Orange cones should be California’s new state emblem. Highway 101 construction through Montecito and Santa Barbara has been going on so long it feels like a permanent feature of the landscape, right up there with the ocean, mountains, and the next fire season. “Temporary” lights, vanished escape routes, and a project that started taking shape decades ago still isn’t done. Will it ever end? Don’t count on it. sbcurrent.com/p/construction… #Highway101 #SantaBarbara #Montecito #101Construction #TrafficNightmare #Caltrans #WillItEverEnd #SBCurrent #CoastVillageRoad #CabrilloBlvd

She said “in sickness and in health” long before she said “I want your vote.”When her husband Joe was diagnosed with bone-marrow cancer, Sari Domingues left the campaign trail and sat at his bedside. She is not dropping out of the race.“The same character that sits at a hospital bedside is the same character I will take to Sacramento: show up, tell the truth, and not quit when the days get hard.”Name on the ballot November 3. Family first. Still running. sbcurrent.com/p/in-sickness-… #SariDomingues #CA37 #CaliforniaAssembly #FamilyFirst #2026Election #FaithAndFamily #Republican #SantaMaria