In leaked audio, GOP Senate Candidate Mike Rogers admits he blocked the Epstein files to protect Epstein's friends: “The court of public opinion would ruin their life for no reason... You don't want to hurt that person's career or reputation." So protecting your pedophile buddies is more important than protecting young children from being raped by them. Is that correct, @MikeRogersForMI? x.com/HQNewsNow/status/21125…

this California wealth tax thing is just incredible. so in October 2025, a California healthcare union proposed a "one time" 5% tax on any billionaire's wealth. the ballot measure will be voted on next month. In early December 2025, California announced that it would be a retroactive tax if passed, applying to anyone with CA residency as of Jan 1, 2026. The objective is to pay for Medi-Cal, California's incredibly dysfunctional healthcare system. (which also functions as a glorified welfare apparatus, but that's a discussion for another time). polls reveal that the CA electorate is split around 50/50 on the tax, but prediction markets only give Prop 40 a ~23% chance of passing (there are competing measures on the ballet that would nullify it). there are 200 billionaires in CA, worth collectively somewhere between $2.3 and $2.6 trillion. 5% of that is around $100b, accounting for a small amount of attrition. proponents of the tax forecasted a significant windfall, assuming only a 10% departure rate. supporters thought they were being clever with the retroactive concept. no billionares would leave CA in the few short months between the tax being proposed and the residency cutoff date, without the tax even having passed yet, right? well as it turns out, they did. a new paper [1] from two academics at Stanford called "The Net Present Value of the California Billionaire Tax Act", argues that not only did more billionaires leave due to the proposed tax than its proponents expected, but that the value of the tax, if it does pass, is actually negative. proponents of the tax only assumed 10% avoidance, that is, only 10% of the taxable base of targeted billionaires would leave CA within the very short Oct-Dec 2025 window. Jaros and Rauh, the Stanford academics, find that a lower bound of 28.6% of the taxable base managed to leave. just based on known departures, those departures total $577b in net worth, or $28.8b in potential tax lost. this of course does not capture everyone (many left without announcing their departure), so the authors normalize to departure rates estimated from other wealth tax events, and apply other discounts for litigation, arriving arrive at a figure of only $28-$36b in forecasted tax revenues. but this isn't all! all of the income taxes paid by the departed billionaires are also forsaken. the authors estimate that CA billionaires pay $3.3- 5.8b in annual income taxes. they assume a midpoint of $2b lost in annual collections from departed billionaires. the net present value of that lost income stream is -$68.9 billion. so when you add it all up you get: + $30b one-time tax windfall (estimated) - $69b in present value of lost future income taxes = - 38.9b overall net present value of the tax of course, this analysis is highly estimate driven. the authors simulate the parameters 100k times and find a negative NPV of the implemented tax 85 percent of the time. and if the tax doesn't pass, which it's not looking like it will, California still ended up losing at least $577b in departed net worth, and they have permanently poisoned the well with entrepreneurs who will now worry about future wealth taxes. [1]: nber.org/system/files/workin…

It’s crazy that the people committing all the fraud, are pretending to look for people committing fraud.

I can't believe I woke up with an inbox full of Bongino Block Parties inquiries AGAIN. This thing is ridiculous 🤣

Want some truth? Somalians with a 68 IQ do not rip off American taxpayers for billions without massive help from American politicians. It’s not possible.

Defund Washington. When a system fails catastrophically, cut power to investigate the problem. Washington has failed the American people in just this manner. It’s an openly treasonous assortment of mostly corrupt politicians who criminally abuse their constituents. Our taxes aren’t serving the people. Why throw good money after bad? I’m tired of funding a system that enshrines contempt for the people they’re supposed to represent.

“Peaceful Protesters”

Most people don't go around committing crimes, so why is it so prevalent with politicians and in government? Whether it's kickbacks, fraud, theft or sexual assaults its these people involved. We work hard and pay taxes and this is the result.

🚨 Ilhan Omar finally resurfaces after the federal raid, and Washington has a new legal defense strategy: Ask Americans for their credit cards. She’s a sitting member of Congress. Americans deserve the truth about the allegations involving her immigration records. Watch.