This is just how California works. There’s state-sponsored car insurance available to illegal immigrants that covers just $3K in damage (good luck recovering any excess damages), while everyone else pays for $15K in minimum coverage. CA law mandates that people with no health insurance get charged less for ambulances than people who pay for insurance—last year, I reported on how one CA father’s personal balance for his ambulance bill doubled AFTER he input his insurance information. If you’re on welfare, middle-class taxpayers will subsidize your utility bills, while the wealthy get to take advantage of carve-outs like grandfathered-in net-metering policies that pay them the RETAIL price of electricity for the solar they generate, not the wholesale value (which is NEGATIVE dollars when it’s sunny, due to the mass availability of solar that needs to be offloaded). @joelkotkin describes this as neofeudalism, and he’s right. Class mobility is declining because the financial cliff between public benefits and working, and working and having enough to benefit from the tax and regulatory regime is too high. Thanks to mass domestic outmigration spurred by these conditions, the private-sector middle class is leaving California, with each departure reducing the potential to reverse course.

DRIVE-BY MEDIA: The moment taxpayers stop having to pay for NPR and PBS, California steps in to use $250 million in taxpayer money to fund every media outlet in the state - Disney is poised to get $30 million of that. Democrats will be expecting a good portion of that to be returned in the form of campaign contributions.

A reporter was almost killed in this country for standing on public property and doing his job. Yet again, someone decided a man with a microphone was a problem worth removing, and we are supposed to absorb that like it is just the temperature of the moment. I keep waiting for the people who talk about threats to democracy to treat this like one. Condemn it. Say free speech still counts when the reporter is not on your side. How can we coexist with people who answer disagreement by trying to kill you, when a life stops mattering the moment you disagree with it?

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Governor @GavinNewsom officially signed SB 1174, a bill BANNING cities from requiring voter ID. That’s not election integrity. That’s California telling every city…. You don’t even get a say in your own local elections. 🥴

CNN, MS NOW and Politico should now be referred to as "Unhoused Journalists." Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Obama sent out stimulus checks (Economic Recovery Payment, and American Recovery and Reinvestment Act payments) but the left never complained. Biden sent out stimulus checks THREE TIMES, but the left never complained. Trump says he's giving $5000 stimulus checks and the left is losing their minds.

Watch this from Ground Zero today. A family is falling apart at the pools while they read the names of the dead. A few feet away AOC and Mayor Mamdani are grinning and laughing like somebody just told a joke at brunch. 3,000 people never made it home. Kids grew up without a parent. Firefighters are still dying from that dust. And these two treat the most sacred morning in this country like a photo op. If you can watch this and shrug, that tells me everything I need to know about you. Never forget is not a caption you post once a year. It is respect. They showed none. 🇺🇸

NYC’s mayor just stood at City Hall and treated the Ped 0 file Muhammad like a policy advisor for mass migration. Zohran Mamdani told the country Islam is built on a story of migration. It sure is because they migrate to a new land destroy it, destroy the people and then they migrate to a different land and repeat the process. He then dragged Muhammad’s flight from Mecca into a municipal speech, then used that sermon to harden sanctuary rules in America’s largest city. That is not courage. That is a politician hiding a borderless agenda behind holy language so critics look like bigots for asking basic questions. He did not talk housing shortages. He did not talk strained hospitals, school overcrowding, wage pressure, or what happens when a city dares federal officers to stay off city property. He quoted false scripture and signed paperwork. That is the whole trick. Wrap a political choice in a fake religion, then act shocked when working people reject it. New York is not Medina. A mayor swears an oath to the Constitution, not to a 7th century journey. If Mamdani wants unlimited inflows, he should say it in plain English and own the cost. Stop laundering it through a fake pulpit. Stop talking to America like we are supposed to applaud while City Hall turns immigration enforcement into a moral crime. This man is not leading a city. He is trying to indoctrinate one. And the rest of the country should treat that performance as a warning, not a model. Would you let your mayor write immigration law from a fake religious story?

CAPITOL COSTS: California granite is being installed at the State Capitol after being shipped to Italy for fabrication — then sent back to Sacramento. The stonework package cost taxpayers roughly $5.2 million, part of the massive $1.2 billion Capitol Annex project. Project officials say the Italian fabricator was the most affordable option. Critics are questioning how a California construction project ended up sending California stone halfway around the world before bringing it home.

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BIG NEWS: California just launched its first-ever Social Health Council! We’re one of the first states in the nation to prioritize social health alongside physical and mental health, bringing leaders across sectors together to build a statewide roadmap for stronger connection and belonging.

Yes, Cheryl Minter is an angel mom in Virginia. Her daughter Stephanie was stabbed to death in Fairfax County by Abdul Jalloh, an illegal immigrant with over 30 prior arrests. She is leading a recall of prosecutor Steve Descano, blaming him for repeated releases that left Jalloh free. A judge approved one key release ending his probation, but her campaign targets the prosecutor and has gathered over 12,000 signatures.

New Yorkers like Lucas work so hard and no taxes on tips will put over $67 million back in their pockets. Our service workers keep New York moving. It’s time we serve them back.

WNBA player DiJonai Carrington blames “white privilege” after being ejected for grabbing and smacking Sophie Cunningham in the face

🚨 STAY AND DELIVER — OR GO HOME AND GET DESTROYED Picture this. A Republican Senator walks back into his home state after August recess. No SAVE America Act. No citizenship verification for voter registration. No real funding secured. Just another continuing resolution that kicks the can and leaves the border and election integrity unfinished. He shows up at the town hall. The room is full. People who knocked doors for him. People who sent money. People who believed the promises about securing the country and cleaning the voter rolls. They don’t want a handshake. They don’t want a photo. They want to know why he left town empty-handed when the votes were there. That is not a warm welcome. That is a political execution in slow motion. Now picture the alternative. He stays in Washington. Forces the continuing resolution. Locks in the budget language that funds the SAVE America Act. Walks out with a tangible win on election integrity. He goes home and can look those same voters in the eye and say: “We got it done.” One path ends with applause and another term. The other path ends with primary challenges, empty chairs at events, and the permanent label of “another one who folded.” Scott Presler is right. It will be far worse to return home with nothing than to stay and finish the job. The base is watching. They are done with excuses. They are done with recess tourism while the country burns. Stay. Pass it. Or don’t bother coming home.