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Thank you to everyone who has asked me for my recommendations on the statewide propositions. YES on 39, 41, 42, 43, 45 NO on 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 37, 38, 40, 44 Yes, I'm writing a "Susan does the props" column. Here's a preview: NO on Prop. 1 - It's $11.25 billion of borrowed money for "affordable housing" that will enrich favored developers and burden taxpayers for decades. NO on Prop. 2 - A budget shell game to enable spending that the state can't afford. NO on Prop. 3 - Another permanent extension of "temporary" tax hikes. Just stop with this. NO on Prop. 4 - Allows taxpayer dollars to be used for political campaigns. Seriously, no. NO on Prop. 5 - Guts the people's power to recall elected officials by prohibiting a replacement election on the same ballot. Changes the law to allow the ousted official to run in the later special election to fill the office. The legislature put this on the ballot. Of course they did. (There is no 6 through 36. Don't call the county, your ballot is not missing any pages.) NO on Prop. 37 - A $25 billion program to fund second mortgages for people who can't come up with a down payment, paid for by the people who get the mortgages. Caps on the income of people who are eligible. Caps on the price of the (newly constructed only) homes/condos they can buy. Goodies for developers who agree to conditions. It's a lot of government effort to push people into having two mortgage payments they're barely able to afford. And then they have to pay HOA fees, property taxes, insurance premiums and utility bills. What could go wrong? NO on Prop. 38 - This is $8.4 billion of borrowed money for medical research, to be repaid with interest by California taxpayers. The mandated spending split seems designed to benefit the individual who paid to collect the signatures to get it on the ballot. YES on Prop. 39 - Voter ID. It's long past time for California to join 36 other states and the civilized world in verifying the identity of voters. NO on Prop. 40 - The "billionaires tax," which has a provision allowing the Legislature to amend it later. Guess why. YES on Prop. 41 - Requires pre-election audits of programs that would be funded by a proposed special tax. Good idea. YES on Prop. 42 - Prohibits a tax on retirement accounts and other assets, blocking Prop. 40. Another good idea. YES on Prop. 43 - Protects taxpayers by making it harder to raise taxes. Restores the required two-thirds vote to pass local special (earmarked) taxes. Closes a court-created loophole that since 2017 has made it easier to pass sales tax increases and other costly taxes. Vote yes to close this loophole. NO on Prop. 44 - Similar to the kidney dialysis propositions that relentlessly haunted previous ballots, this is an attempt to harass non-unionized clinics. YES on Prop. 45 - Creates CEQA streamlining for certain types of projects, including single-family home developments and water projects. May also ease the path for some horrific projects, so this one's a mixed bag. That's the list of propositions that are on your statewide ballot. A note about the statewide offices: If you think California is on the wrong track, the two most important offices for fixing the problems are governor and controller. It will get better if Steve Hilton is elected governor. It will get better if Herb Morgan is elected controller. Their opponents really need to get out of the business. A note about judicial races: Two recently appointed appellate court justices who recklessly widened the loophole that makes it easier to raise taxes are on the ballot for retention. If you vote in Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara or San Luis Obispo counties: Vote NO to retaining Armen Tamzarian Vote NO to retaining Audra Mori. ###

Duke's mayonnaise has no sugar in it, and Hellmann's and Kraft both do. Duke's lists soybean oil, eggs, water, distilled and cider vinegar, salt, oleoresin paprika, natural flavors and calcium disodium EDTA. Hellmann's Real lists sugar right after the salt, and Kraft Real Mayo lists it first in its under 2% group. The sugar is allowed. FDA's standard for mayonnaise requires at least 65% vegetable oil by weight, plus egg and an acid like vinegar or lemon juice, and it lists sugar and other sweeteners as optional. Neither brand uses much. Both labels show 0g of carbohydrate per tablespoon. Duke's credits the cider vinegar for its tang, and with no sugar in the jar there's nothing sweet to soften it. The recipe goes back to 1917, when Eugenia Duke was selling sandwiches in Greenville, South Carolina.

To protect you, America bans haggis. To protect you, America allows chlorine on the chicken. To protect you, America bans a Camembert under 60 days old. To protect you, America allows a growth hormone in the cow that made the milk. To protect you, America bans a jug of raw milk crossing a state line, as a federal offence. To protect you, America allows potassium bromate in the bread, which Britain banned in 1990. To protect you, America bans the Kinder egg. To protect you, America allows ractopamine in the pork, which 160 countries will not touch. To protect you, America bans Mimolette, a cheese with mites on the rind. To protect you, America allows atrazine on the corn and in the tap water, which Europe pulled in 2004. To protect you, America bans foie gras in California. To protect you, America allows 6 hormones in the beef, banned in Europe since 1989. To protect you, America bans beluga caviar. To protect you, America allowed brominated vegetable oil in the pop until 2024. Britain got rid of it in 1970. One column is a farmhouse larder. The other column is a patent office. Every food on the banned list was made by a peasant with an animal. Every substance on the permitted list has a manufacturer, a lobbyist and a fee. The sheep's lung has been a crime since 1971. The yoga mat chemical in the bun is still fine.

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EXCLUSIVE: California has created a shadow welfare system for illegal aliens. Free housing, cash, healthcare, food, phones, college tuition, even car insurance—costing taxpayers more than $10 billion per year. We went inside the system and exposed it all.

RFK Jr. and HHS are bringing new scientific firepower to the federal review of glyphosate. HHS and EPA are joining forces to investigate potential human health effects and fill major gaps in existing research. The review will examine cancer, reproductive and developmental effects, dietary exposure, occupational exposure, and even the microbiome. EPA is already reevaluating glyphosate and updating its human health risk assessment. Americans deserve answers about one of the most widely used herbicides in the country.

The Oklahoma City bombing was the deadliest domestic terror attack in American history, yet we still know very little about it. It’s obvious there is more to the story than the government would like you to believe. Here’s a preview of our investigative series, “The OKCBOMB Files.” Watch it all on TuckerCarlson.com.

🚨 13 Members of Congress have taken action to crack down on the H-1B visa scam and END the OPT program. By cosponsoring @RepEliCrane’s End H-1B Visa Abuse Act (H.R. 8443), they’ve earned an A+ NumbersUSA Grade in our “Stop Excess Work Visas” category.

Real Camembert is illegal in the United States. Camembert de Normandie is protected by law in Europe. To carry the name it must be made from raw milk, ladled by hand, and aged 21 days. Its whole character comes from the living milk. American law bans any raw milk cheese aged under 60 days. Camembert is ripe at 3 weeks and past it at 8. So the real thing cannot enter the country, and what sells as Camembert in an American supermarket is a pasteurised imitation stamped with the name of a village whose cheese it would be a crime to sell. Same for real Brie de Meaux, Reblochon, Mont d'Or and every young cheese France is famous for. The 60-day rule dates from 1949. It was written before anyone had tested whether ageing killed anything, and in 2014 the FDA quietly admitted that pathogens can survive well past 60 days in hard cheese and that the rule protected nobody. It is still in force. The French have eaten raw Camembert for 230 years. Their heart disease rate is about half of America's. America has spent 75 years protecting its citizens from a cheese. A citizen wanting one has to fly to Paris and eat it there, which several million of them do every year, and none of them come home dead.

A 13 oz bag of Buc-ee's Beaver Nuggets holds 180 grams of added sugar. The panel says 15g per serving and 12 servings per bag, and it lists all 15g as added sugar. The net weight is 369 grams, so just under half of what you're holding is sugar by weight. Look at the ingredient order. Brown sugar comes first, ahead of the corn meal, and corn syrup. Two of the first three ingredients in a corn puff are sugar. There's no butter in them either. The butter taste is margarine with artificial butter flavor, and the color comes from beta carotene and vitamin A palmitate that are also inside the margarine. The rest of the panel is 0g protein and 0g fiber at 140 calories per two thirds of a cup, which puts the bag at 1,680 calories.

The Earth is in a protracted ice age, and average global temperatures are around 15°C, still far lower than the long-term historical average of 18°C to 26°C. The world is just too cold to be facing a crisis of global warming. Polar ice sheets are almost entirely isolated from warmer tropical waters, and any significant glacial ice loss is likely to last thousands of years, potentially raising sea levels by only a few millimeters a year. Any protracted warming or carbon dioxide rise is more likely to benefit plant growth, improved living conditions, and higher food production. This has already been identified in NASA satellite studies. Predicted extreme temperature rise scenarios—such as warming reaching up to 5°C by 2050—have been increasingly set aside in recent years by climate modeling cohorts and United Nations assessments as support fades for extreme high-emissions scenarios in favor of more realistic baselines. The evidence of our ice age world is sitting there like a sudden winter snowdrift. Ten percent of the world's land area is still under glacial ice, which covers 15 million square kilometers (5.8 million square miles)—roughly a third of its peak extent during the Last Glacial Maximum (26,000 to 19,000 years ago). The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest and thickest ice formation on Earth, reaching up to 4.8 kilometers (about 3 miles) deep. It holds 90% of the world's ice by volume and accounts for around 85% of total global glacial ice cover, spanning roughly 14 million square kilometers (5.4 million square miles)—8.3% of the world's land surface. The Late Cenozoic Ice Age has not ended, having lasted for 34 million years, triggered by the glaciation of Antarctica, orbital anomalies (Milankovitch cycles), and tectonic shifts that isolated the Antarctic continent as Australia and South America drifted northward. Human civilisation has risen almost entirely during the benevolently warm Holocene interglacial period, which has lasted for 11,700 years. The alternating cycles of glacial and interglacial periods have been taking place continually for 2.58 million years. These are very long-standing geological cycles, driven by orbital shifts (known as Milankovitch cycles). However, the oceans are the Earth's greatest and most abundant physical feature visible from space. Oceans cover three quarters (72%) of the globe to an average depth of 2.3 miles, while forests cover 31% and deserts 33%. Most of the rest of the world is still wilderness. Furthermore, the oceans contain 86% of the surface carbon reservoir and 91% of all retained heat energy; by contrast, the atmosphere holds a mere 1 to 2% of each. For four decades, public debate has been dominated by fear and guilt, centered on claims of a looming climate crisis caused by us. The UN has led this campaign, which is unrelated to its mandated purpose of resolving international conflicts. Much of the scientific basis for the campaign was based on worst-case computer model scenarios and forecasts of soaring world temperatures. The intensity of this campaign has progressively been diminishing.

China has achieved a near-monopoly on refining critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, and rare earth elements—while flooding global markets with solar panels, wind turbines and EV batteries. This represents a profound strategic miscalculation by the West. Decades of heavy subsidies, state planning, and aggressive climate mandates have created a stark paradox: pursuing decarbonisation now requires an unending transfer of Western wealth to a major geopolitical rival. While advocates framed the energy transition as a temporary phase on the path to long-term sovereignty, it has effectively traded one critical vulnerability for another. The West is replacing its historic dependence on Middle Eastern oil flows with an absolute reliance on Chinese industrial hardware and refined mineral supply chains. Critics argue that hardware lasts for decades—unlike imported fuel—but this ignores a fundamental reality: whoever controls the equipment, the refining capacity, and the replacement parts industry, retains total leverage over the energy grid. China has a massive head start, with lower production costs and and streamlined infrastructure. By degrading abundant, reliable hydrocarbon energy in favor of weather-dependent renewables, Western nations have already abandoned their own energy security. Heavy, energy-intensive industries—such as electric arc steelmaking, primary aluminum smelting, and synthetic fertiliser production—cannot pause when the wind drops or the sun sets. Power-intensive manufacturing has become economically unviable across Western nations. Essential core sectors are unable to produce basic components without foreign inputs. Rising electricity costs and grid instability are driving out high-paying jobs, striking directly at the working-class backbone of Western life. Relinquishing this industrial base has created severe national security vulnerabilities in an era of mounting global instability. China produces approximately 90% of the world's global photovoltaic components, refined critical minerals and battery cells. By discarding baseload energy without equivalent domestic alternatives, the West has handed the keys to the modern energy system to Beijing. This cements China's position as the world's dominant manufacturing power through an unprecedented transfer of Western capital.

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I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW (who recently changed their name from MSNBC due to lack of viewership and credibility!), and Politico (The recipients of an illegal and ridiculous $8 Million Dollar subscription, an All Time Record, directly from the United States Government, under Crooked Joe Biden, in order to keep them “alive.” Seems like corruption to me!), from the White House as a result of their constant “reporting” FAKE NEWS! Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States, the Trump Administration, or the United States of America. Other Fake News Media Outlets to follow. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

BREAKING NEWS: I am pleased to announce that the United States of America has entered into an Agreement with The Kingdom of Denmark, and Greenland, that gives the United States permanent control over security, and all other needs, in Greenland, completely addressing ALL of our many U.S. concerns. There will be NO COST to the United States! At my direction, we worked with representatives of Denmark and Greenland to guarantee that the United States will FOREVER have the complete ability to do what is necessary in Greenland in order to secure and defend the security of Greenland, and the United States of America. Additionally, from now on, no U.S. adversary can EVER have a base in Greenland, have a military presence in Greenland, or make sensitive investments in Greenland, without our express written approval. For over 100 years, Presidents have known the strategic importance of Greenland, but NONE of them were able to do anything about it. I am proud to be the President that permanently and conclusively addressed this very important situation. This is an “Infinite Life” Agreement, there is no end! We are very honored and proud of what has just taken place, and everything agreed to today will be cherished by the American People. We will immediately begin the process of developing a large Military presence in the appropriate part of Greenland, of which there are many. We will work with the people of Greenland in its development and construction. This solution is a great one for the United States of America, Denmark, Greenland, and all of our Allies. We look forward to working with the wonderful people of Denmark and Greenland toward a magnificent future with respect to this large, and highly strategic, parcel of land. We will be very protective of it! This is a dream come true for the United States of America, one that is very important, historic, and special. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP

SunnyD is 5% juice. The first two ingredients are water and high fructose corn syrup. The juice is orange, tangerine, apple, lime, grapefruit and pear, all at 2% or less. It also has canola oil and cornstarch in it. That's what makes it cloudy like real juice. Then sucralose on top of the corn syrup. The color is Yellow 5 and Yellow 6. 8 ounces has 14 grams of sugar. The vitamin C on the front is added. It can't be called juice so the bottle says citrus punch.

This insane: California and China both started their High Speed Rail projects in 2008 - California hasn’t completed a single track - China completed over 31,000 miles of track during the same time Here’s where it gets really crazy, I did the math on how much California is spending compared to China This is the cost per mile breakdown: - China’s rail coeds about $30 million per mile - California official Phase 1 spending is $255 million per mile Read that again. Gavin Newsom needs to go to prison, this is the biggest money laundering project in California history

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Plan Judas was the US Army / Cuban Exile codename for the double assassination plot to murder JFK, frame Lee Oswald, blame Cuba for flipping Oswald, and depose Fidel Castro in faux retaliation. ... READ ON: As you know, Plan Judas was only half successful. This is largely because LBJ was seriously afraid of starting a nuclear war with the Soviet Union, which was likely to happen hlad he invaded Cuba. If there is a hero in the JFK assassination story -- if such an absurdity is possible -- it's Lyndon B. Johnson. The truth about Plan Judas will be taught to all American schoolkids someday. They will see the world in a completely different light than you do. Before that happens, however, the American people must do what we do. The government will not and cannot do it for us. There's a reason the "truth" about the JFK assassination has been kept from most or all US presidents begining with Richard Nixon. And it's not what you think. And even if all the secret files are finally handed over to our elected leaders, it won't lead us to the actual truth because the biggest secrets are not in there. They never were. Don't forget, Attorney General Bobby Kennedy -- JFK's own brother -- had most or all of the US government secrets at his disposal, and he never figured out what really happened. He never even heard of Plan Judas. So, right now, every person reading this has an opportunity to see things your politicians don't have access to and your presidents were never allowed to see. All you have to do is read my X timeline, read my books, or simply ask questions. You won't find the truth anywhere else.