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Tab Berg
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Tab Berg
@tabberg
Husband & Dad 2 EMT. Conservative & Conservationist. Political Consultant & Commentator. ΣΠ
California Inscrit le Aralık 2008
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State with the worst gap between population growth and spending in the last decade?
Illinois.
Population shrunk by 1%.
State spending grew 72%, inflation adjusted.
I'll continue asking - where did all the money go?
Maria Davidson@MariaDavidson
US population grew 6% in the last decade. Federal spending grew 40%, inflation adjusted. Not as bad as California, but you have to ask - where did all the money go?
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The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful.
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.@MattMahanSJ’s solutions are about failures of state politicians, who why lead off his post with a cheap pander? #beBetter
Mayor Matt Mahan@MattMahanSJ
Trump's war in Iran is pushing energy costs through the roof. As Governor, I'll do three things to ease the pain at the pump: 1. Suspend the gas tax 2. Keep our remaining refineries open 3. Make it easier to build the energy grid of the future
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CA raised fast food min wage to $20 in 2024, so now we have good studies.
Seems bad-
Low income households spend more of their budget on fast food, the policy taxes most low-income consumers to raise wages for some low-income workers while eliminating jobs for others.
Alex Tabarrok@ATabarrok
Excellent review of the CA fast-food minimum wage from @jeffreypclemens and co-authors. marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
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Special interests spend billions influencing legislators, PACs provide them million$ in luxury travel and fancy gifts, direct tax and behest payments to NGOs that pay politician’s friends &family - but @AsmMaggyKrell’s big worry is independent groups on the outcome? #Bloviate
Ashley Zavala@ZavalaA
In a state that bans online sports betting, why is California allowing people to bet on politics? CA’s @AsmMaggyKrell is pushing to address Kalshi/Polymarket’s new path for dark money in politics. “The sanctity of our elections is threatened when we let people bet on it”
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(no...Swalwell uses campaign cash for his wife to pay their child care provider. The AOL-era CAL-ACCESS website does a poor job explaining the whole 'payments made to sub-vendors' concept)
Apple Lamps@lamps_apple
Swalwell uses campaign cash to pay his wife for watching their children???? wtf
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“I think that the California high-speed rail nightmare is the probably quintessential example of government waste and mismanagement,” says Rep. Vince Fong, a Republican whose district sits in California’s Central Valley, through which the project is supposed to run. cbsn.ws/41kxw9k
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It’s embarrassing that the FBI had to step in because we failed to do our job. Bad actors are exploiting the system, and instead of fixing it, my opponents want to put more money into it. That’s not a solution, it’s an invitation for more abuse. I won’t ask you to pay more, I’ll make government work better. cbsnews.com/amp/news/hospi…
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Swalwell uses campaign cash to pay his wife for watching their children???? wtf
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She couldn't handle paying $720 a year for her $65,000 loan?
During that time, she was spending (at least):
- $1,560 per year on Pumpkin Spice Chai Lattes.
- $1,000+ per year drinking alcohol at bars.
- $2,100 per year on travel & vacation.
- $3,918 per year at restaurants/food deliveries.
Clifford Asness@CliffordAsness
Perhaps only the NYT could drop this in the middle of a story, spend not a moment musing about it, and move on.
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BREAKING: Cuba has begun releasing prisoners just hours after its communist government announced an amnesty—amid the most intense U.S. pressure campaign in decades.
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Argentina President Javier Milei:
"The left can't applaud me because their hands are in other people's pockets."
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Tulsa carved 2,847 rumble strips into a bridge on Route 66.
Drive eastbound at exactly 35 mph and your tires play “This Land Is Your Land.”
Mechanical. No speakers.
Cost: $90,000 for 19 seconds of music.
About $4,700 per second.
Guthrie was born about 75 miles away in Okemah, Oklahoma. He wrote the song in 1940.
It came home.
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NYTimes Communications@NYTimesPR
@sissenberg @nytimes A correction will appear in tomorrow's print edition: "A headline with an article on Friday about President Trump’s threats to leave NATO misstated the full name of the body. It is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, not the North American Treaty Organization."
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Until recently, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter were green card holders living lavishly in the United States.
Afshar is the niece of deceased Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani. She is also an outspoken supporter of the Iranian regime who celebrated attacks on Americans and referred to our country as the "Great Satan."
This week, I terminated both Afshar and her daughter's legal status and they are now in ICE custody, pending removal from the United States.
The Trump Administration will not allow our country to become a home for foreign nationals who support anti-American terrorist regimes.
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Obama once fired the top general in Afghanistan after it was reported he made a joke about Joe Biden
Axios@axios
Hegseth's wartime firing of top generals stuns officials: "It's insane" trib.al/cJukoxv
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42 CRF 488.10 provides that the state shall conduct a survey to determine if "prospective providers meet the Medicare conditions of participation or requirements."
The Calif. Dept. of Public Health is that agency.
Calif signed an agreement with HHS that it would perform this task.
So these Hospices are able to bill Medicare ONLY because 1) Calif issued them a license, and 2) Calif. verified they met the "conditions of participation."
This is a CALIFORNIA PROBLEM.
This is a GAVIN NEWSOM PROBLEM.
Governor Newsom Press Office@GovPressOffice
There’s a reason Bill Essayli is First Assistant, not a US Attorney: It’s because he can’t get basic facts right. What he told the NY Comic Book, that Medicare is “administered through the states,” is FLAT OUT FALSE. FACT: CMS runs Medicare. That’s a federal department running a federal program — not a state one. While you phone Dr. Oz for some clarity, here’s some more info for you: medicare.gov/about-us/how-i… Or you can talk to the FBI agent who signed the affidavit for one of the criminal complaints YOUR office filed yesterday, who also knows this:
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Only 28% of Minnesota 8th graders were rated "proficient" in reading in 2024, the lowest level on record.
Governor Tim Walz@GovTimWalz
Good news in Minnesota today - our graduation rates just reached another record high! inforum.com/news/minnesota…
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.@TomSteyer is throwing out promises like promotional t-shirts at a Lakers game because he's desperate. He has blown through $100 Million on his campaign only to stall out in 5th place.
1) He is claiming he can convince the Legislature to appropriate $200 BILLION per year to build government homes.
2) The average time it takes from start (permit application) to sale (completed housing) in CA is 49 MONTHS - 4 years and 1 month.
The guy is not a serious candidate, just a rich one.
Tom Steyer@TomSteyer
Young Californians aren't doing anything wrong. They're just living in a state that stopped building homes. I'll build one million homes in four years.
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