William Melvin

🚨 California Passed "The Stop Nick Shirley Act": This week the California Assembly passed AB 2624. This bill will criminalize investigative journalism involving the immigrant population. It would have made it illegal to expose the Somali "Learing" center if it were in California or the Armenian hospice fraud in LA if they claimed "reasonable fear." The bill protects "immigration support services providers," which means services provided to immigrants, including health care. It has been proven that millions, potentially billions, of dollars in fraud has taken place in "immigrant support services” which includes nonprofits and NGOs the state funds. California is trying to make it harder to expose fraud and scare individuals from investigating it as they could be forced and sued to remove the video, forced to pay attorney fees, and ordered to pay a minimum of $4,000 in damages. This bill was created by Mia Bonta (the attorney general's wife). She has made 4 separate versions of this bill because each version violates the 1st Amendment and is extremely unconstitutional. Plain and simple, California politicians need the fraud to continue because they depend on the fraud to push their agendas. END ALL THE FRAUD.

lol — Trump says his sycophantic thug Bill Pulte is his new acting DNI

I’m Roy Cooper, and I’m running for the Senate to make life easier.

Trump taps Bill Pulte as Acting Director of National Intelligence — says he will also remain in his current roles as well (director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and chairman of Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac)

It would be a lot better for the country and for the Democratic Party if Platner were to drop out. If he doesn't want to, Party leadership should make whatever threats are necessary to convince him to make the right choice.

Our modeling has Platner at a ~D+4 result based on the data we had *pre-sexting scandal*. I'd strongly take the under on that and I'm not even sure he's a favorite to win the seat. The other thing with these types of candidates is that there's always more that gets dredged up.

My potentially uncharitable take is that people simply assume that Platner is blue collar when he obviously isn’t simply because of how he dresses.