@Susan_Shelley Prop 13 partially shields longtime residents from the criminal politicians they continue to elect. Without Prop 13, CA voters might actually hold politicians accountable for waste, fraud and abuse.
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Ben
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No, under Proposition 13 (1978) the assessed value of that $80K home went up 2% per year while under the same ownership. Under Prop. 58 (1986) a principal residence passed from parent to child was excluded from reassessment. (Prop. 19 limited and capped that exclusion in 2020.)
Phil BuildTheFutureNow 🇺🇸🦅🌲💙@PhilSustainable
Prop 13 is the California family trust fund of state policy. Granny buys a LA beach shack in 1980 for $80k, it’s now worth $4M. She passes it to her grandkid, who pays taxes on $80k. Meanwhile the transplant renting the converted garage pays $50k/year in rent
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@cremieuxrecueil Do people who take statins have longer lifespans than those who don’t?
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Because it's not as effective and it has a worse safety profile.
Next question?
Dr. Dawn Michael@DawnsMission
Why hasn’t nattokinase replaced statins? Joe Rogan discussed a study where 1,062 people took it for a year. Ultrasound showed their arterial plaque shrank 36%. This enzyme stops new blockages and reverses existing plaque. Why not mainstream yet?
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Edward Norton is the absolute perfect example of the bubble that Hollywood and the left live in. It doesn’t matter that he has no idea what he’s talking about, he’s surrounded by people and information that confirm whatever he thinks
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@JamesOKeefeIII @GovPressOffice @MayorOfLA @CASOSVote Newsom just waits for these stories to go away. Please keep pushing it to the top of his inbox.
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Governor Newsom @GovPressOffice, @MayorOfLA, and the @CASOSVote — you’ve all acknowledged this is tape shows multiple felonies.
Gavin, you said to “prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.” How can I help? We have more tapes.
What’s the timeline? What action is being taken this week?
James O'Keefe@JamesOKeefeIII
CALIFORNIA ELECTIONS FRAUD CASH FOR BALLOTS PART I: Homeless Bribed with Cash & Drugs In Exchange For Registering To Vote & Signing Election Petitions Caught On Tape Undercover On Skid Row In California. “You can just put Pinocchio Lane.” California NGOs Encourage Fake Addresses To Homeless People To Sign Petitions & Register Voters, A State & Federal Felony. Footage Shows 28 Instances Of Cash Changing Hands For Ballot Signatures & Voter Registration Forms. Many of the petitioners had no understanding of the petitions’ purpose they were advertising. Circulators also instructed individuals to use fake addresses. “Oh, you can just fake an address.” Weingart Center, which received hundreds of millions in public funding, is on tape directing people to where the fraudulent petitioners are located, and directing homeless individuals to petitioners & coaching plausible deniability. “See they say ignorance is no excuse for the law. But a lot of times, I have to say ‘I didn’t know, I had no idea.’” We encountered 28 instances of petitioners offering cash, cigarettes, and marijuana for signatures on petitions. Weingart employees advised: “See they say ignorance is no excuse for the law. But a lot of times, I have to say ‘I didn’t know, I had no idea.’” All happening outside taxpayer-funded housing organizations. Weingart CEO earned $432,000 before resigning from the Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Solutions Agency. James O’Keefe and the OMG Team went undercover on Skid Row, posing as homeless individuals. On hidden cameras, petitioners admitted they are paid $7–$10 per signature, sometimes earning $1,000 or more per day, collecting signatures from individuals with minimal knowledge of what they were signing. “$7 a signature, $5 a signature, $10 a signature.” “We gon’ give you $2.” Populus Inc., a political consulting firm, was circulating petitions funded by @Uber, @Delta, @United, and the American Hotel & Lodging Association (@AHLA). On camera, one petitioner said, “We have one that taxes billionaires 5%. One-time tax. 5% and that’s gonna go towards healthcare.” Other petitions sought to overturn LA’s $30 minimum wage for hotel and airline workers. Paying per signature and encouraging fake addresses violates federal and state election law and is proof of fraud happening in California. Weingart employees were caught directing the homeless to the location of the petitioners and coaching them on plausible deniability. Intake coordinator Jason Warren told an undercover journalist exactly where and when to find them: “Most time they be right across the street, under that tree… Monday through Friday.” In 2016, nine individuals were arrested on Skid Row for exchanging cash and cigarettes for signatures; in 2019 they were charged on 14 counts under the exact same California Elections Code section. Yet when confronted, nearby LAPD officers dismissed the activity as “a civil lawsuit.” “Paying per signature violates state election law and is evidence of election fraud in California,” the investigation concludes. On Skid Row, we captured conduct on tape that violates Federal Law 52 U.S. Code §10307 and state law California Election Code §18603. Part II coming soon. @CAgovernor @MayorOfLA @AGPamBondi @TheJusticeDept @NathanHochmanDA @GovPressOffice @LADAOffice @CASOSVote @USAttyEssayli @GavinNewsom Follow Citizen Justice League @ctznjusticelg A network of citizen journalists exposing corruption and demanding accountability for America YT: @citizenjusticeleague?si=SYUXXv7nN0eshG_a" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@citizenjustic…
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@jpodhoretz @stevensongs People still want to be entertained. Problem is that Hollywood movies aren’t doing that right now.
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Oscar ratings down 10 percent. Once it was the Super Bowl. The movies are going the way of vaudeville
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@profstonge Not only is this the fastest way to improve quality of life in America, but it's also the fairest. People caught hurting others (especially repeat offenders) need to be jailed for lengthy sentences or the criminals get to shape our world.
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You don't get social peace unless you're willing to permanently incarcerate -- or eliminate -- the worst 1% of society.
Will Tanner@Will_Tanner_1
Stephen Miller is 100% right here The high culture that made the West so superior to everywhere else on Earth only came because Western Europe executed ~1% of each generation for centuries In weeding the crime gene out of the population through centuries of capital punishment for everything from larceny to murder, Western Europe made itself a paradise, and blossomed into the greatest high civilization the world has ever seen over the 18th and 19th centuries So, as he said, "The West only achieved the place that it did in human history because it spent previous centuries eradicating the criminal elements within it’s territories. The West that we came to know that had the great music and architecture and science and the most powerful economy had spent centuries previous to that establishing order first." That is 100% true. High civilization requires order, and requires the pruning of the tree of civilization to achieve it
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@Dan_Jeffries1 The impact on jobs will be uneven across industries. Impossible to make universal statements.
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The jobs apocalypse is the Population Bomb of our time.
Instead we're seeing more hiring in the job most affected by AI: programming. That should have been clear and obvious to anyone with basic economics understanding and good handle on the history of technology but it's sadly lacking today.
Fear sells. It drives clicks. It drive engagements.
The jobs apocalypse scenario comes from catastrophizing personalities and people who think of life as a zero sum game. It's the same mistake the communist theorists made. They thought jobs and labor were fixed and there's nothing new under the sun. If we take one job that job is lost forever and that person is now useless.
Wrong.
Instead, what happens is that when something gets faster and cheaper we want more of it.
Much more.
There is so much software that we could not build before because there weren't enough skilled people and not enough time and it wasn't worth the time or money.
Now it is worth it because it is faster and cheaper.
Cheaper for SaaS builders, cheaper for individuals, cheaper for enterprises, cheaper for everyone.
That's why were are seeing programmer jobs tick upwards.
Right now we are not seeing juniors get hired but that is also always the case in a recovery. We just saw mass layoffs because of overhiring during COVID and cheap money printing that made lending essentially free. The unskilled, aka junior workers, are always the last hired. You want skilled verterans who can take on the new technology with experience and take off running not someone you have to train and babysit when you have been stuck in third gear for a few years.
Job populists on the hard left like Sanders and many of his mirrors on the populist hard right are the enemies of actual working economies and must be resisted at all costs. They hurt the very people they hope to help by clinging to the past and thinking of life as a zero sum game.
This increase in jobs is the reality that will increasingly play out over the next few years if AI keeps getting better, barring some other economic shock that changes the game. It will increasingly play out even when we have "geniuses in a datacenter."
It will be a shock to some. Just not the jobs shock they were expecting.
Sorry to disappoint but we're not getting UBI any time soon while the robots do all the jobs and you sit on your ass.
Seems like we are all going to have to work a bit longer.
Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai
This article tries to explain the current software engineering hiring boom in some targeted areas to the Jevons Paradox. "The same pattern repeated with computing. Cheaper transistors didn’t mean fewer transistors. We put computers in everything. Cheaper bandwidth didn’t mean less data consumed. We invented streaming video and TikTok. Now apply this to software development." When AI makes software 10X cheaper to build, companies don't immediately fire people, they just build 10X more software! While the AI writes the basic code, the demand for human engineers to review it and build large systems is higher than ever. "Germany tells the same story from the employer side. The Bitkom 2025 study (855 companies surveyed) found 109,000 unfilled IT positions. Down from 149,000 in 2023, but 79% of companies expect the shortage to worsen. And here’s the Jevons signal: 42% anticipate needing additional IT specialists specifically because of AI adoption." ----- turingcollege .com/blog/will-ai-replace-software-engineers
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@Cernovich It’s a disgusting city. Open drug use and generally unsafe along Main Street, especially at metro stops. Nice places are right next to absolute craziness going on, even during daylight hours.
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This is one meme I had to post, because I believe it is the most accurate assessment of Newsom’s character, or rather lack thereof, ever.
Semper MAGA🇺🇸@1forEnglish1
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Ben retweetledi
I am so bullish on the real world.
Group events. Cookouts. Sports. Parties. Animals. Music festivals. Phoneless dinners. Co-living centers. Healing centers. Retreat centers. Beautiful views. Group adventures.
These things light me up. Tech, ai, and materialism continue to disguest me more every day.
The pendulum has swung too far. A small group of soulless nerds will continue to obsess over ai, automation, effiency, and the intellect. But those of us connected to our hearts and spirits are becoming disgusted by it. We want real, and we want human.
Expect a huge countersurge of irl businesses and events in the next few years.
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Swalwell and Steyer surge in wide-open California governor’s race dlvr.it/TR5KfX
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@californiapost Voters should want their mayor to be “well-intended” like Pratt! The alternative is more destruction and mayhem from the communists.
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Rick Caruso blasts Karen Bass — and drops truth bomb about Spencer Pratt’s bid for mayor: ‘I’m going to say something I’ll probably regret’ #Echobox=1770493567" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nypost.com/2026/02/07/us-…
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@LeadingReport Most parents have this view. Should be controversial for politicians to be against this.
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BREAKING: Rep. Tim Burchett: Any ped-phile found guilty of crimes against children should be publicly hanged.
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@spencerpratt @nytimes Thank you for presenting LA with an alternative to communism.
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She should report this article as her first in-kind donation.
nytimes.com/2026/02/07/us/… via @NYTimes
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Ben retweetledi
The moment was Covid. It happened. Almost every journalist in the nation failed to relay reliable information, instead succumbing to panic and the widest-spread daily curtailment of civil liberties in my lifetime. The rare figures who didn't were silenced or stifled or removed.
Lulu NYT@LuluGNavarro
Every single word of this fantastic column by @Peggynoonannyc ‘I fear sometimes that few people really care about journalism, but we are dead without it. Someday something bad will happen, something terrible on a national scale, and the thing we’ll need most, literally to survive, is information. Reliable information—a way to get it, and then to get it to the public. That is what journalism is, getting the information. ‘ wsj.com/opinion/a-lame…
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Ben retweetledi
Covid school closures established schools as non-essential. Now they close whenever.
Eclipses. Heat. Cold. Protests. Whatever.
Covid put kids last. And that's where they've stayed.
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Ben retweetledi
So schools are allowing—or even encouraging—children to just walk off school grounds as a form of protest? They aren’t worried that they are breaking state laws and opening themselves up to serious liability? Public schools have totally lost the plot.
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Today’s @latimes report is an absolute outrage. Karen Bass actively covered up a report meant to examine the most significant disaster in Los Angeles history. When it comes to life safety matters, this is no longer a matter of making poor judgement, apologizing and moving forward. This is a complete loss of public trust and an intentional act of covering up the actions that led to people dying. Everyone should read this article and consider what action is warranted. She has completely failed us.
Alene Tchekmedyian@AleneTchek
For weeks, Mayor Karen Bass has denied that she was involved in altering an after-action report on the Palisades fire to downplay failures by the city & LAFD But sources say she was concerned about legal liabilities & directed the changes latimes.com/california/sto…
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