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UPDATE: The legislator who proposed this bill is Mia Bonta, the wife of Attorney General Rob Bonta. The Attorney General of California's wife is trying to silence me and other journalists who are exposing fraud. Are your donors mad they are being exposed?

@Seanfrank @elidourado I think most people don’t believe that their take home and discretionary kept pace with inflation.

@elidourado that article references the decrease in $25k cars since 2012. but adjusting for inflation that is 36k today. there are 50+ new cars under 36k. Including the model 3. cars are cheaper now than 2012.

It is so insane that there are only four new cars you can buy in the US for $25,000 or less. Between this, looming full autonomy, and Detroit's failure to build software-defined clean-sheet EVs, it feels like a bunch of car companies are going to get wrecked.

For all you Antifa types this bill is actual fascism. Making it illegal to expose crime is a classic California brand move.

@RealBuckeyeRed @CrimeWatchMpls He has a future playing the emperor on Star Wars

@CrimeWatchMpls New meme just dropped:

Only on Crime Watch, birdcage liner's latest fallen hero, "soccer dad" anti-ICE protester Chris Ostroushko, who assaulted Savanah Hernandez out at Whipple over the weekend, was convicted of defrauding the state unemployment program of nearly $7000 in the early 00s. He received a stay-of-execution on the sentence.

@WilliamShatner Kaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhnnnnn!

Scheduling note. I’m doing my Wrath of Khan tour starting this week so my time online will be sporadic. For the crays out there👇🏻😉😑

@NotebookLM @GoogleForEdu Jeez I’m standing on stages telling hundreds (or more) to use notebooklm and giving use cases lessons - but I pay retail!

Great news for students and educators! If you’re on @GoogleforEdu Education Plus or the Teaching and Learning add-on, we’re bumping up your NotebookLM limits at no extra cost. Look for the new Plus badge next to your profile to unlock MORE: 📓Notebooks & sources 📰Quizzes & Flashcards 📽️Video Overviews & Infographics

@RosieRocks28 @senW_2019 Empty heads are always happier

He escaped prosecution from crimes that no one else would have. He violated the Charter of Rights, broke ethics laws and opened Canada to increased Chinese interference. Yet, here he is, not in jail, living like a 54 year old teenager on a trust fund.

Canada told this man’s wife to kill herself with MAID because they had “no treatment” for her stage 4 ovarian cancer. They lied about HIPEC surgery. Lost her chemo requisition. Her oncologist never even met her in person. ERs sent her home with opioids while her lungs filled with fluid. So they evacuated her by ferry from Vancouver Island to Seattle. America got her into the system immediately. Started chemo. Gave her the surgery Canada said wouldn’t work. Every time she went back to Canada, she nearly died again, going septic in Canadian hospitals until her husband literally unplugged her from machines and evacuated her back to the US. They finally got him a green card in under three months with the help of a Congresswoman. Now they’re in Texas. His wife is heading into her THIRD remission. She squatted 175 lbs for five reps last week. Canada’s answer was death. America’s answer was treatment. That’s the difference. 🇺🇸

Quick update on the H-1B state contractor analysis and a preview from a small subset of parsed HHSC Contracts. The most interesting finding (to me) so far: A single H-1B dependent contractor received payment for $10,460,376.99 in staffing contracts from the state of Texas since Greg Abbott has been in office. In only 12 days of April 2026, they've netted $309,113. They also received over $2.7M in forgiven PPP loans and approval for at least 35 H-1B workers. The images below are just a snapshot of recent HHSC state contracts for IT Staffing Augmentation - only one job has a billable rate below $90 an hour. Also of note - most of the "workers" names I've searched list different employers on LinkedIn than the contractor reporting them as the assigned worker. It almost makes you think that many of these people are either not actually working on these contracts or they can't say they are because their H-1B visa was sponsored by a different employer. However, some also show a location in India - so who knows... @GregAbbott_TX how much more of this do you need to see?

Engineering is real magic

Happy Birthday, John Milius. Red Dawn was the first PG-13 film to hit screens. The “what if” premise of small-town America being invaded was nightmarish. In ’84, it was tagged the most violent movie ever with 134 acts of violence per hour (about 2.23 a minute). Wolverines!

@RepRoKhanna Why do you lie so much - yes you can blame Trump for a % of the price - but your own state is to blame for 500% more of the problem. You are a disappointment.

Trump's immoral and reckless war in Iran has shot up gas prices in my district to nearly $6 a gallon. Stop the war, stop exporting our crude oil, and pass my windfall profits tax on Big Oil to give Americans a rebate for their gas bills.

Families in Seattle and Spokane didn't vote for Trump's war of choice, but they're the ones paying for it every time they fill up their tank. And Republicans are blocking Democrats from putting an end to this war for good.

when spacex was getting started, the first and last men to walk on the moon testified before congress against it. gene cernan told congress commercial space companies "do not yet know what they don't know." he said the boeings and lockheed martins were "the folks who have been working on everything we've done for the last 50 years. they know how it can be done." neil armstrong said he was "not confident" the newcomers could achieve their goals. together with jim lovell they warned it would put america on "a long downward slide to mediocrity." spacex now launches more rockets than every country on earth combined. the experts will always tell you it can't be done. build it anyway!

@elonmusk @nettermike True

@nettermike The Golden State is cooking its golden geese, but what happens when they are all cooked and eaten or have left? Then they come for the people.

🚨 The company that literally invented Silicon Valley just packed up and LEFT California for good. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) — born in a tiny Palo Alto garage in 1939 with just $538 — has officially relocated its global headquarters to the Houston area in Texas. This isn’t just any tech company. It’s the iconic firm that defined American innovation, created the blueprint for Silicon Valley, and powered the modern digital world. Now its top executives are gone from San Jose. Governor Greg Abbott welcomed them with open arms, calling Texas the best place to do business. Meanwhile, Gavin Newsom’s office responded with a cold shrug: “Companies come and go.” No press conference. No plan. Just three dismissive words. Over 350 companies have fled California in recent years, citing sky-high taxes (13.3% top rate), crushing regulations, and insane costs. Texas has zero state income tax — saving top executives hundreds of thousands annually. The symbolism is brutal: the birthplace of Silicon Valley just rejected its own home. If even the company that started it all can’t justify staying, what does that say about the future of every business still in California?

@nikitabier 😂😂😂😂

Sorry guys, I’m stepping up to the big leagues now.

Hey folks, today I’d like to take a moment to share something deeply personal with you. Over the past few years, my family has walked through a season of profound love and loss. My son Mac was a remarkable young man, full of talent, heart, and purpose. An incredible musician and composer, in 2018 Mac was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer and our family entered a journey that none of us could have prepared for. A little over two years ago I went to work writing my second book, sharing his story, as well as challenges and blessings our family experienced along the way, the love that held us together, the faith that sustained us, the grief that changed us, and how we continue to move forward daily with a strength we didn’t know we had. And now Thomas Nelson and @People Magazine begin the next part of this journey. This book is for Mac. It’s also for anyone who has faced loss, uncertainty, or hardship, and is searching for a line of hope in the middle of it. Something I feel I needed to do to help with my own healing. I’m thankful to People for sharing the launch of our presale today. Graceful Warrior: The True Story of a Son, a Father, and a Family Who Carried Each Other Through is now available for preorder and will officially be released on Mac’s birthday, Nov 10th. Thank you for your consideration. Read the full People article: bit.ly/4ms63wi Preorder today: bit.ly/4ekoVLk

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no new taxes until everything is audited and the fraudsters are arrested.

Before raising taxes, states, counties, cities etc… should clean house and get lean, eliminate waste, fraud and abuse. Parasites only know how to mooch.