Californians have been charged extra fees on their phone service the last six years to fund a "Next Generation 911 System." Yet after spending $450 million, Newsom just scrapped the whole project because the technology doesn't work. Our government is broken.

New: California’s State Auditor says the Employment Development Department wasted $4.6 million in taxpayer dollars on monthly service fees for 6,200 unused cell phones. They sat in a storage room, some for years. auditor.ca.gov/reports/I2025-…

As an American, the first time you visit Tokyo is amazing, then after about 2 days you get physically angry, because you realize cities don't actually need to be a total shit-holes, and it costs like 1/0th what you pay.

Ro Khanna Chamath Palihapitiya why not just raise income tax rates? because your real intent is not to just “provide healthcare”. you’re masking that you are proposing the creation of, for the first time in the 250 years of this American republic, an organized government seizure of private property from

"Delta Force operators conducted rehearsals on a full-scale replica of the presidential compound, including the specific architectural features of Maduro’s residence at Fuerte Tiuna. The mock facility, constructed at a classified location likely within the United States,

Unfortunate update as of today: More calls from friends. The total wealth that has left California is now $1T. We had $2T of billionaire wealth just a few weeks ago. Now, 50% of that wealth has left - taking their income tax revenue, sales tax revenue, real estate tax revenue

Has your lived experience in California gotten 3x better in the past 20 years? Because your taxes and borrowing have gone up to triple spending in that same time. California Population: 2004: 35.6M 2024: 39.4M California Spending: 2004: $155B ($4,350/person) 2025: $510B

Aside from the outright lie at the outset that it was a "mansion" tax when it wasn't, ULA is a policy disaster for the City. LA has been red-lined, housing production has plummeted, and rents are more unaffordable. Worse, not a penny for Palisades renters who lost everything.

My latest for City Journal: Why Los Angeles has quietly stopped repaving its streets city-journal.org/article/los-an…

Gavin, saw you in the back of the room cosplaying as a global leader at Davos last week. Seems like you might need to double down on your efforts at home—Californians deserve better than this defensive acknowledgment that you’ve known about the rampant fraud in your state for

Sea Monkeys for 2026.

I've spent years working to disprove the so-called "sunk-cost fallacy" and I'm not going to stop now.

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Apparently, the serving size for chips is 10 chips. Listen, I eat 10 chips while deciding if I even want chips.

We just made a $200,000,000 AI movie in just one day. Yes, this is 100% AI.

Aaaaaaaannndd we're all gonna die.

Historical Figures as Regular People

Mike Solana The NYC Department of Education spends more on education than Japan's Ministry of Education spends on the entire country of Japan.

The State of California has been run top to bottom by one party since 2011. Here are their results: 1) highest state income tax 2) highest rate of poverty 3) highest rate of unemployment 4) highest rate of homelessness 5) highest energy costs Hard to explain this away.

> Airport shuttle > 2.2-mile train route > $3.34 billion (!) > $880 million over budget > 3 years late I'm sensing a pattern secretlosangeles.com/lax-automated-…