"In the spirit of California, long the cradle of American innovation, a small group of government litigators spent nearly a decade dreaming up an aggressive new vision of corporate regulation, one that’s seen agencies like California’s DFEH act like high-end plaintiffs’ firms." "They brush off mediation, jump quick as you can to litigation they may be mandated to avoid, then couple blunt public accusations with eye-catching damage demands that open at ten or fifteen times the size of previous record awards."
taibbi.substack.com/p/the-lawyers-…

"As we exclusively reported Friday night, Rep. Ted Lieu, who constantly berates those who aren’t following “the science” and is in favor of every totalitarian mandate and lockdown California “public health” officials promulgate, took his elderly parents..." "on a cruise to Bermuda for Thanksgiving, then traveled to Hawaii for Christmas, and went to an NFL game at Los Angeles’ Sofi Stadium *maskless* with his wife and brother in October."

"Oh, the tribulations of Job Biden! Kyrsten Sinema humiliated him. Mitch McConnell disrespected him. The Supreme Court blocked him. Vladimir Putin scorned him. Inflation defied him. Covid stalked him. Even Stacey Abrams stiffed him."
nytimes.com/2022/01/15/opi… "President Biden fancied himself another Master of the Senate. Unfortunately, he was thinking about the Senate of 1984."

"While many other governors have worked to balance individual freedoms against political and health concerns, our governor continues to use Covid 19 to grab more control for himself and his political party."

https://twitter.com/KATYSaccitizen/status/1463892154439270401

"Sadly, the one-party control over the State of California and its people has created lots of sheep who dutifully follow the shepherd."