🚨NEW: Federal agents just busted a massive SNAP fraud ring in Los Angeles:

Over $1 MILLION in fraudulent food stamps purchases at a single Skid Row bodega. 🧵 Investigators identified the small grocery store as a potential target for fraud after it processed $732,608.26 in SNAP purchases from April 2025 to April 2026 — nearly twice the amount of its closest competitor.

Undercover agents went in and discovered…

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Memo to national media and other interested parties:

Whatever else you do, please do not take Gavin Newsom seriously as an economic policy-maker.

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https://x.com/SteveHiltonx/status/2070496029280276571

2/20

His statement advocating a national billionaires tax makes a number of important points about the economic plight of regular working people, the services they receive and their prospects in today's economy.

The median home price in California is $909,400. California has the highest housing costs in America by far. It’s the #1 reason people are leaving the state. And it’s the direct result of Democrat policies.

What happened? I spent two years digging into it for CALIFAILURE: The cost to build homes starts with the so-called "Impact Fees," supposedly to help municipalities pay for new infrastructure needed to accommodate development.

But these fees are often set at $150,000
or even $200,000 per new home. These inflated fees are because municipalities are using them to try to balance their budgets and recoup accumulated deficits incurred years ago. Developers of new housing have to pass these costs on to home buyers.

Democrats are deliberately crushing our farmers, and putting our firefighters at risk, by creating a fake water shortage.

It’s driven by ‘Climatism’, one of the 9 ideological pathologies I studied for my new book. The water story is even worse than you might think: The mismanagement of California's water system has been in the news - with the L.A. wildfires, and President Trump's focus on water flows from northern to southern California.

But the full story is even worse than you might think. I spent the last two years digging into all this for my new book, Califailure, and this is what I found:

The despicable cynicism, dishonesty and cruelty of the Lockdown Lunatics has been brutally exposed by @IsabelOakeshott in the UK. We need the US version!

UK government's "glib resort to casual authoritarianism is shocking even for those who are cynical about politicians" @WSJ 🧵 "They were “following the science,” politicians told the public at every opportunity...The public in many countries has learned that was often far from true, and now we have proof from what our British friends are calling the Covid lockdown files...

Democrat gaslighting over gas stove ban expertly dissected👇

Fake science, 'climate' cronyism and corruption - it's all here. They really DO want to ban your gas stove and @KimStrassel has the receipts:
🧵 "Extremely powerful climate groups, working with Biden administration officials, have "publicly stated their aim to eliminate all “combustion appliances” in homes.

"There were no red flags", said @npr about the Half Moon Bay murderer. Really?

"in court documents filed for a temporary restraining order...a roommate accused Mr. Zhao of threatening to split his head open with a knife and trying to suffocate him after a workplace dispute... "In his application for the order, which a Santa Clara County judge granted, Jingjiu Wang wrote that Mr. Zhao had crept into his room at their shared San Jose apartment in March 2013 and demanded his paycheck...

"An ominous warning for California economy" - @CalMatters

1. "Just nine companies headquartered in the Golden State went public in the first three quarters of 2022, compared to 81 during the same period last year." 👇 2. "As of Sept. 30, initial public offerings in California had raised just $177 million, compared to an average of $16 billion during the same period over the past five years."

"Stop calling it “Putin’s price hike.” Russian exports have fallen a mere 560,000 barrels a day from pre-Ukraine war levels on a global supply of 101 million...
@WSJopinion 👇 "The main problem is that oil demand has outstripped supply amid the post-pandemic economic recovery owing to a lack of investment, especially in the U.S., which had been the world’s swing producer

The Weeknd at Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara last night. What an INCREDIBLE show. If you can get tickets to the LA shows, you gotta go! ❤️🔥😊👏

check these out:

Masterful survey of America's prices crisis by @ezraklein today: "We papered over the affordability crisis with low prices for consumer goods, soaring asset values that kept richer Americans happy, subsidies for some Americans at certain times and mountains of debt...
1/8 "But none of this addressed the core problem...the prices of the things we need most have been growing far faster than inflation. So a weird economy emerged, in which a secure, middle-class lifestyle receded for many, but the material trappings became affordable to most...
2/8

We waste two thirds of the energy produced by nuclear plants. If we used it to heat buildings, we could save money, reduce emissions and have reliable electricity.

@HargravesRobert explains @WSJopinion 👇
#PositiveAndPractical
1/8 "Nuclear plants heat water, producing steam that spins turbine generators. The turbines convert about a third of the steam’s heat into electricity. The other two-thirds is wasted, typically absorbed by flowing river or ocean water or cooling towers...
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"The reason most Americans don’t want Mr. Biden to run is that it’s clear by now that he has cognitive problems unacceptable in a person responsible for conducting the presidential office..."

- @DanHenninger "Joe Biden's Presidency Is Sinking" @WSJopinion
1/7 "Since Inauguration Day, every public statement he has made to the American people, large or small, has been written by someone else for him to read by rote from a teleprompter. His off-the-cuff followups are painful...
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brilliant @Peggynoonannyc on the characteristics of progressive politicians:

They "don’t listen to anybody. To stop them you have to fire them. They’re not like normal politicians...who tack this way and that. [they] have no doubt, no self-correcting mechanism."
1/6 "They are more loyal to theory than to people. If the people don’t like the theories the progressives impose, that’s too bad; the theory is pre-eminent."
2/6

good example here of how to have a respectful, constructive debate about guns, yielding practical steps that would make a difference and save lives

👏👏 @gailcollins / Bret Stephens @nytimes The Conversation 👇
1/8
nytimes.com/2022/06/06/opi… "Our news-side colleague Nate Cohn had an eye-opening analysis last week on the wide disparity between the way gun-control measures poll and how people actually vote on them. Turns out, gun control just isn’t as popular at the ballot box as many liberals contend...
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"Don’t buy the Biden administration’s line that it’s pulling out the stops against Russia...Biden can talk all he wants about his plans to cripple Mr. Putin’s economy. He has yet to take the steps that might actually do it."

@KimStrassel lays out the disturbing details 👇
1/6 "In late February Mr. Biden grandly announced sanctions targeting Russian banks. Yet on Friday, Treasury quietly clarified that the sanctions won’t apply to the banks’ energy transactions until June 24 - meaning Wall Street can continue to trade in Russian oil and gas...
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as we approach the virtue-signaling frenzy of the utterly pointless Glasgow #COP26 the total incoherence of the left/establishment's "climate" "agenda" becomes more and more embarrassing

the first 10 examples 👇 1. They cut domestic fossil fuel production but beg OPEC to pump more oil

devastating, forensic analysis of Biden's $1.9 trillion Bailout Bill from @MittRomney

key points in this thread please share:

More than a third - $700 billion - wouldn’t be spent until 2022 or later, undermining the administration’s claim [of] urgent pandemic-related needs 1/7 $350 billion for states and localities. In New York you might think that sounds right...But Florida hasn’t even had to dip into its rainy-day fund. California has a multibillion-dollar surplus. Utah’s revenues rose by double digits...21 states had revenue increases in 2020 2/7

documents featured tonight @NextRevFNC showing that in 2014 Dr Fauci commissioned and continued to fund Gain of Function virus research at the Wuhan Institute in direct contravention of the Obama administration ban

1/8 the original Gain of Function study:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22723413/ 2/8: Dr Fauci's project commission to Peter Daszak's Eco Health Alliance in 2014, including Gain of Function virus research:
projectreporter.nih.gov/project_info_d…