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[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Karen Bass needs this lie to persist so you won’t look at everything she did wrong to condemn us to burn. You’re next, Sunland, Tujunga, Bel Air, Brentwood…don’t say I didn’t warn you.

[Mann Made Cinema @Hotshot_Movie]

To understand just how egregiously the media and CA politicians are *lying* about the Palisades Fire, you need to go to this website and see the data for yourself. @FireRebuild meticulously sourced THOUSANDS of weather stations, and you can see the actual wind speeds, hour by hour, plotted out on a map, where you can clearly see how the winds over the fire never got remotely close to "hurricane force". Incredible. https://t.co/Zw6vImzHwv

[F.A. United States Attorney Bill Essayli @USAttyEssayli]

California Is Blocking a Federal Audit of Its Voter Rolls

California allows first-time voters to register using forms of ID that most Americans would find surprising, including:

-Gym membership card
-Employer ID card
-Credit or debit card
-Prescription drug label
-Insurance card (California provides free health coverage to undocumented immigrants)

Full list: https://t.co/BvfviJsYG8

This is permitted when a voter fails to provide a Social Security number or driver’s license at registration. Our office believes this policy deserves a closer look.

We also have serious concerns about how California maintains its voter rolls. There are open questions about whether the state is promptly removing deceased voters, people who have moved, and individuals convicted of disqualifying felonies.

On top of that, California allows third parties to collect and turn in ballots on voters’ behalf (a practice known as ballot harvesting) with few restrictions. This makes it difficult to track who actually received, completed, and submitted each ballot.

For over a year, the Department of Justice has been trying to audit California’s voter rolls. Federal law gives the Attorney General the authority to review state voter files and confirm that only eligible U.S. citizens are voting in federal elections.

@AAGDhillon sent California a letter explaining our legal authority. California refused to comply, claiming state privacy laws block the review, an argument that does not hold up because those laws don’t apply to the federal government in this context. We’ve sued California in federal court, and the case is before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

If California genuinely wants voters to trust its elections, it should open its records, not fight to keep them closed.

What are they afraid of?

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

@GovPressOffice Why does it take California weeks to count votes while third world countries count tens of millions of votes in a single day?

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

@GovPressOffice because it takes you longer than most villages w/ 100x more people. you deflecting moron.

[Kurt Schlichter @KurtSchlichter]

I have considered this assessment of @infantrydort and I reject it as ridiculous. These reactionaries are very resistant to criticism and change, and I suggest they put on their big boy pants because there’s a lot more coming.

[David Reaboi, Late Republic Nonsense @davereaboi]

The US will not survive with this media ecosystem. It just won’t. There’s no historical example of a population that’s been made so retarded one day waking up and adding back lost IQ points.

[Adam Morgan @RepAdamMorgan]

@TaraServatius And Dianne Mitchell and April Cromer!

[Tara Servatius @TaraServatius]

If you live in South Carolina and get an election mailer from Palmetto Truth Project or Conservative Grassroots Network Election Fund, these are liberal groups masquerading as right-wing groups.

They want to knock out the only conservative members of the legislature left: The Freedom Caucus.

Every word is a lie. They voted the opposite. If you're a conservative, YOU should vote FOR whoever these groups are attacking. They know Freedom Caucus members don't have money to fight back because they aren't RINOs owned by liberal special interests.

Please vote for Thomas Beach, Josiah Magnuson and Rob Harris if you live in their legislative districts.

[Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

Thomas Sowell: “It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”

[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Chicago lost the Bears this week. A team that's been in the city since 1921.

They didn't lose them to a bigger market or a better deal. The Bears decided they'd rather be a tenant in Indiana than deal with Illinois for one more year.

Think about how badly you have to run a place for that to be the smart move.

They lost them for two reasons.

The people running Illinois would rather villainize a builder than keep one. And they're bad at their jobs.

In 2021 the Bears spent $197M on the old Arlington Park racetrack.

Before they could break ground, Cook County valued the empty lot at $192M (Bears said $60M). They were salivating at the chance to extort a building that didn't even exist yet.

That fight dragged on for years.

The Bears were ready to put $2B into the stadium. All they wanted was a promise the county wouldn't reassess them into oblivion, plus $855M for infrastructure everyone uses. Roads, transit, utilities. A $3B project, two thirds of it private money pouring into Illinois.

Springfield had since 2021 to get this done. They dragged it to the final night of session, passed it through the Senate at 3:39AM, and the House went home without voting.

So now it's all gone.

The funniest part? This started because Cook County tried to grab the tax early. They knew a built stadium would pay $53M a year. Now they get under $4M on a vacant lot. No jobs, no buildout, no new anything.

Congrats on fighting for scraps and losing the whole prize.

Pritzker: they're "an $8.5B valued business" that doesn't need propping up.

But be smart for a second. Almost every NFL city throws in public money for a stadium. Not charity. The return is real. Tourism, hotels, restaurants, jobs, game days, property tax on a huge development. The math works.

Indiana did the math. While Illinois sat on it for years, Indiana passed a bill in months, put up $1B, and took the team.

And the Bears took a worse deal to get there. In Illinois they were going to own their stadium. In Indiana they rent it from the state. A team that wanted to build its own home gave up ownership just to escape Chicago.

Nobody won but Indiana. The Bears lost their stadium. Illinois lost the team, the $2B, and $53M a year in taxes.

Pritzker after they left: "I wasn't willing to give up billions of dollars of taxpayer money to give it to a billionaire-owned family or team."

There it is. "Billionaire-owned."

That's how Democrats talk about any business right before they run it out of town. Call them a billionaire, act like you're saving working families, take a victory lap while the tax base drives across the state line.

Meanwhile they're running the whole state into the ground. And you already know how this ends. You're living in it.

Pensions are $143B in the hole, worst in the country and not close. You pay $6,285 a year in property taxes, double the $2,969 national average, for a city that's $1.15B in the red. The mayor called its finances "the point of no return."

When you run things this badly, you sell what's left.

They leased the parking meters for 75 years to Morgan Stanley and a sovereign wealth fund in Abu Dhabi. Took $1.15B and burned through it in two years. The investors already made it all back, with 58 years left to collect.

Sold the Skyway. Sold the downtown garages. Every asset that made money, gone for one check.

But a fixed property tax rate for a team that's been here 106 years? That's "propping up billionaires."

Companies are leaving. Boeing for Virginia. Caterpillar for Texas. Citadel for Miami. In 2023 alone Illinois lost 56,000 people and $6B in income to other states. The ones who left earned a third more than the ones who moved in.

Indiana didn't outbid anyone. AAA credit, 16 years straight. A $676M surplus. Fourth-lowest debt per person in the country. They just weren't a disaster.

Illinois could have collected $53M a year. It chose zero. Ignore all the bad management but make sure to stick it to those evil, pesky billionaires.

[Stonetoss Comics @stonetoss]

in a lesbian relationship, which one takes accountability?

[Rapid Response 47 @RapidResponse47]

One might wonder why Newscum's team would post something so idiotic, but it makes sense considering they've never actually seen a project completed. It's a foreign concept to them.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

I AM SO FREAKING SICK OF THE GOP!!!!

WE HAD A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY TO PASS THE SAVE ACT WITH 50 VOTES AND THEY COULDN’T EVEN DO THAT!!!!!!

WHY DO THEY HATE THEIR OWN VOTERS THIS MUCH?!!!!

WHAT THE HELL ARE THESE PEOPLE DOING?!!!!

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

The Senate just rejected the SAVE America Act as part of budget reconciliation

The 4 Republicans who voted no:

Thom Tillis
Lisa Murkowski
Mitch McConnell
Susan Collins

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸The Senate just killed the SAVE Act, 48-50.

Voter ID and proof of citizenship, supported by over 80% of Americans, dead.

Four Republicans voted no: Tillis, Murkowski, McConnell, Collins.

The uniparty showed its face today...

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

We aren’t angry enough.

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: California officials are warning that counting votes in the primary could take *weeks.*

Just 54% of the votes for the governor's race have been counted, and the next 46% could take weeks, according to the Associated Press.

"Officials are urging patience as results could take weeks, yes, weeks to settle," Fox News' Trace Gallagher reported.

Ridiculous.

[Guy Benson @guypbenson]

This is Todd “Let’s Roll” Beamer, who died heroically while trying to retake United Flight 93 from Al Qaeda terrorists on 9/11. His final resting place, is in Cranbury, NJ — where he was living with his wife and children before his murder. Cranbury is located in NJ-12, where the new Democratic nominee for Congress is Adam Hamawy.

Hamawy was a close associate and translator to Omar Abdel-Rahman, aka the ‘Blind Sheikh,’ an arch terrorist convicted of masterminding multiple plots against targets in NYC — including the World Trade Center. Hamawy testified at Adbel-Rahman’s trial, as a defense witness.

It has also been reported that Hamawy traveled to Bosnia to volunteer at an organization that was later unmasked as an Al Qaeda front group.

One of Hamawy’s loudest and most high-profile supporters and endorsers has openly declared that America deserved the 9/11 attacks.

Hamawy is now the prohibitive frontrunner to represent Todd Beamer’s district in the United States Congress.