NEW: @consumerreports just ran a massive test of how Uber and Lyft set their prices.
The investigation found 11% of their discounts are fake.
Participants saw different prices for the same ride, from the same place. Often within the same minute.
The Homeless Inc industry (at $1,000,000,000+ a year, it’s one of San Francisco’s top 20 businesses) is built on more sand than Enron.
The people of San Francisco: “these are druggies not “homeless.”
Homeless, Inc: “they’re former teachers and firefighters down on their luck.”
California Democrats have increased regulatory costs to grow lettuce 1,400%
New data shows groceries are getting more expensive is because farming is getting more expensive
A Cal Poly study tracked the regulatory costs of a California lettuce farm
- In 2006, it was $109 an acre
- Today, it's more than $1,600 an acre
- That's a 1,400% increase in regulatory costs
I looked more into this and it’s absolutely correct
The study tracked a large scale commercial lettuce grower in the Salinas Valley across 2006, 2017, and 2024
2006: Regulatory compliance costs = $109.15 per acre (about 1.26% of total production costs)
2017: Rose to $977 per acre (795% increase from 2006; 8.9% of production costs)
2024: $1,600+ per acre (63.7% increase from 2017; 1,366% overall increase since 2006; now 12.6% of total production costs).
The state produces 70% of US lettuce
“That dramatic rise has come from layer upon layer of regulation, nearly two dozen of them related to food safety, air and water quality, worker health and safety, and wages.”
California needs to vote Red and stop with all these insane revaluations
“Billions in taxpayer money flow through Congress as they work just 133 days and earn $174K salaries. What are we paying for?”
$810M in allowances, up to 18 staffers each, massive operating costs.
Billions in waste with nothing to show for it.
This is institutionalized fraud.
A Mount Sinai scientist warns the new headlights flooding American roads are dangerous.
Older headlights were softer, warmer, easier on the eyes.
Now drivers are hit with blinding blue-white beams every night.
This is the result of corporate GREED in America.
NEW: Multiple ICE warehouses were sold by people in Trump's circle who were sitting on the properties and losing money.
We dug into it, and found that some properties were bought by the feds for 10x their list price.
It's a new level of corruption — and you're paying for it.
For 20 years, a $6 knob that takes one hour to 3D print has been grounding Black Hawk helicopters four times a month, and the contractor responsible won't sell us the part or the IP rights to fix it ourselves.
So instead, American taxpayers have been paying $40,000 every single time to replace the entire system, multiplied by four times a month, for two decades.
That is NOT a procurement problem, that is a shakedown, and it is exactly why right to repair has to be in this year's NDAA.