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[Senator Tony Strickland @SenStricklandCA]

Sacramento Democrats don’t want accountability or transparency, and they’ll go to great lengths to avoid it, including introducing this unbelievable bill -- Assembly Bill 2624, nicknamed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act.” This bill threatens free speech and journalism and will effectively scare citizen journalists and average Americans from speaking out or exposing fraud or wrongdoing in their communities.

AB 2624 seeks to criminalize investigative reporting, with penalties of up to $10,000 in fines, imprisonment, and forced content takedowns. It raises serious First Amendment concerns, as laws like this can create a chilling effect on free speech, where no one will want to take that risk.

I commend independent journalist Nick Shirley for exposing massive fraud in California and doing the kind of work that the California State Controller should already be doing.

Californians deserve better, not silence.

#caleg #NickShirley #stopfraud #stopwaste
@CASenReps

[US Oil & Gas Association @US_OGA]

Good evening @RepRoKhanna. We hope you had a nice Saturday.

Several people have requested we comment on your post. We will quickly before we take Mrs. USOGA out for date night.

First - like you, we hope this war will end soon and things will return to normal. Until then - things will be what they will be.

But high gas prices in your district aren’t “Trump’s war”—they’re Sacramento’s doing.

California drivers pay nearly double the national average in state taxes, plus cap-and-trade, Low Carbon Fuel Standard, unique reformulated gasoline, refinery limits, and geographic isolation that blocks cheap imports.

That adds $1.00–$1.78+ over the U.S. average.

Here is our suggestion. Your proposed windfall profits tax will do nothing to bring relief to your overtaxed and underappreciated constituents.

Instead -suspend those state-level taxes first and bring California prices in line with the national average.

Put your state bureaucracy on a diet. They could stand to shed a few pounds.

Encourage California domestic oil and gas production and expand your refinery capacity instead of shutting it down.

Stand up to your Governor. You know he is wrong and you can be on the right side of things

And let's talk windfall profits tax.

They don't work. While you don't call it a windfall profits tax, California recently passed one and called it a "wealth tax" now you see high net worth individuals fleeing your state.

History proves it backfires.

The 1980 Crude Oil Windfall Profit Tax cut domestic production 1–8% (hundreds of millions of barrels lost), boosted imports 3–13%, raised far less revenue than projected after deductions, created massive bureaucracy, and was repealed in 1988 because it discouraged supply exactly when America needed more.

That in turn led us to depend even more on Middle East imports for another 20 years right up until the shale revolution occurred. Kind of like how California is dependent on imports now.

Your repeated sponsorship of a new Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act would repeat the exact same mistake—shrinking U.S. output and raising costs.

Crude exports? They expand global supply, narrow price spreads (WTI-Brent) which is exerts downward pressure on world prices.

It is directly helping allies in Europe and Asia counter China's skirting sanctions and colluding with Iran to purchase crude at huge discounts.

Restricting exports would tighten markets, spike costs everywhere—including here—and hurt the consumers you claim to protect.

Finally we must also point out that
your voting record shows consistent opposition to our industry you want to tax. For example, you:

Voted against leasing more public lands and waters for oil drilling (2023, Roll Call 23).

Voted against reversing land-management protections to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas drilling—multiple times, including 2025 Roll Call 295 and earlier efforts to halt ANWR development.

Opposed critical oil and gas leasing reforms and fast-tracking fossil-fuel infrastructure (2024 Roll Call 95; 2025 votes undermining LNG authority and blocking fracking bans).

Voted NO on NDAA provisions that would expedite oil/gas permitting (2022–2023).

You have a 99% lifetime League of Conservation Voters score—near-perfect opposition to domestic energy exploration, production and leasing.

You’ve led hearings attacking us and sponsored bills to repeal industry tax provisions.

Fine—own that record.

But please stop shifting blame to “Trump’s war” or federal policy while California’s own choices keep your constituents paying the highest pump prices in America.

Real relief comes from more American supply + streamlined permitting, not recycled 1980s taxes or more restrictions.

Energy abundance, not rhetoric, lowers prices and bolsters U.S. and allied security.

Mrs. USOGA has instructed us to put the phone away so we will do that.

Have a good weekend.

[California Post @californiapost]

The news you knead. 🥯🗞️

California Post x @yeastiebagels rolling to a street near you soon.

[California Post @californiapost]

Meet your new daily read. 🗞️ https://t.co/bGMvaOyqpZ

[Senator Roger Niello @SenRogerNiello]

Essentially, our budget is a house of cards. One wrong move and the whole thing comes down. In addition to putting the basics first, the state needs to look at the programs it’s already funding and make sure they’re an effective and sustainable use of tax dollars. #CABudget

[Alex Vassar 📚 @AlexCVassar]

Has anyone else noticed that @EytanWallace is such a Capitol fixture that he's actually in the @googlemaps streetview image of Poseys?

[Eytan Wallace @EytanWallace]

NEW: State Senate Republicans @CASenReps send California Gov. @GavinNewsom @CAgovernor, Senate President Pro Tem @MoniqueLimonCA (D-Santa Barbara), and Assembly Speaker @CASpeakerRivas (D-Salinas) a letter, laying out GOP senators’ spending priorities. The letter also urges Democratic leaders to review outcomes of previous spending and programs ahead of next year’s budget.

“California’s problems stem from wasteful and poorly targeted spending that benefits narrow groups and lacks accountability,” the letter reads.

Among CA Senate Republicans’ spending priorities:

*Prop 36 drug treatment
*$2 billion fire prevention
*Extension of the renters tax credit
*Water storage
*Funding for distressed hospitals

Letter here:

[Maxie Douglas @Maxiehd1]

My annual tradition to remind everyone to check out my top artist on #SpotifyWrapped.

One of my favorite ways to get in the zone is with @WeAreVSQ’s classical versions of modern songs.

Top 1% Global Fan for several years running!

Brilliant artists.

[Maxie Douglas @Maxiehd1]

This line for the voting center at the Secretary of State’s office was long.

Get in line before 8:00 PM. And hey, maybe you’ll see me! 👋

[California Republican Party @CAGOP]

We are receiving reports of long lines to vote from around the state - DO NOT LEAVE THE LINE - STAY AND VOTE NO ON PROP 50!

[Maxie Douglas @Maxiehd1]

Recovering from #CALeg “End of Session Jet Lag,” but grateful for the people & path that got me in the rooms I now stand in.

Joy, laughter, and food kept me fueled.

Alone we can see. Together, we experience.

This EOS? Unforgettable experience.

Will not be taken for granted.

[Ashley Zavala @ZavalaA]

Last night of California’s legislative session but the bathroom renovation downstairs will not be deterred.

(Sound on)

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

I would like that today we may together begin to build a culture of reconciliation. We must meet one another, heal our wounds, and forgive the wrongs we did and did not do, but whose effects we still carry. There are no enemies — only brothers and sisters. What we need are gestures and policies of reconciliation.

[Coleman Hughes @coldxman]

R.I.P. Charlie Kirk

I didn't know Charlie personally. But he did send me a kind message last year. "I love all people" is what he said. If that is any indication of who the man was, then this country has lost someone special today.

Partisan politics did not stand in the way of him paying me a compliment, and it should not stand in the way of mourning him either.

We cannot become a society where expressing political views, even controversial ones, leads to violence. Whatever you think of his politics, Charlie was a decent man, a patriot, and a brave defender of his values. My heart goes out to his wife and his kids.

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

In the last few years we've seen:

- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk

Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.

[George W. Bush Presidential Center @TheBushCenter]

Statement by President George W. Bush:

"Today, a young man was murdered in cold blood while expressing his political views. It happened on a college campus, where the open exchange of opposing ideas should be sacrosanct. Violence and vitriol must be purged from the public square. Members of other political parties are not our enemies; they are our fellow citizens. May God bless Charlie Kirk and his family, and may God guide America toward civility."

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Charlie Kirk has passed away at the age of 31.

A husband, a father of two, and a man of God. He completely reshaped our country and had so much ahead of him.

Gut-wrenching. Rest in peace, Charlie.

[Erika Kirk @MrsErikaKirk]

Psalm 46:1 - God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.

[Maxie Douglas @Maxiehd1]

Heartbroken over the loss of one of my generations most influential leaders.

May his words and legacy always live one.

“If you believe in something, you need to have the courage to fight for those ideas – not run away from them or try and silence them” https://t.co/xt7j1jFMlV

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

The attack on Charlie Kirk is disgusting, vile, and reprehensible. In the United States of America, we must reject political violence in EVERY form.