A.C.Houston

computational linguist, coder, author of the novel, Blind Tasting. Language blogger:

[Taya Bass @travelingflying]

Elon Musk:”You get taxed on what you earn, you get taxed on what you buy, and you get taxed on what you own. And what does it get spent on? A bunch of stuff you don’t even agree with.

That’s why we need to reduce the size of government, spend less money and let the people keep a lot more of their hard-earned money.”

[Larry Elder @larryelder]

How Deep Are the Newsoms in It? THIS Deep

“The shenanigans were so egregious that — no matter what TDS nonsense Newsom's social media team posts on X — the DOJ investigation began under the Biden administration. As I quipped on Instapundit this week, maybe Newsom needs to take a break from social media and lawyer up. 
Then there are the real-world effects, the fallout from personal corruption and statewide, one-party rule.”

https://t.co/wpsjDOg6i2

[Carol M. Swain, PhD @carolmswain]

Subcontractors who helped build the Obama Presidential Center say they’re owed millions and facing financial ruin.

One plumbing company owner reports his firm is still owed nearly $4 million for work performed on the project.

What started as a tremendous honor hasn’t ended so well for these businesses. How long would most contractors tolerate going unpaid on a major project like this?

Accountability matters. Thoughts?
#ObamaPresidentialCenter #UnpaidContractors #ObamaCenter #ConstructionIndustry #Accountability

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

On Tuesday, Chicago police arrested University of Illinois Chicago senior Merlin LU for the June 9 cross-burning in Grant Park.
Of course, this is a left-wing extremist, was trying to frame MAGA supporters for a hate crime - by doing a hate crime himself.
One could argue that this is like the SPLC crimes.
Left-wing radicals causing terrorist activities to make it appear that people who support Trump are the extremists.
We live in crazy times.

[Harmeet K. Dhillon @HarmeetKDhillon]

Discriminatory AND illegal!

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

This is a classic case of elite incestuous self-dealing dressed up in progressive "gender equity" drag. Let me walk you through the whole grift, piece by piece.

🏠 The $9.1 Million "Pritzker Discount" Mansion

In November 2024, the Newsoms acquired a 5,600-square-foot, six-bedroom midcentury modern estate at 224 Woodland Road in Kentfield, Marin County — one of the wealthiest enclaves in America.

The seller: Daniel Pritzker, billionaire heir to the Hyatt Hotels fortune.

The price: $9.1 million — which was actually $600,000 over the final asking price of $8.5 million. The property had originally been listed at $10.75 million, then dropped to $9.5 million, then to $8.5 million. Somehow the Newsoms swooped in and paid more than what the market was demanding. Curious.

The vehicle: The home was purchased through MHBD Farms LLC — an entity created just two days before the transaction closed on November 14, 2024. The LLC is named after the Newsoms' four children. Jennifer Siebel Newsom was later listed as the manager of that LLC as of May 2025.

This is the second time the Newsoms have used a mysterious LLC to acquire real estate. In 2018–2019, an LLC registered to Newsom's cousin and PlumpJack business partner Jeremy Scherer bought a $3.7 million Fair Oaks estate in cash, then "gifted" it to the Newsoms — conveniently avoiding the transfer tax.

💰 The Pritzker Connection — It's Deeper Than Real Estate

This wasn't some arm's-length transaction between strangers. The Pritzker family were Gavin Newsom's first-ever political donors when he launched his career. That's not a coincidence — that's a long-term patronage relationship.

The Pritzker family — through their various entities and foundations — contributed roughly $572,000 to the California Partners Project, Jennifer Siebel Newsom's "gender equity" nonprofit. Let's sit with that: the family that sold the Newsoms a mansion also shoveled over half a million into the First Partner's charity.
And that charity is where the real action is.

🎭 The "Nonprofit" Industrial Complex

Jennifer Siebel Newsom runs a multi-layered financial ecosystem that blurs every line between charity, personal enrichment, political influence, and taxpayer funding.

The Three-Headed Beast:

View the second image in the first comment below.

💸 The Numbers — Follow the Money

The Representation Project (2011–2024):

•$1.8 million paid directly to Jennifer Siebel Newsom in salary (per IRS filings)
•$1.6+ million paid to her for-profit company Girls Club Entertainment for "writer/producer/director" fees
•Combined total from the nonprofit to her and her company: roughly $3.4 million over roughly 13 years
•Annual take: approximately $300,000 (salary + GCE payments) — roughly a third of the nonprofit's total annual income in recent years
•Her 2024 salary was $161,250; GCE received an identical $161,250

The California Partners Project (2020–present):

•Gavin Newsom has solicited $4.8 million in behested payments for this nonprofit
•$1.8 million of that came from the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria (the casino tribe — more on that below)
•$572,000 from the Pritzker family
•Other donors include Silicon Valley Bank ($100K), Blue Shield of California ($50K), and the New Venture Fund ($100K)
The Office of the First Partner (taxpayer-funded):
•Created by Gavin Newsom in 2019 as a division of the governor's office
•Armed with roughly $5 million in cumulative taxpayer funding
•Staffed by nine employees with an annual budget of over $1.1 million as of 2023
•This government office openly "shares resources" with the California Partners Project to launch advocacy campaigns
•Siebel Newsom used this platform to push for billions in school mental health funding — while her nonprofit sells the curricula and films to those same schools

🎰 The Graton Rancheria Quid Pro Quo
This is the most brazen piece. The Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, which operates the Graton Resort & Casino in Sonoma County, donated $1 million to the California Partners Project at Gavin Newsom's personal solicitation.
Around that same time, Newsom used his office to block the Koi Nation, a smaller tribe, from building a competing casino near Graton's operation. Ethics watchdogs — including Michael Chamberlain of Protect the Public's Trust — flagged this as a potential violation of California conflict-of-interest law requiring officials to recuse themselves from matters involving entities that have donated to their family's charities.

The timeline screams quid pro quo:

1. Newsom asks tribe for donation to wife's charity
2. Tribe writes check
3. Newsom blocks tribe's competitor

That's not governance. That's a protection racket with better branding.

🏫 The School Pipeline — Taxpayer Dollars Into Her Pocket

The California Board of Education adopted guidance recommending Siebel Newsom's films and curricula for classroom use the same year Gavin became governor. The Representation Project licenses these films to school districts at roughly $270 per district. By her own boast, 2.6 million students have seen the films nationwide.

The films include titles like Miss Representation, The Mask You Live In, The Great American Lie, and Fair Play — all pushing radical gender ideology. The Office of the First Partner used its taxpayer-funded platform to advocate for $5 billion in youth mental health spending and 10,000 new school counselors — who were then positioned to purchase her materials.

Corporate donors to The Representation Project include PG&E, AT&T, Comcast, and Kaiser Permanente — all entities with massive business before the governor's office. Kaiser alone has received state contracts exceeding $35 million during Newsom's tenure. PG&E donated $25,000 to a Representation Project fundraiser a week after Newsom's 2018 election, while facing government scrutiny for its role in California wildfires.

🔍 The Federal Investigation

As of June 2026, the DOJ is actively investigating the Newsoms' finances — including Jennifer Siebel Newsom's taxes, her nonprofits, and the flow of money between them. Federal investigators have been contacting donors, former and current employees, and board members connected to her organizations.
Gavin Newsom is, predictably, framing this as political retaliation from the Trump administration. But the paper trail — the behested payments, the LLC shell games, the self-dealing between her nonprofit and her for-profit company, the donor-to-policy pipeline — was all out in the open long before any federal probe.

🎯 The Bottom Line

What you're looking at is a closed-loop influence-peddling system:

•Billionaire family (Pritzker) donates to wife's charity and sells the couple a mansion
•Governor solicits millions for wife's nonprofit from entities with business before the state
•Wife draws salary from her own nonprofit while her private company gets paid by that same nonprofit
•Taxpayers fund her government office, which promotes the agenda her films sell
•Schools buy her licensed content with money her husband's policies allocated
•Donors get favorable treatment, blocked competition, and no-bid contracts

The $9.1 million Pritzker mansion isn't just a house. It's a monument to how the political class converts public trust into private wealth — all while lecturing the rest of us about equity and justice.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

*SPACEX SHARES JUMP 10%, SET TO OVERTAKE AMAZON IN MARKET VALUE

[Willis Eschenbach @WEschenbach]

Thanks, Handre. Best analysis of Obamacare EVAR.

Followed for clarity of thought and writing.

w.

[Miranda Devine @mirandadevine]

Even with all the free publicity, Jill Biden's delusional book has sold just 20,000 copies two weeks in and languishes at 429 on Amazon. Nevertheless the NYT has "View from the East Wing" at #1 on its so-called bestseller list. Must be a slow week for book sales 😂

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Incredible!

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

SpaceX Erupts In After Hours Trading, Hits $3 Trillion Market Cap, Surpassing Microsoft https://t.co/wUGxXBoJ79

[Electroverse @Electroversenet]

A large tree trunk has been uncovered beneath a glacier in the Alps, dated to around 6,000 years ago.

The species is Swiss stone pine. Today, trees of that type cannot grow at that altitude because it is far too cold.

6,000 years ago aligns with the Holocene climate optimum, a time when temperatures were far higher than now, even with far less atmospheric CO2.

Earth's climate is cyclical and Mother Nature self-regulates.

Narratives of doom serve political aims, not reality.

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

Gun Safety: Violent Crime Drops As More Americans Pack Heat https://t.co/bRU8raRSYu

[Handre @Handre]

In 1968, while teenage Red Guards beat their professors to death with clubs in Beijing courtyards, Jean-Paul Sartre sat in Paris calling Mao's Cultural Revolution a model of revolutionary democracy. The most celebrated intellectual in France looked at a country burning its own libraries and saw liberation. He sold the Maoist newspaper La Cause du Peuple on French street corners himself, holding it aloft like a sacrament.

Consider what he was endorsing. Between 1966 and 1976, the Cultural Revolution killed somewhere between 500,000 and two million people. Schools shut down across the entire country. Students dragged teachers onto stages, hung placards around their necks, forced them to kneel on broken glass, then murdered them. The historian Bian Zhongyun, vice-principal of a girls' school in Beijing, died on August 5, 1966, beaten by her own students with nail-studded clubs. Sartre called this the people governing themselves.

You should understand why a man this intelligent got it this wrong. Sartre believed knowledge served power, that truth was whatever the revolution required, that the individual existed to be dissolved into the collective will. So when Mao abolished the distinction between teacher and student, between expert and mob, Sartre cheered. He had spent decades arguing that bourgeois reason was a class weapon. Here was a regime taking him at his word and clubbing the reasoners to death.

This is what economic illiteracy buys you. A university, a price, a contract, and a peasant's grain stockpile all carry knowledge that no central planner can seize or replicate. Mises explained the calculation problem in 1920. Hayek explained dispersed knowledge in 1945. Sartre had access to both and chose the dunce cap of the collective instead, then handed out its propaganda on the Rue de Rennes.

He died in 1980, mourned by 50,000 followers, never having retracted a word about Mao. The professors of Beijing got no such funeral. They got a ditch, and a philosopher in Paris explaining that their murder was freedom.

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

It's incredible to me that they can't see how their whole approach is just a downward spiral, and I'd be willing to bet a lot of them honestly can't see it because they're actually cooked.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Correct.

[A.C.Houston @QuetzalBlue]

@robbystarbuck Also. https://t.co/VdwUiAxsnK

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

Oh, Hillary. Hillary, Hillary. You ignorant slut.

As the Senior Military Aide to President Bill Clinton, YOU’RE military aide — the officer who carried the nuclear football in and out of the White House every single day — I saw the “people’s house” up close alongside you. @HillaryClinton

Spare us the sanctimonious lectures. And turn on your replies, coward.

When you and Bill left in January 2001, your staff ransacked the place. Remember?

“W” keys ripped off every keyboard. Phone lines cut. Desk drawers glued shut. Obscene voicemails and vulgar graffiti left behind.

Presidential seals and silverware stolen. Furniture damaged. The GAO confirmed the vandalism and theft. It wasn’t “transition friction” — it was a disgrace.

You trashed the People’s House on your way out the door and now you’re clutching pearls over Trump?

I remember, Hillary. I was there. Remember?

The hypocrisy is Olympic-level, Ms. Clinton. And you know it! You of ALL people know it!

The American people have long memories. Especially this one! Me!

We remember who actually looted the place.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Shut up and color.

[A.C.Houston @QuetzalBlue]

@zerohedge Blades of grass punch through the sidewalk to find the sunlight.

[AAGHarmeetDhillon @AAGDhillon]

How do you know? You don’t audit them, and you’re obstructing the federal government’s audit, Rob. What are you hiding?

[A.C.Houston @QuetzalBlue]

@WEschenbach https://t.co/4DTYeiVE9W

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

The socialist definition of fairness is fascinating:

Getting rich through voluntary trade is exploitation.

Taking from someone because they're rich is justice.

A philosophy that can't distinguish trade from theft has no business lecturing anyone about fairness.