Sleepless in California

Tech entrepreneur, software engineer, mother, Chinese American.

[johnny maga @johnnymaga]

Spencer Pratt in February: “I have a good relationship with the IRS criminal investigation team. First week, I’m bringing them in. Here’s all the books. Open this up. Let’s see all the corruption.”

This is why they could never let him win.

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

10 years. 10 years. I’ve listened to every Dem & never Trump pundit call Trump, Elon and anyone else who voted Republican a Nazi. And now they line up behind Platner, with an actual Nazi tattoo. Unbelievable.

[Sleepless in California @lupinglin]

@QuantumGuard17 Damn, that's almost a million dollars a month.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

For anyone with a short memory: only four months ago, the Islamic regime in Iran slaughtered over 40,000 people in just two days, whose only crime was protesting for freedom.

[Tom Mong @tommong98]

@elonmusk Did you see Jensen?

[Yossi Goldstein @YossiGoldstein8]

Next time don't do this.

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

Israel is building tiny robots inside your body.

Researchers at the Technion have developed DNA origami nanorobots, programmable microscopic machines (just 100 nanometers wide) made entirely from DNA.

These tiny “robots” navigate through the bloodstream, detect specific cancer cell markers, and then deploy a targeted toxin directly into tumors, while completely sparing healthy cells.
In recent trials on aggressive cancers, they’ve shown incredible precision and effectiveness.

This isn’t science fiction anymore. It’s Israeli innovation turning the body into its own battlefield against disease.

From the lab bench to potentially saving millions of lives worldwide.

Proud every single day. 🇮🇱
#StartupNation #IsraeliInnovation #Nanorobotics #DNAOrigami #CancerTreatment

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

California Rep Kevin Kiley says they have learned the $100 million dollar pacific palisades Fire Aid concert money was laundered to nonprofits

“What we have learned is absolutely beyond belief — Tens of thousands of people donated raising a hundred million dollars for what they was were told was direct relief for the victims. But now we've learned that this money didn't go to the victims at all. Instead, it went to nonprofits”

Here are some examples

- CA Native Vote Project: $100,000 for voter participation for Native Americans
- Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE): $250,000 for programs prioritizing undocumented immigrants
- Altadena Talks Foundation: $100,000 went to supported podcasts, including Toni Raines podcast
- NAACP Pasadena: $100,000 political advocacy
- Los Angeles Black Worker Center $550,000 to political advocacy organizations
- Center for Applied Ecological Remediation: $500,000 for fungus/microbe/plant soil remediation projects

Over $500,000 went to bonuses for nonprofit leaders and consultants

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

A pacific palisades fire victim named Sue Pascoe started her own investigation after the $100 million dollars in donation money from the FireAid concert ‘went missing’

She personally called all the NGOs to find out who they were giving the money to

Not a single NGO had given any money to actual fire victims of the Pacific Palisades and Altadena fires

Reminder, investigators were able to track roughly $75 million had been granted to 120–188 nonprofits. Not a dime went to victims directly

Gavin Newsom created a NGO and got some of the money

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This is one of the dumbest tax proposals in California's history, and the math is so bad it embarrasses the people who wrote it.

Start with the headline. SEIU promises $100B in revenue. California spends $161B a year on Medi-Cal alone. The entire windfall, if collected at face value, funds 7 months of one program. Then it's gone forever, and the structural deficit they claim to fix returns the day the check clears.

Now the math gets uglier. The Hoover Institution estimates the permanent income tax loss from departing residents makes the net fiscal impact NEGATIVE by $25 billion. Read that twice. California sets fire to political capital, court costs, and capital flight to NET LOSE $25B. They're proposing to torch recurring revenue to fund 7 months of a program they've already underfunded for a decade.

The exodus already happened. $700B in net worth wired out of California before January 1, 2026. Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Travis Kalanick gone. The remaining 208 billionaires aren't tech founders sitting on liquid stock. They're real estate, agriculture, entertainment, the people whose wealth is physically bolted to California. Mobile capital fled. Trapped capital pays.

Read what San José mayor Matt Mahan, a Democrat running for governor, said about this on KQED: "It will lead to middle-class people having to pay higher taxes in the long run." A Democratic gubernatorial candidate openly admitting the wealth tax is a regressive transfer to the middle class. That's the part proponents won't put on the signs.

The legal exposure is worse. The proposal taxes wealth held as of January 1, 2026, retroactively, after voter approval in November 2026. Retroactive wealth taxation has never survived constitutional challenge in any US state. Washington's capital gains tax survived only because the state Supreme Court reclassified it as an excise tax. The poison-pill measure on the same November ballot bans retroactive taxation by constitutional amendment, funded by $80M from people who can afford the lawyers.

Every wealthy democracy that tried this killed it. France's wealth tax drove out an estimated 42,000 millionaires and €100B in capital before they repealed it in 2017. Italy, Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Austria, Finland, Iceland all tried wealth taxes. All repealed. California is about to vote on the experiment every comparable economy already ran and lost.

The signatures are real. The math is fake. The capital is already gone.

[Exec Sum @exec_sum]

BREAKING: $1 trillion in 'taxable' wealth has left California since the launch of a one-time 5% tax proposal on billionaires

Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Zuck, Peter Thiel, Don Hankey, Travis Kalanick, and Andy Fang are among the billionaires packing up

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

The California wealth tax is not on income…

It’s 5% of your net worth.
It’s state seizure of private assets.

This is now on the ballot and likely to pass.
Realize where we are.

[Don Keith @RealDonKeith]

🚨Gavin Newsom’s fire relief racket just got IRS confirmation: $800 million in “Fire Aid” for Pacific Palisades and LA wildfire victims never reached one single person.

It flowed straight into NGOs — including one Newsom and his wife personally created.

That group just quietly scrubbed itself from the website as the story broke.

Pure California grift.

[Alex Phillips @ThatAlexWoman]

I have just seen the unedited footage of the October 7th attacks. Please read:

What I saw was young men chopping off heads, shooting everything in sight, slaughtering little crying kids calling for their mummy, throwing grenades inside houses and cars and shelters, maiming bodies, playing with them, setting humans on fire, looking like it's the happiest day of their life.

They call their relatives to celebrate how many they have killed. The parents back in Gaza are thrilled. They cheer and ask for more.

"Bring back some heads for the people to play with" - asks a commander. The savages wilfully oblige, using flick knives to remove the skulls from slaughtered bodies like butchers carving up a carcass.

"Bring some home for the people so we can crucify them in the square" the Hamas leaders order.

The mangled, blood soaked bodies of hostages were paraded through the streets. The Gazan crowds cheered and filmed, celebrating or coming to spit on the terrified youngsters in the back of pick ups.

The young Hamas brutes with their ecstatic grins, taking selfies, shouting Allahu Akbar, looked like so many of the young men in dinghies. Trendy clothes, modern phones. Energy and conviction.

The first wave of attackers on October 7th were Hamas soldiers.

The second, amateur conscripts.

The third, Gazan civilians delighted to join in.

What even are these monsters.

I am forever changed, seeing what I have seen. And it isn't fake. It's footage Hamas shot themselves.

Israel must live with that right next door.

I fear we now have it, in hotels and houses around the country

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Luigi Leftism is a serious problem

[Sleepless in California @lupinglin]

55% of my income goes to pay taxes. Yet my kid's school still asked for donations and our city implemented additional property taxes to supplement the schools cuz they said the teachers can't afford to live in this area. 😠

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Bill Maher asks how the government is “failing the poor so badly” when he pays “60 PERCENT” of his earnings in taxes.

“Last week was tax day… I paid the government probably almost 60% of what I earn. That’s a lot.”

“And I… wouldn’t mind if Bernie Sanders would stop saying the rich don’t pay taxes.”

“The top 10% pay 72% of all federal income taxes. And the bottom half, 3%.”

“The Democratic Socialists talk about socialism like we don’t already have a lot: Social Security, unemployment, Medicare, nutritional assistance, Medicaid, Obamacare, disability, housing subsidies.”

“How can you be soaking the rich and failing the poor so badly? How can it be that the federal government alone took in over 5 trillion in taxes last year, and we still need that?”

“Are we really this incompetent and corrupt?”

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

There is a home health care company in Portland, Maine called ‘Legit Home Healthcare’

Legit Home Healthcare has billed Medicaid $7.1 million

When visiting the building, “They’ve been ‘out for coffee’ for 6 months”

The wife of Somali-born Democrat Maine State Rep Yusuf Yusuf is an employee there

This company billed MaineCare approximately $7.1 million from 2019 to 2024

Rep. Yusuf also operates his own home care business

[Sleepless in California @lupinglin]

I would come out to retirement to work for doge!

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk just described the most sophisticated theft operation in American history.

Not a heist. A system.

Your tax dollars leave Washington.

They enter a non-governmental organization. The government. With different letterhead.

Musk: “Obviously if it’s a government-funded non-governmental organization, it’s just the government.”

They cross a border.

American law stops following them.

They pass through three more entities in three more countries.

They come home.

Different pocket. Clean hands. Perfect crime.

Musk: “The government can send money to an NGO that is then no longer governed by the laws of the United States.”

Now run the math.

Congressional salary. $200,000.

Average net worth of a longtime member of Congress. North of $20 million.

Musk: “There are a lot of strangely wealthy members of Congress. I just can’t connect the dots of how they got $20 million earning $200,000 a year. Nobody can explain that.”

Nobody is supposed to.

This machine ran untouched for decades for one reason. Human limitation.

A forensic team cannot trace ten thousand wire transfers across fifty global jurisdictions at once.

The corruption does not hide in darkness.

It hides in volume.

They built a labyrinth so deliberately complex that the sheer weight of it collapses every investigation before it starts.

Paper buries paper. Bureaucracy absorbs inquiry.

The entire architecture was engineered to exhaust you.

Then artificial intelligence arrived.

AI does not get tired.

It cannot be bought.

It does not lose the thread at wire transfer 4,000.

You give it the entire global ledger. It maps every node, every transfer, every shell entity, every offshore NGO across every jurisdiction. Not in weeks. In hours.

It finds the signal inside the noise.

It flags the pattern.

It traces a dollar from a D.C. appropriation to a Cayman shell to a congressional portfolio in the time it takes a human auditor to find his parking spot.

The labyrinth was built to defeat human eyes.

It is defenseless against a machine that reads the entire maze at once.

This is why the establishment is not just annoyed by DOGE.

They are terrified.

Musk: “We’re going to try to figure it out and stop it.”

He did not arrive in Washington to trim budgets.

He arrived with supercomputing, AI audit systems, and a mandate to map the full financial architecture of the federal government.

For the first time in history, the complexity that protected the corruption is the very thing that will expose it.

Every shell entity is a signature.

Every routing pattern is a fingerprint.

Every congressman who walked in earning $200,000 and walked out worth $20 million is now a variable in an equation that will be solved.

The swamp was never impenetrable.

It was just too big for human hands.

It was never built for this.

[Sleepless in California @lupinglin]

@pmarca Which side is stupider? Asking for a friend.