Melissa Sheehan

Married with 4 kids. I love the USA 🇺🇸

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

Jimmy Kimmel i guess you missed the part of the story i don’t need a U-Haul…I have nothing left to pack 🤷‍♂️

[Joe Concha @JoeConchaTV]

If you’re a Republican thinking of running in California in the future… seriously… why bother?

[Erick Erickson @EWErickson]

One of the greatest speeches of the late 20th century, given on the 40th anniversary of one of the most spectacular days in human history.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

It's hard to overstate how much of an outlier California is for its slow vote-counting relative to literally any other state or almost any other industrialized democracy.

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

Imagine voting for Karen Bass.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

If you don't vote, I don't want to hear you ever complain about any of the filth, crime, or decline in LA again. Get off your butt and VOTE, or enjoy what you get.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

A year and a half after the fire and this is the total of all the framing that has gone up in all of Malibu. Remember what I said was going to happen from my hotel room the day after the fire

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

When I was in my 20’s I was on a TV show. When Karen Bass was in her 20’s, she was training in terrorist tactics and guerrilla warfare with communists in Cuba. Back when the LA Times was still in LA, and used to tell the truth…

[Melissa Sheehan @melsheehan]

@Tim_Frantz @LindseyGrahamSC Exactly!! 🤦🏼‍♀️

[Nick Kupper @realnickkupper]

California’s brain dead politics are the problem, not @Chevron

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

If that addict on your street were your own son, what would you do? That is the defining question that guides my 5 step plan to fix the homelessness problem in LA. We *must* end this evil racket of corrupt politicians and NGOs who profit off the misery of these poor souls. They launder money and feed them more drugs, so they can keep their customers locked in this hell on our streets. We have a moral obligation from God to help them and make our city safe and clean for everyone. Karen Bass and Nithya Raman have forsaken this city. Time for real leadership. Time for real compassion.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

The only thing the hispanic community hates more than slimy politicians…is COMMUNISTS

[Melissa Sheehan @melsheehan]

@GrageDustin @robbystarbuck @spencerpratt Anyone can vote on that poll. Not an accurate way to predict.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

LMAO

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

They not like us

[Sheriff Chad Bianco @ChadBianco]

@TomSteyer Dear Tom,

Please visit every other state in the country. After you notice that none of the others have $8 gas, your eyes can finally be opened to who is really ruining California.

You and your buddies.

[Bill Melugin @BillMelugin_]

NEW: CA gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer (D) releases an immigration platform that is radically left of Gov. Newsom. It includes:

- Abolish ICE
- Put ICE agents in jail & “treat them like the mob”.
- Bring those “kidnapped & detained by ICE back home.”
- Give CA AG power to imprison ICE agents & their leadership.
- Taxpayer funded legal representation & support for illegal aliens.
- Ignore a SCOTUS ruling that allows ICE to utilize to use race, language, job, and location to contribute to “reasonable suspicion” for immigration arrests, and instead, “California should take matters into our own hands and extend legal protections to its residents, despite the federal governments failure.”

“This is about our right as a state to protect our residents,” Steyer says.

[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.

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

California is going bankrupt before our eyes.