Chris Parker

[FireBarbaraLee.com @FireBarbaraLee]

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee is a landlord who HID rental income from the public for over a decade.

While serving in Congress, she transferred her Oakland property at 5974 Skyline Blvd to her aunt and uncle’s living trust in 2010, right after she started renting out the basement in-law suite. Before the transfer, she reported the income. After moving the property into the family trust, she stopped disclosing both the property and any rental income for the next 13 years, even though the unit was actively rented out for up to $2,350 a month.

That’s potentially more than $300,000 in rental income she never reported on her financial disclosures.

She only took the property back in 2024 after her aunt passed away. She didn’t put it in her own living trust like her other properties. She used a family trust instead and kept the income hidden.

This is who talks transparency but hid her own rental income for years.

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

I did a point/counterpoint event with her over the validity of Marx's theories.

I opened my remarks by reading a quote about how Marxist doctrine was obsolete, unscientific, and economically irrelevant.

She started audibly scoffing while I was still reading, apparently thinking it was from some right wing laissez faire anticommunist.

The quote was from John Maynard Keynes.

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Joyless Reid can say whatever she wants about the 4th of July. That’s her right as an American.

But when I look at that flag, I don’t see oppression. I see opportunity.

I see the American Dream that I have been blessed to live.

I see a flag that has been draped over the caskets of brave men and women who never made it home.

I see the generation that stormed the beaches of Normandy, charged through machine-gun fire, and helped rid the world of fascism.

I see the sacrifices of millions of Americans who built, defended, and improved this country.

That’s why people from every corner of the world still come here chasing freedom and opportunity.

So don’t expect the rest of us to be ashamed of loving our country.

On this 250th anniversary of our independence, I’ll proudly celebrate the greatest experiment in self-government ever created, honor those who sacrificed to preserve it, and thank God for the privilege of being an American.

Respect the flag.
Respect those who fought for it. Respect the union it represents. 🇺🇸

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In the 1980s, California spent around seventy-four million dollars of public money building the Kern Water Bank, a vast underground reservoir meant to hold water for cities to fall back on in a drought.

Today it largely waters almonds and pistachios for a single billionaire couple.

Stewart and Lynda Resnick own the Wonderful Company, the outfit behind Wonderful Pistachios, POM juice, Halos mandarins and Fiji Water, and the biggest nut growers in the United States.

In 1994, across a few days of closed-door talks on the Monterey Peninsula, that taxpayer-built water bank was quietly moved out of public hands. When the dust settled, a Wonderful subsidiary held a 57 percent controlling stake. The same deal let water be banked, traded and sold like a commodity, and stripped cities of the priority they used to hold in a shortage.

So in a dry year the Resnicks can sell water back to the very public that paid to store it, at a premium.

The rest gets poured onto permanent orchards in the semi-arid western San Joaquin Valley, ground that sits close to desert and survives only on imported water. An almond drinks roughly a gallon apiece, and a nut tree cannot be left fallow when the rain fails the way a field of lettuce can. The thirst is locked in for decades.

None of this happened by accident. The Resnicks have poured millions into politicians of both parties and sit among Gavin Newsom's largest donors.

Water in California is supposed to belong to the public. They worked out that whoever owns the land and the paperwork owns the water, and they bought both.

[GloriaRomero @GloriaJRomero]

"Resigns"? Like in, just walks away?

Where are the arrests?
@AGRobBonta @USAttyEssayli @LAUSDSup @Kelly4LASchools @NickMelvoinBD4

[Vivek Ramaswamy @VivekGRamaswamy]

Let freedom ring. Soon it’ll be other conservative states following Ohio’s lead rather than the other way around. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

[Tim Anderson @AssocAnderson]

Democrats are allocating funds to automatically restore felon voting rights upon release from incarceration before voters have even voted on the amendment.

Democrats are saying: Why wait for voters to approve the constitutional amendment? Thats silly. Let’s do go ahead and start doing it on July 1.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇮🇷🇺🇸 The Iranian football team left a nice shoutout in their locker room before packing up.

Their message: "We came to Los Angeles with pride, competed with honor, and leave with dignity. Thank you, Los Angeles, for your hospitality."

Always nice to see some class.

Source: @PressTV / Writer: Daniyal

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

Congress is scrambling right now to pass online identity checks to use the internet—just like we’re seeing in places like the UK—before anyone realizes what they’re doing.

They’re using “protecting kids” as their excuse, but it’s really about spying on and controlling Americans!

[Chris Parker @oblique58]

@adgirlMM everytime.

[ROOZ @ROOZVA]

What Virginia Democrats have done with the budget should disgust all of us.

They crammed it full of a bunch of unpopular policies and then introduced it late Friday night hoping no one would notice.

❌Recreational marijuana after Spanberger just vetoed it in stand-alone legislation (she wanted the talking point).
❌TRIPLES the salary of legislators.
❌$3 million to market tourism to only “Black, Indigenous, and Hispanic communities.”
❌Money shell game scam to hide how much RGGI is taking from you.

… and that’s just the start!

This is the opposite of how the democratic process is supposed to work.

[Mike Lee @SenMikeLee]

There are 27 weeks left in the year.

The Senate is scheduled to be in recess for 16 of them.

Nothing beats filibustering obstruction like taking away vacation days…

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

Keir Starmer was an awful prime minister. But the core problem isn't him or the "system"; it's the British public, which refuses to correct course despite their demands having yielded disastrous results for nearly two decades. https://t.co/NhPXejkzwG

[Chris Parker @oblique58]

@DeAngelisCorey Where are the serious people?

[Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist @DeAngelisCorey]

Chicago has a public school that's 97% empty.

It spends over $90,000 per student.

Its staff to student ratio is 1:1.

ZERO of the kids are proficient in math or reading.

[Beth Ann Nichols @GolfweekNichols]

Next up: KPMG Women’s PGA at Hazeltine

[🇮🇷 Association of Iranian Royalists @IranRoyalists]

This is Mohammad Rashid Mazaheri, a professional football goalkeeper who represented Iran's national team. He has long been a vocal critic of the Islamic regime, speaking out against the execution of protesters and other government abuses. Following the regime's massacre of innocent protests in January 2026, he posted a series of messages on Instagram calling Ali Khamenei "satan" and a murderer. He later joined protesters in the streets. Since then, he has disappeared, and no one has heard from him.

[The🐰FOO @PolitiBunny]

How many do you want?

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[Rothmus 🏴 @Rothmus]

Frens, it’s time to bring back the Communist Control Act.

Because communism is not “just another political opinion” in a liberal and democratic society. It is the total rejection of life, liberty, and property.

It does not coexist with freedom, it exists to destroy it.

The Non-Aggression Principle (NAP) forbids the initiation of violence and the credible threat of violence.
And communism is the permanent, explicit threat to steal and kill.

It is the ideology of a man who looks you in the eye and says:
“The moment I have the power, I will rob you of everything and murder anyone who resists.”

He just doesn’t have the guns yet.

We are not required to wait until he does.

This is no different from ISIS.
Both ideologies are built on the same foundation.
The constant threat of theft, violence, and the violent imposition of their vision on everyone else.

A free society does not extend tolerance to those whose stated goal is the violent abolition of freedom.
It removes them physically, permanently, and without apology.

McCarthy was right. Hoppe was right.

The enemy of liberty and civilization gets no foothold.

[VA Senate GOP @VASenateGOP]

Better idea: Virginia exits RGGI and just lets working families keep all the money that Democrats’ carbon tax will steal from them.

That’s what Senate Republicans proposed. Democrats killed it.