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Newsom held a "Make America Rake Again" press conference on July 1, claiming "California has done more than our fair share of ‘raking’ the forests," and that “We’re doing all we can to protect communities from catastrophic wildfire." . Surely Palisades residents beg to differ. .

RFF estimates it would cost $17 billion to treat every single acre of land in California at high risk of wildfire, meaning the state could eliminate uncontrolled wildfire risk in just five years using only its cap-and-trade revenue. .

Instead, the largest recipient of the state's $3-4 billion in annual cap-and-trade revenue is the $38.5 billion high speed rail between Bakersfield and Merced, which gets a quarter of the funds. .

UCLA research shows that CA's 2020 wildfires released as much carbon dioxide as the state's prior two decades of emissions reductions, suggesting even if emissions are a higher priority than wildfire safety, fuels reduction would be the best use of cap-and trade-revenue. .

A new working paper from @rff estimates it would cost only $5 billion to treat all of the high-fire-risk land along the wildlife-urban-interface, or the equivalent of less than two years' revenue from CA's cap-and-trade greenhouse gas emissions program. .

Republican Assembly Leader @J_GallagherAD3 has pointed out that wildfire prevention funding declined from $1 billion in 2021 to $210 million today, with $12 billion this year allocated for taxpayer-funded healthcare for low-income illegal immigrants. .

Per @Hotshot_Movie, brush clearance along just the last few hundred feet between the wild and people's homes does work, as seen in the 2020 Silverado Fire. But just $210 million for fire prevention was allocated the state's new $321 billion budget. .

The late 2024 firewall stopped the Palisades Fire from spreading to the rest of the city but only after burning 23,488 acres, destroying 6,837 structures, and killing 30 Americans; contrast this with the 13,390 acre Silverado Fire that destroyed only five structures. .

CalFire's data shows state-funded efforts focused on clearing a firewall between the Palisades and Brentwood, with just one small sliver of clearance at the start of Temescal Fire Road, ultimately leaving the Palisades largely unprotected. .

How did California prepare for the deadly Palisades Fire? My investigation shows in the last two years, CalFire funded just one Palisades brush clearance, leaving the community completely exposed — undermining Newsom's narrative the state is doing its part to reduce fire risk.

Scoop: Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a budget emergency proclamation to access CA's $17.6 billion budget stabilization fund, blaming the Trump administration for forecasted revenue declines while signing a record $321 billion budget. For context, the last pre-Newsom budget in FY.

A few days ago, I broke news that CA had actually lost a net 80K jobs in 2024, as massive private sector job losses exceeded growth in taxpayer-funded jobs. In March, nearly half of all new jobs were from IHSS, a welfare program by which disabled or elderly Medi-Cal.

It’s real. $51-$97K a year for “underwriting and monitoring a private equity fund and co-investment portfolio” for the $547B state retirement fund. See below.

The same Mexico that dumps millions of gallons of raw Tijuana sewage into San Diego every day?.

These drugs not only make you lose weight, but sin less by reforming your inhibitions. Even in the unlikely chance is no physical downside, understand the spiritual corruption from outsourcing free will to a pill.

We don’t have aristocrats today. Most very wealthy people think of themselves as upper middle class, and therefore absolved of any social responsibility.

BACON wants his PORK 😅.