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Californians Are Prepared To Run Their State Into The Ground

According to recent polling, the California Voter ID initiative is in danger of losing this November, even though a supermajority of Americans across the political spectrum support Voter ID. Meanwhile, a 5% billionaire tax looks likely to win, even though the evidence against such proposals could not be clearer: higher taxes mean more rich people will flee to low-tax states, thus further depleting California’s already dwindling coffers.

What’s the matter with California voters? Why are they so addicted to failure? Why do they celebrate the continued demise of their once-great state?

The state of California remains the land of fruits and nuts, and all common-sense reforms are failing. This is a hard pill for many to swallow on the right in general, among Republicans in particular, and for the rest of the world watching, but Democrats don’t care. Power is the game, and the rest is chicken feed.

They dominate the voter rolls two-to-one.

They control every level of government.

They run the unions.

They have forced a hostile political takeover of big business, too. Chevron, pharmaceutical companies, and major financial firms are all trying to get a seat at the table to protect themselves.

Meanwhile, every major identity politics special interest runs riot in the state. From LGBT to Black Liberation, to everything in between, the left-wing smorgasbord of “give me money” hunkers down on Democratic lawmakers, demanding their piece of the increasingly receding budget.

The Democratic Socialists of America have been on a tear across California, taking over major city councils and pushing out weak Democratic lawmakers for the last ten years. The 2024 election witnessed a particular bloodbath for the party’s more establishment wing.

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Cause of Death Reportedly Revealed for Missing US Attorney Found Dead Inside Federal Building After Being Reported Missing

The cause of death of a federal prosecutor who once served twice as acting US Attorney based in San Diego has reportedly been revealed.

As previously reported, a caller informed the San Diego Police late Wednesday evening to report that Haden might be missing.

A short time later, he was discovered dead by law enforcement in an office at 880 Front St. in Downtown San Diego.

Southern District U.S. Atty. Adam Gordon confirmed b Haden’s death in a statement, calling it “one of the darkest days in our office’s history.”

“But there was nothing dark about Andrew Haden’s life,” he added.

Now, the New York Post exclusively reports that Haden died by hanging in an apparent suicide.

This should not come as a surprise since San Diego Police Department spokesperson Ashley Nicholas previously noted that no foul play was suspected.

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Debate Over Flock Surveillance Cameras Takes Unexpected Turn in SoCal As ‘Darth Vader’ Weighs In

Well here’s some fun Saturday night nuttery for you.

We’ve written on the ongoing debate in this country about Flock license-plate reading cameras. They’ve been used to thwart mass terror attacks — but they’ve also been used by unscrupulous law enforcement officers to keep an eye on their exes. Creepy.

One thing you might not have expected, however, is for Darth Vader to come down from space and weigh in on the matter at a San Diego City Council Public safety meeting Wednesday. I have to say, the guy’s got Mr. Vader’s breathing sounds down perfectly, and his voice work is pretty solid too.

If whoever was behind the spot was trying to get attention, he achieved his goal, because the clip has been viewed millions of times. 

His little speech was way out there, but it would seem he was using the occasion to mock the city’s 500 Flock cameras installed on streetlights. Several of the folks in attendance appeared to struggle to contain their laughter.

The council member who announced that it was his turn to speak didn’t seem to flinch in the slightest when she introduced him. “Thank you,” she said to a citizen who had just finished her remarks. “Darth Vader?”

Maybe they’re used to this kind of thing on the Left Coast:

The Emperor is a fan of Flock, and we must continue utilizing Flock technologies so that we can follow and surveil the Rebel scum as they move from playground to playground, from playground to pool, from pool to gymnasium, because we all know that the Flock cameras are not only following the license plate readers… They are following children in parks and gymnasiums, and we need this.

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Assistant U.S. Attorney Found Dead Inside Federal Building

A high-ranking federal prosecutor was found dead inside a Southern California federal building on Wednesday, just hours after he was reported missing.

Andrew Haden, 48, the No. 2 official in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California, was discovered in a vacant office at the Edward J. Schwartz Federal Building, officials said.

The county Medical Examiner’s Office will determine the official cause and manner of death, but a source told the San Diego Union-Tribune that investigators believe Haden died by suicide.

Haden was a 16-year veteran of the office who climbed the ranks after joining in 2010 through the Attorney General’s Honors Program. Haden served as first assistant U.S. attorney and previously ran both the Violent Crimes & Human Trafficking Section and the Criminal Division. The federal prosecutor was also a U.S. Navy veteran and a father of two school-aged children.

U.S. Attorney Adam Gordon broke the news to staffers in an email Thursday.

“This is one of the darkest days in our office’s history, but there was nothing dark about Andrew Haden’s life,” Gordon wrote. “He was a beacon of light — full of laughter, friendship, integrity and unwavering commitment to serving our community.

“We will honor his life and legacy by carrying his light forward, today and always,” he added.

Even the defense attorneys who squared off against him were rattled. Jeremy Warren, who faced Haden in court time and again, told the newspaper “the fact that we remained friends throughout is a testament to the type of guy he was,” calling the death “a huge blow to the entire federal community in San Diego.”

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California City Council Candidate ARRESTED on Five Felony Counts — Prosecutors Say She Listed a Cocktail Lounge as Her Home

Another election-fraud scandal has erupted in deep-blue California.

Desiree Lynch, a Democrat-aligned candidate for the Stockton City Council, was arrested Wednesday following a public-corruption investigation and charged with five felonies involving alleged perjury, false voter registration, and fraudulent candidate paperwork.

Although Stockton’s municipal elections are officially nonpartisan, Lynch’s campaign has leaned unmistakably to the left.

Her campaign website warns that “fairness, decency, freedom, and justice” are supposedly “under attack at the federal level” — an apparent swipe at President Donald Trump and his administration. Stockton Vice Mayor Jason Lee also publicly endorsed her campaign.

According to the San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office, Lynch allegedly registered to vote and filed to run for the District 5 council seat using addresses where she did not live.

And one of the alleged “home” addresses was a cocktail lounge.

Prosecutors say Lynch used two Stockton addresses to manufacture residency inside District 5:

  • Harry’s Cocktail Lounge at 407 E. Charter Way, also known as East Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard; and
  • Doyle Garden Apartments at 625 E. Oak Street.

Investigators determined that Lynch was actually living in Lodi and North Stockton, including an area located in Stockton City Council District 1, not District 5, according to the DA’s office.

The criminal complaint contains three perjury counts under California Penal Code Section 118(a), one count of causing, procuring, or allowing false voter registration under Elections Code Section 18100(a), and one count of filing a false nomination or declaration of candidacy under Elections Code Section 18203.

The alleged offenses span from November 10, 2025, through August 17, 2026.

The charges are:

  • Count 1: Perjury on or about November 10, 2025;
  • Count 2: Perjury on or about February 5, 2026;
  • Count 3: Perjury on or about March 2, 2026;
  • Count 4: Causing, procuring, or allowing false voter registration from approximately November 10, 2025, through August 17, 2026; and
  • Count 5: Filing a false nomination or declaration of candidacy during that same period.

The arrest followed a six-week investigation by the District Attorney’s Bureau of Investigations. The probe began after the San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office referred the matter following the June primary election.

Lynch finished second in that primary, receiving 1,054 votes, or 30.59 percent, and advanced to the November runoff against incumbent Councilman Brando Villapudua, who received 1,173 votes, or 34.04 percent.

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Calif.: New GOP-led bill targets sales of ‘glow-in-the-dark rabbits’ and other ‘novelty’ pets

California legislators are seeking to pass a bill that would prohibit the sale of animals that possess a “cosmetic transgenic trait,” including “glow-in-the-dark” rabbits and other so-called “novelty” pets.

The bill’s author, Assemblywoman Leticia Castillo (R-Calif.), voiced her desire to protect animals and treat them ethically, asserting that genetic engineering should not be used for arbitrary reasons.

“As technology moves forward, our responsibility to protect animals must move forward to,” Castillo said in an August 5th press release.

“Genetic engineering has the potential to improve animal health and support lifesaving research. But animals should never be changed simply to create a product that is more unusual or more profitable,” she continued.

The bill, AB 1382, passed the Assembly in California, but it stalled in committee in the state Senate, where it has been held under submission since August 13th.

In a recent press release, Assemblywoman Castillo noted that biotech startups are already engineering “designer pets,” including “glow-in-the-dark rabbits” and proposals for “unicorn”-like animals.

“‘Transgenic trait’ means a trait that has been deliberately altered, modified, or engineered, through means not possible under natural conditions, by insertion of a foreign gene using genetic engineering methods,” the bill reads. “Notwithstanding any other law, a person shall not import for profit, sell, or offer for sale in this state a transgenic pet animal that possesses a cosmetic transgenic trait.”

The bill broadly defines pet animals to include dogs, cats, rabbits, rodents, reptiles, amphibians, birds, fish and “other species of animal kept for the purpose of being a household pet.”

In a legislative analysis of the bill, the company the Los Angeles Project, a startup up in Austin, Texas, was specifically referenced. The analysis stated that the company was utilizing the gene-editing tool CRISPR with the aim to have “glowing baby bunnies” to eventually sell as pets.

The Los Angeles Project was cofounded by biohacker Josie Zayner and is using gene-editing to work on making “glow-in-the-dark rabbits, hypoallergenic cats and dogs, and possibly, one day, actual unicorns,” according to a February 2025 WIRED article.

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Calif.: L.A. councilmember pushes vote to remove anti-camping zones

A Los Angeles City Council member pushed to remove 12 specific anti-camping zones in his district, leading to a vote that lifts restrictions in areas such as certain freeway underpasses, overpasses and parks.

The City Council voted 10-3 on Tuesday in favor of lifting anti-camping restrictions at more than a dozen parks and public spaces in Hollywood, Silver Lake and surrounding neighborhoods to offer space for homeless people to camp more permanently.

Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Council Member Hugo Soto-Martinez — representing District 13 — proposed the move earlier this month, arguing that after law enforcement sweeps homeless people out of one neighborhood without offering permanent housing, individuals simply move to a neighboring block or return shortly after.

The designated anti-camping areas had been in place for five years under Section 41.18 of the Los Angeles Municipal Code (LAMC), which makes it illegal to “obstruct a street, sidewalk, or other public right-of-way,” including by sitting, lying, or sleeping as well as placing personal property in these areas.

“Displacing our neighbors from block to block, or in many cases, from district to district, doesn’t help them find housing,” Soto-Martínez said at the City Council meeting Tuesday. “In fact, in most cases, it makes it much harder for us to help them, because they lose their belongings, they get fined, and many times, they are arrested.”

Opponents argued that removing the anti-camping zones will affect homeowners and residents, emphasizing safety concerns for parks or other public places designated for children and families.

Councilwomen Traci Park, Imelda Padilla and Monica Rodriguez cast the sole dissenting votes to maintain the anti-camping restrictions.

“If you don’t want those protections in your district, that’s a decision you can make and explain to your constituents,” said Park, addressing Soto-Martínez. “But I’ve seen what happens when we abandon our public spaces.”

“We have spent billions on homeless housing and services, and our constituents have been incredibly generous,” Park continued. “They have every right to expect something in return.”

Padilla said the homelessness crisis has affected working-class homeowners in her district, emphasizing that they have a right to feel safe and secure in the communities they worked so hard to call home.

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Lawless State: California Democrats Pass ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ – Journalists will Be Fined THOU$ANDS For Recording and Exposing Fraud Inside Immigration Support Service Providers

California Democrats on Wednesday passed AB 2624, dubbed the ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ by Republicans. The bill, introduced by Democrat Assemblywoman Mia Bonta, restricts the release of investigative videos exposing immigration support service providers.

Mia Bonta is married to California’s radical far-left Attorney General Rob Bonta.

The California Democrats got to work on AB 2624 earlier this year after investigative journalist Nick Shirley exposed rampant hospice and daycare fraud.

The bill will fine journalists (and regular citizens) a minimum of $4,000 for exposing potential fraud inside certain immigration support service providers.

The bill passed the California Senate on Tuesday and was sent back to the Assembly for final passage on Wednesday.

Governor Newsom is expected to sign the bill.

California Republican Assemblyman Carl DeMaio blasted the Democrats for passing Mia Bonta’s bill.

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California Energy Commission Bans Sale of Majority of Tires… Far-Left Commissioner Licks Her Lips As She Boasts About New Rules

Meanwhile, in the Democrat hellhole of California…

The California Energy Commission on Monday voted to restrict what type of tires Californians can buy and when they can replace their tires.

The new rules will lead to a ban on the sale of the majority of tires in the state because they don’t meet the new efficiency standards.

The regulatory agency, full of unelected bureaucrats, claimed the new rules would lead to a price increase of only $6.50 per tire in the second phase; however, Bret Gladfelty of Goodyear said the increase would end up being several hundred dollars.

David Hochschild, the chairman of the California Energy Commission, absurdly claimed that the new tire rules are “ultimately about protecting consumers.”

KCRA reported:

At the center of this is a tire’s rolling resistance, or how much energy a tire uses as it rolls down the road. Lower resistance means a vehicle uses less gas or electricity. New cars come with generally efficient tires, but consumers typically replace those with higher rolling resistance tires.

The first phase would begin in 2029, which would allow the sale of tires with a maximum rolling resistance level of 9.1 newtons per kilonewton (N/kN). In phase 2, the standard lowers to 7.2 (N/kN) starting in 2033. The commission came up with the standards after testing 537 types of tires.

According to the commission’s staff, the rules are meant to ensure replacement tires sold in California are at least as energy efficient on average as the tires that come with the car or truck when it’s originally sold. The CEC claims Californians could save $79 in four months in gas or electricity costs under phase 1, and about $153 in phase 2 within seven months.

According to analysis by KCRA, more than 70% of tires will be banned.

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Democratic Congressman Under Ethics Committee Investigation for Alleged ‘Inappropriate Sexual Contact’

A California Democratic congressman who is the chairman of the Congressional Dads Caucus is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee.

On Monday, the Ethics Committee said it is “reviewing allegations that Representative Jimmy Gomez may have engaged in sexual misconduct in violation of the Code of Official Conduct or any other applicable standard of conduct, including engaging in inappropriate sexual contact with a House staffer in violation of clause 18(b) of the Code.”

“The Committee notes that the mere fact that it is investigating these allegations, and publicly disclosing its review, does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred,” its statement said.

Gomez admitted having extramarital relations but said it was all legal, according to Politico.

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