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A California State Assembly bill has been amended to increase the difficulty and burden for Californians seeking government records. Democrat California Assemblywoman Blanca Pacheco amended CA AB 1821, named the California Public Records Act, on June 10 to allow public agencies to delay and increase charges for “commercial use” records requests. The bill, first introduced in February, was amended to require a $22.35-per-hour administrative fee and a $66.26-per-hour professional fee to be used as compensation for record searches determined to be for “commercial use.” Both fees can also increase by “a cost-of-living adjustment.” Supporters have defended it as a necessary...

A federal judge in Minnesota, who has donated to an immigrant legal aid group, quashed several federal grand jury subpoenas of documents from Gov. Tim Walz and the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul over compliance with immigration enforcement. In a 29-page opinion issued Monday, Chief U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz of the District of Minnesota accused the Trump administration’s Justice Department of seeking to “harass political opponents” by initiating a criminal investigation and using grand jury subpoenas to pressure state and local officials into changing their immigration policies. The judge has acknowledged being a donor for “many years” to...

Here we go again. For years, I’ve used keyboard macros. I set one up in February so that when I press +K, it magically types out “Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.” That macro didn’t last long, though, because he’s well… dead. I need one that types out “On [insert date here], a federal judge threw out [or issued a temporary injunction on] Trump's xxyy policy.” In Monday’s edition, U.S. District Judge Patrick Schiltz, a George W. Bush appointee, tossed Justice Department grand jury subpoenas for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, state Attorney General Keith Ellison, and some of their associates. The...

Colombia, a country rife with cartel violence, drug kingpins, and political assassinations picked their new leader on Sunday. By early evening, Conservative outsider Abelardo de la Espriella was announced the winner over cartel lackey and Marxist sympathizer Gustavo Petro. Espriella is a Trump supporter and holds a dual citizenship with the US. Colombia has an estimated 52,694,952 people according to latest estimates. Even Colombia, with all of its domestic challenges is able to count ballots in ONE DAY! Meanwhile, in California, the communists are still harvesting and counting ballots. California allegedly has a population of 39.6 million but who really...

A simple website flaw exposed members, political profiles, login tokens, and dating data from Peter Thiel ‘s secretive Dialog network. Dialog, a private invitation-only organization cofounded in 2006 by billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel, has spent two decades refusing to disclose its membership. That position became harder to maintain last week when Swiss hacktivist maia arson crimew, known for exposing the US government’s No Fly List, found an open directory embedded in the source code of dialog.org that was visible to anyone who viewed the page. WIRED independently verified the contents and obtained the registration list for Dialog’s 2026 retreat,...

California Democrats just handed their gubernatorial nomination to a man whose pandemic-era résumé includes a role the party would prefer voters never examine: he was the place where the truth about COVID-19’s origins was sent to be quietly buried. That is the picture that emerges from the trove of records Tulsi Gabbard declassified on her way out the door as Director of National Intelligence. Among the documents her office released on June 18 is correspondence describing how a whistleblower complaint, one alleging that the Intelligence Community believed COVID escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and that Dr. Anthony Fauci...

Democrats, for years already, have insisted that President Donald Trump is such a dictator, a “Hitler,” that he won’t ever leave office. Of course, he did, in a routine although slightly snarky transfer to the Biden White House after that 2020 vote. But they still say he won’t. He’ll “cancel” elections. He’ll declare himself president for life. He’ll even use, the extremists claim, the military to keep control. All of the doomsayers, perhaps, should be watching one city in far-left California, where four city officials were removed from office by voters, but have refused to leave. They simply voted to...

Last August, Decarlos Brown Jr.—a mentally ill repeat offender out on bail—allegedly stabbed 23-year-old Iryna Zarutska to death on a Charlotte light rail train. Video of the shocking murder prompted widespread outrage, pushing the North Carolina legislature to pass a law named for Zarutska and meant to overhaul the state’s criminal justice and mental-health system. But will Zarutska’s killer be brought to justice? Brown is currently mentally incompetent to stand trial, according to a federal judge. As a result, he may never face a jury. In fact, under current law, he could walk free if the court concludes he will...

OCSO Intelligence agents have arrested a woman who used her access to a sensitive court database to warn members of a drug trafficking organization that investigators were closing in and had secured arrest warrants. Crystal Lawson, 32, was granted access to the Comprehensive Case Information System (CCIS) database as part of her job as a Juvenile Probation Officer for the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice when she was hired in February 2022. Later that year, she was terminated from that job after she was arrested for battery. But her access to those databases was not cut off. Between January and...

Rolling Stone magazine has published an article promoting a leftist gun influencer who celebrated Charlie Kirk's 2025 assassination, organizes transgender militias, and believes law enforcement officers should be shot to death. The piece centers on "Yeezy," a 33-year-old Appalachian man, and his online 3D-printing firearms operation. The article, titled "This Man Wants to Help You Print Your Own Gun" and written by writer Jack Crosbie, frames Yeeze's ghost gun business as a solution for people facing potential gun restrictions, particularly trans-identifying individuals. Yeezy has positioned himself as a trans rights activist and has a history of advocating for violence against...

Tulsi Gabbard, on her final day as US Director of National Intelligence (DNI), levelled serious accusations against former Chief Medical Advisor to the US President, Dr Anthony Fauci. She claimed that Fauci funded ‘gain-of-function’ research at China's Wuhan Institute of Virology, influenced intelligence assessments on the origins of COVID-19, and misled the Congress when under oath. Notably, the outbreak from Wuhan spread across the world and became the COVID pandemic as we know it today. “Today, on my final day as Director of National Intelligence, I’m releasing never-before-seen communications and documents exposing how Dr. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer...

The release of The Rape Gang Inquiry report has set Britain ablaze, validating the rage of millions of native British that their beloved homeland is being terrorized by Islamic predators. Now, footage has been released depicting how authorities invited this evil in, showing them their potential victims to entice migration. The summary of the report could not be more conclusive: “The scale of the crimes committed is staggering. It has been previously established that, at the very least, 250,000 young white girls have been subjected to repeated rape, gang rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma.” “The...

In the left’s ongoing crusade to separate vulnerable children from the influence of their parents, Democrats in the Failed State of California are pushing a bill that would allow minor children to divorce their parents. As you read this, keep in mind that this has nothing to do with protecting children. Quite the opposite, in fact. This is all about removing children from the protection of their families so they can be corrupted and exploited. “The bill [AB 1967] allows any minor residing in any residential facility to file a legal application against their parents, without cause or evidence of...

The BBC has been slammed after it emerged two asylum seekers who appeared on an episode of Question Time had been coached by charity campaigners. In the episode, filmed on December 5 in Dover, the audience featured two men who had crossed the Channel in small boats. The BBC previously told GB News that all those on the panel were informed "the day before the show that there would be people in the audience who had been through the asylum system". Now, it has been revealed the two men were placed in the audience and coached beforehand by the migration...

The Texas GOP rejected individuals with ties to an organization that Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott designated as linked to terrorist groups, trying to serve as delegates at their convention. Left-wing Texas media went out of its way to falsely present the story as one of anti-Muslim bigotry. At the Republican Party of Texas Convention in Houston in June, individuals with ties to CAIR attempted to serve as delegates to the state GOP. When party members objected and tried to remove them, the Texas Tribune inverted the facts in order to frame the infiltrators as victims. In reality it was...

MANY VIDEO CLIPS AT LINK..................... =================================================================== MAGA isn’t perfect. And JD Vance’s latest comments prove that he and President Trump can see some of the issues bubbling to the surface. ‘ JD Vance made a very simple point during his interview with Megyn Kelly, and it’s something a lot of people on the right probably needed to hear. Politics isn’t an emotional support system. It’s messy, frustrating, imperfect, and full of moments where leaders you voted for will do something you don’t like. That’s totally normal and part of the process, like it or not. And yes, when President Trump...

After Gov. Brian Kemp called them into a special session, state lawmakers said they didn’t have enough time to draw new maps that would have taken effect for the 2028 elections. Georgia lawmakers will not redraw the state’s political maps this month after GOP Gov. Brian Kemp called them into a special session to do so. Following a major Supreme Court ruling on redistricting this spring, Kemp asked the Republican-led Legislature to consider new congressional and state legislative lines ahead of the 2028 election, since the 2026 election is already underway. But on Wednesday afternoon, state Republican legislative leaders said...

Graham Platner, the Democratic U.S. Senate nominee from Sullivan, wrote about his involvement with the Socialist Rifle Association using the Reddit handle P-Hustle. MANY PICTURES AT LINK............... Last October, The Robinson Report broke the story that Graham Platner — the disabled Sullivan veteran with an oyster hobby who is now the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate — had personally instructed members of the Socialist Rifle Association in firearms training in Maine. Now, two additional accounts — both from self-described left-wingers — have surfaced that confirm Platner’s top role in the Maine chapter of firearms and political activism org. The reporting...

O'Keefe Media Group (OMG) says members of a New Jersey-based Antifa network are scrambling after learning that internal group chats were infiltrated by an undercover journalist. In a post on X, OMG founder James O'Keefe shared a screenshot purportedly from a private chat in which a participant warned members that "someone is taking screenshots of this chat and sending it to James O'Keefe." The image also appeared to show multiple members leaving the group shortly after the warning was posted. "NJ Antifa is now freaking out because James O'Keefe is obtaining internal screenshots from multiple Antifa group chats," O'Keefe wrote....

O’KEEFE INFILTRATES NJ ANTIFA: Inside “NJ BURN” — Rutgers University Director, T-Mobile AI Leaders, OpenAI /ChatGPT Engineer, Reverend From Princeton Theological Seminary, and ACLU Board Member Discuss Port Newark–Elizabeth Blockade Riot, Road Spikes, Tire-Slashing of New Jersey nian-Style” Protest Tactics, and Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Murder. NJ ANTIFA INDIVIDUALS IDENTIFIED: • Alexyss P. - New Jersey Coalition Against Sexual Assault Community Council Member @NJ_CASA • Jim Keady @JWKeady - Former New Jersey Democratic Candidate • Woojin Ko - OpenAI Research Engineer @OpenAI • Beleckecom Moffouk - T-Mobile AI Automation Expert @TMobile • Zainab Tanvir - Imaging Director at Rutgers University @RutgersU...