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“Former Gov. Jerry Brown left office eight years ago with a big surplus and an ominous message in his last state budget: “What’s out there is darkness, uncertainty, decline and recession, so ‘Good luck, baby.’”  Via Cal Matters

We are at war: “The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties. That often happens in war. But we're doing this not for now.” -Trump

The grift of it all: S.E.C. drops a case against a crypto partner of Trump family. Justin Sun, Chinese-born billionaire accused of market manipulation, for $10 million. After Trump’s re-election, Sun bought $75 million worth of a cryptocurrency associated with a Trump family business. Via - NYT

Let them eat cake: RE Iran Gasoline prices will “drop very rapidly when this is over, and if they rise, they rise,” Trump told Reuters yesterday. He added: “This is far more important than having gasoline prices go up a little bit.”

$134 million to deploy the National Guard to LA. $45 million for Trump’s birthday bash parade. Waste, fraud, and abuse anyone?

DOGE DEVOURS DOLLARS ProPublica found, more than $39 million has been earmarked to DOGE in the Trump administration’s first month. For perspective, in recent years Congress had allocated around $50 million a year for the IT modernization initiative that DOGE supplanted, budget records show.

WHY DID TRUMP WIN? The average reading level of most American adults is estimated to be around a 7th to 8th-grade level. 54% of U.S. adults aged 16-74 read below a 6th-grade level. About 12% of American adults can read complex written materials.

I mean, what we’re seeing is what you’d expect if China and Russia had somehow managed to install people who wanted to sabotage America’s international position at the highest levels of the U.S. government. -Paul Krugman

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has recovered more than $17 billion for consumers from fraudulent or predatory practices since it began in 2011.

Tesla electric vehicles have the highest fatal accident rate among all car brands in America. The average fatal crash rate is 2.8 per billion vehicle miles driven; Tesla has a rate of 5.6 per billion miles driven.

MUSK DOGE PAY: Nearly $7 million has been “apportioned” over the past week to cover the agency’s expenses, while the administration tries to freeze big chunks of government funding as part of DOGE’s mandate to root out programs deemed wasteful or out of step with the president’s priorities.

US airlines had gone 16 years without fatal crashes. Then MAGA fired the FAA chief, gutted the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, and threatened air traffic controllers with layoffs. Now there have been two fatal crashes.

The top six states that receive grants under the department of USAID —Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Nevada—all voted for Trump in 2024.

What you really need to know: Tesla paid no federal tax at all in 2024

The U.S. alone has lost more than 40 million laying hens to bird flu in 2024 -Emily Metz, CEO of the American Egg Board

MAGA governing isn’t just about the deep state, revenge porn, and eliminating jobs, it’s also about laziness. “F* it, release ’em all” - Trump, RE pardoning of the January 6 criminals.

The patriot billionaires. After Trump announced he would withdraw the US from the Paris Climate Agreemt, billionaire Michael Bloomberg announced his foundation will cover the financial contribution the U.S. will not & will provide the reporting requirements for climate change emissions.

57 companies linked to 80% of climate change fault via emissions. ExxonMobil Shell BP Chevron Total Energies