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San Jose has been called the capital of Silicon Valley so the opinion of its elected officials could carry some weight in the ongoing discussion over a plan to create a new 5% wealth tax on the state's tech billionaires. Today, the mayor of San Jose announced his opposition to the tax which is being pushed by the SEIU and by Rep. Ro Khanna. Mayor Matt Mahan says passing this would be a disaster for the state.
The Minnesota governor abandoned his reelection campaign due to the thinnest of right-wing stories about fraudulent childcare centers.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has abandoned his 2026 reelection campaign. In his announcement Monday, Walz pointed to right-wing conspiracy theories about the state’s Somali immigrant community as having played a part in his decision. It has been nine years since Pizzagate, and yet such conspiracy theories have gotten worse—and as they have further eroded many people’s sense of shared political reality, combating them has only become harder. Late in December, YouTuber Nick Shirley recorded himself going to several childcare centers in Minnesota, an attempt to “prove” that Somali immigrants have been using the centers to steal public money. When Shirley showed up, at least one childcare center did not open its door, one owner said, “because we thought it was ICE.” The resulting video was quickly rebutted and fact-checked: The state’s Department of Children reported the childcare centers he descended upon were “operating as expected.” It didn’t matter. By then, the video had millions of views, and the childcare center “fraud” narrative had become part of the right-wing cable news cycle of anti-immigrant grievance and cruelty. Workers at the childcare facilities Shirley targeted said they had received “hateful” and “threatening” messages. One day care center reported a break-in, and sensitive documents were found missing.
The Tim Walz Saga Shows Why Debunking Conspiracy Theories Doesn’t Work Subheadline The delusion that the whole daycare scam is just a thin rightwing conspiracy theory is disturbing.
More evidence emerged Tuesday confirming the Biden administration’s politicization of federal law enforcement’s January 6 Capitol Hill riot investigation as Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Chairman Rand Paul (R-Ky.) released new documents in the panel’s continuing probe.“A free society cannot tolerate a system in which programs and authorities intended to keep the public safe are instead weaponized against them due to mere suspicion,” Paul said in a statement. “The records released today show how an unverified tip that the FBI failed to substantiate led to nearly two years of surveillance of an innocent American. I am grateful for FBI Director Kash Patel’s cooperation in producing these records, and I appreciate Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem for ending the Quiet Skies program. The conduct revealed by these documents underscores the need to limit the power of faceless bureaucrats who have too often infringed on the rights of the people.”...The Senate panel first learned of the FBI’s two-year surveillance of Texas Catholic school teacher Christine Crowder during a September 2025 hearing when her husband, Mark, who is a Federal Air Marshall, became a whistle blower and described the situation to Paul and committee colleagues.Christine Crowder was in the nation’s capital on January 6, 2021, to attend the rally on the Ellipse in support of Trump. She came to the attention of federal investigators in the months after the rally and the subsequent riot on Capitol Hill that resulted in more than 1,500 arrests. Crowder was not among those arrested....Crowder’s surveillance was launched after a former friend provided information that was never verified by FBI investigators. The documents released by Paul demonstrate that officials still labelled Crowder a domestic terrorist despite the fact that initial facial recognition and geolocation search results were negative and Crowder had no prior record of criminal or terrorist activity.“Even after initially failing to confirm her identity, the Biden-era FBI subjected Mrs. Crowder to physical surveillance, federal watch-listing, continuous airport surveillance while traveling and referred her case for prosecution. That referral was made before the FBI could positively identify her and ultimately rested on what proved to be a case of mistaken identity,” the Paul statement said.Federal officials finally dropped the prosecution after a confidential human source provided a photograph that proved Crowder had been mistaken for an individual labeled by riot investigators as “Insider #336,” who had entered the U.S. Capitol illegally.
For the past 22 years I have watched, written about, broadcast, and cross-referenced the groups, messages, and protests by the left in Portland, Oregon. For a long time, before the Occupy Wall Street movement, I was one of the few in Portland talking about the derivations of these groups on my blog and the radio. Before the category-killing Antifa movement subsumed the anarchists and BLM activists, these groups always came from one place: the ANSWER Coalition. This anti-war, anti-Israel, anti-capitalist, anti-anything-opposed-to-America organization gave cover to the wildest and most extreme groups in Portland. Earth First!, Animal Liberation Front, Earth Liberation Front, and anti-Semites, the Wobblies, and any group with a fist in their logo found a home in the ANSWER Coalition. Republicans were not invited.When ANSWER discovered I was outing them in public, they removed the individual groups from their website. Apparently, they didn't want anyone to know they were associating with terrorist organizations. But—what ho!—the group, which stands for Act Now to End War and Stop Racism, began right after the al-Qaeda attack on the United States in 2001, in fear that the U.S. would retaliate for that whole flying airplanes into the Pentagon and New York skyscrapers thing....Just take a look at their last few months of activity that I screenshotted from their website:And, of course, ANSWER and the ubiquitous group 50501, the same ones who brought you the anti-ICE riots, have brought you the pro-Maduro, pro-commie protests....As she reported in her thread of X messages, the coalition's backing of the Revolucionistas! and Communistas! in our hemisphere is long and sordid. It goes back to 2003, when the group supported communist Hugo Chavez. Look at her thread. It's worth the read. Ahe reports they were able to drop everything to plan protests within minutes of the U.S. operation in Caracas.
Comcast, which desperately wanted to be in the cable news (so desperately it gave Al Sharpton a job) just as desperately doesn’t want to be in the cable business so it ‘spun off’ or dumped its cable business into a company called Versant.That includes MSNBC or as it’s now called MS Now. Here’s how the shares did on the first day of trading.QuoteVersant Media Group Inc., the parent of CNBC, USA and other cable-TV networks, fell as much as 15% in its first official day of trading after being spun off from Comcast Corp. The shares, trading at $40.78 mid-morning in New York, give the company a stock market value of $5.94 billion based on 144.2 million shares outstanding. Comcast distributed the shares, which trade under the symbol VSNT on the Nasdaq exchange, to its investors on Jan. 2.
Versant Media Group Inc., the parent of CNBC, USA and other cable-TV networks, fell as much as 15% in its first official day of trading after being spun off from Comcast Corp. The shares, trading at $40.78 mid-morning in New York, give the company a stock market value of $5.94 billion based on 144.2 million shares outstanding. Comcast distributed the shares, which trade under the symbol VSNT on the Nasdaq exchange, to its investors on Jan. 2.
