The California Parole Board sends Erik Menendez back to prison -- but not for reasons you might think. Newsom wins on his redistricting battle (for the moment) and still finds the time to blast Bed Bath & Beyond for its refusal to reopen in California. California Democrat Representative Robert Garcia’s rising national prominence embodies the left’s confusion on energy and wealth formation. Music by Metalachi.

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• Erik Menendez to remain in prison after decision by California Parole Board
• Obama endorses Newsom’s redistricting proposal as a ‘responsible approach’
• ‘He’s trying to rig the election.’ Newsom bashes Trump as redistricting campaign kicks off
• California Supreme Court clears way for Newsom’s redistricting plan
• Gut and Amend AB 604: From “inactive voter registrations” to “new maps”
• Gut and Amend SB 280: From “prohibition on contributions in state and local government office buildings” to “new elections”
• Gut and Amend ACA 8: From “automatic election of unchallenged incumbent judges” to the “Election Rigging Response Act.”
• How will California’s congressional gerrymander attempt play out in the long run?
• California Common Cause advisory board members quit in gerrymandering fallout
• Kamala Harris swears in Rep. Robert Garcia as top Democrat on Congressional Oversight Committee
• Whose oil money?
• While not great, Long Beach roads have gotten better, as alleyways continue to suffer
• Man sleeping on sidewalk killed when truck rolls over him, Long Beach police say
• Silicon Valley lawmakers want to decriminalize homelessness
• Downtown Sacramento cafe discouraged after instances of public defecation
• California, epicenter of the nation’s housing crisis, is finally getting a housing agency
• ‘Overregulated, expensive, and risky:’ Retail giant’s CEO slams California

Gavin Newsom asks state lawmakers to dismantle the California constitution. Assemblyman Carl DeMaio has a plan to kill redistricting. Playboy quits California for a new home in Miami. Los Angeles can't balance its budget but it’s determined to pay the legal bills of people who came here illegally. Bonus! Marc Joffe on the failure of public transit in California -- and the near-term possibility of flying cars by 2028. Music by Metalachi.

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• Wiener blasts ‘Trump’s masked thugs”
• Gavin Newsom Rolls the Dice
• DeMaio Files Redistricting “Poison Pill” Initiative to Ban State Legislators Who Vote to Change District Maps from Seeking Office for 10 Years
• LA City Council OKs resolution declaring fiscal emergency amid $1B deficit
• LA city officials want to fund immigration defense. The budget crisis makes it hard
• "Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee - Please Call Your Office"
• Playboy leaves Los Angeles for Miami Beach; CEO calls California ‘anti-business’
• The Most-Regulated State In The Union
• The next generation of Trump-inspired showmen are in Riverside County, California
• The U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American Characteristics
• Los Angeles, Long Beach Ports Set Imports Record
• Could this CA bill make self-checkout faster?

Marc Joffe on the problems of public transit

• The cost of transit in California
• Marc Joffe bio

A city that can’t manage its own affairs was always bound for trouble in hosting the 2028 Olympics, and now President Trump has given progressives the excuse they need to bail out. California’s redistricting process was never nonpartisan, now it’ll just be worse. Newsom is ready for coal, Sacramento State’s president hopes to “eliminate whiteness,” the Los Angeles Times can’t use the words “illegal immigrant,” and the fascinating secret of Pasadena-born celebrity chef Julia Child. Music by Metalachi.

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• DB on Newt’s World
• David on Mike Rowe: Poor, Smart and Desperate
• Trump announces he will chair White House taskforce for 2028 LA Olympics
• L.A. never needed the Olympics. With Trump wanting in, it’s time to pull out
• Could Trump’s new Olympics task force be a guise for further militarizing L.A.?
• Cancel the 2028 L.A. Olympics
• Why a gerrymandering critic wants to toss out California’s maps
• California cut coal from its energy supply. Why it might plug back into fossil fuels
• Man who overstayed his visa stole food aid from thousands of needy Californians, feds say
• University President Sparks Controversy With Pledge to ‘Eliminate Whiteness’
• Hunter Biden says he's started new job with California nonprofit
• End of an era for country music in Bakersfield: Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace closes

San Francisco’s Saikat Chakrabarti is wealthy, naive, and running for Nancy Pelosi’s House seat on socialist vibes platform. Newsom races to the bottom in his redistricting battle with Texas Governor Greg Abbott. David applies his “Ten-Second Rule” to the fraudster behind the California secession movement. Music by Metalachi.

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• Gov. Reagan signs the Mulford Act, banning public carrying of loaded firearms without a permit 
• The Editors: California’s Lucky Escape
• Texas redistricting move would ‘trigger’ new California maps, Newsom says
• Exclusive: Schwarzenegger ready to fight Newsom on redistricting
• Meet the Fraudster Who Wants to Make California Its Own Country
• How a fizzled recall attempt actually helped Mayor Karen Bass
• Tech millionaire challenger to Nancy Pelosi draws huge crowd at SF campaign kickoff
• Coffee shop owner fires back amid suits

Sheridan Karras, California Policy Center researcher

• California parents fleeing union-run schools
• California kids deserve this new chance for academic success — even if their leaders disagree

In this quadricentennial episode, David and Will track the sad decline of the once-great Annenberg Foundation, Willie Brown’s surprising endorsement of Rick Caruso for governor, and approve Trump’s decision to end the political performance of park rangers at Muir Woods National Monument in Marin County. Music by Metalachi.

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• Kamala Harris’ ex-lover Willie Brown warns her of ‘difficult’ road to win California governor’s race after resounding 2024 loss
• CA agency reverses on telework policy after workers raise union contract concerns
• Planned Parenthood Got More Taxpayer Money than PBS and NPR Combined
• Bakersfield community rallies against Congressman David Valadao’s support for Medicaid cuts
• Stanford Graduate Workers Union Attempts To Fire Students Who Refuse To Join Union
• Where Did $100 Million in LA Fire Relief Money Go?
• EXCLUSIVE: Karen Bass Raked In Cash From Chinese Intel-Tied Bankers Before Hiring Them
• Long Beach mayor unveils immigrant aid package, tariff relief fund in proposed budget
• Muir Woods exhibit becomes first casualty of White House directive to erase history

In a single week, California Governor Gavin Newsom lost federal support for the troubled California High Speed Rail project, declared an unwinnable war to redraw California’s voting map, and confronted the worst unemployment numbers in the nation. David and Will track the name “California” to a Spanish novel, published this month in 1510. Bonus! Republican candidate for governor Steve Hilton describes his strategy for breaking through California’s blue wall of noise. Music by Metalachi.

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• This Is How ‘Authoritarianism’ Ends: With a Whimper
• Trump administration pulls billions in funding for high-speed rail project; state leaders call decision ‘illegal’
• Federal review of high-speed rail
• California sues to stop Trump’s politically motivated attack on high-speed rail
• Newsom Wants California to Counter Texas on Redistricting
• As Newsom ponders redistricting, California projected to lose as many as 4 congressional seats
• Thousands of Californians lost work after LA immigration raids — including citizens
• In-N-Out’s billionaire boss leaving California: ‘Doing business is not easy here’
• John MacArthur, pastor of Grace Community Church in LA, dies at 86

Steve Hilton, Republican candidate for governor

• WIkipedia
• Golden Together website
• Steve Hilton, “Califailure: Reversing the Ruin of America's Worst-Run State”

Jon Fleischman (author of the So, Does It Matter? Substack) joins Will for a conversation about Gavin Newsom’s bizarre engagement with conservative podcaster Shawn Ryan -- in which guns are good, transgenderism is a lost cause, nuclear power is lifesaving, and he’s a border hawk. Bonus track: Investigative reporter Kenneth Schlapp’s update on California wildfires. Music by Metalachi.

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• Jon Fleischman: “So, Does It Matter?” 
• Cracks in the Golden State: California’s Political Landscape Is Shifting
• Gov. Newsom, protesters target JD Vance with his family as they visit Disneyland
• Mother Jones editor ripped as ‘soulless ghoul’ for attack on JD Vance, kids after Disneyland trip
• Four hours inside Newsom’s head
• Newsom talks AI, Epstein files and immigration in 4-hour podcast
• Rioters Obstruct California Cannabis Farm Raid, Disrupting Rescue of Illegal Immigrant Minors
• ICE’s California weed-farm raid shows why we need mandatory E-Verify
• Federal judge halts indiscriminate immigration stops in Los Angeles and beyond
• Reparations bill, amid headwinds, could skirt California’s affirmative action ban
• A racialist leader is ousted in Los Angeles
• Hayward, Alameda County officials propose Russell City reparations fund
• Rizzotti Advised to Recuse From Burbank Landlord-Tenant Issues
• Orange County’s $649 million trolley to nowhere

Kenneth Schlapp, Center Square

• CA data: Just one Palisades brush clearance before fire
• California fire season kicks off with a blazing bang

Birth rates are falling worldwide, but the Stanford University professor who coined the term “the population bomb” is unmoved by the data. Gavin Newsom confirms his presidential ambitions with a tour of South Carolina, but back home the governor is in retreat on environment, energy, education, and guns. Music by Metalachi.

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• 2018 New Yorker profile of Gavin Newsom
• Gavin Newsom Helped Mother’s Assisted Suicide
• Did Gavin Newsom Murder His Mother?
• Newsom, Who May Have Helped His Own Mother Commit Assisted Suicide, Streamlines Process For Californians
• Berkeley Dean Appears To Admit Race-Based Hiring Policies: ‘I’m Going To Deny I Said This’
• As women have far fewer babies, the U.S. and the world face unprecedented challenges
• Some provocative thoughts from Paul R. Ehrlich
• Clyburn praises Newsom as he hits the trail in South Carolina: ‘I feel good about his chances’
• California Gov. Gavin Newsom to visit the Pee Dee
• Governor Gavin Newsom joins South Carolina Democratic Party Connecting with Rural South Carolina
• California’s great climate retreat
• Governor Newsom commits $101 million to jumpstart critical rebuilding efforts after LA Fires
• Another union takeover – this time buried In housing bills
• California refuses to sign pact over alleged Title IX violation
• AB 1266: School Success and Opportunity Act
• Bonta loses (again), this time on guns
• Heavily armed immigration agents descend on MacArthur Park in L.A.

A Southern California city official rallies local gang members to the fight against ICE, U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli sues Los Angeles over its sanctuary city laws, Gavin Newsom signs off on the biggest state budget in history -- and then breaks the economy and sues Fox News for $787 million. Bonus! Remembering California’s first Fourth of July celebration. Music by Metalachi.

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• Daniel Sexton and California’s first documented Fourth of July . . . in 1842!
• USA v Los Angeles
• Officials call for probe into immigration officers’ presence on Terminal Island
• Cudahy vice mayor breaks silence amid backlash over controversial 'cholos' video
• How does NYC primary win reverberate in Los Angeles politics?
• Rep. Robert Garcia on Mamdani Victory: Democrats Need To Get On Board, Embrace Young People Demanding Change
• Robert Garcia climbs the congressional watchtower
• CA lost 80K jobs in 2024, 'No job creation' in Fourth Quarter
• Newsom signs record $321B budget, declares budget emergency
• Gavin Newsom sues Fox News for $787M in defamation case over Trump call
• NYC's shocking socialist victory is a dire warning for the right

The Los Angeles Dodgers will donate $1 million to supporters of illegal immigration. The Ninth Circuit halts Attorney General Rob Bonta’s effort to limit gun purchases to one per month. California can’t kick its foreign-oil addiction. Bonus! Dr. Kurt Miceli explains Do No Harm’s lawsuit alleging that UCLA’s medical school rejects highly qualified Asian and white students in favor of less-qualified applicants. Music by Metalachi.

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• On War Powers, Nancy Pelosi Is a Ridiculous Hack
• Vice President JD Vance rips Newsom, Bass and mocks Padilla during visit to Los Angeles
• California Gov. Gavin Newsom challenges Vice President JD Vance to debate: 'How about saying it to my face?'
• The Dodgers were about to break their silence on Trump’s immigration crackdown. Then federal agents showed up
• Trump suggests farmers may get to keep undocumented workers after all
• 9th Circuit affirms San Diego judge’s ruling that California’s ‘one-gun-a-month’ law is unconstitutional
• California is to examine its Amazon oil ties following pleas from Indigenous leaders from Ecuador
• Turlock story (under headline on Iranian reaction to Israel war) 
• LAUSD agrees to fund $500 million to settle sexual assault lawsuits
• Long Beach City Council votes to mandate more staffing at self-checkout lanes

Kurt Miceli, Do No Harm: UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine: 

• Lawsuit: UCLA used race in rejecting highly qualified Asian, white students over less-qualified applicants