California – Blazingcatfur

In San Francisco, a Family Earning $325,000 Qualifies for Government Aid

John Marman and Natsumi Makiyama work in health professions that would put them squarely in the upper middle class almost anywhere else in the United States.

He is a therapist, and she is a pediatric nurse. But they live with their two children in one of the priciest swaths of the country, San Francisco.

They feel squeezed — and perhaps surprisingly, City Hall agrees.

Adam Carolla DETONATES after San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie admits the city “lost its way” on progressive values.

“F**K YOU AND YOUR F**KING SH*TTY VALUES.”

He said what millions are thinking. The f-bombs are completely appropriate here.

CAROLLA: “Your ideas SUCK. Your progressive ideas SUCK. They ruin cities.”

“A whole bunch of people OD’d because of your sh*tty f**king values.”

His boat analogy nails it: One progressive captain lets the water in. The next one pumps HALF of it out. And you’re supposed to thank them because the boat is sinking slower.

CAROLLA: “Your plans always turn to sh*t. San Diego’s turned to sh*t. Austin’s turned to sh*t. LA’s turned to sh*t. Wherever you guys become captains, your boat’s turned to sh*t.”

“Why don’t we just get the guy who never lets the water in?”

“You’re running a f**king city. You have a budget. That’s it. Crime, statistics, school, education, traffic. I don’t give a f**k about your values.”

“MY VALUES ARE GET THE F**K UP AND GO TO WORK AND SHUT UP.”

Every progressive says “we lost our way” after the boat goes under. No. You steered it exactly where you wanted it to go.

— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) October 16, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•October 22, 2026October 22, 2026•0•California, USA, WTF?

California’s Bullet Train Boondoggle

In 2008, California voters approved funding for a high-speed rail line between San Francisco and Los Angeles. A group of contractors donated tens of thousands of dollars to support the ballot measure. A state program manager projected that the initiative would create more than 100,000 construction jobs.

Eighteen years and more than $15 billion later, not a single mile of high-speed track has been laid. The state hasn’t even laid track on the rump Merced-Bakersfield line that it wants to open in the 2030s. In a recently resurfaced video from his time as lieutenant governor, Gavin Newsom said the full project was unlikely to “materialize in our lifetime.”

Canada’s Alto boondoggle will follow this plan.

by Blazingcatfur•October 21, 2026October 21, 2026•0•California

The Special Interest Coalition That Thrives on Scarcity

Much of the unrest in the United States stems from unaffordability. Across every political contest from California to the East Coast, the affordability playbook is the same: “the cost of living is too high, and the opposition party is to blame.” The first part of this message ought to be beyond serious debate. The cost of housing, the biggest single expense most families face, has skyrocketed in recent decades. The median home price is now five times the median household income, double the ratio of home prices to household income in the 1980s. But the second part of this message is objectively false, because to the extent that a painfully escalated cost of living isn’t the result of bipartisan mistakes, it can be laid at the feet of progressives. Nowhere is this more evident than in expensive California, where progressives have wielded absolute power for a generation.

by Blazingcatfur•October 14, 2026October 14, 2026•0•California

Feds probe Gov. Gavin Newsom’s travel, personal spending as new details of DOJ probe revealed

Gavin Newsom’s international globetrotting on the dime of wealthy benefactors has come under the microscope of federal investigators looking into California’s governor.

The US Attorney’s Office issued subpoenas in September requesting about six years of communications around the California State Protocol Foundation, a nonprofit that has paid for Newsom’s travel expenses with privately donated funds instead of taxpayer money, according to a report by the San Francisco Standard.

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•October 11, 2026October 11, 2026•0•California

The Fall of California

While California is the fifth-largest economy in the world, its days of being a business haven have long passed. More and more, companies big and small are forced to either shut down or move to a more business-friendly state. Take, for instance, the departure of Fortune 1000 companies like Tesla, Oracle, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, or a recent survey of CEOs ranking California as the worst state in which to do business. Things have gotten so bad that even providers of critical municipal services have been forced to stop doing business in the state. And in Los Angeles, the city may soon become a giant Skid Row, a dumping ground in every way.

by Blazingcatfur•September 19, 2026September 19, 2026•0•California

Bombshell reparations plan for black residents passes in Alameda County — despite budget blackhole

A California county that faced a $91 million budget gap this year has approved a sweeping reparations plan for black residents, the first of its kind in the Golden State, that calls for major changes to housing, education, healthcare and criminal justice — while leaving the door open to cash payments.

The Alameda County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 on June 30 to accept the comprehensive plan following more than two years of research and community engagement.

by Blazingcatfur•July 19, 2026July 19, 2026•0•California, Slavery and Reparations, WTF?

California Is Much Crazier Than You Thought

Throwing away an old pair of socks is a matter of the greatest imaginable complexity. It requires an extensive state plan, supervised by a nongovernmental organization that imposes mandatory payment obligations on the company that made the socks. The socks have to be safely discarded, and that requires extensive planning by a public-private partnership.

by Blazingcatfur•July 18, 2026July 17, 2026•0•California, WTF?

The Racialist State

It is hard to overstate the hope that followed the fall of apartheid in South Africa in 1994. The newly elected African National Congress was well positioned to move the country into a new era of equality and prosperity for all citizens. South Africa not only had abundant natural resources at its disposal but also boasted a well-developed industrial economy and the continent’s top university system.

by Blazingcatfur•July 15, 2026July 15, 2026•0•California

How California Effectively Legalized an Open-Air Sex Market

It’s midafternoon outside KIPP Academy of Opportunity, a charter school serving children in fifth through eighth grade on South Figueroa Street in residential Los Angeles. As children inside prepare for their futures, a young female struts by in high heels, wearing nothing but a bikini and a jacket.

“We’ll see some police officers roll by and some young women out here just prostituting. They’re walking right by, and the police drive right by them,” the school’s gun-toting security guard said. “It’s normal.”

Not for the squeamish

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2026July 8, 2026•0•California, WTF?

Can Los Angeles be saved?

Last March, a makeshift drug factory exploded next to Los Angeles resident Juan Galicia’s craftsman-style home, built in 1910. The flames spread to his gas line, setting off a fire that destroyed the house and killed his three dogs — he tearfully shows me their picture. Had the accident happened an hour earlier, it would have killed one of his sons, as well. “I lived here 18 years and now it’s gone,” the 55-year-old father, an immigrant from El Salvador, tells me. The empty lot next door, he says, was occupied by homeless squatters who cooked methamphetamine there. “People occupy a place and the city does nothing,” he says.

by Blazingcatfur•July 8, 2026July 7, 2026•0•"Progressive Paradise", California

FBI infiltrated Gavin Newsom’s inner circle by convincing governor’s ally to wear a wire: lawyer

The FBI had a mole inside Gov. Gavin Newsom’s political orbit before the agency’s corruption probe expanded into the governor and his wife, The Post has learned.

Democrat insider Alexis Podesta, 45, secretly recorded conversations during the criminal probe into Newsom’s then-chief of staff, Dana Williamson, 53, who pleaded guilty to federal fraud and tax charges in May, according to Williamson’s attorney.

h/t Mauser

by Blazingcatfur•July 3, 2026July 3, 2026•0•California, USA

Is California Reaching Critical Mass?

By any measure, California is a failed state—and a national embarrassment.

Taxes? It has the highest income and gas taxes in the nation.

Roads? A Reason Foundation survey ranks it 49th among the states.

Mass flight? Between 250,000 and 350,000 more Californians leave the state than move in each year. Housing, gas, insurance, and electricity prices? The highest in the continental U.S.

Sounds like Canada under the Liberals.

by Blazingcatfur•June 18, 2026June 18, 2026•0•"Progressive Paradise", California

Inside California’s Gay-Certification Program

Americans are used to handouts for favored groups. Affirmative action in university admissions, corporate “diversity” initiatives, and minority-owned contracting requirements direct opportunities, resources, and contracts to supposedly “oppressed” groups, such as women, Native Americans, blacks, and Hispanics.

In California, state Democrats have embraced another kind of favoritism: contracts for state-certified gay-owned businesses.

by Blazingcatfur•June 16, 2026June 16, 2026•0•Big Gay, California, WTF?

Homeless Addicts in L.A.: They Paid Us to Vote

To be honest, I wouldn’t trust any one of these drug addicts to tell me the truth, but when the numbers start piling up and there is video evidence of people bribing homeless people to commit fraud on petitions by paying them to sign other people’s names, it’s obvious that election fraud is a thing in California.

If you are down on Skid Row, you can earn $2 by voting for Karen Bass.

If you vote for her twenty times in a row, you can earn enough to buy lunch. Whatever you do, don’t tell Spencer Pratt.

(TheVoiceofLA) pic.twitter.com/IMnugvdfVS

— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) June 10, 2026

by Blazingcatfur•June 10, 2026June 10, 2026•0•California

California Allows Late Ballots With No Postmark — That’s An Invitation To Fraud

Many Americans went to bed one week ago today presumably thinking Spencer Pratt was headed to the November runoff for Los Angeles mayor. After all, he was leading Socialist City Councilwoman Nithya Raman by thousands of votes on election night. But within a week, The Associated Press has called the race for Raman, after a wave of late-arriving mail-in ballots erased that deficit. Notably, Raman underperformed in her own city council district.

by Blazingcatfur•June 10, 2026June 9, 2026•0•California