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Zuckerberg to Replace Facebook ‘Fact Checkers’ With Community Notes

January 7, 2025 7:19 amJanuary 7, 2025 7:20 am

Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday morning that his company Meta/Facebook will end its fact-checking program, and will instead adopt Elon Musk’s X/Twitter “Community Notes” system. Meta is the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp. Zuckerberg admits “fact checkers” on...

SF Chronicle Calls Prop. 13 Property Tax Cuts ‘Subsidies’

January 6, 2025 10:59 amJanuary 6, 2025 9:46 pm

The San Francisco Chronicle has an article today about Proposition 13, the 1978 ballot initiative overwhelmingly passed by California voters, which reduced property tax rates on homes, businesses, and farms by about 57%. Opponents have long claimed that because of...

The Gavin Newsom Effect: U-Haul Reports Californians Leaving the State in Droves

January 5, 2025 9:10 amJanuary 5, 2025 9:15 am

U-Haul has a new report out and once again – for the fifth year in a row – the once Golden State finished on top of the U-Haul Growth Index – meaning more Californians rented one-way U-Haul trucks to leave...

Who and What is Behind Wrecking Our Food Supply?

January 5, 2025 2:55 amJanuary 6, 2025 7:32 pm

What is happening to our food supply? Cows are under attack, meat packing and food processing plants have burned to the ground across the country, avian flu was unleashed and millions of chickens have been culled. California growers and ranchers...

California Minimum Wage Madness

January 3, 2025 10:54 amJanuary 3, 2025 10:54 am

“Countries with minimum wage laws almost invariably have higher rates of unemployment than countries without minimum wage laws,” Economist Thomas Sowell explained in 2013. “As for being ‘compassionate’ toward ‘the poor,’ this assumes that there is some enduring class of...

California Gas Prices Still Highest in the Country, but a Little Less High

January 2, 2025 8:21 amJanuary 2, 2025 10:04 pm

Just ahead of Christmas, California Governor Gavin Newsom took credit for a drop in gas prices. But that is like celebrating being a little less sick. “California Gov. Gavin Newsom celebrated a gas price decline of 89 cents per gallon...

New CDC Study Confirms Current H5N1 Bird Flu Strain Mild, and Virus is Being Manipulated

January 2, 2025 3:05 amJanuary 2, 2025 10:04 pm

The latest virus scare attempt is falling flat on most of America, and it should. It was only on December 18th that California Governor Gavin Newsom declared a State of Emergency over the Bird Flu. Despite Gov. Newsom’s attempt to...