Democrats around the country, including California&#8217;s Gavin Newson, are up in arms over spikes in gas prices caused by President Donald Trump&#8217;s war against Iran. 
Missing in their condemnations is any acknowledgement that nobody is better at spiking gas prices than Democrats.
An analysis of AAA gasoline prices found that drivers in states led by Democrats are paying an average of 41 cents more than drivers in Republican states. Blue states currently average about $4.78 per gallon while red states average $4.37 per gallon
Drivers are hit by the blue-state premium regardless of whether the United States is at war with Iran or not. 
States such as California, Washington, Oregon, and New York have implemented various carbon pricing systems, low-carbon fuel standards, emissions mandates, or cap-and-trade programs that place additional costs on fuel producers and refiners. 
Consumers in those states often see those carbon emission fees reflected at the gas pump as producers pass the costs on alongside already high state taxes. California charges a $0.70 tax per gallon of tax, Illinois $0.66, Washington $0.59 with the rest trailing from there with a majority of these states having automatic increases for inflation. 
Leading the pack is California, where gas is currently $6.14 per gallon. The price is driven up by massive taxes, and costly green initiatives that make high gas prices inescapable for drivers.
Economist Severin Borenstein of UC Berkeley&#8217;s Haas School of Business Energy Institute <a href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/california-gas-tax/3862685/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">said</a> that California&#8217;s gas is over a $1.50 higher than the national average “due to the higher taxes we have, the environmental fees we have and that we use a cleaner burning gasoline.”
California law requires that the only fuel allowed is California Reformulated Gasoline, a highly regulated gasoline blend that is more expensive.
Yet Newsom has used the increase caused by unrest in the Middle East as a political cudgel against Trump. Earlier this year he said that the “average price of gas is up 50 cents nationally since Trump launched his war with Iran — the fastest spike at the pump in years.” 
“No amount of spin from Trump and his lackeys can cover up the fact that Americans shelled out an extra $1.5 billion for gas this past week because of his disastrous war with Iran,” Newsom said.
Democratic Senator Patty Murray, who represents Washington, home of the second-highest gas prices in the country, <a href="https://x.com/PattyMurray/status/2047764846876262883">said</a> last month, &#8220;Gas prices and energy prices are surging. Trump wants to totally defund programs that help drive down costs.&#8221;
She added that the Trump administration has blamed Joe Biden’s clean energy policies for causing price increases, saying, “I guess I missed the part where Joe Biden declared war on Iran.”
Washington has a 55 cent tax on every single gallon of gas, and also has strict mandates for special blends of fuel that are more expensive.
When it comes to energy prices, Democrats regularly fight against initiatives that would make things cheaper for consumers.
New York&#8217;s Kathy Hochul, for example, blocked a new pipeline from being built that would dramatically reduce costs for energy in her state.
The American Energy Alliance says &#8220;residents are stuck with higher natural gas prices due to having to import natural gas from overseas as a result of regulatory restrictions preventing the construction of much-needed pipeline infrastructure.”
Hochul was backed by liberals in the U.S. Congress, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Their statement lists concerns about &#8220;environmental justice,&#8221; &#8220;climate goals,&#8221; and &#8220;marine ecosystems,&#8221; without mentioning cost of living.
“This project, which would bury 17 miles of fracked gas pipeline under the ocean floor in ecologically sensitive waters near Staten Island and the Rockaway Peninsula, poses significant and far-reaching implications for public health, environmental justice communities, climate goals and marine ecosystems,” they <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/nyregion/house-democrats-hochul-gas-pipeline-nyc.html">said</a>. 
Yet Hochul and other top Democrats in New York are slamming Trump for the Iran war.
&#8220;War with Iran and tariffs are driving up gas prices across the state,&#8221; Hochul said. “ New Yorkers shouldn’t have to foot the bill for the mess Washington Republicans created.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) similarly <a href="https://x.com/SenSchumer/status/2054235351665775040">argued</a> last week that “Americans are paying over $4.50 a gallon for gas because Trump refuses to end this war.&#8221;

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Indian national Manvir Singh, 24, got a fast pass into the United States after the Biden administration released him at the border in 2023.
Over a year after the state of California issued him a commercial driver&#8217;s license, Singh caused a fatal collision while behind the wheel of a big rig in Lodi, California, Tuesday, according to the Department of Transportation. Three vehicles were slowing down to come to a complete stop when Singh allegedly failed to stop behind them, causing a multi-car pileup, CBS News <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/sacramento/news/lodi-highway-99-deadly-crash-big-rig-driver-arrested/?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The deceased victims were identified as 20-year-old Clark James Fojas and the other was a juvenile, <a href="https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/lodi/highway-99-lodi-crash-driver-arrested-two-killed/103-39c25ad9-24eb-424e-b46b-7376adc8d99f" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to ABC10.
First responders transported five others to the hospital, two of whom sustained major injuries, according to the local news outlet.
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🚨California issued this driver a commercial driver’s license in March 2025🚨
In February of this year, I issued a rule to stop unqualified, untrained foreign drivers like this accused killer from getting CDLs to drive on America’s roads.
RIGHT NOW: <a href="https://twitter.com/FMCSA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FMCSA</a> investigators are… <a href="https://t.co/j7EwCRzMF5">https://t.co/j7EwCRzMF5</a>
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The San Joaquin County Sheriff’s Office arrested Singh, who is charged with vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, resisting/obstructing a police officer, and hit-and-run resulting in injury or death, according to jail records. His bail was set at $185,000.
“This criminal illegal alien from India should never have been behind the wheel of a semi-truck and allowed to kill two innocent people in a multi-vehicle crash in California,” Acting Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Lauren Bis said in a statement Wednesday.
“This is yet another example of why illegal aliens should not be operating trucks on American highways. We need Congress to pass Dalilah’s Law to prohibit states from granting illegal aliens commercial driver’s licenses,&#8221; Bis added.
Federal investigators are now probing &#8220;how this illegal got his CDL and will investigate the trucking company who employed this driver,&#8221; Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Wednesday.
Duffy renewed his calls for Congress to pass Dalilah&#8217;s law, named after Dalilah Coleman, a young girl who survived a similar collision but was left with life-altering injuries. She was five years old at the time of the crash.
&#8220;Dalilah’s law would have revoked this illegal trucker’s license. Congress must pass Dalilah’s Law NOW,&#8221; he said.
Singh is set to appear in court Thursday afternoon, according to ABC10.
The Trump administration has tagged California as one of the major culprits in handing out trucking licenses to illegal immigrants.
Partap Singh, the illegal immigrant from India accused of injuring Coleman, was also given a commercial driver&#8217;s license by the Golden State.
For months, Coleman&#8217;s father, Marcus, a trucker himself, has been trying to reach Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom but has yet to receive any response.
In February, Marcus <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/newsom-silent-as-father-pleads-until-trump-spotlights-child-severely-injured-by-illegal-trucker">shared</a> his frustrations with the lack of accountability on Newsom&#8217;s part.
“How do you not see Dalilah? How do you allow politics to blind you from a five-year-old girl at the time whose life is forever changed, and your only answer is it’s the federal government,” Marcus told The Daily Wire at the time.

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This Saturday, AB Hernandez will compete at the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) state preliminaries, one more win away from the state finals. The girls lining up beside him have trained for years for this moment. Some of them have been training their whole lives. And the thing that strikes me is that I know exactly what it feels like to watch that work become irrelevant because an institution decided it did not matter.
Hernandez is fresh from a clean sweep in all three jumping events at the CIF Southern Section finals, winning the high jump, long jump, and triple jump against the top girls in Southern California. Photos of the medal ceremony went viral, and you can see why. The CIF implemented a &#8220;pilot program&#8221; that awarded any female athlete who finished behind Hernandez a one-spot promotion, meaning some girls shared the podium&#8217;s top spot with him; two first-place plaques were awarded for one first-place finish. California&#8217;s solution to the male athletic advantage is not to address the advantage. It is to redefine the word &#8220;winner.&#8221;
Here is what that pilot program cannot fix. It cannot give back to the girls who finished 2nd through 4th their actual placement. It cannot give the girl who would have placed first a solo podium moment she earned. It cannot undo the fact that Hernandez, a high school student competing in a California sectional meet, posted results that would have medaled in two events at the 1960 OLYMPICS. His long jump of 20&#8217;4.75&#8243; converts to 6.22 meters. The bronze medal at Rome that year went to a woman who jumped 6.21. His high jump of 1.78 meters places him above the mark that earned a silver medal among the best female athletes on the planet. A kid competing at a California high school track meet is clearing marks that would have put him on an Olympic podium against some of the greatest women in the history of the sport. These are not girls&#8217; high school results. They are elite women&#8217;s Olympic results, being posted against teenagers in a sectional final. No participation trophy reshuffles that math.
It is time to be honest about what happened to my teammates and me on the University of Pennsylvania swim team, and what is happening now to girls in California who have no more power to change it than we did. We were told that men in women’s sports was non-negotiable. These girls are being told the same thing, just with nicer packaging. A co-championship ribbon is still a consolation prize. Calling it &#8220;equity&#8221; does not change what it is.
Governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s office put out a statement last week calling the outcry from distressed parents a &#8220;cynical attempt to weaponize this debate as an excuse to vilify individual kids.&#8221; The people holding &#8220;Save Girls’ Sports&#8221; signs at that meet are not there because they want to vilify anyone. They are there because their daughters trained through 5 a.m. practices, sacrificed weekends, and poured years into a shot at a podium that is now being handed to someone with a Y chromosome. That is not vilification. That is a mother at a track meet, watching her daughter lose something real, and being told by the governor of California that the problem is her attitude. California passed Assembly Bill 1266 in 2013 and has had over a decade to watch exactly what happens when male athletes compete in female divisions. The results are not ambiguous.
The CIF preliminaries are this Saturday. If Hernandez advances, the state finals begin May 29 in Clovis. Every girl in those jumping events has a name, a personal record, and a coach who believed in her. None of them chose to compete in this situation. None of them has a governor going to bat for them. What they have is a &#8220;pilot program&#8221; and a shared podium, and the quiet, maddening knowledge that the institution responsible for protecting their competitive opportunities decided that was good enough.
It is not good enough. It was not good enough for my competitors and me when we were forced to compete alongside an elite biological male, and it is not good enough in California. They just keep finding new girls to lie to.
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Paula Scanlan is a senior fellow at American Principles Project and a former member of the UPenn women’s swim team.

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California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is touting a 66% increase in per-student education spending since taking office, but state reading scores show that the massive cash infusion has done little to improve literacy, and in some cases, student performance has worsened.
Newsom celebrated the spending increase this week, boasting on social media that California now spends a record $28,282 per student as his administration makes what he called “historic investments in public education.” But state proficiency data complicates the governor’s victory lap: black students’ reading proficiency remained flat at 32% between the year before Newsom took office and the most recent reporting year, despite billions in additional educational funding. White students, meanwhile, saw reading proficiency fall from 65% to 62% over the same period.
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The figures raise fresh questions about whether Newsom’s education agenda has translated into measurable classroom gains, or whether the Democratic governor is using ballooning budgets to score political points while academic outcomes stagnate.
When Newsom entered office in 2019, California’s K-12 schools received roughly $17,423 per student from state, local, and federal funding sources. Under his proposed 2026-27 budget, that figure has climbed to more than $28,000 per student, representing one of the sharpest spending increases in the nation. Newsom has repeatedly framed the increase as proof that his administration is transforming public education, describing California’s school funding as “the envy of many other states.”
Yet long-running arguments from teachers unions and education officials that low funding was the primary driver behind California’s lagging academic performance now face greater scrutiny. California was once near the bottom nationally in per-pupil spending, but now ranks among the top tier of states. Student outcomes, however, have improved in tandem.
Critics argue that much of the additional funding has gone toward expanding bureaucracy, new state initiatives, and higher compensation packages rather than directly improving core academic performance. Some districts have used the additional funding to shore up payroll and pension obligations even as enrollment declines and test scores remain weak. 
The disconnect is particularly stark for minority students, whom Newsom and other California Democrats frequently invoke when defending higher education spending. Despite the governor’s 66% funding increase, black students’ reading proficiency has not improved during his tenure, raising questions about whether the state’s historic spending spree has failed to move the needle for one of the groups Democratic politicians most often claim to prioritize. In California, at least, Newsom’s record spending has so far produced a record bill, without the record achievement.

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Governor Gavin Newsom’s $189 million initiative to modernize California’s correctional system has <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/05/13/opinion/gavin-newsom-delivers-porn-to-death-row-inmates">come under fire</a> following a bombshell investigation revealing that taxpayer-funded digital tablets are being used by death row inmates to access pornography and groom minors.
While the Newsom administration heralded the distribution of free tablets to every inmate in the state as a step toward “digital equity” and “rehabilitation,” serial killers and rapists inside the system say the devices have effectively become personal sex machines, City-Journal <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/death-row-porn-tablets-california">reported</a>.
The program, designed to provide “justice-impacted” individuals with access to educational content and family contact, has reportedly been hijacked by the state&#8217;s most dangerous offenders. In interviews with dozens of death row inmates, a disturbing pattern of lurid behavior has emerged, ranging from the exchange of lewd photos to live pornographic video chats.
Newsom&#8217;s office denied the claims, saying, &#8220;This is flat-out FALSE. This MAGA nonprofit provides ZERO evidence for its outrageous claims. Their &#8216;sources&#8217;? Convicted murderers and a random guy who doesn’t even live in California.&#8221;
The governors office claimed that &#8220;prison tablets DO NOT provide open internet access,&#8221; adding that the devices &#8220;are monitored, recorded, searchable, and investigated.&#8221;
Among those utilizing the technology is Robert Maury, the notorious &#8220;Tipster Killer&#8221; convicted of raping and strangling multiple women. Maury admitted in an interview that he has used his device to &#8220;flirt&#8221; and receive topless photos from women on the outside. He also detailed a common loophole where inmates use the video chat feature to have someone on the outside broadcast pornography onto a television, which the inmate then watches through the tablet’s camera.
“If you try hard enough, there is always a way around the system,” Maury said, noting that younger inmates who grew up with the internet are particularly adept at evading the state’s “bullsh*t” restrictions.
The abuse isn&#8217;t limited to viewing. Samuel Amador, another condemned serial killer, admitted to rotating between watching pornographic clips and family videos on his state-issued device. Even more alarming, Jamar Tucker — convicted of a triple homicide — revealed he uses the tablets to receive videos of women in thongs for sexual pleasure.
The most harrowing consequence of the program involves Nathaniel Ray Diaz, a convicted child predator. Prosecutors allege Diaz used his prison-issued tablet to contact and exploit a 12-year-old girl, allegedly forcing her to send explicit images and engaging in &#8220;thousands of calls&#8221; from inside Avenal State Prison.
Douglas Eckenrod, a former high-ranking California corrections official, warned that the Diaz case is just the &#8220;tip of the iceberg.&#8221; He expressed grave concerns that the lack of oversight on the 90,000 devices currently in circulation has created a &#8220;pathway&#8221; for predators to groom children.
&#8220;I would bet my pension that there’s a vast amount of childhood pornography on the tablets,&#8221; Eckenrod said.
The former high-ranking corrections official stated, &#8220;I would bet my pension that there’s a vast amount of childhood pornography on the tablets. There are probably several thousand [children] that are currently being groomed.&#8221;
Despite the mounting evidence of sexual misconduct and child exploitation, the Newsom administration is moving &#8220;full-speed ahead.&#8221; The current contract allows for extensions that could see taxpayer spending on the devices reach $315 million. While the Department of Corrections maintains the tablets are &#8220;tightly controlled,&#8221; the men on death row say the reality is a click away.

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Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum delivered a blistering rebuke of California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday, accusing Newsom of creating a self-inflicted energy crisis as he blames President Donald Trump for his state&#8217;s near-record high gas prices.
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Burgum&#8217;s comments follow months of escalations from Newsom, who has characterized the recent spike in fuel costs as “Donald Trump’s crisis.” Newsom argues that the president’s aggressive foreign policy and military actions in Iran have destabilized global oil markets, sending California’s prices to a staggering $6.15 per gallon this month.
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“California hasn&#8217;t changed anything as it relates to that cost,” Newsom <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XZ2fysBtJk">insisted</a>, claiming that state-level baseline costs have remained static. “The cost at the pump has been for one reason: Donald Trump&#8217;s recklessness as it relates to the war in Iran, period, full stop.” In March, Newsom <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/03/10/governor-newsom-blasts-trump-for-raising-gasoline-prices-on-americans-with-no-plan-and-no-accountability/">dismissed</a> Trump’s “Drill Baby Drill” mantra as a “lie to enrich Big Oil donors,” claiming that American families are paying $1.5 billion more at the pump weekly while corporations “cash in on Trump’s chaos.”
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Burgum took the governor to the woodshed, dismantling Newsom’s narrative by pointing to California’s specific policy choices. Burgum highlighted that California has intentionally isolated itself from the American energy grid, effectively becoming an “energy island.”
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“California is leading in highest energy prices, highest taxes, and out-migration,” Burgum stated. “They’ve blocked every pipeline, they block transmission lines &#8230; and then they’re complaining to this administration about their high energy prices.”
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Burgum noted a startling vulnerability in California’s infrastructure: the state is uniquely dependent on oil passing through the Strait of Hormuz. While the rest of the country has increased domestic energy security, California imports roughly 60% of its oil by ship. Burgum also pointed to the systematic dismantling of California’s refining capacity, noting the state has plummeted from 40 refineries to just six, while Texas continues to expand its capacity.
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🚨 HOLY CRAP! Trump Interior Sec. Doug Burgum PUMMELS Gavin Newsom, exposing that California is the only American state to rely on Strait of Hormuz oil — and BLOCKED *every new pipeline*
Yet Gavin blames Donald Trump for his insane gas prices. PATHETIC.
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Comparative data underscores the &#8220;California Premium.&#8221; While California gas prices hit $6.15 in May 2026, Texas remains significantly lower at $4.01, and even the leftist bastion of New York sits at $4.58, according to <a href="https://gasprices.aaa.com/">AAA</a>. California’s lowest prices in 2025 were still higher than the highest prices in almost every other state.
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Ultimately, Burgum’s reality check exposes the governor’s rhetoric as a desperate attempt to deflect from decades of radical environmental mandates. While Newsom points fingers at the White House, the data suggests the &#8220;crisis&#8221; is a direct result of California&#8217;s own war on affordable energy.
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By strangling its own production and blocking the very pipelines that would provide relief, Newsom has ensured that Californians pay the highest price for his political agenda — leaving the state to suffer the consequences of a &#8220;condition they created for themselves.&#8221;
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Gavin Newsom has, once again, found himself diaper-deep in someone else&#8217;s business.
The California governor, who is nearing the end of a gubernatorial tenure best described as a masterclass in managed decline, presided over rampant homelessness, a record exodus of residents, a near $30 billion budget deficit, a housing affordability crisis, dismal education scores, and a surge in violent crime. Now, rather than reckoning with any of that, he has taken to social media to unveil his newest meretricious title: Diaper Daddy. California&#8217;s unmasked Super Conman, able to leap tall budget deficits in a single bound to deliver diapers to all…while leaving actual human waste on the sidewalks entirely untouched.
The initiative itself is a pitch-perfect distillation of modern Democrat governance: announce something that sounds warmhearted, execute it at roughly three times the necessary cost, layer it in politically connected middlemen, waste everyone’s time and money, and call dissenters “heartless monsters.”
This time, however, the math raises more than an eyebrow. It raises the specter of fraud.
Newsom announced a pilot diaper program that will initially roll out at hospitals largely serving Medi-Cal patients before expanding statewide. This summer, the state is partnering with Baby2Baby, a California-based nonprofit, to give every newborn delivered at a participating California hospital 400 diapers at no cost to the family. Budget records show $7.4 million was allocated in the prior fiscal year (2025-2026) to launch the initiative, with an additional $12.5 million proposed for the 2026-2027 budget cycle, bringing the total commitment to roughly $19.9 million. This is all on top of the $45 billion California taxpayers already pour into Medi-Cal every year. But hey, the weather is unbeatable!
When people started doing the math, the flags went up fast. Divide $20 million by 100,000 babies, then divide that by 400 diapers each, and you arrive at $0.50 per diaper. The cheapest diapers on store shelves cost around $0.15 each. 
A FIFTEEN-CENT diaper for just FIFTY CENTS!? What a bargain.
Now, had the state simply handed parents the money to buy their own poo-catchers and let the free market do what the free market does, competition would have driven prices down further and quality up! The people would have won. Instead, the government decided it needed to get its hands into America&#8217;s smelliest supply chain, and turned a $0.15 product into a $0.50 one. Government efficiency, folks. On full display.
When pressed on the numbers, Newsom&#8217;s press office clarified that the diaper contract itself only costs $6.2 million, which works out to roughly $0.155 per diaper, still more than retail. But that admission quietly concedes the obvious question: where does the other $13 million go? The answer, according to the administration, is setup, hospital rollout, logistics, warehousing, and distribution, all of which are superfluous costs that would not exist if parents were allowed to keep their money and buy their own diapers in the first place. Diaper Daddy could focus on getting Drug Demons off the streets and clearing the actual feces off the sidewalks, but hey, at least he’s not giving taxpayer-funded diapers to drug addicts. Yet. 
Then there is the matter of who is running Baby2Baby. The nonprofit is led by Kelly Sawyer Patricof and Norah Weinstein. Weinstein also sits on the board of the California Partners Project, co-founded by her BFF Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the insufferable wife of Gavin Newsom, where they fundraise and promote for the trans, gender-confused intersex folk, and the women who are supposed victims of the nefarious patriarchal powers that be. Patricof, for her part, is married to Jamie Patricof, a Hollywood big-shot producer and longtime Democratic bundler with very deep ties to the party elites.
Straight <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlUKcNNmywk">Californicorruption</a>.
Here is the Democratic playbook, for those keeping score at home: announce a program that makes you look compassionate, overbill the taxpayer for something families could’ve handled themselves, insert a layer of politically connected middlemen, feed the bureaucratic boondoggles, and enrich oneself at the expense of the taxpayer.
The citizen funds the apparatus. The apparatus benefits the network. The network attends the fundraiser. Repeat! 
 
Gavin, most of us love babies and new life. We’d love to see more of it. Why don’t you do what President Donald Trump is doing and cut checks directly to parents of newborns, or partner with the Trump accounts to make savings vehicles more accessible to California families, so that newborns can be sitting on meaningful sums by the time they turn 18? Or, radically, just let taxpayers keep their money, buy whatever product they want, drive competition, keep the free market functioning, and deny corrupt bureaucrats the pleasure of rerouting public funds through nonprofits within their own orbit.
But no, that would be crazy. This is, after all, the same governor who spent hundreds of millions turning California into the West Coast&#8217;s premier abortion destination. Nothing says “pro-family” quite like subsidizing diapers for the babies you worked so hard to make rarer.
But perhaps there is some poetic justice here. This summer, every time a new parent wipes a stinky, smelly, loaded diaper, they’ll be reminded of Gavin Newsom — and exactly where their tax dollars went.

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The radical ideology of gender identity continues to hollow out the integrity of women’s athletics in the state of California, and tennis legend Martina Navratilova has seen enough.
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Over the weekend, high school preliminaries in Orange County became the latest theater of the absurd. AB Hernandez, a male competing as a senior for Jurupa Valley High School, <a href="https://www.dailymail.com/sport/othersports/article-15805153/Trans-athlete-sparks-protests-California-girls-track.html">dominated</a> the girls&#8217; field in the CIF Southern Section Division 3, seizing the triple jump title by several feet and clearing over 20 feet in the long jump — besting the nearest female competitor by more than a foot. Hernandez also tied for first in the high jump, repeating a pattern of dominance that has sparked fierce protests from athletes and parents alike, the Daily Mail reported.
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While the &#8220;Save Girls Sports&#8221; organization and frustrated families gathered at Yorba Linda High School to decry the erasure of female biological reality, the most stinging rebuke came from Navratilova. The 18-time Grand Slam champion, a harsh critic of President Donald Trump, still took aim at the leading Democratic candidate for the 2028 presidential nomination, torching California Governor Gavin Newsom for his refusal to protect female athletes and labeling the state-sanctioned charade as &#8220;cheating.&#8221;
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&#8220;Newsom could overturn this in a second. No excuse,&#8221; Navratilova <a href="https://www.dailymail.com/sport/othersports/article-15804005/martina-navratilova-gavin-newsom-california-track.html">wrote</a>, emphasizing that the governor has the executive authority to intervene but chooses instead to hide behind bureaucratic red tape. Responding to the news that Hernandez remains seeded at the top of upcoming tournaments, she added a caustic, &#8220;Thanks for nothing [Gavin Newsom].&#8221;
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Navratilova’s fury was echoed by fellow Olympic legends. Three-time gold medalist Nancy Hogshead blasted Newsom’s office for its &#8220;big fail&#8221; in legal and biological analysis. Hogshead noted that while Newsom’s camp pays lip service to &#8220;fairness, dignity, and respect,&#8221; it pointedly excludes biological girls from that standard.
&#8220;Females aren’t weakened males; males and females are built from different molds,&#8221; Hogshead stated, dismantling the &#8220;woke&#8221; notion that gender identity can override the material reality of bone density and muscle mass.
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A spokesman for Newsom attacked the governor&#8217;s critics after it was announced that a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/outkick-sports/newsom-office-source-responds-planned-protest-trans-athlete-state-playoff-girls-track-meet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Save Girls Sports” protest</a> would be held at the track meet.
“The Governor has said discussions on this issue should be guided by fairness, dignity, and respect. He rejects the right wing’s cynical attempt to weaponize this debate as an excuse to vilify individual kids,&#8221; the spokesman stated. &#8220;The Governor’s position is simple: stand with all kids and stand up to bullies.&#8221;
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This prompted Sophia Lorey of Save Girls Sports to fire back: &#8220;Shame on Governor Newsom for calling the girls behind me bullies&#8230; These girls are not bullies for defending fairness.&#8221;
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While Newsom remains ensconced in his progressive ivory tower, the federal government is taking notice. The Department of Justice has already filed suit against California agencies for Title IX violations, and the Department of Education has expanded its investigation into 17 other institutions.
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For Navratilova and those who still believe in the &#8220;unique biology of females,&#8221; the message to Sacramento is clear: biological reality isn&#8217;t a &#8220;right-wing weapon&#8221; — it&#8217;s a fact, and ignoring it is nothing short of state-sponsored cheating.
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Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA) announced his plan to make California the first state to provide &#8220;free diapers&#8221; to newborns leaving the hospital — funneling the money for the program through a nonprofit headed by a friend of California&#8217;s self-described &#8220;First Partner.&#8221;
Baby2Baby co-CEO Norah Weinstein sits on the board of Jennifer Siebel Newsom&#8217;s group &#8220;California Partners Project&#8221; — and it&#8217;s Baby2Baby that will take point on the $20 million diaper project, which is supposed to provide every family leaving the hospital with a newborn with 400 diapers.
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🚨 JUST IN: California Gov. Gavin Newsom conveniently announces $20 MILLION in taxpayer dollars will flow to an organization connected to his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom
&#8220;Free diapers&#8221; will be handed out to newborns through the group Baby2Baby — a co-CEO of which is Norah… <a href="https://t.co/QlWdemZq5Z">pic.twitter.com/QlWdemZq5Z</a>
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As The Media Research Center&#8217;s Brittany Hughes pointed out, 400 diapers sounds like a lot until you experience life with a newborn.
&#8220;400 diapers will last a family with a newborn approximately five weeks,&#8221; Hughes <a href="https://x.com/realbritthughes/status/2052795517940191634?s=46">pointed out</a>. And although five weeks without needing to buy diapers would certainly help some families, what is the actual cost?
&#8220;The program will cost the state approx $12.4 million this year alone,&#8221; Hughes added. &#8220;That money will be funneled through a company called Baby2Baby, which will then provide their branded diapers to 400 participating in hospitals (California has over 500 hospitals in total.) Meaning that instead of lowering taxes and letting families keep their own money to buy essentials like diapers, California takes their money, pumps it through a &#8216;nonprofit&#8217; that has overhead and whose CEO made $240,000 in 2024, to provide a &#8216;free&#8217; service available only in certain locations, and that you could have bought yourself for much cheaper.&#8221;
The &#8220;free diaper&#8221; project is far from the <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/08/27/us-news/jennifer-siebel-newsom-making-big-money-from-nonprofit-sources/">first time</a> that California&#8217;s &#8220;First Partner&#8221; has profited from her husband&#8217;s political position. As The New York Post reported in late August, 2025, Jennifer Siebel Newsom received donations through her Representation Project nonprofit  — which promotes radical gender ideology — from companies that lobbied Governor Newsom&#8217;s administration.
She also controls Girls Club Entertainment LLC, a for-profit film company, that pulled in $150,000 from the Representation Project in 2024.
The Representation Project also hosts an annual gala titled &#8220;Flip the Script,&#8221; and among the attendees are often at least a handful of high-dollar donors to Gavin Newsom&#8217;s political ambitions.
&#8220;These types of connections certainly appear unseemly and raise some serious red flags,&#8221; Michael Chamberlain, director of Protect the Public’s Trust, told The Post at the time.

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President Donald Trump tore into comedian and HBO host Bill Maher late on Saturday, delivering a blistering review of Maher&#8217;s recent interview featuring Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA).
Trump made his thoughts on the matter abundantly clear in a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116507513607934090">Truth Social post</a>, trashing both Newsom and Maher before concluding that the latter, whom he dubbed a &#8220;moron&#8221; was still &#8220;slightly more talented than Jimmy Kimmel.&#8221;
&#8220;I hate seeing Fox, and other Conservative Outlets, constantly making Low Rated Bill Maher &#8216;relevant&#8217; as it pertains to the Republican Party, and beyond,&#8221; Trump began his pos with a complain about the number of people, even on the conservative side of the aisle, who appeared to take Maher seriously. &#8220;Bill Maher is a weak and ineffective person who I got to know very well during my dinner with him at the White House.&#8221;
&#8220;He was nervous, scared, and the first words he uttered as he entered the Oval Office were, &#8216;Can I have a drink?&#8217; It was very endearing but, at the same time, absolutely pathetic,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;He was much different from what people think.&#8221;
Trump went on to say that he&#8217;d taken the time to watch some of Newsom&#8217;s interview on Maher&#8217;s show — an interview in which Maher had repeatedly pressed Newsom, albeit in a friendly manner, about the California policies that most Americans might see as abject failures.
&#8220;Last night, I happened to watch Gavin Newscum, an admittedly Low IQ person, who said he can’t read a speech, is dumb, and essentially, incompetent, and he took Bill Maher &#8216;over the coals,'&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Bill Maher was defenseless, and totally deficient. Either he didn’t have the knowledge, or he choked, because Gavin went on and on about how good California is doing, while it’s doing very poorly, having, by far, the worst year it’s ever had where, for the first time in History, more people are leaving than coming. Bill Maher started by saying that California was doing poorly, only to have Newscum speak for an extended period of time, and lie about the facts.&#8221;
&#8220;All you have to do is look at what’s happened to Los Angeles, San Francisco, the horrendous homeless problem all over every street, the Railway catastrophe that is Billions of Dollars over budget, and has never been built, the inability to rebuild the 25,000 homes that were destroyed by the fire because he refused to allow water into the street from the Southwest (If it weren’t for our Superstar EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, and me, they wouldn’t have any homes being built right now!),&#8221; Trump continued.
The president&#8217;s conclusion was simple: &#8220;Fox should stop putting this person on. He’s not representing us. You look weak, stupid, and ineffective, and I hate seeing that. DON’T USE BILL MAHER ANY LONGER AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF YOU! I hate hearing that &#8216;Bill Maher said …&#8217; — Bill Maher is a MORON, though slightly more talented than Jimmy Kimmel.&#8221;
Trump has also been at war with Kimmel in recent weeks, calling on ABC to fire the late night comedian over a line directed at First Lady Melania Trump stating that she had &#8220;the glow of an expectant widow.&#8221;
The &#8220;joke&#8221; angered the president and Melania, particularly since it came just 48 hours before yet another assassination attempt against Trump at the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner — but Kimmel has insisted that it was only meant to be a jab at the dramatic age difference between the pair.

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Trump Trashes Bill Maher In Scathing Review Of Newsom Interview

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Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher pulled no punches in an interview with Governor Gavin Newsom (D-CA), grilling him about his recent Trump-like behavior and the billion-dollar black hole that is California&#8217;s proposed high-speed rail system.
Maher spoke to the California politician — who is term-limited out of his current office and widely expected to run for the 2028 Democratic presidential nomination — and pressed him on his record in The Golden State.
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🚨 NEW: Bill Maher GRILLS Gavin Newsom over his biggest failures in blistering interview:
MAHER: “The other side, what they are going to say though is, but have you seen the stats from California?”
NEWSOM: “Good! One of the largest economies. Let’s go!”
MAHER: “Well… are they… <a href="https://t.co/hS0fr3IFe7">pic.twitter.com/hS0fr3IFe7</a>
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Maher began by warning Newsom that as soon as he officially threw his hat into the presidential ring, Republicans would be begging to discuss his tenure as California governor.
&#8220;The other side, what they are going to say though is, but have you seen the stats from California?” Maher pointed out.
Newsom did not appear to be bothered by the prospect, firing back, &#8220;Good! Fourth largest economy. Let’s go!&#8221;
&#8220;Well … are they going to say good about gas prices?” he replied. “Are they going to say good about how high their rents are? So many people live … I mean there’s a whole litany,&#8221; Maher cautioned before bringing up the train. &#8220;I mean the train! Gavin, you got to get rid of the train! I say this as a friend, you got to let that train go! Let the train go. It’s up to $231 billion.&#8221;
Newsom pushed back, claiming that he&#8217;d inherited the problem from previous administrations and blaming &#8220;legal challenges&#8221; and environmental concerns for the delays and added costs. He went on to say that the project was finally making progress and laying the first tracks. The <a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-politics/california-high-speed-rail-project-soars-231b-worst-public-infrastructure-failure-us-history">project</a> was initially funded in 2008 and should have been completed by 2020 at a cost of $33-45 billion. The cost has since ballooned to $231 billion and the project&#8217;s first phase may not see completion until 2032.
<a href="https://x.com/overton_news/status/2050409805798388001">In addition</a> to the rail project, Maher jabbed at Newsom over recent behavior he said mimicked that of President Donald Trump.
&#8220;Many people would say that you are imitating him,&#8221; Maher said, referencing legal threats Newsom recently made against Fox News.
“Fox better look to settle right now or apologize for defamation,” Newsom replied.
&#8220;Okay, but that sounds exactly like what he does. Suing media?&#8221; Maher pressed again.
&#8220;Well, don’t defame, don’t lie,&#8221; Newsom said.
&#8220;Okay, again! But that does sound like him!&#8221; Maher said again.

Bill Maher Corners Gavin Newsom Over High-Speed Rail Disaster: ‘Let The Train Go’

Bill Maher Corners Gavin Newsom Over High-Speed Rail Disaster: 'Let The Train Go'

The top Democrats running for California governor said they would not suspend the 61.2-cent gas tax, despite the Golden State consistently having one of the highest gas price averages in the nation.
Billionaire climate activist Tom Steyer, former Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA), and former Biden-era Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra each oppose scrapping the tax, they explained during a CBS California debate on Tuesday night. The average price of gas in California is $5.98 a gallon as of Wednesday, according to <a href="https://gasprices.aaa.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AAA</a>.
Becerra said he’s “not in favor of cutting the gas tax” and cited infrastructure funding concerns. Just days prior, the Democrat blamed Trump for the pain at the pump, even though the Biden administration also faced sharp criticism for expensive gas prices.
“Let’s make sure Donald Trump is not starting reckless wars to keep the prices of gasoline down. By up to $2 a gallon, we could reduce the price if that war in Iraq that Donald Trump started would go away,” Becerra said during the Nexstar Media Group debate last week, mistakenly referring to Operation Epic Fury in Iran as a conflict in Iraq.
During a lightning round question-and-answer session during the CBS debate, Porter simply said “no” to a suspension, and Steyer said he “wants a windfall profits tax on the oil companies.&#8221; Steyer did not follow the CBS moderator&#8217;s directions by answering either &#8220;yes or no,&#8221; but confirmed shortly after his &#8220;windfall&#8221; pitch that he is against a suspension of the tax.
Steyer echoed his stance during a Nexstar Media Group debate last week, and he also blamed the president.
“Let me say that the reason gasoline is so expensive that our president, Donald Trump, has started an insane war in Iran and driven up the cost of gasoline for everyone in California,” the Democrat said during the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKIUJua6iCI" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nexstar debate</a>. “That has put $70 billion into the pockets of the oil companies who actually put him in the presidency.”
Both Republicans in the race, former Fox News host Steve Hilton and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, said they were in favor of suspending the tax.
Two non-leading Democrats also said they would give Californians some relief at the gas pump. San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan, a Newsom critic and Democrat, said he would “suspend then reform the gas tax,” and he called it “the most regressive tax in California.”
Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, a Democrat struggling in the polls, said he is a “yes” on suspending the tax.
The Golden State’s June 2 primary blew wide open earlier this month with the exit of Democratic frontrunner Eric Swalwell, who dropped out of the race and resigned from Congress after multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. Newsom has yet to endorse a candidate, whereas Hilton was endorsed by President Donald Trump.
A recent Emerson College <a href="https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/governor/general/2026/california/open_primary" target="_blank" rel="noopener">poll</a> showed Hilton in first place, with Bianco and Steyer tied for the second-place spot, which still leaves a narrow possibility of a Republican lockout in the contest.

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Top Democrats Could Instantly Lower Gas Prices. They Refuse To Do It.

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