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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Show Notes

• 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

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Show Note:

• Dr. Tony Lima: The Myth of Donor States
• Senate Votes to End California’s EV Mandate
• Austin’s Reign as a Tech Hub Might Be Coming to an End
• Villaraigosa blasts Harris and Becerra for not speaking out about Biden’s decline
• Kamala Harris takes swipe at Musk and warns world to ‘remember the 1930s’ at Gold Coast real estate conference
• The Next Tax Reform Glitch Is Coming to Main Street Businesses
• Barbara Lee Speaks for Oakland
• Placer County revives homebuyer program eases path to ownership
• Former LA deputy mayor to plead guilty to reporting fake bomb threat at City Hall
• L.A. hotels threaten to withdraw from Olympics deal over minimum wage hike

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Show Notes:

• 25-year-old suspect in fertility clinic bombing left behind ‘anti-pro-life’ writings, officials say
• Woman connected to the Zizians fired the bullet that killed a Vermont border agent, report says
• Is the California Dream a Mirage?
• Dave Eggers: Uncle Patrick’s secessionist breakfast
• GM Is Pushing Hard to Tank California’s EV Mandate
• Newsom says bailing L.A. out of budget crisis is ‘nonstarter.’ Bass remains hopeful
• Got medical debt? LA County may have just paid it off
• She brought ‘teeth’ as juvenile hall watchdog — but claims state defanged her
• Video shows L.A. probation officers letting group beat teen in Los Padrinos juvenile hall
• Gov. Newsom Smears USC Professor Mische for Reporting CA is Facing $8.43/gallon Gas as Refineries Close
• Salman Rushdie as graduation speaker upsets Muslim students at Claremont Colleges

Lance Christensen inside the state capitol:

• Lance Christensen
• Budget Bloat And Blame Games: Inside Newsom’s May Revision
• Newsom spends more to educate fewer kids more poorly
• AB 379 passed out of the Assembly with a 74-0 vote

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Show Notes:

• Guest host Will O’Neill
• High-speed rail, abortion and the will of the voters: Takeaways from Gov. Newsom's budget
• Who’s the mayor of California?
• In unhinged rant, Gavin Newsom essentially admits he's at fault for homeless crisis in California
• Gov. Gavin Newsom, Mayor of Turlock spar over homeless shelter funding
• Los Angeles County opposes Newsom's executive order, won't arrest and jail people at encampments
• California released 15,000 prisoners early during COVID. New data reveals what happened to many of them
• Governor hopefuls kiss labor’s ring
• Wash Post says Harris’ coverup of Biden’s cognitive decline part of why Democrats lost: ‘Credibility problems’

Jon Fleischman Returns:

• Flash Report
• California Patriot Profile: The Late Andrew Breitbart