NATIONAL
14 unique ways to celebrate America’s 250th birthday
Comment: Time to party and celebrate our great country.
Supreme Court rules states can count late-arriving mailed ballots, rejecting Trump-led challenge
Comment: The vote was 5 to 4, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Amy Coney Barrett joining the court’s three liberals in supporting the Mississippi state law. California system remains.
Also: Supreme Court Expands Presidential Power Over Regulators, but Blocks Fed Firing for Now
Also: With Final Decisions Ahead, the Supreme Court Is Sharply Divided: The justices will decide this week whether President Trump can end the guarantee of birthright citizenship and fire a leader of the independent Federal Reserve.
China Has Matched Anthropic in Cybersecurity, Resetting AI Race: Clampdown on top U.S. artificial intelligence is fueling concern that Washington is handing Beijing a cyberwarfare advantage
Comment: Looks like we already lost the AI race. Learn Mandarin.
Also: China Defies US Restrictions and Builds the World’s Fastest Supercomputer: The Chinese supercomputer LineShine was ranked as the fastest in the world, despite not using any GPUs.
Trump says US and Iran to hold fresh talks after strikes strain ceasefire: US president says a meeting is set for Tuesday in Qatar, while Iran has not confirmed. but says it will retain control of the Strait of Hormuz.
Comment: RoboGloboCop USA exhausted and broke. Come home, America!
Ukraine about to lose Donbas? Russia pierces fortress belt amid fierce fighting in Konstantinovka
Comment: Despite CIA/NATO propaganda saying the opposite, especially about drone strikes into Russia, Moscow is advancing in the Ukraine War. Trump now 12,600 hours past his promise to bring peace “in 24 hours.”
CALIFORNIA
California personal bankruptcies up 15% in a year
In 7 years in office, Newsom destroyed the California middle class and wants to do it for all America.
Newsom, California Legislature reach $351.7-billion budget deal
Comment: Tax increases and overspending guarantee a budget crash – after Lucky Newsom leaves to bring his enlightenment to the White House
Aiming to boost government efficiency, San Jose trains its 1,000th worker on AI tools
Comment: Let’s replace the entire government with AI.
Trump administration takes aim at California Coastal Commission, sparking alarm
Comment: Co-opt him and abolish this Soviet agency.
Comment: Probably unconstitutional. But the office ought to be abolished, its duties put in the governor’s office after being sharply reduced.
Newsom’s populist pivot pushing national billionaire tax runs into a wealth-tax fight at home
Comment: He’d feed missionaries to cannibals if it would win votes.
California is getting ready to increase a health insurance tax. Will it affect your premium?
Comment: The best way to stay healthy in California is to leave. Until Newsom becomes president.
California voters face 14 ballot measures in November. Here’s what they would do
Comment: Any billionaires left in the state?
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Moorlach: July 1 fiscal reporting on Orange County finances.
“The market value of the Orange County Investment Pool will have to be reported in accordance with GASB 31. With interest rates not seeming to decline, there is a strong possibility that the market value will be lower than the cost of acquiring many of the investments.”
Moorlach: Los Angeles Fiscal Trends Going in the Wrong Direction
Comment: Just wait till the socialist takes over. The new one.
Democratic Socialists of Los Angeles on July 1: Communist Manifesto Night School Part One
Comment: Actual meeting. Yes, the DSA are actual communists. Guest lecturer Josef Vissarionovich Stalin?
Voters nearly had a chance to gut the ‘mansion tax.’ Now, L.A. approves $544 million in spending
Comment: Just making the housing crisis worse.
Huntington Beach ordered by judge to adopt ranked choice voting — a first in the county
Comment: Judicial tyranny. Ranked-choice is anti-democratic.
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