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What We’re Reading: California Bleedin’, Iran Lights Up, Defending Fraud … And More

California Bleedin’

Google Founders Quit Calif. Over Billionaires Tax Plan – Newsmax

California Hemorrhages $1T In Wealth As Billionaire Tax Proposal Advances – Fox Business

Thiel Gives $3 Million to Group Seeking to Block California Wealth Tax  —  New York Times

Rep. Kevin Kiley to Newsmax: Calif. a Fraud Capital – Newsmax

Iran News

Why Images Of Iranian Women Lighting Cigarettes With Khamenei’s Photo Are Going Viral. – NDTV

The End Is Near for Iran’s Mullahs – New York Post

Is This Time Different in Iran? – MSN

End of Iran’s Reign of Terror Will Benefit Entire World – Yahoo News

Trump Considers Options as Iran Cracks Down On Protests – Axios

Iran Warns It Will Target US Troops And Israel If America Strikes Over Protests  —  AP News

ICE Follies

Anti-ICE Protests Held Across US After Agent’s Fatal Shooting Of A Woman In Minneapolis – CNN

Mamdani-Tied Socialists, CCP-Tied Groups Lead War Against Trump On ICE Shooting And Maduro Arrest – Just the News

Meet The Murderers, Child Rapists ICE Is Arresting In Latest Illegal Immigration Crackdown – Daily Caller

“Yes, Yes, And Yes”: Bessent Signals Crackdown On Dark-Money NGO Protests ‘Just Like We Did With The Mafia’ – Zerohedge

Defending Fraud

Biden Judge Forces Trump Administration To Fund Fraud-Filled Daycare Centers – American Thinker

Judge Halts Trump’s $10 Billion Social Safety Net Funding Freeze – The Hill

New and Improved EPA

EPA Rejects Colorado Plan To Shut Down Coal Plants, Citing Harm To Grid Reliability – Off the Press

Misc

A Political Bunker Buster Looms Within the Results of This Year’s Midterms  — Andrew Malcolm, RedState

Sen. Chris Murphy Says Trump Is ‘10 Times More Impeachable’ In Second Term – Washington Times

Trump Issues Ultimatum To Cuba, Warns It Must ‘Make A Deal’ Before It Is ‘Too Late’ – Fox News

Humor

The Week In Pictures: Adios Maduro Edition – Powerline

Leftists Protest New MAHA Food Pyramid by Staging ‘Processed-Carbs-Only’ Sit-in Marathon – Genesius Times
Americans Now Living In Fear They Could Be Killed Just For Hitting ICE Agents With Cars
– Babylon Bee

Exhausted Nation Wishes Minnesota Would Be Normal For Like Five Minutes – Babylon Bee

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