Did the <i>New York Times</i> Just End Scott Wiener?

State Senator Scott Wiener is angling for Nancy Pelosi’s congressional seat but a New York Times magazine investigation links Wiener’s 2022 “Safer Streets for All Act” to a boom in the sex-trafficking of children in California. In other news: Newsom matches Trump in the theatrical use of National Guardsmen, the Los Angeles school teacher who called for armed resistance to immigration enforcement, the “Wealth Tax” makes a California comeback, and how I Love Lucy changed television and the world. Bonus: Lance Christensen discusses some 800 bills now turned into law, as Gavin Newsom force-feeds Californians already choking on regulation. Music by Metalachi.

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Show Notes:

• Can Anyone Rescue the Trafficked Girls of L.A.’s Figueroa Street?
• Newsom Says Trump Is ‘Rigging the Election’ With Federal Poll Monitors
• Inside the Tech CEO Campaign to Stop Trump From Sending Troops to San Francisco
• National Guard troops, deployed by Newsom, arrive at LA Regional Food Bank amid government shutdown
• The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012 The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012
• Los Angeles teacher says ICE agents are 'not the only ones with guns' following shooting of federal agent
• Should billionaires pay more? California unions want voters to decide
• The Force awakens in San Jose
• Cash payments to unhoused people likely won't end homelessness, but recipients spent wisely, California study says
• Phillips 66, Kinder plan first-ever California-bound fuel pipeline

Bill-O-Rama with Lance Christensen:

• SB 414 (Ashby) – Regulating charter schools to death (cf AB 84, Muratsuchi) – VETOED
• SB 848 (Perez) – Stop passing the trash teachers bill from the Senate Ed Chair – SIGNED
• AB 1454 (Rivas) – Holding school districts accountable for literacy scores now that AB 1454 (Rivas) passed
• AB 1370 (Patterson) – NDA prohibitions for the legislature (Zavala interview) – SIGNED
• SB 237 (Grayson) – Allowing more oil drilling in CA – SIGNED
• AB 1207 (Irwin) – Continuing cap and tax program – SIGNED
• Is cap and tax slowly dying to accommodate need for massive increase in electrical production to provide for more AI, datacenter capacity? (CalMatter's piece)
• AB 628: A Costly New Mandate For California Landlords – SIGNED
• AB 1264 that eliminated ultra processed foods for kids, but is still gung-ho on sterilizing and mutilating them (Gov press release) – SIGNED