BLUE STATE BLUES: California agencies discuss what to cut as state deals with $35B deficit.

In January, the Governor’s Office projected only a $3 billion budget shortfall next year, well under the Legislative Analyst’s Office projections of an $18 billion shortfall in its budget released in November 2025.

Since that time, the conflict in Iran and an $8.6 billion increase in tax revenues have improved the budget outlook, but increasing costs in Medi-Cal spending has complicated the revenue picture, Palmer said. He noted nothing is final in the next version of the governor’s budget.

Newsom made it clear in January that he is attempting to solve the budget problems not only in 2026-27, but the following fiscal year as well, Palmer told The Center Square.

Meanwhile: The cost of High-Speed Rail is now estimated at $231 billion.

Ditching HSR would patch plenty of holes in the budget, but then what would Dems do for graft?

KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Brandon Gill Gives a Master Class on Questioning an Abortion Ghoul. “Texas Representative Brandon Gill is the youngest Republican in Congress but he is, as the old saying goes, wise beyond his years. On Tuesday, the 32-year-old first term congressman provided a blueprint for all of the GOP elders of the village on how to deal with any vile abortion ghoul who is being questioned by lawmakers.”

WELL SAID:

Straight from the Comey playbook. What feds have always done. If anyone deserves it, it's this treasonous douchebag. He and all the others who pushed that Russia bullshit at Obama's behest, plus all of you in the media who regurgitated it, deserve more than that. https://t.co/ujPTQ1fmOb

— Northern Barbarian (@xnoesbueno) April 29, 2026

Personally, I’m a big believer in tit-for-tat. It’s science!

OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY, IT’S LITERALLY AN UNLIMITED RESOURCE!

Its free, you just raise taxes on other people and expand the already bloated budget and those actions have no economic consequences whatsoever. There are adults who actually believe this. https://t.co/10s6QlIFp0

— Bobby Panzenbeck (@Panzenbeck) April 29, 2026

California is still in the Gradually way of going broke. The problem with the Suddenly part is that it comes so suddenly

DON SURBER: The B in EBT stands for Bentley. “In one red state alone, more than 14,000 people with EBTs (food stamp recipients) own luxury cars.”

50 YEARS LATER THEY’RE STILL LYING ABOUT REAGAN.

CBS moderator Ryan Yamamoto has just lied in the debate. He claimed that Ronald Reagan (as governor of California) was responsible for cuts In social programs that created homelessness in California.

That is a categorical lie.

The social programs that Mr. Yamamoto is… pic.twitter.com/VJNMEm98ol

— Tom Odell (@TomOdell) April 29, 2026

In 2076 they’ll be lying about Trump.

COMMIES ARE LAZY AND DUMB:

No system in human history has allowed more people to sit in their garden making art than capitalism https://t.co/N8tvUiifjK

— Peter Hague (@peterrhague) April 28, 2026

Also evil.

CHANGE: Nebraska First to Enforce Medicaid Work Requirement.

State officials say they’re prepared, training staff and sending letters, emails and texts to people who could be impacted.

Health policy experts, advocates and other states will be watching closely.

“It can be used as a lesson for other states, both where things go well and where things don’t go well,” said Jennifer Tolbert, deputy director of KFF’s Program on Medicaid and the Uninsured.

The work requirement is part of a broad tax and policy law that President Donald Trump signed last year. Nebraska Republican Gov. Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen announced in December that the state would implement it eight months before it was required, saying the aim was “making sure we get every able-bodied Nebraskan to be a part of our community.”

Exit quote: “Under the change, many Medicaid participants ages 19 through 64 will have to show that they work or do community service at least 80 hours a month, or are enrolled in school at least half-time.”

Those conditions aren’t exactly arduous.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. There’s A Reason Why The Left Keeps Trying To Kill Republicans: It’s because they despise our very existence.

PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RESULTS:

After Paul Pelosi was attacked in 2022, Jake Tapper did an entire show on the dangers of stochastic terrorism and of systematically demonizing a person.

Tapper blamed the right and QAnon for inciting the attack. He said calling someone a pedophile or claiming that someone is out… pic.twitter.com/kc9G2xrHX3

— MAZE (@mazemoore) April 28, 2026

DEFUND THE UN:

BREAKING: The UN has elected the Islamic Republic of Iran as VP of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Review Conference

Just last year this very committee found Iran to be in violation of the committee’s policies.

You literally cannot make this up. pic.twitter.com/PFMVZzEgoJ

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) April 29, 2026

ICYMI: Yet Another Seismic Event Shakes up the Persian Gulf.

WHEN MORONS SPEAK: Obama-Biden Iran Negotiator Says Trump Doesn’t Have Enough Experts, Bemoans ‘Genocide’ in Gaza.

I SUPPORT THIS FOR MANY REASONS.

Support DC Squarehood for a second Costco https://t.co/rU8Y9XsNri pic.twitter.com/TccovykKri

— Payton Alexander (@AlexanderPayton) April 29, 2026

HEY, BIG SPENDER:

The deficit is entirely created by Mamdani himself and his insane budget request of $15 billion dollars over last year, an unheard of increase to fund his ridiculous wish list of giveaways to corrupt nonprofits, illegals, and political activists.

If we simply kept our spending… https://t.co/55QQwxOOaR

— Councilwoman Vickie Paladino (@VickieforNYC) April 28, 2026

“TO MISTAKE [PAM BONDI’S] FIFTEEN-MONTH TOUR FOR FAILURE IS TO MISUNDERSTAND THE ARCHITECTURE OF POWER ITSELF:”

I have been asked for my opinion about Pam Bondi…so here it is…

Pam Bondi, in my opinion…was deployed as a precision instrument in a theater of institutional warfare where the Attorney General’s role is less about courtroom theatrics and more about reshaping the Department… pic.twitter.com/QqoqRWgSY6

— LHGrey™️ (@grey4626) April 28, 2026

SASHA STONE: Jimmy Kimmel Isn’t Worth It, Mr. President. “Does Kimmel deserve to be fired? I can’t care. To care would mean he mattered enough to bother, and he doesn’t. He’s not that important. He’s only important when Trump notices him, and then he becomes a story.”

MADE IN THE USA: Anti-Aging Face Moisturizer with Retinol, Collagen & Hyaluronic Acid. #CommissionEarned

CONTROL THE BOTTOM FIVE PERCENT AND SOCIETY LOOKS A LOT NICER:

It bears repeating that BART installed tall gates to enter the subway and they're gaining $10m in revenue a year plus the need for maintenance is down by

*95.7%*

Passengers who were unwilling to pay a few bucks were causing 96% of the public cleanliness problems!

Pay the fare. https://t.co/jYecybduk1 pic.twitter.com/eC78RxYmHN

— Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil) April 28, 2026

BRACE YOURSELF FOR MAXIMUM GASLIGHTING:

From now until Election Day it will be a non-stop GOP demoralization effort run by the press to convince you that all hope is lost. Don’t fall for it. https://t.co/vIBZzUmqLK

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) April 28, 2026

THIS ONE DOESN’T LOOK LIKE IT HAS MUCH MERIT, BUT HAS DOJ SPED UP SINCE BONDI LEFT? Justice Department Indicts James Comey Again.

FROM HOLLY CHISM:  Soul Inheritance.

#CommissionEarned

Fresh out of college, Evelyn Alexander’s first order of business was finding a place to live. One she could afford on her small inheritance before her job started. None of the local rental agencies had anything in her price range, but…she found a small Victorian house for sale, the only one mostly untouched in a decaying neighborhood of subdivided rental houses.

Complete with a ghost. A very attractive ghost. A very attractive ghost with a strong dislike of the idea of anyone changing his house. So, of course, she bought it. A cranky ghost for a roommate was still a better option than the tiny studio with criminal neighbors.

Between working to restore her new house, embezzlement at work and a murder next door, Evelyn has her hands full. As she works to get on her feet as a productive adult (and not fall in love with a ghost she can’t have), the problems start to snowball. And it’s only compounded by learning that her house has far more secrets than just a single, cranky (attractive) ghost…

MAJOR DISCOVERY:

🚨 @USGS has found that the Appalachian region of the U.S. contains enough lithium to replace 328 YEARS of imports!

Thanks to world-leading mineral science, permitting reform and renewed investment in domestic mining, @POTUS has reclaimed America's mineral independence. pic.twitter.com/INis76fW6o

— Secretary Doug Burgum (@SecretaryBurgum) April 28, 2026

TELL ME AGAIN HOW TRUMP IS LOSING:  Iran on brink of ‘irreversible’ damage to oil fields as storage runs out during blockade.

IT IS A PUZZLEMENT:  Trump-haters wonder why he would be an assassination target.