Gov. Newsom tries his Trump impression on Joe Rogan after he called Gavin a "f----ing con man"

Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom got his skivvies in a knot after Joe Rogan referred to him as a f---ing con man." Newsom's press office account slammed Rogan's podcast as "failing" and claimed the host is being "relegated to irrelevancy."
I asked Grok if Joe Rogan's webcast is losing subscribers. Here is the answer: 

No, Joe Rogan's webcast (The Joe Rogan Experience) is not experiencing significant subscriber losses overall. It remains one of the most dominant podcasts globally, though there have been some short-term fluctuations in monthly downloads/views tied to political events.

California Governor Gavin Newsom completely lost his waste product on Joe Rogan via his official press office X account. The trigger? A resurfaced clip where the podcast giant labeled Newsom an "f---ing con man."

The all-caps meltdown read: "JOE 'LITTLE GUY' ROGAN IS TOO CHICKEN TO HAVE ME ON HIS FAILING PODCAST BECAUSE HE KNOW I'D CRUSH HIM, SO HE TAKES CHEAP SHOTS FROM THE PEANUT GALLERY AS HE GETS RELEGATED TO IRRELEVANCY. ALL TALK, NO ACTION. I'M READY WHEN YOU ARE, 'LITTLE GUY.' OR KEEP HIDING!!!! — Governor GCN."

It was vintage Trump-style bravado from the California governor's team, aimed at a 2023 clip of Rogan chatting with Patrick Bet-David about the 2024 race.

In that old conversation, Rogan did not hold back: "Nobody wants President Newsom either. Nobody believes in that guy. That guy’s a f---ing con man. I mean, everything he did in California, from trying to mandate vaccines for kids when it was totally unnecessary to being caught out in public without a mask and lying about the fact that he was outdoors. All of it. It’s just, nobody believes in the guy. He’s just a politician, just a stone-cold, narrative-driven politician, you know, and nobody thinks he’s a real human."

Rogan has kept the heat on Newsom more recently too. After Newsom's press shop mocked an investigation into daycare fraud by posting what looked like a satirical AI-generated image of investigator Nick Shirley, Rogan called it out on his show.

"Did you see what the governor posted, what Newsom’s press office posted?" Rogan asked his guest. "They posted a photo of Nick Shirley, like a fake Nick Shirley, like a meme — like Nick Shirley peeking into windows."

Back in October, Newsom had already taken to his personal X account to whine that Rogan was too scared to book him. 

The specific clip Newsom's team was having multiple hissy-fits over featured Rogan tearing into the governor's record: "You can’t ruin a city and then go on to ruin a state and say, ‘Guys, that was just practice. Once I get in as president, I’m gonna fix it all.'"

Rogan piled on: "Like, everybody’s LEAVING. You have the highest unemployment. You have the highest homelessness. Money’s missing. You killed Hollywood. Like, Hollywood doesn’t exist anymore. It’s literally gone. You mandated vaccines for kids that didn’t need them. He did horrible s---."

California's one-party disaster under Newsom keeps delivering the receipts, and Rogan is more than happy to read them aloud. Newsom can scream "little guy" all he wants. The numbers, the exodus, and the body count of failed progressive experiments do not lie.

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USDA fraud crackdown to end loophole that has the ultra rich get food stamps

The USDA is finally getting serious about cracking down on food stamp fraud all over the country, going after a loophole that’s been letting wealthy people qualify for government benefits they have no business touching.

[H/T Fox News]

Secretary Brooke Rollins dropped a post on X this week noting that one single state has 14,000 individuals on SNAP benefits who are also tooling around in Ferraris, Bentleys, and Lamborghinis. You can’t make this stuff up.

She put fraudsters on notice that the USDA is working to shut down that loophole under the Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility policy, the one that lets people qualify for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits even when they’ve got the cash to drop hundreds of thousands on luxury cars.

Rollins told Fox Business this week that the department is "getting very, very close to being able to fix that" loophole.

SNAP, the biggest federal anti-hunger program in the United States, has been a favorite punching bag for conservatives demanding reforms for years. Rollins went on "The Ingraham Angle" Thursday night to highlight just how insane some of the waste and abuse has gotten.

"We've found 500,000 people getting more than one benefit illegally. We found 244,000 dead people. This is just the red states," Rollins said about what she's discovered going through the data from the states that have agreed to provide it since her first day on the job.

"We have arrested 895 different people in the last year for illegally using the food stamp system and, of course, now we're talking about what is happening with that money."

USDA numbers show 4.2 million fewer food stamp recipients during President Trump’s first year in office as the administration keeps swinging the axe amid endless reports of misuse from coast to coast.

"Food stamp waste and fraud is out of control," Republican congressional candidate in Orange County and CAL DOGE Director Jenny Rae Le Roux told Fox News Digital. "California alone loses nearly $14 million every day from SNAP to EBT skimming, out-of-state and country beneficiaries and eligibility lapses at a time when technology exists to close every gap, quickly."In March, Fox News Digital reported on Minnesota millionaire Rob Undersander, who somehow qualified for food stamps anyway. He’s been ringing the alarm on this nonsense ever since and has testified about it in Minnesota and before Congress.

"Reintroducing basic guardrails like an asset test is a commonsense step to restore integrity, ensure benefits go to those who truly need them and protect the long-term viability of the program," America First Policy Institute Health & Harvest Campaign Director Matt Schmid said in March.

"This isn’t about taking help away. It’s about making sure SNAP works the way it was intended to."

On top of that, the USDA put out a press release Thursday detailing Rollins’ plan to reorganize the SNAP program, including shipping food nutrition resources and staff out of Washington, D.C., to places like Indianapolis, Dallas, Denver, and Kansas City. About time some of these bureaucrats got a taste of real America.

A USDA spokesperson told Fox News Digital Friday the announcement "aligns with the Food and Nutrition Administration’s mission, to nourish those in need through financially sound programs that promote health and work, as well as champion the productivity of American agriculture."

"As the Food and Nutrition Administration begins its refocusing of operations, all 16 federal nutrition programs will continue without disruption. Pertaining to Indianapolis, it has a lower cost of living, one of the top airports in the country, and has excelled at innovative program delivery."In the end, the administration says these fixes will actually help the people who really need the assistance.

"Since its inception, SNAP has helped our most vulnerable citizens afford the essential and nutritious food they need," Rollins and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote in a Fox News op-ed in March. "At least, that is what the program is supposed to do.

"Over time, however, SNAP has been taken advantage of, allowing many to game the system and leaving millions of vulnerable Americans without healthy, nutrient-dense food options."

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Spirit Airlines after bailout fais: UPDATE

UPDATE: President Trump has said that it will not bail out Spirit Airlines at this time and it's likely the airline will shut down, making airport videos less entertaining.

Spirit Airlines is circling the bowl after a $500 million bailout deal went belly-up, leaving the budget airline teetering on the edge of oblivion.

The carrier couldn’t wrangle support from the Trump administration or its key bondholders because, surprise, everyone involved started bickering over terms. Asked about the mess on Friday, President Donald Trump said, “We’re looking at it,” adding, “If we can do it, we’d do it,” even as reports indicate operations could be winding down as soon as this weekend.

This no-frills flying clusterfrack could go dark as early as Saturday unless some Hail Mary deal materializes at the last second. Government aid talks cratered when the bondholders dug in their heels, and now Spirit’s got barely days of cash left. U.S. officials are watching closely while everyone holds their breath.

For the moment, Spirit is putting on a brave face, insisting it’s “operating as usual” and keeping flights running with crews focused on getting people where they need to go safely. A spokesperson wouldn’t touch the negotiations with a ten-foot pole.

If this thing actually folds, thousands of passengers who thought they were scoring rock-bottom fares are about to get a harsh lesson in airline karma. Spirit runs dozens of routes, hopping between places like Dallas-Fort Worth, Baltimore, Fort Lauderdale, Nashville, New Orleans, and Newark. Good luck if you’ve got a ticket booked.

This mess is unfolding while budget carriers everywhere are getting hammered by sky-high jet fuel prices fueled by global chaos. Those razor-thin margins that depend on selling seats for pocket change aren’t looking so clever anymore.

A trade group for low-cost outfits, including Spirit, just begged the Trump administration for $2.5 billion in short-term help, whining that the little guys are getting squeezed hardest even though they haul tens of millions of passengers a year. They claim it’s all about preserving competition and stopping more industry consolidation. Sure.

Spirit has already been through bankruptcy court twice since 2024, so this isn’t exactly their first rodeo. They’ve been scrambling for any lifeline, including government-backed cash. With talks stalled and the clock ticking, America’s most infamous flying discount bin is now one failed lifeline away from becoming a cautionary tale.

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Seattle's New Socialist Mayor Tells Fleeing Millionaires "Bye" As City Prepares For Vibrant Post-Wealth Utopia

In a bold masterstroke of economic genius, Seattle's freshly minted self-proclaimed socialist mayor Katie Wilson has solved the city's millionaire exodus problem by simply not caring if they leave.

While speaking at a forum at Seattle University earlier this month, the new socialist mayor said, "I think the claims that millionaires are going to leave our state are like super overblown. And the ones that leave, like, bye," she continued, waving her hand and laughing. 

The line drew laughs and applause from the adoring trained seals who presumably do not pay the city's bills, but online it landed about as well as a tax hike on successful people.

"Seattle's Socialist Mayor responds to exodus of wealth from Washington State by saying "BYE" ... then laughing. We're doomed," wrote Brandi Kruse.

Kruse's post has been seen over 4 million times on social media as of Friday morning, which is roughly four million more people than will be left in Seattle once the last productive resident packs up.

Popular conservative account "End Wokeness" also posted on X, writing, "Mayor Wilson seems to welcome the idea of a wealth exodus from Seattle. This is the FA part. FO coming soon.""Enjoy, Seattle," Fox News contributor Guy Benson posted on X.

"What do socialists think happens when the most productive, highest revenue driving members of their tax base leave their jurisdictions?" Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts posted on X.

"Socialists are driven by hate for the rich, not concern for the poor," Manhattan Institute scholar Daniel Di Martino posted on X.

"This is the reaction of a spoiled child whose parents paid her bills up until the point that she became mayor… She has no grasp of reality or economics," comedian Tim Young posted on X. "Seattle is extra cooked."

Discovery Institute Senior Journalism Fellow Jonathan Choe posted on X, "Seattle, you voted for this."

"This clip will live in infamy," the Washington State Republican Party posted on X. "
@MayorofSeattle Katie Wilson is not only unfit to be mayor, she lacks grace and gratitude. Perhaps, she's the one who should leave #Seattle."

Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson will become the city's next mayor after defeating incumbent Bruce Harrell. (Katie Wilson for Seattle)

Wilson shocked many political observers when she was elected Seattle's mayor last year, and many chalked up her victory to her ability to tap into a similar voting bloc that socialist Zohran Mamdani used on his way to becoming New York City's next mayor. Experts call this demographic "people who think other people's money grows on trees and also hate trees because they're not diverse enough."

Earlier this month, Fox News Digital reported on city advocates who say they are struggling to find solutions as homelessness and open-air drug use spread across Seattle’s streets, amid growing concerns about the direction of Wilson's new administration.

"You can just see the foil is like blowing down the sidewalks like autumn leaves," Andrea Suarez, founder and executive director of We Heart Seattle, told Fox News Digital in an interview."Very common to see property damage of our parks and shared spaces. You can see Narcan is used to reverse an overdose, so you'll see cartridges. But at least we're remodeling the bathroom to be gender-neutral. I'm not [kidding] you, that's where our priorities are."

City officials remain confident that once every last millionaire has been waved goodbye with a cheery "like, bye," the remaining citizens will thrive in a glorious, revenue-free socialist paradise where the tents are gender-neutral and the discarded drug paraphernalia forms a beautiful mosaic of progress.

By the way, Starbucks has made a significant move to Nashville, TN. They may move their HQ there too, they've already built a new building there for a headquarters, but we'll see.

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Sergey Brin Corners Gavin Newsom At Treehouse Party, Announces He's Ditching California Before Billionaire Tax Vampires Strike

The tense exchange reportedly took place at a treehouse party hosted by crypto investor Chris Larsen in December.

"The Big Money Show" discusses California's $267M hospice fraud bust as Gov. Gavin Newsom defends the state’s record on fighting theft.

An exclusive holiday gathering just north of San Francisco turned into a stomach-churning fiscal nightmare for California Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Back in December, Newsom and Google co-founder Sergey Brin attended the same "treehouse party" hosted by crypto investor Chris Larsen. It was there, according to a Bloomberg report, that Brin broke the news that he would be leaving the state in response to a proposed wealth tax.

According to the report, it was a tense, private confrontation so jarring that Newsom reportedly complained about a "lingering cold" he attributed to the interaction for months afterward.Brin allegedly explicitly cited the Billionaire Tax Act, a 5% one-time excise tax on individuals with a net worth exceeding $1 billion, hitting his nearly $289 billion net worth hard.

Just this week, the Service Employees International Union–United Healthcare Workers West (SEIU-UHW) said it has collected more than 1.55 million signatures, according to a press release, nearly double the 875,000-signature requirement, to put the one-time tax on billionaire assets on the California ballot this November.

If the measure is approved by voters, anyone who was a California resident on Jan. 1, 2026, would owe the tax, according to the proposal.

Brin effectively shielded his wealth from the retroactive reach of the proposed tax by buying properties in Nevada and Florida. He has also committed at least $45 million to a group called "Building A Better California" to fight the initiative, with his total spending to kill the tax already reaching $58 million this year.

The Corcoran Group agent Julian Johnston exclusively speaks to Fox News Digital about the new wave of California billionaires migrating to South Florida due to a proposed wealth tax. "I fled socialism with my family in 1979 and know the devastating, oppressive society it created in the Soviet Union. I don't want California to end up in the same place," Brin told The New York Times this week regarding a story by the outlet that discussed his move.

Newsom has publicly opposed the billionaire tax, warning the measure would damage the economy and drive away investment. Since January, it’s estimated that more than $1 trillion in capital has left California.

"This is my fear," Newsom previously said in a Politico interview. "It’s just what I warned against. It’s happening."

"The evidence is in. The impacts are very real, not just substantive economic impacts in terms of the revenue, but start-ups, the indirect impacts of . . .  people questioning long-term commitments, medium-term commitments," he continued. "That’s not what we need right now, at a time of so much uncertainty. Quite the contrary."

Look, even the guy who helped invent the modern surveillance state is bailing on Gavin Newsom's People's Republic of California because the tax vampires have finally gone full Dracula. Sergey Brin did not mince words at that fancy treehouse soiree. He looked Newsom in the eye and basically said, "I'm out before you clowns try to loot me like it's a Bolshevik yard sale."

And poor Gavin spent months nursing a "lingering cold" from the encounter. Must have been rough realizing that even your billionaire buddies are done pretending California's socialist experiment is anything but a slow-motion train wreck.

Brin is not messing around. He has already parked assets in Nevada and Florida, dropped tens of millions to kill this idiocy, and reminded everyone that he actually escaped real socialism once before. Now he's watching Newsom's crew try to recreate it on the West Coast with extra failure and homeless encampments.

Meanwhile, the governor is out there sounding shocked that his warnings about driving away wealth and talent are coming true. Shocked, I tell you. The same guy who turned the state into a high-tax, high-crime, open-air toilet is now watching the productive class vote with their feet and their fortunes.

This is what happens when you treat success like a crime and then act surprised when the successful start packing. California is not "progressive." It is progressively broke, progressively empty of anyone who actually creates jobs, and progressively run by people who never met a tax they didn't love until it starts costing them donors.

Brin saw the writing on the wall and got out. Smart man. The rest of us are stuck watching Newsom try to spin this disaster as someone else's fault. Same script, different treehouse.

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Islamic terror group kidnaps 416 women and children--deadline passes, executions imminent

The Jama’atu Ahlis-Sunna Lidda’Awati Wal-Jihad faction of Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction of 416 women and children from the Ngoshe community in Borno State. The victims were seized on March 4, 2026 after the insurgents overran a military base and fell upon the surrounding village. In late April 2026 the group escalated the horror by releasing a video in which they issued a 72-hour ultimatum, demanding a ransom of ₦5 billion, roughly three and a half million dollars, for the captives’ release.

The details chill the blood. 

Insurgents stormed Ngoshe in the small hours, torching military vehicles, murdering several people, and dragging hundreds of residents away towards the Mandara Mountains. On April 19th they published their ultimatum on video, giving the Nigerian government three days to pay or face the consequences: the captives would be moved to places “where they may never be seen again” or simply executed. 

Senior officials, among them Senator Ali Ndume, have rightly rejected the payment of ransom and called instead for a determined military rescue and a strengthening of security operations. A small mercy arrived on April 23rd when the Borno South Youth Alliance reported that twelve victims, ten female and two male, had escaped during a military bombardment of the terrorists’ camp. That left 404 souls still in captivity.

As of April 30th the deadline has long passed. The terrorists have reportedly abandoned any pretence of negotiation. The fate of those 404 human beings hangs in the most desperate uncertainty.

And where, one is compelled to ask, is the world? Where is the United Nations, so swift to condemn when it suits the narrative? Where are the campus activists and their chants of moral certainty? Where is the Western media, that self-appointed guardian of the vulnerable, otherwise so eager to amplify certain causes? 

The silence is as eloquent as the violence itself. It is, in its way, another crime against humanity, no less damning than the unspeakable acts visited upon these non-Muslim victims.

Only Israel seems capable of concentrating the mind. Everything else fades into indifference, as though a peculiar and compulsive form of Jew-hatred has narrowed the moral vision of our age to a single, obsessive point. The rest of the world’s suffering, especially when perpetrated in the name of radical Islam, barely registers. 

That selective blindness does not merely dishonor the dead and the abducted; it reveals the moral bankruptcy of those who claim to speak for conscience.

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House Republicans Finally Pass Border Funding Bill After Only 11 Months of Pretending to Care

WASHINGTON—In a stunning display of courage that left political observers gasping for air, House Republicans on Wednesday finally pulled the trigger on a Senate-approved bill to fund federal immigration enforcement agencies for the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term, right before the government ran out of money and started eating its own tail.

The vote passed 215-211 along strict party lines, because nothing says “bipartisanship” like every Democrat voting to keep the border wide open while calling anyone who wants it closed a Nazi. 

The move ends a partial Department of Homeland Security funding lapse that began February 14th, Valentine’s Day, naturally, and has now become the longest partial shutdown in U.S. history, beating last year’s record like a piñata full of excuses.

With the House’s passage of the Senate’s budget framework, Republicans can now use the magical budget reconciliation process to fund ICE and Customs and Border Protection without having to beg a single Democrat for permission. This is a huge relief, as Democrats have historically been about as cooperative on border security as a cat is on taking a bath with a dog.

The GOP is reportedly sprinting toward a deal that could pump up to $70 billion into the two agencies, money that will presumably be used for things like “actually enforcing the law” and “maybe building a wall that doesn’t have a welcome mat and gift shop.”

President Trump, growing visibly tired of watching his own party treat deadlines like gentle suggestions, gave Republicans a firm June 1st cutoff to get a reconciliation bill on his desk or face unspecified but extremely Trumpian consequences.

“We have a real sense of urgency about getting this done,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson, speaking to Fox News with the weary tone of a man who just spent five hours in a room full of Republicans who still hadn’t decided if they were allowed to win.

To demonstrate this blistering urgency, GOP leadership kept the vote open for more than five hours while gently persuading the holdouts with promises, snacks, and what sources described as “light threatening.” Six brave representatives flipped from “no” to “yes” at the last possible second: Max Miller, Andy Harris, Victoria Spartz, Harriet Hageman, Andrew Clyde, and Michael Cloud. Political analysts called it “a profile in courage,” while others called it “what happens when leadership starts playing Nickelback outside the conference room.”

Some House Republicans remain concerned that the bill still technically “zeroes out” funding for ICE and CBP in certain creative accounting columns, which is apparently different from not funding them at all. As Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) put it, “It’s one thing to not do the funding. It’s another to put big, fat, insulting zeros right in the bill like you’re mocking us.”

Thanks to reconciliation, the Senate can now ram through the actual funding with a simple majority, bypassing the Democrats’ sacred 60-vote filibuster tradition of “screaming, foot-stomping, and threatening to move to Canada for the 47th time.”

“We have been forced by the Democrats to use reconciliation,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune, in the saddest victory speech since participation trophies were invented.

Meanwhile, the White House Office of Management and Budget warned that without funding, DHS personnel could go unpaid in May, once again unleashing chaos on air travel, leaving Secret Service agents and the Coast Guard without paychecks, and generally making the entire country remember why we pay these people in the first place.

At press time, Democrats were reportedly drafting a strongly-worded statement calling the funding of America’s borders “literally fascism,” while Republicans congratulated themselves for almost doing the thing they promised to do.

Yippy-frack!


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Iran's Supreme Leader, Looking Super Healthy and Totally in Charge, Vows to Keep Nukes and Missiles, Because Reasons

Supreme Leader Khamenei Jr. issues warning to US

TEHRAN — Despite persistent rumors that he might be one strong breeze away from meeting his 72 virgins, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei signaled on Persian Gulf Day that the Islamic Republic is digging in on its cherished nuclear and missile programs. This comes as President Donald Trump continues his controversial and highly provocative efforts to pursue peace.

While reportedly in "questionable health," the ailing cleric took to the internet from what sources describe as a heavily fortified hospital bed to issue a bold statement vowing to protect the regime's "nuclear and missile capabilities." Tensions remain sky high over the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran bravely confronts the United States by occasionally yelling at passing cargo ships. Khamenei escalated his trademark rhetoric against Washington, declaring the only suitable place for the American military in the Persian Gulf is "at the bottom of its waters."

"By God's help and power, the bright future of the Persian Gulf region will be a future without America, one serving the progress, comfort and prosperity of its people," a translation of the statement read.

"We and our neighbors across the waters of the Persian Gulf and the (Gulf) of Oman share a common destiny. Foreigners who come from thousands of kilometers away to act with greed and malice there have no place in it – except at the bottom of its waters."

The Junior Supreme Leader cast the U.S. as a meddling outsider with zero legitimate business in the region and insisted the Gulf’s future must be “without America.”

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"Two months after the world's biggest military campaign and aggression in the region and America's shameful failure in its plan, a new chapter is dawning in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz," the statement read.

Among the strongest quotes from the Iranian leader, as translated: "The foreigners who greedily commit evil in it from thousands of kilometers away have no place in it except in the depths of its waters."

"Ninety million brave and honorable Iranian compatriots . . . consider all the capacities of identity, spirituality, humanity, science, industry and basic and new technologies, from nano and bio to nuclear and missile, as their national capital and will guard them like water, land and air borders."

"With practical gratitude for the blessing of implementing management of the Strait of Hormuz, Islamic Iran will secure the Persian Gulf region and eliminate the hostile enemy's abuses of this waterway."

Analysts noted that while the statement was fiery, the only thing Iran appears ready to launch successfully these days is strongly worded social media posts from a leader who may or may not still have a pulse. Iran's Islamic gay community is holding its collective breath.

Trump, meanwhile, is reportedly still open to a deal if the Ayatollah can just stop threatening to sink the world's navies from his sickbed.

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