Sergey Brin and Governor Gavin Newsom had a tense exchange over California’s proposed billionaire tax.
The tax, which would impose a one-time 5 percent tax on California billionaires, has made Brin more willing to spend some of his estimated $273 billion fortune on elections and, evidently, more receptive to Republican points of view in opposing it.
In the past, Brin consistently embraced leftist positions, donated to a campaign to defend same-sex marriage in California in 2008, and backed President Barack Obama’s reelection bid in 2012. So far, though, Brin has spent $57 million to try to undercut the tax, including $9 million more disclosed on Friday.
Brin’s spending has made him the state’s second-largest individual donor this election cycle, behind only billionaire Tom Steyer, who is running for governor himself.
When asked about the tax, Brin said, “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.”
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The tax, which would impose a one-time 5 percent tax on California billionaires, has made Brin more willing to spend some of his estimated $273 billion fortune on elections and, evidently, more receptive to Republican points of view in opposing it.
In the past, Brin consistently embraced leftist positions, donated to a campaign to defend same-sex marriage in California in 2008, and backed President Barack Obama’s reelection bid in 2012. So far, though, Brin has spent $57 million to try to undercut the tax, including $9 million more disclosed on Friday.
Brin’s spending has made him the state’s second-largest individual donor this election cycle, behind only billionaire Tom Steyer, who is running for governor himself.
When asked about the tax, Brin said, “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.”
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A $250,000 Lamborghini was turned into a pile of scrap metal after a pickup truck drove directly over it, with the driver miraculously escaping death
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China has maintained massive crude inventories despite Middle East supply disruptions:
Chinese crude inventories have fallen by less than 1 million barrels since the Iran War began on February 28th.
As a result, total Chinese crude oil inventories still stand at ~1.8 billion barrels, including strategic reserves.
Since March 2025, inventories have risen +400 million barrels, or +29%.
This comes as cheap Iranian and Russian crude continues to flow into China, while the country also introduced measures to suspend fuel exports to keep domestic supplies stable.
Chinese purchases of Iranian crude are set to rise to a record ~1.9 million barrels per day this month.
China has the world’s largest oil buffer and is using it carefully.
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Chinese crude inventories have fallen by less than 1 million barrels since the Iran War began on February 28th.
As a result, total Chinese crude oil inventories still stand at ~1.8 billion barrels, including strategic reserves.
Since March 2025, inventories have risen +400 million barrels, or +29%.
This comes as cheap Iranian and Russian crude continues to flow into China, while the country also introduced measures to suspend fuel exports to keep domestic supplies stable.
Chinese purchases of Iranian crude are set to rise to a record ~1.9 million barrels per day this month.
China has the world’s largest oil buffer and is using it carefully.
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Asian women who look like this conceal within themselves—barely—a bloodlust for white women that would make even Genghis Khan blush
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin is coming out as Republican, per NYT
The reporting follows Brin's ambitious efforts to kill the California wealth tax, elect a Republican to California governor, and move his residency out of California.
He finally expressed his sentiment in a comment to NYT:
"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."
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The reporting follows Brin's ambitious efforts to kill the California wealth tax, elect a Republican to California governor, and move his residency out of California.
He finally expressed his sentiment in a comment to NYT:
"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."
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Nayib Bukele: "What about the human right of the women who don't want to be r*ped? What about the human right of kids to play, or to be free? … But no, they were worried about the human rights of the k*llers."
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Mark Levin says it’s time to ban “Nazis” and “Jihadis” from social media, saying free speech has gone too far and is “overprotected.”
He wants them immediately removed from all platforms because they are “inciting” violence.
Levin is trying to put people who disagree with his politics in the same category as an assassin.
“Get off our platform.”
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He wants them immediately removed from all platforms because they are “inciting” violence.
Levin is trying to put people who disagree with his politics in the same category as an assassin.
“Get off our platform.”
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30% of car buyers trading in vehicles in the US now have negative equity, owing an average of $7,200 on their old loans
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Ben was right, GPT-5.5 no thinking is a beast. Holy moly, it's going around faster than I've ever seen doing precise actions to get servers working etc..
5.8k tokens to fix like 20 issues lol.
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5.8k tokens to fix like 20 issues lol.
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Nizhny Novgorod, the 4th largest city of Russia, with a population of 1.25 million, located about 260 miles east of Moscow ----- is Whiter than any American city: 96% homogeneously ethnic Russian
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Oh yeah, sure, she randomly found CP of herself before search engines
By "searching her name" online where exactly? In "the internet"?
And she's a cousin of Ben Shapiro
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By "searching her name" online where exactly? In "the internet"?
And she's a cousin of Ben Shapiro
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