NEW: Gavin Newsom officially signs AB 495 into law. The Legalized Child Kidnapping Bill This bill DESTROYS parents rights and allows non-relatives to fill out a 1 page form to pick up your kid without your consent Here’s the breakdown (Family Preparedness Plan Act of 2025) - Erodes parental rights by expanding non-parental authority: The bill broadens the Caregiver’s Authorization Affidavit to allow non-relatives (e.g., distant extended family or others) to make critical decisions on a child’s education, medical, dental, and mental health care without requiring parental knowledge, consent, or signature in some cases, potentially handing over “care, custody, and control” to unqualified individuals. - Creates loopholes for child exploitation and kidnapping: It enables bad actors, such as predators or traffickers, to easily assume control of children with minimal verification—just a form and ID—bypassing court oversight, background checks, or parental involvement, described as a “child trafficker’s dream bill.” - Limits immigration enforcement and data collection: Prohibits schools, daycares, and preschools from gathering immigration status info - Vague definitions and lack of safeguards: Terms like “nonrelative extended family member” and “unable to contact” a parent are undefined or overly broad, allowing quick power transfers even for short parental delays (e.g., a brief unavailability), inviting overreach by hostile relatives, confusion, or misuse by courts/agencies without adequate vetting. - Universal application beyond immigrants: Though framed for immigrant family separations due to detention/deportation, the provisions apply to all California children, l affecting every family and creating risks unrelated to its intended purpose - Bypasses existing legal protections: It circumvents established court-based temporary guardianship processes with built-in safeguards, reducing oversight and verification, which could lead to children entering foster care unnecessarily or facing instability. - Joint guardianship without full parental relinquishment: Allows courts to appoint a custodial parent and nominated non-parent as joint guardians for temporary separations, which opponents say could enable non-parents to override parental decisions remotely (e.g., from abroad) without sufficient checks. - Recent changes (e.g., removing explicit “no parent signature needed” language) fail to resolve fundamental flaws, ignoring widespread protests from parents, faith groups, and advocates who view it as government overreach. AB 495 allows an adult to use a 1-page form to get guardianship-like powers over someone else’s minor child, including living arrangements, school enrollment, and medical and mental health decisions No parental signature required, no vetting, fingerprinting, or background checks of the adult, and no oversight or follow-up to make sure the child is safe with the adult

“How did the American Dream die? How did the Middle Class die? I'm going to tell you” Every person in America needs to understand this - It started in the 1980s with trickle down economics that did not work. They decided to give tax cuts to the rich incorporation saying that money would trickle down. It didn't. It just made the rich richer - Then we greenlit stock buybacks so instead of when the productivity was going up, instead of giving workers more money, they just bought back their stock so the shareholders could make profit and executives could get bonuses - Then we had leveraged buyouts and the government didn't regulate leverage buyouts. And that was the start of private equity basically buying up everything so that they could make more money - Then we moved away from pensions to 401ks which essentially just took the responsibility and accountability of the company to take care of their workers with the retirement and put it on to individuals. But we were never taught economics in high school. So how the f*ck are we supposed to know about compound interest and investing? But they said the 401k was better than the pension, when it wasn't - Then they started shipping our jobs overseas, building the middle class of other countries so that they could make more profit destroying the middle class here. Then we started ramping up the borrowing money and getting into debt as a country which devalues our dollar. - Then in 2008 we had predatory lending which crashed the housing market, fucked over so many Americans. And then we used taxpayer money to bail out the banks. And when all the houses were cheap, the the rich went and bought those up. And that's when you started to see the rent start to increase around the 2010s into the 2015s - Then in 2011 we allowed super PACs to exist so billionaires can now buy elections and they use that money on attack ads. Which divides the country. Divide and conquer. And that's what they did - In 2020 we had the pandemic which both sides of the aisle handled like absolute shit. Shut down all small businesses, all the money went to the top. The rich got richer. They printed trillions of dollars more which people needed. But what did all the people do? We spent the money cause we needed to spend the money. And where did that money go? To the top. And they got richer. - Lastly they decided during the pandemic let's lower the interest rates on buying a home to 2 and a half to 3% so that people could refinance and get ahead. But no, all that really did was give the green light to a bunch of rich people to basically borrow free money. And buy up all the f*cking housing so that we can no longer own a home. And that all ended in 2021. Then we've experienced 25% inflation since the pandemic and here we are in 2025, and we no longer have a middle class, and the American dream is dead.”