California Underground
Newsom Called It a Trump Vendetta. The Wiretap Started a Year Before Trump Took Office.
Gavin Newsom's inner circle was wired for the FBI two years before Trump ever returned to office — and the case now reaches the governor directly. This week Phil is joined by Randy Wang of KABC to break down the wiretap story, California's lawsuit to block the $110 billion Paramount-Warner Bros merg...
Trump Promised Cheaper Groceries. He Delivered a Socialist Surge Instead.
Democratic socialism isn't rising because voters suddenly fell in love with Marx — it's rising because Trump's own inflation approval just hit -44%, worse than any president CNN's polling has ever tracked, including Biden and Carter. Seventy-seven percent of Americans now blame Trump for their cost ...
Prop 40 Says It Raises $100 Billion. A Stanford Economist Says California Loses Money.
California's proposed billionaire tax says it will raise $100 billion for healthcare, food assistance, and education. New research out of Stanford's Hoover Institution puts the real number closer to $40 billion — and argues the state could lose money overall once you factor in billionaires who've al...
SDG&E Wants $3.8 Billion More. Here's the 50-Year Mistake That Got Us Here.
SDG&E just asked California regulators for $3.8 billion more — five days after bragging it cut its own infrastructure costs in half. PG&E is running the same playbook eight hours north, where the average residential bill has already climbed 59% since 2021. And San Diego's proposed "fix" — a city tak...
Spencer Pratt Declared War on Karen Bass. Here's What the Fire Budget Actually Shows.
Spencer Pratt says Karen Bass let Boyle Heights burn for a week — and the documented $17.6 million fire department budget cut he's pointing to is real, even if his rhetoric isn't. This week on California Underground, we dig into the receipts behind the rage: the same warehouse roof that caught fire ...