# CALIFORNIA EXPOSED, SAVE ACT DEAD, Β & CNN'S BIGGEST DOUBLE STANDARD YET Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/keeping-it-real-conversations-with-jillian-michaels-407553/california-exposed-save-act-dead-cnn-s-biggest-double-standard-yet Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/keeping-it-real-conversations-with-jillian-michaels-407553/california-exposed-save-act-dead-cnn-s-biggest-double-standard-yet.md Podcast: [Keeping It Real: Conversations with Jillian Michaels](https://stenobird.com/podcast/keeping-it-real-conversations-with-jillian-michaels-407553) Published: 2026-06-12T15:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://pdst.fm/e/mgln.ai/e/101/clrtpod.com/m/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/RSV7136357301.mp3 Audio file: https://pdst.fm/e/mgln.ai/e/101/clrtpod.com/m/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/RSV7136357301.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/keeping-it-real-conversations-with-jillian-michaels-407553/episodes/california-exposed-save-act-dead-cnn-s-biggest-double-standard-yet Duration seconds: 1991 ## Resource BREAKING - TOP NEWS STORIES OF THE WEEK: πŸ—³οΈ CALIFORNIA ELECTION INTEGRITY CRISIS CONTINUES β€” Newsom and Trump go to war over California elections. Voter rolls packed with tens of thousands of ineligible registrations. Homeless voters registered with zero verification β€” no ID, no Social Security number, nothing. A 29-day counting window giving election officials access to unreturned ballots. And when the DOJ demanded transparency, Gavin Newsom cited "privacy" and stonewalled federal investigators. California isn't an outlier β€” 14 states plus Washington D.C. require zero proof of identity to vote. βš–οΈ HOW THE SAVE ACT DIED IN THE SENATE β€” 80% of Americans β€” including the majority of Democrats β€” support voter ID and proof of citizenship to vote. So how did this bill collapse? We break down the 60-vote filibuster threshold, the Byrd Rule, the four Republican defectors β€” McConnell, Collins, Murkowski, and Tillis β€” and the procedural nuclear option that could have passed it with 51 votes and why Republicans refused to use it. 🚨 THE LEFT'S DEPLORABLES MOMENT β€” The Democratic Party is now openly rallying behind a Maine Senate candidate with a documented hate symbol tattoo, multiple abuse allegations from former partners, and a campaign director who quit and went public the night before the primary. Senator Andy Kim's response: "I'll work with whoever Maine elects." This is the same party that spent a decade calling the right deplorable. Now they're running their own β€” and CNN's Dana Bash is calling it political sophistication. πŸ“Ί DANA BASH'S / GRAHAM PLATNER CNN HYPOCRISY EXPOSED β€” Bash went on camera to argue that Democrats are finally "mature" enough to look past a deeply compromised candidate in the name of winning. We break down exactly what that candidate's record actually… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/keeping-it-real-conversations-with-jillian-michaels-407553/episodes/california-exposed-save-act-dead-cnn-s-biggest-double-standard-yet/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/keeping-it-real-conversations-with-jillian-michaels-407553/california-exposed-save-act-dead-cnn-s-biggest-double-standard-yet.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.