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The ‘Stop Nick Shirley Act’ Is About California’s Descent Into Belligerent Impotence

It’s not a smart threat, it’s not a terribly plausible threat, but it’s a threat: Don’t you dare to report on people who have a corrupt patron-client relationship with California Democrats.

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You won’t find the words “Nick Shirley” in the new Democrat-passed California law that the Republican Assemblyman Carl DeMaio dubbed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act,” and the horrible spokescreatures for the state’s reptilian governor are riding that fact pretty hard.

Carl DeMaio made up the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” name and then sold it to MAGA as if it were real.Nick Shirley’s name appears nowhere in AB 2624. It doesn’t stop him or any other “citizen journalist” from reporting or investigating.You got played. https://t.co/F5HsMVVs7u— Izzy Gardon (@iGardon) August 23, 2026

Carl DeMaio made up the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” name and then sold it to MAGA as if it were real.Nick Shirley’s name appears nowhere in AB 2624. It doesn’t stop him or any other “citizen journalist” from reporting or investigating.You got played. https://t.co/F5HsMVVs7u

But they’re lying by omission and misdirection, an act they perform with the regularity of breathing. It’s still more or less the Stop Nick Shirley Act, and it’s designed to create a special class of privileged people with extra privacy rights: “Privacy for immigration support services providers.”

You can read the thing, which purportedly makes it illegal to “knowingly publicly post or publicly display, disclose, or distribute on the internet the personal information or image of any designated immigration support services provider, employee, or volunteer, or other individuals residing at the same home address.” So you can engage in independent journalism, and you can investigate anybody you want. You just can’t ever mention their names.

Trying to turn a ludicrous premise into something that a judge won’t laugh out of court, the bill adds a bunch of language about intent: The person posting the name of an NGO grifter has to intend to be mean........

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