Newsom in ALLCAPS:

[applegrove]

Gavin Newsom is spot-fucking-on. 🎯🎯🎯👇

— Bill Madden (@maddenifico.bsky.social) 2025-11-29T22:08:35.512Z

[SharonClark]

1. Love it!

[Prairie Gates]

2. It's pretty funny, I gotta say

[DoBW]

3. FDT **

[BlueKota]

4. Go Gavin!

[marble falls]

5. The man is a very effective gadfly.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. Gavin Newsom is a genius! He skewers TFG like nobody else. He does it with STYLE!

[Bluetus]

8. The beauty is that, you know the "proper" media really, really wants to scold Newsom

for behaving beneath the dignity of the office. But they can't say a word because they have been ignoring this exact shit from Trump for 15 years.

In many ways, this is more about the media than it is about Trump.

[SergeStorms]

14. And he writes his own material.

Unlike some demented Big Orange Pig who likes playing president on "Truth"social, but hates acting like an actual president in the White House. At least half of his "truths" are written by his slimy reptilian henchman, Martin Bormann Stephan Miller.

[bluestarone]

7. A million Gavin's and we

Wouldn't be in the trouble we;re in today.

[maddiemom]

36. Even a DOZEN would do the trick. nt

[spanone]

9. K&R

[AllaN01Bear]

10. OHM MYYY!

[oasis]

11. "CRYPTO SCAMS"

Telling it like it is.

[Just Jerome]

12. Still hasn't

gotten old!

[pfitz59]

13. All Caps

All true.

[ananda]

15. That was brilliant! Kash "Money" Patel!

[Nasruddin]

16. Whoa!

Did he leave anything out?

[progree]

17. Hmm, I don't see it at that govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov account

https://bsky.app/profile/govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov
I might have bought this until I saw the part about Vance too busy with 'the couch'

I don't see it here either --
https://www.gov.ca.gov/category/press-releases/

[highplainsdem]

18. It's on X. Newsom posts more on X than on Bluesky. Same for a lot of accounts on both platforms.

The butterfly for Bluesky that you see is from Bill Madden's account. He posted the screenshot. The gray government verification below for Newsom's press office shows it's from X. Bluesky just uses blue checkmarks for all verified accounts.

Link to tweet

[progree]

20. Yes, I saw the X account before posting what I posted above. I just don't believe X account is really an official

account. I've read X sells those "verifications". It's going to take me a lot more than a "verification" checkmark on an X account.

The butterfly for Bluesky that you see is from Bill Madden's account.

I didn't go by that at all. I looked at https://bsky.app/profile/govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov (see my above post).

You may be right that he posted on an X account with the address @GovPressOffice
(there's 50 governors in the U.S. -- why would a state government choose an X account name that is so vague?)

and not at Blue Sky

or at the https://www.gov.ca.gov/category/press-releases/

I think it's more likely that the X account is fake.

[highplainsdem]

21. X does NOT sell the gray verifications for government accounts. It's the blue checkmarks on X that are

available to subscribers on X.

That Bluesky account for Newsom's press office has only 8.2K followers.

The X account, which has been the official account since 2013, has 673.9K followers.

That's why they're more concerned with posting on X, where they reach nearly 100x as many people.

You're going to miss a hell of a lot of official messages if you think only the Bluesky accounts are official. AOC, for instance, and a !ot of other Democratic politicians still use X much more than Bluesky.

[progree]

22. I'm well aware that good Democrats have and post on X accounts. I just don't believe this particular

account is real. Or that he would use the juvenile debunked couch slur. But that's just me.

X does NOT sell the gray verifications for government accounts

Who told you that?

[highplainsdem]

23. Axios story, from August, on Newsom using his official press office account like this:

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/15/newsom-social-media-trump-redistricting

[progree]

24. archive link to save people without an Axios account the trouble of looking for the full article

https://archive.ph/https://www.axios.com/2025/08/15/newsom-social-media-trump-redistricting

[highplainsdem]

25. And in case you doubt Axios, here's a story from ABC7 in Los Angeles showing the tweets from

that X account:

https://abc7.com/post/governor-gavin-newsoms-trolling-president-donald-trump-attracts-attention-complicated-redistricting-fight/17616948/


Including this one:

Link to tweet

[OAITW r.2.0]

27. Enjoyed reading....TFP.

Is Trump exposed to Gavin's texts? I hope so.

[highplainsdem]

31. I'm sure he's kept advised of them.

[Celerity]

28. Here is the actual post from Newsom's REAL, verified X account. Done and dusted this issue is.

Link to tweet

[highplainsdem]

30. Yes. I posted it in reply 18. Progree refused to believe it anyway, which is why I linked to news stories

showing that is Newsom's press office on X.

[progree]

33. Yes, those press accounts pretty much convinced me it's a real account that is what it says it is.

A verified checkmark on an Elon Musk & Co webpage alone doesn't do it for me.

[progree]

32. "Real verified X account" -- Because X says so with it's little verified thingy?

There are no fake accounts on Elon Musk's platform with verified checkmarks on them that claim to be official accounts? None whatsoever?

Up thread we've been discussing this particular account in a couple of roundy-rounds. This is not a new revelation to us.

On the other hand, I'm pretty much convinced it's real from the Axios and ABC links that highplainsdem supplied above.

I have no regrets whatsoever in raising the issue, and certainly no regrets about not automatically giving a helluva lot of credence Elon Musk's website checkmarks. But now that we have some strong evidence that it's a real account from other than Musk&Co, I'm pretty much convinced.

I think the official https://www.gov.ca.gov website should have a list of their official social media accounts and links, but I can't find any such. It might be there somewhere; it's a vast website. Some organizations that I'm familiar with do have such for just such situations, since impostor websites and accounts are numerous.

[Martin68]

19. Wow! Nice to see the truth in bold caps for a change. All 100% TRUE!

[OAITW r.2.0]

26. Nothing to add. The Gov. sez it all.

[calimary]

41. Yes indeed!!!

He speaks for me, too!

Gavin the Great!!!

[live love laugh]

29. ("A TAX!!!")

[spudspud]

34. They need to work in Low IQ into his next parody rant.

Trump would be apoplectic.

[malaise]

35. Too good

[RandomNumbers]

37. "DOZY DON'S SICKOS" needs to go viral.

[llmart]

38. I love that moniker...

Dozy Don - Hit him where it hurts.

[Scalded Nun]

39. If you think crypto will screw us all over, just wait until you see what AI brings to us all.

[Upthevibe]

40. applegrove............

Thanks for posting

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE my Gov............

[CTyankee]

42. I love Gavin and his posts!

I hope it makes Dump furious. Maybe he'll have a fatal heart attack...

[Vinca]

43. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

[Exp]

44. LOVE IT !! nt