For years, Hollywood elite Steven Spielberg has been one of the biggest cheerleaders for the radical Left, dumping millions into Democrat coffers and supporting the very “progressive” policies that have turned California into a high-tax, crime-ridden wasteland.

Reports are surfacing that Spielberg is officially ditching the Golden State just as Governor Gavin Newsom and his Marxist allies in Sacramento push for a massive, one-time 5% wealth tax on billionaires.

For a man worth an estimated $7.1 billion, that’s a whopping $355 million check he’d have to write to the state.

According to multiple reports, Spielberg and his wife, actress Kate Capshaw, became official residents of New York City on January 1, 2026, after leaving their longtime home base in California.

The timing is raising serious questions and for good reason.

California’s far left is currently pushing a controversial “Billionaire Tax Act” that would slap a one-time 5% wealth tax on residents with a net worth exceeding $1 billion.

The proposed measure could impact more than 200 billionaires living in the state and is being considered for the November 2026 ballot.

Spielberg’s spokesperson told the LA Times that the move was “long-planned” and solely about being “closer to grandchildren” in New York.

Fox News reported:

Steven Spielberg and his wife, Kate Capshaw, officially became New York residents on Jan. 1, according to a report by the Los Angeles Times. The couple relocated to the San Remo co-op on Central Park West in Manhattan, which has previously housed celebrities including Bono, Mick Jagger, Warren Beatty and Tiger Woods.

On the same day that Spielberg reportedly established residency, his production company Amblin Entertainment opened an office in New York City, marking a notable transition away from Hollywood.

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Speculation around the timing of the move can be linked to a proposed one-time 5% wealth tax on California residents worth $1 billion or more. While it has not yet qualified for the November ballot, the proposal — backed by the Service Employees International Union–United Healthcare Workers West — would take effect in 2027, and taxpayers could spread payments over five years, with additional costs, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office.

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“Steven’s move to the East Coast is both long-planned and driven purely by his and Kate Capshaw’s desire to be closer to their New York-based children and grandchildren,” spokesperson Terry Press told the Los Angeles Times.

Press also declined to comment on Spielberg’s position regarding the wealth tax initiative.

If the measure passes, determining who qualifies as a California resident could be complex. The state’s Franchise Tax Board considers multiple factors when evaluating residency, including voter registration, time spent in California, driver’s license issuance, vehicle registration, the location of a spouse and children, and social ties such as religious institutions or country clubs.

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Hollywood actor and “Reagan” biopic star Dennis Quaid unleashed a blistering critique of the entertainment industry’s radical political transformation, declaring that the once-open creative culture has been overtaken by far-left orthodoxy that now punishes dissenting viewpoints.

During an interview with Pastor Greg Laurie, the 71-year-old actor didn’t mince words about how dramatically the culture in Tinseltown has shifted in recent years.

According to Quaid, opinions that would have once been considered moderate or mainstream are now labeled “extreme” or controversial, the New York Post reported.

The news outlet reported:

“The Things have gone so extremely, so far left right now,” Laurie said during his conversation with Quaid.

“I saw a podcast — it was Bill Maher and Dana Carvey, and I’m forgetting the other guy’s name — but anyway, I think it was Dana Carvey said, ‘I’ve told my friends in Hollywood I’m a Clinton Democrat, and some of them are calling me a Nazi now.’”

Quaid said that “you can’t do that,” and compared being a Clinton Democrat to being “a neo-con, on the right side or whatever. What used to be, you can’t be anymore.”

The actor then described himself as a “common-sense independent,” although he said he tends to “lean more conservative in my head.”

“I’m just for common sense, is really what I am,” Quaid said.

Later in the podcast, Laurie asked Quaid about spending time with President Donald Trump.

He called Trump “very surprisingly approachable and very funny, and really genuine. He wouldn’t be president if he wasn’t genuine, because the people who voted for him, they know that he has their best interest at heart.”

In a separate sit-down a year ago with entrepreneur and podcast host Patrick Bet-David, Quaid offered a revealing behind-the-scenes look at why he ultimately chose to leave Los Angeles altogether.

Dennis Quaid:
“L.A. has been very, very good to me, but it’s changed so much.”

When asked what drove the change, Quaid described an environment no longer defined by open creative exchange — but by ideological conformity and professional intimidation.

Dennis Quaid:
“It’s not the place that I was there. I don’t feel like an exchange of ideas. It’s being politically correct all the time, and it’s kind of like a lot of fear… And that’s why I moved to Nashville — to get back into the center of the country and just feel more at home there.”

Quaid went on to argue that Hollywood’s identity has undergone a fundamental inversion over the past several decades.

Dennis Quaid:
“Everything is turned upside down… It used to be in Hollywood to be a rebel, to be an outsider — not the establishment. That was what was exciting in the ‘70s. Now… to be left is basically the status quo and to be politically correct.”

According to Quaid, the shift has been accompanied by an unmistakable chilling effect on speech — especially during the COVID era.

Dennis Quaid:
“Agencies, publicists, studios were telling me, ‘Don’t say anything about politics or the way you feel… because you could lose your job.’ At least that was the subliminal message.”

At the same time, he noted, public political advocacy appeared to be welcomed, but only when it aligned with one ideological direction.

“As long as you were talking about Biden or endorsing a Democrat, you were fine. But if you were endorsing a Republican or Trump… they don’t even want you.”

Quaid also reflected on what he sees as a broader realignment in American political identity — including which party now represents everyday working-class voters.

“It used to be the Republican Party was the party of the rich fat cats… Now the corporations are with the Democrats and the regular people are with the Republicans.”

Still, the actor stressed that ideological diversity — not enforced consensus — is essential for a functioning republic.

Dennis Quaid:
“Don’t be afraid to speak up just because it’s awkward… Even if you’re a Democrat in a room full of Republicans — we need to start talking and arguing with each other about the issues.”

Quaid concluded by lamenting the disappearance of the bipartisan overlap that once characterized American politics.

“You had liberal Republicans and you had conservative Democrats… Now it’s just black and white — you’ve got to be on this side or that — and nothing gets done.”

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Under a plastic tarp in a classroom at a school in a camp for internally displaced people (IDP) in Shan State, Burma (Myanmar), students and teachers told how they were displaced by the Burma army, lost family members, and had their lives turned upside down. Their ambitions and hopes have been frozen, and many have been displaced multiple times. A common thread among a significant percentage of the camp’s hundreds of residents is that their previous IDP camp was bombed repeatedly, including the destruction of their church.

IDP camps are not protected by the UN. Most exist inside resistance-controlled areas. Across the country, more than 4 million people are internally displaced. They receive almost no international aid. Most face food and water shortages, with residents living under plastic tarps that were meant to be temporary housing but have now been used for as long as five years since the military coup that sparked the revolution.

Families in the camps are often incomplete, with some members killed, young men in the resistance, and others separated by war. IDP life is a life of suffering, and to make matters worse, their own government continues to bomb them.

A teacher named Saw Ayar Soe Htoo recounted how, when the Burma army attacked his village, his family escaped to an IDP camp. Sadly, just a few months later, the camp was hit by an airstrike, and his wife and son were killed.

“I couldn’t teach for two months because when I saw the students, I missed my son so much,” he said, the emotion visible on his face.

After that, he and many of the residents took refuge in this camp, hidden in a valley with thick jungle overhead, making it difficult to spot from the air. He explained that the students struggled to learn because of the trauma of displacement and the deaths they had witnessed, as well as the constant fear and privation under which they lived.

Most of Burma’s population is Buddhist, but people of the Karenni ethnicity, the majority in this region, are Christian. When asked what he prays for, Saw Ayar Soe Htoo said, “I pray that I will see my daughter again.”

His nine-year-old daughter had been studying at a boarding school in Shan State. When the attack came, he had to prioritize helping his wife and son escape and could not reach the school to collect his daughter. He is now living in a resistance-controlled area, while his daughter, now twelve years old, remains in school in a government-controlled area.

If he returns to bring her back, he risks arrest. She is too young to travel alone across a war zone to join him. As a result, father and daughter remain separated, possibly until the war ends. It has now been five years since the coup that sparked the civil war, and there is no sign of it ending soon.

The next interviewee was fifteen-year-old Angela. She explained that when the SAC military arrived at her village, she and her family ran to the mountains.

Water was scarce, and they had to walk a long distance to fill a bucket. The jungle school was far away and inadequate. They then moved to Bangkok IDP camp, which was bombed repeatedly. In one airstrike, her house was destroyed, her brother was killed, and she was injured and hospitalized. Unrelated to the airstrikes, her oldest brother drowned.

Angela, like most of the residents of this camp, is Christian. When asked what she prays for, she said, “I pray for our country to get peace. And I pray for my IDP camp to be safe. And no more airstrikes.” She continued, “I pray that I will be able to continue in my studies.” She is currently in grade eight.

She said she hopes one day “to work abroad, especially in Japan.” She wants to work in a shopping center because she believes she can earn a high salary there.

When asked what she wanted the world to know, she said she wanted to tell everyone how hard it is in Burma. “We face difficulty daily. We have a shortage of supplies, especially food.” She added, “I want the world to pray for our country to be better.”

The next student interviewed was eighteen-year-old July. She said that she and her family left their village because of the military coup.

“At first, we moved to the mountain near our village,” she said. “But even there, we could not stay. So my whole family moved again to another place, where we are living now.”

July explained that they fled after hearing heavy weapons fired by the army. Shells landed in the village, some houses burned, and aircraft dropped bombs. “Six people died because of the bombing,” she said. She also heard reports that soldiers were taking girls and raping them. “That is why we felt we were not safe,” she said.

Most families left by motorcycle. Some used a tricycle, and older relatives without motorcycles walked. “It was really difficult, especially for those who had no motorcycle,” July said. She added that it was hard for her because the new place was not like her hometown.

When they fled, they left almost everything behind. “At first, we thought we would stay away only one week or maybe one month,” she said. They brought only a bag of rice and some clothes to the mountain. Later, they were unable to return. After a year, they heard that houses in their village had burned and that the belongings they left behind had been stolen.

On the mountain, they moved between three different camps. Conditions were difficult. “We used plastic tarps and a very thin mat,” she said. “We slept on the ground.” Because of the cold weather, her whole family became sick.

After some time, they moved to another IDP camp, which was hit by at least three government airstrikes. July said that her brother, her sister-in-law, and one niece were killed in an airstrike.

Eventually, she arrived at her current IDP camp, which has one of the best schools in the region, although classes are held under a plastic tarp. Government schools teach a curriculum in Burmese, while in resistance-controlled areas students study Burmese and English as well as their native language. “I am happy at my school,” she said.

July explained that her parents had no way to earn money in the camp. Eventually, they returned to the area near their original home to work as migrant agricultural workers.

They went from having their own home and farm to working as day laborers, constantly in fear of being discovered by the government for having a daughter attending school in a resistance-controlled area.

She concluded by saying, “I always pray to overcome the obstacles the war has created. I pray for the people who fight for democracy and for peace. I thank God for giving me the chance to live until now and for keeping my parents alive. I do not want anyone to experience these kinds of problems.”

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CIA Director John Ratcliffe has ordered the withdrawal or major revision of 19 intelligence assessments after an internal review found they did not meet the agency’s standards for analytical rigor and political neutrality, the agency said Friday.

The CIA released unredacted versions of three of the affected reports, all of which had a strong left-wing political bias.

The topics covered included LGBT activists in the Middle East, women and white violent extremism, and access to contraception during the COVID pandemic.

The reports spanned multiple administrations, including one produced under Obama, one during Trump’s first term, and one during Biden’s tenure.

According to the agency, the reports “fall short of the high standards of impartiality that CIA must uphold and do not reflect the expertise for which our analysts are renowned.”

“There is absolutely no room for bias in our work, and when we identify instances where analytic rigor has been compromised, we have a responsibility to correct the record,” Ratcliffe said in a statement.

”These actions underscore our commitment to transparency, accountability, and objective intelligence analysis,” he continued.

The reports were identified during a broader review conducted by Trump’s Intelligence Advisory Board, which examined hundreds of CIA analytic products from the past decade.

An internal review led by Deputy Director Michael Ellis reached the same conclusion, the agency said.

The move follows earlier efforts by Ratcliffe to revisit past intelligence work tainted by political bias within the agency.

Last July, the CIA declassified a memo criticizing the analytic process behind the 2016 assessment that Russia sought to help Donald Trump win the presidential election.

Sen. Tom Cotton, the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said he had long questioned the quality of similar reports.

“I’ve been sending these kind of reports back to the CIA for years and observing that they contain no intelligence,” Cotton wrote on X.

“Our intelligence agencies have too often missed critical national-security developments to waste time on, for instance, how ‘pandemic-related contraceptive shortfalls threaten economic development,’” he added.

I’ve been sending these kind of reports back to the CIA for years and observing that they contain no intelligence. Our intelligence agencies have too often missed critical national-security developments to waste time on, for instance, how “pandemic-related contraceptive… https://t.co/oP7nFykiBY

— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) February 20, 2026

Sen. Mark Warner, the committee’s top Democrat, criticized the move as “part of a broader and deeply troubling pattern in this administration: sidelining career experts, undermining inconvenient intelligence assessments, and allowing political considerations to override professional judgment.”

“Our country depends on the Intelligence Community’s ability to provide honest, fearless analysis, even when it is uncomfortable or inconvenient for those in power,” Warner said.

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