RED VS. BLUE: Texas Vs. California Budgets: 2022 Edition. “For a while California’s tech and entertainment industry strengths were outrunning its massive blue state economic mismanagement and green energy delusions. That’s no longer the case.”

If Elon Musk can make Twitter run smoothly and profitably with a headcount 75-80% smaller than when he bought it, the employment shakeout at other Bay Area tech firms could kill off Sacramento’s golden-egg-laying goose.