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Sunday, July 12, 2026

As California tries to derail Paramount's $110 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount CEO David Ellison's friends and advisers have been pushing the media executive to consider shifting his business out of the state. Ellison's confidantes have pushed him to consider moving its corporate headquarters and reallocating much of its $30 billion in planned spending outside the state if California Attorney General Rob Bonta were to sue to stop the merger, according to people familiar with the discussions. No decisions have been made, these people said, and the considerations may just be a show of brinkmanship, given so much of the industry's production takes place outside of Hollywood already. Under the current deal, Paramount has committed to keeping both companies' lots operational if it remains in California. read more


Friday, July 10, 2026

An LGBTQ cruise that was prohibited from stopping in Turkey earlier this week was not allowed to dock at its substitute port in Egypt on Thursday, according to the company that planned the trip. Atlantis Events CEO Rich Campbell, who is on Virgin Voyages' Scarlet Lady with nearly 2,000 passengers, called the move "really unheard of" and "strange and sad" in a message to The Washington Post. He said that the approval to dock in Alexandria was pulled at the last minute. read more


Tuesday, July 07, 2026

A woman who dated Maine U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner says he forced her to have sex with him nearly five years ago despite her repeated objections, an allegation Platner denies. read more


Friday, July 03, 2026

Turkish authorities have banned a cruise ship catering to American LGBTQ+ travelers from docking in the country's ports, citing "moral standards" and "family values," the CEO of the events company behind the upcoming Mediterranean tour said Thursday. The "Athens to Venice" cruise, which departs from Greece on July 5, was expected to dock in the vibrant Turkish port town of Kuadas two days later, followed by a trip to Istanbul, according to Atlantis Events, which is organizing the voyage. read more


Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Temperatures hit 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in parts of Europe on Sunday as storms moved into other areas, with France reporting 1,000 excess deaths during the record-breaking heatwave. read more


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That's part of a trend of Southwestern states having to repay the federal government for SNAP benefits.

I love how DonorBot glosses over the amount of money owed, that doesn't mean anything.

Lumpers run around claiming California would be the Nth largest economy in the world, yet continues to short change the Federal government via fraud, mistakes, and just not paying its fairshare.

Lumpers will then claim California pays the fed more than it gets back, well it should just like income tax is progressive so should California contribute more than Mississippi.

Yet California continually comes up short. It has $20 billion in pandemic federal unemployment insurance debt. California is the only state that has not repaid this loan, so now federal payroll taxes on businesses are increasing annually until the balance is cleared.

IOW Californians are taxed even more because it doesn't repay its debt.

Think of what $1B dollars could do? Why thats USAID money right there.

Trump is wasting billions a day on a war with Iran and Turds is worried about poor people receiving assistance to buy food.

idk, he's certainly using assets that have already been paid for. My take is the military is learning how to fight with/against drone technology. This is probably a good thing.

The worry isn't about poor people receiving assistance you PortaPotty, but people that don't need assistance are getting paid.
People are literally stealing from the poor people, and you can't see it. You suffer from a fascinating blindness.

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