Ellisons to Take Over CNN/HBO along with CBS; Warner Bros. along with Paramount from press reports The Ellison family is poised to control one of the world’s largest media conglomerates following a legal settlement with statecleared a significant hurdle to the sale of Warner Bros. AGs. It Discovery to Paramount Skydance. [The news was greeted with a protest at the gates of Paramount’s Hollywood studios. A judge must still sign off on [...]
by Marcy Winograd, Jewish Voice for Peace, CTA Caucus Jewish and Allied Educators for Palestine Almost overnight, the CA Jewish Public Affairs Committee (JPAC) changed its name to “Jewish California” [see: https://www.jewishcal.org/], a re-branding likely aimed at distancing JPAC’s image from that of AIPAC, a rhyming acronym for the toxic American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The re-branding of JPAC followed a 2025 interview [see: https://www.instagram.com/reels/DP0JTBhDRgh/] in which podcaster Van Latham asked California [...]
Proportional Representation Is the Solution to Gerrymandering by Luke Pickrell, DSA Texas Republicans have redrawn their US House map five years early, aiming to flip up to five Democratic seats in next year’s election. The move ignited a nationwide “high-stakes showdown” over gerrymandering, one that now stretches to California’s ballot this November. In response to the Texas GOP’s redistricting push, Democrats from the state traveled to California and Illinois to plan a [...]
Fertility treatments are now required to be covered by most insurance plans Under Senate Bill 729, fertility treatments, including in vitro fertilization, must be covered under most insurance plans. The law also applies to diagnosis and infertility treatments. Religious employers, defined by the law as nonprofits that have religious tenets used as the purpose of the entity, like churches, are exempt from requirements. CARE Court updates for family members SB 42 [...]
CalRX is making biosimilar insulin available to Californians who need it to treat diabetes at low cost, and has now extended the offered medication to include naloxone which is used to combat overdoses from opioids like fentanyl, to prevent fatalities. Insulin can be found here: https://calrx.ca.gov/biosimilar-insulin-initiative/, and naloxone here: https://calrx.ca.gov/naloxone/ The state's website described the latter initiative as follows: $24 Over-the-Counter Naloxone by CalRx® The ongoing opioid overdose crisis across the nation [...]
Governor Newsom’s California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has proposed to break the state’s contract with nearly two million solar customers, slash their solar credit, and slap them with a solar tax. These changes would apply to ALL solar customers who signed up for solar before April 2023 (NEM1 and NEM2). What they are proposing California currently requires PG&E, Edison, and SDG&E to sign an “interconnection agreement” with solar customers. For consumers [...]
