Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 7/13

[SVPete]

Ro Khanna Is a Shyster

https://hotair.com/david-strom/2026/07/13/ro-khanna-is-a-clown-n3816877

Ro is running for president—something he has been doing for quite a while now without actually admitting it—but he got himself into a bit of a pickle by fully backing Graham Platner despite all the various scandals, up to and including the first accusations of assaulting a Lindsey Fifield.
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He didn't just back Platner. He didn't just campaign with Platner. He actually subsidized Platner's rally following those accusations of assault.
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Khanna didn't withdraw his support until a bandwagon, including Platner's DSA backers, who Khanna is counting on to vault him into the presidency, signaled that now was the time. It was a profile in pusillanimity. Now he is blaming others for his own bad judgment.

Khanna's argument? Nobody else saw the signs, so why does anybody expect him to have seen the signs ...
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Now, in an attempt to distract from his incredibly bad judgment and his willingness to work with Platner, Khanna has flown off to Israel to instigate a confrontation with Israeli settlers, getting a news photographer to tag along on his trip.

His plan? To hire a Palestinian guide who was willing to break the law by entering a military exclusion zone from which all civilians, Israeli or foreign, are banned. He was, unsurprisingly, stopped at the border and held until the Israeli authorities arrived and sent him on his way unharmed and unarrested.

I don't know how much MSM coverage-outrage this stunt hs garnered, but it's being splashed all over FB. It's almost as if it were ALL and pre-planned coordinated stunt, .

[SVPete]

Paramount Plays Hardball Against Newsom's Regulatory Goons

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/07/13/placeholder-headline-n4954963

You know it's tough times in the entertainment biz when two of the oldest and most storied studios in Hollywood are forced into the merger-and-acquisition tango in hopes that they can both stay afloat. But it's a sign of something even crazier when the buyer threatens to leave Hollywood to escape the state's regulatory noose.

That's the word this weekend, when Semafor reported that "Paramount is reportedly considering leaving California" as Attorney General Rob Bonta is reportedly "preparing a lawsuit over its planned $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery."

According to the exclusive, Paramount chief David Ellison's "confidants have pushed him to consider moving its corporate headquarters and reallocating much of its $30 billion in planned spending outside the state," should Bonta sue to stop the takeover from taking place.

The New York Times reported on Sunday that "a group of states" led by California is "preparing to file a lawsuit to block Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery as soon as this week, according to four people briefed on the plans."

The buyout already enjoys the blessings of the federal government, after the Justice Department's Antitrust Division gave its approval in June. ...

This is rumor grade, I guess, but much movie and TV production has moved out of Hollyweird, so this would "simply" formalize and add to what has been happening for two or three decades.

If Noisome and other goobernors do this, it will be over politics, a perceived loss of control of Hollyweird messaging, not any anti-trust concerns.

[ADsOutburst]

Paramount Plays Hardball Against Newsom's Regulatory Goons

https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/07/13/placeholder-headline-n4954963

This is rumor grade, I guess, but much movie and TV production has moved out of Hollyweird, so this would "simply" formalize and add to what has been happening for two or three decades.

If Noisome and other goobernors do this, it will be over politics, a perceived loss of control of Hollyweird messaging, not any anti-trust concerns.

You'd think Democrats would learn after so many instances of businesses leaving Democrat-controlled states.