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Netflix Drops Millions on Ben Affleck’s AI Startup: Playing with AI Fire May Actually Burn

July 22, 2026 8:00 amJuly 22, 2026 11:57 am

Leave it to Netflix, the streaming behemoth that’s already disrupted Hollywood’s traditional business model, to double down on the latest threat to actual human creativity: artificial intelligence. In a deal reportedly worth up to $600 million, Netflix has acquired InterPositive,...

NJ Motor Voter Registration Error: California Says ‘Hold My Beer’

July 22, 2026 7:19 amJuly 22, 2026 2:20 pm

Democrat New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill announced Tuesday that a software error in the state’s Motor Vehicle system, from June 2023 to June 2024, improperly registered roughly 6,600 non-citizens to vote. This occurred despite applicants indicating they were not U.S....

Stockton Already Told Us How This Ends

July 22, 2026 6:00 amJuly 22, 2026 6:01 am

Stockton’s 2012 bankruptcy filing gets taught as a morality play about municipal excess. It wasn’t excess. It was a fiduciary breach, and the record proves it. In 2007 the city council voted to sell $125 million in pension obligation bonds...

Legal Standing of Associations to Sue

July 22, 2026 2:35 amJuly 22, 2026 2:36 am

What is “legal standing”? Sometimes known by the Latin term, locus standi, it is the right of a person or entity to file a lawsuit or participate in a legal proceeding in state or federal court. It is essentially a...

Attorney General Rob Bonta Accused of Rigging Election After Manipulating Voter ID Initiative Language Mid-Campaign

July 21, 2026 4:28 pmJuly 23, 2026 7:51 am

California Attorney General Rob Bonta faces accusations of rigging the ballot language for Proposition 39, the Voter Identification, Citizenship Verification, and Registered Voter List Administration Initiative, just months before the November 2026 election. The initiative, which gathered over a million...

Personal Income Tax Laws

July 21, 2026 2:00 pmJuly 21, 2026 2:01 pm

California Revenue and Taxation Code Division 2, Part 10 deals with the Personal Income Tax Laws. Chapter 1 contains general provisions and definitions. Section 17001 names this part as the “Personal Income Tax Law.” Section 17002 specifies that the definitions...

Gov. Gavin Newsom Has Increased the California Budget 60%-70% in 7+ Years

July 21, 2026 1:51 pmJuly 23, 2026 7:47 am

California Governor Gavin Newsom has increased California’s state budget 60% to 70% in the 7 years since he took office in 2019. The 2018-19 enacted budget (pre-Newsom or early transition, signed by Gov. Jerry Brown) was $201 billion. Gov. Newsom’s...