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California Underground: Your Sane Insight into California PoliticsAuthor: California Underground
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Bonta Caves to Newsom on Paramount Deal
Episode 385
Thursday, 1 October, 2026
California's Attorney General sued to block a $111 billion media merger — then settled it after Newsom, Bass, and Becerra personally pushed him to fold. The deal is being sold as a win for California jobs. It doesn't actually require a single one of those jobs to be in California.This episode: the fine print behind the Paramount-Warner Bros. settlement and what it really protects; why Nithya Raman's 11-point lead over Karen Bass sits next to a City Council vote against LAPD Olympic security funding, and why a 36-to-1 outside-money advantage hasn't been enough to save Bass; and what a new Politico/UC Berkeley poll on 2028 Democratic enthusiasm reveals about Newsom's job approval, Harris's standing, and a governor whose PAC has bought its way onto bestseller lists before.California Underground covers the California stories the rest of the media ignores — the audits, the contracts, the budgets, and the officials responsible for outcomes that aren't matching the promises. No team. Just receipts.Get The Gilded State, Phil's book on California political dysfunction: thegildedstate.com
