Liam Dillon

The town's worst-kept secret: Many people know that Paramount CEO David Ellison has been quietly working on a bipartisan bill to create a federal film tax incentive program. Coincidentally, while Rob Bonta was delivering his press conference today, Ellison was en route to D.C. with chief legal officer Makan Delrahim for a long-planned dinner with 13 members of the House Ways and Means Committee to discuss advancing the legislation. The dinner, I am told, is being hosted by committee chair Jason Smith as I type this.

@daveweigel becerra too!

The Sara Rodriguez story is grim, you don't want that right before early voting. But to find an example of a candidate getting scammed by his campaign this year, then winning, you have to go back... two months. inquirer.com/politics/phila…

Am I wrong that this is Teddy Roosevelt??

Unfounded claims of homeless voter fraud roil L.A. We went to Skid Row for answers latimes.com/california/sto…

SCOOP: Paramount has accused Netflix of launching a "scorched-earth campaign" against its Warner Bros. purchase in a letter to DOJ obtained by @politico. Paramount is claiming that Netflix is trying to "poison regulators" against the deal. My latest: politico.com/news/2026/06/0…

AP just called the LA mayor's race. It's Bass-Raman in November politico.com/news/2026/06/0…

This is the late-night text message Mayor Karen Bass sent Nithya Raman the night before Raman filed to run for mayor. Obtained via a public records request.

With @nithyavraman in line to make the mayoral runoff in Los Angeles, take a look at how she and NYC Mayor @ZohranKMamdani are attempting to end the left's civil war over housing — the most important affordability issue in both cities. politico.com/news/2026/03/0…

Nithya Raman surges past Spencer Pratt in L.A. mayor’s race, closing in on runoff with Karen Bass latimes.com/california/sto…

Obviously the Raman-Pratt battle is the headline but it’s also quite significant that Bass’ high-water mark appears to have been the first drop of results where she was over 38%. Now she’s below 35%. Especially interesting compared to what happened four years ago

NEW: There was NOT a batch of L.A. mayor votes with zero votes for Pratt. But there was a "lag in an automated update" to @AP vote tallies that split the batch and updated Bass & Raman's votes about a minute before updating Pratt's. Read me @latimes: latimes.com/politics/story…

@FNiculete Lol

Yes 82-0.com/share?id=fyDon…

And AP makes it official: WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Xavier Becerra advances to the general election for governor in California. #APRaceCall at 7:50 p.m. EDT.

NEW: LA Mayor results as of Friday afternoon. Raman continues gaining ground, inching towards Pratt: Bass: 34.98% Pratt: 28.24% Raman: 24.89% Change from yesterday afternoon: Bass: 35.08% Pratt: 29.35% Raman: 23.42%

Today's press release from @CAgovernor's office on homelessness is pretty congratulatory but leaves out some, uh, context.

This is a pretty cool post on the surge in high-end home sales in San Francisco-Silicon Valley that you do not see elsewhere: "New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Dallas and Washington all sit within a point of their 2019 level (of high-end sales) once appreciation is stripped out."

One of the most striking precinct-level results comes from the Palisades. The burn line along Sunset/Chautauqua also serves as a precinct boundary. Both are typically blue, but Pratt leads 61% in the fire-devastated precinct vs. 36% in the adjacent one, which was largely spared.

@spiroferrer Np. I could have been clearer.

@dillonliam Ah apologies! Don’t mean to put words in your mouth.

I think this case would be better made if the more explicitly pro-development challengers in other local races weren’t being trounced. The strength of Roy indicates a progressive challenge, but Roy’s communication on housing has been about defending tenants.