With Paramount Skydance winning the bidding war to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery for $110.9 billion, the deal will place a vast media kingdom in the hands of Paramount CEO David Ellison, a supporter of President Donald Trump. His father, billionaire Larry Ellison, will also likely play a role. This gives them nearly unprecedented access to a wide variety of news organizations and Hollywood tentpoles.

CBS News is already under the auspices of Paramount as the company’s flagship network. Under Ellison’s tenure, it has undergone the controversial cancellation of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and named Bari Weiss, the founder of the right-leaning site The Free Press, as the new editor-in-chief. 

CNN
A Paramount-Warner Bros. merger would give the Ellisons command of CNN. Following the revamping of CBS, the “concern is that similar changes could be in store” here, said the Los Angeles Times. CNN has been in Trump’s crosshairs, and he has “personally called for the ouster of hosts at the network who have questioned his policies.” 

HBO Max/Paramount+
The merger would give the Ellisons control of these major streaming services, “combined into one streaming service if regulators approve” the deal, said CNBC. This will create a streaming behemoth unlike any other, as the service would have “about 200 million subscribers given existing totals.”

Warner Bros. Studios
Besides CNN, Warner Bros. Studios is likely the gem the Ellisons covet most, as it owns the “second-biggest trove of movie properties after Disney,” said The New York Times. This includes franchises like “Batman” and “Harry Potter.” 

DC Studios
While “Superman” director James Gunn is currently at the studio’s helm with plans for an extended DC universe, a merger may result in “changes to whatever plans DC Studios has for its superhero franchises,” said Forbes. If Ellison inks the deal, he will “obtain a newly minted DC cinematic universe that’s already flying high at the box office,” said Forbes. 

Cable networks
A unified Paramount-Warner Bros. would open up the floodgates to a wide variety of cable offerings. While cable has largely ceded way to streaming in recent years, the Ellisons are “betting they can wring some life out of” these networks, said the Times. 

The Yes in My Backyard movement has been steadily growing based on a simple principle: To solve the housing crisis, simply build more affordable houses. But while YIMBY thinking has been making waves in many areas, particularly in cities with high levels of homelessness like San Francisco, some economists think the movement has outgrown its lifespan. Others think it has more to give.

‘Supply and demand will lower prices for everyone’
The basic idea behind YIMBYism is that houses should be built in “dense transit-accessible neighborhoods,” and eventually the “laws of supply and demand will lower prices for everyone,” said Julie Z. Weil at The Washington Post. The YIMBY model has worked in places like New Haven, Connecticut, a “mostly poor majority-minority, post-industrial city whose population is a double-digit percentage below its midcentury peak,” said Henry Grabar at Slate. 

Some think YIMBYism doesn’t go far enough. After neighborhood and small business groups “sued San Francisco over a housing plan they said went too far, a coalition of housing activists is filing their own suit, arguing the city’s plan doesn’t go far enough,” said Adhiti Bandlamudi at KQED-TV San Francisco.

Homeowners can be anti-YIMBY
Some people view the YIMBY movement as an unrealistic and unmanageable goal for the modern U.S. housing market. Despite many millennials and Gen Zers being stuck in a renter’s economy, about “66% of American households own their homes,” said Greg Rosalsky at NPR. People who own homes are “more likely to be civically engaged,” which some argue works against YIMBYism.

Other homeowners argue that deregulation won’t incentivize builders to put up more homes. “If I get richer in a city, I’m not going to demand more units of housing,” Schuyler Louie, the author of a paper on YIMBYism for the National Bureau of Economic Research, said to the Post. “I’m going to demand a nicer house, which is going to increase the price without actually increasing the demand for units.” This “uneven demand growth,” said a research paper from UC Berkeley, UCLA and the University of Toronto, is the “primary driver of declining affordability in recent decades.”

F2 driver Colton Herta crashes out of his debut practice session at the Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne, Australia. The former IndyCar star lost the rear of his Hitech F2 car but emerged from the crash unscathed to applause from fans.
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Let the clock spring forward all it wants. You are going to refuse to fall back on your sleep needs. Because a little preparation can help you get through Daylight Saving Time feeling — would you believe it? — refreshed.

Brick app-blocker
Scrolling on your phone before bed is never a good idea. Enter Brick, an app-blocking device. Choose the apps you want to be locked out of, then place your phone against the Brick magnet; you won’t be able to access them until you tap the Brick again. Many users put their Brick in another room so it’s out of reach. Doing so makes unlocking their phone “more intentional,” said Women’s Health. ($59, Brick)

Layla Kapok cooling pillow
Some pillows work best for back sleepers; others are ideal for those who snooze on their sides. The “plush and supportive” Layla Kapok cooling pillow is a “favorite” for combination sleepers, said Good Housekeeping, thanks to its “adjustable design and softer feel.” The fill is made of shredded memory foam and environmentally friendly fibers from Kapok tree pods, and if the pillow feels “too firm” or “too high,” zip it open and remove some of the material. ($109, Layla)

Philips SmartSleep wake-up light
Sunrise alarm clocks offer a gentle way to wake up. They “mimic the light from the sun” and play “calming noises and audio tracks in lieu of jarring alarms,” said The Strategist. The SmartSleep light works gradually, going from red to orange to bright yellow during 30 minutes, and comes equipped with five natural wake-up sounds. ($149, Philips)