Aidan McGloin

Pride Bar Association honors five at inaugural gala <p>The Pride Bar Association of the Inland Empire hosted approximately 150 people and raised $3,500 at its first gala Jan. 22.</p><p>The newly formed association honored Los Angeles Superior Judge Martha Bellinger, former San Bernardino Superior Presiding Judge and Appellate Justice Marsha Slough, nationally known attorney Abby Rubenfeld, advocate and actor Beth Broderick, and the restaurant chain Hamburger Mary’s.</p><p>Proceeds from the event will go towards student scholarships. Opera singer Cedric Berry sang “Make Them Hear You” and “We Shall Overcome.” Dancers from The Realm Company performed a ballet.</p><p>Association President Dean McVay served as master of ceremonies.</p><figure class="kg-card kg-image-card kg-card-hascaption"><img src="https://ielaw.news/content/images/2026/02/P1214971.JPG" class="kg-image" alt="" loading="lazy" width="2000" height="1500" srcset="https://ielaw.news/content/images/size/w600/2026/02/P1214971.JPG 600w, https://ielaw.news/content/images/size/w1000/2026/02/P1214971.JPG 1000w, https://ielaw.news/content/images/size/w1600/2026/02/P1214971.JPG 1600w, https://ielaw.news/content/images/size/w2400/2026/02/P1214971.JPG 2400w" /><figcaption><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Pride Bar President Dean McVay</span></figcaption></figure><p>“I want to express my sincere gratitude to each of you for taking time out of your lives, your busy schedules, to join us this evening,” McVay said. </p><p>“Your presence here at the Pride Bar of the IE means more than you'll ever know. I am deeply honored and humbled to stand before you as the inaugural president of the newly formed Pride Bar Association of the Inland Empire. ​​Tonight is truly historic for many reasons. We're not simply installing officers, or celebrating a dinner. We're launching a vision. We're affirming a commitment and planting the roots of an organization that will serve, uplift and advocate for our LGBTQIA legal community and allies throughout the Inland Empire, for generations to come. And may I please say it is long overdue. Thank you. Your support, whether as members, allies, judges, community leaders, students or friends, sends a powerful message that visibility matters, inclusion matters, equality under the law matters. Equity matters,” McVay said.</p><div class="gh-paid-content-notice"><h3>This post is for subscribers only</h3><p>Become a member to get access to all content</p><a class="gh-paid-content-cta" href="https://ielaw.news/pride-bar-association-honors-five-at-inaugural-gala/#/portal/signup">Subscribe now</a></div>

The newly formed association honored Los Angeles Superior Judge Martha Bellinger, former San Bernardino Superior Presiding Judge and Appellate Justice Marsha Slough, nationally known attorney Abby Rubenfeld, advocate and actor Beth Broderick, and the restaurant chain Hamburger Mary’s.

ABOTA’s dedication to the Seventh Amendment and judicial independence is meaningless without a robust Rule of Law that restrains the arbitrary use of state power.

"California stands ready to take all necessary steps to investigate potentially unlawful conduct by federal agents that occurs on our soil, and where the facts warrant, file charges for violations of the California Penal Code," Attorney General Rob Bonta said, according to a press release.

The Declaration: He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people <p>In celebration of our nation’s founding 250 years ago, Inland Empire Law Weekly is reviewing the 27 reasons for revolution spelled out in the Declaration of Independence. It hasn’t been easy. This publication has finally received three books on the topic to help. </p><p>“Today most Americans, including professional historians, would be hard put to identify what prompted many of the accusations (Thomas) Jefferson hurled against the King, which is not surprising since even some well-informed persons of the eighteenth century were perplexed,” writes Pauline Maier in American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence. </p><p>After expanding on the difficulties contemporaries had with understanding the Declaration of Independence, Maier chose not to explain the fifth complaint either. </p><blockquote><em>He (the king) has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.</em></blockquote><div class="gh-paid-content-notice"><h3>This post is for subscribers only</h3><p>Become a member to get access to all content</p><a class="gh-paid-content-cta" href="https://ielaw.news/the-declaration-he-has-dissolved-representative-houses-repeatedly-for-opposing-with-manly-firmness-his-invasions-on-the-rights-of-the-people/#/portal/signup">Subscribe now</a></div>

The Virginia legislature made a couple of formal statements, were shut down for their troubles, and a revolution was born.

Plus: man arrested for death of wife, the dissolution of Virginia's Assembly caused the American Revolution, one book we recommend, Supreme Justice cracks down on arrests at courthouses, and some about marijuana in your car.

YouTube video by Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan Nick Shirley Response

The Andrew Callaghan Nick Shirley beef defines every debated issue in contemporary video journalism and should be understood in its full context for everyone who is interested in media.

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Newsom proposes no new funding to local journalism despite $175M deal with Google The governor is proposing no new money toward local journalism next year despite promising $70 million in 2024, the latest in the state’s ever-diminishing commitment to helping a hurting industry.

It took 16 months for California and Google to walk back on a deal they made in order to circumvent legislative reforms regarding the Google-newsroom commercial relationship.

If they can't honor their own word, they should have left the business to people who can.

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Alright kids, what's y'alls best and worst Christmas movies?

Best - 60 Minutes' CECOT package

Worst - A Christmas Prince

Honorable mention to It's a Wonderful Life

A graphic from CalMatters with a faded background photo of prison buildings and a guard tower marked with the number 8. Overlaid are torn-paper style text boxes with quotes from incarcerated people: “I would say this is the hardest time that I’ve done, out of all of the facilities.” “The kitchen, the cooking area, there are cockroaches. There are so many rodents in here.” “There is no AC for any of the barracks we live in.” Below, a bold title reads: Inland Empire Newsletter — Incarcerated People in CRC Speak on Conditions at Norco Prison. Smaller text credits Aidan McGloin with the date 9.24.25. A black button with a white link at the bottom reads “bit.ly/cm9-24.”

A graphic from CalMatters with a gray-to-white gradient background resembling torn paper. The text reads: “I reported last week on correctional officers’ requests to keep the Correctional Rehabilitation Center (CRC) in Norco open, and to alleviate overcrowding in county jails by walking back California’s 14-year-old policy of housing some convicted defendants in jails.” At the top left is the CalMatters logo, and at the bottom right is a black button with the link “bit.ly/cm9-24.”

A graphic from CalMatters with a similar gray gradient and torn-paper effect as the previous slide. The text reads: “I was also contacted by Brian Kaneda, Deputy Director of Californians United for a Responsible Budget... Kaneda was adamant that AB 109 was not the primary driver of jail overcrowding, instead pointing to a sheriff’s discretion to hold pretrial defendants and a lack of mental health beds for pretrial diversion.” The CalMatters logo is in the top left corner, and a black button with “bit.ly/cm9-24” appears at the bottom right.

A graphic from CalMatters with a similar gray gradient and torn-paper effect as the previous slide. The text reads: “I would say this is the hardest time that I've done, out of all the facilities." -Matthew and below "The CRC has cockroaches, mold, leaks, lead paint and asbestos in pipes. The housing does not have air conditioning, and temperatures get up to 115 degrees in the summer. [Matthew] is housed in a warehouse built in the 1990's, but the majority of [incarcerated people] live in the old barracks." The CalMatters logo is in the top left corner, and a black button with “bit.ly/cm9-24” appears at the bottom right.

🗞️🗞️Recent article in the @calmatters Inland Empire Newsletter by @aidan-mcgloin.bsky.social 🔗 bit.ly/cm9-24

This article highlights voices of people currently imprisoned in CRC & features CURB's own Brian Kaneda who exposes the false solution that is reopening closed prisons and jails.

This is how online advertising should be done

I don't take my girlfriend out to fast food restaurants and tell her "it's more effective."

Effectiveness is a goal, but telling 40,000 of your subscribers that a service they prefer is ineffective and will be canceled is just so absolutely mind-boggling.

AJC publisher Andrew Morse told Robertson that print is ineffective:

“The fact is, printing newspapers and putting them in trucks and driving them around and delivering them on people’s front stoops has not been the most effective way to distribute the news in a very long time,” he said.

News execs need to realize that "meeting customers where they are does *not* mean only providing a website and posting on social media.

Many people, 40k of them in Atlanta, want printed editions.

I met a newsstand operator about four years ago. He said he's asked the @latimes.com for more copies to sell—but they always underdelivered. He'd sell out of his twenty or so copies immediately, and the rest of the day he would be turning customers away.

If people want a print product, why would the AJC not give them one?

Isn't diversification of revenue and distribution a basic business ideal?

Atlanta Journal-Constitution to Quit Print Cold Turkey

The @ajc.com has a profitable print edition that serves 40k, 1/3 of total subs). They're shutting it down.

@katierobertson.bsky.social reports they're doing so to boost digital subs.

Maybe Starbucks should close down its interiors to focus on to-go orders.

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