🚨NEW PAPER🚨 We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fossil fuel stocks are exploding in response to the war on Iran. Who stands to benefit? The richest of the rich. Who stands to lose? All of us who have to pay higher prices for energy and a new round of sellers' inflation.

yet there is always money for bombs

CA AG Bonta on WBD merger: "The deal is not done" California’s attorney general @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov tells The Weeknight his office will investigate the possible merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery, hours after Netflix backed away from a planned takeover.

“$6 billion in synergies” is the new Aristocrats

@bedoyausa.bsky.social @thefairfightpod.bsky.social Great show today gentlemen! www.youtube.com/live/SRpi9j-...

if you want 77 minute summary, with side quests into David Ellison's acting debut in Flyboys, into how this merger is completely rotten, we got you www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRpi...

#1 has to happen today, or thereabouts, too. prospect.org/2026/02/27/s...

stopping the Paramount / Warner Brothers merger in 3 steps #1 AG Rob Bonta moves to block it w/ other state AGs #2 presidential candidates (& leading Ds) make clear they'll undo this corrupt merger the second they're in charge #3 everyone unsubscribes from Paramount+ TODAY

Live now talking about the fact that Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi are about to be part owners of CNN www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRpi...

Will be live on YT in 30 minutes to talk about how not 3 months ago Larry Ellison was talking about the White House about pulling *specific CNN anchors off the air.* From @hugolowell.bsky.social:

This is good news

It's a tough ask but I'm convinced bari weiss is up to the challenge

One Family controls Fox News, Fox Sports, FX, the New York Post, Harper Collins, the Times and Sun in the UK and the Wall Street Journal. That horse left the barn a long time ago.

god I wish people realized how much power they actually have If we collectively cancelled our subscriptions to these services—for even 1 month!—we could change this 1 month of our effort in exchange for a government that works for the people, not against them

One family is about to control CBS, CNN, HBO, and TikTok. They’ll buy Warner Brothers with $24 billion from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi. To win over Trump, they canceled Colbert, blocked a 60 Minutes CECOT investigation, and blocked Talarico. Much more will follow. Block this rotten deal.

Media and entertainment are consolidating at an alarming pace, with some intent on controlling what you see and hear. Tomorrow morning, @bedoyausa.bsky.social and @maxmmiller.bsky.social will go LIVE at 8:45ET/7:45CT to discuss. www.youtube.com/live/SRpi9j-...

TIL a Fight Oligarchy guy is running for Colorado Attorney General

psssssst we *can* have nice things pass it on

BIG TIME COLORADO HEADS UP...

people, the guy who won this case is running for Attorney General of Colorado. he's been uniform in saying he will prosecute ICE & CBP agents who break the law. you should support him. @seligmanforag.bsky.social

yes. punch up. don't punch the neighbor.

Next Monday, March 2nd at 5:30 pm MT (7:30 pm ET), @alixdunn.com will chat with David, @bedoyausa.bsky.social, and Elliott “El’Bo” Awatt about how we can build worker and people power in the face of Big Tech’s lobbying. Register for the livestream here: luma.com/7ey0m3ar

This is precisely what we needed: a strong statement from CA AG Rob Bonta on all proposed Warner Bros. mergers, whether Netflix or Paramount. Because Paramount is trying to speedrun the merger process, this advance warning is, well, paramount. oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

The world is pretty bad right now so here’s a pretty great poem to even it out for a minute. Stay strong people

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“This isn’t the Supreme Court checking Donald Trump, this is the Supreme Court backing the Chamber of Commerce.” 🎯 Alvaro Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social, fmr FTC commissioner.

Going on the show shortly to discuss!

The kind of abuse and harassment that sex workers face when their real names are exposed is uniquely gross.

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

massive media mergers —> censorship

ICE is crushing Minneapolis economy. On the pod, Mayor Jacob Frey tallies up damage: $203 million overall $80 million small biz losses $5 million hotel cancellations 75K people food insecurity "Impact is staggering," Frey tells us. Bleeding city for being diverse: newrepublic.com/article/2066...

In case it wasn't clear, we are the dogs. And we're not lost. www.404media.co/leaked-email...

You may be tempted to roll your eyes and say that this was obvious, but there is a substantive difference between pointing out there is a slippery slope and having solid evidence that Ring's CEO is planning to expand Search Party beyond lost pets. Kudos to 404 Media.

massive media mergers —> censorship

State AGs can challenge a Paramount-Warner Brothers merger 2028 presidential candidates can pledge to undo it Congress can pass a law to undo it This is not a done deal - if you fight it

Appreciate Ronan summarizing all the work I've done in the last 18 months. prospect.org/economy/2024... prospect.org/2025/12/02/p...

There’s also a progressive candidate running who HASN’T taken money from Palantir partners @mikesacks.bsky.social : www.mikesacksforcongress.com

The universe genuinely is bigger than the bad things that are happening to us! So today is a good day to preorder my new book The Edge of Space-Time, which urges readers to see the cosmos through new eyes and in the process learn skills we use to resist authoritarianism. #BookSky

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

The heads of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla all joined Trump at his inauguration. Since then, largely thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, their companies have reaped $51B in federal tax breaks — paid for by huge cuts to our social safety net. This is what oligarchy looks like.

2 systems of justice: one for the Epstein class one for the rest of us

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

2 systems of justice: one for the Epstein class one for the rest of us

to spell this out more: Matt is saying that because newspapers have advertising departments that are kept separate from editorial, it’s fine for him to procure advertising as the editor and writer because those two situations are somehow the same. 🤡

Please read.

President and CEO @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social talks with @bedoyausa.bsky.social and @ksabeelrahman.bsky.social about Trump 2.0’s deportation regime, protests from Minnesota and beyond, and how ICE ballooned into an $85B agency. Who profits from the detention boom? #FiresideStacks🔥 Listen here:

As someone born & raised within NY-17, let me tell you a few things wearing solely a personal hat: 1. @mikesacks.bsky.social understand the law, politics, and the politics of law better than ANYONE I have worked with--he'd be an awesome Member of Congress. secure.actblue.com/donate/websi...