This isn’t just “owning the libs” — this is the highest office in the nation using technology to lie to the entire world. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

FYI Alex Karp does not give a shit what his employees think. He thinks he is a genius and will tell you so.

Sure, let's say everyone is being thrown under the bus. But, isn't it just so incredibly hurtful & an insult to all Americans that this president allowed - and continues to allow - for these killings to happen just so that he can pretend now to work on fixing the chaos he created? Just a thought.

Here's the thing, Greg — free speech is still protected by the First Amendment under the Constitution. If you want folks to stop saying you're the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people, maybe stop acting like the secret police who are kidnapping and killing people.

Wasn't Tom Homan who said MN is not doing his job working with ICE? What is he going to say now that the MN Dept of Corrections is showing how ICE is flat out lying about their outcomes & even the stats of how many people ICE has asked the DOC to keep in custody? ⬇️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2O0...

#Minnesota Is the fed govt really going to investigate Pretti's murder? Karoline Levitt keeps saying let "facts lead," but Trump has only said Tom Homan will have boots on the ground to report to him (is this the "investigation," really?). What am I missing?? newrepublic.com/post/205662/...

🆕Our newsletter is now on Substack! You may not be thinking of Google as an important player in the streaming wars, but hey, it is! Here I zoom into YouTube TV's growth, its clashes with TV programmers, and what it all means as Big Tech continues to pull its weight unregulated in streaming.

I really do hope all these videos are being archived by someone, for both legal defense and history purposes.

Great analysis by @haydenfield.bsky.social. I'll add: I still remember OpenAI, Anthropic pretty much testifying their convos w/Apple would have not happened if not for the GoogleSearch antitrust case. Now we have more of the same. So much for Judge Mehta's 'caution.' www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

This is just like a Black Mirror episode.

I can't even... I'm just at a loss for words.

Keep an eye on the many written testimonies that will be published in the subcommittee's website. Many expose not only antitrust concerns, but threats to creative expression and press freedom coming from both Netflix & Skydance-Paramount's bids. Here's ours: www.journalismliberty.org/publications...

In an almost last-minute hearing about the sale of Warner Bros. Discovery, organized by the House Judiciary Committee, key questions are being raised. The main one? How to define relevant markets. In this case, no definition gives buyers the advantage to argue... www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY9f...

The retaliation from this govt has no boundaries. What is this message? That millions of veterans should remain quiet to perfectly denounceable statements and actions from this administration? If they do this to a retired Navy Captain and U.S. Senator, what should we expect for the rest?

Every clip in this 2:38-minute video montage shows Iranian missile strikes on Israel in 2024 and 2025, none of clips are linked to US strikes on Venezuela this morning.

and then for hours used passive voice to pretend they had no idea who was behind the apparently spontaneous explosions

I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather. “No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!” “No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”

This is absolutely on point

babe wake up, they're doing insider trading on war crimes

This is possibly the best educated guess of what's going to happen in Venezuela. By taking advantage of people's hope for regime change, it's easier to create chaos disguised in relief. Even more appalling is how this govt uses the US Justice system to achieve an agenda no American voted for...

This is precisely the danger of US systems of government failing to contain - even supporting, in the case of the FCC - Donald Trump's demand for ideological censorship. First, with the 60 Minutes settlement, then the Paramount sale and installation of Weiss.

"The lesson of this week’s hearing is not that one party is right and the other wrong. It is that both have been distracted by partisan skirmishes while the foundations of press freedom erode beneath them." Excellent analysis on oversight of FCC @courtneyr.bsky.social: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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For anyone who wants to know what the FCC was up to before today's Senate hearing (and if you just learned about the FCC because of Jimmy Kimmel), here's the full picture of Brendan Carr's "Delete, Delete, Delete" initiative, by @austinahlman.bsky.social🔎 www.journalismliberty.org/publications...

What in the actual f* is he talking about? What rents have gone down? You're trying to tell us that "foreign criminals" - I guess with millions of dollars at their disposal - were jacking up prices of houses and creating a housing crisis? What is this madness.

Omg thank you for posting this. In went on the FCC website too around 1 pm ET and noticed it had been edited already!! I thought, "no way they were that fast." But they were. Delete, delete, delete, indeed.

From all the baffling things said by FCC Chair Carr today, the way he refused to acknowledge the FCC cannot revoke broadcast licenses simply bc the president (any president) does not like a licensee's programming, was the most devasting. Here's the exact moment: www.youtube.com/live/cHY0dP5...

CBS News staffers might want to check into how things are going at their boss’s anti-woke “university” in Austin. Via @ngluckman.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...

Extremely timely @austinahlman.bsky.social in @openmarkets.bsky.social newsletter:"If the Supreme Court eliminates agency independence[...]Democrats and Republicans alike must view every nominee as a direct extension of the President’s political operation." www.journalismliberty.org/publications...

at least tomorrow's friday huh

#breaking Trump orders government to fight state AI laws (via Politico). U.S. federal govt continues its war against states seeking to legitimately govern AI deployment (including data centers, for that matter) impacting their residents. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

The Ellisons doing a hostile bid for Warner Bros., throwing Jared Kushner's private equity money just to say how THAT will make the merger approval "smoother" compared to other bidders is how we continue to institutionalize corruption. Let's call things by their name. www.axios.com/2025/12/08/j...

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Netflix’s bid to swallow Warner Bros. Discovery’s studios and streaming business is a raw deal for viewers, writers, creators, theaters. Our full statement is here: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

What is this world 🤣

Funny to see the Ellisons' reasoning here... They want to buy ALL OF WB, but we should only worry about Netflix? Bc what, bc it's a tech giant? They will both concentrate even more power, in similar terrible ways. If regulators were serious about reining them in, neither of these bids would clear.

This "reshaping" is the creation of a new global gatekeeper of stories, voices, and creators' IP. Netflix will control 100+ years of filmmaking catalogue, w/no interest in theaters. We ought to believe they will not kill HBO? Not fire writers? Worst part is, Netflix's... www.wsj.com/business/med...

Unclear if this is actually policy or just Trump shooting from the hip. But we agree that that the broadcast ownership cap should NOT be lifted. Broadcast is already highly consolidated. Stay tuned 📺

No one gets a break from Google's AI Overviews, not even cooking recipes! Sure, and all of us here are expected to believe that Google is driving 'better quality traffic' to creators and newsrooms with its AI integration 😅

Surely no one could have anticipated that the consumer LLM purveyors would start adding ads to the results

"If the FTC wanted to formally rescind the rule, they would have to propose doing so with an explanation and accept public comments." But they're not doing that. Why? @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social breaks it down here. Forever proud of supporting the ban to non-competes 💪 prospect.org/2025/11/06/t...

Grateful to @rebeccawilliams.info for staying up late to do this on election night- her proposed tech agenda for NYC Mayor-elect @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social:

Bannon calls on the DOJ and DHS to revoke Mamdani’s citizenship. These guys can’t stand a fair fight because they lose every time.

No matter how many spins the WH Press Secretary gives to journalists about the SNAP crisis during press conferences, the fact remains that when the U.S. wants to mobilize resources, it does so, no matter where. It is indeed a choice, not a problem of lack of resources. So, what's gonna give?

LET'S GO 💪💪

Tech companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year on AI with little to show, and are now turning to complex financial vehicles to sustain their spending. Matteo Wong and Charlie Warzel on how it could all come crashing down:

"About a third of the world’s billionaires—1,135—were in the US and their fortunes accounted for 43% of the collective wealth, according to Altrata, a wealth-intelligence firm. China came in second with 321 billionaires holding about 10% of the world’s wealth."

I always learn new things from my colleague @clairek.bsky.social. This time, she breaks down how Sysco (the corporation) dominates America’s restaurant supply chain, and why that should matter to all restaurateurs and us as consumers. www.fox9.com/video/1728428. A #mustwatch here:

As we warned in an @openmarkets.bsky.social report earlier this year, our dependence on a handful of US tech giants for essential cloud infrastructure isn’t just a competition problem, it’s a serious threat to national security & societal stability. How many more outages before we get the message?

I'm not one to promote talks or presentations just because, but I honestly cannot overstate how valuable, timely, and provoking was @mariaressa.bsky.social's presentation today. Journos & publishers (especially local media): please watch her talk. Recording here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZTw...