Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

Cheeto Hitler barked "Quiet piggy" at a reporter for asking about Epstein. He attacked Mary Bruce for questioning the Saudi prince over Khashoggi. Then suggesting Khashoggi had it coming. This raging against the press isn't how the leader of a democracy behaves. At least, it wasn't.

This feels like a Saturday Night Live skit, it's ridiculous. And look at Kash Patel, does he even know where he is? I simply cannot believe these people have the power they do. And how can the media not manage to stand up to their outrageous, pathetic lies. #TrumpIsCorrupt!

“Will you release all the files within 30 days?” BONDI: “We’ll continue to follow the law.”🤔 “You said no addition investigation was warranted. What changed?” BONDI: “Information.” 🙃

New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

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To quote the person who filmed this unconscious mom who was tazed while already in zip ties in front of her small child and then tossed her like a corpse into the trunk: “this is fucked up”

​Abbott’s delay in filling the seat has paid huge dividends for Trump. With one less Democrat in the House, it allowed Trump to get his big spending and tax cut plan passed in the U.S. House by one vote back in the summer. -- They do not care about Americans, only #maga

That they have lived with this trauma & pain for so long is truly heartbreaking. How anyone can support protecting the perpetrators any longer is hard to believe & a complete disgrace! #Justice4TheEPSTEIN_SurvivorsNOW ✊

So a bribe?

I want to take a moment to thank the entire Elias Law Group team who worked on the Texas redistricting case as well as our fearless clients. The thirteen Black and Latino voters we represented stood up to challenge Texas's unprecedented mid-decade redistricting. We all ow them a debt of gratitude.

Marjorie Taylor Greene: "I was called a traitor by a man that I fought for 6 years for. I gave him my loyalty for free. I've never owed him anything. Let me tell you what a traitor is -- a traitor is an American that serves foreign countries."

Nancy Mace: "You can see in the Epstein emails that he's clearly targeting President Trump as retribution for him being a good man ... he's a good man who protects women. That's what real men do."

I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.

When asked on Air Force One if there was anything "incriminating" in the Epstein emails, Trump pointed a finger at the female reporter's face and said “Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.”

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

I think the last time they did this in Hays county, the people weren't Tren de Aragua, mucked it all up with Paxton and Abbott trying to score points for Trump's shock troops. www.texasobserver.org/prosecutors-...

The worst administration in American history. #TrumpIsCorrupt!

Most rapists operate on the premise that they can not only overpower the victim physically, but can do so socially and legally. They count on a system that discounts the voices of victims and only too often cooperates in silencing them...

Tina Peters wasn’t jailed for “catching Democrats.” She was convicted of felony misconduct after she let unauthorized outsiders access secure voting machines, turned off cameras, leaked data, lied about it, and then showed zero remorse.

I agree with James Talarico (D-TX) pedophillia should never be a partisan issue. This isn’t about right vs left, this is about right vs wrong. Americans deserve the truth and the victims deserve closure. #SaveHealthcareNotPedophiles “Dirty Donald” needs to release the files‼️

This is all about restricting your access to control you data. They don't really care about the content, they want to link your personal identification information to your browsing habits.

I got the video. We shouldn't get acclimated to this racist, edgelord shit.

This kook gave this video to LibsOfTikTok, who presumably thought this was a normal thing to do and not visibly psycho shit. Even on Twitter it landed like a wet fart in an elevator. These people have no idea how to handle Kat and they’re terrified she’s going to win.

Yesterday, a Republican tried to give me holy water and Trump perfume because I’m “demonic.” Extremely normal stuff coming from an extremely normal party.

When this is all said and done, and he’s 6 feet under, psychiatrists and psychologists are going to have a field day looking back at this time. I truly believe there will be new mental illnesses named, and one of them is definitely going to be Trump Devotion Syndrome, or TDS.

A whole lot of tack, ick... going on in this picture. Fake, phony... all of it. #TrumpIsCorrupt!

Donald is such a man of the people, he ropes off his table at Mar-a-Lago to keep away the 500 people he let join and who paid a $1,000,000 initiation fee and $20,000 yearly dues.

These people are incorrigible grifters. As a taxpayer I do not want my money funding their abuse of services.

I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.

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Maybe next year he says... LoL. I'm still waiting for the $5000 check from Elon's DOGE savings. Lies.. Lies.. Lies.. #TrumpIsCorrupt

A MUST SEE There are people who voted for Donald Trump because he promised to expose the Epstein files. Now there is real voter remorse. Epstein survivor Haley Robson is one of them, and if she could speak to Trump today, she would say, “Who owns you?”

So, any more work on that ballroom, or was it just a money-laundering revenge demolition.

Unique among inmates, Ghislaine Maxwell gets room service in her cell, after-hours access to recreation, a private visitor suite with refreshments and even a service-dog puppy to play with. Is this a federal prison sentence or a comped stay at a Trump Hotel?

meanwhile on fox news:

How she was bullied to protect Dershowitz

AMEN!!!!

This *ding* ding* 👇🏾

CBS is the network that paid Trump $16m. CBS is the network owned by the Ellisons. CBS is the network that failed to push back in its 60 Minutes interview of Trump. Of course, CBS is asking questions like this to House Democrats.

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Chris Murphy: "He wouldn't be going through all of this effort to try to stop the release of these files if he wasn't seriously implicated in those files. This is most likely the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the country. We know that b/c Trump is going to these extraordinary lengths"

KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true? HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart-- KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.

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A federal appeals court has upheld the hate crime convictions of three white men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia more than five years ago. abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

You can think it’s good that Massie and MTG are stirring up shit within the GOP caucus without thinking their politics in general is good. It’s not hard at all in fact?

One third of the country supported the January 6 2021 attempted take over the government & are the same ones who voted him back in. They are traitors in my book.

Chris Murphy on possible military strikes on Venezuela: "It's pretty clear it's just an effort to distract people from the rising prices and the Epstein scandal. No one wants a war with Venezuela ... and by the way, it's wildly illegal."