In an antitrust context there is a clear template for a challenge that fits the current merger guidelines and won four years ago: the Simon & Schuster/Penguin Random House challenge, which said that consolidation would affect author advances. Here it's producer fees. Other angles, but this just won.

So I just got a statement from California AG Bonta's office: "Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal. These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review"

this is objectively the correct business decision for anthropic because they don’t have to hold out long before we take back the house and let house dems tear this DOD’s internal comms apart with a crowbar

these motherfuckers don’t have the horses and they know it

We're a year into Trump 2 and air travel is no longer safe because federal yahoos keep shooting down things nobody bothered to identify.

This year, Maryland, Maine, and New Mexico have joined six other blue states in banning local and state agencies from partnering with ICE in its 287(g) program. Four states under full Democratic control still have local or state agreements with ICE. boltsmag.org/marylan...

I'd be interested in working with any nonprofit group protecting the 2026 midterms - I did this in 2022. DMs open.

Secretary Clinton has been trying to get the press let into the deposition. Reminder: she wanted the hearing to be public, but Comer said no. Now she’s saying that if Boebert is going to take photos and send them to people like Benny Johnson, then the press should be allowed into the deposition.

i know the situation in kansas right now is dangerous and terrifying. that said, i'm hoping to speak to someone who's had their license invalidated. i will do absolutely everything to protect your anonymity and maintain your safety. i can be reached securely via signal at marisakabas.04

Dems are only +15 on DC statehood? Please. That is the most abject failure of party messaging I've ever seen.

"What one finds in the partisan braying of Tuesday night is the same sentiment articulated when Jonathan Ross called Renee Good a 'fucking bitch' after putting a bullet in her head." Good @aselrod.bsky.social piece drawing through line from ICE brownshirts to Trump's GOP collaborators in Congress:

"Three years from now there may well be tens or hundreds of thousands of real humans in camps scattered across the country." More on mass deportations as "Forever War" from @brianbeutler.bsky.social: www.offmessage.net/p/dismantlin...

If you are an elected Dem and your reaction to this is "Let's downplay DC statehood," let me suggest an alternative: Do Your Job. You have 3 years to build support for an institutional reform agenda that clearly must include DC statehood. Stop cowering in fear of a toss-up issue and get to work.

my friend outside NY asked me the other day why she hasn't heard about zohran much since he became mayor and my honest answer was that it's because i think he's just doing his job which is actually inherently pretty boring?

Washington journalists were undisguised (and unapologetic) that they hated Biden because most of the time he just boringly unobtrusively did his job.

donald trump and his cabinet are using the power of the government to cover up allegations he raped a child

The near-total memory-holing of Trump’s disastrous withdrawal from the JCPOA - literally, the central reason why Iran & nuclear weapons is still an issue in 2026 - from the National Conversation™️ is incredible, & not in a good way. The “better deal” never existed & still doesn’t. And here are.

The federal government is funneling untold billions to Uday and Qusay Trump, the FBI director is partying like Van Halen in 1986, and JD Vance is very concerned about Medicaid abuse and fraud in Minnesota.

This is an all-timer in headlines where the use of the passive voice obscures a VERY SERIOUS PROBLEM with the basic premise of the story

Man. The number of conversations I’ve been in in 2026 where I’ve had to point out “…you get that the institution that you are expecting to enforce this norm in your future post-reform scenario is the Department of Justice, ie THAT Department of Justice, right?”

It’s a tragedy for journalists, communities and democracy. Help us fight back. bsky.app/profile/medi...

Trump & Hegseth are punishing an American company because it won’t give them the tools to conduct mass surveillance on the American people. This is Big Brother on steroids & it should scare the hell out of us. Our liberties are at stake, we cannot let this go unchecked.

everyone understands that the only reason you can post "Trump is a pedo" on any social media platform is because Section 230 exists, right?

In principle, of course, the First Amendment lets you say this with or without 230. In practice, it’s unlikely most platforms would take the risk of permitting you to say it without a liability shield.

So much commentary boils down to “I can’t believe they’d do this to white people” to me and maybe I’m wrong but that’s just how I feel.

Fuck this and everyone who helped get things to this point. Trans rights are human rights—full stop.

I remembered I can draw literally whatever I want. So here's Godzilla as a butch biker punk. Enjoy.

Remember, john roberts' logic for weakening the medicaid expansion was that it was "too coercive" to give the states money to pay for medicaid. bsky.app/profile/apne...

BREAKING on MS NOW: The FBI has fired at least 7 FBI agents and support staff as a result of their role in Trump's classified documents. The people fired are said to have participated in some way in pulling phone records of Patel and Susie Wiles during that investigation.

It's always the people who notice their crimes who pay the price, never the criminals themselves.

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school. They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

Almost every media outlet this side of Fox has reported @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social's discovery of missing Trump allegation 302s, but most are missing significance. Roger proved they existed by pointing to a discovery inventory Maxwell got. SHE KNOWS what they say. edition.cnn.com/2026/02/24/u...

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

they like him & they're trying to help him tyrannize us

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times (the two emoluments clauses and as the only name impeachable offense besides treason). Exactly for this reason. A US president pocketing funds from foreign govts leads to actions against US interests.

Top of the NYTimes right now. Good. Genuinely: Good for the New York Times.

Yup bsky.app/profile/djla...

Every news outlet in the country could've ran a front page "Trump child rape accusations illegally purged from Epstein files in massive coverup" headline and they all chose "Good boy Trump nails speech!" instead.

They like Trump and want to help him tyrannize us. Accomplices

Scott Alexander: “The ‘supply chain risk’ designation was intended as a defense against foreign spies, and it’s pathetic…to reconceive it as an instrument that lets the US gov’t destroy any domestic company it wants, with no legal review, because they don’t like how contract negotiations are going.“

“In essence, what Hegseth is threatening is ‘I will either destroy you or nationalize you if you don’t give me unlimited permission to use your product as I wish.’ Seizing the factors of production is a communist sort of thing, isn’t it? And yet it has almost become the norm for the Trump admin.”

costco's CEO also understands his job to be, at least in part, "make sure the Memphis store's ketchup dispensers are full" and not like "forge strategic partnerships to leverage the customer experience to monetize new revenue streams" or whatever that normal CEOs seem to focus all their time on

do not dream of being America's top retailer if you are not willing to do this: bsky.app/profile/good...

I think sometimes there's a real tradeoff here - I've often said it would be possible for facebook to be 100% less evil if they were ok with it being 50% less valuable - but in Costco's case there's no sacrifice! They make a ton of money! Only Wal-Mart is more valuable among US retailers

Lol ya the Warren Buffett case study is like "hire brilliant people to carefully study every aspect of any business you invest money in so you can be sure your investment will pay off" and like, thanks! Great advice! Why didn't anyone think of that one before. bsky.app/profile/fils...

An underrated aspect of Costco's corporate culture is that their code of ethics starts, in order, with "obey the law." Seems like you wouldn't have to say it and yet (gestures towards every other corporation in America)

What's cool is that Costco's business model is indeed an ingenious scheme, it just happens to be one that also requires the scrupulous-integrity thing as a precondition for the scheme to work bsky.app/profile/goas...

Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick

James Comer always has the option of taking the simple step that Rep Robert Garcia did: He can go look at the logs and confirm the missing files for himself. You'd think someone who calls himself "Oversight Committee Chairman" would want to do this. newrepublic.com/article/2070...