This is so so so bad. CNN is about to be under the control of Paramount, which means it will go the way of CBS, and the last remaining non-state cable news will be MSNOW.

Margaret Sullivan writes: “As media companies become more consolidated, and ever more in the hands of the richest Americans, priorities change radically.… The dominoes of capitulation seem to tumble voluntarily. “The government doesn’t have to formally censor anyone,” wrote Parker Molloy.”

Citizen journalists can now track fraudulent political ads on Facebook and Instagram in more countries.

Colbert was forbidden by CBS lawyers from even saying James Talarico’s name, but he did it anyway multiple times. He then posted their 14-minute interview on the show’s YouTube channel. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

What if the overt racism is cover for an underlying cruelty fetish?

WaPo laid off one of the journalists who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

This brilliant explanation by Dr. Raquel Martin needs to be watched and rewatched.

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I love this account.

"To those who continue to make these sickening decisions, go home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children. Ask yourselves why you continue to work for an agency responsible for murders on American streets."

From THR’s compendium of reviews of “Melania” comes this Guardian snippet: “the fun’s not infectious and the guests are a nightmare, and two hours of Melania feels like pure, endless hell.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Share this with everyone you know. ICE has not backed down in Minnesota. They are kidnapping children from their homes and sending them to an unheated prison in the dead of winter. The maximum legal detention time is 20 days (still too long!). Some kids have been imprisoned over 100 days there

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

DUCKWORTH: If it's true that we are not at war with Venezuela, will you advise the president to rescind his invocation of the wartime Alien Enemies Act? RUBIO: That was a mechanism to remove people from our country that present great danger D: It's a wartime act. Are we currently at war? R: No

Insidious thought control continues its American takeover. TikTok is now US state media.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

“OUR HUMANITY” is under assault by our own government.

Today’s front page of The Minnesota Star Tribune

I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.

Something lost on JD Vance—and much of the news media—is that no legal or other reason existed to arrest the 5-year-old child’s father either. Not even the administration has articulated any reason to cage people while their asylum or other cases are proceeding.

Pshaw, don’t get your knickers in a twist over a massive presidential coverup of the contents of the Epstein files!

They're investigating the victim's wife, the victim's friends, the mayor and the governor too, but no, they're not even going to glance in the direction of the murderer.

Well said. They’re setting the stage for more voter suppression as well as general intimidation for anyone who speaks out.

I defended Fetterman when he first became a senator because sometimes he said the right things. Now he’s more determined than ever to prove me wrong. The winds of change are blowing.

It’s even happening in quiet havens like Princeton.

Well, this is wonderful

Bravo, @briantylercohen.bsky.social. Don’t want to be called the Gestapo? Then don’t do all the things that the Gestapo did. Not a complicated issue here.

This has been the plan all along. - Foment violence and chaos in the streets of MN - Implement the Insurrection Act - Declare Martial Law - Suspend elections

Pritzker: The Insurrection Act is designed for circumstances where your rights can’t be protected by local authorities This is exactly the opposite. Your civil rights are being infringed upon by CBP and ICE, and then they want to call in troops claiming that they’re protecting CBP and ICE.

now is the time of will stancil

"Supporting local journalism isn’t charity. It’s civic participation."

This bears repeating over and over.

This video made me tear up. A woman with a baby is caught in the middle of an ICE pursuit of a Door Dash delivery driver in Minneapolis. The police dispatcher tells her she has to give up the driver. You can hear her evolution from moral quandary to all-out courage.

We can and should pay attention to both the Venezuela snafu and the administration’s Trump-Epstein files coverup at the same time.

LOL, of course so-called fair and balanced corporate media will take a microscope to Mamdani’s perceived missteps. It began at his inauguration.

Speaking from the bottom of my heart, my wish for 2026 is peace. A just and lasting peace for Ukraine. For nearly four years, the Ukrainian people have shown extraordinary courage under the fire of an unprovoked war. We wish them and all people across the world peace, well-deserved peace, in 2026.

This is one of the pictures the Justice Department removed from the Epstein files release: A picture of a table with framed photos of Epstein and famous people. There are two photos of Trump in the picture — including one of him surrounded by women in bathing suits.

The tragedy of Rob and Michelle’s deaths are incomprehensible. I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.

I wanted to keep up with my new neighbors by putting out a few nondenominational holiday lights this year. It took me a while to realize why I had sticker shock. Trump’s tariffs = bah humbug.

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Waj Ali has been persona non grata at CNN after moments like this repartee with Rick Wilson and Don Lemon from a few years ago. Meanwhile, they regularly platform MAGA extremists because it’s important to hear their perspectives.

A former UN genocide prosecutor, Dr. Charles A. Adeogun-Phillips now pushes for an International Anti-Corruption Court to hold kleptocrats accountable when domestic systems fail – and urged journalists to investigate the global mechanisms that enable corruption and impunity.

I think Eliot Higgins is saying here that Google’s latest AI image tool can invent images from varying angles, making it even harder for viewers to tell that they are unreal.

I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution. Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.

I’ve seen this Cloudflare error on a used camera website just now, also. It’s apparently affecting a significant portion of the internet.

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Thank you, Pennsylvania voters!

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