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“.. Behind the scenes in recent days, Trump has repeatedly told allies that CNN should either be sold or get new leadership, according to people familiar with the discussions, even if Netflix’s proposal is approved.” @wsj.com $WBD www.wsj.com/business/med...

I mean, it’s a very fathomable way of doing business; many countries have worked and still do work this way. It’s just that none of them are places you’d want to live.

Stories like this remind me of a true story from small-town America, where a municipality's residents voted down local tax increases over and over, for years. Then, one day, the streetlights turned off. For good. And every was just so angry and confused.

My UNBEATABLE review.

Had a wonderful chat with @gingerhaze.bsky.social about his debut YA novel, Scarlet Morning. For @autostraddle.bsky.social, he talks about returning to his story he started as a teen (pre-Nimona), his many influences for this swashbuckling pirate tale, and potential AU drawings.

HarperCollins sent me this gorgeous commemorative copy of Scarlet Morning with leather binding and gilded edges and marbled endpapers??? 😭 I’m so flabbergasted it’s STUNNING

WBD press statement from today: "...the Board and the company have for months run a fair and transparent process with each of the bidders, including extensive opportunities for due diligence and negotiations. As we communicated on Monday, the Warner Bros. Discovery Board is reviewing the... (1/2)

🎯 "The entire project of the US right wing, is re-establishing the permissions structures [for] the persecution and dehumanization of hundreds of millions of people, specifically so that violence, whether vigilante, interpersonal or state violence, can be used to discipline... everyone it sees fit."

Yeah, the process of getting this tanker started back during the first half of the Biden administration. There's been a really big international push to nab it for years. As soon as I saw the headline, I was like oh, it HAS to be that ship because surely the Navy isn't that dumb?

Yup, they got the sanctioned tanker. THANK GOD, I was legit worried he just ordered the US Navy to commit actual piracy. Lololol. This is 100% defensible, even tho a lot of people are gonna really hate hearing that.

i am extremely fortunate and have extremely fancy insurance and i am also waiting to find whether the specialists i see for various issues -- all of whom are part of one particular system in NYC -- will continue to be in network as of jan 1 2026 a great system, doing great

“You starve your public schools to feed your private schools and charter schools,” said one superintendent about the state’s efforts to grow charter schools. “Our foundation was set up for a free and appropriate education for all kids. All kids!” By @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

It’s baffling that there are some people out there who would rather have Paramount buy off Warner Bros than Netflix, knowing full well a fascist runs Paramount, because they would rather not have theaters dying off.

imagine paying six or seven digits to air a trailer at the keighleys that everyone watching will forget they saw within an hour because half of the games showcased either look like this or are just imitating genshin

Yup. Which is why I’m 200% Team Netflix in this deal. It’s not ideal, but it beats the Ellisons controlling that much entertainment. #filmsky #bizsky #blacksky

GOP Rep. Don Bacon is not happy about Trump’s recent comments on Europe: “I don't like when he trashes Europe and kisses Russia's ass. Don't like it.” He says Trump’s strategy is “terrible” and “there’s probably been no worse national security strategy written since the 1930s.”

“It’s very simple — with Netflix you get eyebrows. Unkempt, difficult to maintain eyebrows. But with Paramount — no eyebrows. It’s that simple. It’s that tidy. No eyebrows.”

www.theguardian.com/business/202... I kinda feel like Netflix sucks but Ellison buying it is worse. The media seems to be very hush hush about Ellison and very anti Netflix right now. Or maybe I’m the only one noticing that idk.

now offer to sell Discovery/CNN to paramount to appease trump and get this bullshit over with

Of course, nothing exemplifies the Trump ethos more than declaring that "every rich person is exceptional at business," but that doesn't change the fact that people who are getting this visa will not necessarily meet the legal requirements, and could risk deportation under a future admin.

This is still VERY illegal. The Trump admin says anyone who pays $1 million will be deemed to have "exceptional business ability" and become eligible for an employment-based immigrant visa. But there's nothing stopping someone from just getting a loan or using parents' money.

I double-checked because I literally could not believe this was true, and he actually did say this. I wish I lived in the type of country where the press covered the current President's delusional fantasies with as much zeal as they covered the former President's age.

Specifically one of the complaints against Biden from Hispanic voters last year was that his asylum policies were over generous & thus unfair to ppl that came in earlier! Trumps combining the worst of both worlds—aggressive enforcement thats unpopular & line skipping for rich ppl thats unpopular.

Lets try this agin with our release date video: BIG HOPS is releasing January 12th, 2026 on PC, Switch, and PS5. It's about 15 hours long, will cost $20 USD, and yes it runs GREAT on the Switch 2! Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/1221480/...

Reuters corroborated the story today, adding that the Trump administration is also specifically asking for a pledge to not indict Trump or any senior USG official.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvYA... the newest @somemorenews.bsky.social is about how shitty W Bush was as a president and I feel like it's an important history reminder because for some reason there's been a surge in "we want to back to the good old days of the early 2000s including the politics"

Everywhere you look there is an opening for leadership. What an irony that the Democratic consultant-pundit class fell into a poll-following Popularist obsession at a time of such volatility

Is the NYT Editorial Board OK? It warns that we're sliding into authoritarianism...while also writing an editorial series (Pulitzer bait) urging Trump to work with Silicon Valley to turn the US military into an AI drone force. Palantir and Trump's anti-bureaucracy get positive mentions...

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NEW: Pretty much all Democratic-led states have, one way or another, said they'll be ignoring ACIP's recommendations on when the birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine should be administered. @emilymullin.bsky.social has you covered:

I really need to be clear expecting trans people to have cis-normative bodies is monstrous! But the reason this matters is the Danielle Smiths of the world are showing their hand. They want to punish us for having non-normative bodies AND ban the medical intervention that makes our bodies normative.

"...no one forks over $24 billion in exchange for nothing," @oliverdarcy.bsky.social writes of the Saudi money behind Paramount's WBD bid. "Given Ellison has already floated editorial changes to Trump, it’s reasonable to ask whether he offered similar reassurances to his Middle Eastern financiers."

I always push back on this one because THE number one thing that would bring people into theaters has nothing to do with theaters. Cost of living has risen so high and wages stayed stagnant that people have less money for fun stuff. If people were financially comfortable they'd go to the theater.

Need more details for actual analysis, but important to note the US under trump 1 did seize Iranian tankers bound for Ven. Am curious if that sort of thing is happening or what.

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if you think Netflix $NFLX buying Warner Bros $WBD is bad for creative types, monopoly forming, whatever other reasons you have... then here's a question for you: would you like it to go to Paramount/Ellison family? because that won't be blocked. stand on principle and get crushed by reality.

Requiring temporary visitors to surrender five years of social media to the U.S. sends the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense. This simply is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms. It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.

In just 🚨 ONE HOUR 🚨 you shall be treated to a positively spectacular cavalcade of indie game goodness! The @dayofthedevs.org @thegameawards.com Digital Showcase is almost here, so navigate to the countdown and watch along at 10am PT! youtu.be/4nCX95t5cWY?...

Google suspended a developer’s accounts after he uploaded AI training data to his GDrive. Unbeknownst to him, the widely used dataset, which is cited in a number of academic papers, contained child sexual abuse material, so Google banned his 14 year old Gmail www.404media.co/a-developer-...

clutch those pearls harder, AP

I see the Australian social media ban is off to a great start. Nobody knows you're a dog on the Internet. 🐕

I get the sense WaPo will become even more of a clearinghouse for various Amazon/AWS-level A.I. experiments, as investment in and production of visible tools become all the more imperative for The Investors

Labour’s shift away from “immigration is good but it needs to be managed” to “it is bad” is a gift to essentially everyone they compete with, because it means that they don’t have the right position to be able to attack *anyone*.

the defensiveness and incredulity of a good chunk of the commentary class toward arguments about trump’s racism is, imho, downstream of the same impulse behind the endless trump voter safaris and self-flagellation about being out of touch with the heartland

thanks, Danny! for the morning crowd: I spoke with the great @maryharris.bsky.social about Netflix, Paramount, Warner Bros., the Davids (Ellison and Zaslav), and the entertainment industry's future of lesser evils, on this morning's What Next episode: slate.com/podcasts/wha...

I begged Jenny to write this and am so grateful she did. Sex scene are craft. They are characterization. They are worldbuilding. They are storytelling. The fact that we're culturally too uncomfortable with sex to recognize that is not the fault of well written sex scenes!

A huge night for Democrats: —They flip Miami's mayorship. —They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%. —They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council. —And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.

Frustrating that we all have to sit around waiting for the media to decide this obvious story is a story. Hi Jake!