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The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

So the poverty rate was lower during a period of the pandemic when the economy was in fact not great. And it's because the government showed they actually could provide a generous safety net. The Manchin and the GOP killed it. Like there is a great leftwing story here that Jacobin just misses.

At some point people need to learn that the poverty rate is mostly about the safety net or lack thereof and not the economy. The economy was doing historically well, real wages rising for the first time in decades, etc. And poverty rose because pandemic safety policies expired.

Just in: ABC says last night's broadcast of 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' snared an average of 6.26M viewers despite being blacked out in 23% of U.S. TV households...

TV giant Sinclair got an adequate profile by the @theguardian.com in 2024 citing Media analysts saying Sinclair, known for anchors reciting script in lockstep, promotes conservative talking points and pinpoints it on being a Trump mouthpiece since 2018. (🔗 inside) www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

In a UN speech today, President Trump said that "all of these [climate] predictions were wrong". Back in 2019 I led a research effort to digitize old climate model projections and assess how well they did. Turns out they got future warming pretty spot on!

Trump’s own team tripped the elevator emergency stop and fucked up the teleprompter, but Utah’s Trump toady extraordinaire throws a MAGA tantrum Btw, anyone remember MAGA saying anyone needing a teleprompter was dumb? Apparently only if that president was black

Today's @carbonbrief.org Daily Briefing factchecks the false climate claims in Donald Trump's tirade to the UN www.carbonbrief.org/daily-brief/...

KIMMEL, on the Pentagon’s new reporting “pledge”: “.. They want to pick what the ‘news’ is. I know it’s not as interesting as muzzling a comedian, .. but it’s nuts that we aren’t paying more attention to it.”

Pritzker: "MAGA Republicans in Congress may be in control now, but in 2026 they will not be unless Donald Trump does something to change this country fundamentally. And that is what he's trying to do ... we Democrats are going to win in 2026, but not if Donald Trump is allowed to cheat."

Whatever else you think of him, I don't think he is insincere about this stuff, and it should be recognized as extraordinary that he, Pritzker, and other governors are talking about the federal government in these terms. It's not normal political rhetoric, it's the language of existential emergency.

@abc4utah.bsky.social I am profoundly disappointed in your decision. You are now Utah's LAST TV Station and destination for news, sports, weather and more. Your "mission is to inform, strengthen, unite, and honor all of Utah.” Are you preempting your mission statement tonight too?!?

Disney has brought back "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", but Nexstar — which owns ABC4 in Salt Lake City — says it will keep airing local news in place of the program following the host’s Charlie Kirk comments.

Despite Jimmy Kimmel Live! returning to ABC tonight, Sinclair and Nexstar-owned affiliate stations in cities including Washington D.C., Seattle, Nashville, Salt Lake City, New Orleans, Columbus, and St. Louis will not broadcast the show. For more info: bit.ly/3W5oWIO

Jimmy Kimmel Live! will return to ABC on Tuesday night, but not in Seattle, after Sinclair Broadcast Group (owners of KOMO 4) announced it will preempt the program on all of its ABC affiliates, "replacing it with news programming."

BREAKING: The Epstein Files just got one step closer to being released. With Adelita Grijalva’s victory in AZ-07, Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna now have the magic number — 218 votes — needed for the discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the full Epstein Files.

Kimmel: "This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."

Jimmy Kimmel: "The president of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from their job. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke."

Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

I love this!!! Bring up the employment of regular workers.

Jimmy Kimmel returns, defiantly: “Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke…We have to speak out against this because he’s not stopping…He’s coming for our journalists, too…A govt threat to silence a comedian the president doesn’t like is anti-American.”

@flyingwithsara.bsky.social Serious stuff. Not only that, @afacwa.org paid a major role in exposing this. Here's the article explaining how WSJ did the analysis using data compiled by a AFA-CWA occupational health specialist. Gift link: www.wsj.com/business/air...

The Biden-era DOJ reportedly caught Homan accepting $50,000 from undercover agents—but the Trump administration called the probe “baseless” and shut it down.

Day One of Current Issues in American Public Affairs & Politics w OSHER program @utah.edu. Greeted w several @bagleycartoons.bsky.social “This principle of popular sovereignty asserts that the people are the source of power and the true authority, not a monarch or other ruling class” Great class!

Duncan Hosie on how the Supreme Court has used its “shadow docket” to sweep aside the equitable tradition of American law

“The Trump family scored an estimated $5 BILLION on a single day two weeks ago… Trump himself, who was worth $2.3 billion a year ago, is worth $7.3 BILLION today… Our brains are not wired to comprehend presidential corruption on this scale… Please, somebody prove me wrong.” @timothynoah.bsky.social

Thank you @markey.senate.gov and @dorismatsui.bsky.social for standing up for science and public health and leading efforts to defend clean vehicle standards that protect our communities from dangerous health-harming and climate-warming pollution.

In dissent as to the stay, Justice Kagan — joined by Justices Sotomayor and Jackson — lays out the lawlessness of the majority plainly. "Our emergency docket should never be used, as it has been this year, to permit what our own precedent bars." Order/dissent: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

👏 Sec Clinton! We do need to “stand up, fight back, & vote these people out of office”! I encourage folks to join The League of Women Voters to support 🗳️ Thanks to lawsuit by UT LWV, @bbforut.bsky.social, et al, Utah voters will have new congressional boundaries No #gerrymandering www.lwvutah.org

If you haven’t seen this (I hadn’t), you need to:

Exercise your patriotism. Uphold the Constitution. Commit to act now. bit.ly/4g5RcEq @lwvus.bsky.social @lwvrosevillearea.bsky.social

Student voters, an increasingly critical demographic, face hidden threats to their right to vote in "use it or lose it" laws. www.lwv.org/blog/use-it-...

Happy #NationalVoterRegistrationDay! The League is so proud to partner with NVRD to make sure every eligible voter knows that there is no such thing as an ‘off year’ when it comes to democracy🫶 Already registered to vote? Check your voter registration at VOTE411.org! 🗳

I am pleased to report that Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has dropped another total evisceration of the Supreme Court. He says originalism is a fraud—and the Republican justices are shamelessly making up facts and history to impose radical Christian nationalism: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact. www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

How could I forget that Emil Bove also led the charge to deport Venezuelan migrants to a Salvadoran prison *in defiance of a judge’s order?* If Democrats care at all about the integrity of the judiciary, an impeachment inquiry should be an immediate priority. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

"In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration..." www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

(Unless their employer makes suitable concessions to the regime)

David Wallace-Wells is the best climate journalist working today, arguably the best journalist period, and this is a fantastic summary of where things stand on climate change:

Felon Trump causes negative mounting Economic fallout as Trump halts 80% finished offshore #wind #energy project in CT & RI. Big oil is happy, and ruining America makes dictator Putin happy. Trump's corruption continues. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQvA...

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

Not all of us leave a place better than we found it. Redford did, the Editorial Board writes.

Our Beacon of Hope shines blue, pink & teal for Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month—honoring patients, loved ones, and our care & research teams. Research fuels better diagnosis, treatment & survivorship. We’re grateful to donors, philanthropic partners, and federal agencies who make this work possible.

Any news outlet that doesn’t characterize this administration as American fascism is doing a disservice to its readers and the National discourse. These people are fascists.

Is FCC chief Brendan Carr still working for The Heritage Foundation? bsky.app/profile/nanc...

The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can use a person’s ethnicity to conduct immigration-related stops. Nevertheless, Justice Kavanaugh acknowledged this type of profiling will result in U.S. citizens being detained.