Corporate media, in their best Foghorn Leghorn voice, "But mah barriers to entry protecting, I say, protecting me from competition, they mah *property*!!!"

Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post so that he can promote his own business interests until he finally makes the entire planet uninhabitable.

The Washington-Trump Post says courts should pretend global warming doesn't exist because some rich people stand to make money by pushing lies www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

Good piece on organizing in rural counties barnraisingmedia.com/a-strategy-t...

Little Marco has big shoes to fill 😂

very true, but again, what will we do about it?

love to see Congress approve a media voucher system nationwide, but that is not about to happen. we need to get started where we can, at the state and local level

Your view is wonderful, but they have accumulated the wealth, the question is how we do something about it

Trump has tremendous difficulty with principled people (even if as with the Iranian regime, the principles are bad). He assumes everyone is a transactional fraud like him. Works well with rich Americans and poorly with idealists of any stripe

as I keep saying DO NOT LOOK TO CONGRESS, look to progressive state and local governments. Build it from the ground up cepr.net/publications...

FWIW, I was not suggesting challenging private property right in corporate media. I was suggesting competition. Is that also the third rail?

Great piece, this is the debate progressives need to have instead of endlessly whining about the rich using their money to buy power. We all KNOW the rich use their money to buy power, don't kill electrons to tell us. The question is, what will do about it?

What do you think about the news vouchers concept? inthesetimes.com/article/news...

Let's interrupt the whining to talk about something that could change the politics of money cepr.net/publications...

Border Patrol agents and ICE got the same style: www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

The story of assaults on ICE officers, used to justify masks, is a complete lie www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

Trump laser-focused on affordability as always -->

Ossoff: "The president appears increasingly to have lost touch with reality. That is deeply concerning when you have a a cabinet much more concerned with winning his favor than giving good advice & the nation now plunged into war. It speaks to the necessity of winning these midterms in a landslide."

The president is handing out oversized clown shoes to his cabinet — and watching to see who refuses to wear them. It's Solzhenitsyn's Stalin story come to life: the first person to stop applauding ended up in the gulag. The lesson then, as now — never be the first to stop clapping.

If you need the real news watch CBC or BBC. They correct every Trump lie. Which is pretty much everything he says.

I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.

Real question: why don't progressives take this more seriously? It's painfully obvious to anyone paying attention how important it is. Democracy dies in darkness is playing out before our eyes. Why aren't more leaders w/ means infuriated to action by R's endless lies and misinformation campaigns??

then let's go home -- relying on progressive billionaires to save us is pointless

As a country we have made a lot of mistakes in foreign wars over the last 2+ centuries. But I’m not sure we have ever looked as feckless, foolish, incompetent and ridiculous at the leadership level than right now.

Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. Never stop talking about the Epstein Files. Never stop talking about the Epstein Files.

I'd chip in for the trip, maybe we can do a GoFundMe!

It would be great if progressives took to need to create an institutional structure to support media seriously. And don't tell me progressive billionaires will do it-- that's too stupid to kill electrons over.

the standard line is that we counter lies with more speech; but when the right owns all the major news outlets & social media platforms, the idea that the truth will magically overcome their lies is not serious. We need to remake the system @deanbaker13.bsky.social cepr.net/publications...

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When USL players stand still, all 15 million members of America’s unions stand with them! We’re in solidarity with you, Mitchell Taintor, and all USL players as they stand up for the professional standards they need and deserve. ✊

If his brain were mush it would be an improvement

"i think he bought the wrong size"

Another word you might use for it is "looting". "This appears to be the first administration to take such widespread advantage of taxpayer-funded military housing to accommodate political appointees who do not have a direct connection to the military..." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

Let's interrupt the whining to talk about something that could change the politics of money cepr.net/publications...

That sounds like a Kevin Hassett special from his next book: Dow 15,000,000,000!

The story of assaults on ICE officers, used to justify masks, is a complete lie www.wsj.com/us-news/immi...

Well, at least we know he's not using ChatGPT to make them up: if he did, the imaginary numbers would be less outrageous--although obviously, still wrong.

Sacrifice, just what Trump ran on!

You have to make sacrifices for the very clear and articulated objectives of our War in Iran that is also not a war that we’ve also already won

Sen. Murray: "I'm just sickened by this. To go into this war unprepared, to use outdated data, and to have this horrific thing happen where children were killed in a school sends a horrible message to those that are in a war with us and to our own constituents about what America's values are."

you can tell Wired has been doing good journalism lately because there's been increased whining by the extraction class about how Wired mysteriously changed in the decade since tech titans fully revealed themselves as sociopaths from this recent Dorsey interview:

Connect the dots

I wonder if someone invents these imaginary numbers for Trump or he does it himself? I like how he projects that the price-to-earnings ratio in the stock market will be almost 1400 in 65 years cepr.net/publications...

Press, hospitals, children: there is no one Netanyahu won't shoot Cartoon by Ben Jennings @bjennings90.bsky.social

Trump crazy numbers on the returns for his Trump accounts won't pay for your kids' retirement cepr.net/publications...