This is what people mean when they say "this is not who we are". It's Midwestern police departments finding out even they have a limit. It's everyday suburbanites funding transport & relocation for trans women in danger. It's fighting to crush Republican supermajorities in red states this November.

The next Democratic president very much needs to make breaking Elon Musks power a top priority

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

so yes, you can transform a CBS or a CNN into right-wing slop, and yes that will have an impact, but it is also true that americans will have access to a large universe of other information AND they will continue to build new venues for telling stories about the world and sharing their views…

…the united states had a vibrant ecosystem of local, regional and alternative press sources. in a real sense — and this has been true since the start — the US is a nation of newspapers and newspapermen, with both of those categories broadly defined…

…the united states is neither a small central european country with a relatively closed media ecosystem nor is it a formerly authoritarian state with a starkly underdeveloped civil society. even during the heyday of hegemonic mass media…

the consolidation of major media institutions by the president’s oligarch friends is obviously bad, but i do wonder about the ultimate impact. it is clear that trump and his allies believe that you can buy up media and pull an orban or a putin. but…

Median case is this accelerates the decline of already faltering linear television networks as viewers abandon them over perceived or actual partisan shifts. So the question becomes, what are business models that can support newsrooms to replace the reporting muscle?

imo the threat posed by CBS News and CNN getting absorbed by pro-regime billionaires isn't that they're going to produce right-wing slop that convinces people to be right-wing, it's the dismantling of newsrooms capable of doing investigative reporting on the administration. Fewer eyes on the street.

no matter how this turns out, house democrats need to pull this saga apart with hammer and tong when they get the gavel, because there’s no way any of this has been conducted ethically or legally

Trump stole $175b from Americans and will be mostly paying it back to foreigners

Spiteful, spiteful, pathetic little Jim Crow man.

So the president can do anything he wants in terms of outrageous personal corruption and actually subverting democracy, but don’t even think of messing with your stock portfolio? Got it, Roberts.

It really is a testament to just how a lot of ppl--in news media, in the commetariat, and just regular schmucks online--are just deeply invested in grading Trump on a curve that they watch his signature economic/foreign policy policy get shredded & their first thought it "wow, what a win for him"

🚨HUGE NEWS: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos just now in a speech at the beginning of the Assembly floor session: “I will not be running for re-election in November.”

BREAKING: huge win in the big case vs ICE in LA. Government's motion to dismiss denied! We @democracydefendersfund.org our honored to represent my hometown the City of LA as intervenors together with other amazing counsel for them & for other parties. It takes a village!

We’re about to go to war with Iran without any political consensus or even a stated goal. We’re doing it because a criminal in the White House feels like it and must think he can profit from it. This is madness. Every Republican who has made our Congress meaningless will have blood on their hands.

Was there a congressional appropriation for this, or are we at the stage of openly robbing the treasury without any pretext at all?

DHS successfully—until now—covered up the murder of a third US citizen on Texas' Padre Island, the sort of thing that can only happen in GOP-ruled Texas. ICE agents shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, last year, but DHS covered up the whole incident, Newsweek reports.

Then they should also charge him with embezzlement for every instance he has spent money (or claimed to do so) without congressional authorization.

The next president should just immediately seize Trump's assets to the dollar value of all of these corrupt emoluments on the grounds that because emoluments are unconstitutional, the money was never Trump's in the first place. Let him try to get them back in the civil asset forfeiture process.

And I would go so far as to say you are not helping, in fact this position in quite harmful. Because we *do* have options besides just voting in the general like what we're doing right now in voting in the primaries. But we, the citizens, have to wield our own power and want to do that.

Ossoff: "There are some folks who are doomscrolling in the fetal position. Every day there is a new outrage. It's easy I know to fear that maybe we could lose our republic. I think what John Lewis would tell us is it's up to us. We have the power to right the ship. Nobody is gonna do it for us."

These 3-yr drops are stunning. Absolutely stunning. New Orleans: -55% Baltimore: -60% Philly: -60% Chicago: -40% Buffalo: -55% Pittsburgh: -50% Albuquerque: -40% Newark: -40% San Antonio: -55% Portland: -45% The media coverage of these staggering drops, tho, is staggering in its relative silence.

Yes. As a capitalism-sympathetic social democrat, I believe we have a duty to markets to ensure money can act as a disciplinary measure. We have literally reached the fail state of money. Elon can lose 90% of his wealth and functionally lose no practical value. We broke the invisible hand.

Correct! Go after them to fix democracy, because they exist like blackholes that warp the fabric of society. Money is power and they simply have too much of it.

Again, the 'No New Wars' president seems to be on the verge of attacking another country. Trump may’ve told Netanyahu about his plans, but only Congress has the power to declare war. Dragging us into another destabilizing war in the Middle East is what Trump pledged NOT to do.

Cc: John Roberts

If the US had a Congress, it would be raising hell over the president ignoring Congress’s war powers and preparing to start another Middle East war without authorization or even debate. Except the Republican majority doesn’t want the US to have a Congress, so it effectively doesn’t.

This is fantastic news!!

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

This is why I was extremely skeptical of the “Biden is the reason we lost” narrative that a ton of reactionary centrists and leftists jumped on post 2024. What the press did to Biden they will do to the next Dem nominee.

Colbert is really escalating this, mad respect

After Brendan Carr and the FCC tried to stop Colbert from hosting James Talarico, he's hosting Jon Ossoff. #GASen Folks...

Because political news media is both addicted to horse race coverage & in general just geared towards rooting for Republicans, I really do think they are making a critical error in downplaying the fact that the chances of discontent continuing to snowball into a total GOP wipeout keep getting higher

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James Talarico: “This is the party that ran against cancel culture, and now they are trying to control what we watch, what we say, and what we read. This is the most dangerous kind of cancel culture — the kind that comes from the top."

Rev. Jesse Jackson was a giant of the Civil Rights Movement. His dedication to fighting for racial justice and dignity for working people shaped the moral arc of our nation. As we mourn his life, we must carry his light forward and work to keep hope alive. May he rest in peace.

This is a great read. One thing I'd add is that if you're concerned about voter intimidation then do something about it! Volunteer to be a poll worker or observer. Find an organization that gets people to the polls. Engage in get out the vote efforts. There are more of us than there are of them.

Trump can't steal the midterms. I say that not as a call for complacency, but to right-size worries. Authoritarianism partially exists in our heads. Excessive fear plays into their hands. Be vigilant but don't panic. Don't grant the regime more power than it actually has. Me, in @thebulwark.com:

CBS spiked Stephen Colbert's interview with James Talarico. But the segment is posted on YouTube, and you can view it below. Take a moment to watch an interview that CBS and the FCC don't want you to see. It already has over 1M views. Let's give it millions more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

The Chief Justice of the United States will literally change the rules of the Supreme Court of the United States instead of divesting in individual stocks.

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This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.

I would've never imagined saying something like this, but David Zaslav is literally fighting for the life of the republic right now, and we should all hope that he pulls through. GO NETFLIX GO

this is why it's so damn important that the Ellisons not be allowed to buy Warner Bros Discovery. if they're willing to do this to CBS and their portfolio of streaming & cable, imagine what they'll do if they're allowed to buy 3x the amount of channels they already have.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr. was a legendary voice for the voiceless, powerful civil rights champion and trailblazer extraordinaire. He inspired us to keep hope alive in the struggle for liberty and justice for all. We are thankful for his service to the nation. May he forever rest in power.

CBS management needs to be hauled in front of Congress and made to spill every absurd and corrupt detail of this shit.

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

CBS not airing James Talarico’s interview with Stephen Colbert because they were supposedly worried about FCC backlash is a really big deal. Stephen Colbert was told not to say anything and did so anyways. This man is not getting enough credit for standing up for free speech.