Eschewing a U.S.-style double-tap strike, the Cuban government rescued survivors. theintercept.com/2026/02/25/c...

Arrest them.

In an antitrust context there is a clear template for a challenge that fits the current merger guidelines and won four years ago: the Simon & Schuster/Penguin Random House challenge, which said that consolidation would affect author advances. Here it's producer fees. Other angles, but this just won.

So I just got a statement from California AG Bonta's office: "Paramount/Warner Bros is not a done deal. These two Hollywood titans have not cleared regulatory scrutiny — the California Department of Justice has an open investigation, and we intend to be vigorous in our review"

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Tax billionaires out of existence.

The U.S. is a country that is unable to handle death but is awash in it. A country with people who often can't process grief. These are terrible things.

like seriously how does this happen does some corporation have a bunch of extra brown hair dye they need to ditch so they hire some publicists and marketers and pay some influencers or

This is not a Left/Right issue. EVERY AMERICAN should be terrified that these lunatics running DOD are willing to go to these extremes to force a company to remove all safeguards from AI at DOD. This isn’t about politics - it’s about human liberty and survival.

PSA for Wisconsin folks… but the underlying issue applies all around the country.

feel like the casual antisemitism prompted by epstein is bleeding beyond X. i don't care for it.

Pentagon just sent out a statement, does not say the drone taken out was a CBP one. I asked, given AP reporting, and DoD refused to answer.

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Credit where it's due, first Democratic senator I've seen talk about it.

They lied and here's the video proof. I cannot believe we're just gonna keep on like this and absolutely nothing happens

things can’t be this evil and this stupid at the same time

Payback for CBP using the laser it borrowed from the military to cause a mess?

Biden staked so much of his candidacy on “I’m the guy who is friends with all the senators i can work with republicans“ and they never gave him a fucking inch while Mamdani is doing Jedi hand waves into a phone

mergers & antitrust not my strong suit. is oversight on the state level not federally preempted in this instance? deadline.com/2026/02/para...

Deposit the money now and make sure it's a good beer.

You cannot understate the extent to which the Trump admin is enriching shady companies run by well-connected insiders, to the point that even the big corporations are being cut out.

Oh, word?

Does the Taliban have any air capabilities? Those Blackhawks we left behind certainly haven't been getting regular PMCS in the last four years

Investigative Post obtained this video of Border Patrol abandoning Nurul Shah Alam, the nearly blind Burmese refugee who was found dead www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/26/t...

It's weird to pretend we don't know what the outcome of another MAGA media takeover will be, but doubly so on Bluesky, where everyone has an account because of the consequences of a MAGA media takeover.

The White House posting a fake AI video of a gold medal athlete would be an insane scandal in the old times. www.nytimes.com/athletic/707...

it's not the issue of this story, but it is a transparent example of how the "cars are freedom" narrative is a complete farce. when the state controls your movement and can immobilize you on a whim, you are not free. car dependency is an arm of fascism for the car *IS* fascism and must be abolished.

Just a reminder that this happened two days ago. David Ellison is the nepo baby who runs Paramount/Skydance and brought on Bari Weiss to destroy CBS News. He will now run Warner Bros and CNN after the likely merger.

It's hilarious that they've convinced themselves that there's a massive, under-served audience segment just yearning for more right-wing content if only someone would give it them. It doesn't exist! The people they're talking about already only watch TV and entertain themselves by bitching about it

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media. Off the top of my head: www.thehandbasket.co 404media.co www.garbageday.email Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

Today is a good day to subscribe to @defector.com and @404media.co and @talkingpointsmemo.com and @flaminghydra.com. The billionaires can’t crush media they can’t own.

“Two officers were treated for minor injuries, including a bruised eye and headache, police said earlier this week.” Absolute losers.

These Democrats are voting for Trump's agenda while going on TV to insist they actually oppose it. We need to believe their actions, not their words.

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

Welp, the shootout in Cuba was ten Florida Cuban guys who talked themselves into trying to invade Cuba www.wfla.com/news/florida...

Just learned The New Yorker is putting the full force of its name and brand behind public relations for one of the most vicious hatemongers in the US:

Five alarm fire. The entire cable news ecosystem and the largest online outlets will all be center-right to full-on Nazi: 100% mobster/oligarch propaganda, lies, and censorship, and nothing else.

Fascinating

Media consolidation is a threat to the free press. CNN will get killed or turned into a Fox News wannabe like Bari Weiss has done with CBS News. www.npr.org/2026/02/26/n...

"Mamdani also gave White House chief of staff Susie Wiles a list of four other students targeted by federal authorities and asked for the administration’s help with them." "The four students are Mahmoud Khalil, Yunseo Chung, Mohsen Mahdawi and Leqaa Kordia"

we won't have full details of the deal for a while yet, but, welp slate.com/technology/2...

Netflix won't counter Ellison's offer. Ladies and gentleman, the full right wing power grab is here and will now be beamed into every home on CBS, CNN, HBO, movies from Warner and Paramount. about.netflix.com/en/news/netf...

State Department official, Joe Rittenhouse, met with between Tommy Robinson. “Rittenhouse is said to have been closely involved in decisions to revoke visas for pro-Palestine activists on college campuses & those viewed as celebrating the assassination of the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk.”

"I need you to help us I have been detained for 23 days with my mom and my 3-year-old sister. I cry a lot I want to get out of here..." - Seven-year-old Mathias Bermeo, a hostage at the Dilley concentration camp in Texas

The biggest effect I see from people still spending time on X—which many deny or don't even notice—is how it shifts their perception of what's normal. Such as: Actively anti-trans is speaking like a normal person Objecting to Nazi symbols turns off the working class Epstein knew a bunch of Jews etc

Once again: A) This would be handing two of Hollywood's only remaining studios to a right-wing Trump ally and his "Dad said I could have it!" son, who B) has not begun to prove that he can successfully run one studio, let alone two. An utter disaster, although in fairness, that is Zaslav's brand.

Watching debate on Twitter among Yemeni journalists and analysts over if these strikes are American or Emirati. Goes to how much of an issue it is that the U.S. substantially contributed to a bad info environment by not taking transparency/trust seriously. www.justsecurity.org/129392/us-ai...

She’s been released 🙏🏽

Bad news for everybody re: the fact that all these guys also hated immigrants

I mean if all it takes is a train trip to un-abduct people, I'm down for him to keep doing this