So this TikTok isn’t done yet - from the Chinese side at least. I dunno. That seems like an important detail. www.cnn.com/2025/09/20/c...

🍊🤡 promised green cards for all international students who graduate from US universities. Instead they got $100k H-1B’s and elimination of OPT for F-1’s. fortune.com/2025/06/05/t...

TikTok deal is done. Mehbe, but nothing signed yet. As described, 6 of 7 board members will be US citizens. No mention of govt representative on the board. Oracle will take the lead on controlling the algo, as well as data privacy and security. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/t...

Another day in the prerogative state…

This is FCC Chair Carr’s leverage over Nexstar: a merger that will require rules changes or a waiver to get through. The defenders of the First Amendment are extraordinarily vulnerable to bad faith actors. www.poynter.org/business-wor...

So much idiocy tonight. I’m not sure I’m going to make it.

America alone. So dumb. Dumb, dumb, dumb.

🍊🤡 instructs the DOJ on how to proceed with the Union Pacific - Norfolk Southern railroad merger. Totally normal. thehill.com/policy/energ...

Wow. Basically destroying the H-1B visa program. That combined with reduction of OPT for F-1s, will cut off access to the US for the best and brightest international students. Shooting ourselves in the foot.

Great discussion with @annmlipton.bsky.social

Like he’s an observer and not Chair of the FCC with the ability to sink Nexstar’s pending merger application. This guy is too much.

Carr seems to believe that “public interest” means that speech must be ideologically aligned with the interests of the incumbent administration. I don’t know much, but I know that’s wrong.

Another day of bad faith governance

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Because 'Antifa' is not an organisation, this means anyone can be designated 'Antifa', just as anything in Hong Kong can be designated a threat to 'national security'. State terror works best when no-one knows where the line is.

Shit. It’s Constitution Day. Man. That blows.

:-/

Again! Using the merger approval process as leverage to achieve other ends. It’s the playbook for this admin

Taking a huge step away from shareholder protection. on.ft.com/4mjqQjC SEC allows public companies to block investors from class-action lawsuits

Frankly, I’m surprised he lasted that long after the Unilever acquisition.

:-/

Ok. I guess this is the very very very last illegal extension? www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

TikTok safely in friendly hands. Thanks, but no thanks.

Plunging head first into Canal Era state capitalism. Cool. Nothing bad came of that that.

Haha. No, it doesn’t appear to matter much anymore.

Cost of capital going up…

Oracle, A16Z, Blackstone, Susquehanna, & KKR all in on it. Basically, it’s a licensing deal. TikTok (US) licenses the algo from ByteDance.

Lemme guess. Ellison gets it. So now, Ellison will control CBS, eventually CNN and then TikTok. Great. Nice democracy. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Yawn. 🥱 on.ft.com/42rrTqJ Trump signals US and China have struck TikTok deal

On the theory that the market can’t price, what the market doesn’t know. Well, I know that’s wrong. But it does mean much more volatility as we sink. I guess that’s good for someone.

So, the Pope is a “no” on the $1 trillion pay package.

So we’re still doing these periodic illegal extensions of the TikTok divestiture? That’s cute. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Ordinarily, moving to consolidate a number of news agencies quickly might attract the attention of domestic antitrust authorities. Ordinarily.

Merger as a tool of political oppression? Okay, then.

Ah, yes. Socialism. www.dermotcole.com/reportingfro...

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We’re still on this? Did anyone brief him on Bayh-Dole? Are we changing the law, or just demanding a cut of the inventor’s royalties?

Big day for MA corporate law, as this long-running dispute is essentially the only source of new case law. cc @bjmquinn.bsky.social

Frankly, survival of the trust would have been a bright-ish light for the future of our democracy because it would destabilized Fox’s governance and direction. Buying the kids out just means, we will all have to continue to suffer from the information environment that Murdoch’s Fox creates…

We’ve entered the “Papers, please” phase of the 🍊🤡 era…

F- these guys. Nobody wants you here.

Tesla’s board seems determined to give Musk $1 trillion worth of stock. TechCrunch walks thru the targets and makes it clear how low the bar is … techcrunch.com/2025/09/06/m...

It’s not all that far from murdering “drug dealers” on the high seas to ordering the extrajudicial killing of “drug dealers” on US soil. 🍊🤡 has a model that he admires www.politico.com/story/2017/0...

The board is going to give Musk $1 trillion in stock for this? This is the future of Tesla? They are going to stop making cars for this? Good luck.

There is a Tesla Shareholder proposal that requests the the board to authorize an investment in xAI in an amount and form deemed appropriate by the Board. This seems like a kind of weird fanboy pre-ratification of an eventual investment in xAI. Will the vote later be used as evidence of fairness?

Tesla’s stock price, like this new pay package for Musk, is all vibes. on.ft.com/4mLBPmZ Tesla seeks to award Elon Musk $1tn if carmaker hits formidable targets

This is all 🍊🤡 aping Duterte of the Philippines who let loose death squads to engage in extrajudicial killings of anyone thought to be a “drug dealer.” He’s in jail now charged by the ICC with crimes against humanity.

“CVS said it was working to make COVID-19 vaccines "available as soon as possible" throughout Massachusetts as a result of the regulatory changes announced Thursday. Walgreens is also expected to make the shots available.” www.wcvb.com/article/vacc...

Sen @warren.senate.gov points out that consideration for the 10% equity stake in Intel was the govt giving up all requirements for Intel to build US production capacity under the CHIPS act. This frees Intel to produce abroad… prospect.org/economy/2025...