Paramount Asks FCC To Approve Up to 100% Foreign Ownership of CBS, CNN #Trump

Have we considered that we can live in a country that prioritizes our healthcare, schools, and communities over foreign wars and bloated Pentagon budgets?

CNN platforms fucking liars even though CNN knows they're fucking liars. In this case CNN is platforming a fucking liar who lied about fucking murders.

$400M for Trump's ballroom? On top of: -$1.5T for the Pentagon -$170B for ICE and Border Patrol -$1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet -$496M to send National Guard into cities -$230M for Trump's DOJ "compensation" -$100M for Trump's golf outings But nothing for working people.

King Charles: "The U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances."

Steyer is attacking Becerra. If he was truly concerned about a Democrat winning he’d go after the Republicans. But Becerra is coming out punching hard. Watch this and the other video in the comments #teambecerra. #pinks thanks @josecanyouseeby of IG

Becerras supporters are not taking this attack by Steyer lying down. He needs to focus his negativity on Republicans not Becerra!! Thanks @Kaitlyndoespolitics of IG!

#HealingHearts I've always anxiously overexplained myself to others as I felt such a desperate need to be understood. I didn't realize for many years that it's a trauma response. Sometimes you won't be understood, and that's perfectly okay. 💐 #CSASurvivor #CPTSD #Pinks #ProudBlue 💛💚💜

Yes, this is Kid Rock addressing the Pentagon on the Strait of Hormuz.

Things that make you go hmm 🙄

Info released by the Justice Dept on what happened at the DC Hilton doesn't add up, says @vermontgmg.bsky.social, an expert on government security. The "shooter" may not have fired any weapon at all.

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NO 👇 LIES DETECTED......

BREAKING on MS NOW: James Comey has been indicted by the Trump Justice Department — again. This time, Comey has been indicted on charges alleging he made threats against Trump in that May 2025 social post of a picture of shells on the beach that spelled out "8647."

News anchors like Katy Tur keep asking how we can find "common ground" in America. The answer is: You can't. If you believe in democracy, there's no common ground with fascists. You either surrender to them or you fight them.

Notice that the Trump regime is not just blaming one violent person for what happened Saturday night. It’s blaming 8 million peaceful “No Kings” protesters as well as you and me posting peacefully on social media. Trump isn't opposed to violence. He's opposed to resistance.

Both Trump and the head of the correspondents’ association talked about “unity” in the wake of Saturday’s shooting. But the press isn’t supposed to seek unity with politicians. It’s supposed to seek the truth. If the press gets cozier, our future gets scarier. My Stop the Presses newsletter.

It’s a coverup. Congress, esp the Republican side, is a sewer. Adam Kinzinger described it beautifully on Charlie Sykes podcast.

Great moments in presidential rhetoric... plus MAGA's message discipline... open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Um, wow.

In today’s #ReadingRussia: how to interpret Vladimir Putin’s comment to lawmakers that “fixating on prohibitions…is counterproductive.” Plus, today’s Russian papers report “Investment crisis becoming difficult to mask” and “Big pessimism of small business.”

The Iran energy shock is bad. But it's not Ukraine bad (yet). The last supply shock struck at an already inflationary moment (post-Covid shortages, tight labour market, high savings ratio). This one meets a largely disinflationary backdrop. My newsletter, out now.

NEW: Pope Leo XIV told the world’s press today that the Catholic Church’s moral imagination has long been too narrowed to sexual ethics — and that war, migration, and human dignity are the “much greater, more important issues” of our time.

After scientists exposed wild fish to cocaine and a cocaine metabolite, they observed that, as in the lab, fish on cocaine do not act like normal fish.

"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away." www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

The reason they're blaming Kimmel and political rhetoric and demanding the ballroom is because the shooter called Trump a pedo. Trump distracts from gunman's Epstein motivations to pile on Jimmy Kimmel www.alternet.org/jimmy-kimmel...

This is just a run-of-the-mill authoritarian argument for dismantling the press. It could easily be a quote from an Erdogan press release. It's also fucking delusional to suggest Trump's critics have "no reason." Like, really, none? lmao. These people are so cartoonish.

I really want to say I told you so but I won't. www.thebulwark.com/p/say-goodby...

"Enemy from within." "Communists, Marxists, fascists, radical left thugs, vermin." "Garbage" Somalis, "low IQ people." "She's an evil, sick, crazy, b..." Republicans want the left to tone down the rhetoric. Erm, have they listened to Donald Trump?? Zeteo put together this Trump montage:

excellent policymaking

I’ll spare you another rant about the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. But attention ought to be paid to the Bari Weiss/David Ellison Sucking Up to Power soirees. charliesykes.substack.com/p/baris-fanc...

As the Supreme Court hears arguments in a case that could stall lawsuits against Roundup's role in causing cancer, we have a 3-part series from @exposedbycmd.bsky.social on Bayer/Monsanto's drive for immunity from Roundup liability. First, on the overall lobbying, PR, & legal campaign:

NATO has officially activated its Article 5 collective defense clause only once in its history: on September 12, 2001, following the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States. This declaration meant the alliance considered the attack against the U.S. to be an attack against all member nations.

“It is unlikely that Iran will ever relinquish their ability to use their control over the strait. In the best case, they will turn it into a much needed cash cow, a toll booth on one of the world’s most vital commercial shipping routes. “ open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

Why do conspiracy theories erupt whenever there’s an incident like the gunfire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner? Well, maybe because events like the correspondents' dinner make it look like the press and the politicians are in cahoots. The press has earned the public’s mistrust.

Tell me again that shit wasn’t staged.

The problem with having a criminal President who promotes conspiracy theories, incited an insurrection, & lies habitually about everything and is enabled by an entire political and media movement that does the same is that after a while people don't believe him and create their own narratives. #whcd

14 year old Jude Baker is a cancer survivor & a real American hero. This kid got picked by the Make A Wish Foundation. He didn't go to Disneyland. He used the money to feed over 300 homeless people instead. Kids like this give me hope. Massive love & respect to Jude. people.com/teen-14-used...

🚨BREAKING: Virginia court REJECTS Republican lawsuit in challenging the legislature’s authority to alter the 2021 congressional map. A HUGE victory for our client the DCCC and the voters of Virginia. Another defeat for the GOP. www.democracydocket.com/cases/virgin...

Interesting to note the different reactions on the dais the moment gunshots were heard at the WHCA Dinner:

Nemophila bloom season has begun in Japan. Every spring, the fields of Hitachinaki Park are transformed into a blanket of blue, where over 5 million delicate blue flowers bloom, creating a "sky beneath your feet" effect.😍 Good image for Bluesky .

I really think it’s important to underline that there was apparently no security breach. The gunman was confronted and stopped where he should have been according to the design—at the magnetometer perimeter. What this piece argues for is an *expansion* of the security perimeter in time and space.

Former FBI agent Dan Brunner: From what we saw, the suspect wasn’t even close to breaching security. He still would have had to go down two flights of stairs and get through additional secured doors. He didn’t even reach the magnetometers before being stopped.

Holy shit. You guessed it — the new LEGO video is out, and it is 🔥. It’s damn amazing how quickly they make these!!

Feels like I’ve watched this show for the Epsteinth time.

I’m listening to seasoned reporters talk about how frightened they were during the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner last night and imagining how much worse it is for America’s children. If there’s ever been a time to pass sensible gun control laws, it’s now.

They think we are all stupid. 🤬

Anyone suggesting we should stop accurately pointing out factual ways that the president is wrecking this country on a daily basis, or expressing an opinion about that, because of something a random nut does is espousing a profoundly un-American concept that I completely reject.