so you've got the valid criticisms of the Netflix merger (layoffs, price hikes) you've got theater owners who just don't want antiquated release windows changed for obvious reasons then you've got the Ellison/Trump alliance that wants to scuttle the deal so Ellison can buy CNN/HBO/Warner instead

I finally have a newsletter! It's called The Fine Print* and I'll be writing about tech, media, politics, consumer rights (and whatever else I damn-well please). It's free, but if you have disposable income, you can support independent reporting for just $50/year or $4/month.

These people don’t seem to care that people who speak Spanish and are very proud of it are a core part of what put trump back in the White House and are what psyched the gop in to thinking they have a multiracial working class coalition Good luck keeping the coalition together

To reduce market power we will be giving Disney and Comcast to our friend Larry Ellison.

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart 1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks 2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

I finally have a newsletter! It's called The Fine Print* and I'll be writing about tech, media, politics, consumer rights (and whatever else I damn-well please). It's free, but if you have disposable income, you can support independent reporting for just $50/year or $4/month.

NEWS: Ford worker who heckled Trump kept his job, got 'no discipline' on his record, UAW says. www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...

pour it into my veins

what if we, you know, just tried to avoid using websites that coddle white supremacists for a buck

we slathered a bunch of broken industries (smart toys, health care, journalism) with half-cooked automation in a country too corrupt to pass even a rudimentary modern privacy law, what could possibly go wrong

I’ve never liked Berger. It’s not exactly a secret I keep close. But calling him “Historically a Musk fanboy) is a huge understatement. He is a major reason SpaceX developed such a cult like following, and is also financially tied to their successes from his access journalism and book deal.

CORRECT

“hollywood and new york” why whatever could he mean

It's neat how angry fascists get at the free market working as the free market is supposed to work, they get downright Soviet when it doesn't work for them.

Donald Trump is VERY EXCITED about all of our shitty right wing propaganda "local news" companies merging into one larger, shittier company

what if we, you know, just tried to avoid using websites that coddle white supremacists for a buck

Love the community note that got added on to the Democrats' tweet about their deranged and harmful efforts to dismantle Section 230.

Watching Eric Berger (historically a Musk fanboy) struggle with the revelation that Musk is a fake engineer conman white supremacist never loses its entertainment value

the new Fairness Doctrine is that you're not allowed to be Very Unfair! to Trump

This is also a fake FCC investigation of media outlets deemed insufficiently deferent to unpopular and radical right wing ideology, something Reuters downplays as normal policy:

we're bringing Maxine Waters back for One Last Job

my favorite michael tracey moment is when he flew to poland after the ukraine war started and thought he had stumbled onto a massive conspiracy because he ran into uniformed u.s. troops

Mike Tracey is a greasy right wing opportunist posing as a journalist, whose latest trolling engagement shtick is harassing victims of Jeffrey Epstein Notice how Newsnation and The Hill prop him up as a serious good faith actor

So we're clear (because the press is apparently incapable) this is a fake competition investigation designed to help local right wing propaganda broadcasters consolidate and increase their power over whatever's left of local U.S. news

Minneapolis for the win.

This is what we’re doing to people. We are the bad guys.

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

MAGA is not popular and their hold on power is crumbling under the focus and strength of mutual aid and common decency. Thank you for your attention in this matter!

"The Epstein class" is a global rot In Europe, ties to Jeffrey Epstein are ending careers, sparking spy probes, and possibly toppling governments In America, not so much. How the lack of elite accountability became the tipping point for democracy. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/jeff...

SpaceX shifts focus from something that it will never do on Mars to something it will never do on the Moon.

love it

does anyone else remember when the 2022 Super Bowl had so many crypto ads people were calling it the Crypto Bowl and then crypto just absolutely fucking tanked? anyway

It's very clear which team Jesus wants to win

you're supposed to ignore that Carr has spent most of his life coddling Comcast and other telecom giants He's only pretending to be "pro-competitive" now so that right wing broadcast propaganda outfits can dominate what's left of U.S. local news

They sang “American Idiot”

NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse. Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch." Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

anyway, it’s true and bears repeating. leave substack.

humans are very very fucking odd

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Russians are trying to rewrite history on Wikipedia. Because it's the #1 source of training data for AI systems, it can also be used to "poison" platforms like ChatGPT and Claude AI.

They're trying to tell us that they always get what they want. That there is nothing so hideous that they won't do it, even if it's kidnap a five year old child and then, when they lose, really try even harder to make him suffer more. Fuck them.

This just shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how to do news. Data helps, but data doesn’t tell a reporter to spend a years-long investigation into child labor or an editor to place staff in a country on the brink of war. What exactly does Bezos think WaPo’s “journalistic mission” is?

James Carville's electoral record of managing/consulting on campaigns in Texas: - 1984 Senate election w/ Lloyd Doggett: Lost in the general by 17% - 1990 Gov election w/ Jim Mattox: Lost in the primary - 1992 Pres election w/ Clinton: Lost Texas - 2004 Pres election w/ Kerry: Lost Texas

they fired everybody who knows that Puerto Ricans are American

When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it

"if people click on it, it must be of value" is how you get TV shows like fuckboy island

lol great job buddy

It's so funny how many people have had their brains pickled by X and Fox News and can't believe that SF remains one of the most amazing cities in the world.

“Our nation’s landmark environmental laws are meaningless when EPA does not enforce the rules,” Jen Duggan, executive director of the Environmental Integrity Project, said in a statement. insideclimatenews.org/news/0502202... (It's just air, water, soil, food, health, huntin' & fishin', etc. /s)

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.