Not a dime of taxpayer money or govt contracts should go to Palantir.

in the dead of night, House GOP leadership is trying to not just extend but possibly expand government surveillance powers — and incredibly, @jahimes.bsky.social is working to help them do it

@freepress.bsky.social was outside of Paramount today during CBS upfronts to show advertisers what they’ll be supporting with their ad buys this year.

Tim Cook's go-along enthusiasm for Trump's fascism is "an active choice," writes @karlbode.com. "Trying to 'engage' with fascism is like trying to have an intimate emotional relationship with a running chainsaw." karlbode.com/tim-cook-is-...

Journalistic malpractice and democratic betrayal.

Jeff Bezos' Washington Post editorial board endorsed Pam Bondi as a "qualified" and "serious" pick for Attorney General. Nowhere in the endorsement did they mention that she's a former Amazon lobbyist. Another reminder that billionaire control of our media is a threat to democracy.

The notion that AI companies can fund something that will truly hold them accountable is absurd on its face. AI donations to nonprofits scare rather than impress me. We need money out of policymaking. It always leads to the corporate interests coming before the public interest.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... bsky.app/profile/robe...

Looks like a guy who used to oppose government censorship. What happened to him?

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico jury finds Meta's platforms are harmful to children's mental health and imposes $375 million penalty.

From ISSUE NO. 10: “Trump’s second presidency has been devoted to demolishing anti-discrimination policies based on the absurd claim that they are unfair to white people, especially white men, who are now the real victims of racism.” @keeanga.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

The newest edition of @hammerandhope.bsky.social is now out! Find the entire issue here. A few highlights: hammerandhope.org

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

For further context: Carr admits he doesn't view the FCC as an independent agency. He wears Trump's gilded face as a lapel pin. Trump posted an image of Carr as his pet pitbull today, and Carr responded by growling at his critics to prove him right.

Brendan Carr needs to be removed from office. For his gross abuses of government power. For sucking up to Trump rather than defending free speech, press freedom and the Constitution. And because he doesn’t know the difference between a TV station and a newspaper.

Makes you wonder if Trump called his FCC chairman to direct him to threaten media institutions since the war he started is so unpopular with the public.

What a great coincidence that this image is driving around Hollywood displayed on a billboard truck right very now.

So if anybody -- state attorneys general, Democratic politicians, sentient beings -- doesn't understand why Paramount Skydance's takeover of Warner Bros./CNN is a huge problem, Pete Hegseth is here to explain it to you. Stop the propaganda. Block this merger.

Big Tech and Big Media donated some $63 million to a Trump-aligned nonprofit that was set up to help finance Trump's presidential library. Now the nonprofit has disappeared and with it the money. Three guesses on where it's gone. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

From my colleague, @ruddock.bsky.social: "Research from UC Riverside and Cal Tech estimates that across the US, public health costs related to air pollution from data centers’ energy infrastructure has surpassed $5.5 billion over the last five years."

We identified 12 shootings by federal agents that led to the deaths or injuries of citizens & immigrants since Sept. Nearly every time, the Trump admin blamed the injured and dead. Experts say this apparent lack of accountability demands that local authorities step up to investigate federal agents.

History teaches us that a free press cannot exist under mass surveillance. Nor can free speech survive in a chokehold. As @josephtorr.bsky.social says: Surveillance was never about safety. It's about maintaining social control in the service of white supremacy. We've been here before. 🧵 >

What kind of surveillance tech is your dating app using? www.therevivallab.org/capture-hear...

Their only issue with “media bias” was always that it wasn’t biased enough bsky.app/profile/junl...

"Anthropic is guilty not only of wildly exaggerating the capabilities of AI, and promoting dystopian fantasies of ‘AI doom’, but also quietly advocating the deeply misanthropic philosophy on which it was founded. www.spiked-online.com/2026/02/22/t...

"Inside CNN, alarm bells went off as staffers began to panic over the suddenly very real prospect that they could be working for Bari Weiss before the end of the year," reports @oliverdarcy.bsky.social. "'We are doomed,' one staffer candidly said. 'We are f**ked,' said another."

Paramount controlling CBS and CNN should be unthinkable, especially given how it turned the Tiffany Network into a trash heap. The Ellisons have promised to make "sweeping changes" to CNN. We know what the means: firing journalists, spiking stories, and replacing the news with empty propaganda.

BREAKING: WBD decided to abandon plans to sell to Netflix in favor of a Paramount Skydance bid. "The Ellisons have promised Trump that they'll make sweeping changes to CNN, and we know what the means: firing journalists and replacing news with authoritarian propaganda." - @notaaroncraig.bsky.social

My take on Willie Colón’s musical legacy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/a...

From NYT: "In Cuba, people are struggling with frequent blackouts, shortages of gasoline and cooking gas and dwindling supplies of diesel that power the nation’s water pumps. Trash is piling up, food prices are soaring, schools are canceling classes and hospitals are suspending surgeries."

Big News: Free Press’ Courtney Morrison broke up with TikTok. 💔 Here are their 3 reasons for deleting the app (and why you should too): 1. New ownership 2. New privacy policy 3. The algorithm just won't be the same Read more here: www.freepress.net/blog/why-to-...

So sad to read…

Now Warner Bros. is censoring wrestling to appease Trump. Welcome Brody King fans to the fight against media consolidation! (Hope those F-ICE chants get louder and louder!) cultaholic.com/posts/report...

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

NBC is not courageous enough to show U.S. audiences what the world thinks of the Trump White House. Wouldn't want DJT to rant about it on Truth Social. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

If you can see how racist this video is, then you can also see how racist it is to sacrifice your (weak) commitments to diversity to get a deal done. You are supporting the same blatantly racist agenda.

Let's be clear: Trump's gutter racism has been elevated and excused by these same media companies. These same companies have abandoned their own employees and erased diversity and equity policies to curry favor with the Trump regime and his henchmen. www.freepress.net/policy-libra...

I'm pleased to see the NYT not mince words and call this what it is: "blatantly racist." Even CBS and The Washington Post put "racist" in their headlines. Apparently White House just took the video down and blamed a "staffer." Yeah, right. Which staffer. Did they get fired?

One of the many reasons for our nation's current crisis & constitutional collapse are due to the role powerful media and tech companies have played in capitulating to Trump and his racism. We have to reckon & redress the role these companies have played in ushering in this racist & fascist regime.

Scoop w/ @nataliekorach.bsky.social: Washington Post leadership spiked a story that had been prepared by the newspaper's media desk, covering the historic layoffs at the Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper. Details in @status.news: link.status.news/4ai6W4C

If you care about Don Lemon, don't forgot Mario Guevara (reporter who was filming police at a No Kings rally in June) was targeted for his journalistic activity; detained for 112 days; and deported. He had no criminal charges against him and was on the path to getting a green card.

Heads up.

Levitsky said “the early abdication of this country's elite,” including Bezos, leaders at Disney and Columbia, “sent a powerful signal to both the Trump administration and US society that Trump was going to be able to get away with a lot. And we paid a price for it” www.status.news/p/don-lemon-...

Capital B stands in solidarity with journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, who were arrested today in connection to their coverage of an anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest earlier this month at a Minneapolis church. https://capitalbnews.org/capital-b-condems-journalists-arrests/

We signed on @freepress.bsky.social in solidarity and support of this strong statement by the National Association of Black Journalists in response to the outrageous arrests of Don Lemon and Georgia Fort. nabjonline.org/blog/nabjout...

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.