It is actually impressive how fast tech billionaires managed to make everyone hate them. Instead of just running their companies and enjoying their wealth, their egos forced them to interfere in politics. The public backlash is entirely self-inflicted

Follow the money: The Ellison bid for Warner Bros may be backed by Saudi Arabia, Qatar & the UAE The European Commission wants answers So does Los Angeles — which is staring down massive layoffs if this goes through This merger has nowhere left to hide I discuss on @contrariannews.org -TN

The only mainstream journalists speaking truth to power these days are cartoonists

www.youtube.com/watch?v=htnb... #science

We invaded Venezuela, kidnapped their leader and installed a puppet, and are now pillaging the country's resources just like the fascists in the 1930s did, and somehow this has already been normalized and isn't being treated as the crime it is

CNN is Merging With CBS News In A Move That Will Transform Both Companies cordcuttersnews.com/cnn-is-mergi...

The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments as president, because it meant that millions of Americans would have access to health care, some for the first time.

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That would never work in the US.

Breaking: Elon Musk defrauded Twitter investors when he disparaged the company in 2022 in an effort to buy the social media platform for a lower price than his original $44 billion bid, a jury concluded

So glad Kennedy is control of our health,

It’s amazing how quickly Black women have been targeted by these laws and doubly so how little this factors into the analysis around the sexual and gender politics of this movement.

Ukraine helps expose Russian operation against US troops. President Zelenskyy confirms Ukrainian intelligence shows Russia is helping Iran target US troops and assets in the Middle East.

Whoa...

What have we become as a country?

I am leaving the Washington Post to join a new journalistic venture backed by Politico founder Robert Allbritton that will be both the hometown publication the D.C. region sorely needs and a scrappy and fearless national news organization. I hope you'll join us.

BREAKING: Deaths in ICE detention are causing international strife, with the Mexican government calling for an investigation into deaths in detention.

a critical question: what happens when a narrow clutch of oligarchs at the helm of the technological revolution, sitting at the apex of wealth and power, get to determine the direction of humanity? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Sounds familiar.

Can't help but wonder....how does this all end?

Sgt. Brian McGinnis is out of jail after he was arrested for expressing his opposition to the US war on Iran in Congress. Capitol Police officers and Senator Sheehy broke his arm as they removed and arrested him.

Yes they do

I'm looking to hear some specific examples of how disabled Minnesotans have been harmed by federal Medicaid pause for reporting I'm doing at @motherjones.com . Please reach out to [email protected] with any leads.

Shredding the constitution is hilarious (From @atrupar.com )

Shah Alam, 56, did not speak English. He was lost. He could not see. Border Patrol didn't contact his family or lawyer. They left him on the streets of Buffalo, where he died five days later.

Truly a mystery

I miss Blockbuster video and Borders :(

Looks like Mexico (possibly with US support) just took out the head of CJNG cartel and the cartel is responding by attacking Puerto Vallerta - deep within CJNG territory

I keep seeing people say Vance can refuse to certify the 2028 elections if he feels like it, so I wanted to issue this reminder that Congress passed a law in 2022 that changed all that

I’m running not to be the Governor OF California, but to be the Governor FOR all Californians.

www.yahoo.com/news/article... One prospective juror stated that he could be impartial in a civil trial, but that if this were a criminal trial he would have a ‘moral obligation’ to convict Musk and send him to prison.”

"Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications." newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

Re: the recent famous deaths. Always makes me nervous when good souls leave in a bunch - I start thinking rapture - even though I don't believe in it.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

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

Sigh. What could go wrong?