Fox's purchase of Roku gives them a landing spot if cable implodes (as I expect), and could easily be weaponized to restrict competition, surveil on viewers and widen its conservative news dominance. Don't sleep on this.
From me:
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Starting today, @prospect.org@bsky.brid.gy has removed all programmatic ads, because we believe that respecting you as readers rather than monetizing your attention will earn trust. This is what the site looks like, with all space reserved for stories about ideas, politics and power. prospect.org/2026/04/06/w...
Trillion dollar military, headed to $1.5 trillion. This is what a meal looks like on a naval ship.
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Cookies, deodorant, socks. Ira...
To sum up, Bearstar Strategies, which has owned the seat of power in California for nearly two decades, thought Swalwell was an empty suit they could control but they couldn't control his pants, so they found another suit. (Who isn't exactly full either)
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Gavin Newsom’s allies mulling ...
We have some blockbuster reporting here from @lifevicarious.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy about the State Dept envoy who claims to have introduced Melania to Donald.
Paolo Zampolli owned a fashion agency & is immersed in a world with ties to Epstein & allegations of sex trafficking.
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The Diplomat, the Fashion Chan...
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@bsky.brid.gy on Bayer/Monsanto's drive for immunity from Roundup liability.
First, on the overall lobbying, PR, & legal campaign:
Bayer ‘Turns Over Every Stone’...
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Time to redraw some of Oklahoma into Texas i guess
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State AGs have been doing tabletop exercises to game out how Trump may hijack the midterms. But the most realistic scenario is just the usual suppression tactics: purging voter rolls, intimidating poll watchers, eliminating or changing poll locations, or altering the rules on mail-in ballots.
The Real Reason to Worry About...
I wrote about California gas prices spiking during the Hormuz crisis, & the huge amount of disinformation about why. Turns out refineries have a cartel, they've raised their profit margins $1/gal in two months, & they charge branded stations higher prices, which gets passed on to drivers.
Aftermath: California Gas Pric...
This "end" to the war with Iran, I don't think it means what you think it means.
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Aftermath: There Is No End to ...
BREAKING: Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy has announced a balanced budget with no cuts to essential services, no property tax increases, $4 billion more from the state government, and a new tax hike on the ultra-wealthy.
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Mamdani Announces Balanced Bud...
"We are going to respond to your $1.50/gallon gas price increase by temporarily reducing it by $0.184" may not be the slam duck win everybody thinks it is
Very interesting appointment by Newsom: Rohit Chopra, former CFPB director, will run the state business and consumer services agency.
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Governor Newsom appoints forme...
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The warrantless surveillance extension faces another deadline in 12 days, but we're settling into a familiar pattern: bipartisan demands for civil liberties reforms, but the intelligence community's cutouts beating it back through fearmongering. @jamesjbaratta.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy reports.
Washington Still Bows to the S...
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Really exactly what I said would happen. The ruling against the slush fund was a gift to Senate Republicans. Trump/Blanche halted it just enough (not even in writing) to get them to agree to unstick the bill funding ICE/CBP for 3 years.
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US Senate advances ICE bill as...
It is very America circa 2026 to have two America's birthday celebrations, one that is privately funded by military contractors and is stealing the money meant for the other one. Brett Heinz reports on the Freedom 250 surge and how America250 was left behind.
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Who Is Running America’s 250th...
Seems to me like the party has a little less than 3 weeks to do a fire house primary, which would be the right thing to do and energizing in the wake of the nonsense
ICE, boosted by $250 billion in funding over the last year, increased spending on small arms by more than 400% in 2025. ICE has also made over 2,000 enforcement deals (known as 287g) with local cops, the most ever. And those cops are also getting surplus military-grade weapons from the military.
Feds and Deputized Cops Stockp...
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Lindsey's Graham's death causes a complication for Republicans not many people are talking about. He was Budget Committee chair, which is critical for a proposed third reconciliation bill. Now his replacement is Ron Johnson, who would demand massive cuts in any package.
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Budget Consequences of Lindsey...
The U.S. will be back in four years, when Freddy Adu finally matures
Here's a story on Troy Jackson crushing the county delegate caucuses this weekend, and becoming the presumptive nominee to take on Susan Collins for the Maine Senate seat.
Being able to organize that quickly signals good momentum for November, and he'll need that.
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Jackson Earns Senate Nominatio...
The Freedom Fuel stations were put together by a pair of serial grifters who stole $667,000 worth of gas from a distributor five years ago, a private credit sponsor, and an energy trader tied up in multiple Trump schemes and profiting heavily off the war in Iran.
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The Kleptocrat Nesting Dolls B...
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The 1997 Flores settlement says children can only be in immigration detention for 20 days. A new legal filing shows that kids at CoreCivic's detention facility in Dilley, TX have been there as long as 323 days, & includes firsthand accounts of the abuse guards are inflicting on children.
Trump Administration Routinely...
Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin GRANTS the states a temporary restraining order in their challenge to the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger.
It's a two-week TRO, as per the rules. The next hearing is Aug 3 in Oakland.
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Order on Motion for TRO – #141...
An under-the-radar part of the Paramount/Warner Bros merger is that the merged company would be 49.5% owned by the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and Qatar. Somehow this hasn't raised the ire of those who most fear Sharia law.
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I think the Paramount-Warner merger is in a lot of trouble.
It's clear to me, reading the judge's ruling carefully, that there's going to be a long and drawn-out trial, which will cost antsy financial backers potentially billions. Backing out is no longer out of the question.
Why Paramount Should Be Worrie...
What became "Trump accounts" have their origins in baby bonds, the attempt to close the racial wealth gap. But the Trump version is really a retirement account that only benefits those with savings and will worsen, not reduce, that wealth gap.
Naomi Bethune reports.
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Will Trump Accounts Close the ...
Income from investment—the primary source of income for roughly 1 percent of Americans—is soaring. The remaining 99 percent, who depend primarily on income from work, are struggling. Harold Meyerson writes about what it would take to change this.
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A Great Economy Unless You Hav...
Wild story from @jamesjbaratta.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy about how Amazon and Walmart can detect Made in America fraud but choose not too, with their chatbots explicitly saying that this is a "business calculation."
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The Great ‘Made in the USA’ Fr...
The Trump administration is following through on a Project 2025 plank by allowing private contractors to run security next year at airports in Charleston, SC; Des Moines, IA; and Tampa, FL. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy reports:
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TSA Privatization Returns Airp...
"The curious thing about the Wisconsin primary is that the DSA candidate is simply doing a better job."
@ryanlcooper.com@bsky.brid.gy writes about Francesca Hong, the peculiar political polarization of Wisconsin (home to La Follette and McCarthy), and real talk about electability.
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Can DSA’s Francesca Hong Win i...
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Here's our story on Rob Bonta's disappointing settlement of the Paramount-Warner Bros merger. Just an awful decision.
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Bonta Gives Up on the Paramoun...