Aaron Weiss

That's a deep cut.

They came, they saw.

The hero we need

What the courts do with this admission will be another clear sign of how far down the road to fascism we've fallen

What stage of fascism is "arresting every resident of a building without a warrant"?

Is today the hardest Connections yet in terms of crash rate?

Citing ‘AI Arms Race,’ Trump Administration Announces Efforts to Rekindle US Coal Industry - Inside Climate News The administration is opening millions of additional acres of public land to mining while slashing royalty rates and environmental regulations for coal. Environmentalists warn of skyrocketing costs an...

My coverage of today's announcements on coal from the Interior Department, EPA, and DOE is below.

As one source put it: "There is no such thing as clean coal."

insideclimatenews.org/news/2909202...

Yep.

I'm afraid Ezra is lost to the brain worms. If Ta-Nehisi Coates can't bring him back, no one can.

I just read the entire transcript and JFC... they might as well title the episode "In defense of my moral cowardice"

As if any of these folks think the Antideficiency Act applies to them

The Torment Nexus but for politicians

That's a quality subhead

Yeah, time zones factor in here too. The entire Kimmel monologue was posted to YouTube *BY ABC* hours before it ran on the West Coast. That's a shot across the bow of affiliate groups too. KATU and KOMO are superfluous to Disney.

Yeah, my hope is that Sinclair and Nexstar sufficiently overplayed their hand here that Disney just drops them entirely the next time affiliate agreements are up and provides a national ABC programming feed to the cable/satellit providers. Run some regional newscasts and call it good.

No one at any of these stations or KPTV (Gray/Fox) thinks Portland is a war zone. But watch whether any of them say the factual part out loud.

We need local news, but only if it's willing to say what is observably true. Otherwise journalists are just stenographers.

Worth noting that Portland has both Nexstar (KOIN/CBS) and Sinclair (KATU/ABC) stations, and the NBC affiliate (KGW) is Tegna, which is being purchased by Nexstar.

Keep an eye on how corporate interferes with local coverage of this.

Turns out the Epstein files are in Portland

1) A good reminder that Doug Burgum is full of shit

2) Some courts are holding

We saw a LOT of great music this summer, and Al's Red Rocks show was easily the best of the year.

Only the best people

World's largest plate of calamari

Damn that's cool

This is a BFD.

Yeah, similar situation with Paramount/CBS/Skydance. DOJ antitrust threats have way more bite than FCC threats over broadcast spectrum. But this DOJ especially doesn't want to ever be seen as anti-merger and anti-Wall Street.

That's why the threat of a consumer backlash/boycott against Disney+ is so much worse for Disney than angry affiliate groups. The affiliate/network model is old and dying. Disney not only knows this, they're happy to accelerate that death.

/fin

In a "worst-case" scenario where the FCC actually did pull the licenses of ABC affiliates over Kimmel, Brendan Carr would cause massive pain to Nexstar and Sinclair, but only moderate pain to Disney.

The FCC would hasten its own irrelevance while also kneecaping conservative broadcasters.

The biggest surprise from last week was that Disney caved to the right-wing affiliate ownership groups as quickly as it did.

Putting on my media analyst hat for a moment:

Nexstar and Sinclair need Disney far more than Disney needs Nexstar and Sinclair. The only exposure that Disney has to the FCC is through its affiliates, not streaming or cable. 🧵:

This. You can acknowledge that political violence is unconscionable without also whitewashing people who dehumanize others.