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Affinity Partners, the private equity firm led by Jared Kushner, is part of Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery.

Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix, and Kushner's involvement only strengthens that case

A distressing chart. As our government sues media companies, and threatens to take away their broadcast licenses for airing critical programs, the US has now dropped to 57th in the world in press freedom.

Maybe next year we can catch Romania and Sierra Leone. gijn.org/stories/glob...

‘Civilisational erasure’: US strategy document appears to echo far-right conspiracy theories about Europe Official text, signed by Donald Trump, outlines plan to ‘cultivate resistance’ in EU nations to their ‘current trajectory’

The US govt is screaming—in words, actions, and now a strategic document—that America has switched sides in the world, preferring authoritarians and a transnational white nationalism over liberal democracy.

Like Russia, a US foreign policy goal is to undermine the EU.

Will Europe finally listen?

Is this really just Gen X/Boomer nostalgia wrapped in plastic and cancer?

Bari Weiss to moderate CBS News town hall with Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika Kirk Exclusive: event, scheduled to air on 13 December, will focus on ‘grief, faith, politics, and more’, according to internal files

Bari Weiss has a CBS town hall set with Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk.

If you want to attend, you're asked a series of questions on an online form.

The first question is: “Do you consider yourself a conservative? If so, why?”

Via Jeremy Barr

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/d...

DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls Read more here.

This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

A screenshot of a post from X by journalist Alan Rappeport describing comments made by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at the DealBook Summit. Below the text is a photo of Andrew Ross Sorkin and Scott Bessent seated onstage in white chairs, facing each other, with a small table between them. Sorkin holds papers on his lap, while Bessent gestures with his hand during their conversation. The backdrop displays “The New York Times” and “DealBook Summit.”

What does it say about Bessent then that he’s taken time out of his busy day to appear at the NYT summit for a failing paper that he doesn’t read?

US Justice Department plans gun rights office within civil rights unit The Justice Department plans to expand gun-rights protections with a new office in its civil rights division dedicated to enforcing the U.S. constitutional right to bear arms, according to plans share...

After shuttering the White House of Gun Violence Prevention in Jan., Trump is opening a new office in DOJ’s civil rights division called the Second Amendment Rights Section on December 4th - to expand gun-rights protections - while infringing on our #FreedomToLive!

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So two people exposed as working for their interests, neither with expertise in the region, are gonna do this.

When you stayed up too late shitposting.

It's great that reporting on the double tap has spotlighted the abject criminality of this Administration.

But don't forget: Venezuela is not waging war on America or Americans, and the men killed were not combatants.

The first strike was every bit as illegal as the second.

Everyone knows about the Tennessee election TOMORROW, but do you know that there are a whole host of other elections tomorrow as well?

If a candidate from Nov 4 didn’t get over 50%, in many cases that goes to a runoff,
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He Was Convicted of Running a Narco State. Now Trump Plans to Pardon Him. Former President Juan Orlando Hernández was sentenced to 45 years in prison for receiving millions of dollars for protecting drug smugglers.

The Hernández pardon appears to be the work of Roger Stone, who seems to have conviced the president that he was falsely prosecuted by the Biden administration.
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a face mask that says " go vote tennessee " on it ALT: a face mask that says " go vote tennessee " on it

Today is Election Day in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District. Please vote. 🗳️

parks Y @parkersity_9 Without naming your job, tell me something you say 20 times per day at work

“That sounds illegal”

Tomorrow is our last chance to stomp the regime at the ballot box in 2025. We can flip a Tennessee district that Trump won by double digits, but only if we turn enough voters out — please make some calls to help us send @aftynbehn.bsky.social to Congress: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Probably the most important post you will read today. #HoldFast

An important part of arresting the consolidation of authoritarianism is convincing corporations and institutions that Trump will eventually be out of power and at that point they’ll face consequences for their actions and by that standard this is a good sign

It’s on 🔥

The boycott rolled right up to their front door.
‘We Ain’t Buying It”

(next to a crossed out Home Depot logo) “Home Depot has allowed its parking lots to become ground zero for ICE raids on immigrant day laborers, and its billionaire co-founder Bernie Marcus has funneled millions into Trump's campaigns.” (next to a crossed out Target logo) “Target, which once branded itself as the friendly, inclusive big-box store, has now scrapped its DEl goals and scaled back LGBTQ+ offerings to avoid angering the regime.” (next to a crossed out Amazon logo) “Amazon didn't just shower Trump's inauguration with cash -- Jeff Bezos' company pitched facial-recognition tools to ICE and powers the Palantir systems ICE uses to track and deport immigrants, making Amazon a core contractor for the regime's deportation machine.”

Friends don’t let friends buy from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky

The President doesn't want you standing up and speaking out against him, so he's coming after me to intimidate all of us.

But I won't back down — and neither should you.

Tut-tutting Nuzzi for "Michael Wolffing it" while holding back (for baldly subscriber-grubbing reasons) evidence of nefarious actions by America's most powerful people is meta-Wolffing it.

If telling the troops not to follow illegal orders is “sedition,” what do we call colluding with the Kremlin to manipulate the U.S. President into advancing Russian interests over America’s?

What would you call this if you saw it happening in another country?

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(next to a crossed out Home Depot logo) “Home Depot has allowed its parking lots to become ground zero for ICE raids on immigrant day laborers, and its billionaire co-founder Bernie Marcus has funneled millions into Trump's campaigns.” (next to a crossed out Target logo) “Target, which once branded itself as the friendly, inclusive big-box store, has now scrapped its DEl goals and scaled back LGBTQ+ offerings to avoid angering the regime.” (next to a crossed out Amazon logo) “Amazon didn't just shower Trump's inauguration with cash -- Jeff Bezos' company pitched facial-recognition tools to ICE and powers the Palantir systems ICE uses to track and deport immigrants, making Amazon a core contractor for the regime's deportation machine.”

It’s the busiest shopping period of the year, so we’re hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky

I hope folks realize that between Trump, Kushner, Hegseth, Witkoff, Noem, RFK, Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard, this country is almost entirely undefended.

Alan Dershowitz was Epstein’s lawyer

YouTube video by Eliza Orlins Boycott Target, Amazon, and Home Depot from Black Friday to Cyber Monday! Leave small business below

This Black Friday weekend, I’m skipping Amazon, Target, and Home Depot and shifting my spending to the people building real community.

What local businesses are you supporting instead? Tag them—I want to help boost as many as possible.

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I fought the law…