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Paramount launches hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. The move comes days after Paramount was bested by Netflix in a competitive bidding process to buy Warner Bros.

Important detail on Paramount's hostile takeover bid to buy WBD:

Paramount's financing partners include Jared Kushner's private equity firm, plus Saudi Arabia's, Qatar's and Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth funds.

Kushner's involvement was NOT publicized by Paramount.
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What’s the Onion bid going to be? Are there any $2 bills lying around your office?

Detainees, often with no criminal record, were subjected to what is unambiguously torture at Ron DeSantis' so-called "Alligator Alcatraz" in Florida. There need to be criminal prosecutions

Hilarious.

Anyone with common sense knows a Trump pardon means nothing outside the U.S. Oops.

🚨 NEW: Honduran Authorities Issue Arrest Warrant for Ex-President Pardoned by Trump

Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

That's called a Dictatorship.

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

Apple Rejects India’s Order Forcing Smartphone Makers To Install State-Run App, Report Says Phonemakers have been ordered to pre-install the Indian government’s “Sanchar Saathi” cyber safety app on all new devices and ensure it cannot be “disabled or restricted.”

Phonemakers have been ordered to pre-install the Indian government’s “Sanchar Saathi” cyber safety app on all new devices and ensure it cannot be “disabled or restricted.”

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

🚨 CNBC on latest jobs numbers: "A big miss on ADP payrolls. The private payroll company saying private payrolls shed 32,000 workers in Nov. That's the 4th negative number in past 6 months. The estimate was for +40,000, so the street was off ... this may be coming from being hammered by the tariffs"

Curiosity Cracked Open a Rock on Mars And Revealed a Big Surprise A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.

Cool!

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Butter memory than most.

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.

If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.

It’s that simple.

US admiral to retire amid military strikes in Caribbean and tensions with Venezuela Alvin Holsey just took over the US southern command late last year for a position that normally lasts three years

Remember 6 weeks ago when Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. military’s southern command, abruptly decided to retire?
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.

The House and Senate are both investigating Pete’s war crimes

Stephen Miller’s Wife @katiemiller : “Can you cite the statute that makes the boat bombings illegal?”

@bakarisellers.bsky.social : “The due process
clause in the constitution.”

There are flyers circulating and even mailers showing up in people’s mailboxes in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District that list the wrong date for the upcoming special election. Voters are being told to vote on the incorrect day.

EASA issues Emergency Airworthiness Directive for Airbus A320 family aircraft Elevator aileron computers (ELAC). ad.easa.europa.eu/ad/2025-0268-E

There wasn’t a serious risk to the passengers. There are three or more flight computers in every fly by wire aircraft and even if one is lost the others take over. But every failure mode we find needs to get re-engineered so it won’t happen again.

Not the first case of ICE or CBP refusing to accept tribal ID or threatening to deport [sic] native americans 🤬🤬🤬

‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.

Indigenous actress Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake

IN CASE THERE WAS ANY DOUBT ANOUT PUTIN’S INTENTIONS

“Russia is prepared to fight to the last Ukrainian”

From yesterday’s brief press conference.

Not a man interested in peace, but genocide.

#UkrainianView

FBI’s Frantic Scramble to Redact Epstein Files Revealed A trove of emails shows all-nighters and almost $1 million in overtime as Trumpworld debated releasing the Epstein files.

‼️‼️ Newly released emails show the FBI spent almost $1 million in overtime analyzing the Epstein files as part of an effort dubbed the “Special Redaction Project."

…niminals?…?

This would be the IIHS you would be believing not Tesla, despite Teslas’ CEO.

Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!

Model 3 crash tests have been outstanding to date. You don’t have to use the autopilot unattended…

Two Texas men charged in shocking plot to invade Haitian island Prosecutors say two Texas men plotted to invade Haiti’s Gonave Island, kill its male residents and enslave women and children. (Credit: FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth)

See, this is where racism and the belief of superiority over others makes White men like these two plot shyt like this.

So, two white guys plotted to roll up on a island off of Haiti and take over. Pffft!

Yeah, okay.🤭

My goodness! Where were their fathers?

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1/ The Kyiv Independent is reporting that Trump envoy Steve Witkoff is "running a shadow operation inside the White House in an effort to sideline pro-Ukraine officials", cutting out Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in an effort supported by Vice President J.D. Vance. ⬇️