Katie Tibaldi

Netflix's $83 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery would mean more corporate consolidation.

Netflix, by far the #1 streamer, would take over HBO Max, the #3 streaming service.

This giant merger could violate antitrust law and hurt consumers.

A headline reads: "Supreme Court Will Review Trump Order Restricting Birthright Citizenship." The Supreme Court building is shown largely covered in scaffolding. An individual walks on the sidewalk in the foreground. Photo by Tierney L. Cross for The New York Times.

Breaking News: The Supreme Court agreed to review a landmark dispute over the constitutionality of President Trump’s effort to end birthright citizenship. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere.

It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

When a few corporations dominate the economy, democracy is the first casualty. @matthewstoller.bsky.social joins Nick & Goldy to expose how monopolies—from banks to Big Tech—turn economic power into political control.

🎧 Listen here: pod.link/pitchforkeco...

Matt Stoller: How 'oligarchs' and 'extraction' fueled America's housing crisis Home ownership is now out-of-reach for many Americans. “Homes are for people to live in,” says Matt Stoller of the American Economic Liberties Project, but he warns big landlords are "building homes for money, not people." President Trump claims to care about home affordability, but Stoller insists his administration is actually "on the side of oligarchs." 

Home ownership is now out-of-reach for many Americans. @matthewstoller.bsky.social says that's because starter homes "don't exist anymore," and business and government have forgotten that "homes are for people to live in," not investments. #Velshi

🚨 NEW: A majority of Americans now support Medicare for All even if it ends private insurance and raises taxes. The tipping point is here because the ACA is failing to keep health care affordable. New polling shows a 50-point shift in just six years.

Robert Reich Why I'm Voting YES On Prop 50

SCOTUS is allowing Texas to redistrict early.

Remember that California responded by passing Prop 50 last month.

Other states must also counteract Trump's attempt to steal the 2026 midterms.

This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom.

This evening’s Super moon

The Cold Supermoon tonight

The hepatitis B vaccine had been recommended for all newborns since 1991.

From 1990-2019, acute hepatitis B infections reported among children and teens fell 99 percent. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/w...

Who controls what IP isn't what's at play with this new merger: it's about who gets your attention & dollars. It means fewer shows & fewer movies as not to step on each other's dicks.

1/3 of Hollywood is already out of work from past consolidation. How many more voices will they run out of town?

The Committee for the First Amendment was formed to fight for our right to free expression. A WBD merger puts it at risk. Read more from @JaneFonda on @theankler.

theankler.com/p/jane-fonda...

“A #Netflix-Warner Bros. would create one massive media giant with control of close to half of the streaming market,” Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren said of the $83 billion deal.

Read more: bit.ly/48x35zW

Netflix Is Buying Warner Bros. Discovery for $83 Billion Netflix announced today it is buying Warner Bros. Discovery for $82.7 billion. The deal has the potential to reshape Hollywood and the wider media universe, if it can pass significant regulatory hurdles.

Netflix announced today it is buying Warner Bros. Discovery for $82.7 billion. The deal has the potential to reshape Hollywood and the wider media universe, if it can pass significant regulatory hurdles.

AI deepfakes of real doctors spreading health misinformation on social media Hundreds of videos on TikTok and elsewhere impersonate experts to sell supplements with unproven effects TikTok and other social media platforms are hosting AI-generated deepfake videos of doctors whose words have been manipulated to help sell supplements and spread health misinformation. The factchecking organisation Full Fact has uncovered hundreds of such videos featuring impersonated versions of doctors and influencers directing viewers to Wellness Nest, a US-based supplements firm. Continue reading...

AI deepfakes of real doctors spreading health misinformation on social media

Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.

Stand with NewsGuild-CWA Journalists and Demand News, Not Slop! Unionized journalists across North America have come together to sound the alarm: Media companies are implementing artificial intelligence in ways that damage the credibility of the journalism on…

Unionized journalists across North America have come together to sound the alarm: Media companies are implementing AI in ways that damage the credibility of the journalism on which you rely.

Stand with NewsGuild-CWA Journalists and Demand News, Not Slop!

Joint Statement on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix The world's largest streaming company swallowing one of its biggest competitors is what antitrust laws were designed to prevent. The outcome would eliminate jobs, push down wages, worsen conditions for all entertainment workers, raise prices for consumers, and reduce the volume and diversity of content for all viewers. Industry workers along with the public are already impacted by only a few powerful companies maintaining tight control over what consumers can watch on television, on streaming, and in theaters. This merger must be blocked.

The following is a statement from the WGA on the Acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Netflix.

It’s Official: Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. in Deal Valued at $82.7 Billion Netflix, run by chairman Reed Hastings and co-CEOs Ted Sarandos and Greg Peters, has agreed to buy Warner Bros. in a megadeal valued at $82.7 billion.

Netflix has agreed to buy Warner Bros. in a megadeal valued at $82.7 billion.

The streaming giant's proposal includes a $5.8 billion breakup fee and promises to maintain Warner Bros. current operations, "including theatrical releases." Theater owners are already speaking out.

Exclusive: Sen. Warren presses credit unions on late fees Democratic lawmakers, led by Senate Banking Committee ranking member Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., press 21 institutions for fee data after a federal agency halted disclosure requirements.

Under Trump, the National Credit Union Association stopped sharing data on the income banks get from overdraft fees. Consumers paid billions in these fees in 2024.

As the Trump administration continues rolling back protections for consumers, I’m pushing for answers.

At one point or another, we're all going to need to see a doctor.

But our health care system remains unaffordable, inaccessible, and deeply dysfunctional. It is unacceptable.

That’s why a strong majority of Americans agree: We need Medicare for All.

It's simple — @propublica.org workers should not be replaced by artificial intelligence. Our contract proposal specifically says that generative artificial intelligence ("GAI") should not be used to replace employees. Management struck out this entire section in their response to our proposal.

Jane Fonda writes in an exclusive op-ed that the stakes of the Warner Bros. Discovery sale reach far beyond one company. Consolidation could reshape who gets heard, who gets hired, and who gets silenced. Her message to Hollywood: speak now theankler.com/p/jane-fonda...

EU fines Elon Musk $140 million for violations of online safety rules. Vance calls it "censorship." Don’t expect him to face similar hurdles in the US.

Don’t expect Elon to face similar hurdles in the US.

This has lead to a bottleneck in which established voices can make their dream projects, while new & diverse voices are struggling to get noticed, read, or their writing sold. I've never seen anything like it in my 25 years in the business. If things were hard for you before, they're even harder now

I haven't been very optimistic with y'all because I haven't been optimistic lately. 1/3 of shows, and thus writers rooms, are just gone. Because horror is one of the only things doing well, everyone is writing horror. But there's too much of it. Hollywood cannot make all the great scripts out there.

NEWS: Sinclair says its ending its pre-emption of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

WGA Statement on ABC's Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

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”[I] could see and feel that there were other voices out there and there were other stories to be told, but they weren’t being given a chance.” — Robert Redford

Learn more about Redford’s journey, impact, and commitment to uplifting independent storytelling: sundance.org/redfordlegacy

What Robert Redford contributed to American films via Sundance is genuinely immeasurable. He was also an extraordinarily talented director--Ordinary People and Quiz Show are two of the best American studio movies of their eras--and an actor who somehow wore his incredible charisma almost shyly. RIP.