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CBS parent company Paramount canceled Colbert to win approval from Trump's FCC to merge with Skydance.

Now ABC parent company Disney suspends Kimmel as it seeks DOJ approval to buy Fubo — and its affiliate Nexstar seeks FCC approval to buy Tegna.

See how this works?

Even worse than our guy Fultz?

Justin Turner is the "Fan of the Game" for the Marquee Sports Network broadcast of Pirates-Cubs...after celebrating a Seiya Suzuki home run while wearing a fake ballsack.

Boog Sciambi and Jim Deshaies were silent into the next play. ⚾️📺🎙️ #MLB

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Pretty much, yeah.

JD Vance broke the National Championship trophy, then visited the Pope who died the next day, then visited India and a terrorist attack happened and war broke out, then endorsed his brother for mayor who lost 83-11%.

What’s next on the agenda?

Celebrate Mother’s Day by letting people choose whether or not to be mothers.

Egg prices are much more tolerable now that Trump has eliminated the need to buy children toys.

There it is.

Indulgences are back baby!

Who among us doesn’t dream of working in a factory until you die without health insurance or Social Security? But not just you, your kids too! This is truly the American dream*.

*According to Republicans

“Pissed” Trump Called Jeff Bezos to Yell About Amazon Tariffs Report Trump called up the Amazon founder furious about reports that the world’s largest online retailer was prepared to show the price of tariffs directly to consumers.

Amazon had an opportunity to show people everywhere what the impact of the president’s destructive trade policies actually looked like.

Instead, they seem to have fallen in line. Even as Trump costs them.

Dreams? Hopes for the future? Individual aspirations?

Nah. In the new America Lutnick and the Trump administration envision, we work for the rich until the day we die and then pass our jobs on to our kids as their inheritance.

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Acyn at home

New: Here's a chart of the top conservative / liberal accounts on X. See that small blue dot? That's @acyn.bsky.social. His fast-cut clips of political combat get hundreds of millions more views than major news sources - and basically no one knows who he is. So I profiled him. wapo.st/3RpEvJ7

Trump Openly Defies Court Order on White House Press Pool Trump is breaking court orders and getting away with it.

Despite a court order, Donald Trump is still refusing to allow journalists from the Associated Press into the White House press pool.

This is a direct assault on the First Amendment, free speech, and freedom of the press.

He also loves them because he can do them unilaterally. It gives him a feeling of power to be able to cause destruction and chaos with the stroke of a pen.

MSNBC just showed a montage of world leaders calling the USA idiotic, illogical, hostile, unhinged.... literally never seen anything like this. From the shining city on a hill to an object of global derision and contempt.

Donald Trump’s Ego Melts the Global Economy On a chilly Wednesday afternoon, the President announced he would single-handedly blow up a century’s worth of globalization.

"There are whole businesses devoted to risk analysis for corporations; here is a situation where Trump himself is the risk and the crisis being analyzed is one created by him," writes @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

The purpose of these tariffs is to be able to lift them to those who bow down to him and sacrifice their dignity. That is what he did to the GOP, the billionaires, and is doing now to Big Law. Those who stand up will be punished, those who bend a knee and humiliate themselves will be rewarded.

Today was the day that Donald Trump truly became president.

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Senator Booker: What kind of man is in the white house that makes fun of the disabled, who lies so much that the fact checkers lose count, that minimizes the pain and the suffering

I've been slacking on posting @ny-yankees.bsky.social #scoreboardupdate

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(1/X) Can this country to back to the way it was before Trump? No, it cannot.

Narcissistic sociopaths break things in ways that can't be fixed.

Trump administration decision to put all VOA personnel on administrative leave is the latest abandonment of US’s historic role in championing press freedom The Trump administration has abruptly placed all Voice of America (VOA) personnel on administrative leave. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns this decision as a departure from the U.S.'s histori...

#USA Trump administration has abruptly placed all VOA staff on administrative leave. RSF condemns this decision as departure from the U.S.'s historic role as a defender of free information & calls on the U.S. government to restore #VOA & urges Congress to take action against this unprecedented move

Here we go.

Statement from the director of the Voice of America (who has been placed on administrative leave).

Requiem for the voice that carried a nation’s conscience VOA's signal for 83 years crossed borders and ideologies—now its silence will speak volumes.

My colleagues and our broadcasts, devoted to telling America’s story to the world — honestly, fairly and with an unwavering commitment to the truth​, are being silenced this weekend. open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/...