When Trump-aligned billionaires control the networks Americans trust for news, they don’t just own the cameras. They gain the power to decide what the entire country sees, hears, and never learns…
The proposed Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger, which California Attorney General Rob Bonta — with a strong nudge from Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass — has cleared with no meaningful concessions, will put CBS News and CNN under one corporate roof. It will also make three foreign governments major financial backers of the merged company. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, the Qatar Investment Authority, and an Abu Dhabi investment company have committed a combined $24 billion to the deal.
And Newsom has plans to run for President. No effing way.
I am dishearted and disgusted, The world has turned upside down . House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is set to host an event for well-heeled donors that is being organized by Michael LaRosa, an erstwhile Democratic operative who became a token disaffected Democrat and now works for a MAGA darling lobbying firm
Denmark and Greenland have fallen for a sham Treaty, that Trump will use to deploy troops into Greenland and declare it a territory. He already has put up a meme on Truth Social of him planting the American flag on Greenland, how can they be so stupid, and he is 100% Putins's asset, bad enough that Trump wants to give Europe away to Putin, now the EU and NATO are acquiescent.
1938 Sudetenland/Chamberlain all over again.. Russian Mi8 Helicopter tests Latvian Air Defeense by flyiing into it's territory, and rather than shoot it or force it down, all that happens is an impotent protest.
Meanwhile Trump continues raping and plundering the nations capital, and the only reaction is feeble protests
He ignores the courts, he ignores the laws and ploys straight ahead, and our Democratic governors and attorney generals do nothing but stand on court house steps and bloviate.
The archtect for the ballroom, just quit, because Trump is ignoring all fire and safety codes,, he said "I am the code". This is America today, a dictatorship and our so called oppositional leadership is complicit, cowardly and corrupt..
One glimmer of hope for truth to spread is the massive expansion of Substack. I get a lot of news from Thom, Bob Reich, Paul Krugman, and Aaron Rupar and his Public Notice staff. Also, not all global news is rigged yet. I find a number of fascinating articles from foreign sources ignored by the US MSM, in Susan Webber's NakedCapitalism.com "Links." Sadly, this monopoly expansion by the Ellisons betrays that freedom of the press in America is nowadays a myth. Unless the Democrats start tearing these monopolies down once in power, our Democracy will be doomed to sham status like the ridiculous election recently in Russia where Putin won by a landslide because there were no options on the ballots. Doubtless Trump drools over wanting to be our emperor too one day.
Seems like he feels he already is. The Mitigation Midterms/ Obi-Wan Kenobi are our only HOPE ?! The Substack connection, FreeSpeechTV & some others are helping fight back the despair !
Corporations have become so powerful that governments don't have the resources to oppose them, even if they had the will to do so. If an independent media were truly a fundamental right of the people, then the people should own the media, not one family or one person. This is essential to a democracy, and is non-negotiable. The truth is not for sale.
Corporate media, corporate Democrats, what could go wrong? We have GOT to clean up our own house if we are to clean up anything the hell else. The lesser of two evils is still evil. We can and must do better.
We here in the US are being picked clean by these billionaire vultures. This is why this administration is in office, now—just for this purpose. We were and still are ripe for picking.
We are a divided people. A people who feel separated, angry, and at a mostly silent war with our fellow countrymen and definitely our so-called representatives. How is that turning out for us?
We have to find common ground to go forward. This administration is a symptom of who we have become as a people and the world sees this and is just as panicked as the majority here.
The Dems have to stop stem rolling people with candidates that placate a portion and come up with honest leadership that doesn’t just continue the alienation. Leaders free from Corporate PAC alliances and corporate ownership.
There is common ground. The people need to stopped being drained of THEIR tax money. We are and have been going no where and are falling further and further behind as more and more lose jobs, prices rise, salaries stay frozen, and health declines.
We watch as our industries depend upon AI and continuously replace human workers with robotics. We watch while there is continuous deregulation and the very people who are known for non-stop felonies and blatant dirty deals at our expense are running the country through their now crazy representatives. And, now, we are told that the steam roller of AI will no doubt destroy us all.
These criminals, both the one’s in office and the ones who fund them, ARE draining the swamp right into their own pockets. Pretty soon our “swamp” will be desert and the parasites and piranhas will be on their personal islands somewhere counting our money and running our countries remotely. And what are the people of the US doing? Mostly sitting here watching our trillions of tax dollars being carted away digitally.
The thing that should be known by us all is that their infrastructure has been laid, now. The infestation has taken place and we are a sick nation. These people with the billions won’t go away and we have allowed this to happen because we as a people idolize these billionaires and their way of life, even though we are actively being robbed by the very ones we worship.
Education from the “corporate” media has disappeared in so many ways. The monopolizing of media, the privatization and the profiteering are so destructive. I’ve learned more from independent non-profit non-corporate media like Democracy Now & Thom Hartmann on FreeSpeechTV and NPR, and the Substack community where independent thinking is thriving, but I think people don’t want even to engage in learning anymore. To me learning has become a fountain of youth (so to speak) ! Remember the late coach/ English teacher John Wooden said ;”When you stop learning, you’re through.” Well, I’m not done yet, so I choose to fight, at the very least for the children because they deserve a better future. Thanks for educating me Thom & ALL !!
There's almost nothing left to say, again, except BRING ON THE METEOR - because even our precious voting may not be enough to stop this tide of infected, rabid slime.
California Democrats sell out democracy https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/california-democrats-sell-out-democracy
The proposed Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery merger, which California Attorney General Rob Bonta — with a strong nudge from Governor Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass — has cleared with no meaningful concessions, will put CBS News and CNN under one corporate roof. It will also make three foreign governments major financial backers of the merged company. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, the Qatar Investment Authority, and an Abu Dhabi investment company have committed a combined $24 billion to the deal.
And Newsom has plans to run for President. No effing way.
If the 2028 ticket were Newsom-Harrison, I would stay home on election day.
I am dishearted and disgusted, The world has turned upside down . House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries is set to host an event for well-heeled donors that is being organized by Michael LaRosa, an erstwhile Democratic operative who became a token disaffected Democrat and now works for a MAGA darling lobbying firm
Denmark and Greenland have fallen for a sham Treaty, that Trump will use to deploy troops into Greenland and declare it a territory. He already has put up a meme on Truth Social of him planting the American flag on Greenland, how can they be so stupid, and he is 100% Putins's asset, bad enough that Trump wants to give Europe away to Putin, now the EU and NATO are acquiescent.
1938 Sudetenland/Chamberlain all over again.. Russian Mi8 Helicopter tests Latvian Air Defeense by flyiing into it's territory, and rather than shoot it or force it down, all that happens is an impotent protest.
Meanwhile Trump continues raping and plundering the nations capital, and the only reaction is feeble protests
He ignores the courts, he ignores the laws and ploys straight ahead, and our Democratic governors and attorney generals do nothing but stand on court house steps and bloviate.
The archtect for the ballroom, just quit, because Trump is ignoring all fire and safety codes,, he said "I am the code". This is America today, a dictatorship and our so called oppositional leadership is complicit, cowardly and corrupt..
One glimmer of hope for truth to spread is the massive expansion of Substack. I get a lot of news from Thom, Bob Reich, Paul Krugman, and Aaron Rupar and his Public Notice staff. Also, not all global news is rigged yet. I find a number of fascinating articles from foreign sources ignored by the US MSM, in Susan Webber's NakedCapitalism.com "Links." Sadly, this monopoly expansion by the Ellisons betrays that freedom of the press in America is nowadays a myth. Unless the Democrats start tearing these monopolies down once in power, our Democracy will be doomed to sham status like the ridiculous election recently in Russia where Putin won by a landslide because there were no options on the ballots. Doubtless Trump drools over wanting to be our emperor too one day.
and Heather Cox Richardson
Seems like he feels he already is. The Mitigation Midterms/ Obi-Wan Kenobi are our only HOPE ?! The Substack connection, FreeSpeechTV & some others are helping fight back the despair !
Corporations have become so powerful that governments don't have the resources to oppose them, even if they had the will to do so. If an independent media were truly a fundamental right of the people, then the people should own the media, not one family or one person. This is essential to a democracy, and is non-negotiable. The truth is not for sale.
Corporate media, corporate Democrats, what could go wrong? We have GOT to clean up our own house if we are to clean up anything the hell else. The lesser of two evils is still evil. We can and must do better.
News just gets worse and worse...😭
We here in the US are being picked clean by these billionaire vultures. This is why this administration is in office, now—just for this purpose. We were and still are ripe for picking.
We are a divided people. A people who feel separated, angry, and at a mostly silent war with our fellow countrymen and definitely our so-called representatives. How is that turning out for us?
We have to find common ground to go forward. This administration is a symptom of who we have become as a people and the world sees this and is just as panicked as the majority here.
The Dems have to stop stem rolling people with candidates that placate a portion and come up with honest leadership that doesn’t just continue the alienation. Leaders free from Corporate PAC alliances and corporate ownership.
There is common ground. The people need to stopped being drained of THEIR tax money. We are and have been going no where and are falling further and further behind as more and more lose jobs, prices rise, salaries stay frozen, and health declines.
We watch as our industries depend upon AI and continuously replace human workers with robotics. We watch while there is continuous deregulation and the very people who are known for non-stop felonies and blatant dirty deals at our expense are running the country through their now crazy representatives. And, now, we are told that the steam roller of AI will no doubt destroy us all.
These criminals, both the one’s in office and the ones who fund them, ARE draining the swamp right into their own pockets. Pretty soon our “swamp” will be desert and the parasites and piranhas will be on their personal islands somewhere counting our money and running our countries remotely. And what are the people of the US doing? Mostly sitting here watching our trillions of tax dollars being carted away digitally.
The thing that should be known by us all is that their infrastructure has been laid, now. The infestation has taken place and we are a sick nation. These people with the billions won’t go away and we have allowed this to happen because we as a people idolize these billionaires and their way of life, even though we are actively being robbed by the very ones we worship.
How can anyone sleep at night, knowing the gazillionaires OWN the very news we receive? I cannot believe California CAVED like that.
Education from the “corporate” media has disappeared in so many ways. The monopolizing of media, the privatization and the profiteering are so destructive. I’ve learned more from independent non-profit non-corporate media like Democracy Now & Thom Hartmann on FreeSpeechTV and NPR, and the Substack community where independent thinking is thriving, but I think people don’t want even to engage in learning anymore. To me learning has become a fountain of youth (so to speak) ! Remember the late coach/ English teacher John Wooden said ;”When you stop learning, you’re through.” Well, I’m not done yet, so I choose to fight, at the very least for the children because they deserve a better future. Thanks for educating me Thom & ALL !!
There's almost nothing left to say, again, except BRING ON THE METEOR - because even our precious voting may not be enough to stop this tide of infected, rabid slime.