1️⃣ Massive mergers mean higher prices and less consumer choice.
In January, Free Press Action’s @mattfieldwood.bsky.social testified on how the harms of massive media mergers eliminates choice before a House Judiciary subcommittee.
Read Matt's remarks: www.freepress.net/news/media-m...
Bernie Sanders on Trump:
What Trump is basically giving a green light to, he's saying essentially to Putin, “Hey Vladimir, you did the right thing. You invaded Ukraine. That was pretty good. We're going to do the same thing.”
🇪🇺🇺🇦 Dutch Prime Minister said that in the coming months, the EU will begin discussions on a realistic timeline for Ukraine's accession.
The Netherlands is initiating consultations with partners to form a clear vision of the membership timeframe.
Trump can’t expect Europe’s help dealing with Iran while disengaging from Europe and abandoning Ukraine.
You can’t demand European solidarity in the Middle East while leaving us alone against Russian aggression.
It goes both ways
Must be psychically comfort when you can excuse yourself for mass killings because Jesus decided. Maybe it's time to update the old NRA saying: missiles don't kill people, god does.
The below quote is from Hegseth's pastor, Brooks Potteiger, speaking at one of Hegseth's prayer gatherings at the Pentagon. This is what they think about Tomahawk missiles that fall:
man...
Tarrio is, quite literally, a pardoned terrorist.
Yes—all of this, and that’s in addition to the respiratory impact of breathing the related gasses and precipitants before the rain came down.
This is what the skies above Tehran looked like before it rained. Then rain fell, and most of the toxic material in the clouds came down and is now coating the buildings and ground.
When the CNN reporter in the videos above ran his hand through the wetness, it was slick with oil.
Frederik Pleitgen © @fpleitgenCNN X.com It is raining oil in Tehran this morning after major airstrikes on oil facilities in the South and West of the Iranian capital. @CNN @cnni 1:12 12:11 AM • 3/8/26 • 3.8M Views
Tehran is covered with thick dark clouds, and the rain is saturated with oil, per CNN.
The city exists surrounded by a mountain range, creating kind of a bowl that is holding in toxic materials that emerged after the US-Israeli bombing of oil facilities.
This is what ecocide looks like.
Free Press staffers are working hard to defend the First Amendment at a time of government crackdowns. More in our latest View from the Field post:
https://www.freepress.net/blog/view-field-confronting-press-freedom-crackdowns
USUALLY presidents getting blame or taking credit for gas prices (or local crime rates, or etc etc) is dumb, because it’s a commodity whose price is set on a global market, USUALLY for reasons having little to do with the White House’s occupant. But this is 100% directly Trump’s fault.
That whole stanza really.
Page One in Miami:
@miamiherald.com
we have saved daylight
but at what cost
How Jeffrey Epstein Seeded The Great Crypto Grift and The Modern Right-Wing Culture
Crypto and Bitcoin were vehicles for Epstein and his cabal of dystopian racists to make money, undermine democracy, subvert regulations, and usher forth right-wing populism.
thelefthook.substack.com/p/how-jeffre...
Here @jamellebouie.net puts his finger on what is not only the problem with Hegseth as SecDef, but with so many in maga--violence is what gives them meaning, it defines them, it makes them feel manly, so they will use violence wherever they can (not just in war).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJjk...
This is from a few months ago, but the algorithm just gave it to me and so I now give it to you. I was in the room this day, when @schatz.bsky.social gave a masterclass in demolishing FCC chair Brendan Carr, Trump's Censorship Czar.
#FirstAmendment #1A #SenateCommerce
www.youtube.com/shorts/1c1hJ...
Good news today: @standupforscience.bsky.social is organizing rallies for science. 💪
Bad news:
Funded science is way down.
This is why I said wks ago the budget bill was “bad because it doesn’t go far enough.” How the science agencies are governed matters!!! This is killing labs. 🧪
A crowd of Germans saluting Hitler with one guy in the middle who’s not saluting. Words read, “Be This Guy”
So, ICE issues is trending?
When We, The People, normalize men in face masks kidnapping anyone they want on our streets and not having to show identification but only guns, we have a HUGE problem in America.
Elect a Felon, expect criminals.
Want better?
Vote better.
#DefundIce
#EpsteinFiles
This dystopian future is here now.
"Emily, who NPR is only identifying by her first name because she fears retribution from the federal government, says she followed an ICE vehicle at a safe distance into a parking lot.
www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/nx-...
Renee Good was also shot at point-blank range through her side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger
Alex Pretti wasn’t in a car, but he too was shot at point-blank range by an ICE agent who was in no danger
It seems every time ICE kills someone they lie to cover up shooting innocent people
A federal judge ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return or replace property taken from unlawfully arrested ICE detainees and released without their belongings, giving the government 30 days to comply.
While Minneapolis was
being bludgeoned by
Trump's army of ICE goons,
how many Republican
"leaders," from all those
"red" states, spoke
out against it?
None.
I guess it's understandable that only the most depraved and awful people would want to join ICE.
Remarkable: With support for the Iran war tanking, Trump is now throwing away the GOP's advantage on three core issues: Economy, immigration, national security.
A year ago it looked like he might be popular on all three. He lit it all on fire. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2074...
"Americans are seeing the real “America First” agenda up close—militarism, imperialism, malign nationalism, unabashed authoritarianism—and they’re recoiling."
Greg Sargent's latest.
