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The Best Big Media Merger Is No Merger At All
The state of streaming is… bad. It’s very bad. The first step in wanting to watch anything is a web search: “Where can I stream X?” Then you have to scroll past an AI summary with no answers, ...

Warner Bros Rejects Larry Ellison’s Hostile Takeover Bid, Trump Will Likely Intervene In 2026 To Help Ellison Dominate U.S. Media
We’ve noted how Larry Ellison, as part of his attempt to control the entirety of media, had launched a $108 billion hostile takeover bid for Warner Brothers. Larry, as we’ve seen with CBS and his ...

Senators Want To Hold The Open Internet Hostage, Demand Zuckerberg Write The Ransom Note
Not this shit again. A bipartisan group of the most anti-internet Senators around have released their latest version of a plan to “sunset Section 230.” We went over this last year when they floate...

The Summer of Starvation: Amid Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts, A Mother Struggles To Keep Her Sons Alive
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Rose Natabo needs to leave one of her starving sons behind. At dawn, she squeezes her firstborn ...

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SD Governor Gets Shitty After Town Announces It Won’t Be Pitching In With Upcoming ICE Raids
If there’s anything the GOP/MAGA party can’t stand, it’s people who won’t fall in line. It openly courts fascism while still pretending its ultimate concern is the protection of (certain) civi...

TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticisms abou...

RFK Jr. Exacts Revenge On The AAP: Claws Back Millions In Approved HHS Grants
As RFK Jr. continues to dismantle public health in this country policy brick by policy brick, there have fortunately been some consistent sources of sanity for the public to turn to. One of those sour...

Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Have Yourself A Very Meta Christmas
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Thousands Tell The Patent Office: Don’t Hide Bad Patents From Review
We filed our own comment with the USPTO regarding their attempt to weaken the important inter partes review (IPR) process that has been hugely helpful in getting rid of bad patents. Over at EFF, Joe M...