New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani says the Warner Bros. and Paramount merger should be stopped:
“This merger is bad for New Yorkers three times over. Thousands of jobs at risk here in the city. Streaming bills going up as competition disappears. And two of America’s most powerful media companies under one roof, deciding what you watch and what you hear.
Today, as Warner Bros. and Paramount shareholders vote, New York City is on record: this merger should be stopped.”
We are spending at least $500 million a day to bomb Iran.
Imagine how many teachers we could hire, how many public housing units we could build, how many bridges and roads we could fix, if we spent that kind of money on improving life for working people?
oh fuck, im on the subway. damn i hate that i can just sit here and read or watch something. i really wish i was responsible for manually operating a more confined vehicle that is more likely to get me killed than this one
Justin Fox. Six hours under oath. Couldn't define DEI. Used ChatGPT to hunt for "homosexual" in grant descriptions but not "white." Canceled a Holocaust documentary. Axed a museum's HVAC grant because AI flagged "diverse audiences."
No legal authority to cancel any of it. Depositions confirm that too.
Pod Save America called it amateur hour and that's fair. But it undersells it a little. Amateur hour implies they tried. What the sworn record shows is something closer to reckless indifference toward $100 million in lawfully appropriated funds... and the people those grants were built to serve.