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  Today, Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders voted to approve the $111 billion merger with Paramount Skydance — a deal that would put two of Hollywood's most powerful studios under the same corporate roof. This deal is a nightmare — resulting in a less competitive market and one Trump-aligned billionaire controlling huge parts of the media. Think about it this way: If there’s one guy making all the decisions about what gets made in Hollywood, our stories will all start to look the same and they will align with the taste of that one person. Take a show like Severance for example. Severance would've never been made if one guy controlled all of Hollywood. The original idea was written more than a decade ago. And creator Dan Erickson was shopping it around, and couldn’t get anyone to bite. But because there are multiple studios he could have pitched it to, he kept going. And eventually Apple decided to take a chance on what ended up becoming a fabulously successful show. Don’t just...

      The U.S. House of Representatives will vote soon — as early as next week — on the Farm Bill, a piece of must-pass legislation to guide farming policy and funding for the next five years. Thanks to industry influence, the current version of the bill is chock full of poisonous provisions to further entrench the destructive practices of chemically intensive agriculture and large-scale logging.   We should be protecting people and wildlife — not corporations.   This Farm Bill would grant the chemical industry a liability shield for dangerous pesticides —even those linked to cancer — protecting companies from lawsuits when their products irreparably harm people’s health. It’s a direct assault on the rights of families and individuals to seek justice for pesticide exposure.  The bill would also allow the unchecked discharge of dangerous chemicals into the environment, where they can devastate pollinators and ecosystems, as well as delay important Endangered Spec...