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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...

  Trump's approval rating plummets in latest polling "Two ways of calculating": Trump defends his mathematically impossible calculations on drug prices Ah, yes. Two ways of calculating! One the one hand we have mathematics, the unshakeable field of study that has been around for millennia — including arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and beyond — upon which empirical science is based, and on the other hand we have...whatever the hell Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump are prattling on about. Why trust that which is demonstrably true and easily proven with the calculator on your phone when you can listen to a guy who cut the penis off a dead raccoon and his dementia-addled boss talk about alternative math that "people understand better?" "Either way, it doesn't make any difference," Donald declared, which is exactly what a privileged nincompoop who's never once been held accountable for being wrong about anything in his life would say. Take Act...

SHARED TO INFORM AND EDUCATE ABOUT THE THREATS POSED BY MEDIA  CONSOLIDATION!   Last year, CBS was taken over by pro-Trump billionaires Larry and David Ellison, and they immediately installed a MAGA-friendly editor-in-chief to turn CBS News into another Fox News . Now, they’re on the verge of taking over the entire Warner Bros. Discovery media empire, including CNN, HBO Max, nearly two dozen other cable TV channels, and more. Let’s not mince words. What we’re witnessing is the complete collapse of anything remotely resembling a free press in America, with Trump and his billionaire friends one by one seizing control of the media platforms that determine what Americans see and read every day. Musk bought Twitter. Bezos, the Washington Post. Zuckerberg has Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Now the Ellisons have Paramount and are about to get Warner Bros., not to mention a key stake in TikTok. That’s why it’s so critical at this moment that you support the nonprofit independ...