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  Earlier this week, billionaire David Ellison took ownership of TikTok with the blessing of the White House. Ellison is a budding mogul whose company, Skydance , also just took over CBS News , where he installed pro-Trump figures in leadership positions. These leaders killed a 60 Minutes story that outlined detainee abuses in a deportation facility. Since Ellison took over TikTok , progressives have reported that certain words -- including “Epstein” -- appear to be blocked, and that view counts have plunged for pro-Palestinian or anti-ICE voices. At the same time, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced a tidal wave of layoffs at the Washington Post on the heels of Amazon spending $75 million to release a fluffy documentary about Melania Trump. TikTok claimed that its outage was due to a data center going offline during this weekend’s snowstorm. I don’t know if that’s true. Here’s what we do know: More Perfect Union has 1.2 million  TikTok  followers.  But we aren’t ...

  ❤️  Donate Friday, January 23, 2026 🌤️🥶  Mostly sunny, with a high near 31 today. Temps will drop to around 4 degrees at night, with wind chill values as low as -11. Good Morning Boston, Gov. Maura Healey says the state of our commonwealth is — you guessed it — strong. But that doesn't mean it couldn't use a couple of tweaks. In  a speech last night that focused on affordability and President Trump , Healey unveiled a number of concrete changes she plans to pursue in the near future. Here are six to know: Medical debt:   Healey announced she will soon file regulations that would ban medical debt from being reported to credit agencies.  Fifteen states  across the country have similar rules on the books. "It’s bad enough to get a huge bill, when you’re dealing with an illness. It shouldn’t wreck your credit too, so we’re not going to let that happen," the governor said during last night's speech. Housing:   Healey announced that the state will ...