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The Paramount-Warner Bros. merger was officially approved this past week. Corporate concentration means more power for CEOs — and less freedom for everyone else. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.

With 50 days until the midterms, I urge you all to: 1) Help get out the vote. 2) Protect our electoral machinery from interference. 3) Not succumb to complacency, defeatism, or cynicism. We are the only ones who can end this nightmare. We are the leaders we’ve been waiting for.

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

It’s all by design. Every Republican president have done the most deficit spending while giving more tax cuts for the 1%, then they blame working class for running out of Social Security funds.

Funny how the label changes depending on who’s talking. Social Security, Medicare, public schools, highways, disaster relief—people use them every day without calling them socialism. The word gets thrown around so much it’s almost lost any real meaning.

It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.

27 June 1925 | A Czech Jew, Martin Wels, was born in Karlovy Vary. He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 6 September 1943. He did not survive.

26 June 1900 | A Czech Jewish woman, Božena Rauchová, was born in Soběslav. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt Ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.

26 June 1916 | A Polish Jew, Aron Schein, was born in Grybów. A worker. In #Auschwitz from 27 March 1942. No. 27322 He perished in the camp on 17 April 1942.

26 June 1893 | A Polish woman, Anna Łucarz, was born in Stary Sącz. In #Auschwitz from 19 January 1943. No. 29813 She perished in the camp on 20 March 1943.

26 June 1939 | Dutch Jewish girl, Helena Wilhelmina Polak, was born in Groningen. In Febuary 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz from #Westerbork and murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection together with her younger brother Abraham.

26 June 1902 | A Polish man, Piotr Radzik, was born in Szczebrzeszyn. A farmer. In #Auschwitz from 14 October 1940. No. 6025 He perished in the camp on 28 October 1941. --- 📖 "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/

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Gary Chambers delivering a masterclass in how to talk to Republican lawmakers

Americans were sold "We caught you here illegally, we're sending you back to your home country." Instead we got a torture victim being deported to Africa. It is worse than you think. ICYMI @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social:

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Tragedy is when I am criticized on social media. Comedy is when you are dismembered with a bone saw and die.

Only arsonists can prevent forest fires.

Republicans control the House of Representatives, Senate, and White House and are steering us toward a government shutdown. If you're worried about the potential Republican shutdown and need guidance on what to expect, visit my website: wassermanschultz.house.gov/legislation/...

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

When you lay it all out like that...

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

Trump has officially designated ANTIFA as a domestic terrorist distraction from the Epstein files.

13 September 1937 | A French Jewish boy, Michel Beniacar, was born in Paris. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 4 July 1944 in a transport of 1,100 Jews deported from Drancy. He was among 479 of them murdered in gas chambers after the selection.

12 September 1943 | Three boys and five girls born on this day in sector BIIe of Auschwitz II-Birkenau (the family camp for Roma and Sinti) were registered in the camp. All of them perished before the end of 1943. More about the Roma in Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_roma_auschwitz/

11 September 1924 | Slovak Jew, Rudolf Vrba (b. Walter Rosenberg), was born in Topoľčany. On 15 June 1942, he was deported to Majdanek, from where, after a few weeks, he was transferred to Auschwitz. No. 44070 On 7 April 1944, he escaped from #Auschwitz together with Alfred Wetzler.

31 August 1943 | A transport of some 3,000 Polish Jews deported by the Germans from the ghetto in Bochnia arrived at #Auschwitz. After the selection, 280 men & 795 women were registered. Almost 2,000 people were murdered in gas chambers. Among them were the siblings: Mila & Baruch Braunfeld.

31 August 1926 | A Polish Jew, Dawid Wiśnia, was born in Sochaczew. Deported to Auschwitz in December 1942 from the ghetto in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki No. 83526 In 1944, he escaped from a transport to Dachau, joined the US Army & later emigrated to the US. He became a cantor. He passed away in 2021.

So this is the President of the United States reacting to being criticized by saying we should revive a defunct and well outside the statute of limitations criminal investigation against the person offering the criticism.

I'm really offended by the Smithsonian removing all mention of Trump's impeachments. If anyone else is, here is their mailing address and email: PO Box 37012. SI Building, Room 153, MRC 010. Washington, DC 20013-7012. info@si.edu Be nice if they realized how bad this looks for them.

“Judges pressed [the] government … to explain how the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) … gave Trump the power to impose tariffs. “‘IEEPA doesn't even say tariffs, doesn't even mention them,’ one of the judges said.” apple.news/As8FzzOkTTFS...

Corporate media wants fascism, folks. Been saying it for a while. They will lay out the red carpet for it and line it up with millions of dollars.

I’m sorry — *Cracker Barrel* is too woke for the Trump administration? Cracker Barrel?!?

To avoid conflicts, I wouldn't even let Obama refinance his family home when I was his ethics czar Now Trump is hoovering in hundreds of millions in violation of the law! That's a threat to our national security as I discussed @msnbc.com

“…it was stunning to realize how closely many of the grievances our founders asserted toward King George III mirror the issues we are facing with the tyrannical despot currently occupying our White House.” www.americaamerica.news/p/independen...

NEW: In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson listed 27 grievances to prove that King George III was a tyrant. We looked at how many of those now apply to Donald Trump. Have a good Fourth of July and pass this on. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Being disappeared to a foreign gulag is the equivalent of being buried alive. We cannot forget them.

DEATH SENTENCE: Experts at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania have estimated that, at minimum, an additional 51,000 poor and marginalized Americans will needlessly die each year if Trump's Big, Ugly Bill is passed.

GOP 2021: “The debt is out of control! GOP 2022: “the debt is out of control!” GOP 2023: “the debt is out of control GOP 2024: “the debt is out of control!” GOP 2025: ”let’s raise the debt ceiling $5 trillion!”

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