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Over at the newsletter I wrote about Mark Ruffalo's showdown with Paramount:

The $111 billion Paramount Warner Brothers deal is an irredeemable turd orchestrated by a Trump-allied fascist. Conditions (which would be temporary and probably not enforced) can't save it, and Democrats should grow a consistent backbone on media consolidation and antitrust.

I can’t think of any media consolidation that genuinely benefited the customers or most employees, not that those factions matter when the only game in town is C-suite maneuvering and stock valuations.

Being thinking a lot of how tech abetting media consolidation just destroys utterly a framework of understanding anything outside of the frames of the owner class. Entire valid points of view that won’t even get a iota of thought.

I'm fascinated by it, genuinely. It's just getting worse, too. And Democrats SUCK when it comes to identifying threats and formulating reforms.

The fact that they don’t have any idea how to reconstitute local news and just handwave that the market will sort out our information space while hyperwealthy fascists collapse media under their heel is, uh, not great.