The richest man owns X.
The second richest man owns The Washington Post.
The third and fifth richest men control Google.
The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
And the eighth richest man now owns both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not.
We should make a push for mass cancellation of Disney+, Hulu, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount, HBO Max, Amazon Prime and Apple.
They have all increased their prices as people are struggling to pay rent, groceries and gas.
Guarantee you they'll respond to a massive boycott. All they care about is $$$
🇬🇧 🗣️ @marinapurkiss.bsky.social: “His nice guy image has collapsed — It’s not that Ed Sheeran didn’t speak up on 🇵🇸, it’s that he allowed the silencing of someone who did… If you don’t have a position on this now you’re going to lose respect. He has F.U. money to take a stand.”
The next PM could - and in my view should - properly stick it to Trump (as Meloni has just done); announce a plan to undo Brexit; put immigration to bed for at least one electoral cycle; take their government off Twitter; unequivocally condemn Netanyahu & resurrect Leveson 2…
A boy can dream.
Can't thank Stephen Colbert enough for the decades of laughs he's given us. He's been positively therapeutic in these troubled times & I can't wait to see what he does next! 👀
(plus, he let me sit behind his desk) 🙏
Oligarchs have always been a threat, but tech oligarchs represent a new level of danger.
Their wealth dwarfs historical tycoons and their control over algorithms allows them to curate human reality.
They own the digital infrastructure of thought
The richest man owns X.
The second and fourth richest men control Google.
The third richest man owns The Washington Post.
The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.
See the problem here?
“My life has become a rollercoaster,” she says in reference to the death threats and sanctions. “I never imagined living without a bank card, but I do. People help me. My freedom is stronger than my fear. You are defeated the moment you stop fighting.”
www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...
#C4News "What was your reaction to the images that came out of Lebanon (after Israel launched 100 missiles in 10 minutes) on Wednesday?"
Ehud Olmert, former Israeli PM, "Very disgusting. It's not something that we can be proud of"
Question for you…
700+ killed by Israel in Gaza during “ceasefire”
250+ killed by Israel in Lebanon during “ceasefire”
Would any other country enjoy the “ceasefire” label while massacring this many people?
…we all know the answer by now.
I'm getting yelled at by the British on this website and I'd like to apologize. In the words of Lord Vernon Maxwell, if I knew you guys had internet over there I would've never made those tweets.
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
The French government raided the offices of X in Paris due to Grok's regular creation of CSAM. Musk claimed he was being persecuted & the official French Foreign Ministry responded with the following:
Listen to Emily Maitlis speaking passionately on The News Agents podcast about the struggle that women have to be heard in the face of denials by the enormously wealthy and politically powerful. Isabella writes about Harrods abuse survivors facing the same establishment silence in her latest piece
This is smart from Polanski in broadening the greens appeal. Often language around ‘green choices’ is received as choices for those who can afford to do so and just another financial/time burden at a time of already high burdens for everyone else looks tin eared. www.thetimes.com/article/a7ac...
Mark Ruffalo, "Renee Good was murdered and we have literally storm troopers running around terrorising people"
"I love these people, I love being here at the Golden Globes"
"But it's so hard to pretend any more"
"This is crazy what's happening"
The narrative about London crime is truly so BORING to Londoners.
Those of us who walk & travel around our city safely every day, every night.
The likeliest daily risk to Londoners is of being ripped off by our landlord or somewhere charging us £4.50 for a coffee. #r4today
What did we think would happen?
Trump tripled ICE’s budget to $27.7 billion a year
It now has a bigger budget than the militaries of most countries
Then he turbo‑charged recruitment with six‑figure salaries and up to $50,000 sign‑on bonuses
Anyone paying attention could see what he was growing
GERMAN PRESIDENT STEINMEIER:
“.. the United States has broken with the values that it helped to establish ..
“.. we have now moved beyond the stage where we can lament the lack of respect for international law or the erosion of the international order; we are far beyond that, I believe.”