The DOJ just approved Paramount’s bid to buy Warner Brothers Discovery. This is not the end, not by a long shot: The European authorities, the UK authorities, and most importantly 10 American state attorney generals (both Democrats and Republicans) are all actively looking at the deal right now. I still think it will be blocked. But in the meantime, some thoughts on the DOJ’s analysis: (1) The merger would combine the second and fifth largest film studios in the country. They will load the combined company down with $79 billion in debt, which they will need to service while they are trying to cut $6 billion in “synergies.” Mind you, Paramount/Skydance just laid off 2400 people last year when Skydance bought Paramount. It is painfully obvious that the combined Paramount/WBD will struggle to keep up its pace of high quality theatrical releases. (Indeed, what's most likely is that the merged firm starts releasing AI slop, re-releasing old movies, or re-releasing old movies with new AI slop.) The DOJ just doesn’t see it. (2) The DOJ also appears to be unaware of the market for documentaries, which has three major buyers: CNN, HBO, and Netflix -- and Netflix mostly buys crime, celebrity, and cult docs. Gone is Showtime and gone is MTV films; PBS/CPB have had their budgets existentially slashed. When it comes to documentary, this is a three-to-two merger to duopoly. That's on the buying side. On the inputs side, there are four key TV news archives in the United States: ABC, NBC, CBS, and the crown jewel, CNN. This merger will make it three. And if public reporting is correct, it will result in two of the four archives being under the control of one person, Bari Weiss. The DOJ sees none of this either. (3) President Trump’s closest ally in organized labor is Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien. He warned that this merger “threatens the livelihoods of the very workers who built these studios into industry giants.” The Teamsters’ Motion Picture Division director, Lindsay Dougherty, called the merger yet another example of “greed-fueled consolidation of corporate power [that] is a direct threat to good union jobs.” The DOJ didn’t see this problem either. They relegated their analysis of labor markets to four sentences at the end of the statement. According to them, they see no impact on output and hence no impact on labor. (4) Paramount’s leaders have lavished the President with gifts, censorship of his critics, and with promises of future censorship of his critics. They gutted CBS News and 60 Minutes. According to the Wall Street Journal, they also promised to gut CNN. They canceled Stephen Colbert. They held a strange, lavish banquet in honor of the White House and “the First Amendment” at a federal building — and the President and the Acting Attorney General joined them. The President even said he “would be involved” in the decision of merger approval. And so he was. Do not look away from this corruption. Do not act like it's normal. Because this is how we got to this result today.

Not just the World Cup. Many other countries go into debt building infrastructure to host the Olympics. Meanwhile the US: - 1984 Summer olympics in LA: $250 million profit (first profitable games since 1948) - 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta: $19 million profit - 2002 Winter Olympics in SLC: $101 million profit (most profitable winter games) Counting down to: - 2028 Summer Olympics in LA! - 2034 Winter Olympics in SLC!

🚨Outside the White House right now

Now that this residency witch-hunt is behind us, it’s time for Doug Jones to come out of his hole and start talking about the issues. In 2020, I ran against a liberal Doug Jones, but he has since fallen deep into the socialist, marxist mind virus taking over half of our country. I look forward to beating Doug Jones (again) and being elected as Alabama’s next Governor.

This is what happens when you give your pool boy a $14,000,000 no bid contract for stuff he’s clearly not qualified to do.

Several women said they’d be willing to give up their right to vote if it meant creating a more conservative country at the Turning Point USA Women’s Leadership Summit recently held in San Antonio, Texas. democracydocket.com/news-ale…

We didn’t realize it then, but kids’ shows used to be this calm on purpose.

When people in Washington lower their voices and say, “Please don’t use my name. I’m afraid he’ll come after my family’s livelihood,” it means something has broken. People no longer trust the law to protect them.

If I cure cancer I will get very rich. And a bunch of people on this site will apparently find my sudden wealth outrageous.

Kenneth Bullock, a 44-year-old Black man from Detroit, Michigan, walked free after spending over a decade behind bars for a carjacking he did NOT commit. In 2011, a woman reported her Dodge Charger stolen at gunpoint. Bullock was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to 30-70 years in prison. He maintained his innocence the entire time. This year, another man already in prison for murder confessed to the crime. The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Conviction Integrity Unit reviewed the case, and on May 28, 2025, all charges were dismissed. Kenneth is finally home with his family.

A heartbroken elderly Albanian man says Jared Kushner has taken everything he spent a lifetime building, including his land, his home, and the future he hoped to leave behind for his children. He says he returned home one day only to find his property sealed off behind barbed wire, with men in black uniforms standing guard and refusing to let him step inside the house he once called his own. In a single moment, he says, the life he had worked for was gone. “It was the end of the world. The end of the world.” “I felt imprisoned.” “They took my freedom.” “They took my livelihood.” “They took my land.”

BREAKING: Iran says the US has agreed to pay $300 billion in reconstruction funds directly to Iran as part of the deal Pakistan announced, alongside the release of $24 billion in frozen funds with $12 billion released before negotiations even start, per Mehr News. This directly contradicts Trump's & Vance's claim that no funds will be transferred to Iran at all. If Trump denies this is true, there never was a deal. If Trump confirms, the US has fully capitulated to Iran's demands.