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Kara Swisher confirmed on air she is leaving CNN when her contract ends, citing her refusal to work under the Ellison family's ownership. She's done it before with Murdoch. This is not a new Kara Swisher move — it's just who she is.
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The Justice Department announced it found the $110 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery deal unlikely to harm competition, removing the biggest federal obstacle to a merger David Ellison says is on track to close by September. [1] — Kara Swisher "The DOJ cleared the roughly $110 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger before career staffers could even formally weigh in — thos…" 12:08 But the process was striking: career DOJ staff who were actually leaning toward suing to block the deal were sidelined before they could formally weigh in. Kara reads that as the Ellison-Trump connection making the fix inevitable. Scott is less alarmed from a pure antitrust standpoint, noting the combined company still won't rival YouTube's viewership or match the revenues of the tech giants. What did send a chill down his spine was learning Mark Thompson is being considered to run CBS News — a reminder that the Ellisons would now own CNN. Blue-state attorneys general are proving more combative than the federal government, and European regulators are still weighing the deal. The post-merger debt load, Kara warns, is the thing every media executive she's spoken to is most worried about.
The DOJ cleared the roughly $110 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger before career staffers could even formally weigh in — those lawyers were actually leaning toward recommending a lawsuit. With the Ellisons' ties to Trump, Kara Swisher says the fix was in from the start.
The Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger cleared DOJ review, with the deal valued at roughly $110 billion.
Ten years ago, 90% of tech media coverage was relentlessly negative and Kalanick felt he couldn't speak freely. Today, the rise of independent podcasters and Elon Musk buying Twitter has fundamentally changed the game — and it's why he's finally willing to talk.
Kay Classman, 28, was arrested for repeatedly posing as a 16-year-old and enrolling in Bronx high schools across multiple districts. She wasn't a predator — just someone so sad and lonely she wanted her lost childhood back. That's somehow sadder.
Disney, Meta, and Paramount have collectively paid Trump roughly $60 million to settle what Galloway calls nuisance lawsuits — all routed to his presidential library. Newsrooms are folding. The White House is handpicking press pool participants. This is what the end of a free press looks like.
One cheap fake documentary made by a teenager in his mother's basement convinced 16% of Americans that 9/11 was an inside job. Social media didn't invent conspiracy — it just gave it a rocket engine.
A progressive organization with a stated mission to destroy Turning Point USA received millions from ActBlue and is now publicly pushing the narrative that TPUSA insiders and Israel murdered Charlie Kirk. Andrew Wilson traced the network of accounts all amplifying the same conspiracy in perfect unison.
The microphone-bomb theory fails on every physical front: no smoke, no ignition, mic on the wrong side of the wound. And the .30-06 rifle round used is extensively documented by the US Army — it does not always produce a through-and-through wound. Wilson argues this is a well-studied projectile with well-understood behavior.
Andrew Wilson publicly offered Candace Owens $300,000 to debate her theory that Israel and TPUSA murdered Charlie Kirk. She refused. He argues that flat-earthers will debate anyone, but Kirk conspiracy theorists won't defend their claims under scrutiny.
Erika Kirk became the CEO of TPUSA while grieving her husband's murder in public, and now faces tens of thousands accusing her of conspiring to kill him. Andrew Wilson calls it mind-boggling psychological torture. The sparklers at the memorial weren't suspicious — they were a grieving widow doing her best in an impossible situation.
Joe Rogan and Andrew Wilson watch a bystander video of the Corey Ruiz police shooting in Madison, Wisconsin live on air. The video is so blurry they initially think a female officer fired the fatal shots. They later learn a male officer did, after Ruiz allegedly pulled a knife and stabbed officers. Their conclusion: you cannot have a hot take on a story you don't understand yet.
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