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BREAKING NEWS: The more than 400-day Black-led national faith-based fast of @target has come to a close, Rev. Dr. Jamal Bryant announced today in Washington, DC. The news conference is being streamed live now on #RolandMartinUnfiltered and the Black Star Network youtube.com/live/Vt9W5B_IU…

This is wild. One day after insurgent @NidaAllam lost by ~1,020 votes in NC04, after millions of dollars from AIPAC and AI were spent against her, the PAC that @AOC organized to back insurgent candidates, called Courage to Change, sent out a fundraising email talking about how hard it is for such insurgents to run when billionaires are coming after them. That’s true! Except AOC did *not* back Allam, even though Bernie Sanders and Justice Democrats did, and Bernie even rallied with her in NC. A nod from AOC could well have been worth 1,000 votes. Nobody on staff, including the boss, apparently thought to say, well, the entire progressive movement except for us got behind Nida Allam and she just lost by a crushingly small margin to AIPAC and AI, so maybe let’s not fundraise today on the idea that we are the ones who are going to be in the streets backing insurgents. The timing is a mistake, obviously, but it also suggests she and they were paying basically no attention to a race that had otherwise captivated people. Otherwise they’d have caught the mistake. Squad Victory Fund, which is all 4 of them, also put out a pretty tone deaf email but not nearly as bad

If yall miss church on Sundays there is always @botbsquad. Them git that pop culture sermon for that ass. Salute.

By @Forbes' estimates, the elder Ellison, who is also Oracle’s largest shareholder, doesn’t have enough cash to fulfill his part of Paramount’s $111 billion offer for Warner Bros. We'll know more in the coming days, but here’s how it could play out: forbes.com/sites/phoebeli…

CBS News chief Bari Weiss is expected to play a major role in steering CNN if the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger is approved. Weiss was appointed to lead CBS News by David Ellison in October 2025 as part of Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of her media company The Free Press. Read the full cover: wp.me/pc8uak-1lGXCp

In a leaked phone call, #WarnerBros., CEO David Zaslav, revealed his true feelings behind Paramount's deal and the potential acquisition in a shocking development: "If Warner Bros. is going to survive, then we needed to be bigger, and we needed to be global. The deal may not close. If it doesn't close, we get $7 billion, and we get back to work." 📞 Source: Business Insider | Learn More: bit.ly/4shcvrz