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  1. Congress members join protest against ‘#oligarch’s dinner’ for #Trump thrown by Ellisons

    Paramount Skydance CEO fetes administration as it weighs $110bn merger with CNN parent WarnerBros Discovery

    Jeremy Barr in Washington
    Thu 23 Apr 2026 20.43 EDT

    "Dozens of protesters, including members of Congress, gathered along the National Mall on Thursday to protest an 'intimate' dinner being held by #ParamountSkydance’s chief executive, #DavidEllison, 'in celebration of the first amendment' and 'honoring the Trump White House and CBS White House correspondents', and attended by Donald Trump.

    "Paramount has faced criticism for the dinner, which has been seen by some as illustrative of the cozy relationship between the #Ellisons and the White House – right as the Trump administration is weighing whether to approve the company’s $110bn merger with CNN parent company #WarnerBrosDiscovery (#WBD). The dinner comes before Saturday’s White House correspondents’ dinner, which Trump will attend. His defense secretary, #PeteHegseth, is expected to sit at one of the many tables bought by CBS News for the event.

    "Earlier Thursday, WBD shareholders voted 'overwhelmingly' to approve the merger, which will still require approval from the Department of Justice and European regulators.

    "The US representative Jamie Raskin, who has been vocal in his criticism of the Ellisons’ ownership of CBS News, referred to the event as 'a lavish oligarch’s dinner for Donald Trump'.

    " 'We’re gathered here together tonight [because] in the building behind us, David Ellison is hosting a dinner to honor President Trump, a dinner that’s designed to cement the Ellisons to the president in their years-running corrupt merger scheme,' Raskin said."

    Read more:
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/a

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/hQ6Ku

    #USPol #PowerCorruptionAndLies #CorporateSuckUps #Oligarchy #Fascism #SilencingDissent #SilencingCriticism #OligarchsDinner #Oligarchs4Dinner #EatTheRich #CharacteristicsOfFascism

  2. From the #DreyDossier:

    A lot of material information (14 pages) was left out of disclosures relevant to #WarnerBrosDiscovery shareholders ahead of the upcoming vote on the #merger with #ParamountSkydance, until a shareholder sued. One wonders why.

    Hint: undisclosed conflicts of interest, including foreign investment from Qatar and Saudi.

    youtube.com/watch?v=tfCs_dSqPRM

    #wbd #Ellison #monopoly #media #uspol

  3. @Siucraym I really need to start making monthly reminders for this, starting in January. I want to help my friends set up their backup plans, but I never remember until #WBD has passed. Doh.

  4. Great GiG - if you can get it - or you can smile BETTER than that!

    For the Warner Bros.-Paramount Merger CEO of WBD, Zaslav will pocket:

    $34.2M in cash severance
    $517.2M in equity
    $44,195 in health coverage reimbursement (that is some health plan!)

    All of that is on top of $114M worth of WBD stock he sold last month! variety.com/2026/biz/news/davi #WBD #Stock #Paramount #Merger #CEO #CEOcompensation #Equity #Severance #MakeBank #SEC #Media #Broadcasting #Film #FilmStudio #WarnerBros #WarnerBrosDiscovery #Paramount

  5. Putting the finishing touches on the bloody World Book Day outfit he asked for and helped make, then announced this evening he’d changed his mind and wanted to wear his dinosaur fancy dress🤦😑

    #wbd #WorldBookDay

  6. WBD, Paramount regulatory path might be easier than Netflix tie-up

    misryoum.com/us/economy/wbd-pa

    The Paramount logo is displayed above an entrance to Paramount Studios on Feb. 23, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty ImagesA day after Paramount Skydance emerged as the winner to take over fellow media giant Warner Bros....

    #WBD #Paramount #regulatory #path #might #easier #than #Netflix #tieup #US_News_Hub #misryoum_com

  7. Nyt kun Paramountin ja Warner Bros. Discoveryn yrityskauppa etenee, on Paramountin puolelta kerrottu jo hieman tulevista suunnitelmista

    Nykymuotoinen HBO Max lakkautetaan, sillä yhtiö aikoo yhdistää suoratoistopalvelunsa yhden brändin alle. Suomessa Paramountin oma suoratoistopalvelu on SkyShowtime.

    Se, mikä tuleva brändi tulee olemaan, on vielä kysymysmerkki.

    HBO:n villin nimihistorian perusteella HBO Paramount SkyShowtime Max Plus ei kuulosta lainkaan epätodennäköiseltä.

    dawn.fi/uutiset/2026/03/03/nyk

    #paramount #wbd #warnerbrosdiscovery #hbomax #yrityskauppa #uutiset #suoratoisto #skyshowtime

  8. S&P Weighs In On Media Mega-Merger: Puts Paramount On CreditWatch Negative But Says WBD Deal Will “Materially Improve” Its Business Profile
    #News #Paramount #ParamountWBD #SP #Wbd

    deadline.com/2026/03/sampp-par

  9. Netflix stock fell 2.7% after reports it may explore acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery. The deal could give Netflix huge IP like DC, Harry Potter, LOTR, and HBO, strengthening its global content moat but it also brings major challenges, including conflicting strategies, revenue trade-offs, and heavy regulatory scrutiny.

    #Netflix #WBD #StreamingWars #MediaMergers #ContentIP #TechNews #TECHi

    Read Full Article Here :- techi.com/netflix-stock-wbd-ac

  10. Blow-Me-Down Brook, NH – An NHD Flowline Picked ‘Randomly’
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    npshistory.com/brochures/saga/ <-- 1981 NPS guide
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    usgs.gov/3d-hydrography-progra <-- USGS’s 3DHP home page
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    I am working on some hydroaddressing / network traversing technical approaches for 3DHP – and needed an example of a multisegment flowline in NHD-sourced dataset, and so ‘randomly’ got this one - Blow-Me-Down, NH, from WBD HUC4-0108.
    Although we map so many flowlines (~20 million in the USA for NHD-sourced spatial data, estimated 10x that for the EDH data still to be determined across the USA), I like trying to understand what a flowline or waterbody ‘is’ to the people on the ground as much as I can...
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #networktraversing #3DHP #NHD #WBD #water #hydrology #USGS #mapping #USA #elevationderivedhydrography #EDH #3denabled #3dmapping #3dmodeling #3dep #elevation #opendata #nationally #waterresources #appliedscience #newhampshire #watermanagement #watermanagement #alldataisspatial #publicdata