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The biggest threat to competition and consumers in our time is the collusion of big business and big government. As a case in point, see how AT&T is urging the Federal Communications Commission to hobble rival T-Mobile. AT&T last week asked the FCC to limit how much mid-band spectrum providers can acquire in future government auctions. AT&T wants a provider to be required to get government clearance to acquire more than a third of this prime broadband real estate in a given geographic area. As a primer, millimeter spectrum is useful in covering dense population areas, but it can’t travel...

Holy coming out, Batman! In the latest installment of “Batman: Urban Legends,” the DC comic book character Tim Drake — a k a the Caped Crusader’s sidekick Robin — accepts an invitation to go on a date with a man named Bernard Dowd — thereby confirming Robin’s LGBTQ status, TMZ has reported. Robin’s bisexual narrative unfolds in what one fan calls a “lightbulb moment” as he and Bernard find themselves in a streetside brawl. After the hero ultimately rescues Bernard, Robin later pays him a visit at his apartment.

Trump's North Carolina speech was the first time a state Republican party publicly embraced Trump . And it did so on the eve of the five-month anniversary of the January 6 attack on the Capitol, which FBI Director Christopher Wray testified was an act of "domestic terrorism." Trump repeated the very lies that incited the Jan 6 insurrection, calling the 2020 election "the crime of the century." Trump radicalized Americans to believe his "Big Lie" that he was the real winner of the election -- a claim that led his supporters to storm the Capitol to try to stop certification...

AT&T says it will receive an $43 billion in a combination of cash and debt ===================================================================== AT&T said Monday the U.S. telecommunication giant has reached a deal to combine its content unit, WarnerMedia, with Discovery, an agreement that would help the major Hollywood studios compete with such rivals as Netflix and Disney. AT&T says it will receive an $43 billion in a combination of cash, debt and WarnerMedia’s retention of certain debt, according to CNBC. The deal, if approved by regulators, effectively reverses AT&T’s years-long plan to combine content and distribution in a vertically integrated company. The deal would create...

CNN has seen ratings plummet since former President Donald Trump left the White House, according to a Fox News report on Nielsen Media Research data. The network averaged 2.5 million primetime viewers between the day after the election— November 4, 2020 — and Inauguration Day on January 20, 2021, Fox News reported. Since President Joe Biden was sworn in, however, those numbers have dropped dramatically. An average of 1.6 million viewers tuned in during primetime hours between January 21 and March 15, Fox News said. That's a downturn of 36% since Biden took office. Primetime viewers also ditched CNN in...

Somebody send over to CNN and their media reporters Oliver Darcy and Brian Stelter the journalistic ethics guide. Not the whole thing; just page one. Or maybe just paragraph one. Circle the part that says, “It is unethical to use your journalistic position to obtain special favors from public officials.” Then ask: Why hasn’t Chris Cuomo been fired? What he’s done is the very definition of corruption. Look it up in your Merriam-Webster: there’s now a picture of Chris Cuomo holding up a giant cotton swab. If, during the darkest days of the pandemic, Donald Trump had taken scarce COVID...

CNN is losing around a million viewers on average each night since President Donald Trump left office - and is down nearly 50% in the key 24-54 age group, a report said on Thursday. The cable news channel had averaged 2.5 million prime-time viewers each night from November 4 through Inauguration Day on January 20, according to a Fox News analysis of Nielsen data. But data shows the network averaged only 1.6 million total prime-time viewers from January 21, the day after the inauguration of President Joe Biden, through March 15, according to the report. CNN's overall prime-time viewership, from...

CNN ratings have collapsed by almost 60% since President Trump left the White House almost 2 months ago. Here are the CNN post-inauguration ratings drops as of Monday 3/15/2021 compared to Monday 1/18/2021 according to Nielsen: Lemon -60% Tapper -59% Cuomo -58% Blitzer -57% Burnett -56% Cooper -55% For comparison purposes, here are some other ratings drops for the same time period: Mad Cow -26% Tucker Carlson -8% Laura Ingraham -6% Sean Hannity -5%

CNN ratings have collapsed by nearly 50% since President Trump left the White House almost a month ago. Here are the CNN post-inauguration ratings drops as of Monday 2/15/2021 compared to Monday 1/18/2021 according to Nielsen: Tapper -53% Cooper -50% Blitzer -50% Baldwin -50% Lemon -48% Burnett -48% Cuomo -44%

Where were the suits now pulling out of GOP donations when Democrats ignored due process in the 2018 Justice Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings?As The Federalist has continued to expose, corporate America has a double standard for its PAC donations based on arbitrary and partisan distinctions. Since virtue-signaling multinational corporations claim to be so intent on rescinding campaign contribution dollars to the GOP to retaliate against members of Congress who did not vote to certify the 2020 presidential election, this presents a reciprocal question. Where were the suits when Democrats ignored due process in the 2018 Justice Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearings?...

In the wake of the suspicious Christmas morning bombing of an AT&T network sites located about a block away from the telecom giant’s regional offices in downtown Nashville, both the perpetrators and their motives remain unknown. Regardless of what comes to pass, there is a link between AT&T, Dominion Voting Systems, and Chinese Communist Party that is worth taking a closer look at. This possible connection centers on AT&T Chairman William E. Kennard. Kennard, who also sits on the Board of Directors for Ford Motor Company, MetLife, Duke Energy, and Staple Street Capital, the private equity firm that is the...

Posted on January 12, 2021 Here’s all the companies boycotting Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and other Republicans for objecting last weekFiled Under: Mark Speaks

ATT sent the following letter to it's employees. This is a letter telling ATT employees they will contribute the the ATT/WarnerMedia Federal PAC or else. Won't be long before they'll have them filling out absentee ballots under a managers supervision. This is bad. To All PAC-Eligible Employees: A critical component of our company’s efforts to be a responsible corporate citizen is actively participating in the political process. We do this in a variety of ways, including through corporate and employee political action committee (PAC) contributions consistent with our core values. Employees on our Federal PAC Board recently convened a call...

Over a week ago we reported about certain Edward Jones who wrote a Facebook post four days before the bombing in Nashville that now could create a huge cloud of controversy and a lot of conspiracy theories. So far we can’t confirm that any Dominion forensic contracts being handed out. Not sure if it makes sense AT&T would even do them or why machines would be sent to Nashville. Image of the Facebook status below: The independent citizen journalist Alexander Higgins Has reached out for comment to Edward Jones. Alexander Higgins contacted Edward Jones and he confirmed that the post...

Monday, December 28, 2020, 8:30 a.m. CST The majority of services have been restored in Nashville following Friday’s explosion. Our mobility network is now operating normally, nearly all home internet and video customers have been restored and our business customers are back online. As a reminder, we are waiving data overage charges for customers in 1166 zip codes across states like Tennessee, Kentucky, Indiana, Alabama, Georgia, Illinois and Missouri from December 27 to December 31. As of late Sunday evening, adequate power is available on most floors of the building. We continue to manage power needs to prevent overloading the...

Person of interest tied to Christmas explosion in Nashville IDed as Anthony Quinn Warner, sources tell CBS News; 63-year-old Nashville area resident had similar make & model RV as one in photos released to public, sources say

NASHVILLE (AP) — An explosion linked to a vehicle rocked downtown Nashville on Christmas morning, sending shattered glass and debris over a wide area and rocking nearby buildings. The Metro Nashville Police Department said via Twitter that the explosion occurred at 6:30 a.m. Friday and that state and federal authorities were on the scene, as were emergency crews including the fire department.

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Appearing last night on Hannity, James OKeefe joked about an advent-calendar-like daily set of presents for CNN and its CEO Jeff Zucker. If you haven’t heard already, Project Veritas has been recording telephone conference calls at CNN, courtesy of an inside whistleblower, according to what O’Keefe told Hannity (video embedded below). While CNN is fulminating about a lawsuit, O’Keefe is confident in his legal advisers’ position that recording and releasing the calls is legal. CNN’s new corporate parent, AT&T, is rumored to be trying to sell the network in order to reduce its corporate debt. There are already worries that...

James O’Keefe’s Project Veritas released the first of its apparent audio recordings of CNN editorial calls with network president Jeff Zucker on Tuesday evening, promising more releases of what O’Keefe says is two months’ worth of CNN internal dialogues. Earlier Tuesday, O’Keefe live-streamed what he identified as CNN’s morning call, as well as the reaction of the participants after he unmuted himself and revealed that he was listening. As promised, O’Keefe began the first of his releases at 7:00 p.m. Eastern time. In one recording, CNN staff are apparently heard to agree that they should not provide President Donald Trump...