Things have only gotten worse for the Ellison family tech and media empire in the last week as they face mounting legal and financial pressure on all fronts.
Note: Post is as updated as it’s going to get. Enjoy! Thanks for your patience.
I’m the cautious sort so I put a “?” at the end of the headline of last week’s piece on this topic: “Oracle’s Exploding Debt and Plumeting Stock Price Threaten Paramount Media Empire?“, and in doing so appear to have violated Betteridge’s law of headlines.
Sorry about that, but the Ellison family media empire is the kind of vampire that has to be killed at the crossroads at daybreak with a silver sword, decapitated, have its mouth stuffed with garlic and its brain pulled out via the nose Egyptian-style before I’ll believe it’s dead or even mortally wounded.
Just talking metaphorically about a corporation here, no threats of violence intended in any way shape or form in case anyone from DHS or the EU is reading this.
But let’s get down to brass tacks because the fact set has only gotten worse and worse.
The Story Thus Far
The elderly Larry Ellison (and since Larry famously thinks he’s God I’ll quote John Lennon speaking of the Apostles in 1980) and his thick, ordinary nepobaby failson David and the empire they hastily began assembling in 2025 appear to be in deep trouble on a number of fronts.
To review (for links check the list of related posts at the end of this one):
- Larry Ellison is the CEO or Oracle and reportedly owns about 40% of its stock.
- Larry Ellison is sometimes described as the single largest private donor to the Israeli “Defense” Forces.
- August 2025: Larry financed the $8 billion acquisition of Paramount by his son David’s company Skydance in August 2025.
- September 2025: Oracle stock, and Ellison’s on-paper net worth exploded when he announced a massive investment in data centers in partnership with OpenAI. This briefly made Ellison the world’s 2nd richest human.
- October 2025: Paramount Skydance announces the acquisition of Bari Weiss’ blog The Free Press for $150 million and hired her as editor-in-chief of CBS News.
- January 2026: Oracle leads a consortium of investors in the $14 billion takeover of American TikTok which its Chinese owners were forced to spin off. Oracle’s stake is reported to be $2.2 billion.
- In February 2026, Paramount Skydance “won a bidding war” to acquire WBD (Warner Bros Discovery) for $110.9 billion after triggering a bidding war with Netflix that grossly inflated the sale price.
- At least three Gulf State sovereign wealth funds (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE) pledged a combined $24 billion to back the Paramount Skydance bid for WBD.
- Larry Ellison “irrevocably personally guaranteed” the WBD purchase with $45.7 billion to back the deal’s equity financing.
- Multiple antitrust suits have been filed on behalf of consumer, labor, and shareholder interests against the Paramount-WBD merger.
- Oracle’s stock price has plunged by more than half since its late 2025 peak and its bond yields are nearing junk bond territory.
Now let’s get to this week’s developments; they got it bad, and that ain’t good.
We’ll start with the long arm of the law that’s got the Ellisons all tangled up.
Lawsuits Freeze Deal
From the Hollywood Reporter on July 24th:
Paramount has agreed not to close its $111 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery until the court decides whether the deal violates antitrust laws.
The studio, in a court document filed on Friday alongside the coalition of states looking to block the merger, said it will hold off on consummating the acquisition until June 2027 or five days after the court issues a ruling on the case, whichever is earlier.
For Paramount, the delay in closing the deal may prove costly. Under the merger agreement, Warners shareholders are owed roughly $650 million per quarter or $6.9 million per day if the deal isn’t done by Sept. 30.
The truce comes a day after U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín issued an extension of a temporary restraining order barring Paramount from closing until Aug. 18 at the earliest.
Both sides are jockeying for an edge in preliminary injunction proceedings. Paramount had asked the court to hold a three-day evidentiary hearing next month, which the states opposed. The studio has maintained that the states’ understanding and calculation of the markets in the case are faulty.
In Friday’s filing, both sides agreed to cancel an Aug. 3 preliminary injunction hearing. They’ll file a joint statement of their respective cases regarding the scheduling of the trial by July 31.
And the legal battle is intense.
Superstar Lawyers on Both Sides, Paramount Forces New Judge
Paramount started beefing up their legal team in May per The Hollywood Reporter:
Jeffrey Kessler, a heavyweight in antitrust litigation who most recently secured a landmark win for states suing Live Nation, will defend Paramount‘s $110 billion megadeal for Warner Bros. Discovery.
The studio doesn’t expect legal challenges from the Justice Department, state prosecutors or foreign regulators, though Kessler would lead the studio’s defense if any are filed, according to a person familiar with the situation.
The addition of Kessler bolsters Paramount’s formidable legal team, led by Makan Delrahim, Trump’s former assistant attorney general for antitrust. Also representing the studio: David Gelfand, ex-deputy assistant attorney general for litigation in the antitrust division under former President Barack Obama, and lawyers at Latham & Watkins and Cravath, Swaine & Moore who have been seeking regulatory approval of the deal.
The States Attorneys General brought in some legal ringers, via Reuters on the 13th:
California said on Monday it has hired law firm Milbank to help with its lawsuit seeking to block Paramount’s (PSKY.O), opens new tab merger with Warner Bros (WBD.O), opens new tab, gaining access to top antitrust lawyers who can go toe to toe with Paramount’s legal team.
The move also sets up a potential clash between President Donald Trump’s administration, which backed the merger, and a firm that decided to settle with Trump when he targeted law firms over their past clients, hiring practices and ties to Trump’s perceived enemies.
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California’s team from Milbank includes Richard Parker and James Weingarten, a former U.S. government antitrust lawyer on the team that unsuccessfully tried to stop Microsoft’s $69 billion bid for Activision Blizzard.Jeffrey Kessler of law firm Winston Taylor said he will be lead trial counsel defending the merger for Paramount, which has also hired former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement.
On July 15 Paramount answered by, per the LA Times:
Paramount Skydance has prevailed in its first court move to defend its Warner Bros. Discovery merger — prompting the departure of a judge who initially had been assigned the high-profile antitrust case.
Late Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín took over the case brought by California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta and 11 other Democratic state attorneys general. The states’ coalition is attempting to derail Paramount’s proposed $111-billion purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery, alleging it violates a century-old antitrust law.
Court records show U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts, based in San Jose, had initially been assigned. Early Wednesday, Paramount filed a motion requesting that Pitts step aside, citing his previous role as a labor lawyer, including for the Writers Guild of America.
The WGA joined the legal fray Tuesday by bringing its own antitrust complaint against Paramount, alleging the proposed union of two of Hollywood’s biggest studios would lead to fewer jobs and lower pay for writers.
“A reasonable person would question Judge Pitts’ impartiality in this case based on his prior work,” Paramount’s attorneys, led by Jeffrey Kessler, wrote in their eight-page motion.
They also beefed up their legal team, per Puck’s Matt Belloni yesterday:
News: Paramount is bringing on trial attorney Beth Wilkinson to lead its antitrust trial against California. She successfully defended Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision. Current lead lawyer Jeffrey Kessler is staying on, but will take backseat to Wilkinson.
— Matthew Belloni (@MattBelloni) July 26, 2026
Cord Cutters News had more about Wilkinson:
Wilkinson previously led the successful defense of Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard, one of the largest technology transactions in recent history. In that matter, she guided the company through a rapid federal court proceeding against the Federal Trade Commission, ultimately prevailing and allowing the deal to proceed after a closely watched trial.
Beth Wilkinson has built a distinguished career spanning more than three decades as one of the most respected trial lawyers in the United States. Born in Saratoga Springs, New York, she graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor’s degree before earning her law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. She began her professional life as a commissioned officer in the United States Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps, rising to the rank of captain and serving as an assistant to the Army’s General Counsel for intelligence and special operations. At the conclusion of her military service, she assisted as a Special Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of Florida on the prosecution of Manuel Noriega.
Wilkinson later joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York and then moved to the Department of Justice in Washington. There she took on significant responsibilities in high-profile criminal matters, including a lead role in the prosecution of the Oklahoma City bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. She remains the only two-time recipient of the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service, the Justice Department’s highest honor. After leaving government service, she became a partner at prominent national law firms before co-founding the trial boutique Wilkinson Stekloff, where she continues to handle bet-the-company civil litigation and complex antitrust disputes. Her recent victories include securing a complete defense win for the National Football League in a major class-action challenge to its media distribution practices.
Note that Wilkinson has already gotten the better of the team from Milbank.
David Ellison Memos His Employees
You know family blogging is serious when Oligarch, Jr communicates with the little people. David Ellison felt compelled to write a memo to Paramount hirelings:
In the memo, sent to Paramount staffers Monday, Ellison wrote that “we remain highly confident that this transaction does not pose any legal issues, and we will complete it and bring these two companies together.”
About the decision to agree to freeze the merger ahead of the trial, Ellison said, “We believe this is the right path because the facts and the law are on our side, and a full hearing will demonstrate why the plaintiffs’ arguments should not prevail.”
He also wrote, “I know this additional uncertainty has been challenging, and I want to thank you for your continued patience, commitment and collective contributions. For now, it remains business as usual. Paramount and WBD are separate companies operating independently, and our focus remains on serving our audiences, supporting one another and executing our strategy.”
Ellison closed out the memo with a rallying message, despite the setback, writing: “Let’s go!”
That last sentence shows the underlings that their fates are in good hands with this bold and visionary captain of industry.
There’s also a Paramount press release on the case that might be worth a read to those who enjoy pouring Wormtongue’s whispers into your head.
Oracle Leads Hyperscaler Bond Collapse
Meanwhile the corporate debt problems I covered last week have only gotten worse for Oracle and the whole hyper-scaler industry.
Axios has a scarifying chart of the yields on their bonds:
— Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) July 29, 2026
Axios had some text too, note that Oracle is leading the race to the top (in yields that is, as in they’re the weakest player):
Bond market investors are getting slightly twitchy over the scale of borrowing and spending on data centers.
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Recently, a bond market credit gauge associated with Oracle hit a record high, as traders tried to grok how the arrival of low-cost, open-source Chinese AI models might change the potential profitability of providing computing capacity.Five-year credit default swaps on Oracle — a kind of insurance that investors can buy to protect them against a company defaulting on its debt — jumped to 212 basis points (or 2.12 percentage points) for every $100,000 of Oracle debt to be insured.
That means it costs about $212,000 a year to insure $10 million of Oracle bonds against default.
It’s not just Oracle.
Even tech giants considered more creditworthy have seen their CDS creep higher, suggesting a relatively small but growing concern about whether they’ve bitten off more than they can financially chew with their capex blitz.
One more chart for industry-wide context (note how much higher Oracle’s yields are than any of the other, bigger hyperscalers):
— Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) July 29, 2026
The NYT’s Jeff Sommer explained some of the context on the 17th:
What has damaged Oracle’s debt rating and disturbed its finances is the elephant stomping throughout financial markets: colossal spending on artificial intelligence.
Data centers and the other infrastructure for A.I. involve staggering sums of money. These cascades of A.I.-driven cash have enriched diverse segments of the stock market, from semiconductor makers to engineering companies to utilities to energy producers. A.I. money is bolstering the entire U.S. economy, contributing perhaps 1.1 percent to the nation’s economic growth, JPMorgan Asset Management estimates.
But where’s that money coming from?
At this point, a major source is firms like Oracle, which has gone on an immense spending spree on A.I. data centers, increasingly selling bonds to raise the money. Oracle is not alone. Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta are giant investors in data centers, too. (The industry jargon is “hyperscaler.) But their underlying finances are stronger than Oracle’s, and their expenditures have not landed them in the same level of trouble in the markets.
Even worse for Oracle, they are owed about $300 billion by OpenAI.
That’s right, the company whose CEO just announced the Rapture the Singularity:
Sam Altman: We are in the singularity https://t.co/t3aq37Sq3K pic.twitter.com/wuB9RvHJoN
— Ti Morse (@ti_morse) July 25, 2026
Weird that bondholders are nervous about Oracle’s debt when $300 billion of it is being backstopped by a guy who’s a cross between Sam Bankman-Fried and 19th Century American millenarian William Miller.
There’s also this confidence booster from OpenAI via ArsTechnica:
In an incident mimicking a dystopian sci-fi novel, two OpenAI models broke out of the restricted environment meant to keep them from accessing the Internet during an internal test, the AI company revealed last week. The models went on to breach Hugging Face’s network and steal confidential information and credentials. OpenAI said its agent achieved the feat by exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability. The company called the event “unprecedented,” and outsiders largely agreed.
So yea, great, by all means keep pouring money down the gullets of these psychopathic morons who are doing so much to make the world a better place.
And about that other backstop.
Iran and Ansar Allah Shut In Saudi Oil Exports
In addition to the existing Iranian (and American) blockade on the Hormuz Strait, Ansar Allah has now closed the Bab el-Mendeb strait AND according to reports you won’t read in the MSM, blown up the biggest Saudi oil refinery, maybe the world’s biggest. Per DD Geopolitics:
This morning (Monday 27th July 2026), a surprise drone attack hit the Saudi Aramco refinery in Abqaiq, the largest oil processing & crude stabilization plant in the world…
the drone attacks on Saudi oil infrastructure were confirmed earlier today by Brigadier General Yahya Saree, spokesperson for the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF), who issued a statement saying (sources: Saba, Al Mayadeen, IRNA, MES and Fotros Resistance):
By the grace of Allah, a number of sensitive sites and points related to the supply and transport of crude oil from eastern Saudi Arabia to Yanbu were targeted by a number of drones in response to the Saudi enemy’s drone incursions into Yemeni airspace.
These drone attacks resulted in a 40% reduction of oil loading volumes (from ~5.16 million barrels per day (bpd) to around 3.09 million bpd) at the port of Yanbu on the Red Sea, thus aggravating the already serious situation in terms of oil export for KSA, considering the combined Iranian and US naval blockade on the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf, not to mention the new crazy equation set by the Houthis: oil facilities in response to airspace incursion by a surveillance drone!
All this while the Saudi Aramco refinery at Jizan is still burning after more than 2 days since the Yemeni attack, with MES suggesting that “the fires are so extensive that the entire facility may be out of operation for several years”, with smoke visible from space:
But never mind facts and reality, the real war is a narrative one and pens and keyboards and mics and cameras are being put to use with no mercy and no quarter!
Warring Op-Eds
The New York Times features a piece by Sharon Waxman who pretends to take readers beyond the superficial understanding of events they may have based on headlines in other, lesser, publications, in that inimitable NYT style:
Very little about these twists and turns are as they seem. From the moment David Ellison, backed by his billionaire father, Larry, succeeded in his initially hostile bid to take over Warner this year, the unstated theme of the pushback has been politics, not antitrust concerns.
The fear in Hollywood and among Democratic leaders such as Elizabeth Warren and Jamie Raskin is that the merger would give a single company with close ties to the Trump administration huge power, including not just the movie studios Paramount and Warner Bros., not just the premium cable HBO and streamer Paramount+, but the combined news clout of CBS News and CNN.
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Both sides will tell you privately that concerns over the future of CNN and the prospect that the head of CBS News, Bari Weiss, will run both media organizations are what is driving the forces against this deal.
Notably Waxman’s piece features exactly zero mentions of Israel, hasbara, zionism, or any of the actual political interests that drive the Ellisons.
Great work, Sharon!
Ari Emanuel Makes the Pro-Ellison Case
Meanwhile, King of Hollywood, Democratic insider, close Trump ally, and mega-zionist, Ari Emanuel took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to defend the deal.
The WSJ was discrete enough not to mention that David Ellison paid $7.7 billion over seven years for the rights to stream the Ultimate Fighting Championship (majority owned by Emanuel and his financial backers at Silver Lake and the UAE) almost immediately upon acquiring the company.
Nor did they mention that Ellison paid $300 million annually through 2029 to Emanuel’s clients (Ari is also Chairman of Hollywood mega agency WME) Trey Parker and Matt Stone to renew the streaming rights to South Park around the same time.
Nor does the WSJ mention that Emanuel is the business and political rabbi who personally ushered David Ellison past every obstacle presented by former Paramount chair Shari Redstone and POTUS Donald Trump en route to getting the deal done.
But let’s at least read a little of what Ari has to say to WSJ readers in his boldly titled piece “The Paramount-Warner Merger Could Save Hollywood.“:
The lawsuit by California’s Rob Bonta and 11 other state attorneys general to block the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Paramount Skydance puts it all at risk. They say they are protecting competition. Their actions threaten to destroy it.
You know an antitrust case is trash when it ignores some of the fastest-growing competitors in the market. In their analysis, the state attorneys general pretend Amazon MGM, A24 and Lionsgate don’t exist and that Netflix isn’t leaning into theatrical films with its coming release of Greta Gerwig’s “Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew” (which I suspect will whet its appetite for more).
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The case not only ignores these major competitors in the theatrical market but also pretends this market represents the entirety of the competitive playing field. This doesn’t remotely reflect reality.Theatrical releases compete fiercely for the attention, time and money of consumers who are being lured by streamers, YouTube, videogames and everything else on a screen. You think I’m letting my client’s horror movie premiere on the same day as a MrBeast video? Or the release of the latest “Call of Duty”? Or when Netflix drops “Wednesday”? Think again.
The attorneys general don’t get to ignore the platforms that compete every day for audiences, talent, capital and content just because it makes their case harder. Believe me, as somebody who’s in those rooms, every green light, marketing budget and release date is decided against the reality of that broadly competitive environment.
And blah blah along those lines for another several hundred words that I’m sure Mr. Emanuel’s staff labored over for entire minutes while he bellowed his thoughts in their direction.
Ari took this persuasion campaign so seriously that he retweeted a video from “reality star” and failed Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt speaking in support of his opinion.
— Ari Emanuel (@AriEmanuel) July 29, 2026
Note the mega-views.
Machine transcript of excerpts (thanks Claude, you stupid clanger you!)
Spencer Pratt: Just when you thought he couldn’t get any dumber, bonehead Bob Bonten and his hand-picked commie judge have doubled down on destroying Hollywood and blocking the Paramount merger.
Yeah, one of the biggest media mergers in history is now on hold for a while.
Paramount’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery will be delayed for many months and potentially well into 2027 due to those pending lawsuits that we’ve been covering from the state attorneys general in 12 U.S. states as well as from the Writers Guild of America.
I know some of you think Spencer’s just shilling for Paramount. I wish I had that Paramount money.
This isn’t about Paramount. This is about the industry I love. I’m a C-list reality star. Remember? Hollywood gave me everything I have and these corrupt politicians are driving it into the damn ground. You don’t believe me? The Godfather has spoken.
He’s one of Hollywood’s biggest power brokers, the longtime CEO of the entertainment empire, Endeavor, and more recently, global sports giant, TKO.
With a career spanning four decades, the straight-talking dealmaker has a reputation for getting what he wants and saying exactly what he thinks.
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Last time I interviewed Ari, he was in a room and he got in a fight with a guy in the crowd.
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Emmanuel has built an impressive roster of A-list clients, repping some of the most recognizable names in show business.
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This guy is the godfather in Hollywood and he just dropped a scathing op-ed in the Wall Street Journal blasting this destructive lawfare by Bonehead Bonta.So if you don’t want to hear it from me, hear it from the GOAT.
Unless you think this is some MAGA troll, this is Ari Emanuel.
Yes, that Emanuel.
As in, his brother was Barack Obama’s right-hand man or left-hand man. Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel.
Spratt goes on at much greater length if you can handle it.
What Does It All Mean, or Are Our Hasbara Heroes in Real Trouble?
Bloomberg quantifies the financial stakes:
Larry Ellison and his family would be on the hook for $9.8 billion if Paramount Skydance Corp.’s deal to buy Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. falls apart.
Paramount, which is run by Larry’s son David Ellison, agreed to pay Warner Bros. shareholders a $7 billion termination fee if its deal to buy the entertainment giant collapses due to regulatory issues. In February, Paramount paid $2.8 billion to Netflix Inc. to get the streaming company to abandon its pursuit of Warner Bros.
If the Warner Bros. deal doesn’t go through, Larry Ellison and a family trust would reimburse Paramount for both the $7 billion termination fee and the $2.8 billion Netflix fee. Ellison agreed to pay Paramount that $9.8 billion total by purchasing new Class B shares of the company at $16.02 each. Paramount’s stock is trading at about $8 a share presently.
They’ve also got a cool chart, read it and weep, Larry:
— Nat Wilson Turner (@natwilsonturner) July 29, 2026
Substacker Mike Brock thinks “The House of Ellison is on The Brink“:
In September, the equity market handed Ellison $101 billion in a single day for projected revenue from a contract that runs through 2032. No company in this cycle books unrealized contract revenue as earnings the way Enron did; the stock market does the booking on their behalf, pricing the projections into the shares the day the press release goes out. What the equity market booked in an afternoon, the credit market has spent this summer unwinding line by line. It marked the same contract to a different model — one that asks where the cash comes from — and the answer came back BBB-minus. In late June, Oracle logged its worst week since the dot-com bust of 2001 — an anniversary the company should recognize, having barely survived the original. The month of the downgrade, the stock fell 34 percent even as the company landed a $7 billion Pentagon contract. When credit sours, good news stops mattering.
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Where does an eighty-one-year-old get $40 billion in cash? He doesn’t have it. Forbes went through the estate: less than $10 billion in cash, only about $4.7 billion of Oracle stock sold this century, and a family trust whose asset is 1.16 billion Oracle shares. The guarantee is Oracle paper. Before the Warner bid, 346 million of his shares were already pledged as collateral for personal ventures — about 30 percent of his stake — and those pledged shares have lost roughly half their value since. Alongside the family money: $24 billion from the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, and Qatar, which would hold 38.5 percent of the combined company in non-voting shares. The DOJ approved the deal in June with zero conditions. The sitting president had already said out loud that he wanted CNN in the Ellisons’ hands.
The collateral chain runs in one direction. An AI circuit inflates Oracle equity. The equity backs a personal guarantee. The guarantee buys the American press, with Gulf autocracies as co-investors and the government waving from the curb. That was the play: convert circuit paper into hard, permanent assets — the third-largest news network, the second-biggest film library on earth, the cable channel the president most wanted delivered to friendly hands — before the paper deflated.
The paper is deflating first. On July 20, a federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking the close, with a preliminary-injunction hearing set for August 3 that could stall the deal for months. Twelve states are suing. Oracle fell 34 percent in July alone while the guarantee sat exposed underneath it.
Had the deal closed in the spring, the House of Ellison would hold real assets, immune to whatever happens to a cloud backlog. Instead a judge froze the conversion mid-transaction. The guarantee is signed and irrevocable; the assets are undelivered; the collateral loses value every week the courts deliberate. He is holding the obligation without the prize, which is the exact position a man who owns forty percent of a BBB-minus company cannot afford to hold. Margin calls do not read narrative strategy.
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Ellison’s devotion to Israel is the least hidden thing about him. He made the largest single gift in the history of Friends of the IDF; Netanyahu is a personal friend; as far back as 2015 he was privately vetting Marco Rubio for loyalty to Israel in emails with Israel’s UN ambassador. Since 2021 he has given or pledged £257 million to the Tony Blair Institute — and when the Guardian reported that institute staff had taken part in a project reimagining postwar Gaza as a “Trump Riviera,” the money trail behind the institute ran straight back to him. Weiss, the family’s pick for CBS, is known above all for her advocacy on the subject.He is entitled to his cause. The empire has been a catastrophe for it. After thousands of film workers signed a pledge to boycott complicit institutions, Paramount stood publicly accused of maintaining a blacklist of talent who criticized Israel. His move on TikTok spawned a national campaign to take the platform back. Every property he adds attaches his politics to it, and audiences keep responding the same way: by leaving. The machine he built to protect the cause now generates evidence against it. He bought the microphone, and the room walked out.
I’ve gone on way too long but everyone should also see Ed Zitron’s Hater’s Guide to Oracle, Part 2 and Matt Stoller’s “BOOM! Billionaires Punched in the Nose Over Paramount-Warner by State Enforcers, Unions.”
Hang tough y’all. Looks like many of us may yet to see the Ellison hasbara empire collapse.
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