Comment on Viacom-CBS merger is Shari Redstone's victory

Lauren Windsor caught Martha Ann Alito vowing vengeance on media and everyone else in her own words, including her promise that her German heritage justified her lust for revenge. I can honestly say that I did not have Alito's wife being more unhinged than Ginni Thomas on my Bingo card, but here we are.

Above, Consolidated performs Consolidated Anthem (1989). Our fight against fascism continues. The Bipartisan Report makes the case for TFG getting jail time. Hullabaloo says Biden remembers the past, and TFG fails to learn from it (or anything else, for that matter). The Weekly Sift suggests to stop fascism, rally around the old guy. Comic Sands reports on a nice moment from Normandy. Bonus Track: The Moomin Blog shares letters from children to the author Tove Jansson, and follows up with them now as adults. Round-up by Tengrain who blogs at Mock, Paper, Scissors.

Here's what "the party of the working class" intends to do to the tax system: Republicans in Congress are preparing to not just extend former president Donald Trump’s 2017 tax cuts if they win control of Washington in November’s elections, but also lower rates even more for corporations. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) lowered rates for individuals of nearly all income levels, though it cut taxes most for the highest earners, and slashed the maximum corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent.

OpenAI has hired Sarah Friar, the former chief executive of neighborhood social networking service Nextdoor Holdings Inc., to serve as its chief financial officer, a role that has gone unfilled at the fast-growing artificial intelligence startup for two years. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The ChatGPT maker has also named Kevin Weil as its new chief product officer, the company is set to announce Monday.

BLANTYRE, Malawi — Soldiers are searching mountainous forests near a city in northern Malawi after a military plane carrying the country’s vice president and a former first lady went missing in the area Monday, President Lazarus Chakwera said. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The plane carrying 51-year-old Vice President Saulos Chilima, former first lady Shanil Dzimbiri and eight others left the southern African nation’s capital, Lilongwe, at 9:17 a.m.

Some people may want to put their summer vacation plans to the Las Vegas area on hold, after health officials reported that Southern Nevada is experiencing the highest level of mosquito activity in known history, with more than 3,000 mosquitoes testing positive for West Nile virus. Southern Nevada Health District said in a press release Monday that as of June 6, 91 pools, comprising 3,081 mosquitoes from 16 ZIP codes, have tested positive for the virus.