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JUST IN - Facebook's "Oversight Board" to announce ruling whether or not #Trump will be allowed to return to the platform on May 5, 2021.
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1389193401514565632
Verizon sells Yahoo and AOL to private equity firm for $5 billion
Verizon on Monday announced that it will sell its digital media unit, including Yahoo and AOL, to private equity firm Apollo Global Management for $5 billion.
Details: Apollo will pay $5 billion for a 90% stake in the business, with Verizon retaining a 10% stake. It's a slightly higher price than what was expected, but still far short of the $9 billion that Verizon paid to acquire the businesses.
It previously sold former Yahoo properties HuffingtonPost (to Buzzfeed) and Tumblr (to Automattic), but for nominal amounts.
Both the Yahoo and AOL acquisitions were meant to give Verizon lots of data so that it could sell targeted advertising against its media assets. AT&T, a rival phone company, tried to do the same thing with its acquisition of Time Warner's media assets in 2018….
https://www.axios.com/verizon-yahoo-aol-apollo-03505214-29e7-4f73-9e77-3d778233ecad.html
I stand corrected, wanna try for 6?
Trump keeps winning rounds in GOP's civil war
He doesn't need a formal title, or even Twitter or Facebook.
Former President Donald Trump's message is getting out just fine without those forms of communication. Trump is continuing to rack up wins inside his party – sometimes without even extending much effort in the battles.
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., is again being forced to defend her position in House leadership, this time with fewer voices inside the GOP coming out to back her. Cheney's fist bump with President Joe Biden last week only adding a visual to efforts to bring another no-confidence vote this month on whether the highest-ranking congressional Republican to have supported Trump's impeachment should still hold the No. 3 job in the House.
On Saturday in Texas, perhaps the most competitive special House election of 2021 landed the Trump-endorsed candidate in the top spot heading for a runoff. Perhaps more tellingly, the only anti-Trump candidate finished ninth in an all-party primary; he garnered barely 2,500 votes, or just more than 3%, and trailed four Republicans as well as four Democrats.
On the same day in Utah, the only Republican to vote twice to convict Trump, Sen. Mitt Romney, was greeted by a raucous round of jeers at his home-state party's convention. Those boos will be remembered longer than the effort to censure him over his public breaks with Trump, which failed narrowly.
Romney was trying to tell his fellow Republicans about his policy differences with Biden when the boos forced him to pause.
"Aren't you embarrassed?" he asked the crowd.
That didn't require an answer. Nearly four months after Jan. 6, pro-Trump forces are energized about being just that – with ramifications for Biden's governing agenda, and of course for the future of the Republican Party….
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-winning-rounds-gops-civil-war-note/story?id=77451029&cid=social_twitter_abcn
Bernie Sanders on James Carville: ‘I Don’t Think He’s Terribly Relevant to What Happens in Congress’
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) responded to political strategist James Carville saying the Democratic Party “can’t be more liberal” than Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) because they will not be able to pass any of their legislation.
Sanders shrugged off Carville’s remarks, saying he does not think Carville is “terribly relevant to what happens in Congress right now.”
“[S]enator Manchin has said he’s not in favor of lowering the eligibility age [for Medicare]. Do you think that was probably why Joe Biden didn’t include your provision in his plan?” host Chuck Todd asked.
“No, I don’t think so,” Sanders replied. “James Carville can live in his world. I don’t think he’s terribly relevant to what happens in Congress right now. Here is the story, very simple story — is that right now for the last 55 years, since Medicare was developed in 1965, it has not included coverage for dental care, hearing aids and eyeglasses. And I can tell you in Vermont and all over this country, you’ve got senior citizens whose teeth are rotting in their mouth, older people who can’t talk to their grandchildren because they can’t hear them because they can’t afford a hearing aid, and people can’t read a newspaper because they can’t afford glasses. So, to say dental care, hearing aids and eyeglasses should be a part of Medicare makes all the sense in the world.”
https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2021/05/02/bernie-sanders-on-james-carville-i-dont-think-hes-terribly-relevant-to-what-happens-in-congress/
There I was just newsfagging and all of a sudden…