President Trump probably can't get rid of her yet, but FCC commissioner Anna Gomez still checks her email every day to see if he has. Until then, she wants to stand up for the First Amendment. If you've given much thought to the Federal Communications Commission in recent years, it probably had something to do with Brendan Carr . The group's chairman since 2025, Carr has been on an ongoing, public rampage against freedom of speech: he's gone after late-night hosts like Jimmy Kimmel, threatened to revoke broadcast licenses over Iran war coverage, and targeted networks for their DEI policies. Disturbing as Carr's rhetoric and actions have been, he does count at least one opponent within the agency: Commissioner Anna Gomez, currently the lone Democrat among three FCC commissioners, has been vocal about the damage she thinks the agency is doing to American press freedom--and has repeatedly urged the public and the press, namely major networks like ABC, CBS, and NBC, to fight back. In May, Commissioner Gomez penned a stunning public letter to Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro, wherein she warned that the company--which owns ABC--was being subjected to "a sustained, coordinated campaign of censorship and control, carried out through the weaponization of the FCC's authority as a federal regulator and aimed at pressuring a free and independent press." Gomez urged D'Amaro to fight the actions her own agency was taking, adding that "this is a fight worth having, and one that I am confident you will win." I wanted to talk to Commissioner Gomez about that bold letter, the risks she sees for the media and the American public under the Trump administration, and how she works alongside a chairman with whom she disagrees so fiercely. Gomez, whose FCC term ends this month, was generous enough to sit down and talk about all of it. You can read our conversation below, or listen to it on the podcast platform of your choice. KATIE DRUMMOND: Welcome, Commissioner Gomez. Thank you for being here. It's great to be here. I want to start, before we talk more about Disney and your letter and all the rest of it, with a very basic question for our listeners. What is your agency's basic role?

The commercial was submitted by the Freedom of the Press Foundation to run during Donald Trump's UFC event. It criticized the $111 billion merger as a threat to the First Amendment. Viewers who tuned into the Paramount+ livestream of UFC Freedom 250 on Sunday night, held to mark President Trump' s 80th birthday as well as the nation's semiquincentennial, were treated to the surreal spectacle of mixed martial artists beating each other bloody in a massive cage installed on the White House lawn. But there was one bruising blow they missed: an advertisement blasting the $111 billion merger agreement between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery . That's because Paramount refused to air the ad, according to Freedom of the Press Foundation, the nonprofit advocacy group that submitted it to run during the event.

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Larry Ellison Is a'Shadow President' in Donald Trump's America The Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the same way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil. Save this storyIn Trumpworld, Larry Ellison gets more credit than anyone else for operating in the shadows. Over a drink earlier in Donald Trump's second term, one of the president's advisers described the Oracle cofounder, chairman, and chief technology officer to me as a literal "shadow president of the United States," if not necessarily the shadow president. In the months since, Ellison, who's been trading the title of "richest man alive" with Elon Musk lately, has begun to live up to the moniker. Musk is almost starting over from scratch, working his way back into Trump's good graces by seeming to pretend that whole ugly breakup and half-baked ploy to form a third party never happened. Rupert Murdoch is 94 years old and ceding more control of his media empire to his son Lachlan.

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. This week has demonstrated that the tech "broligarch" who's most influenced President Donald Trump's second administration isn't Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, or Marc Andreessen--it's Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, the 80-year-old software tycoon who recently became the second-richest man in the world. Just look at everything that's gone his way. On Thursday evening, the Federal Communications Commission finally voted to approve Paramount's 8.4 billion merger with fellow entertainment firm Skydance Media. The controversial, long-awaited deal only came about thanks to Paramount's appeals to this administration: settling a baseless lawsuit that Trump brought against 60 Minutes for "deceptively" editing its Kamala Harris interview, pressuring subsidiary CBS News to shift its "balance" in a right-wing direction, and canceling presidential foe and beloved comedian Stephen Colbert's highly rated late-night talk show.

Thousands of protesters have clashed with authorities as they took to the streets of Los Angeles for a third night in response to United States President Donald Trump's extraordinary deployment of the National Guard. Sunday's protests in Los Angeles, a sprawling city of 4 million people, were centred in several blocks of the city centre. It was the third and most intense day of demonstrations against Trump's immigration crackdown in the region, as the arrival of about 300 National Guard troops spurred anger and fear among many residents. The troops were deployed specifically to protect federal buildings, including the Metropolitan Detention Center where protesters concentrated. The crowds blocked a major highway and set fire to self-driving cars.

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Paramount just announced that it's going ahead with a new video game based on Avatar: The Last Airbender, which will be developed by Saber Interactive. For the uninitiated, Saber is behind titles like Snowrunner and Teardown. It also has plenty of experience making licensed content, as it published Evil Dead: The Game and World War Z: Aftermath, among others. After all, there have been plenty already. Paramount is already crowing about the title, though, calling it a "AAA RPG" and claiming it'll be the "biggest video game in franchise history."

A sci-fi series has taken the number one spot on IMDB following the release of its second season - despite the show's'disappointing' debut in 2022. The first season of the video game adaptation was deemed a'one-hit' wonder' by viewers who felt the story was written by a'high schooler' and the graphics were'low budget CGI.' But Halo season two, released this month, now sits at number one in IDMB's list of top sci-fi TV series. The Paramount series has 7.2 stars and more than 81,000 votes - overtaking popular shows like Netflix's Stranger Things and Black Mirror. Halo also has an 89 percent on Rotten Tomatoes - a jump from season one's 61 percent rating.

Sylvester Stallone wants his daughters, Sistine, Scarlet and Sophia, to be ready for anything. In new clips from the second season of their Paramount reality series, "The Family Stallone," Stallone spoke about his two eldest daughters, Sophia and Sistine, moving to New York, calling it "traumatic" as he recalled his own experiences with robbery, car accidents, and more. "Since you guys have moved to New York, it's made me very uneasy. You know I'm paranoid anyway because I have a responsibility as a father to do everything I can," he told them early in the episode. The girls then joked about him being "the most paranoid person on the planet," with the youngest daughter Scarlet saying "he is crazy!"