Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

And so there had to be there was this violence was so, you know, so had gotten to be so big that Congress Act and we passed federal legislation to protect abortion clinics and tucked in there.

It said, you know, there was acts about not there's been language about not interrupting religious services as they are happening.

There's very the language around it is very precise, but that has nothing to do with.

journalists documenting any acts that are happening either.

Well, I think, first of all, independent media has always been tremendously important, always in our landscape.

But now more than ever, the already corporate consolidation that has occurred in mass media has now been hyper accelerated

to an oligarchical ownership structure.

So now it's not just that these companies are very big, but that they answer to one, very specifically, usually one billionaire with a very vested political agenda.

And so you have Jeff Bezos who takes over the Washington Post, not because he loves journalism, but because he needs to start controlling and ensuring that dissenting opinions do not get aired in records, papers of record.

And so it's not a coincidence then that you've got Jeff Bezos that takes over the Washington Post and then immediately takes over their opinion section, starts to

to take over their coverage of the 2024 election.

You had the same thing that happened at the LA Times.

Then when you have broadcast journalism, you have these takeovers that have happened, of course, Barry Weiss at CBS, who she and her wife are named in the Epstein files.

And we talk about this coordination, about how you've got

All of these very narrow things like the thing that I think is important about this.

I want to talk about why the Epstein piece here matters is because when wealth gets concentrated so tightly and when corporate power gets concentrated so tightly, we are no longer even talking about the top 10 percent, not even talking about the top one percent in America.

we're talking about the top 0.0001%.

And what that means is that not only does all that power get concentrated into a handful of people, it means that not only all that money, but all that power.

And then what happens is that it gets so concentrated into such a small group of people that they all start to know each other.

So you've got Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos.