U.S. Sues to Block AT&T-Time Warner Merger.

'The Justice Department sued to block AT&’s $85.4 billion bid for Time Warner on Monday, setting up a showdown over the first blockbuster acquisition to be considered by the Trump administration and drawing limits on corporate power in the fast-evolving media landscape.

By challenging the deal, the Justice Department is taking an approach to antitrust issues that is starkly different from the Obama administration’s. In 2011, for instance, the department approved a similar deal — Comcast’s acquisition of NBCUniversal — after imposing numerous conditions on the transaction.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/business/dealbook/att-time-warner-merger.html?

One of the most impactful things you can do to help save net neutrality before Nov. 22 is to make phone calls to Congress.

If offices get more phone calls from constituents, we can persuade them to stop the catastrophic plan to repeal net neutrality.

Please Call: 424-363-4877

We will connect you to the offices of your lawmakers. (this is from https://savethenetfromtrump.com/)

You can use this script when talking to them -- just introduce yourself, be polite, and say:

"I support 'Title Two' net neutrality rules and I urge you to oppose the FCC's plan to repeal them. Specifically, I'd like you to contact the FCC Chairman and demand he abandon his current plan."

We just increased our monthly donation to the Democratic Party of our state. Want it to be to our local county division, but the potential for swing is in other districts, not this one. Not yet.