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AOC storms into furor embroiling music superstar: 'At what point does it stop?’
FILE PHOTO: Ed Sheeran performs during the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball concert at Madison Square Garden, in New York City, U.S., December 12, 2025. REUTERS/Kylie Cooper/File Photo
The Billionaire’s Veto Behind the Celebrity Feud
The Diversion
The easiest version of this story is a celebrity spat: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez changes the station when Ed Sheeran plays, Macklemore loses a tour slot, and entertainers choose sides. That framing is useful mainly because it shrinks an exercise of concentrated private power into gossip.
The consequential fact is that New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft…
The skinny
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