David Ellison tried to convince the public he can be trusted with CNN. But staffers inside the network torched his New York Times essay in brutal comments to us, pointing to the Paramount chief's disastrous record at CBS News. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/david-elli...

The Ellison Credibility Crisis

The Paramount boss tried to convince the public he can be trusted with CNN. But staffers inside the network torched his Times essay in brutal comments to Status, pointing to his disastrous record at C...

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This is 💯 not true. It is never a choice between ‘taking big tech’s money and doing nothing’. A stronger moral imperative is NOT to take the money and the strings attached to it - particularly if you do not and cannot yet understand the implications

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h ago

“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”

Community news organizations, enmeshed in an information ecosystem on social media and messaging apps, can verify, clarify, and connect. Read Irene Romulo and Nina Weingrill. www.cjr.org/analysis/in-...

In a fast-moving crisis, what is the role of journalism?

Community news organizations, enmeshed in an information ecosystem on social media and messaging apps, can verify, clarify, and connect.

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So CBS and others invested in a pro trump audience that won’t arrive, alienating their actual audience, and trump propagandists are losing audience bc people are souring on Trump. Also helps explain the increased racist shrieking as they try to farm engagement www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

How the Pro-Trump Media Ecosystem Is Splintering Ahead of the Midterms

Once united in support of President Trump, right-wing influencers are embroiled in feuds and losing viewers, creating a problem for Republicans in the midterm elections.

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the digital entertainment version of the Odyssey most deserving of this kind of cultural brouhaha .. is Claire Danes reading Emily Wilson’s translation as an audiobook

Really enjoyed the LRB essay - and this thread. Now have an impending sense of doom that I might at some point have to watch the bloody film

EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · last wk.

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It’s literally the worst possible idea. Years ago I had an argument with a noted British analyst from Andreessen Horowitz who claimed that *no one* who wanted the BBC to face cuts wanted the news arm to suffer. And yet here we are.

Emily Bell@emilybell.bsky.social · last wk.

It is crazy to me that the BBC is cutting news services when you look at these charts. You have a growing demographic bulge in the 55+ group who are BBC dependent - BUT you also have an 18 to 24 group where almost a quarter ALSO get their news…

It is crazy to me that the BBC is cutting news services when you look at these charts. You have a growing demographic bulge in the 55+ group who are BBC dependent - BUT you also have an 18 to 24 group where almost a quarter ALSO get their news…

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.

Where the young and old get news (Times, via Ofcom) Tom Calver www.thetimes.com/article/f469...

1/ This is Nick Adams. He’s a big deal in MAGA world. He’s got 638K followers on X and 2.1M on Facebook. President Trump even appointed him to a role at the State Dept. But when I started digging into Adams' nonprofit for "civics" education, something didn't look right ... 🧵

This is an absolutely cracking story by @kalibomeli.bsky.social - who graduated from @columbiajournalism.bsky.social this year. So pleased @propublica.org is running this story about grift www.propublica.org/article/trum...

This MAGA Influencer Runs a Charity to Teach Kids Civics. Much of the Money Goes to Him Instead.

Nick Adams’ Foundation for Liberty and American Greatness has brought in millions in donations and helped him land a State Department appointment, but records show there is almost no indication FLAG w...

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It's been hard to do my job this year. Being back reporting — and in print again — means more than I can say. Please spend some time with my story about a Trump administration crackdown on faculty speech at West Point, and one professor's lonely rebellion. wapo.st/4fo0lts

Congrats to Dove Ellis for being the first act ever at Newport Folk to say ‘what’s the story Balamory?’ on stage

Politico's owner is giving Peter Thiel an award. Semafor just added more tech billionaires to its Silicon Valley suck-up advisory board. Now comes the Economist's "Insider" interview with Elon Musk, sponsored by Anthropic. The sorry state of business/tech journalism in one stunning image.

European Commission took two decisions finding non-compliance by Google with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for self-preferencing on Google Search, and for putting in place restrictions on businesses to direct consumers to alternative, often cheaper, purchase channels on Google Play (steering).

Commission fines Google €890 million for breaches of the Digital Markets Act

Today, the European Commission took two decisions finding non-compliance by Google with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) for self-preferencing its own services on Google Search, and for putting in place ...

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I was unaware of this plot.

‘diarrhea lettuce’ - not just a strong password

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 2w ago

🚨 A PUBLIC HEALTH FAILURE RFK JR: “We do have the outbreak under control.” Strange way to describe a “skyrocketing” outbreak. More than 11,000 people sickened with cyclosporiasis in 41 states.

"We found that at least 150 institutions of higher ed... are using Flock’s surveillance network.. many campus police departments have facilitated immigration related investigations, even when they are located in sanctuary states and are legally prohibited from doing so" by @torinmonahan.bsky.social

Flock on campus: university police as appendages of a national policing apparatus

Dangerous new forms of networked surveillance are gaining traction with police departments across the United States. One popular example is Flock Safety’s Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR)...

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My last observation about the World Cup is how it has brought to these shores - and indeed this city - *even more* journalists (mostly of the British man variety) who think we (people who live here) want to hear or read their half baked (if that) insights , into US politics and society…

This is a good point often overlooked . Also in the US, the communities universities create - often more diverse, younger, maybe more liberal - are a political target in themselves

Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 2w ago

Universities and students are not enclosed units, ivory towers separate from the rest of their local communities. They eat and drink (a lot) including spending lots of money in local pubs and restaurants. They shop. They get buses, taxis and Ubers. They put money into local economies.

Is there a clips version of the Odyssey?

💯💯

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’ve been reading Muskism. I know I’m annoying with this BUT every evil person isn’t dumb. and every evil person being dumb on X isn’t merely dumb. It’s very much worth your time to parse why Musk uses this rhetoric the way that he does.

Oh my god new slogan: FLAMING HYDRA, WE’RE THE DIM SUM

Suzanne Forbes aka Slurketta@suzanneforbes.bsky.social · 3w ago

This story blew my mind! Getting most newsletters or daily media in my inbox usually feels like homework to me, but @flaminghydra.com feels like the dim sum cart getting wheeled out :)

And a definitive piece on the England vs Argentina historic rivalry, devoid of the jingoism encouraged in other parts of the commentariat, but full of rich detail by Marcela Mora y Araujo www.theguardian.com/football/202...

War, antics and vitriol – the England v Argentina rivalry is real but now it is only about football

Mexico 1986, France 1998, Japan 2002 … this is a match that transcends, with Argentina’s head coach Lionel Scaloni calling for the focus to be on football, not the Falklands

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A couple more pieces of lovely writing from mates who write about 🏆⚽️⚽️ One on the England team from @jonallsop.bsky.social - well done for getting ‘Spursy’ into the New Yorker - www.newyorker.com/contributors...

Jon Allsop

Jon Allsop is a contributing writer at The New Yorker. He previously wrote and oversaw the Columbia Journalism Review’s daily newsletter, “The Media Today,” and has contributed to publications includi...

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NEW: A 28-year-old man died Tuesday morning following an encounter with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations agents in St. Augustine, marking the third death involving ICE in a week.

Man dies during immigration encounter in Florida, the third ICE-involved death in a week

Third ICE-involved death in a week confirmed after fatal St. Augustine crash during joint agency operation. National outrage grows over enforcement and deaths

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🔴 For the past year @lucasamin.bsky.social and I have been investigating Palantir in the UK What we found was a company with unrivalled political access, selling a product many data experts in the NHS don’t use, and don’t rate Please read and share democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...

"It's just a waste of time": inside Palantir's £330m NHS failure

Our new investigation reveals the problems with Palantir’s NHS tech - and the unrivalled political access that fuelled the firm’s march into the British state

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Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guerrero weren't murdered because of car pursuits. They were murdered because the men driving those cars felt comfortable recklessly killing. None of this ends until we shut down ICE completely.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 3w ago

BREAKING: ICE orders officers to stop pursuing people in vehicles after fatal shootings in Maine and Texas, according to a current senior DHS official and two former senior DHS officials.

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

Celebrating the good where one can find it , which is mostly in communal celebration and good writing - the World Cup has both. Here are two outstanding pieces first - @bcmerchant.bsky.social on why VAR is such a good metaphor/mirror of AI open.substack.com/pub/bloodint...

What VAR tells us about AI

FIFA's semi-automated refereeing system promises neutrality but brims with bias. It's widely despised yet embraced by elites. It is, in other words, a lot like AI.

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Misuse’ of crowd control weapons on ICE protesters led to blindings and traumatic brain injuries, report finds

Doctors and human rights experts documented hundreds of incidents from June 2025 through May 2026 and estimate true number is ‘far greater’

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