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They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · yesterdayNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
David Ellison wants us to know he’s not ideological, and that’s why he put a conservative with no tv experience in charge of CBS
Only if the abuser was a Democrat.
Bill Kristol@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · yesterday“But if Miller had abused someone who wasn’t the daughter of a senator, and if there were no electoral repercussions, would any of them have spoken up to condemn his behavior? No. The Republican Party seems happy to turn a blind eye to the abuse of women.” www.thebulwark.com/p/ground-con...
The issue isn’t “trust” at all, it’s media consolidation that allows a small number of wealthy oligarchs to manipulate the entire country’s politics to their benefit and to the detriment of everyone else
It’s a good sign that he feels like he has to lie. He’s absolutely full of it but it’s good that he feels like he has to do something other than blow the sun up Trump’s ass to get what he wants. bsky.app/profile/jeff...
Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 2d agoShameful: The #BrokenTimes hands David Ellison op-ed space rather than challenging his bullshit pap and propaganda about journalism with the receipts he has already delivered at CBS. That would be journalism. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
Epstein survivor meeting Déjà vu. All a sham.
Joyce White Vance@joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 2d agoTodd Blanche's last-minute promise won over Senators Cornyn & Tillis, but shouldn't have. The "deal" leaves Trump's tax immunity intact. It confirms what the Senators should have already known about Blanche's lack of fitness to be AG. My analysis: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
The attempt to frame the Paramount-WBD merger as a political fight—like it’s all about CNN or Trump or something—is, in my view, an attempt to undermine the real problem: that consolidation will harm workers, raise prices for steaming and cable and sports during a cost of living crisis,👇
Max Miller: “If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?" This is a classic abuser tactic.
Anyone who has worked with domestic violence victims know the answer to this is too often yes.
Everything else aside, I love how Trump is like “I didn’t endorse those senators and ended their careers cause they are terrible, how dare they not vote for my guy now!!”
It's noteworthy that the sticking point in getting Todd Blanche confirmed as AG involves financial corruption rather than Blanche refusing to release files about the sex trafficking of children by Trump's former friend. To Republicans, money is always more important than the welfare of children.
This must make @hcrichardson.bsky.social ‘s hair crawl.
Judd Legum@juddlegum.bsky.social · last wk.David Barton is a fake historian who wrote a book on Thomas Jefferson that was so inaccurate his publisher was forced to pull it from the shelves. Now Barton, and his son Tim, are advising Trump on his anti-Smithsonian crusade.
50 years ago this month, NASA's Viking 1 became the first US spacecraft to land safely on Mars and send back images from its surface. It opened the door to everything we know about the Red Planet today.
“We’re gonna have a talk with Bari about that.”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoBRENNAN: CBS is reporting the US cannot sustain the rate at which it has expended precision munitions, that there's a shortage of interceptors MIKE WALTZ: I wish they would also talk about the massive degradation of Iranian munitions
He has no idea “stand the pain” means people buying less groceries because of gas prices. So out of touch with the American people. It’s like Trump saying “so only buy one doll this year!” Kennedy is like “so only buy lunch this year! You don’t need dinner.”
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoKennedy: "I don't think we ought to just cut and run. If we can stand the pain of the rising cost of energy, we need to stay the course at least for a few more months."
This. Celebrity drives so many of them. Like they never left high school.
Seth Abramson@sethabramson.bsky.social · 2w agoThe WHCA goes on annually because it celebrates everything corporate media adores: money, fame, glamor, access, networking, marking oneself part of the in-group, being seen with celebrities, patting itself on the back. There'll never not be a dinner and it'll never not be a betrayal of journalism.
The WHCA goes on annually because it celebrates everything corporate media adores: money, fame, glamor, access, networking, marking oneself part of the in-group, being seen with celebrities, patting itself on the back. There'll never not be a dinner and it'll never not be a betrayal of journalism.
Katie Phang doing the lord’s work like a badass.
Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 2w agoBREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.
After insisting the correspondents' dinner was worth reviving, the WHCA handed Trump a nationally televised platform to smear the very journalists it exists to represent, effectively turn the stage into a Trump rally. It was a disgrace. My latest @status.news www.status.news/p/the-white-...
The White House Correspondents’ Disgrace
The WHCA sought to reconvene its annual dinner in celebration of press freedom. Instead, it handed Donald Trump a platform to attack the very journalists the organization exists to represent.
status.news
Someone should just shout “Quiet, piggy”
Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2w agoEvery “journalist” at this dinner should hang their heads in shame.
This line alone should be why people shouldn’t attend this thing.
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2w agoAttn: @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov Relevant to your interests.
Did anyone else cry at the end of The Sheep Detectives or was that just me? 🥹🐏
“Paramount also described the delay as a “significant win” because it gives the company “a direct path to a trial based on the evidence,” a spokeswoman said.” The Blake Lively playbook. The delay will cost them $650 million a quarter starting in October. But yeah that’s a “win.”
Paramount Agrees to Delay Warner Bros. Merger for Months
The company agreed to a proposed freeze until June 2027, unless a judge issues a ruling before then on a lawsuit blocking the deal.
nytimes.com
When I went to a #blockthemerger event in LA, someone there said higher ups at WB were laughing at all of us fighting like we had no chance in hell. Who’s laughing now?
Mark Ruffalo@markruffalo.bsky.social · 2w agoThis means this deal isn’t “inevitable” nothing today is inevitable. But you have to fight. Now is the time for some of the folks who thought it was “inevitable” to feel inspired and come join this fight. #blockthemerger Www.blockthemerger.org.
The White House Correspondents Association is having a dinner for this man tonight.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoQ: You're talking about blowing up civilian power plants and bridges. Much of the civilized world would consider that a war crime. Do you? TRUMP: I won't respond to that question. Who are you with? Q: The New York Times TRUMP: I figured. The failing New York Times.
Breaking News: Paramount agreed to delay its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery while a judge considers a lawsuit aimed at blocking the deal.
Paramount Agrees to Delay Warner Bros. Merger for Months
The company agreed to a proposed freeze until June 2027, unless a judge issues a ruling before then on a lawsuit blocking the deal.
nyti.ms
