Lisa Liebman
@lisaliebman.bsky.social
🇺🇦 Pop culture junkie. Bylines @VanityFair, @WMag, @TheCut, @airmail, @Vulture/@nymag, etc. What's a podcast?
NEW: An months-long effort by DOJ to obtain a journalist's LinkedIn records in a national security leak probe spilled into view Tuesday in a federal appeals court battle. The secretive fight pits big tech against the Trump admin. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
DOJ seeking reporter’s LinkedIn records in secretive First Amendment court fight
The fight comes at a sensitive moment for national media, which has seen reporters targeted by subpoenas and search warrants in leak probes.
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Justice Department Sides With Paramount on Demand That States Post $1.88 Billion Bond The government stressed that it concluded in its investigation that the merger won't undermine competition. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Justice Department Sides With Paramount on Demand That States Post $1.88 Billion Bond
The government stressed that it concluded in its investigation that the merger won't undermine competition.
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Breaking News: A federal judge ruled that the Kennedy Center could not inscribe President Trump’s name on the institution’s exterior. nyti.ms/4h8tf06
I asked AT&T Stadium about the Rolling Stone report about how they objected to Macklemore coming to Arlington next month. They didn't comment, but as I've noted they're still hosting Kanye West in November: www.chron.com/culture/arti...
AT&T Stadium, which will host Ye this fall, objected to Macklemore
The Seattle rapper was dropped from Ed Sheeran's stadium tour bill.
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Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."
Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 3d agoNew: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.
Adolescence Scribe Jack Thorne Claims Fellow Writers Are Using AI To “Cheat” & Says Those Caught Should Be Punished deadline.com/2026/09/adol...
'Adolescence' Scribe Jack Thorne Warns: Writers Using AI To "Cheat"
'Adolescence' writer Jack Thorne has warned that his colleagues are using AI to "cheat." He added that those caught should be punished.
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CBS News boss Bari Weiss has been locked in a power struggle with the network’s president that critics claim is hamstringing the newsroom — and staffers are wagering that one of them gets ousted if ratings continue to flop this fall, The Post has learned. nypost.com/2026/09/13/m...
Exclusive | Bari Weiss caught in dysfunctional ‘Cold War’ power struggle with CBS News president: ‘Two feuding parents’
“It all comes down to the ratings,” a second CBS source said. “Who’s going to get fired first, Bari for ’60’ or Tom for ‘CBS Mornings’ and ‘CBS…
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"You’ve got a con artist who has put in the White House another con artist,+they just keep running bigger+bigger cons, because there’s no Department Of Justice or FBI to tell them to do otherwise,” he told the TIFF audience www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Alex Gibney Says He Got “Nothing Back” From Elon Musk When Reaching Out After Doc Legal Threat
But Gibney has "great concern" that HBO Max may not be able to bring 'Musk' to audiences, as planned, before Warner Bros. Discovery is acquired by the tech barons behind Paramount.
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Israel’s Culture Minister Threatens to Revoke Citizenship of NAZA Filmmakers Culture minister Miki Zohar said Yuval Abraham+Rachel Szor's doc, which details the IDF's alleged systematic targeting and killing of civilians in Gaza, “constitutes treason.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Israel’s Culture Minister Threatens to Revoke the Citizenship of ‘NAZA’ Filmmakers
Culture minister Miki Zohar said Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor's documentary, which details the IDF's alleged systematic targeting and killing of civilians in Gaza, “constitutes treason.”
hollywoodreporter.com
A $50 million gift will fund Native student scholarships for the next five years and create a permanent endowment to support Indigenous students for generations.
A $50 million gift from MacKenzie Scott is being dedicated entirely to Native students, with $10 million funding scholarships over the next five years and $40 million placed in a permanent endowment to support Native students for generations to come.
A $50 million gift from MacKenzie Scott is being dedicated entirely to Native students, with $10 million funding scholarships over the next five years and $40 million placed in a permanent endowment to support Native students for generations to come.
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🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice (DOJ) told a federal judge Friday it’s appealing a scorching court order against President Donald Trump’s attempt to sue himself to create an almost $2 billion fund for his political allies. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Attorney General Blanche said Trump’s ‘weaponization fund’ was dead. Now DOJ is appealing
The DOJ said Friday it's appealing a judge's finding that Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against his own administration was "improper."
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![Here’s the official setting straight of the record from Oldman: “A Canadian journalist [from the outlet Global] asked me about Jack Lowden and the James Bond connection. I did not bring this up. I did not offer this up. She said, ‘So how do you feel about it?’ So I said, ‘Well, they got the six guys because they published the picture of the contenders for the role.’ I said, ‘Rumor has it that they picked someone, but they’ve not announced it yet. And fingers crossed for Jack.’ And they made it sound like I had a hotline to Denis [Villeneuve]! And he was feeding me the information. So they took it to the very edge of misquoting me, moved things around like they do, and it became a headline.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bfxhcwuytdh4xfo6gklh6n4q/bafkreibtygwmldqed4aplw4pnrreuesml7hnewe4wqo6mqoslzieh4pkoe)
In Magazine, Lily McInerny stars with Jake Lacy and Lukita Maxwell in Alexandra Pechman's directorial debut, following an aspiring poet who interns at a prestigious literary mag in 2010s New York. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
‘Magazine’ Review: A Keenly Observed Snapshot of a Young Woman’s Coming of Age Within an Industry on the Brink
Lily McInerny stars with Jake Lacy and Lukita Maxwell in Alexandra Pechman's directorial debut, following an aspiring poet who interns at a prestigious literary mag in 2010s New York.
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Patch Pals, the first Girl Scout Cookie for dogs, on sale next January www.girlscouts.org/en/cookies/c...
Patch Pals | Girl Scouts
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"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"
Marlow Stern@marlownyc.bsky.social · 6d ago‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...
Nashville International Airport is set to be renamed to honor Dolly Parton after a unanimous vote by the local airport authority. Once the effort clears all the hurdles, it will make Nashville one of the few major cities in the U.S. with an airport named after a woman. trib.al/feFqYJV
www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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A disposable camera was reportedly found in the pocket of a man who died at the WTC. The FBI developed the film, "revealing pictures taken from inside one of the towers as the...attacks were unfolding.” Documentarian Jonathan Walczak has tried to get pics for 15 yrs. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/n...
He’s Seen Images of 9/11 From Just About Every Angle. Except This One.
The 9/11 completist community wants to know and see everything. The Holy Grail? Pictures from inside the twin towers.
nytimes.com
Forbes spent an estimated $72.2 million on paid search in July, up 34% year over year and more than eightfold over three years, according to Similarweb data. The New York Times more than doubled its paid search spend year over year, to $11.3 million. www.adweek.com/media/publis...
Publishers Are Spending Hundreds of Millions a Month Buying Traffic
Exclusive data reveals that publishers’ paid search budgets have risen 274% in the last three years, part of an industry-wide response to traffic declines
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Mariska Hargitay Is Enlisting the ‘Colbert’ Team for Her Emmys Hosting Gig, Writers “Set Up Shop” at ‘SVU’ for Several Months of Prep www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/m...
Mariska Hargitay Is Enlisting the ‘Colbert’ Team for Her Emmys Hosting Gig, Writers “Set Up Shop” at ‘SVU’ for Several Months of Prep
Hargitay rolled out the Emmy blue carpet on Thursday, revealing her approach to helming this year's show: "I gotta do it my way."
hollywoodreporter.com
Musk’s super PAC is far from the only Republican-aligned organization to target the Democratic Party’s once-broad support for trans people ahead of the midterms, but it is one of the most powerful and well-funded.
Political ads with made-up trans people are being used to bash Democrats
Elon Musk’s super PAC dropped dozens of ads this week in key Senate races, and the majority of them focus on trans people.
19thnews.org
NAZA Review: A sober and indispensable doc by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, part of the directing team behind 2024 Oscar winner, No Other Land, highlights the immoral, state-of-the-art killing machine employed by the IDF in Gaza. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
‘NAZA’ Review: A Sober and Indispensable Doc Highlights the Immoral, State-of-the-Art Killing Machine Employed by the IDF in Gaza
The Guardian served as producer, and Jonathan Glazer as executive producer, on this exposé by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, part of the directing team behind 2024 Oscar winner 'No Other Land.'
hollywoodreporter.com
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
The American Bar Association, the lawyers group that sets standards for the legal profession, eliminated on Tuesday a diversity requirement for law schools after facing pressure from the Trump administration.
American Bar Association Ends D.E.I. Standards Under Trump Pressure
The group that accredits law schools voted to eliminate a requirement that the schools show a commitment to diversity and inclusion.
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John Malkovich Cancels ‘The Music Critic’ Israel Performance Over Fabricated Quote (Exclusive)
"A PR company hired by the Israeli promoter drafted a quote for the article that was attributed to me, though I never made the statements that were quoted," says Malkovich in a statement to THR.
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