“Today, Local News International, which he cofounded with two former Post colleagues, is profitable. … Much of Jorgenson’s work rests on a simple premise: in an increasingly crowded news environment, humor can help journalists break through.” www.cjr.org/the-intervie...

Dave Jorgenson: Defusing misinformation through humor.

Dave Jorgenson, cofounder of Local News International, on the post-Post life.

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The president of the United States and a cabinet secretary were willing to imprison (yet another) an innocent person — this time an American Olympian — to to sustain (yet another) lie. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/u...

Inside the Oval Office Showdown Between Trump and Jeanine Pirro (Gift Article)

Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, told President Trump that his interior secretary, Doug Burgum, had misled him with a self-serving cover story for his own mistakes.

nytimes.com

Key words: Feel. Seen. Not told they are seen. Feel. Seen.

Maximillian Potter@maxpotter.bsky.social · 19h ago

“Nunez sees brand storytelling and leadership as one and the same: a vehicle through which people feel seen.” Kinda great advice for aspiring electeds that you won’t ever hear from the existing political consultant class. www.forbes.com/sites/marcus...

Man, I missed Ted Lasso.

That’s that American spirit! Generations of US servicemembers have sacrificed their limbs and lives for the ideas and ideals of democracy but these members of Congress can’t do the suit-and-tie legislator thing and honor their oath.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

You don’t say. www.thedailybeast.com/maga-curious...

MAGA-Curious CBS Accused of Censoring Major Epstein Scoop

Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden says a bombshell “60 Minutes” segment is “being suppressed.”

thedailybeast.com

“Nunez sees brand storytelling and leadership as one and the same: a vehicle through which people feel seen.” Kinda great advice for aspiring electeds that you won’t ever hear from the existing political consultant class. www.forbes.com/sites/marcus...

Former Apple And Nike Exec Warns The Cost Of Getting Culture Wrong

Culture is the most influential external force on human behavior. Those who get it right when, and those who get it wrong fail.

forbes.com

It would be incredible that people like this ascend as they do except for the fact that so many of them do. (The Trump era is proof that integrity, talent and EQ have so little to do with so much of what passes for success and “leadership.”)

Status@status.news · 2d ago

New “60 Minutes” executive producer Nick Bilton welcomed staff back from their July vacations with a weekend memo in which he delivered a stern message about leaks, a missive that naturally leaked to us. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...

Matt Damon Defends Dunkin’ Product Placement In Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ https://theonion.com/matt-damon-defends-dunkin-product-placement-in-nolans-odyssey/

Major victory for accountability: Massachusetts just passed the Universal Constitutional Remedies Act thru its legislature, ensuring if gov officials violate your constitutional rights, you have a way to seek justice: https://protdem.org/4g9uCvh Here's where UCRA is becoming the law of the land:

I just had a gyro. Here's what Christopher Nolan gets wrong about Greek culture.

What’s in your wallet? Money laundering. I mean, of course. For starters. Wait until we get to objective law enforcement authorities going under the hood of his crypto scams. Imagine Capital One or any biz trying to defend itself against a felon-president boss of the DOJ/regulatory agencies.

Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 4d ago

The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.

2015 I’m at a Philly OTB with my dad; two guys nearby who seemed to be early 70s are talking as many TVs screened the simulcast: One says something like: *I’m gonna vote for Trump. He has no idea what he’s doing but it will be fun to watch what he does to Washington DC.* I think about that often.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Trump: “I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro on the Reflecting Pool. I don’t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM, that included the grass, which had a big 86 47 emblazoned …There may have been some contractor difficulty, but major damage was caused by VANDALS!”

"The grownups are worried. In group chats and at happy hours, some GOP veterans fret about the rising generation of young staffers in their party. The recurring complaint: The pipeline that feeds young conservative talent into government jobs is defective — if not broken."

Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 4d ago

Bad news: Neo-Nazism continues to grow on the right, especially among the youth. Good news: Obsessively online neo-Nazi youth are incompetent policymakers and don’t do governance. Yet. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

“Managers had informed… that Conn Selmer was closing its Eastlake plant. Some production would move to a nonunion factory in Elkhart, Indiana. The rest was going to China, where the company had begun building a $21 million manufacturing facility.” Strong recommend for this piece by Peter Jamison.

The last day of a factory in Trump country, as its work moves to China

For generations, this Ohio factory was a way of life. Then came the final shift.

washingtonpost.com

Here’s what I’ve learned in life: if you make an obvious mistake in food prep and someone is watching you and says, *Hey, that’s an obvious mistake.* And you say, with confidence, like you know what you’re talking about, *No, I learned that from a French chef.* … It’s still an obvious mistake.

What the US government is doing to Dr. Fauci is the embodiment of what they are doing to scientific infrastructure overall.

The Reflecting Pool is yet another Trump deflecting tool — merely one of a BAHzillion examples of this man ruining the lives of others and Americans writ large with toxic lies and devastating attacks to deflect from the stupid-obvious fact that he himself is the one guilty of fucking up everything.

While you were over here trying to figure out how you were going to cover the rent and food—this guy was over there using $5.1 million in taxpayer money YOU paid into the system to cover these statues in 23 karat gold. Yeah, he did that.

Almost as transparently unhinged as blaming a three-time Olympian for destroying the Memorial Reflecting Pool. Or the deep state-Antifa for January 6 Or …

Politico@politico.com · 5d ago

Trump blames Minnesota water hacks on Walz, while evidence points to Iran

New rule: if the indictment gets a press conference, the dismissal gets one too

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.

this Pirro press conference is completely beyond parody, like a deleted scene from Idiocracy. listen to this shit

Among so many lies about … everything. So many stupid obvious lies. Like, about *evvvvvvvery* thing.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 5d ago

We could've made this montage of liars an hour long but you get the point

“The problem: publishers and movie companies may not be able to register copyright and come away with a clear title chain if there are certain AI elements in the mix. That’s because AI-aided copy is an amalgamation of many other copyrighted works.”

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 5d ago

1. Newer writers, just don't fucking use "AI" for anything, ever 2. How odd that being an established writer with a firm "no 'AI'" stance and ample pre-"AI" IP will become a definite competitive advantage over "new, hot, and possibly copyright compromised" deadline.com/2026/07/ai-q...

“Interviews with dozens of donors, executives, lobbyists, Trump advisers and others indicate a staggering fundraising and influence operation, with Trump at the center of it all. The president closely tracks who gives, aides said…” The corruption is STAGGERING. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Exclusive | ‘The Boss Wants This Money’: Inside Trump’s Unprecedented Fundraising Operation

Meredith O’Rourke, nicknamed ‘princess of darkness,’ carries out the president’s desire to wring hundreds of millions from companies for his projects.

wsj.com

I’ll confess that for 20 or so seconds while watching the movie I thought what it might have been like with Chris Farley as O and I started giggling like I was in fifth grade.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d ago

If not Matt Damon, who is you alternative Odysseus?

A lot to unpack in this one. The first twp graphs alone are … dense. www.wsj.com/finance/cita...

Exclusive | Citadel Buys Situational Awareness’s Stock Portfolio After Big Losses in AI

The highflying hedge fund run by Leopold Aschenbrenner is in crisis mode after AI-related bets sank.

wsj.com

The State Department said ​it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.

A thought I’ve had constantly since becoming a parent 26 years ago is: *Am I being the kind of human I hope our children become? Am I walking the walk of what I hoped to instill in them?* Like, be kind. Don’t be a dick. I think that’s how most parents roll. So how did America end up with a Trump?

Plenty of people waned this would happen. Texas did it anyway.

Texas Tribune@texastribune.org · 6d ago

The state has found some registered Texas voters were wrongly flagged as potential noncitizens. The secretary of state told counties to immediately reinstate any Texans who were removed from the voter roll despite showing DPS proof of citizenship. bit.ly/4yOsWzH

There's a real sense that Trump is running into serious limits on his power right now on many fronts. So I asked @davidkurtz.bsky.social: Are we constraining Trump, or not? His answer is so, so good. I pushed back and he went with it well. Check it out on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2137...