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NEW: Two government watchdog groups have demanded an investigation into whether FCC officials violated ethics requirements by accepting luxury gala tickets from Paramount as it sought federal approval for its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros.

FCC Commissioners Face Ethics Complaints for Taking Luxury Gifts From Paramount

Citing a ProPublica report on Paramount providing luxury Kennedy Center gala tickets to FCC officials, the complaints note that commissioners accepted the gifts while the FCC was reviewing or about to...

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This will be cited to justify the usual claims about how journalism is elitist and out of touch. But as Ryan's follow-up shows, it's actually because the NYT and WSJ are surviving while newspapers everywhere else are folding.

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · 2d ago

more than 8 percent of all American newspaper journalists work in Manhattan, up from 2 percent in 2005 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Oh the irony.

JoeMyGod@joemygod.bsky.social · 3d ago

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

The schools that stood up to Trump thug demands—first Wesleyan and Princeton, then Harvard, then many others who were emboldened—have won in court and earned honor in history and support from alums. Columbia showed that appeasement always loses. It's never enough. Don't do it, Yale.

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 3d ago

Need to have some frank talk about #Yale President McInnis, General Counsel Alexander Dreier and the trustees. First, they keep saying that they are compelled to enter into a settlement with the #Trump administration. Untrue. 1/

USA Asset Mgmt: 🇺🇸 > @scottlincicome.bsky.social

Seven-byline alert: 🚨 “.. the $20bn hedge fund founded by former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner, has sought to raise fresh capital from investors after suffering heavy losses during the recent rout in AI stocks.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/2803...

After the revolution the liberals and their bloody-handed rules-based order will be replaced by a bloody-handed rules-based order, but at least to Moyn’s gratification the liberals will mourn more.

Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social · last wk.

Two paragraphs in and we are already thick in the bullshit.

On this day in 1994, Dr. John Britton and his volunteer bodyguard, James Barrett, were shot and killed outside the Pensacola Ladies' Center in Florida. The murderer was Paul Jennings Hill, a minister and anti-abortion extremist. 🧵

MAGA are death-dealers. 💔

ProPublica@propublica.org · last wk.

John Gai carried his sick father to a nearby clinic in a wheelbarrow, but he died from cholera on the way. Gai then pushed the wheelbarrow for hours through the camp to take him to the cemetery: “Nobody should have to carry a dead body among the living.” (Published December 2025)

Once more: Mamdani understands that you can't just do things in politics and expect voters will notice on their own and thank you for it. You've got to work just as hard selling yourself to voters once you're in office as you did selling yourself to them to get into office. This is the way.

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last wk.

Now serving: a new era for small business.

Hey I know inflation is out of control and a lot of folks can’t afford basic necessities, but at least we’re tackling waste fraud and abuse by buying… *checks notes* 250 Escalades for the government.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The Rosenberg Boys

When Ethel and Julius Rosenberg were executed by the U.S. government, they left behind two sons, ages 6 and 10. All these years later, Robby and Michael are still trying to make sense of what happened...

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Biden is to blame for the fact that our stockpiles are depleted which, I want to assure you, are not at all depleted

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

WELKER: Is America backing away from a larger attack bc our stockpile has been depleted? WALTZ: We have to take a step back. A lot of our stockpiles were depleted because of Biden WELKER: But you acknowledge they're depleted? WALTZ: No. And the people leaking this nonsense deserve to be in jail

Since a certain movie is in the public consciousness: this obscenity — in the Greek sense of the term — is like something out of an ancient play. www.huffpost.com/entry/iran-w...

Iran War Widow Says 'Nobody Has Reached Out' To Explain Husband's Removal From Death Toll

Jamiah Gonzalez-Swinton gave a tearful interview after her late husband, Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton, vanished from the Pentagon’s public casualty count.

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Ossoff: "Each day his allies are fewer & even they no longer deny his corruption, the obscene self-dealing while he plunges nation deeper into reckless war while he rakes in billions & builds himself ballroom & prepares again to attack elections. Let's be clear, one man attempted fraud in GA: Trump"

Remembering Silas Soule, born OTD in 1838. American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, military officer, and hero for disobeying orders to participate in Sand Creek Massacre and then giving evidence against his commander. Murdered 1865. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_S...

lol

Matthew Hay Brown@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 2w ago

UPDATE Brazil has denied visas to the two State Department officials Trump planned to send to undermine confidence in the country’s electoral system

Fuck you Peter Thiel

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · last mo.

"We declared a War On Cancer in the 1970s and we have not made significant progress on treating cancer despite ever-increasing funding. It's a welfare program for academic labs" Bro what the FUCK are you talking about. The survival statistics do not bear this out even at first glance

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Awesome.

@allenidaho.bsky.social · 2w ago

Trump has announced an unconstitutional 2028 Presidential Run at the White House Correspondent's Dinner. www.theage.com.au/world/trump-...

On his Facebook page Barron has posted 9 times in the past week on his interview with JD Vance. He’s clearly salivating at the prospect of integralist Trojan horse Vance becoming president. Barron had 3 million followers.

Tom Carter@thcarter123.bsky.social · 2w ago

Aint we got fun. Wanker Barron got his feelings hurt. open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...

Great job, everyone. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/u...

After Democratic Shake-Up, Susan Collins Holds Enormous Cash Edge in Maine (Gift Article)

Republicans are pouring huge sums behind the Maine senator through a web of billionaire-funded super PACs. Troy Jackson, the likely Democratic nominee, has a lot of catching up to do.

nytimes.com

Great stuff!

Elizabeth Spiers@espiers.bsky.social · last mo.

I wrote about JD Vance and his new memoir, which is somehow worse than his earlier one: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

AOC doesn't hold back after reports Mike Johnson may call an early August recess: "I mean, we're here to do a job... And if you are leaving your job early, you need to be accountable for that and tell people why. And these folks just don't want to work. And it's really shameful."

For a president who claims to be a great dealmaker his administration sure seems to negotiate some crappy deals. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

Worst. Negotiators. Ever.

The Trump administration continues to overplay its hand and agree to shitty deals.

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Rima I Anabtawi@rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 2w ago

Madison police kill man in broad daylight in front of witnesses wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/madis...

Sanctionné pour avoir contesté ses conditions de détention, Salah Abdeslam est décidé à faire valoir ses droits

Sanctionné pour avoir contesté ses conditions de détention, Salah Abdeslam est décidé à faire valoir ses droits

Le dernier membre encore en vie du commando des attentats du 13 novembre 2015, détenu à Vendin-le-Vieil (Pas-de-Calais), a engagé un affrontement avec l’administration pénitentiaire.

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