Just to make the point abundantly clear, Chris Wallace is now a paid advisor to an investment firm that has a large stake in Paramount and a vested interest in getting the Warner Bros. merger over the line. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Chris Wallace: States Are Playing Politics With the Law to Block Paramount’s Warner Bros. Deal

"I don’t believe government should use its powers to determine who owns a news platform or to control how that outlet reports the news," writes the former Fox and CNN anchor, who is now a paid advisor...

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They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 15h ago

New 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.

Republicans and tech assholes have really ruined drugs’ reputation.

This should be much bigger news

Gail Waldby ❌👑@gailwaldby.bsky.social · 2d ago

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico #Hegseth #USMilitary futurism.com/science-ener...

More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.

If you list all the crimes Trump has been credibly accused of, even just the ones he's confessed to, it genuinely reads worse than a mafia don. No wonder we feel like we're losing our minds when the media treats him with presidential deference.

Ellison put on a dinner headlined “Honoring the Trump White House” and included his CBS editor, top anchor, and WH correspondent, so he can spare us this both-sides ridiculousness

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · yesterday

Shameful: 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...

I will never get used to a president talking about his own country’s biggest cities this way

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump: "Look at the blue cities. What do they have in common? They're all dirty. They're filthy dirty. Their streets are dirty. Their streets smell. Their storefronts are broken. Their trees are all gross. Everything about the place is dirty. It's really all of them."

Threads is pure chaos

Congrats again to the White House Correspondents Association!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"

This man doesn’t give a shit about women’s sports. He just wants to harm trans people. Thanks. Sophie!

taylr@taylordahlin.com · 3d ago

loser shit outside of minnesota lynx vs indiana fever

this is the exact right messaging. we should attach it to everyone musk is supporting. make his money so toxic that no one wants it.

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 4d ago

Susan Collins is financed by a man who wants to make it easier to create nude pictures of children

It’s pretty jarring we’ve just come to expect that the feds will lie to us and publicize false information and that there is virtually no consequence for it.

CNN@cnn.com · 5d ago

The Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj

Will the Sunday shows do anything about the people who lied to their faces about this? Doug Burgum got indignant when Dana Bash doubted the 350-foot-long knifing story. Will CNN hold him accountable or just invite him back like nothing happened?

Scott MacFarlane@macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 5d ago

FLASH: Justice Dept seeks to dismiss Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool criminal case against former Olympian David Hearn Trump Admin acknowledges: "Damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in June 2026 was the result of flawed installation by the contractor"

He will be asked once. He will say, "Who are you with?" He will declare it a stupid question and never be asked again.

Christopher Moore@theauthorguy.bsky.social · 5d ago

And not a goddamn person will ask why the President yammered on like a fucking lunatic about vandals for a month and half WHEN THERE WERE NONE.

So many sneering elitist journalists with snarky posts over the past months that the Reflecting Pool story was trivial. It was so trivial that the DC US Attny presented false evidence to a grand jury to indict an innocent man to please the President while they both lied about it.

"So fucking gross," one CBS News senior staffer tells me about '60 Minutes' bringing on The Free Press's Tanya Lukyanova as an associate producer.

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 5d ago

So while folks joked about Bari Weiss forcing Olivia Reingold into '60 Minutes,' Weiss went ahead and added another person from The Free Press (who co-bylined that gross starving Gaza children piece with Reingold) as an associate producer of the show. www.thefp.com/p/they-becam...

I dare Hassett to show up to a town hall in a small town, go on stage, and say this exact thing in front of a room full of very angry residents. Do it, Kevin. I double dare you.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

Sounds like Trump has the same crack negotiators working on Hamas he has dealing with Iran.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5d ago

Trump: "Today, the Board of Peace reached a HISTORIC agreement for the COMPLETE DISARMAMENT of Hamas." Hamas: "We didn’t say disarmament, we didn’t say handing over the weapons." www.wsj.com/world/middle...

stenographer issues: getting scooped but still claiming an exclusive

Frank Bruni, the restaurant critic, being allowed to write about this is incredibly funny.

Microplastics Sommelier@leastactionhero.bsky.social · 6d ago

[gazes despondently into the middle distance]

God I do love the bluegrass

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 7d ago

The caller on Rand Paul’s virtual town hall is all of us.

Today is Brian Sicknick Day in NJ. Brian was a U.S. Capitol Police Officer who defended the Capitol and our democracy on January 6, 2021, and died after being brutally attacked. 1/2

This keeps making me more and more mad. How the hell do you say you’re doing journalism when you do this? You have to literally create an imaginary world to make this a show of strength from Trump. It’s the opposite of a threat; it’s an admission of weakness.

Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 6d ago

What a horribly bad framing. The president can’t get his own party to vote for his own nominee that they confirmed for the next-rung-lower role just last year! That’s not a “threat,” you incompetent people.

Elon Leon tries to buy another election, Trump’s economy sucks and the Senate punts on the president’s personal lawyer. @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social and @samyoungman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/adampark...

New Low(s)

It’s Thursday. There are 96 days until the midterm elections. Elon Leon tries to buy another election, Trump’s economy sucks and the Senate punts on the president’s personal lawyer.

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Last week, Trump said he hasn’t give this any thought. That kinda thing used to be scandalous.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze)@newsjennifer.bsky.social · 6d ago

10 days ago the nation's top health official said the cyclosporasis outbreak was under control. He was lying. The cases are growing, now in 45 states up from 41. Led by RFK jr, the Trump administration's response to this explosive diarrhea is appalling. www.usatoday.com/story/news/h...

Was fortunate to catch this show a few years back and this has stayed with me. Awful news this morning.

Glen Hansard and Olivia Vedder "Falling Slowly" YouTube Theater, Los Angeles, 2.25.22

YouTube video by csilver522

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A fundraising text from James Carville? Awesome! Maybe you can send some nudes of my dead relatives next!

F**king with Fauci There are 97 days until the midterm elections. The war we won keeps on going, Facebook goes full fascist and Republicans attack a good man. By Adam Parkhomenko & Sam Youngman @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social & @samyoungman.bsky.social Jul 29 open.substack.com/pub/adampark...

F**king with Fauci

It’s Wednesday. There are 97 days until the midterm elections. The war we won keeps on going, Facebook goes full fascist and Republicans attack a good man.

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You just know Cilizza took ivermectin