Lisa Fung

Jolanda Jones is on fire!

The New York Post is launching a California edition. Why? The new newspaper will have a dedicated staff to provide the West Coast with “serious reporting and puckish wit,” a publishing executive says.

'The California Post will be free online, unlike the subscription-based @latimes.com, meaning the new publication could ultimately reach a larger pool of potential readers that could be sold to interested advertisers.'
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Asked about a possible pardon for Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, Trump says the quiet part loud Does the president base his pardon decisions on whether criminals are aligned with him personally? It was weird to see him effectively concede the point.

'He’s corrupting the pardon process; he knows that he’s corrupting the pardon process; he knows that we know that he’s corrupting the pardon process; and he’s doing it anyway.'

Via @stevebenen.com

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The LA Times’s owner wants to take the struggling paper public. Will it work? | Margaret Sullivan In recent years, the newspapers that have fared the best have been those with committed local ownership

'Those with reasonably enlightened local ownership have fared the best. The LA Times, under Patrick Soon-Shiong, could have been in that enviable category – but it didn’t go that way.'

ICYMI: @sulliview.bsky.social on Soon-Shiong's plan to take LA Times public
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New York Post To Expand To L.A. With The California Post The new publication will feature a dedicated newsroom staff.

‘Los Angeles and California surely need a daily dose of The Post as an antidote to the jaundiced, jaded journalism that has sadly proliferated… The Post will play a crucial role in engaging and enlightening readers, who are starved of serious reporting and puckish wit’

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Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook

Wait, is the NY Times only now just figuring out that Trump's lies and suppression of facts 'increasingly remind scholars of the way authoritarian leaders in other countries have sought to control information'

This story was on this morning's NYT front page
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'I fixed that for you': Why mainstream headlines keep failing Plus: one journalist's brave plunge into independence; and my rant about a supposedly positive article about Buffalo

‘Why do the headlines — and those who write and approve them — fail us so often?’

Via @sulliview.bsky.social
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Smithsonian to restore Trump to impeachment exhibit ‘in the coming weeks’ A placard referring to Trump’s two impeachments was removed in July, after the Smithsonian agreed to perform a “content review”

Now the Smithsonian says that it will restore information about Trump’s two impeachments to an exhibit in the National Museum of American History

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Column: Will Trump weaken the federal judiciary with specious accusations against judges? It's right out of the autocrat's playbook: Trump and his loyalists are going after judges who defy him.

‘It’s no secret that Trump harbors autocratic ambitions… And now he has trained his sights on the independent judiciary urging punishment of judges who thwart his agenda.’

Via @rabcarian.bsky.social

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Contributor: Under Trump, U.S. returns to treating violence against women as a 'private matter' Our refugee laws should protect women, because women should not be subject to gender-based violence.

‘Our refugee laws should protect women, because women should not be subject to gender-based violence. That is, in fact, one of our human rights.’

Via @karenmusalo.bsky.social in @latimes.com

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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down following funding cuts Trump’s successful campaign to strip federal money to NPR and PBS effectively ended the public media middleman.

‘CPB not only served as a funding middleman between Congress and public media stations but also negotiated music rights and procured technical infrastructure on behalf of the stations. That leaves an open question as to what entity, if any will fill that gap’

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Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.

I’m old enough to remember when US history museums didn’t erase historical content that a sitting president didn’t like

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Inside Wallis Annenberg's final days: Opioid stupor, abuse claims and a bitter family feud The dispute drew in some of the city’s top lawyers, triggered calls to police, and led the Annenberg children to march into Los Angeles County Superior Court in a frantic effort to dislodge Vikki Levi...

As the public mourned the death of LA philanthropist Wallis Annenberg and her generosity toward elder care, animal welfare, USC and other causes, her family was embroiled in an ugly legal battle

Via @matthamilton.bsky.social @latimes.com

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Tonight’s entertainment: ‘Call Me Izzy,’ starring Jean Smart (‘Hacks’)

Schumer: "Just now, the White House announced construction of a $200 million White House ballroom that will begin in September. A $200 million ballroom! Where'd this money come from? Did Congress appropriate it? I don't think so. It's almost like DOGE was never about waste."

Ha! Carl FTW

This is insane

Do deals or ceasefires Trump had nothing to do with count?

Commentary: She left college to conquer tennis. At 81, Billie Jean King is back, chasing a degree Billie Jean King’s resume is missing one thing — a college degree — so, at 81, she's back in the school where she started: Cal State L.A.

Wow. At 81, Billie Jean King continues to inspire

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Why Sydney Sweeney Needs to Be Canceled Her career needs to end.

There’s so many things we should care about more than Sydney Sweeney and that American Eagle ad.

Here are just a few, courtesy of @charlotteclymer.bsky.social

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Look how uncomfortable Paul Mauro is when Jessica Tarlov calls him out

CBS News investigation of Jeffrey Epstein jail video reveals new discrepancies A CBS News investigation found discrepancies between the government's description of the Jeffrey Epstein jail video and what the video shows.

This is a fascinating read

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Can the Kennedy Center be renamed for the Trumps? The short answer: It depends on who is doing the renaming.

‘The notion of naming anything about any public institution after a living person is very unusual in America. It’s familiar in Russia, in North Korea, in some other countries, but it’s not the way we do things here.’

Via @travismandrews.bsky.social

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How ICE is using the LAPD to track down immigrants for deportation LAPD leaders say the department has strict limits on cooperating with immigration officials, but court records show federal authorities are nevertheless using local police information sent to national...

Federal court records show how L.A. police are enabling ICE to find new targets by routinely sharing fingerprints with federal law enforcement.

Via @liborjany.bsky.social @latimes.com

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‘Claiming a 17-year-old girl who fell into the hands of sex traffickers was stolen from you is the kind of thinking that makes sex trafficking possible.’

Bove misled lawmakers about his actions in NYC mayor case, evidence suggests The details from a whistleblower complaint emerged hours before a final vote on Bove’s nomination to a federal judgeship.

NEW: We now know what Bove lied to Congress about according to the 3rd whistleblower. He lied when he said he didn’t offer promotions for DoJ lawyers who helped him dismiss the Eric Adams case and consequences for those who didn’t. There is audio evidence. Gift link: wapo.st/4fdVVmX

Tsunami watch issued for California coast after massive Russian earthquake A tsunami watch was issued for the California coast after an 8.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the western coast of Russia.

Yikes! Tsunami watch!

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E.P.A. Plans to Revoke the Legal Basis for Tackling Climate Change

'The E.P.A. is revoking the biggest single step any nation has taken to save oil, save consumers money at the pump and combat global warming'

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Sadly, @latimes.com scores 4 chickens on the Media Capitulation Index. @bloomberg.com earns a star.