Michael Corey

A New Roosevelt Institute Report Confronts the Roots of Our Media Crisis—and Calls for Breaking Up Corporate Media Today’s journalism crisis wasn’t inevitable, but it’s time to free journalism from the straitjacket of turning a democratic obligation into a profit-maximizing business model.

New @thenation.com piece by @bilalb.bsky.social, @shahrzadshams.bsky.social and myself that draws from our recent @rooseveltinstitute.org report to argue for structural media reform: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Donald Trump’s approval rating Follow our presidential approval rating poll tracker to see how favourably Americans view Mr Trump

Donald Trump’s net approval rating is the lowest it has ever been, at -18%. See how Americans are feeling about their president with our tracker

Autism and Vaccines QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS PAGE 2 OF 9 | ALL PAGES J For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS • The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. • Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.

HHS Research on Plausible Biologic Mechanisms between Vaccines and Autism HHS will evaluate plausible biologic mechanisms between early childhood vaccinations and autism. Mechanisms for further investigation include the impacts of aluminum adjuvants, risks for certain children with mitochondrial disorders, harms of neuroinflammation, and more. * The header "Vaccines do not cause autism" has not been removed due to an agreement with the chair of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that it would remain on the CDC website.

CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”

CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

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💥 A group founded by Stephen Miller filed a federal complaint in July against the 2025 World Series Champion Los Angeles Dodgers for their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. The team's website continues to display its commitment to DEI.

Congratulations, Dodgers!

#Dodgers #WorldSeries

My latest on the Administration's wildly unlawful shutdown of SNAP. To buy their argument, you must ignore the interpretation they took Sept. 30 and repeatedly in the first Trump Administration. Shamelesly and gratuitously cruel.
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Map showing the U.S. 2025 Billion-Dollar Weather & Climate Disasters and highlights wildfires and severe weather so far through June 2025. Graphic is produced by Climate Central.

📣 The "U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters" data is back today through @climatecentral.org! And more soon!

➡️ Explore our new interactive website at www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv..., which is now updated through the first half of 2025 & totaling over $101 billion from 14 events.

The New Funding Rush: How nonprofits are racing to adapt amid federal grant changes Discover how 85% of nonprofits are impacted by federal funding changes. This Instrumentl report reveals key strategies like diversifying into private grants and increasing application volume to adapt ...

www.instrumentl.com/blog/federal...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Tax Credits Are Gone But Cheaper EVs Are Coming This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at using virtual power plants to curb blackouts and Jane Goodall’s call to action on protecting the natural environment.

This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at using virtual power plants to curb blackouts and Jane Goodall’s call to action on protecting the natural environment.

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

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Trump admin looks at deep cuts to homeless housing program A new policy change will significantly cut funding used to place people experiencing homelessness in permanent housing.

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George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100 Hardy, a lieutenant colonel, became the youngest Tuskegee fighter pilot at 19, and was among the first Black military pilots in the United States.

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

Global map showing surface air temperature anomalies for the June to August 2025. Most all areas are warmer than average, except for parts of the southern Ocean and Antarctica. Anomalies are relative to 1951-1980 from NASA/GISS GISTEMPv4 data.

This map shows temperature departures averaged over the last 3 months. What's it like in your area?

🟥 warmer than average
🟦 colder than average

Data from data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

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To the 9News anchor who just said today's shooting at my kid's is "something we have to accept in our world" — it is not.

I do not accept that my children have to live in fear. I do not accept that any child should ever be shot, at school or anywhere else.

Postal traffic to US drops more than 80% after trade exemption rule ends, UN agency says The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.

The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” ~Ray Bradbury

Keep reading, friends. 📚

Pittsburgh City Council advances bill allowing construction of “tiny homes” Pittsburgh City Council advanced a bill Wednesday that would allow the construction of “interim housing” – residential units that house homeless people while they transition to more permanent housing,...

Pittsburgh City Council advanced a bill Wednesday that would allow the construction of “interim housing” — residential units that house homeless people while they transition to more permanent housing, in certain areas of the city.

New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North America...

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Healthy Air in Schools Air pollution in the classroom affects how children learn and harm their growing lungs. It also causes health problems for faculty and staff. Here's how help ensure healthy air in schools where childr

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Thank you for drawing attention to this inhumanity.

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These Ohioans Got a Deal on Solar Panels. Here’s Their Secret.

These Ohioans Got a Deal on Solar Panels. Here’s Their Secret. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/c...

Holding It Together by Jessica Calarco: 9780593538128 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. Holding It Together chronicles the causes and dire consequences. America runs on women—women who are tasked with holding society...

As I show in Holding It Together, women who get pushed out of the workforce because of childcare often later gravitate toward conservative ideologies. Because those ideologies (and the Christian moms' groups promoting them) validate their new roles. 2/
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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu:

“Silence in the face of oppression is not an option. The U.S. Attorney General asked for a response by today. So here it is…Stop attacking our cities to hide your administration's failures.”

The Running Novelist If I wanted to have a long life as a writer, I needed to find a way to stay in shape.

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Why is Ohio’s Attorney General participating in an event led by a hate group, as designated by the SPLC?

Opinion | The Era of A.I. Propaganda Has Arrived, and America Must Act

The Era of A.I. Propaganda Has Arrived, and America Must Act www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/o...

ProMusica Chamber Orchestra tunes up for free summer music series Returning for the 13th year, ProMusica Chamber Orchestra's summer music series will offer free concerts in Westerville and Downtown.

Check out this article from The Columbus Dispatch:

ProMusica Chamber Orchestra tunes up for free summer music series

www.dispatch.com/story/entert...