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Editor, podcaster, script and research consultant at RadioWright.com. Nieman Fellow '24, founding executive editor Pushkin Industries. Newsletter: https://continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/

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News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hoursβ€”and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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MarΓ­a Corina Machado of Venezuela wins the Nobel Peace Prize Opposition activist MarΓ­a Corina Machado of Venezuela has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key figure in unifying Venezuela's political opposition.

BREAKING: For her work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, MarΓ­a Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Ironically, Durham's series was produced at WMAQ-Chicago, the same NBC affiliate where "Amos'n'Andy" got its start.

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Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

β€œThe problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

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How to Help MIBFC β€” Midwest Immigration Bond Fund

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

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"The Price I Pay to Be Free" Sonja D. Williams on the timeless radio of Richard Durham, author of "Destination Freedom," who wrote human stories despite hostile airwaves.

Guest post by Howard prof Sonja Williams on one of the writers who finally broke through US radio's racial programming blockades. Very excited to bring more attention to this work: continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/new-post

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I would like to get to a place where consigning 14 million people to death isn’t described as β€œDOGE didn’t do much.”

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"The Price I Pay to Be Free" Sonja D. Williams on the timeless radio of Richard Durham, author of "Destination Freedom," who wrote human stories despite hostile airwaves.

Guest post by Howard prof Sonja Williams on one of the writers who finally broke through US radio's racial programming blockades. Very excited to bring more attention to this work: continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/new-post

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JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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I'm an editor, and editors have saved me from myself as well.

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repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

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For the uninitiated: The pope being this direct and explicit to U.S. bishops about how to respond to a domestic policy happening in real time is…unusual.

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The advantage of a Global War on Cartels over a Global War on Terror when it comes to authoritarian regime-building in the United States is it is easier to slide towards justifying the expansion of lethal strikes from targets in Mexico or the Caribbean to targets that are directly on American soil

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wow congrats on removal of large bad-vibes atrocity!

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Portrait of Enslaved Man Dispels Years of Falsehoods The truth of Frederick Baker’s life was long obscured by a whitewashed history perpetuated by the Longwood mansion in Mississippi, new research says.

Uncovering the lives of enslaved people is incredibly important. Here’s a great example of such work. #arthistory

hyperallergic.com/1047549/port...

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The "Antifa" everywhere stuff is really worse than McCarthyism. It's witch trial shit except they can't even find a judge to sanctify it.

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Sarnoff: "TV is life,
and people want to see the march
of life. That’s the big difference
between video and radio."

(not mentioned: everyone had a radio by 1951, and RCA was gearing up manufacture of TV sets)

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Variety head: "Shape of TV Things to Come" by Abel Green: Brigadier General David Sarnoff, chairman of the board of RCA, is so bullish on television and its future that his dim views on radio would seem to dwarf AM's future chiefly because of his enthusiasms about TV.

Variety head: "Shape of TV Things to Come" by Abel Green: Brigadier General David Sarnoff, chairman of the board of RCA, is so bullish on television and its future that his dim views on radio would seem to dwarf AM's future chiefly because of his enthusiasms about TV.

It's like AI only it's TV in 1951 (Variety, April 11)

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France (and eventually Citibank) *getting* reparations from Haiti for losing their slaves is one of the biggest atrocities of the modern era, and...stiff competition there

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Just like it killed the nascent broadcasting industry in 1926 β€”Β wait

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been talking to mi esposa about this and i think a lot of what fuels our depression is that we are surrounded by insane people

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A quarter of FBI agents are assigned to immigration enforcement, per FBI data Nearly a quarter of FBI agents are currently reassigned to immigration enforcement, with the number climbing above 40 percent in the bureau’s largest field offices.

Good news if you deal drugs, run spies, plan terror attacks, or bribe federal officials. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Huey Long was a demagogue who wanted all the sharing to go in one direction.

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Opinion | You Beat Trumpism by Banding Together. It’s as Hard and as Simple as That.

Resistance to authoritarianism is a coordination game. That's why universities and law firms and nonprofits can't let themselves be picked off one by one. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...

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"SOVIET MILITARY CAPABILITIES S-100-18-85 BOX 2 OF 2," slide 24 of 29 [gallery]

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Trump's Crusaders: Christian Nationalists Are Gaining a Solid Foothold in Washington U.S. President Donald Trump has opened the doors of power to far-right Christian nationalists. Their goal: an American theocracy. The separation of church and state in America is at risk.

I begged @spiegel.de to translate JΓΆrg Schindler's excellent reporting on America's fall into theocracy and they did. As I keep saying, German journalists are doing a better job covering America's fall than American journalists. 1/
www.spiegel.de/internationa...

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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 β€œno one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted β€œno one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

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Entire country's about to learn that height and weight standards in the Guard is a secondary concern to "do we actually have any people assigned to this unit"

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