News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hoursβand 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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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.
βThe problem with billionaires isnβt that theyβre hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. Itβs 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.β
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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 isnβt described as βDOGE didnβt do much.β
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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
09.10.2025 16:03 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Timesβ demand for a list of Elon Muskβs 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 isβ¦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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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. Thatβs 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.
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 βΒ 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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Itβs 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. Itβs 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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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 βno one has died" because of his governmentβs decision to gut its foreign aid program.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted βno one has diedβ 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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