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MAGA Tested, Trump Approved News A conservative opinion writer is now leading CBS News

Dan Rather knows CBS. Dan Rather knows news. Dan Rather knows a problem when he sees it. Thank you, @thedanrather.bsky.social for speaking up. open.substack.com/pub/steady/p...

Freedom of the Press Isn’t Just a Legal Issue Why constitutional values are even more important than case law

As the press finally finds its collective voice to oppose Pentagon censorship, an argument about what’s most importantly at stake.
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Squad 2.0: Meet America's next wave of radical Democrats shaping the party's future Progressive Democrats, including Zohran Mamdani and Omar Fateh, have emerged as the new generation of candidates responding to President Donald Trump's second term.

That’s right! Thanks, Fox News!
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I was curious too. So, using The Free Press's journalistic standards, I Googled the phrase "we regret the error" and got back 5 results. 4 (including one by Reingold) are behind a wall. The one I could see is correcting when they called Scott Bessent "Steve."

If it's something America can be proud of, they will destroy it.

I’m genuinely wondering if Bari Weiss at @cbsnews.com will issue a statement like this…

Good for @npr.org:

tfw you're forced to listen to Trump

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

Education Department layoffs hit offices that oversee special education and civil rights enforcement A new round of layoffs at the Education Department is depleting an agency that was already hit hard in the Trump administration’s previous mass firings, threatening new disruption to the nation’s stud...

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if anybody is good at lip reading or can isolate the audio, I'd be very curious to learn more about what these two were talking about here. it certainly didn't sound on the level.

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

YouTube video by Cher Cher - If I Could Turn Back Time (Official Video)

Happy birthday to the US Navy.

And in particular to the captain of the USS Missouri.

Who, when Cher walked out on deck in this, not in the jump suit they'd been promised, went:

"Ah. Fuck it. YOLO."

And later almost got stripped of command for it.

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@npr.org?
@cbsnews.com?
@nbcnews.com?

Hello?

Americans Mystified Why Nonessential Federal Employee Still Has Job The still-employed man performs no identifiable function, Americans noted.

Americans Mystified Why Nonessential Federal Employee Still Has Job
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Olivia Reingold quote tweeting Variety. The Variety tweet is about John Oliver's piece on Bari Weiss leading CBS News, saying: John Oliver slams Bari Weiss' takeover of CBS News: "I wouldn’t want anyone who led a pure opinion outlet, not even one that I happened to agree with, to suddenly be running CBS News. But it is especially alarming to have someone doing it who has spent years putting out work that, in my opinion, is at best irresponsible and at worst deeply misleading." Reingold then quotes it saying: Why does this sound like John Oliver commenting on……John Oliver

Was waiting to see how Olivia Reingold (who Oliver's piece destroyed almost as much as Bari Weiss) would respond, and you can see the tweet below which also shows she either did not watch his piece, or just didn't understand it, since he actually addresses this point directly.

Here is Feven’s Facebook page:

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Abandoned dogs in Ethiopia's capital get little care. A woman wants to change that Feven Melese is trying to support thousands of abandoned dogs on the streets of Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa.

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They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All 12 Suffer from Other Health Problems. A Free Press investigation found that the viral photos lacked important context: The subjects have cystic fibrosis, rickets, or other serious ailments. By Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova 08.17.25 -Israel

In addition to making Mamdani-panic one of her beats, this Bari Weiss reporter who CBS News is now platforming is one of the ones who was responsible for one of their *two* disgusting pieces suggesting the Gaza famine was some kind of hoax.

‘New reality’ as world reaches first climate tipping point Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.

Researchers in Leeds have joined experts from across the world in warning that Earth is reaching the first of many climate tipping points that will cause catastrophic harm without urgent action.
#climatecrisis #tippingpoint #auspol www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article...

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

“The only publication that has said it will sign the agreement is the right-wing One America News. “After thorough review of the revised press policy by our attorney, OAN staff has signed the document,” OAN president Charles Herring said in a statement Monday.”

“Any media representative who does not sign by 5 p.m. Tuesday has 24 hours to turn in their media credentials and clear out of the Pentagon facilities.”

News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new media policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

This is the way.

“News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline
The Washington Post joined the New York Times, Newsmax and CNN in refusing to sign the restrictive new policy.”

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This is the way.

“Airports say they won’t air Kristi Noem shutdown video at TSA checkpoints
Travelers in Cleveland, L.A., Phoenix, Seattle and other cities will not see the footage, which blames congressional Democrats for shutdown-related flight delays.”

-The Washington Post

News outlets broadly reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new media policy, citing First Amendment concerns.

Update—Two conservative outlets will *not* sign the Pentagon's press policy: Newsmax and the Washington Times. They join the New York Times, Washington Post, Atlantic, CNN and more in refusing to sign the pledge. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

WaPo joins NYT, CNN, The Atlantic, Guardian and others, according to @ScottNover, in announcing it won't sign the Pentagon's controversial new press policy.

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Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare And it becomes more obvious every time they talk about it.

"To try to win the support of Senate Democrats, Republicans have suggested they’d promise to *hold a vote* on extending the ACA subsidies after the government reopens, which is very different from actually extending them." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social