I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Trump's Plan to Tank America | On the Media | WNYC Studios Children as young as five have been detained by immigration agents in Minnesota. On this week’s On the Media, how I.C.E. uses technology to surveil the public and recruit more members...

📻the show is up📻 @brookegladstone.bsky.social speaks to @vermontgmg.bsky.social about the state of…everything. And @micahloewinger.bsky.social dives into ICE surveillance and recruitment with @josephcox.bsky.social and @drewharwell.com ITS A GOOD ONE 👉 www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Column | I found the most complete protein. It’s not meat. The most “complete” protein is probably one you’re already eating.

“You’d have to work hard to not get enough protein.”

Opinion | The Rent-Control Slums of New York Mayor Mamdani tries to stop a bankruptcy his new housing czar caused.

The premise of this WSJ article is incorrect. We can debate the effects of the 2019 laws on the rental market, but Pinnacle was a bad actor long before them. Their model for decades was to buy up RS properties and let them fall into disrepair to push tenants out. www.wsj.com/opinion/new-...

Trump’s Venezuela raid revives MAGA ‘Stop the Steal’ fantasies For right-wing conspiracists — and maybe Trump, too — the president’s surprise military strike wasn’t about oil, but the ‘stolen’ 2020 election.

Stop the Steal is back, baby! The most faithful MAGA conspiracists believe Trump's surprise strike in Venezuela wasn’t about oil, but finally proving the 2020 election was stolen.

Also Trump seems to ... maybe ... be among them? He's certainly posting like it. www.ms.now/news/trump-v...

list of top trending boys names on nameberry with Zohran ar number 1

I feel like the day of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s inauguration is a good day to note that Zohran is currently the top baby boy name trending on @nameberry.bsky.social’s website

Deep Fakes, Data Centers, and AI Slop — Are We Cooked? | On the Media | WNYC Studios Donald Trump has signed an executive order limiting state regulation on artificial intelligence. On this week’s On the Media, Republicans spar over AI, and what deregulating the indus...

On this week’s @onthemedia.bsky.social I spoke with Stephen Witt about how AI tycoons have tied our economy up in knots and are demanding that we let them do significant harm to our planet:

Carr’s Collision Course FCC Chair Brendan Carr will be on Capitol Hill for rare Congressional testimony on Wednesday—a hearing in which fellow commissioner Anna Gomez will sharply criticize the agency under his watch, Status...

FCC boss Brendan Carr is set to testify on Capitol Hill Wednesday—and fellow commissioner Anna Gomez, who will appear on Capitol Hill with him, is set to sharply criticize the agency under his watch.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...

"The newspaper industry served as a feeder for our entire news media ecosystem. So when we lose those newspapers, we've lost that journalism. In the early 2000s, we had 40 journalists per 100,000 people. We're now down to 8 journalists per 100,000 people," says @victorpickard.bsky.social.

10 Narrative Podcasts We Loved This Year Though chat shows and political series continue to dominate the medium, an old-school audio gem still has its own rewards.

The Harvard Plan is #4 on @nwquah.bsky.social's year end list of narrative podcasts!!

The Harvard Plan is reported by @ilyamarritz.bsky.social as a collab between @onthemedia.bsky.social and @bostonglobe.com. If you haven't listened, do it.

www.vulture.com/article/best...

Boat Strike Survivors Clung to Wreckage for Some 45 Minutes Before U.S. Military Killed Them “There are a lot of disturbing aspects. But this is one of the most disturbing.”

“There are a lot of disturbing aspects. But this is one of the most disturbing.”

ICEBlock Creator Sues U.S. Government Over App’s Removal The Department of Justice demanded Apple remove ICEBlock, which reports sightings of ICE officials, from its App Store. Now the creator is suing, saying the demand violated his First Amendment rights.

New from 404 Media: the creator of ICEBlock just sued the U.S. government over it pressuring Apple to remove the app earlier this year. Says it violated his First Amendment rights. www.404media.co/iceblock-cre...

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Covering the Pentagon, from Sy Hersh to Laura Loomer

The show is up and it’s SPICY! Ft. @danlamothe.bsky.social on leaving the pentagon, @annamerlan.bsky.social on the new pentagon press corps and Laura Poitras on her new movie “Cover Up.” Oh and pod bonus @micahloewinger.bsky.social spoke with Cam Higby about his new role. pca.st/episode/f23f...

This week I called up Cam Higby, a member of the new media MAGA Pentagon press corps to ask him about his decision to sign away his ability to do investigative journalism in exchange for access to press briefings. He shouted and called me names…

I interviewed living legend Laura Poitras for this weekend's episode of @onthemedia.bsky.social. She's a hero of mine -- a true paragon of righteous brave thorough investigative journalism. Watching Citizenfour as a college student made me want to become a reporter. Excited for y'all to hear it

RFK Jr.’s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns The CDC's vaccine advisory panel, stocked with anti-vaccine activists and loyalists to RFK Jr., voted Friday to stop recommending a birth dose of vaccine.

Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc...

ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:

"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."

Elon Musk Loves What This Guy Has to Say

What it's like to be Elon Musk's favorite X influencer, a digital remora feeding on likes and reposts www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...

ALA welcomes reinstatement of all federal IMLS grants to libraries Today, the American Library Association (ALA) greeted an announcement by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) that it had reinstated all the agency’s grants.

The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge

"Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."

Today's Reliable Sources digest: cnn.it/3MfhCsB

How a Man Convicted of Running a Latin American Narco State Landed a Pardon Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández’s unusual network of Trump allies and MAGA influencers helped deliver an extraordinary pardon to him.

NEW: Trump’s pardon of former Honduran President Hernández was the result of something extraordinary for a Central American leader & convicted cocaine trafficker—a web of powerful advocates stretching from Washington to Silicon Valley and Mar-a-Lago.

Behind the scenes ⬇️ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Inside Kennedy’s Methodical Quest to Shake Up America’s Vaccine System

"Public health officials warn that if Mr. Kennedy succeeds, measles and other infectious diseases will come roaring back, jeopardizing the health of all American children" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

Newspapers are closing at an emergency-level rate—over the past 20 years, America has lost more than 3,000. For the past six years, the photographer Ann Hermes has been documenting the lives lived in these dying places across the country. See more images: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/059DXx

List of headlines from media covering FDA, most emphasizing the claim that covid killed children

News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.

📻 The show is up!
@cwarzel.bsky.social on X’s recent update that revealed a swarm of overseas accounts posing as Americans; @librarianjones.com on fighting book-banning activists; @elysegraham.bsky.social on the scholars and librarians who helped win WWII. https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky

John Oliver Auction Raises $1.5 Million for Public Media Thanks to Bob Ross and GWAR John Oliver's Last Week Tonight auction raised $1.54 million for public media, thanks to a record-setting Bob Ross painting and a GWAR-signed bidet.

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Hi!! I'm working a special series for @onthemedia.bsky.social, a deep dive into FEMA. I'll be looking at the history of the agency and what's happening there now. If you work there or know someone who does, please hit me up by email or signal... Thanks!

On the Media The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.

Arizona state senator @senanaliseortiz.bsky.social on how TikTok, old-fashioned door-knocking, and actually making small differences in peoples’ lives is the way for the Democrats to start winning again: https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky

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S2 - Episode 1: The Harvard Plan | On the Media | WNYC Studios The Harvard Plan - our collaboration with the Boston Globe, is back! In episode one, we hear what unfolded at Harvard from Donald Trump’s inauguration to convocation 2025. Three main ...

Our show this week is the first episode of The Harvard Plan Season 2, our collaboration with the @bostonglobe.com about the fight for the soul of America’s oldest and most prestigious university. Hosted by award-winning reporter @ilyamarritz.bsky.social: