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:

this is terrifying

Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

Several months ago, as New York was engulfed in protests against police brutality, Bill DeBlasio received a message on Facebook from a man in Switzerland named André. André’s message was short and sweet: “stupid, alarmingly incompetent racist fuckface,” he wrote. Then, before DeBlasio had a chance to respond, André sent another message: “wrong bill deblasio… sorry…”

I may never write a better lede

this story just keeps getting better

How a London newspaper botched a New York political story Welcome to New York.

“The Times of London has accelerated its push for more, and largely hostile, coverage of Mamdani. That campaign has been driven internally by Margi Conklin, a New York Post veteran who was most recently managing editor at The Free Press”
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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 ...

over the past 9 months, the Trump admin has used just about every lever available to pressure universities to follow his vision for higher ed...

how it's going, so far>>

my lastest miniseries w/ @bostonglobe.com & @onthemedia.bsky.social

pls listen & share!

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👀 The right wing Harvard Salient published an article stating “Germany belongs to the Germans, France to the French, Britain to the British, America to the Americans” & calling 4 values based on “‘blood, soil, language, & love of one’s own.’” Their alumni board suspended them but they won’t obey 1/

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 ...

The Trump admin is going after higher ed. Reporter @ilyamarritz.bsky.social documents how this fight is playing out inside the oldest and richest university in America: Harvard.

The Harvard Plan season 2 is out now, listen listen listen!!!

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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 ...

We’re back with Season 2 of our award-winning series THE HARVARD PLAN. To quote @ilyamarritz.bsky.social in episode 1 “this struggle is not academic…it’s a bare knuckled fight for money, prestige and power” www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

I went deep on Nick Fuentes and the groyperification of the GOP with @benlorber8.bsky.social. Listen!

It’s true! We’re back with season 2 of The Harvard Plan hosted by OTM regular @ilyamarritz.bsky.social. Don’t miss next week’s OTM: it’s going to be a riveting listen 📻

Ukraine war latest updates: Trump finally sanctions Russia (5) Live coverage of Russia’s war against Ukraine with breaking news and frontline updates, updated (5) times today. The U.S. has imposed sanctions on Russia's two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoi...

⚡️ Ukraine war latest live: Trump finally sanctions Russia.

The measures are the first new sanctions U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed against Moscow since taking office in January.

Pentagon announces a new right-wing press corps after mass walkout A new crop of conservative media and influencers signed an agreement with the Pentagon, including the Gateway Pundit, the Post Millennial, Human Events and the National Pulse.

"The Defense Department’s policy blocks journalists from soliciting information the department has not authorized for release — even unclassified details, a major shift in press outreach from the organization." via @washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump Administration's Arrival on Bluesky Highlights Growing Pains for Open Networks | TechPolicy.Press The administration’s antagonistic entry to the platform is best understood as a game of chicken, writes Erin Kissane.

There was already a *lot* going on with Bluesky, and now it's under even more pressure. I wrote about how I think about moderation, affordances, expectations, human needs, and powerful trolls for @techpolicypress.bsky.social

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So a few months ago, we detailed how immigration agents were breaking car windows to grab the people inside.

Well, it turns out one agent just did that *with his gun* and mistakenly shot the person inside and a U.S. marshal.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/u...

YouTube video by CrystalRoseCreations Mitchell and Webb: "Are we the baddies?"

If nothing else I guess we know that he never saw this skit www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKc...

really did not expect to hearing about nazis all the time in 2025

was just not something i considered tbh

Inside the Trump administration’s pressure campaign to get tech companies to take down apps that document ICE abuses, with 404 Media’s Joseph Cox:
https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky

For the latest @onthemedia.bsky.social I spoke with @josephcox.bsky.social about the administration’s new-found love of content moderation as the DOJ has been pressuring Apple, Google, and Meta to remove apps and groups decided to helping people document ICE activity:

A conspiracy theorist labeled him a ‘domestic terror professor.’ Then the death threats began.
https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky

For the latest @onthemedia.bsky.social I spoke with @jakelahut.writes.news about the Ellisons, who are gobbling up media and tech power at an astounding clip. They’re also likely to play a much larger role in shaping post-war Gaza than most people realize. Listen:

Holy crap the @pemalevy.bsky.social interview is not to be missed. An eye-opening look at the Nazi-esque dual-state that SCOTUS is enabling

📻On this week’s show: @gregsargent.bsky.social on Stephen Miller’s plan to “sleepwalk” America into authoritarianism; @pemalevy.bsky.social on the highest court citing the "dual state;" & @jakelahut.writes.news on the rise of the Ellisons' tech-media dynasty. https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky

What's Wrong with True Crime? | On the Media | WNYC Studios A journalist writing from prison upends the typical 'true crime' narrative.

New @onthemedia.bsky.social pod alert! Produced by @cwango.bsky.social :
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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 transp...

Was such a pleasure producing this interview with @jamellebouie.net and @micahloewinger.bsky.social. The subject matter is heavy, but interspersed with some chuckles and some hope. It's a good one take a listen: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...

Some excerpts from our latest episode, when @micahloewinger.bsky.social asked @jamellebouie.net about some of his mean posts on Bluesky:

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Goodnight And Goodluck 20 Years Later | On the Media | WNYC Studios Brooke speaks with Joseph and Shirley Wershba about working at CBS news when Edward R. Murrow stood up to McCarthyism.

That quote is from this incredible interview @brookegladstone.bsky.social did 20 years ago with 2 of Murrow’s colleagues: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Let it go. You could tell that a lot of the people were worried stiff about what the consequences of this program would be, and Murrow caught that and said, terror is right here in this room. And then he followed up with another line which unfortunately is not in the script, but I remembered and I couldn't have made it up myself. • No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices. You know, in the end, it wasn't politics, • but bottom line pressures that compelled Paley to act and essentially push Murrow off of his primetime perch.

What Murrow said when McCarthy was pressuring CBS to bend to his will. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

YouTube agrees to pay Trump $24 million to settle lawsuit over Jan. 6 suspension YouTube is the latest social media company to pay Trump tens of millions of dollars to resolve lawsuits brought before he returned to power. The money will fund a new ballroom at the White House.

"This is straight influence-peddling," said @ericgoldman.bsky.social "This YouTube settlement is not a sign of any legal merit."

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