Alex Koppelman

A social media post from Donald J. Trump on Truth Social, posted 9 minutes ago. The text reads: "Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces renewed war with United States:" followed by a link to justthenews.com. Below is a link preview showing the article headline "Iran tried to interfere in 2020, 2024 elections to stop Trump, and now faces possible war with U.S." accompanied by a photo from what appears to be an Iranian protest or rally, showing demonstrators holding anti-Trump signs and posters with Persian text.

I am going to need every single person who said that misinformation was a moral panic to feel enough shame and regret that they leave public intellectual life.

Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win In a stunning twist, the streaming giant's co-CEOs say the major studio was always a ‘nice to have’ at the right price, not a ‘must have’ at any price.

Wow. Say goodbye to independent journalism at CNN. The two Davids, Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav and Paramount CEO David Ellison will together likely drive a stake through the heart of one of the best global news operations on TV. https://loom.ly/cbDtaPA

Get ready for a lot of stuff to happen for “purely financial reasons”

i worry that a 5-year stretch of nothing but ads for NFTs, bitcoin, and AI is a long enough gap that this nation's once-great advertising industry will forget how to sell a product people actually want

What We Loved About Dan McQuade | Defector Today is Dan McQuade’s funeral. To celebrate our friend, we wanted to give the people he worked with a place to explain what they loved so much about him. If you would like to support Dan’s widow Jan,...

What we loved about Dan McQuade:

Anyway, congrats to Will Lewis bumping the UK tabloid scandal to the second sentence of his obit.

For almost 25 years I knew him not just as a kind, generous, funny friend, and a great writer, but also as that guy who was going to randomly pop in to my life to catch up or, really, just to share some odd shit he found.

I guess I thought I'd get to experience that forever. That we all would.

I was up all night thinking about Dan. I keep coming back to the last text he sent me, a couple weeks ago. It was just a dumb local news segment from when John Harbaugh was hired to coach the Ravens — but that, of course, was fitting. (Short thread coming, sorry.)

Okay, two @dhm.bsky.social stories I need to share. Appropriately, one silly and one just deeply meaningful to me.

Dan -- I've known him for 25 years just as Dmac and it feels so weird to be calling him by his actual name -- was funny and kind and he was reliably weird in the best way and the world is less fun and good without him in it

Here I was assuming that meant the Steelers

See cover photo

This game broke me

What deck though cause plasma’s real fun to just spam straights on

OK yes that’s a much better read on Brad but I will die on the Jane Yang Gang hill

Dave was super into Mamdani for like two days, Jane is still and forever Yang Gang, Alex has a shockingly detailed explanation for backing Mamdani, Brad is thinking Cuomo, Penny's the one true swing voter

Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say A decision is not expected to be imminent, one source said, but debate within the administration has shifted recently to more deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Trump administration officials seriously discussing invoking Insurrection Act, sources say www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

the Ravens are losing to the Texans 31-3

vibes in Baltimore:

at the post we have a small team of professional pollsters who have to review the full methodology behind any survey results before we can feature them in a story. they’re super annoying sometimes and i’m also very grateful that we have them

U.S. preparing options for military strikes on drug targets inside Venezuela, sources say President Donald Trump has not approved any action yet, and the U.S. and Venezuela are talking through Middle Eastern intermediaries, sources told NBC News.

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: The U.S. is preparing options for military strikes on drug targets inside Venezuela, and the strikes could potentially begin within a matter of weeks. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Pentagon leaders are considering a recruiting campaign centered around Charlie Kirk. Possible slogans discussed include "Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors" and there's talk of using TPUSA chapters as recruitment centers. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Yup! I even slept through the night last night without once being woken up by the thought of what had gone wrong

Update on African aliens sent to Ghana who fear being forwarded to countries of origin where US immigration courts have found they likely face persecution/torture: 4 plaintiffs are still in Ghana, but they're now being denied access to Internet, they're attys say.

RED MEAT FROM A RED-SAUCE JOINT

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Boy, I tell you, no better way to start your week than laying awake at 4:30, unable to fall back asleep because you can't make yourself stop thinking about the Ravens' collapse, realizing your mental health is apparently balanced precariously on top of a few dozen people you'll never even meet

This is why we can’t have nice things.

The Derrick Henry/Lamar Jackson backfield actually happening and being as incredible as anyone could have hoped is one of the coolest things that has ever happened in football history and is somehow underrated

It is just so genuinely fun to watch Derrick Henry run. A privilege, really.

In rare interviews, federal judges criticize Supreme Court's handling of Trump cases Ten judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court needs to explain its rulings better, with some urging Chief Justice John Roberts to do more to defend the judiciary against external criticism.

12(!) federal judges gave rare interviews to @lawrencehurley.bsky.social about the Supreme Court increasingly overturning the lower courts in favor of the Trump admin. 10/12 were highly critical of the Court

Really impressive and important reporting here: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...