Jeff Seelbach

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Over 100 journalists demand 'immediate and unsupervised' foreign media access into Gaza Signatories are calling on both Israel and Hamas to allow foreign journalists into Gaza to report independently on the war, something they have been barred from doing since the conflict started in 202...

"Signatories include Sky News' special correspondent Alex Crawford, broadcaster Mehdi Hasan, CNN's Christiane Amanpour and chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward, as well as iconic war photographer Don McCullin."

With Amazon/MGM and now Skydance/Paramount - also has parallels in film & TV

White Text on a red background reads: "Since its founding in 1988, The Baffler has articulated an unapologetically pro-worker and pro-union politics in the reportage and criticism it has published. In seeking to reflect those values throughout the organization, we are proud to announce that we have formed a union as part of the Workers United New York New Jersey Regional Joint Board."

We, the staff of @thebaffler.com, are proud to announce that we have formed a union with @workersunitednynj.bsky.social. Read more about why we have formed a union here:

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I Tried Five of the Subway's Gross Viral 'Recipes' and Survived (Barely) I fed "Brieghetti Pie" to my friends. I hope they will forgive me.

Last week, we published this piece by @celiayoung.bsky.social wherein she made, and then *fed to her friends*, five of the "gross viral recipes" from the subway's disgusting ad displays. hellgatenyc.com/tried-gross-...

📽️ WATCH: “The U.S. sent us to El Salvador so that El Salvador could do the dirty work that the U.S. couldn’t.”

Hear from Juan José Ramos Ramos, Andry Omar Blanco Bonilla and Wilmer José Vega Sandia — three of 230+ Venezuelan men the Trump administration sent to CECOT — in their own words:

Oh god I can't believe I have to do this but that TERF who writes for the Sunday Times has a good point she's made very badly: yes porn has rotted the way people date these days. In my own personal experience there is almost no interest in what might give me pleasure, just a pop quiz about what

Son Heung-min's last competitive game for Spurs saw them end a 17-year trophy drought 🏆

His final game in a Tottenham shirt came in his home nation, South Korea 🇰🇷

Hard to script a better ending 🤍

Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

Inside the neighborhood patrols watching for Ice: ‘They thought they could scare us – but this is LA’ Volunteers with Union del Barrio look for immigration officers and post videos and alerts, warning people to seek shelter

Inside the neighborhood patrols watching for Ice: ‘They thought they could scare us – but this is LA’

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV? The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced it is “wind-down” operations. What does this mean for public radio and TV?

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV?

I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire

Gift 🔗

Unpacking the forced labour concerns at the heart of Amazon Fashion A recent study has uncovered the ‘risk of hidden exploitation’ in Amazon’s third party supply chains – here’s everything you need to know

A recent study has uncovered the ‘risk of hidden exploitation’ in Amazon’s third party supply chains – here’s everything you need to know
www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/arti...

Exclusive: LAFC reach agreements with Spurs and Son, now finalizing blockbuster signing LAFC are finalizing the blockbuster signing of Son Heung-Min from Spurs, sources tell GIVEMESPORT.

💣🇰🇷 BREAKING: LAFC are finalizing a deal to sign superstar Son Heung-Min from Spurs, per sources.

Agreement reached between LAFC and Spurs for fee in region of $20-26m.

Personal terms all agreed. Son could travel as soon as this week

w/ @jacobsben.bsky.social
www.givemesport.com/lafc-reach-a...

Being an old punk is seeing this much of an unlabeled concert video and knowing exactly where it’s from

Seared into memory just like the bathrooms

I wrote something for The Sunday Times's style section about how men have been undressing for over a hundred years. And how they should go further and show a little cleavage.

Link in the next post.

What’s Being Lost in the Documentary Space As Congress Defunds Public Media "We may have lost our funding, but unlike Congress, we have not lost our way," writes ITVS boss Carrie Lozano as she assesses a less vibrant documentary landscape without the $9 million her organizati...

"We may have lost our funding, but unlike Congress, we have not lost our way" - ITVS President Carrie Lozano www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Media Capitulation Index A new tool from Free Press that you should know about

New from me: This week @freepress.bsky.social launched a Media Capitulation Index. I cover what it is, why it matters, and how we can use it to organize. ctrlaltrightdelete.substack.com/p/media-capi...

Serious question -- what's the political economy of pickleball? Who is funding all of these clubs popping up? It's like some unholy nexus of sports gentrifiers, housing developers, and others...

IVF has always been an untenable question for the pronatalist movement. On the one hand, it alienates the Catholics and anti-choice Evangelicals in their ranks. On the other, IVF allows women to delay childbearing—which conflicts with pronatalism’s desire for a revival of societal misogyny.

I had a few words at the Tesla Diner protest.

I attended the Burbank Media industry job fair yesterday, where no one was hiring. At the job fair. The fair for jobs.

according to roberts, the 2024 presidential election represented an expression of some rousseauean general will, embodied in the person of donald trump. as such, any political unit which deviates from that will is illegitimate and must be disciplined.

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse

- An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation by Luke Kemp argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I was thinking about how little data we have which suggests that "AI" and automation is replacing jobs to the degree that Altman+Amodei suggest, and that it would be hard to isolate the causal effect of "automation" and AI hype.

Firing the person in charge of BLS stats is going to make this harder.

Over 150 Jews and people of conscience are staging a sit-in at the offices of Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand in New York City to demand that the U.S. stop starving Gaza immediately.

The cover up is happening in plain sight.

Where are those QAnon folks these days? We now actually have a government that is led by a sex trafficker’s pal, and trying to help convicted sex traffickers.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it's shutting down The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which funnels federal money to public media stations, says it's winding down operations after President Trump signed a law rescinding all funding.

We're losing one of the best things the government does for the public.
www.npr.org/2025/08/01/n...

Alden Global Capital fails in its attempt to get its tentacles on The Dallas Morning News A late bid to disrupt its sale to Hearst is foiled by a fourth-generation newspaper owner turning down more money.

You have probably read too many news items about hedge funds draining the lifeblood out of newspapers. Some of you have lived it with your own paper's demise. Treat yourself, then, to the story of one hedge fund's complete defeat.

Alden Global Capital is the name. www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/alde...

Labor activist Chris Smalls is back in the United States (via Chuck Modi)