Tim Hanlon

I begged my dad to take us to see the Detroit Loves at Cobo Arena.

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

K Street’s Trump Boom From crypto companies to defense contractors, new lobbying clients steered $145 million to firms led by Trump insiders in the first year of his return to power.

draining swamp, planting weeds readsludge.com/2026/02/13/k...

K Street’s Trump Boom From crypto companies to defense contractors, new lobbying clients steered $145 million to firms led by Trump insiders in the first year of his return to power.

draining swamp, planting weeds readsludge.com/2026/02/13/k...

Weigel Says The Quiet Part Out Loud — TVREV For much of the industry, the primary appeal of ATSC 3.0 is not better television. It is the ability to monetize broadcast spectrum for non-broadcast uses — even if that comes at the expense of free T...

📺 "[M]any of ATSC 3.0’s most enthusiastic backers are less focused on improving broadcasting than on repurposing spectrum." (yours truly via @tvrev.bsky.social) www.tvrev.com/news/weigel-...

Weigel Says The Quiet Part Out Loud — TVREV For much of the industry, the primary appeal of ATSC 3.0 is not better television. It is the ability to monetize broadcast spectrum for non-broadcast uses — even if that comes at the expense of free T...

📺 "[M]any of ATSC 3.0’s most enthusiastic backers are less focused on improving broadcasting than on repurposing spectrum." (yours truly via @tvrev.bsky.social) www.tvrev.com/news/weigel-...

ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.

Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.

Trump Mobile’s origins lie with a Mexican middleweight boxer Trump Mobile was really round two.

Trump Mobile’s origins lie with a Mexican middleweight boxer

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"Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release. “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses."

the most on-brand quote a meta staffer may have ever uttered

The lying is out of control. People need to go to prison. | Will Bunch The outrageous lies of the Trump regime, from ICE shootings to a commerce secretary's Epstein falsehoods, must be punished.

Gift article: "We won’t get anything resembling democracy until we clear that widespread debris, and that means sending a bunch of these liars to prison, because they are the real criminals. America desperately needs truth and consequences."

The Fulton County raid is part of Trump's total war on voting And it's disturbing that a magistrate judge signed off on it.

New in PN: The Fulton County raid is part of Trump's total war on voting

"The SAVE Act is not expected to pass the Senate, but in some ways, it doesn’t really need to. It's already served the same purpose as the raid: undermining confidence in elections by amplifying debunked lies about fraud."

Donald Trump’s Disingenuous Promise to Champion Free Speech It is Donald Trump’s systematic campaign to stamp out dissent and punish those who disagree with him that will be remembered as among the most singularly un-American aspects of his disruptive tenure.

Lost amid the noise is the fact that the president just tried to throw six members of Congress in prison because he didn't like what they said. Per @sbg1.bsky.social you have to go back to 1798 to find a congressman prosecuted for exercising his right to free speech www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

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Q: Have you fired that staffer who posted the video that included the Obamas?

Trump: No I haven't. That was a video that's been shown all over the place before that was posted, it's a very strong piece on voter fraud

The lying is out of control. People need to go to prison. | Will Bunch

OPINION: "The outrageous lies of Trump regime, from ICE shootings to a Commerce Secretary's Epstein falsehoods, must be punished ... America desperately needs truth and consequences." — Inquirer columnist Will Bunch

Keys, Spare Change Fly Out Of Luge Athlete’s Pocket On First Turn

Keys, Spare Change Fly Out Of Luge Athlete’s Pocket On First Turn

We had to chuckle this morning, when Joe Lavorgna, counselor to the Treasury Secretary, said on @cnbc.com that the jobs number is proof the economy's on fire -- but the fact that the gains were entirely from non-cyclical sectors like education/health care means the Fed can still cut rates.

Jayapal asks Epstein survivors in hearing room to stand and raise hands if they still haven't been able to meet with Bondi's DOJ. Every single one of them doe. Jayapal then gives Bondi an opportunity to apologize. She responds by trying to attack Jayapal and Merrick Garland but doesn't apologize.

YouTube video by NewsActive3 Firing Line: The News Twisters, September 1, 1971

this is 1971...more than half a century ago...and it's the same bullshit

The Media Is Biased… Against the Left Mehdi brings receipts on the glaring absence of progressive voices not just on Bari Weiss’s CBS News but across so-called “liberal” media, and makes the case for independent media.

the U.S. right wing conducted a massively-successful 50+ year propaganda campaign to impregnate the culture with the lie that all fact-based criticism of their unpopular policies has an inherent bias and should be discarded

our feckless consolidated corporate press was generally happy to oblige

“.. Virtually all the employment growth in America, once again, can be explained by healthcare and social assistance.”

- @weisenthal.bsky.social #NFP

MLB Media Set to Handle Half of the League’s Teams in 2026 MLB’s in-house local media department, which began in emergency circumstances in early 2023, will handle half the league in 2026.

"Local media provides > 1/5th of total revenue across baseball; current situation could exacerbate growing fiscal divide between these teams & large-revenue ones like Dodgers, Mets & Yankees that still enjoy hefty income from RSNs." (@aericfisher.bsky.social) frontofficesports.com/mlb-media-se...

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Donald Trump Endorses Nexstar-Tegna Merger, And FCC Chair Responds: “Let’s Get It Done” The merger is still undergoing an FCC review.

Donald Trump is VERY EXCITED about all of our shitty right wing propaganda "local news" companies merging into one larger, shittier company

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Sinclair to Offer Up Right Wing Halftime Show — FTVLive Sinclair to offer up a racist alternative on Super Bowl Sunday…

"Sinclair owns/operates 20+ NBC affiliates nationwide. By urging viewers to switch away from NBC during halftime to watch Kid Rock on its digital streams, Sinclair is actively directing eyeballs away from its own premium broadcast real estate." (Scott Jones/FTVLive) www.ftvlive.com/sqsp-test/20...

In 2024, Trump stated that only himself and Dan Scavino have access to his Truth Social account.

This contradicts Karoline Leavitt’s implication that some random, unnamed low-level staffer was to blame for posting the now-deleted racist Obama ape video.

Did you know that Trump himself had not posted the video when you defended it? Why would you accuse people who were offended by a racist video of lying about their reactions? What percentage of Trump's Truth Social posts are made by someone else? What percentage of Trump's Truth Social posts are made without his knowledge? How many people aside from Trump have access to his social media account? Who are those people? Which of Trump's other Truth Social posts were posted by someone else? How can anyone be sure that posts under Trump's name come from Trump? Why should anyone believe that this particular post did not come from Trump since it is consistent with his well-reported history of racist remarks and conduct? If people can't be sure any post is his, why should anyone take any post under his name either literally or seriously? What was the impulse for the staffer to make that post? Has the staffer been disciplined in any way? Will the staffer continue to have access to his account? What does it say about Trump's judgment that he would choose a staffer with this kind of judgment to have access to his account? Is the anonymous staffer a hastily invented concoction to which you pivoted once you realized that the story was going to outgrow your attempts to dismiss it? How do you react to the almost universal condemnation of the post? The President's late-night posting sprees are filled with lapses in taste and judgment as well as threats and pronouncements that go nowhere. What does that say about the President's emotional stability? What does it say about the President's honesty? What does it say about the President's credibility? Hasn't your own credibility been damaged by your defense of something widely seen as indefensible? What does it say about you that you were comfortable not only defending the video but attacking those who were offended by it? Doesn't the amount of lying Trump does, and that you do for him, undermine your ability to be trusted on anything?

White House press corps, I know some of you are shy, so let me help you get started. This isn't fifty questions--I could only fit twenty-one in alt text--but let me know if you need more!

Verge headline: Everyone is stealing TV by Janko Roettgers Photo illustration depicts a TV remote with pirate-themed buttons like crossed swords, a barrel, a ship, an anchor, and a skull and crossbones

Streaming services are costlier every year, and you need to sign up for multiple services just to catch your favorite sports team every time they play.

As viewers become more fed up, more have embraced rogue streaming boxes.

Read more from @jank0.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/streaming/87...