Gov. Hochul’s administration approved a key water-quality permit for a proposed natural-gas pipeline off the NYC coast, reversing the state’s previous denials amid public and private pressure from President Trump: https://gothamist.visitlink.me/El5anL

An underappreciated aspect of our current media landscape is that there is a lot more for journalists to cover (particularly those who have non-localized or non-specialized audiences) and far fewer people available to do it.

So Elise Stefanik is running for NY governor. She abandoned every principle she claimed to have in exchange for a seat on the Trump train. Here’s a thread about Stefanik, who is a serial liar, an ally of a Hitler admirer, and an opponent of sharing baby formula with migrant infants. 🧵 1/10

Wow. Here's something we've rarely seen since Trump remade the WH & Pentagon press corps with MAGA bloggers. One of the few remaining journalists in the pack pushing the president to explain his lies about grocery prices.

Air traffic controller, by @deAdder open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...

Well now, would you look at that? A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

BREAKING: Cornell caved. Here is the settlement agreement, signed today by the university's president, Michael Kotlikoff: statements.cornell.edu/2025/documen...

Lots of terrible news out lately about ChatGPT, but it doesn't seem like anyone is investigating Gemini, esp the education space (ie Gems). If you want to crack AI edtech, that's a big one. Lots of Google ecosystem schools have mandated Gemini, and I have few critical resources on it specifically

NYT editors continue to sanewash Trump #AllTheNews that’s un/fit to print: AGSulzberger, Kahn, Ryan, Lacey, Healy, Kingsbury+ escape much-warranted criticism behind the institutional mantle. POTUS detached from economic reality “$2 gas” NYT *A1*: pills that are not even on the mkt may cost LESS!

“The X effect' - How Elon Musk is boosting the British right - a brilliant investigation by SkyNews team @kaitlintosh.bsky.social @michelleinezsimon.bsky.social Why are news orgs and institutions still giving credibility to Musk’s radicalizing platform? news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Big story from Sky news. It is a mistake to think the DSA alone is going to fix this. This requires more, including and most particularly enforcement of GDPR Art 9 news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Progressives have been incredibly negligent in not paying attention to who owns the media. It is far MORE important than campaign finance reform. See my interview with Milo Vassallo on Mostly Economics www.youtube.com/watch?v=4efF...

Scoop from my colleague @c-sommerfeldt.bsky.social. NYPD Commissioner Tisch got about 4 hours notice from the Trump admin of last month’s ICE raid along Canal St., putting city in tough spot with sanctuary law. She directed cops to steer clear of the raid. www.nydailynews.com/2025/11/06/n...

🚨LA-based journalists/journos willing to relocate to the west coast: We're looking for a senior news editor to help run our news operation in downtown LA! If you're well-versed in breaking news and want to work with really wonderful humans, APPLY! workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...

The trump regime is not a functioning government, it's an organized crime syndicate and should be treated as such. This absolutely includes the SCOTUS BigotWizards, with their proven ongoing corruption, who would strip away our basic human rights.

@kattenbarge.bsky.social We know who has the power to make that happen.

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

President Trump has already made well over $1B off the presidency in his 2d term. Many of the deals he is profiting from appear to violate the Constitution’s foreign and domestic emoluments clauses. But Congress needs to codify them. Our new paper explains how: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

The Rutherford County Library System in Tennessee is temporarily closing two branches in order to remove books from them. Why? Because the Secretary of State told them to do it, citing laws and Executive Orders that undermine the Constititon. bookriot.com/rutherford-c...

The Trump administration’s fast-tracked rules grant the Federal Protective Service sweeping powers to make arrests off federal property.

Every 1C of global warming on average cuts the world’s ability to produce food by 120 calories per person per day, or 4.4% of current daily consumption, a new study finds - and the US Midwest will be among the hardest-hit impactlab.org/research/imp...

This week's Gaslit Nation includes a chilling interview with an investigative journalist sanctioned by Russia, @zarinazabrisky.bsky.social. She warns Russian aggression is getting cheaper, easier. Watch her chilling new film Kherson: Human Safari www.khersonhumansafari.com

I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

When deception’s more profitable than honesty, users lose. Internal documents reviewed by suggest that Meta earns $3.5 billion every six months from scam ads, revealing a deeper systemic problem: the economic incentive to tolerate “higher legal risk” content still outweighs any penalty.

Douthat has basically become the ambassador to the NYT for Breitbart nation. Only a matter of time before we get a regular show from him about Black crime and race & IQ studies.

I will never stop being mad that the NYTimes continues to handsomely pay someone to write about American conservatism who was capable of being so obviously and egregiously wrong about it.

Says the press has a right to observe govt activities

Back in court! Is this where I live now? Have I ever been anywhere other than court? Who knows! Waiting on judge Ellis to arrive

NEW: Billions of pounds of food are imported to the U.S. each year. The FDA inspects foreign producers to ensure what we're eating is safe from pathogens and dangerous manufacturing practices. But now, after Trump's drastic staff cuts, these inspections have plummeted to a historic low. 🧵/

The hed now reads "Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace" and the dek reads "And if so, can conservative feminism fix it?" ✌🏾Conservative feminism✌🏾 is an oxymoron.

The individuals who are the “deciders” of “what is (is not) fit to print”: AGSulzberger, Kahn, Ryan, Lacey, Healy, Kingsbury+ escape much-warranted criticism behind the institutional mantle. We think NYT leadership needs to be named & shamed for their “product”. From democracywashing fascism to 👇

Meta's fraud problem: The social media giant projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by @Reuters show reut.rs/4qJTpdH

Segrid Harris is the DOGE lackey installed to demolish this national gem. Again, "demolish" is not figurative - once the buildings are emptied, they will be bulldozed.

CNBC - US job cuts last month surged 183% from September and went up 175% from than the same month a year ago. This is now the worst year for layoffs since 2009. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/job-c...

I wonder how all the women reporters and editors at the Times feel about this headline.

The Zuckerbergs set up an unlicensed school at their massive compound in Palo Alto. Then, as @carolinehaskins.bsky.social reports, their neighbours revolted. (Note: this article is free for all to read because it's based on FOIA documents. Consider a subscription) www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

60 Minutes Edits Donald Trump Telling Them 60 Minutes Should Edit Donald Trump Talking About How 60 Minutes Paid Him For Editing Kamala Harris 60 Minutes is under new management and things are getting stupid faster than you might expect. Last night’s episode featured President Trump, which is…

No public agency should be posting exclusively on Xitter. I understand that they might have to post on all major platforms, but posting only on Musk's propaganda mill should stop.

Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei announces cuts affecting 19 individuals on the product, tech and design teams, per note. “This is a difficult, but necessary, move to meet our evolving tech strategy.”

Councilmember Ysabel Jurado has introduced a motion to protect journalists covering protests. The motion: LAPD will create a public campaign on how to obtain LAPD-issued press passes along w/ signing MoUs between press groups and the city to create an agreement on conduct at protests.

I'll be discussing #ScienceUnderSiege tomorrow morning (Thurs Nov 6) 8:50am ET with Mike Collins of @npr.org @wfae.bsky.social #CharlotteTalks: www.wfae.org/show/charlot...

Today's newsletter is about the awful and extremely political decision to gut Teen Vogue for parts www.readtpa.com/p/teen-vogue...

To understand how we've gotten so close to rising authoritarianism and a crumbling Fourth Estate, Sunday's 60 Minutes interview with Trump tells you everything you need to know. @notaaroncraig.bsky.social explains how we reclaim the airwaves. READ: https://pressingissues.org/good-night-and-wtf/

Since Trump took office, virtually all CFPB investigations have ground to a halt, including three probes into Andreessen-backed companies, according to the records and the people familiar with the cases. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

This week, WaPo published a “profile” re: Chris Buskirk—who co-founded the Thiel-backed Rockbridge Network w/ JD Vance. Curiously, the profile omitted Buskirk’s ties to “Christian Nationalism” via American Reformer (where he is a director), which supports William Wolfe’s organization. This guy ⬇️ 1/

Mamdani is a Magnetist. And last night showed the credulity chasm is closing. www.weekendreading.net/p/bringing-a...

NEW: Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the state Senate tonight for the first time since 2011. It came as Democrats flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat. “Mississippi just broke the supermajority—and the people have taken back their power,” the party says.

The Kyiv Independent’s Dominic Culverwell sits down with Elina Ribakova, a leading expert on the Russian economy, to unpack the latest U.S. sanctions targeting Rosneft and Lukoil — the oil giants fuelling Moscow’s war.

News literacy for mental health and wellness https://newslit.org/wellness/ @newslit.org