New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."

The 81-year-old, second-richest man on earth, calls up president directly and demands that he be allowed to use $100 billion including capital from world’s most repressive regimes and Trump’s son-in-law to conquer a massive entertainment and news complex to preserve “competition“

More than that, his crew threatened to open fire on the murderers. He rescued civilians, returned to base to refuel, flew back, and rescued more civilians. Then he denounced the crimes to his HQ. For all this he received death-threats throughout his life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....

Huge News! Turning Point: The Vietnam War was nominated for an IDA award. Thank you to Doan Hoang Curtisis, Bo Kovitz, Keven McAlester, Tommy Nguyen and always Sarah Huisenga, Sabrina Parke and Clare Tucker....and John Dragonetti for the INCREDIBLE score! www.indiewire.com/.../ida-docu...

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Look at this turnout in Charlotte! #NoKings (via Marco Foster/Threads)

Looks like people showed up in DC

Even in this place, I feel the sheer scale of foreign aid being demolished isn't fully appreciated. As it stands, it is perhaps *the* most catastrophic change to preventable deaths in our lifetimes, and the salience - even in presumably friendly spaces - is basically zero apnews.com/article/myan...

Dodgers!!!!!! Yes!

It looks like Kimmel is blocked on ABC in DC.

This is like watching the 12th round of a fight that should have been stopped in the 10th.

@keriputnam.bsky.social on the incredible legacy of Robert Redford. www.thewrap.com/robert-redfo...

It's crazy that we've spent more time this year talking about the *former* president's health than the current one's, given the numerous warning signs and unanswered questions that are accumulating.

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. ... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ―Orwell, 1984

Probably not a good idea to ask ChatGPT for health advice.

"There's a critical difference between acknowledging a nation’s history and celebrating its worst moments. In Germany, they don’t erase their shameful Nazi past, but that doesn’t mean they’re erecting hagiographic statues commemorating war criminals."

Anne Applebaum: "If American media can’t convey how dangerous this behavior is—for our prosperity, for our health, for our democracy—then American media will eventually cease to exist." More from our convo in @status.news: www.status.news/p/anne-apple...

That's exactly it. It's the gap between what we're all seeing and what many govts are even *admitting* that's so disturbing. Recently watched Vietnam doc on Netflix and it spoke about how that war "broke" trust in govt all the way to today. This seems like an acceleration of the same process.

Our Monday documentary spaces have been absolutely fantastic when it comes to recognizing institutional corruption. From Turning Point: The Cold War, Turning Point: Vietnam, and now The Octopus Murders (all available on Netflix), we're watching different chapters of the same book. Fascinating stuff.

An excellent interview we did with @brianknappenberger.bsky.social about Hulk Hogan’s life, legacy and the massive impact of his landmark lawsuit against Gawker Media On The Coast with Gloria Macarenko: Wrestler Hulk Hogan dies at 71 www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

An Interview with me today on CBC Radio about the death of Hulk Hogan and the lasting devastation of the Hogan v Gawker trial. #hulkhogan #hulk #gawker www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

One of the first things Vladimir Putin did on becoming president was take over NTV, the TV channel that hosted a satirical puppet show because he didn't like the Putin doll and how he was portrayed. He arrested NTV's owner and only released him when he signed the channel over. #Colbert

I've been saying to friends for a few months that the more I study authoritarianism in other countries, the more concerned I become that the CBS story is the sleeping giant here. The process has been a simmer (people inside the network have spoken out in real-time) but don't mistake slow for safe.

I recently watched the TURNING POINT: THE VIETNAM WAR (netflix), & first of all, another great job from the Turning Point crew; this one was contextual to the present, & kaleidoscopic (many US/ SVA/ NVA vets, activists & Vietnamese survivors & more voices). Utterly essential watch in 2025

Documentary (Single Episode): 2/2 Turning Point: The Vietnam War ("The End of the Road") Brian Knappenberger Vow of Silence: The Assassination of Annie Mae ("Wounded Knee 1973") Yvonne Russo

"With this made-up scandal, combined with the pre-election editorial, the Times looks like it’s on a crusade against Mamdani." That's Margaret Sullivan @sulliview.bsky.social Former public editor of the New York Times, and a shrewd judge of newsroom character. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

WSJ ed board warning Paramount not to pay Trump’s bribe! “The better alternative for Paramount: Win the legal case, vindicate its CBS journalists and 1st Amend & trust FCC has enough integrity to operate as something more than the President’s personal protection racket.” www.wsj.com/opinion/para...

Yes, obviously the better path.

This Douthat/Thiel conversation gets so weird. They speculate that the biggest threat to humanity might just be a 22 year old climate change activist leading us to a "totalitarian, one-world state." Imagine seeing the world that way. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/o...

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“DOGE leaders pressured agency executives to hire a 21 yo former intern at Palantir, a data analysis firm, and grant him access to the personal data of every Social Security cardholder despite the executives’ concerns that he lacked sufficient training to handle such sensitive information.”

Minnesota’s flags will fly at half staff in honor and remembrance of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman. She woke up every morning determined to make Minnesota a better place, and she will be greatly missed.

We've updated and republished our guide to surveillance-resistant protest, first published in the summer of 2020. Paywall is down for this. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

Netflix has a 5-part series on the Vietnam war. It's an extremely powerful look back on a war that is still affecting the US. I lived through that period (was about 2 years too young to go) and remembered a good bit, but still learned a lot. www.military.com/off-duty/tel...

Turning Point on the A-Bomb / Cold War (by @brianknappenberger.bsky.social) is a must see: who has access to nuclear codes, popular attitude to large scale incendiary weapons, for the doctrine of deterrence, for Putin’s folly and the “institutional insanity” of annihilation before capitulation

Stunning details now emerging: this was an operation planned a year and a half in advance, involved smuggling drones into Russia, placing them in containers on top of trucks, arranging for them all to open simultaneously and to strike.

Phenomenal piece by @michellegoldberg.bsky.social here. (Gift link)

So true. This is very dangerous.

the netflix documentary on the vietnam war is freaking fantastic worth the watch, homies

Just watched "Turning Point: The Vietnam War" on Netflix. The entire Turning Point documentary series is excellent, and the latest one is no less powerful or insightful. Highlight recommended. www.netflix.com/gb/title/817... #TurningPoint #Documentary #VietnamWar

Thank you!

I just watched the Netflix doc series Turning Point Vietnam, and, well, it was a reminder of how much more civil disobedience there was then, and how much music influenced so much of culture. Now, doesn't seem so much...

Turning Point - The Vietnam War, on Netflix is excellent.

Netflix has produced a new documentary on the Vietnam War. I was interviewed for it and appear in several of the five episodes. Great credit goes to producer Đoàn Hoàng for getting so many Vietnamese views in there and making sure our diacritics appear. Check it out for yourself.

Here’s how Trump’s war on science is going. NSF funding is at the lowest level in decades. We’ll lose knowledge, generations of scientists, and US competitiveness. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Great reaction to our series about the Vietnam War. www.tiktok.com/@whatshalesr...

From @theatlantic.com profile on "Trump's Real Secretary of State" Steve Witkoff: “In recent months, he told me, he has read many books and watched Netflix documentaries on world conflicts (including Turning Point: The Vietnam War).”