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:

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

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

This game broke me

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

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...

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.

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...

if you use AI to write my obit, I'm going to haunt your ass. you will never get a good night's sleep again. fortune.com/2025/07/29/w...

The gleeful doxing of someone cheating in public is bad even if they are a CEO and even if they are a Coldplay fan. It's bad because this kind of thing is happening to random people on TikTok for such crimes as "sitting silently on a plane" or "being attractive" www.404media.co/the-astronom...

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: New U.S. assessment finds American strikes destroyed only one of three Iranian nuclear sites www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Robert F Kennedy Jr is not a vaccine skeptic. Reporters and editors who’ve decided it’s somehow more fair to call him one instead of the anti-vaccine activist and lawyer he is should stop mischaracterizing him so… in the pursuit of accuracy.

“It’s like having a relay team, and instead of having six members you’ve only got four, and yeah, you can do it, but those four runners are going to have to run more than they’re trained for,” the FEMA employee said. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

(Make sure to read through for the Charlton Heston part)

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Gabbard's considering ways to revamp the daily brief for Trump, which he's been taking infrequently. One idea: Make it into a video that looks like Fox News. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: The Trump administration is working on a plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya. Details of who would go, how they would go, and where they would live are murky, but the admin's serious enough that it's talked to Libya's leadership. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Between this, hiring Chris Licht, and hiring studio heads he now wants to fire, I think it's clear what the problem is: A mere $51.9 million per year isn't enough to incentivize David Zaslav to do his best work. Pay him more! www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Ed Martin, the incoming "captain" of DOJ's "Weaponization Working Group," said that he'll "name" and "shame" individuals who committed no criminal conduct in what would be a major departure from longstanding Justice Department protocols. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

NEW — An isolated John Fetterman clashes with colleagues and staff as he skips his Senate duties New details in here about run-ins he's has had with Sens. Patty Murray and Jeanne Shaheen www.nbcnews.com/politics/con... by @allansmith.bsky.social @sahilkapur.bsky.social @frankthorp.bsky.social

Mohammad served the U.S. cause during the war in Afghanistan. When it ended, he fled his homeland to avoid being hunted by the Taliban. But after entering the U.S., Mohammad learned his application for a special immigrant visa was denied. https://nbcnews.to/44MCv5s

Big job open here at NBC News Digital help shape just about everything we do! jobs.smartrecruiters.com/NBCUniversal...

Here’s another story from Breaker.

Video from Friday night shows ICE buses full of Venezuelan migrants headed toward an airport in North Texas before abruptly turning around: www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

"We were lied to." Two women the Trump administration tried to send to prison in El Salvador tell their story to @nbcnews.com: www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Meet the new WH press corps! From Friday: OAN REPORTER: What has made you and your team so effective in finding, locating, apprehending, and deporting these violent illegal migrants? TRUMP: I love this guy. I wish more people would ask questions like that.

A few words on journalism, risk and what I actually said.

This is heartbreaking. And making it sadder, I saw a video on Twitter of a woman saying the REAL reason this kid died is that the hospital insisted on giving her the vaccine while she was sick. Just a sea of self-perpetuating bullshit with real consequences. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Trump allies have launched a bid to take control of the D.C. Bar Association — realizing the power these groups have. Pam Bondi's brother is running for president, and a top Ed Martin ally is running for treasurer. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru... by @allansmith.bsky.social @ryanjreilly.com

The thing is also that this is also terrible display copy! “Trump Health Chief Touts Cod Liver Oil as Measles Spreads” (Just look at Google trends! “Trump” and “Health” wallop “Kennedy” and “Measles”. And mine is fewer characters without a dependent clause!)

Our story on today's much-hyped release of Epstein documents They Were Hiding From You and how it fizzled and turned into a new promise of a release of Epstein documents They Were Hiding From You: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Breaking now from @nbcnews.com: Trump administration seems to all but clear migrants out of Guantanamo Bay www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Exclusive just out from @nbcnews.com: Inside the week that upended U.S.-Ukraine relations www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

DOGE's Edward "Big Balls" Coristine, previously fired from a cyber company that accused him of leaking information, is now in the CISA agency directory, agency employee confirms to me tonight. DOGE was not previously known to have been investigating CISA.

I worked on this story for a decade and he just said it out loud on Fox News

What a dumb policy. Bylines are for transparency so readers can understand who is responsible for info. Arbitrarily limiting them and removing contributing reporting lines altogether is backwards in a time when we should be more open about our work. talkingbiznews.com/media-news/w...