people keep reposting this but cmon it’s made up. the stock hasn’t “collapsed” (it’s barely down) and there are precisely no numbers on how many subscription cancellations there have been

Joy Reid. Karen Attiah. Gene Robinson. Jonathan Capehart. There are lots of others. Circumstances differ. But really sad to see new organizations not keeping super-talented Black staffers. The news industry spent decades talking about diversity, improved some from 2014-2020 and is now going back.

It's honestly very funny that you can trick AI tools into telling on themselves

By the way, I'm posting short videos and gift links for my tech stories now at the below links, despite having a face for radio. Would love if you followed along www.instagram.com/bydrewharwell/ www.tiktok.com/@drewharwell

When he named Brendan Carr as his FCC chair, Trump called him a "warrior for free speech." We wrote about how he has become a warrior against it. Gift link: wapo.st/4pxe2t0

As chair of the Senate committee that oversees FCC, Ted Cruz could do something more about this than talk about it on his podcast www.dallasnews.com/news/politic...

The Biden-signed bipartisan law to force the sale of TikTok, based on speculative national security concerns, has led to this: the app (and its 170 million U.S. users) is probably going to get spun off into the hands of some of Trump's biggest allies www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

This is wrong in several ways (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social, @petebuttigieg.bsky.social, Dean Withers ...) but I want to call one out specifically: Kirk's model wasn't "open debate"; it was owning sputtering young liberals and making viral content from it wapo.st/47ORq0L

Let's get out there and be politically appropriate today folks

New: Meme culture is youth culture now. Why we see it everywhere - including in acts of shocking violence. "Everyone wanted to read some form of ideology into those shells. The only thing those references told me is he spent a lot of time on the computer, being terminally online" wapo.st/41Y0rkq

Five-year-old just asked what cats' souls look like.

Does anyone know who was president in 2018?

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

The White House's new TikTok account is getting dominated by anti-Trump creators. 96% of the top comments are highly critical of Trump, attacking him on the Epstein files, the economy and everything else www.instagram.com/p/DOuFWTYDaNw/

The vice president is laughing over a critic of the president getting replaced by a government official. How would we cover it if it happened somewhere else?

New iOS rocks — you get a much higher def image of one earbud refusing to charge

Yes

The Kimmel video: "The MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it."

Today's decision being heavily criticized by Past Brendan Carr

"This is beyond McCarthyism. Trump officials are repeatedly abusing their power to stop ideas they don’t like, deciding who can speak, write and even joke. Free speech could not be in greater danger" www.washingtonpost.com/business/202... @scottnover.bsky.social

Looks great, can't wait to try Meta's live AI

This was after Colbert was canceled. Which was two months ago.

Disney's ABC has taken "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" off the air following the host's comments about Charlie Kirk's shooter. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr criticized Kimmel earlier Wednesday, suggesting he could take away station licenses. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The inside story of the White House's TikTok and all the left-wing influencers trying to take it down Gift link: wapo.st/3K749BV

People are getting the Charlie Kirk shooter completely wrong. He wasn't a far-right groyper or a radical organized leftist. And his memes weren't a coded message, they were - to him, in his nihilistic, irony-drenched, incomprehensible way - one big internet joke www.instagram.com/p/DOtkdAqEZE7/

A lot of people are declaring forensic evidence fake based on their vibe analysis of a guy they don't know

When will the left address its political-violence problem?

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Flashback

New: Anti-Trump posters and influencers have basically dominated the White House's TikTok account. The top comment for 97 of its 101 videos criticize the president, asking about the Epstein files or making him look like a fish. Will that continue if the app is sold to his friends? wapo.st/3K749BV

Horrible story about a Russian man who fled the military, hoped for asylum in the United States, but has now been sent back to the gulag.

The Discord server Robinson spent time in wasn't extremist, or even all that political. Just a bunch of young people talking about weather and video games. "No one in Robinson’s group is cheering or justifying the murder in any of the messages I reviewed. They’re just struggling to understand"

The suspect who killed Charlie Kirk said his rifle-cartridge messages were all "a big meme," according to messages just released in court. "if I see 'notices bulge uwu' on fox new I might have a stroke," he said. So, yeah, it was all a shitpost. More here on the meanings: bsky.app/profile/drew...

I'm going to start posting my stories and videos at www.instagram.com/bydrewharwell/ for reasons. Would love if you followed along!

Proud to be a part of @postguild.bsky.social

"More infections, more hospitalizations, more disability and more death" www.bbc.com/news/article...

He wouldn't just say that to sell glasses right

I missed yesterday that the president announced that 88% of the United States had died

Scoop: Status has obtained the termination letter The Washington Post sent to @karenattiah.bsky.social, in which it informed her that she was being fired for social media posts "about white men." Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

It's wild how much of a farce this entire TikTok drama has been. A congressional circus to create a law no one followed requiring a change of policy from which nothing will change www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6o7L4pw/

Another Grok reprogramming inbound

Vowing to crush dissent from two left-wing groups for a piece of free speech they had nothing to do with www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... @cqzakrz.bsky.social @mbirnbaum.bsky.social

Statement from Post Guild Leadership: The Washington Post Guild condemns the unjust firing of columnist Karen Attiah

TikTok deal might be actually moving forward this time. China is talking more optimistically about it than they ever have, but they still get the final say. Trump continues to tell his admin to pretend the sale-or-ban law doesn't exist www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

“If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified" “Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.” George Floyd was a “scumbag” Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was “a huge mistake" www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

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Vance: "I could never say that I've never raised my voice to my wife"

"Longtime friend of Charlie Kirk"