Thanks to David Chalian for having me on to talk about how Democrats are fighting to protect affordable health care - despite GOP refusals to come to the table and get a deal done. www.cnn.com/audio/podcas...

As Chair of the DCCC (@electdemocrats.bsky.social) it's Rep. @suzandelbene.bsky.social's job to win back the House for Democrats. She tells @davidchalian.bsky.social her plan for the impending shutdown. Full pod: megaphone.link/WMHY7335667391

had a ton of fun working on this poll with @today.yougov.com about the songs that everybody knows the lyrics to, the generational anthems are super neat www.numlock.com/p/numlock-su...

New Jersey may have the sleeper political race of 2025. Sunday, David @wildstein.bsky.social of @newjerseyglobe.bsky.social co-hosts the first gubernatorial debate b/w @mikiesherrill.bsky.social & Jack Cittarelli. @davidchalian.bsky.social hosts him on @cnn.com Political Briefing 🎧 apple.co/4gA225V

Breaking news: Thirty-one journalists were killed in Israeli airstrikes on a newspaper complex in Yemen last week, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists. They say it was “the deadliest strike on journalists in the Middle East.”

Israel’s targeted strikes on two newspaper offices in Yemen’s capital is the second deadliest single attack on the press ever recorded by CPJ, following the 2009 Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines. Read more: cpj.org?p=522184

U.S. Senate candidate from Michigan 🏈 @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social keeps popping up in creative ways. Hear her strategy on the @cnn.com Political Briefing podcast with 🎙️ @davidchalian.bsky.social: apple.co/3HYq8dQ

Episodes I wish I’d made: The US is Southern Now podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... @jonquilynhill.bsky.social @amandamull.bsky.social @voxdotcom.bsky.social

Along with his brother, Josue Trejo-Lopez was deported two weeks before his high school graduation. He’d been in the US since he was 10 years old, had no criminal record, and left behind his mom and little brother. 🎧 Hear his story on this week's episode of Reveal:

📺 @cnn.com breaks down Israel's 'double-tap' attack on Gaza hospital, killing 20, including five journalists. www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/w... 🎤 @orencnn.bsky.social

📺 @cnn.com breaks down Israel's 'double-tap' attack on Gaza hospital, killing 20, including five journalists. www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/w... 🎤 @orencnn.bsky.social

Is the president’s top “attack dog” MTG, Laura Loomer, or the grandson of Pulte Homes? 🖥️ @slate.com 🎙️ @maryharris.bsky.social 🎧 apple.co/465OSKa

More than a dozen Palestinians, including journalists from multiple outlets, killed in Israeli strikes on a southern Gaza hospital, officials say https://cnn.it/3UMA8tl

Listening, @ethanbrooks.bsky.social @theatlantic.com

"Here legally, engaged in a sanctioned process to determine their eligibility for asylum, they have committed no crime. They are arrested anyway, and the lives they’ve risked to come to the United States are thrown into chaos."

💕 #Dating apps were supposed to make the process easier, so why do they feel more and more like work? 🤔 @faith-hill.bsky.social (@theatlantic.com) brings her personal experience and romance reporting to @audiecornish.bsky.social (@cnn.com) on The Assignment #podcast:

Parts of Gaza are experiencing famine, according to a Friday report by a United Nations-backed initiative, which added it is expected to expand. During nearly two years of war, Israel has at times restricted or cut off the entry of aid to the ravaged enclave. https://cnn.it/469l0f1

There have been a ton of 20th anniversary "best of" podcast lists lately, and it has started to feel a bit like an obituary for an industry. [gift link] defector.com/the-future-o...

“Oklahoma & Utah- two states w/very little homelessness. The story there is not that we're not forcing enough mentally ill people into treatment. The story is that there's a lot of cheap housing.” 🏠 NYU Prof Alex Barnard on Today, Explained @vox.com podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

With Moves on West Bank and Gaza City, Israel Defies Global Outcry 📰 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/w...

I wrote about Israel’s assassination of Anas al-Sharif, a brave journalist in Gaza, and the work of local journalists everywhere. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...

going to have to expand this map pretty far north pretty soon so reposting now to get some more juice out of it lol. the MBT:

“I started considering leaving Gaza after it was clear to me, it was either I get to keep my story or my life.” From The @newyorker.com Radio Hour: A Palestinian Journalist Escapes Death in Gaza @mohamhawish.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Robert Putnam (🎳 Alone) and Richard V. Reeves (Of Boys and Men) write that groups like Big Brothers Big Sisters, the Scouts, and 4-H were crucial to solving the “boy problem” at the turn of the last century and could be again. 📰 @nytimes.com @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...

Got a story out today about something I’ve been fascinated by for years: From Atlanta hip hop to Bama RushTok, here’s how and why the South has taken such a firm grip on modern American culture. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Long trusted by parents to safeguard children and trained to navigate sensitive topics, pediatricians are quietly initiating some of the hardest conversations of their careers: If you’re detained, who will care for your child?

📰@nytimes.com: The Trauma of Childhood in Gaza | Over the past two years, tens of thousands of children in the territory have been killed, wounded or orphaned. Childhood as they once knew it has ceased to exist: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/w...

(NBC News) - President Donald Trump's pick to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics was among the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with the White House saying he was a "bystander" who wandered over after seeing coverage on the news. @ryanjreilly.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Israel must facilitate immediate and permanent access for the United Nations and other humanitarian organizations to bring “a flood of aid into Gaza,” the foreign ministers of 27 nations said in a joint statement. wapo.st/4fLf28j

Loved this profile of an unsung community pillar:

TIL that Axon, the company famous for selling tasers and body cameras, now offers AI-powered software that writes police reports. From 🎧“Terms of Service” @cnn.com 🎙️ @claresduffy.bsky.social

I wish 2Pac was here youtu.be/eXvBjCO19QY

@cnn.com: Israel kills multiple journalists in Gaza, including prominent Al Jazeera reporters lite.cnn.com/2025/08/10/m...

💌 Thanks for the "Chance Encounters" podcast love, @forbes.com: www.forbes.com/sites/irenel...

🖊️ @mosababutoha.bsky.social with 🎧Jon Stewart: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

“Voters want fighters. That's what they're telling Democrats. And they think their current crop of members in their 70s/80s are just not up to the task- younger Democratic challengers- no longer going to “wait our turn.” 🗣️Max Cohen 🎧 @punchbowlnews.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Dinner at the VP's place tonight to the Epstein story straight. First on @cnn.com: www.cnn.com/2025/08/05/p...

Who paved the way for Texas Republicans' gerrymandering power grab? Chief Justice John Roberts. Joan Biskupic, who wrote the book on Roberts, writes for @cnn.com: www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/p...

“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. “I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”

Slopulism 💀 @nytopinion.nytimes.com

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “If you want to know where Republican politics is heading, look at the memes,” writes Nathan Taylor Pemberton. “A new kind of political style is enveloping conservatism — one that is ruthless, inflammatory and designed for maximum viral reach.”

I wrote about political violence in America, and what the second-most-famous duel in our nation’s history can tell us about how it ends: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

“With startling frequency, Americans are attempting to resolve political disagreement through violence. And all the while, leaders at the highest levels of American government are aggressively stoking this national bloodlust…” 🖊️ @adriennelaf.bsky.social 📖 @theatlantic.com

“There's no such thing as a brilliant, magical centrist set of issues. There have been so many efforts- to- transcend the party system with the smarter ideas and the better ideas. That's just not how ideas work.” 💡 @didikuo1.bsky.social @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...

"Our show is the perfect listen for the summer vacation season...whether on the beach or in the skies, I hope these episodes will be a fitting soundtrack for all of your adventures this year." -Francesca Street | @cnn.com Podcasts to Launch Season Two of “Chance Encounters” June 27

The internet, mankind’s greatest invention, promised to unite people across the globe. So what happened? LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET tells the story of how — driven by profits and power — it tore the world apart instead. The first episode is out now. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans - www.972mag.com/hunger-games...

NEW: Three powerful new books, by Peter Beinart, Avi Shlaim and Pankaj Mishra, confront the destruction of Gaza — and the underlying logic that has sustained it. Yakov Rabkin reviews them for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. newlinesmag.com/review/gaza-...

💡 Heard @greenwell.bsky.social talk about private equity on @annehelen.bsky.social’s podcast and ran to buy her book, “Bad Company.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...