This is what you need to read to get what happened at Quantico … open.substack.com/pub/7thing/p...

I had one of those right-place-right-time moments a few years back and got to spend a morning with her with a small group, discussing her work and her thoughts about it, the world, human nature … I think about it often. What a remarkable person. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

President Trump was met by silence as he began his Quantico address, a contrast from the rousing applause he expects at his speeches. “I’ve never walked into a room so silent before,” Trump said. “If you want to applaud, you applaud.” wapo.st/4mGmnYI

Last week on #TheWeekUnspun, @tbonegallagher.bsky.social and Doug Downs, broke down the Week’s news stories wearing their PR hats. Full episode - youtu.be/Y-WQOZXGM7s Join us again this Friday at 3pm GMT / 10pm EST.

Amelia Earhart. 😂

Another week, unspun www.youtube.com/live/pMlfDsS...

Would love to see y’all there

We’ll be live again this Friday, 3 pm UK time… Let me know what you’d like to discuss or bring it up during the live stream :) www.youtube.com/live/pMlfDsS...

Last week on #TheWeekUnspun, @farzanabaduel.bsky.social, @tbonegallagher.bsky.social and Doug Downs, broke down the Week’s news stories wearing their PR hats. Full episode - bit.ly/48ppJf6 Join us again this Friday at 3pm GMT / 10pm EST.

Thanks everyone who tuned in yesterday, and if you missed it, no worries! ⤵️ #WeekUnspun Farzana Baduel Doug Downs, SCMP Emily Page David Olajide Curzon PR Stories and Strategies Folgate Advisors lnkd.in/eC3MkYDa

Don’t worry: it’s administration-compliant humor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GXN...

Saw this from a friend who teaches history at Baylor University and I think I will post it every time someone starts telling me who Charlie Kirk was. It’s not short and you’ll probably have to read a part or two that irritates you before getting it … h/t EC wildernessdispatch.com/2025/09/15/w...

I suddenly get it. My high school English teacher assigned a lot of dystopian fiction. She was sent back in time to warn me!

Every Friday at 3pm GMT / 10 am EST, @farzanabaduel.bsky.social, Doug Downs, and @tbonegallagher.bsky.social go live with The Week Unspun, a 30-minute breakdown of the week’s biggest stories through a PR lens. Here’s a tidbit of last week’s stories! ▶️ Catch the last episode: lnkd.in/drsUr_yp

Meme explainer ⤵️

Byline Times: From Epstein to Starmer: Mapping Peter Thiel’s Web of Influence in the UK bylinetimes.com/2025/09/12/p...

My grandmother gave me this book 50+ years ago and it’s terrifying. No wonder I’m so weird.

The headlines never tell the whole story. That’s why every Friday at 5pm GMT / 12pm EST, @farzanabaduel.bsky.social, Doug Downs, & @tbonegallagher.bsky.social go live with The Week Unspun — a 30-minute breakdown of the week’s biggest stories. First episode: youtu.be/VNc84zz3p2A See you on Friday!

Strong reporting here from ProPublica, which found that three Trump Cabinet members -- at Labor, Transportation and EPA -- call multiple homes their primary residence on mortgages. That's the same move that led Trump to fire Lisa Cook from her job at the Fed. bit.ly/466yMyI

London scenes

Wait. Remind me who Nate Silver is. From The Boys, right?

Listen to the Blue Vote Café wherever you get your podcasts, or via https://www.democratsabroad.org/blue_vote_cafe_podcast #podcast #uspolitics

@dreadheadrican.bsky.social Fox scenes

Has anyone asked Ghislaine if POTUS is ok?

Dude gets how the new attention system works now

This week on Stories & Strategies podcast, @tbonegallagher.bsky.social joins @farzanabaduel.bsky.social and Doug Downs to ask: 'What will it take to move the PR industry forward?' 🤔 🎧Full episode👇🏾 📺 YouTube – bit.ly/4oI85J7 🎧 Spotify – bit.ly/3JkwbcR

Has a civil war prequel vibe …

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Resources for Americans 🇺🇸

I don’t have to love everything about this guy to say right on

With just six words, Gavin Newsom torches Pedoprez for moving President Obama’s official portrait to a restricted area of the White House where it can’t be seen by the public. Newsom: “Small men hide from history’s giants.”

This started as video to introduce my colleague’s newsletter about media and comms in the GCC.

Two old dogs, rejecting all new tricks.

Medicare for All - "That's socialism!" Social Security - "That's socialism!" Debt free education - "That's socialism!" Universal childcare - "That's socialism!" $1 trillion in tax cuts for the richest 1%... "That's just how it is."

If you’re wondering how ICE recruitment and training is going under Kristi Noem—South Park already nailed it.

Hashbrown summer, apparently. I don’t make the rules.

This will definitely keep Trump separated from Epstein 🙄 apnews.com/article/epst...

Yep, that tracks...😉🤣

Texas Tumbleweed restaurant, a popular steak place in the hills on the edge of Austin. I waited tables there in high school UT “Evening y’all. I’m Rawhide, and I’ll be your wrangler tonight. Who wants a margarita and who wants a Lone Star?” But good tips, free dinner for staff, cute waitresses

How climate messaging should be done

Today’s public service announcement for US (and Canadian) friends: adding the +1 country code to your cell number will make it easier for your people abroad to text or call, and reinforce the sophisticated, worldly and slightly daring nature of your personal brand.

"Meh'be monsieur would care for just one leetle beet more Epstein news. Just a tiny morsel... wafer thin..."

Since I rarely get to NYC these days, I figured I better take this picture before it disappears

Don’t have a PlayStation but helicopters look really vulnerable in the Battlefield 6 trailer. Hope that’s helpful.

I expect a lecture from @lastweektonight.com about this very topic when they return.

A group of 287 scientists and current and former NASA employees has issued a declaration lambasting budget cuts, grant cancellations and a “culture of organizational silence” that they say could pose a risk to astronauts’ safety.

Resist. www.profgalloway.com/resist/

Happy birthday to my dad 😎🫡

Three PRs Walk Into a Restaurant… …and somehow we left without launching a podcast, writing an op-ed or forming a coalition….did muse abt a PR documentary tho 🤔 @arunsudhaman.bsky.social x @tbonegallagher.bsky.social 🍹🍹

Aidan Bedford "Interspecies interaction between humpback whale and bottlenose dolphins."