On the morning of President Trump’s address to the United Nations General Assembly, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was interviewed back to back to back to back by Ainsley Erhardt, Brian Kilmeade, and Lawrence Jones; Tony Dokoupil; Craig Melvin; and George Stephanopoulos.

If Russell Vought had escaped your attention so far, my Businessweek colleague @chafkin.bsky.social wrote a great profile earlier this year that gets into what exactly his whole deal is. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

"The right is so much better at storytelling." Playwright James Graham talks masculinity, Brexit and why the left keeps losing the narrative.

British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah freed from prison www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Former British Vogue editor Edward Enninful says he “never wanted Anna Wintour’s job.” Now he’s starting a new media venture with its own print magazine.

NEW TEN-PART AUDIO SERIES about #PSYCHEDELICS Out now on BBC Sounds - and other podcast spaces. Co-written & presented by the beautifully curious @timhayward.bsky.social Production, sound design and mix by me. It's been a fascinating and challenging process to get here... I do hope you'll listen.

www.britishpodcastawards.com/nominees-2025 So excited that #Movers&Shakers has been shortlisted in the British Podcast Awards impact category

This will help you find a public radio or television station that stands to lose 50 percent or more of its revenue:

Now folks this is good but the rate of signup is a bit slow compared to recent days - can we get to 87500 by 0820? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

This is a super long video, but i'm really proud to have worked on it. It's @worksinprogress.bsky.social's new podcast Hard Drugs - and this episode is all about a potential breakthrough in HIV prevention - the new drug Lenacapavir. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVhi...

Sen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”

Two SCOTUS orders siding with the Trump administration re: DOGE this afternoon: - allowing Social Security Admin. to sharing records - stopping an order that would force the admin to comply with demands for info, docs, testimony on DOGE www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How do you run the finances of a country at war? Ukraine Finance Minister Sergii Marchenko is courting donors, reassuring investors and on-call 24/7

The bromance is not only over, it seems to be in complete meltdown. As Elon Musk and Donald Trump continue to sling accusations at each other, listen to @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social and @sbg1.bsky.social tells us where it all went wrong... www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...

Jesse Armstrong took on media moguls with ‘Succession.’ In an interview with Mishal Husain, he talks about his new movie ‘Mountainhead’ and why he decided to make a dark comedy about tech bros

At the Qatar Economic Forum, Elon Musk and Mishal Husain talk about the Tesla backlash, AI regulation and DOGE’s success rate

From the 2008 Wall Street collapse to today's technofeudalism. Earlier today, in conversation with Bloomberg’s Mishal Husain at the 2025 Qatar Economic Forum www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1tP...

I want to apologize to Mishal Husain, who apparently only recently came to Bloomberg from BBC, and who I very rudely referred to as simply "the interviewer" in this thread. Her Musk interview was by far the best I've ever seen on Bloomberg, and one of the better ones ever. I'll remember her name!

Listened to an interview of Musk on Bloomberg. The interviewer is fabulous- she knows her stuff and is subtly shaming him! Good news: asked about future political spending, he says he’s going to do a “lot less in the future,” he’s “done enough.”

A federal judge has declared DOGE's takeover of the USIP—which included gifting itself the agency's $500 million headquarters for free—as "unlawful." Huge loss for DOGE, scathing ruling. www.wired.com/story/usip-d...

Kashmir deserves a lasting peace, writes novelist Mirza Waheed, whose parents and grandparents lived through skirmishes in the same conflict between India and Pakistan

Russia is targeting Ukrainian hotels to discourage journalists, report says www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Fun news: Today Businessweek launched Everybody’s Business, a new weekly (chatty, fun) podcast about what’s going on with the economy. It’s hosted by @chafkin.bsky.social and @svaneksmith.bsky.social, and I’m on our first episode talking about tariffs and Christmas! www.bloomberg.com/podcasts/ser...

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

This is probably the biggest investigation* ever done on a house in the Omaze prize draw, taking in Napoleon III, odds of winning, manifestation meditations, some influencers, and a councillor buying tickets to win an ex-council house they sold. www.londoncentric.media/p/omaze-lond... *yes, I know

✨ Behind the Scenes of Circuit 05 ✨ Here's the breakdown for prompt image selection across submissions. Which do you reckon was most popular: office workers, Amelia luggage, Small's nightclub, or ROAD CLOSED?

Have America’s universities begun the fightback against Donald Trump? I talk to Harvard’s @ryanenos.bsky.social for the latest Politics Weekly America open.spotify.com/episode/6wOr...

New ELON, INC.! Featuring @danahull.bsky.social and @makenakelly.bsky.social, plus Bloomberg's Esha Dey and Joel Weber, talking DOGE, Tesla and more metaphorical taxes that are coming due for Elon www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I'm glad we have this taken from an Australian academic, but I reckon it's far too soon to be definitive about the impact of tariffs on climate action. A thread 🧵 theconversation.com/what-donald-...

Theatre friends — Calling all migrant artists! Our friends @voilafest are accepting applications for this year's festival from 3-23 November at 8 venues across London! Be part of the border-busting festival presenting panlingual shows! More info & how to apply here www.voilafestival.co.uk

We've been combing through the JFK files and talking to experts and in short, there's plenty of fascinating details and newly unredacted documents for those keen on the historical record. But none of them will satisfy the fantasies of conspiracy theorists. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I have an essay in this week’s @bloomberg.com Weekend Edition about ticket stubs and memory and how the ways we catalog our own pasts have been changed by the internet. I’m really proud of it and I hope you’ll read it. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"You will make a thousand moral decisions in the course of reporting and writing each story." niemanstoryboard.org/2025/03/07/t... #booksky #journalism #storytelling

On today’s episode of #BigTake host @sarahholder.bsky.social talks with @akshatrathi.bsky.social about the Trump administration’s key climate actions, how they could impact investment in green energy & what it all means for the global fight to stop the warming of the planet. #Bloomberg 🎧

🎙 China has set ambitious growth goals for its economy despite a crippling property crisis, mounting debt, weak consumer spending — and a trade war with the US. What's behind Beijing's plan? Find out on the Big Take Asia podcast: link.podtrac.com/73kxj8my

Happy World Book Day! 📚#LePetitePrince #TheLittlePrince

“Trump and Vance’s joint dressing down of Zelenskiy will go down in history — indeed, will live in infamy — as a shameful moment of American betrayal.” Read @andreaskluth.bsky.social on today’s Oval Office clash ⬇️

Jaya is right; the consumer system was developed in part to help Gilded Age robber barons divide and conquer the working class by convincing office workers (then a newly developing cohort) that they had more in common with elites than factory workers and more to gain in an alliance with bosses.

NEW - Rep. Mark Alford tells fired KC federal workers ‘God has a plan’ at hostile town hall Folks, I've been covering politics for a dozen years in Kansas and Missouri and this is probably the most intense, angry town hall I have ever seen www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

Since its US launch in 2022, Chinese marketplace #Temu has rapidly risen to become America’s biggest e-commerce platform after #Amazon What Trump’s order to close a tariff loophole means for American shoppers and the giants supplying them with goods direct from China. #BigTakeAsia #Bloomberg 🎧

Journalists are signaling the gravity of America's situation with fact and context. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

DC Would Make a Great 51st State www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

If you read one thing today… www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Can’t believe it actually needs saying but countries that are interested in peace don’t launch 267 kamikaze drones at civilians in a single night. kyivindependent.com/russia-launc...

On Saturday, President Trump and Prime Minister Trudeau spoke by phone. Trump’s readout of the call is on the left, and Trudeau’s readout of the call is on the right:

This #ValentinesDay as many as 13 million more Americans are single than before the pandemic. #Bloomberg reporter Ben Steverman talks about the cause of this love slump & how it’s taking a toll on the #USeconomy @sarahholder.bsky.social meets singles taking matters into their own hands. #BigTake 🎧

NEW: One of the 6 people from "DOGE" at Ed "has not yet completed ethics or information security trainings." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Happy Valentines Day, audiophiles! 💘 For the love of audio we bring you... Circuit 05! In cahoots with 3D aficionado @drysdaledoesit.bsky.social we invite you make short works in response to 3D-inspired prompts. Deadline is 4/1, many more details (and 3D images!) here: www.audioflux.org/circuit-05

#Thailand became the first country in Southeast Asia to recognize #same-sex #marriage Nearly 2,000 couples tied the knot on the first day the law came into effect. K. Oanh Ha speaks to a couple among the first in the country to get married that day 🏳️‍🌈 #HappyValentinesDay 💕#BigTakeAsia #Bloomberg