Cheryl Hines—who has mostly steered clear of RFK’s antivaxx world—headlined a weekend gala for Children’s Health Defense. At the private party, which I watched from the back of the room, she praised CHD and hawked her book— proceeds which were promised to CHD. www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...

Thoughts on Dems throwing a game they were winning. www.offmessage.net/p/16-thought...

What the hell are we doing?

*The Harvard Plan* by @onthemedia.bsky.social and @bostonglobe.com is very good. Much detailed commentary from a range of participants, well contextualized. There are two three-part series. I recommend both. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

In the second episode of The Harvard Plan (Season 2), it gets personal. Two men who go way back find themselves at the heart of Harvard’s battle against the Trump admin -- but on opposite sides. Take a listen: https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky

There needs to be a new word for radio journalism to distinguish incredible outfits like @onthemedia.bsky.social from “podcasts”. This series on the trump’s war on academia is phenomenal- open.spotify.com/episode/729x...

Hadn't heard @gelliottmorris.com talk in media much, but damn this is like a clinic of how to do radio. Incredibly clear and systematic. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Finally listened and this is absolutely fantastic. There is so much data presented showing why moderation is not the strategy -- and poking holes in the flawed research that promoted that idea. Also, this is just a great round-up of how unpopular this administration is.

Essential listening. Thank you. #SupportNPR

📻 The Harvard Plan is back! In the second episode of season 2, @ilyamarritz.bsky.social explores the story of two men (who go way back) finding themselves at the heart of Harvard’s battle against the Trump admin - but on opposite sides. https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky

"Last week, NPR’s leadership proposed testing the use of artificial intelligence to produce digital versions of radio stories, to make the middle of the editorial process more efficient." Please DM/email/signal me if you know something about this! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/b...

Show's up! Season 2, Episode 2 of The Harvard Plan. The story of two men at the heart of the Trump administration's war on academia: Harvard president Alan Garber and Jay Bhattacharya director of the NIH, the agency withholding billions of dollars in research grants from the university.

DHS stopped automatically archiving officials’ text messages. Now to save messages — as law requires— officials gotta… -take a screenshot. -send it to their work computer -run the file through a program there -repeat www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

MAGA loyalist Kari Lake, the acting head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, has announced that it will be shutting down a government-funded radio station for what it claims is the undermining of Donald Trump’s foreign policies.

Chris Rufo/Ron DeSantis overhauled New College and made it "the most financially inefficient school in the university system" Degree yield is 19%, 2nd-worst in Fla. Operating funds per student at New College: $83,207 Same category at Univ of Florida: $45,765 www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/e...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

It quickly became apparent that @hellgatenyc.com had figured out how to translate its signature voice — irreverent yet deeply knowledgeable — into video. www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/hell...

On Tuesday night, you may have noticed something a little different on Bluesky. Here's a peek behind the scenes of how the election feed came together. Endlessly grateful for this collaboration with @wnyc.org/@gothamist.com & @bsky.app!

VICTORY: Federal court dismisses class action lawsuit against pollster J. Ann Selzer, filed by the “Center for American Rights” www.thefire.org/news/victory...

🚨NOT GUILTY! D.C. Jury ACQUITS sandwich thrower.

I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com

Viral posts about how Moms For Liberty had zero wins on election night...aren't true. They're misinformation, even dis-info. M4L did have a number of school board candidates win. You can verify that information pretty easily. They had *A LOT* of losses and their power isn't what it once was.

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

Do moderates win more elections? My interview with @onthemedia.bsky.social @wnyc.org www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

I thought this was a really good and cogent analysis of the problem with pundits saying Dems have to moderate by @gelliottmorris.com and @onthemedia.bsky.social! www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Midweek pod is up! A very timely discussion with @gelliottmorris.com about what the numbers say about moderation and why it might not be the silver bullet Democratic strategists seemed to crave. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

So much D over-claiming about last night. Bingo card: -"This proves we have to {do what I wanted to do anyway}" -"{A winning D} supported {position on which Ds are vulnerable} therefore it doesn't matter" -"{A losing R} used {issue/tactic on which Ds are vulnerable} therefore it doesn't matter"

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

There is some sad irony in McClatchy shutting its DC bureau the same day that Dick Cheney died. That bureau (then Knight-Ridder) did some of the best, most skeptical reporting anywhere in the run-up to the Iraq War. And they took a lot of shit for it at the time. www.cato.org/commentary/q...

JUST IN: Dick Cheney, one of the most powerful vice presidents in American history, died Monday, according to a statement from his family. He was 84 years old.

Shitstorms work: Indiana University Lifts Ban on Printing News in College Newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/b...

“JD Vance’s refusal to forcefully condemn the infamous Young Republicans group chat” illustrates “No Enemies to the Right” aka “NETTR” (a motto coined by Claremont Institute donor Charles Haywood), which has combined with the “technological revolution” to unfurl a “red carpet for…antisemites…” 1/

Don’t miss this: @onthemedia.bsky.social at its best. www.wnycstudios.org/story/the-ha...

Our show this week is the first episode of The Harvard Plan Season 2, our collaboration with the @bostonglobe.com about the fight for the soul of America’s oldest and most prestigious university. Hosted by award-winning reporter @ilyamarritz.bsky.social:

can't believe outlets are running moral-panic headlines again based on flimsy anecdata from the *same* trade group (the national retailer federation) and sponsored by the *same* anti-theft company (sensormatic) that had to retract this *same* "study" just two years ago for being bogus.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism. The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

Another terrific episode of @onthemedia.bsky.social: The Harvard Plan: We hear what unfolded at Harvard from Donald Trump’s inauguration to convocation 2025. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

The "Divided Dial" may be the BEST documentary ever made about the history of AM talk radio and far right shortwave broadcasting. I heard a lot of those broadcasters in the 80s, 90s, and 2000s. Excellent work by Katie Thornton and others at WNYC. They nailed it. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

A scoop that I’m not happy to report: CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution. heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

“The traditional media is rightfully constrained by a commitment to accuracy and to nuance, both of which serve as disadvantages in the battle for informing the public.” www.pbump.net/o/politics-i...

DHS says our new piece is "dishonest, slanted, and fundamentally inaccurate" but won't say why. Here's the story where we show with evidence that DHS spliced together clips spanning years and multiple locations to create its own reality. Gift link wapo.st/4nuDGwf

Have you listened to this week's Jeff-alytics podcast with Philip Bump yet? You should definitely check it ou! www.ahdatalytics.com/jeff-alytics...

The Trump admin is going after higher ed. Reporter @ilyamarritz.bsky.social documents how this fight is playing out inside the oldest and richest university in America: Harvard. The Harvard Plan season 2 is out now, listen listen listen!!! www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

"No one asked me if I was the mayor." That is incredible. As bad as you think the state of journalism is in this moment, it's worse. It's much much worse.

We’re back with Season 2 of our award-winning series THE HARVARD PLAN. To quote @ilyamarritz.bsky.social in episode 1 “this struggle is not academic…it’s a bare knuckled fight for money, prestige and power” www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

honestly the only piece worth reading on the platner situation. @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is absolutely cooking here. (gift link)

A few thoughts about this deeply-flawed Jeremy W. Peters article.(Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/u...

over the past 9 months, the Trump admin has used just about every lever available to pressure universities to follow his vision for higher ed... how it's going, so far>> my lastest miniseries w/ @bostonglobe.com & @onthemedia.bsky.social pls listen & share! www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...