As I was saying…

"while most news organizations devote enormous resources to covering Washington, very little is still spent by comparison toward covering the online underworld where movements are born and its adherents are radicalized"

“Well, there’s no question we are facing asymmetric civil warfare," far-right extremist Jack Posobiec told CNN. Instead of the correspondent pushing back, CNN put it in the chyron and headline. The interview then set off internal backlash. Details in @status.news www.status.news/p/cnn-jack-p...

Scoop: CNN's softball interview with far-right conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec drew internal backlash from senior journalists at the network, including Jake Tapper. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cnn-jack-p...

YouTube/Google has written a letter to Jim Jordan best summarized as “Yes sir thank you Mr Jordan sir” It made Jordan so happy he wrote a very long tweet thread about it. In it, he gloats ab getting them to agree never to do the fact-checking kind of “censorship” and to moderate how he prefers.

Last year, Mark Zuckerberg told Republicans the Biden administration had pressured him to take content down. Now Google is doing the same thing. It's move designed to give Jim Jordan a win, while keeping Google off the regulatory hook. www.businessinsider.com/google-meta-...

NEW: Elon Musk’s father, Errol Musk, has been accused by family members of sexually abusing five of his children and stepchildren. Elon has repeatedly had to intervene, a secret that’s spanned generations. Our months-long investigation www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/w...

“It takes big balls to stand up to any of this shit, but it’s hard to understand why, rich as he is, Bob can’t have big balls. If he can’t stand up, who can?” puck.news/iger-eisner-...

More than an hour after Disney announced Kimmel will be back on the air, affiliate owners Nexstar and Sinclair, which publicly grandstanded about his comments last week, remain silent on if they will broadcast the show

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

Some personal news: Thrilled to be joining former CNN colleagues Oliver Darcy and Jon Passantino at Status.news, writing about Hollywood, media and everything surrounding them. Will start in a few weeks, but you can check out the site here: www.status.news www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

So excited to join the @status.news team and contribute to their unflinching coverage of the industry

Absolutely thrilled to have @nataliekorach.bsky.social and @brianlowry.bsky.social joining us at @status.news as we expand our coverage of the media and entertainment industry, holding those in power to account www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Bob Iger once stood up to political pressure and publicly called out his successor. Now he’s facing the same backlash after pulling Jimmy Kimmel off the air, emboldening Trump and his administration’s attacks on the media. My latest for @status.news www.status.news/p/bob-iger-j...

"By suspending Kimmel under political pressure, Iger hasn’t just abandoned its biggest star. He’s signaled that under his leadership, Disney will play ball with the government, even if it means... putting the very principle of free speech at risk." www.status.news/p/bob-iger-j...

“.. Iger hasn’t just abandoned its biggest star. He’s signaled that .. Disney will play ball with the government, even if it means jeopardizing its credibility, alienating its audience, and putting the very principle of free speech at risk.” @passantino.bsky.social www.status.news/p/bob-iger-j...

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

Someone opened fire on the ABC affiliate in Sacramento www.kcra.com/article/abc1...

Michael Eisner, welcome to the Resistance.

BREAKING: A federal judge just sumamrily struck Trump's complaint against the New York Times, essentially calling it, essentially, garbage. Must be rewritten within 28 days. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

CNN staffers are bracing for the Ellison family’s looming bid for Warner Bros. Discovery—a takeover that could merge the network with CBS News, hand Bari Weiss editorial power, and radically reshape its future. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cnn-david-...

"A person close to the show said that Kimmel was planning to say that his words were being purposefully twisted by some members of the Make America Great Again movement." www.wsj.com/business/med...

Bari Weiss' Free Press, in its attempt to criticize the Trump FCC over the muzzling of Kimmel falsely claims the comedian said Kirk's killer was a conservative, and then goes on to blame Bluesky. This is what David Ellison is buying for $100 million+ and is coming to CBS News and perhaps CNN

Weird, I wonder why

Headlines on the Bloomberg Terminal from Air Force One: *TRUMP: TV LICENSES SHOULD BE TAKEN AWAY IF BAD PUBLICITY FOR ME *TRUMP: IF TV SHOWS 'HIT TRUMP' SHOULD BE DISCUSSED ON LICENSES *TRUMP ON TV SHOWS CRITICIZING HIM: THEY'RE NOT ALLOWED TO

“I think the long game is clearly to weaponize government, to use the power and the force of the federal government to target people who speak out against this president,” @oliverdarcy.bsky.social tells NPR after Kimmel is pulled from the air one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5544...

Jon Stewart in 2022: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether... When a society feels under threat, comedians are who gets sent away first.” apnews.com/article/bill...

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

How the decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel off the air went down inside ABC with emergency meetings convened and the comedian preparing to go on the air to address the situation before execs pulled the plug, via @status.news www.status.news/p/jimmy-kimm...

Couldn't have said it better myself

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

Flashback to 2019

Sinclair, run by right-wing media mogul David Smith, says suspending the Jimmy Kimmel show isn’t enough. It is going to run a tribute to Kirk during Kimmel’s time slot. Sinclair stations will run not consider putting Kimmel back on air until he apologizes and donates to Turning Point USA

Free speech is dying

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

the Colorado school shooter from the same day that Charlie Kirk was killed posted himself holding his gun on Twitter / X where he followed multiple far right accounts weird how you wouldn't call on Elon Musk too to testify at an online radicalization hearing

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

Business Insider told its reporters they can now draft their reporting in ChatGPT—without disclosing it to readers—becoming one of the first major U.S. newsrooms to formally greenlight such far-reaching use of A.I. The scoop in @status.news www.status.news/p/business-i...

Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...

trump approval hits a new low in today's yougov/economist poll. now worse than he was in yougov's data at this point in 2017 www.economist.com/interactive/...

The Washington Post notified Karen Attiah—the paper's only full-time Black columnist—she was fired for her remarks about "white men" after posting about Charlie Kirk's killing, according to the termination letter obtained by @status.news www.status.news/p/karen-atti...

Oliver Darcy has obtained the termination letter sent to Karen Attiah by the Washington Posts’s HR chief. The letter specifically mentions her postings about “white men” violating Washington Post policy. Oliver’s Newsletter: bit.ly/4me42St Karen’s Substack Statement: bit.ly/3VOZTcO

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...

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

Somebody tried to blow up a news van in Salt Lake City

Uh oh. Fox is reporting Kash (and Bongino) is very likely toast over his bumbling incompetence, clashes with Bondi, illegal firings, and embarrassing social posts www.foxnews.com/politics/kni...

Allies of President Trump and Kash Patel's harshest critics have begun to circulate word that contingency plans for the FBI director's ouster are forming, reports Fox News' Jacqui Heinrich.

Increasingly looks like efforts to shoehorn this into discernible partisan politics will fail. Right now, there's a mass movement of would-be shooters motivated solely be nihilistic meme lord shit that doesn't map onto the political identities most of us know. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/u...