News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

BREAKING: For her work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela, María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize.

Ironically, Durham's series was produced at WMAQ-Chicago, the same NBC affiliate where "Amos'n'Andy" got its start.

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay"
www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

Guest post by Howard prof Sonja Williams on one of the writers who finally broke through US radio's racial programming blockades. Very excited to bring more attention to this work: continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/new-post

I would like to get to a place where consigning 14 million people to death isn’t described as “DOGE didn’t do much.”

Guest post by Howard prof Sonja Williams on one of the writers who finally broke through US radio's racial programming blockades. Very excited to bring more attention to this work: continuous-wave.beehiiv.com/p/new-post

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I'm an editor, and editors have saved me from myself as well.

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

For the uninitiated: The pope being this direct and explicit to U.S. bishops about how to respond to a domestic policy happening in real time is…unusual.

The advantage of a Global War on Cartels over a Global War on Terror when it comes to authoritarian regime-building in the United States is it is easier to slide towards justifying the expansion of lethal strikes from targets in Mexico or the Caribbean to targets that are directly on American soil

wow congrats on removal of large bad-vibes atrocity!

Uncovering the lives of enslaved people is incredibly important. Here’s a great example of such work. #arthistory

hyperallergic.com/1047549/port...

The "Antifa" everywhere stuff is really worse than McCarthyism. It's witch trial shit except they can't even find a judge to sanctify it.

Sarnoff: "TV is life,
and people want to see the march
of life. That’s the big difference
between video and radio."

(not mentioned: everyone had a radio by 1951, and RCA was gearing up manufacture of TV sets)

It's like AI only it's TV in 1951 (Variety, April 11)

France (and eventually Citibank) *getting* reparations from Haiti for losing their slaves is one of the biggest atrocities of the modern era, and...stiff competition there

Just like it killed the nascent broadcasting industry in 1926 — wait

been talking to mi esposa about this and i think a lot of what fuels our depression is that we are surrounded by insane people

Good news if you deal drugs, run spies, plan terror attacks, or bribe federal officials. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

Huey Long was a demagogue who wanted all the sharing to go in one direction.