Set aside her ideology for a second. She was hired to gut a newsroom she has never worked in. She has no roots there, has earned no one’s respect, is there because the son of the richest guy on earth likes her blog. People are going to leak and any actual journalist knows that.

Well your boss personally banned a bunch of them…

Soros fund in talks to invest in anti-Trump outlet MeidasTouch semafor.com/article/10/19/…

Not that it matters anymore, but every single one of these posts is a Hatch Act violation. Anyway, thank you for the Transportation update Department of Transportation.

Unlikely voice of reason. nytimes.com/2025/10/19/bus…

Synergy, I guess…

Berlusconi's MFE Installs Marco Giordani as CEO of Germany's ProSiebenSat.1 hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…

Hard to see anyone outbidding Paramount if they're really motivated, but Brian Roberts knows how to drive up the price to a damaging point. Just ask Bob Iger. cnbc.com/2025/10/21/wbd…

Another big win for RTO. wired.com/story/theres-a…

"we are seeing declines in human pageviews on Wikipedia over the past few months, amounting to a decrease of roughly 8% as compared to the same months in 2024." nymag.com/intelligencer/…

Notable coming from this outlet…

Some interesting reflections on the blogging era at a time when it’s poised to (sort of) return. Via Elizabeth Spiers talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-ma…

Not sure cooking the last few functioning brains in America in stew of attention-span destroying shortform video is a good idea. axios.com/2025/10/21/new…

Congrats to the Smiths (of “no relation” fame) cnbc.com/video/2025/10/…

A network of Gestapo informants motivated not just by perversely racist nationalism but by the accumulation of social media likes is not really something you hope to see in a functioning society.

No one from Bari Weiss to her many admirers has ever proposed a serious solution to this so-called bias that doesn’t amount to “do not contradict conservatives when they lie or are wrong.” wsj.com/opinion/biased…

Fun Fact: David Brock, the right- wing operative who made up this particular lie, later regretted it so much that he founded Media Matters.

Fascinating piece. A clearly very intelligent person experiencing a lengthy psychotic break. Great work by the Times. nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/…