I'm sure the right-wing free speech warriors who obsess over Dr Seuss will be all over this story. Right? RIGHT???

From last night's media newsletter: Mississippi Today won a Pulitzer for uncovering the state's $77 million welfare scandal. Now the org is being sued for defamation by the former governor, and has been ordered to turn over its reporting notes by this week semafor.com/newsletter/06/…

'Why Are New York Charities Funding Weapons for Israeli Settlers?'

Watch actress and activist Cynthia Nixon's first interview for Zeteo, as part of her new 'Stage Left' series, with NY politician Zohran Kwame Mamdani.

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At campuses across the US, cops and vigilantes are laying siege to Palestine protests at the enticement of wealthy donors, universities, and politicians. This teaches us something fundamental about policing. My latest for The Nation w/ trip eggert(’s new account):
thenation.com/article/archiv…

Our Munk Debate on Anti-Zionism featuring Douglas Murray, Natasha Hausdorff, Mehdi Hasan and Gideon Levy is now sold out.

For details on how to stream the debate live on June 17th at 7:00 PM ET, click here:
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As much as I am delighted to see Sunak’s Tories on the verge of annihilation, a *194 seat* parliamentary majority is ridiculous and ‘first past the post’ should be thrown out as an electoral system.

As Sally Buzbee has overseen newsroom that has won 6 Pulitzers in 3 years, and new leaders - whatever their editorial record - come from titles that are not exactly ahead digitally, is the idea to try to reposition the Post center-right à la the Telegraph? axios.com/2024/06/03/was…

I wrote about how Trump could abuse the surveillance state for WIRED
wired.com/story/trump-se…

This is what fucking NYC Parks and NYPD are busy doing on a Sunday afternoon…trying to put a twelve year old child in cuffs who’s selling fruit with her family

Throughout this crisis, Patrick Gaspard and Senator Chris Van Hollen have both been leading voices, calling on all of us to uphold our values. You should tune in.

Striking: George Conway tells me that during Chris Licht's reign at CNN, after he called Trump a 'narcissistic psychopath' on the air, CNN bookers stopped calling. Conway says he has indications CNN temporarily nixed him 'to please Camp Mar-a-Lago.'

Listen:
newrepublic.com/article/182157…

It was fun to be back chatting with Ayman on MSNBC and calling Trump a loser in the process. That's literally what he is.

Here’s what’s happening, and why, to the best of my understanding. It explains the whole self-defeating psychology. offmessage.net/p/democrats-ne…

Wer’re four days after the verdict and to my knowledge not a single elected Democrat has called on Trump to step down. The party hasn’t suggested even a single time that this is necessary or appropriate. Trump is facing literally no pressure at all from his opponents on this.

How is this not a bigger story?!?!

He can’t stop threatening violence.

In the past 24 hours, more than 40 Gazans got killed in air strikes and more than 150 were wounded.

“Schumer & Jeffries probably got nice phone calls from friends at AIPAC for co-signing the invitation [to Netanyahu to address Congress]. But they…should know how all this looks from here: They have stabbed Israel's liberal forces in the back.”-Amir Tibon אמיר תיבון
haaretz.com/israel-news/ha…

I mean this is actually astonishing. Like 'disbelieve your own lying eyes' level stuff: I don't care about your race I called you DEI Barbie for some race neutral reason! His whole schtick is pretending to be 'apolitical' while that is obviously false so maybe it comes naturally.

Masters of gaslighting. He calls her 'DEI barbie' and turns around talking about I don't see color.