I was about to write this but Julie Roginsky did it first and better: "Any television network with an ounce of integrity should refuse to carry Trump’s address live." They should delay and then fact-check the hell out of every word, providing the context that would be journalism. https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/the-medias-most-important-responsibility

Bravo.
Faculty sue Texas Tech, claiming censorship of teaching about race, gender https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2026/07/08/faculty-sue-texas-tech-claiming-censorship-teaching-about-race-gender/

Yeesh. Erdogan gives engraved guns and bullets to world leaders.
Erdoğan schenkt Staats- und Regierungschefs Revolver
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2026-07/recep-tayyip-erdogan-geschenk-pistolen-kehr-starmer-friedrich-merz-nato-gipfel

Hachette treats editors poorly. With my last book, one editor then another ended up looking for work and my book was orphaned, barely distributed (maybe because I criticized Hachette authors). So good.
Hachette Book Group Employees Vote to Unionize https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/books/hachette-book-publishing-union.html?smid=tw-share

Oh, how often we have seen flopped attempts to adapt magazine content to TV. I remember a dancing chorus in a People special singing the words "Lech Walesa!"
Netflix dabbles in shorter video content with its new set of publisher deals with Variety, others
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/07/netflix-dabbles-in-shorter-video-content-with-its-new-set-of-publisher-deals-with-variety-others/

The fascist movement attacks education at every level.
Research Universities Are Admitting Fewer Ph.D.s, a Bad Sign for Science https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/us/research-universities-fewer-phds-science.html?smid=tw-share

Mother Nature is woke. And pissed.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/04/us/america-250-celebrations-fourth-july

"The Socialist Threat Is Real" by fucking Mark_Penn & Andrew Stein
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-socialist-threat-is-real-7773676e?st=Zajcz4

Pure grift, robbing his suckers, born every minute.
Trump Discloses Over $1.2 Billion in Crypto Earnings
https://decrypt.co/372484/trump-disclosure-filing-crypto-earnings-bitcoin-holdings

More good Times reporting; more editorial tongue-tripping. I'd call it wanton corruption on behalf of both pères et fils Trump & Lutnick.
Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/world/europe/trump-lutnick-sons-kazakhstan.html

The reporting is good; the headline practically tongue-tied. Long and short of it: Trumpists maneuvering board meant to protect civil service to destroy itself so Trump can fire anyone without appeal.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/28/us/politics/trump-firings-workers-merit-systems-protection-board.html

What's sick is that Vance is right, which says everything about our feckless journalism and utterly corrupt Republican politics today.
JD Vance says Nixon’s Watergate scandal would be ‘12-hour news story’ today
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/25/jd-vance-watergate-richard-nixon

The #BrokenTimes is so desperate to devalue the Mamdani victories they lead with the awful Suozzi as their poster-boy "moderate" and end with the awfuller Yang. Sad.
Centrist Democrats Rebuke Party’s Left Wing: ‘We Are Capitalist, Not Socialist’ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/us/politics/moderate-democrats-capitalist-socialism.html?smid=tw-share

Oh, no. We've lost a great soul. Om Malik has passed. https://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/

Trump's other quagmire: One algae is replacing another.
Gift link:
Science Has a Name for What’s Plaguing the Reflecting Pool
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/06/reflecting-pool-algae-scientific-testing-trump/687649/?gift=lOosoRE4GnUPfUTNHl2Az4x0ikUwUFlr1gB3BwdQ6Ss&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

"Mr. Trump has long been seen by critics and supporters alike as a master of media manipulation," says the newspaper often manipulated by him.
A President Using Super Glue and Irked About Epstein: Takeaways From a New Trump Book https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/politics/trump-regime-change-book-haberman-swan.html?smid=tw-share

I'm worried about another bias: toward right-wing propaganda.
Fox's Roku deal raises concerns over distribution bias https://www.axios.com/2026/06/18/fox-roku-streaming-distribution-bias

If Vance and Trump can criticize Israel, can the left criticize Israel at war without being label antisemitic? Tough now for the right to make criticism of Israel a midterm issue.
Vance slams Israeli reaction to Iran deal as U.S. military lifts blockade https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/18/us-iran-sign-initial-deal-end-war-open-strait-hormuz/

It might as well be named Streisand dot com.
A Peter Thiel-Backed Tribunal Is Putting Journalists on Trial. I’m Its First Target https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/peter-thiel-tribunal-journalists-trial-1236617579/

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
Where Musk Is King https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/opinion/elon-musk-spacex-starbase-texas.html?smid=tw-share