jonathan friedman
@jonathanfriedman.com
Media, culture, and news nerd. USC Marshall, Bad Robot, CAA, Obama White House, The Verge, NYU Gallatin alum. Recovering tweeter @jonfriedman
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for what it's worth I think "they would rather starve Americans than pay for health care" is a winning message
November 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM
for what it's worth I think "they would rather starve Americans than pay for health care" is a winning message
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Now I'm a dummy but it really feels to me like there has to be an entire relatively broad-based winning politics based around being in opposition to *just this one sliver* of what the Trump administration is doing right here www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 AM
Now I'm a dummy but it really feels to me like there has to be an entire relatively broad-based winning politics based around being in opposition to *just this one sliver* of what the Trump administration is doing right here www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...
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"The provision, tucked into a measure to fund the legislative branch, appears to immediately allow for eight GOP senators to sue over their phone records being seized in the course of the investigation by Jack Smith ... into the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
Republicans have voiced outrage that Jack Smith looked at G.O.P. lawmakers’ phone records surrounding the Jan. 6 attack. Legislation to reopen the government would allow them to sue for $500,000 each.
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"The provision, tucked into a measure to fund the legislative branch, appears to immediately allow for eight GOP senators to sue over their phone records being seized in the course of the investigation by Jack Smith ... into the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
“The episode underscores the haphazard ways consequential policies are sometimes brought before the president, and how Trump’s govern-by-whim nature can backfire.”
‘Sold POTUS a bill of goods’: WH furious with Pulte over 50-year mortgage
The White House was blindsided by the idea and is now dealing with a furious backlash from conservative allies, business leaders and lawmakers.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
“The episode underscores the haphazard ways consequential policies are sometimes brought before the president, and how Trump’s govern-by-whim nature can backfire.”
Also fun
A ‘V FOR VENDETTA’ series is in the works at HBO.
Pete Jackson is attached to write the series with James Gunn and Peter Safran of DC Studios as executive producers.
Source: variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Pete Jackson is attached to write the series with James Gunn and Peter Safran of DC Studios as executive producers.
Source: variety.com/2025/tv/news...
November 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Also fun
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In the CBC podcast, "Allison After NXIVIM," Allison Mack tells her story for the first time ever. It drops today, and is weekly. I've listened to all seven episodes, and it's EXCELLENT — the perfect format for this harrowing, sad story. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
‘Smallville’ Star Allison Mack Gives First Interview on Surviving the Abusive Sex Cult NXIVM and Going to Prison: ‘I Don’t See Myself as Innocent’
Allison Mack — the 'Smallville' actor who enabled NXIVM sex cult leader Keith Raniere, tells her story in the CBC podcast 'Allison After NXIVM.'
variety.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 PM
In the CBC podcast, "Allison After NXIVIM," Allison Mack tells her story for the first time ever. It drops today, and is weekly. I've listened to all seven episodes, and it's EXCELLENT — the perfect format for this harrowing, sad story. variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Fun
Excl: Dan Perrault & Tony Yacenda, who created mockumentary AMERICAN VANDAL, will showrun & exec produce the Jimmy Olsen/Skyler Gisondo SUPERMAN TV spinoff that will focus on villain Gorilla Grodd. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/s...
DC Studios Taps ‘American Vandal’ Creators for Jimmy Olsen TV Spinoff (Exclusive)
The show would be led by Skyler Gisondo, reprising his role as Daily Planet photographer Jimmy Olsen, with season one focusing on Gorilla Grodd.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Fun
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Dean Fuleihan, who Mamdani has picked as first deputy mayor, held the same role under de Blasio and was the one who wrangled the money out of Albany that made universal pre-K possible gothamist.com/news/mayor-e...
Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani picks Bill de Blasio veteran for top deputy
He named Dean Fuleihan as first deputy and Elle Bisgaard-Church as chief of staff.
gothamist.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Dean Fuleihan, who Mamdani has picked as first deputy mayor, held the same role under de Blasio and was the one who wrangled the money out of Albany that made universal pre-K possible gothamist.com/news/mayor-e...
Will Fox News cover this story?
A felon freed by Trump in his first term is sentenced again, this time to 27 months after a judge found that he sexually assaulted a nanny, swung an IV pole at a nurse and dodged tolls in his Lamborghini and Ferrari. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/n...
Felon Freed by Trump Is Sentenced Again, This Time to 27 Months
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Will Fox News cover this story?
Good @lucasshaw.bsky.social report on Netflix’s podcast experiment…
Not spending a ton, but want a high volume of shows and will feature them distinctly in app
Not spending a ton, but want a high volume of shows and will feature them distinctly in app
Netflix Is Getting Serious About Video Podcasts
The streaming service is looking to develop exclusive shows and license existing hits
www.bloomberg.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Good @lucasshaw.bsky.social report on Netflix’s podcast experiment…
Not spending a ton, but want a high volume of shows and will feature them distinctly in app
Not spending a ton, but want a high volume of shows and will feature them distinctly in app
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i find every story about costco's brand strategy and overall approach completely fascinating.
Why Costco Went All in on Kirkland — and How It Paid Off | WSJ Case Study
YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 PM
i find every story about costco's brand strategy and overall approach completely fascinating.
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“When all the data centers in New Carlisle (Indiana) are built, they will demand more power than two Atlantas,” @cwarzel.bsky.social reports in the best AI-crash story I've read yet. And that's before you get to how this is all just a shell game of capital:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:29 PM
“When all the data centers in New Carlisle (Indiana) are built, they will demand more power than two Atlantas,” @cwarzel.bsky.social reports in the best AI-crash story I've read yet. And that's before you get to how this is all just a shell game of capital:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Come on, don’t let all this be for nothing. People are going to get crushed by healthcare bills. Trump was literally on TV saying Republicans lost elections on Tuesday because of the shutdown. They are on the back foot. We have a chance to win actual relief for people! Why cave??
November 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Come on, don’t let all this be for nothing. People are going to get crushed by healthcare bills. Trump was literally on TV saying Republicans lost elections on Tuesday because of the shutdown. They are on the back foot. We have a chance to win actual relief for people! Why cave??
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“It’s shocking to me that the rest of the country is not paying attention to what’s happening all across the neighborhoods of Chicago and the suburbs and, frankly, the rest of the state of Illinois,” Governor J. B. Pritzker says.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/JxImaA
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/JxImaA
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“It’s shocking to me that the rest of the country is not paying attention to what’s happening all across the neighborhoods of Chicago and the suburbs and, frankly, the rest of the state of Illinois,” Governor J. B. Pritzker says.
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/JxImaA
https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/JxImaA
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A stadium full of people who are/know fired or furloughed federal workers…not the best advance work right there folks!
November 9, 2025 at 11:42 PM
A stadium full of people who are/know fired or furloughed federal workers…not the best advance work right there folks!
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"More than enough" Senate Democratic Caucus members to pass shutdown deal led by Shaheen, King and Hassan, source familiar with deal says
- CR through Jan. 30
- ACA bill vote on bill of Dems' choosing in December
- Minibus has RIF reversals and "protections" against them in future
- CR through Jan. 30
- ACA bill vote on bill of Dems' choosing in December
- Minibus has RIF reversals and "protections" against them in future
November 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
"More than enough" Senate Democratic Caucus members to pass shutdown deal led by Shaheen, King and Hassan, source familiar with deal says
- CR through Jan. 30
- ACA bill vote on bill of Dems' choosing in December
- Minibus has RIF reversals and "protections" against them in future
- CR through Jan. 30
- ACA bill vote on bill of Dems' choosing in December
- Minibus has RIF reversals and "protections" against them in future
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The WSJ on how unbelievably stupid Noem and Lewandowski are.
I don’t care that I’m late to this; it’s to good to pass up.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
I don’t care that I’m late to this; it’s to good to pass up.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
November 9, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The WSJ on how unbelievably stupid Noem and Lewandowski are.
I don’t care that I’m late to this; it’s to good to pass up.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
I don’t care that I’m late to this; it’s to good to pass up.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
This part >>>>>>>>
oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis
Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response
November 9, 2025 at 4:38 AM
This part >>>>>>>>
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Seems like the ones waging a "war on Christianity" are Republicans, huh?
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Seems like the ones waging a "war on Christianity" are Republicans, huh?
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
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My first publication was a letter to the editor when I was six or seven. What a thrill, to be heard and valued.
“I emerged from that experience with a better understanding of the widening gulf between what our readers expected from us and what our owner and leaders wanted the paper to be. That clarity contributed to my decision to leave The Post this summer.”
www.notus.org/perspectives...
www.notus.org/perspectives...
The Washington Post Got 21,000 Emails After It Didn't Endorse. I Read Them All.
Reading and editing letters gave me a theory about what is wrong with America — and how it could be fixed.
www.notus.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:30 AM
My first publication was a letter to the editor when I was six or seven. What a thrill, to be heard and valued.
These tech billionaires are lame as can be
November 8, 2025 at 9:15 PM
These tech billionaires are lame as can be
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The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
Sleepy Don
“.. A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds found that Trump spent nearly 20 minutes apparently battling to keep his eyes open at the Thursday event. .. a seemingly stark illustration of the strain of the presidency on a 79-year-old ..
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
November 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Sleepy Don
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Good piece on how Ossoff is navigating shutdown dynamics: www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Why the Most Vulnerable Senate Democrat Hasn’t Flipped in the Shutdown Standoff
Georgia’s Jon Ossoff is holding firm on fixing expiring healthcare subsidies as he rebuffs Republican demands.
www.wsj.com
November 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Good piece on how Ossoff is navigating shutdown dynamics: www.wsj.com/politics/ele...