A live performance of "Good Night, and Good Luck," a Broadway play about Edward R. Murrow, was broadcast on @cnn.com. Their coverage of this event featured photos from Fletcher's Murrow Center archives.

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Trump, given his current behavior, is likely to back Israeli open-ended campaigns in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, the West Bank, and even Iran, so long as the strikes stay off the front pages of the media he cares about in the U.S.

It seems like the trick to negotiating with Trump is to realize he doesn’t have any idea what the current facts are.
"Oh you want 10,000 troops?" says world leader who already deployed 15K. "Great 10k it is"

The most surreal and maddening feature of the campaign was that everyone agreed that high prices were the main issue but the guy explicitly, consistently running on a platform of raising everyone’s prices won voters most concerned about high prices.

We hammered this time and time again and yet.

From the start, the Abraham Accords were undergirded by faulty assumptions—namely, that peace and security in the Middle East could be achieved without resolving the Palestinian question, argues @elgindy.bsky.social.

new republican day one priority: making it harder and more expensive to file your taxes

Russian media is reporting that Assad is in Moscow, which means that Russia has accepted its first Syrian refugee english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-...

It’s bizarre to see warnings that Syria “might become” Libya. It’s detached from reality. Syria over the past 14 years has been far more disordered, violent, brutal - all under Assad, who managed to achieve the rare combination of extreme repression & total chaos, neither freedom nor stability.

don't really feel like litigating Biden's choice, but the Hunter pardon really does illustrate the logic of the low trust equilibrium--which is to say, how corruption spreads itself through society.

Theee points for Xabi’s boys

Is Trump anti-war? @johnwgunnison.bsky.social and I debate this question with noted conservative think Curt Mills on today’s podcast episode.

No, John and I do not think Trump is anti-war. And his cabinet picks speak directly to this fact.

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Congress bill seeks to block US arms sales to UAE over Sudan war - https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/11/congress-bill-seeks-block-us-arms-sales-uae-over-sudan-war

Delta’s CEO says Trump has promised to roll back a rule requiring automatic refunds on canceled flights and another requiring airlines to disclose the full cost of a ticket up front

Breaking News: Comcast said it would spin off its cable networks, including MSNBC and CNBC, a sign of traditional TV’s decline in the streaming era.

its weird being the only person in the entire world that seems to remember the total incompetence of the first trump term

Some of the map patches on israeli soldiers showing areas part of the Kingdom as greater Israel might have further dented this cause. However with Netanyahu enjoying complete strategic autonomy over air and land across the whole levant might have also reduced Israel’s own urge to further normalize

Shared a lot of my thoughts on the U.S. election, campaigning, and the politics of international trade on a new podcast episode with @justinhiggins.bsky.social. Conventional wisdom is wrong!

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