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S2 - Episode 1: The Harvard Plan | On the Media | WNYC Studios
The Harvard Plan - our collaboration with the Boston Globe, is back! In episode one, we hear what unfolded at Harvard from Donald Trump’s inauguration to convocation 2025. Three main ...
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The Trump admin is going after higher ed. Reporter @ilyamarritz.bsky.social documents how this fight is playing out inside the oldest and richest university in America: Harvard.
The Harvard Plan season 2 is out now, listen listen listen!!!
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
The Harvard Plan season 2 is out now, listen listen listen!!!
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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The show is up and it’s SPICY! Ft. @danlamothe.bsky.social on leaving the pentagon, @annamerlan.bsky.social on the new pentagon press corps and Laura Poitras on her new movie “Cover Up.” Oh and pod bonus @micahloewinger.bsky.social spoke with Cam Higby about his new role. pca.st/episode/f23f...
Covering the Pentagon, from Sy Hersh to Laura Loomer
pca.st
December 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM
The show is up and it’s SPICY! Ft. @danlamothe.bsky.social on leaving the pentagon, @annamerlan.bsky.social on the new pentagon press corps and Laura Poitras on her new movie “Cover Up.” Oh and pod bonus @micahloewinger.bsky.social spoke with Cam Higby about his new role. pca.st/episode/f23f...
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This week I called up Cam Higby, a member of the new media MAGA Pentagon press corps to ask him about his decision to sign away his ability to do investigative journalism in exchange for access to press briefings. He shouted and called me names…
December 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This week I called up Cam Higby, a member of the new media MAGA Pentagon press corps to ask him about his decision to sign away his ability to do investigative journalism in exchange for access to press briefings. He shouted and called me names…
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I interviewed living legend Laura Poitras for this weekend's episode of @onthemedia.bsky.social. She's a hero of mine -- a true paragon of righteous brave thorough investigative journalism. Watching Citizenfour as a college student made me want to become a reporter. Excited for y'all to hear it
December 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I interviewed living legend Laura Poitras for this weekend's episode of @onthemedia.bsky.social. She's a hero of mine -- a true paragon of righteous brave thorough investigative journalism. Watching Citizenfour as a college student made me want to become a reporter. Excited for y'all to hear it
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Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc...
ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:
"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:
"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
RFK Jr.’s CDC panel: No more hepatitis B vaccine for some newborns
The CDC's vaccine advisory panel, stocked with anti-vaccine activists and loyalists to RFK Jr., voted Friday to stop recommending a birth dose of vaccine.
www.ms.now
December 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc...
ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:
"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:
"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
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What it's like to be Elon Musk's favorite X influencer, a digital remora feeding on likes and reposts www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...
Elon Musk Loves What This Guy Has to Say
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
What it's like to be Elon Musk's favorite X influencer, a digital remora feeding on likes and reposts www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/b...
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The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge
"Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."
"Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."
ALA welcomes reinstatement of all federal IMLS grants to libraries
Today, the American Library Association (ALA) greeted an announcement by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) that it had reinstated all the agency’s grants.
www.ala.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge
"Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."
"Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."
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Today's Reliable Sources digest: cnn.it/3MfhCsB
December 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Today's Reliable Sources digest: cnn.it/3MfhCsB
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NEW: Trump’s pardon of former Honduran President Hernández was the result of something extraordinary for a Central American leader & convicted cocaine trafficker—a web of powerful advocates stretching from Washington to Silicon Valley and Mar-a-Lago.
Behind the scenes ⬇️ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Behind the scenes ⬇️ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How a Man Convicted of Running a Latin American Narco State Landed a Pardon
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández’s unusual network of Trump allies and MAGA influencers helped deliver an extraordinary pardon to him.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 PM
NEW: Trump’s pardon of former Honduran President Hernández was the result of something extraordinary for a Central American leader & convicted cocaine trafficker—a web of powerful advocates stretching from Washington to Silicon Valley and Mar-a-Lago.
Behind the scenes ⬇️ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Behind the scenes ⬇️ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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"Public health officials warn that if Mr. Kennedy succeeds, measles and other infectious diseases will come roaring back, jeopardizing the health of all American children" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
Inside Kennedy’s Methodical Quest to Shake Up America’s Vaccine System
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"Public health officials warn that if Mr. Kennedy succeeds, measles and other infectious diseases will come roaring back, jeopardizing the health of all American children" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
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Newspapers are closing at an emergency-level rate—over the past 20 years, America has lost more than 3,000. For the past six years, the photographer Ann Hermes has been documenting the lives lived in these dying places across the country. See more images: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/059DXx
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Newspapers are closing at an emergency-level rate—over the past 20 years, America has lost more than 3,000. For the past six years, the photographer Ann Hermes has been documenting the lives lived in these dying places across the country. See more images: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/059DXx
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News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
News media has to do better with headlines that present false and unverified public health claims.
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📻 The show is up!
@cwarzel.bsky.social on X’s recent update that revealed a swarm of overseas accounts posing as Americans; @librarianjones.com on fighting book-banning activists; @elysegraham.bsky.social on the scholars and librarians who helped win WWII. https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky
@cwarzel.bsky.social on X’s recent update that revealed a swarm of overseas accounts posing as Americans; @librarianjones.com on fighting book-banning activists; @elysegraham.bsky.social on the scholars and librarians who helped win WWII. https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
📻 The show is up!
@cwarzel.bsky.social on X’s recent update that revealed a swarm of overseas accounts posing as Americans; @librarianjones.com on fighting book-banning activists; @elysegraham.bsky.social on the scholars and librarians who helped win WWII. https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky
@cwarzel.bsky.social on X’s recent update that revealed a swarm of overseas accounts posing as Americans; @librarianjones.com on fighting book-banning activists; @elysegraham.bsky.social on the scholars and librarians who helped win WWII. https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky
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Hi!! I'm working a special series for @onthemedia.bsky.social, a deep dive into FEMA. I'll be looking at the history of the agency and what's happening there now. If you work there or know someone who does, please hit me up by email or signal... Thanks!
November 25, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Hi!! I'm working a special series for @onthemedia.bsky.social, a deep dive into FEMA. I'll be looking at the history of the agency and what's happening there now. If you work there or know someone who does, please hit me up by email or signal... Thanks!
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Arizona state senator @senanaliseortiz.bsky.social on how TikTok, old-fashioned door-knocking, and actually making small differences in peoples’ lives is the way for the Democrats to start winning again: https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky
On the Media
The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Arizona state senator @senanaliseortiz.bsky.social on how TikTok, old-fashioned door-knocking, and actually making small differences in peoples’ lives is the way for the Democrats to start winning again: https://lnk.to/onthemedia/bluesky
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I was one of the four people who got canned.
In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com
In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I was one of the four people who got canned.
In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com
In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com
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Our show this week is the first episode of The Harvard Plan Season 2, our collaboration with the @bostonglobe.com about the fight for the soul of America’s oldest and most prestigious university. Hosted by award-winning reporter @ilyamarritz.bsky.social:
S2 - Episode 1: The Harvard Plan | On the Media | WNYC Studios
The Harvard Plan - our collaboration with the Boston Globe, is back! In episode one, we hear what unfolded at Harvard from Donald Trump’s inauguration to convocation 2025. Three main ...
www.wnycstudios.org
November 1, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Our show this week is the first episode of The Harvard Plan Season 2, our collaboration with the @bostonglobe.com about the fight for the soul of America’s oldest and most prestigious university. Hosted by award-winning reporter @ilyamarritz.bsky.social:
this is terrifying
"What the plan describes, in essence, is a shadow logistics network built on agreements with local police under the 287(g) program. These once symbolic gestures of cooperation are today a pipeline for real-time biometric checks and arrest notifications. Transportation is the next logical step."
ICE Wants to Build a Shadow Deportation Network in Texas
A new ICE proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
www.wired.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
this is terrifying
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NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
October 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
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I may never write a better lede
October 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I may never write a better lede
this story just keeps getting better
Back in 2020, I profiled a random Long Island dad named Bill DeBlasio, who constantly received vicious hate mail intended for Bill de Blasio. This is the same guy who just pranked The Times of London into publishing anti-Zohran quotes from Mayor de Blasio.
God, I miss MEL Magazine.
God, I miss MEL Magazine.
‘I Had the Name First!’: The Other Bill DeBlasio Is Tired of Receiving Your Hate Mail
For Bill DeBlasio, a normal dad on Long Island, it’s an endless hell sharing a name with the loathed mayor of New York City
melmagazine.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
this story just keeps getting better
“The Times of London has accelerated its push for more, and largely hostile, coverage of Mamdani. That campaign has been driven internally by Margi Conklin, a New York Post veteran who was most recently managing editor at The Free Press”
www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
How a London newspaper botched a New York political story
Welcome to New York.
www.semafor.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:23 AM
“The Times of London has accelerated its push for more, and largely hostile, coverage of Mamdani. That campaign has been driven internally by Margi Conklin, a New York Post veteran who was most recently managing editor at The Free Press”
www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
www.semafor.com/article/10/2...
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over the past 9 months, the Trump admin has used just about every lever available to pressure universities to follow his vision for higher ed...
how it's going, so far>>
my lastest miniseries w/ @bostonglobe.com & @onthemedia.bsky.social
pls listen & share!
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
how it's going, so far>>
my lastest miniseries w/ @bostonglobe.com & @onthemedia.bsky.social
pls listen & share!
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
S2 - Episode 1: The Harvard Plan | On the Media | WNYC Studios
The Harvard Plan - our collaboration with the Boston Globe, is back! In episode one, we hear what unfolded at Harvard from Donald Trump’s inauguration to convocation 2025. Three main ...
www.wnycstudios.org
October 29, 2025 at 11:49 AM
over the past 9 months, the Trump admin has used just about every lever available to pressure universities to follow his vision for higher ed...
how it's going, so far>>
my lastest miniseries w/ @bostonglobe.com & @onthemedia.bsky.social
pls listen & share!
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
how it's going, so far>>
my lastest miniseries w/ @bostonglobe.com & @onthemedia.bsky.social
pls listen & share!
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
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👀 The right wing Harvard Salient published an article stating “Germany belongs to the Germans, France to the French, Britain to the British, America to the Americans” & calling 4 values based on “‘blood, soil, language, & love of one’s own.’” Their alumni board suspended them but they won’t obey 1/
October 29, 2025 at 1:03 AM
👀 The right wing Harvard Salient published an article stating “Germany belongs to the Germans, France to the French, Britain to the British, America to the Americans” & calling 4 values based on “‘blood, soil, language, & love of one’s own.’” Their alumni board suspended them but they won’t obey 1/
The Trump admin is going after higher ed. Reporter @ilyamarritz.bsky.social documents how this fight is playing out inside the oldest and richest university in America: Harvard.
The Harvard Plan season 2 is out now, listen listen listen!!!
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
The Harvard Plan season 2 is out now, listen listen listen!!!
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
S2 - Episode 1: The Harvard Plan | On the Media | WNYC Studios
The Harvard Plan - our collaboration with the Boston Globe, is back! In episode one, we hear what unfolded at Harvard from Donald Trump’s inauguration to convocation 2025. Three main ...
www.wnycstudios.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
The Trump admin is going after higher ed. Reporter @ilyamarritz.bsky.social documents how this fight is playing out inside the oldest and richest university in America: Harvard.
The Harvard Plan season 2 is out now, listen listen listen!!!
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...
The Harvard Plan season 2 is out now, listen listen listen!!!
www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...