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Cuts to PBS funding are "completely shortsighted," Ken Burns says on Mixed Signals from Semafor Media.
" This will hurt mostly the small rural stations ... It will only hurt people who don't deserve to be hurt, who need to not live in a news desert."
" This will hurt mostly the small rural stations ... It will only hurt people who don't deserve to be hurt, who need to not live in a news desert."
October 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Cuts to PBS funding are "completely shortsighted," Ken Burns says on Mixed Signals from Semafor Media.
" This will hurt mostly the small rural stations ... It will only hurt people who don't deserve to be hurt, who need to not live in a news desert."
" This will hurt mostly the small rural stations ... It will only hurt people who don't deserve to be hurt, who need to not live in a news desert."
Can Democrats win an information war against the Trump administration over reality in Chicago?
" I'm at least trying to get as many facts out as fast as possible so people can understand," @govpritzker.illinois.gov says. "People are beginning to see again that we're telling the truth. They're not."
" I'm at least trying to get as many facts out as fast as possible so people can understand," @govpritzker.illinois.gov says. "People are beginning to see again that we're telling the truth. They're not."
October 17, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Can Democrats win an information war against the Trump administration over reality in Chicago?
" I'm at least trying to get as many facts out as fast as possible so people can understand," @govpritzker.illinois.gov says. "People are beginning to see again that we're telling the truth. They're not."
" I'm at least trying to get as many facts out as fast as possible so people can understand," @govpritzker.illinois.gov says. "People are beginning to see again that we're telling the truth. They're not."
🟡 This week on Mixed Signals, @semaforben.bsky.social and @maxtani.bsky.social bring on @govpritzker.illinois.gov to talk about Chicago, ICE, and how he’s navigating a messaging battle against the Trump White House in the new media landscape.
Listen here: link.chtbl.com/JFyoOZmb
Listen here: link.chtbl.com/JFyoOZmb
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 PM
🟡 This week on Mixed Signals, @semaforben.bsky.social and @maxtani.bsky.social bring on @govpritzker.illinois.gov to talk about Chicago, ICE, and how he’s navigating a messaging battle against the Trump White House in the new media landscape.
Listen here: link.chtbl.com/JFyoOZmb
Listen here: link.chtbl.com/JFyoOZmb
"Oh, it's the worst industry in the history of industries."
@mcuban.bsky.social tells @maxtani.bsky.social and @semaforben.bsky.social how he views the current media landscape, and why he doesn't invest much in the space these days.
@mcuban.bsky.social tells @maxtani.bsky.social and @semaforben.bsky.social how he views the current media landscape, and why he doesn't invest much in the space these days.
August 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"Oh, it's the worst industry in the history of industries."
@mcuban.bsky.social tells @maxtani.bsky.social and @semaforben.bsky.social how he views the current media landscape, and why he doesn't invest much in the space these days.
@mcuban.bsky.social tells @maxtani.bsky.social and @semaforben.bsky.social how he views the current media landscape, and why he doesn't invest much in the space these days.
Jonathan Kanter and Lina Khan see Figma’s early thriving — as a $44 billion public company rather than an Adobe offering — as vindication of their antitrust approach, which was the most robust in decades.
“You’re welcome,” Kanter told Semafor in an interview.
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“You’re welcome,” Kanter told Semafor in an interview.
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August 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Jonathan Kanter and Lina Khan see Figma’s early thriving — as a $44 billion public company rather than an Adobe offering — as vindication of their antitrust approach, which was the most robust in decades.
“You’re welcome,” Kanter told Semafor in an interview.
www.semafor.com/article/08/0...
“You’re welcome,” Kanter told Semafor in an interview.
www.semafor.com/article/08/0...
Emily Maitlis got one of the biggest scoops in the Jeffrey Epstein story when she interviewed Prince Andrew about his involvement in 2019.
The News Agents host joins Mixed Signals to discuss the reignited media attention around Epstein, her move from the BBC to podcasting, and more.
The News Agents host joins Mixed Signals to discuss the reignited media attention around Epstein, her move from the BBC to podcasting, and more.
August 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Emily Maitlis got one of the biggest scoops in the Jeffrey Epstein story when she interviewed Prince Andrew about his involvement in 2019.
The News Agents host joins Mixed Signals to discuss the reignited media attention around Epstein, her move from the BBC to podcasting, and more.
The News Agents host joins Mixed Signals to discuss the reignited media attention around Epstein, her move from the BBC to podcasting, and more.
🟡 This week on Mixed Signals, @profgalloway.com joins @semaforben.bsky.social and @maxtani.bsky.social to talk about how he turned a career in marketing into a new kind of media stardom, how much money his podcasts make him, and why he’s become so vocal about masculinity.
July 25, 2025 at 12:37 PM
🟡 This week on Mixed Signals, @profgalloway.com joins @semaforben.bsky.social and @maxtani.bsky.social to talk about how he turned a career in marketing into a new kind of media stardom, how much money his podcasts make him, and why he’s become so vocal about masculinity.
Despite all the haggling this week over what ultimately made it into the “big, beautiful bill,” the politics of this moment are familiar, @daveweigel.bsky.social writes: The bill doesn’t achieve some of Trump’s campaign promises, but that has not stopped him — or GOP lawmakers — from saying it does.
July 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Despite all the haggling this week over what ultimately made it into the “big, beautiful bill,” the politics of this moment are familiar, @daveweigel.bsky.social writes: The bill doesn’t achieve some of Trump’s campaign promises, but that has not stopped him — or GOP lawmakers — from saying it does.
New data from EV Intelligence, shared exclusively with Semafor, shows Tesla’s popularity tanking with self-identified Republicans, who are 11 percentage points less likely to buy one than they were in April, before Musk’s messy split from President Donald Trump.
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July 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
New data from EV Intelligence, shared exclusively with Semafor, shows Tesla’s popularity tanking with self-identified Republicans, who are 11 percentage points less likely to buy one than they were in April, before Musk’s messy split from President Donald Trump.
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🟡 @steveinskeep.bsky.social joins Mixed Signals to talk about NPR’s battle with the Trump administration, the role of public radio in an overcrowded media landscape, why local journalism matters more than ever, and more.
Listen here: link.chtbl.com/W7KpRWs2
Listen here: link.chtbl.com/W7KpRWs2
June 27, 2025 at 12:36 PM
🟡 @steveinskeep.bsky.social joins Mixed Signals to talk about NPR’s battle with the Trump administration, the role of public radio in an overcrowded media landscape, why local journalism matters more than ever, and more.
Listen here: link.chtbl.com/W7KpRWs2
Listen here: link.chtbl.com/W7KpRWs2
This week on Mixed Signals, @semaforben.bsky.social and @maxtani.bsky.social talk to Cleo Abram about why she started an optimistic show in an age of pessimism, the time she got space-sick in zero gravity, and how she navigates conversations with tech titans like Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang.
June 13, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This week on Mixed Signals, @semaforben.bsky.social and @maxtani.bsky.social talk to Cleo Abram about why she started an optimistic show in an age of pessimism, the time she got space-sick in zero gravity, and how she navigates conversations with tech titans like Mark Zuckerberg and Jensen Huang.
“Trump has shown us that on one side of politics, there’s a limitless imagination, and on the other, we are constantly constructing an ever-lowering ceiling,” Zohran Mamdani tells @daveweigel.bsky.social.
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June 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“Trump has shown us that on one side of politics, there’s a limitless imagination, and on the other, we are constantly constructing an ever-lowering ceiling,” Zohran Mamdani tells @daveweigel.bsky.social.
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Adam Friedland "can't stand looking at the computer" and thinks phones and social media are making people too weird.
On the latest episode of Mixed Signals from Semafor Media, the comedian and podcaster says he hopes his show can make "people feel a little less weird on the phone."
On the latest episode of Mixed Signals from Semafor Media, the comedian and podcaster says he hopes his show can make "people feel a little less weird on the phone."
May 30, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Adam Friedland "can't stand looking at the computer" and thinks phones and social media are making people too weird.
On the latest episode of Mixed Signals from Semafor Media, the comedian and podcaster says he hopes his show can make "people feel a little less weird on the phone."
On the latest episode of Mixed Signals from Semafor Media, the comedian and podcaster says he hopes his show can make "people feel a little less weird on the phone."
"I do a weekly column at GQ, and I could go do that on Substack and make a lot of money, but I don't think Substack is cool."
"Institutions never stop being cool," Chris Black tells @maxtani.bsky.social and @semaforben.bsky.social. "There's just some glamour attached to it."
"Institutions never stop being cool," Chris Black tells @maxtani.bsky.social and @semaforben.bsky.social. "There's just some glamour attached to it."
May 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
"I do a weekly column at GQ, and I could go do that on Substack and make a lot of money, but I don't think Substack is cool."
"Institutions never stop being cool," Chris Black tells @maxtani.bsky.social and @semaforben.bsky.social. "There's just some glamour attached to it."
"Institutions never stop being cool," Chris Black tells @maxtani.bsky.social and @semaforben.bsky.social. "There's just some glamour attached to it."
In retrospect, does @jenpsaki.msnbc.com wish Joe Biden hadn't run for reelection?
"Of course," she says on Mixed Signals from Semafor Media.
Listen to the full interview here: link.chtbl.com/l6CNp9eT
"Of course," she says on Mixed Signals from Semafor Media.
Listen to the full interview here: link.chtbl.com/l6CNp9eT
May 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
In retrospect, does @jenpsaki.msnbc.com wish Joe Biden hadn't run for reelection?
"Of course," she says on Mixed Signals from Semafor Media.
Listen to the full interview here: link.chtbl.com/l6CNp9eT
"Of course," she says on Mixed Signals from Semafor Media.
Listen to the full interview here: link.chtbl.com/l6CNp9eT
"The question that China poses for TikTok for America, Elon Musk poses in a much worse way, I think, for liberals," Ezra Klein says on the Mixed Signals podcast.
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Listen to the full interview: link.chtbl.com/JPMYqj2Q
April 27, 2025 at 1:49 PM
"The question that China poses for TikTok for America, Elon Musk poses in a much worse way, I think, for liberals," Ezra Klein says on the Mixed Signals podcast.
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Listen to the full interview: link.chtbl.com/JPMYqj2Q
"I just don’t think this is a political question at all," @conorlambpa.bsky.social tells @daveweigel.bsky.social.
"But one criticism of the Democratic Party has been that people don’t know, at its core, what the Democrats stand for, as well as they do Trump — whether that’s right or wrong."
"But one criticism of the Democratic Party has been that people don’t know, at its core, what the Democrats stand for, as well as they do Trump — whether that’s right or wrong."
April 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"I just don’t think this is a political question at all," @conorlambpa.bsky.social tells @daveweigel.bsky.social.
"But one criticism of the Democratic Party has been that people don’t know, at its core, what the Democrats stand for, as well as they do Trump — whether that’s right or wrong."
"But one criticism of the Democratic Party has been that people don’t know, at its core, what the Democrats stand for, as well as they do Trump — whether that’s right or wrong."
🟡 SCOOP: The next phase of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign on elite universities will focus on their financial investments, particularly in clean energy and China.
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April 17, 2025 at 1:48 AM
🟡 SCOOP: The next phase of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign on elite universities will focus on their financial investments, particularly in clean energy and China.
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Wisconsin Democrats' bet that Elon Musk’s intervention in the state supreme court race would backfire paid off last week for Susan Crawford.
The first public post-game polling suggests that Musk hurt Republicans by airlifting money into the state.
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The first public post-game polling suggests that Musk hurt Republicans by airlifting money into the state.
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April 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Wisconsin Democrats' bet that Elon Musk’s intervention in the state supreme court race would backfire paid off last week for Susan Crawford.
The first public post-game polling suggests that Musk hurt Republicans by airlifting money into the state.
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The first public post-game polling suggests that Musk hurt Republicans by airlifting money into the state.
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Jubilee Media's founder and CEO Jason Y. Lee says Pete Buttigieg's team was given "some input" on his viral YouTube appearance and "there was a lot that was left on the cutting room floor."
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April 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Jubilee Media's founder and CEO Jason Y. Lee says Pete Buttigieg's team was given "some input" on his viral YouTube appearance and "there was a lot that was left on the cutting room floor."
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Between competition from cheaper sources like gas and renewables, and the enormous costs entailed in keeping plants running, analysts say Trump’s executive orders aiming to bolster coal are little more than symbolic.
Read more in Semafor Net Zero ↓
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April 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Between competition from cheaper sources like gas and renewables, and the enormous costs entailed in keeping plants running, analysts say Trump’s executive orders aiming to bolster coal are little more than symbolic.
Read more in Semafor Net Zero ↓
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Read more in Semafor Net Zero ↓
semafor.com/newsletters/netzero
🟡 NEW: The chair of House Democrats’ campaign arm is already mapping out how her caucus can wield Trump’s latest tariffs against Republicans come 2026.
“It’s important that we continue to talk [about] not only the impact, but what we could be doing instead,” Rep. Suzan DelBene tells Semafor.
“It’s important that we continue to talk [about] not only the impact, but what we could be doing instead,” Rep. Suzan DelBene tells Semafor.
April 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
🟡 NEW: The chair of House Democrats’ campaign arm is already mapping out how her caucus can wield Trump’s latest tariffs against Republicans come 2026.
“It’s important that we continue to talk [about] not only the impact, but what we could be doing instead,” Rep. Suzan DelBene tells Semafor.
“It’s important that we continue to talk [about] not only the impact, but what we could be doing instead,” Rep. Suzan DelBene tells Semafor.
As countries form their tariff responses, experts are watching for tailored broadsides not at American goods, but its services.
“Just wait a few weeks,” @jasonfurman.bsky.social tells Semafor. Rivals will “hit us where it hurts.”
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“Just wait a few weeks,” @jasonfurman.bsky.social tells Semafor. Rivals will “hit us where it hurts.”
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April 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
As countries form their tariff responses, experts are watching for tailored broadsides not at American goods, but its services.
“Just wait a few weeks,” @jasonfurman.bsky.social tells Semafor. Rivals will “hit us where it hurts.”
www.semafor.com/newsletters/...
“Just wait a few weeks,” @jasonfurman.bsky.social tells Semafor. Rivals will “hit us where it hurts.”
www.semafor.com/newsletters/...
🟡 Massive US tariffs including a 104% duty on China came into effect, sending markets worldwide plummeting once again.
Read more in Semafor Flagship:
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April 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
🟡 Massive US tariffs including a 104% duty on China came into effect, sending markets worldwide plummeting once again.
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Read more in Semafor Flagship:
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🟡 Reciprocal tariffs are set to go into effect within hours, Italy’s prime minister plans to meet with Trump, and the weight-loss drug market in India is expanding.
Read more in the latest issue of Semafor Flagship ↓
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Read more in the latest issue of Semafor Flagship ↓
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April 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
🟡 Reciprocal tariffs are set to go into effect within hours, Italy’s prime minister plans to meet with Trump, and the weight-loss drug market in India is expanding.
Read more in the latest issue of Semafor Flagship ↓
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Read more in the latest issue of Semafor Flagship ↓
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