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Holy shit: When Will Lewis was newly-hired Publisher and CEO of the Washington Post, he offered NPR media reporter David Folkenflik an exclusive story about the paper's future in exchange for him killing a story about Lewis' involvement in covering up criminal activity at Rupert Murdoch's tabloids.

'Washington Post' publisher tried to kill a story about allegations against him. It wasn’t the first time.www.npr.org The Post's new CEO Will Lewis tried to stop the paper from publishing a story about allegations he faces in Britain. It wasn't the first time he's attempted to head off unwanted coverage. I know, beca...

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As always what strikes me in these cases is that the sheer *value for money* of political bribery is just incredible.

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Kathy Hochul’s decision to halt congestion pricing in NYC — if it holds — is a generational setback for US climate policy. It is worse than the Mountain Valley pipeline or Willow project in Alaska, and it will have lacerating national implications. I wrote about it: heatmap.news/economy/kath...

Kathy Hochul’s Climate Betrayalheatmap.news Delaying congestion pricing is one of the worst climate policy decisions made by any Democrat in recent memory.

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This Cybertruck take-down is the most joyful thing you’ll read today. I’d include a pull quote, but the article is the pull quote: defector.com/have-you-see...

Have You Seen A Cybertruck Yet? | Defectordefector.com I hope this will not come across too much like bragging, but I have seen a lot of cars. Most of this is because—and again, sorry to brag—I go outside pretty regularly. But in my youth, this was appare...

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Opinion | The crackdown on campus protests has gone way too farwapo.st The backlash to Israel protests has been intense, aggressive and almost entirely wrongheaded.

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👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Full solidarity

Letter from Jewish faculty [at Columbia] on academic freedom, attacks on the University, and the weaponization of antisemitism

Letter from Jewish faculty on academic freedom, attacks on the University, and the weaponization of antisemitism.docxdocs.google.com

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What an absolute disaster that Republicans are still successfully playing their disgustingly cynical game of exploiting fears over antisemitism in order to advance their reactionary crusade – and mainstream institutions keep willfully playing along. I wrote about this a while ago here: 🧵1/

We Are Falling Apartthomaszimmer.substack.com The Right is successfully exploiting fears over rising antisemitism for its reactionary crusade while the Israel-Hamas war is tearing the democratic popular front to pieces

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This is incredibly antisemitic in that it entirely dilutes and contorts the meaning of pogrom such that actual histories of anti-Jewish violence are erased… all in the name of very real and ongoing genocide today.

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University presidents willingly going along with the transparent fiction that Republicans care about antisemitism or universities, except as partisan weapons. Nobody who spends time around universities expects moral courage from presidents and provosts, but they're not clearing even the lowest bar.

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[PAMELA PAUL:] "Rather than muzzle students, we should allow them to hear and be heard. Opportunities to engage and respond." [COLUMBIA ADMINISTRATORS:] (*sic NYPD on students, evict them from campus*) [PAMELA PAUL:] (*keens in rapturous elation*) www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04...

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The first two excerpts are from a February 2023 NYT column. The second two are from a NYT column published yesterday. The same columnist -- Pamela Paul -- wrote both. 14 months apart. Just a mind-blowing lack of self-awareness.

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Columbia University has apparently embraced the concept of “First Amendment zones” What a pathetic failure of leadership.

Asserting a right to *not* hear protest is literally the opposite of free speech. www.nytimes.com/2024/04/18/o...

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All the warriors for free speech can remain silent when faced with actual abuses of free speech when it’s about Palestine. Only true warriors for free speech can actively applaud calling the police on student protestors to make them shut up.

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It is worth stating plainly what happened at Columbia: the raid was l the product of collusion between a university administration and rightwing politicians to suppress politically disfavored speech. I wrote about the mass arrests at Columbia: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Columbia University is colluding with the far-right in its attack on students | Moira Doneganwww.theguardian.com In her willingness to unleash state violence against student protestors, Minouche Shafik proved herself to be a willing ally to extremists

Editorial in the Columbia student paper. www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2024...

"The administration has ignored our countless pleas to engage meaningfully with students, opting instead to continue down a path of surveillance, oppression, and authoritarian policies. Columbia should ... not censor marginalized voices under the guise of “safety” and protection."

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Anti-woke Republicans attacked Columbia University. It capitulated | Alisa Solomon, Marianne Hirsch, Sarah Haley and Helen Benedict | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Anti-woke Republicans attacked Columbia University. It capitulated | Alisa Solomon, Marianne Hirsch, Sarah Haley and Helen Benedictwww.theguardian.com In a congressional hearing, Republicans used specious charges of rampant antisemitism to advance an illiberal agenda on campuses

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The Times needs an intervention on the whole terf/culture-war front, this is genuinely deranged.

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The only thing I want to see from these newly expanded staff bios is somebody finally disclosing which writers and editors at the Times are trying to litigate their fights with their gender-questioning kids in the pages of the newspaper

A lot of times people say "It's not a story" but this is truly not a story, like I can't imagine a major newspaper signing off on a piece about something comparably minor, so far in the past, on any other topic.

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A small town briefly had a controversy two and a half years ago and got over it, and the New York Times is ON IT

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A small town briefly had a controversy two and a half years ago and got over it, and the New York Times is ON IT

The Times needs an intervention on the whole terf/culture-war front, this is genuinely deranged.

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The first new post at the relocated Popehat Report is about Bret Stephens. Sorry. These choices are not entirely voluntary. If you are a subscriber and didn’t get the email, check your junk mail. www.popehat.com/p/bret-steph...

Injustice Can Make You Crazy As A Bedbugwww.popehat.com Bret Stephens Is Outraged By Unequal Justice Offered To Billionaires

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I wrote this last week but will likely re-up on the regular. I AM BEGGING YOU: BUY YOUR ABORTION PILLS TODAY. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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