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arcticfox87.bsky.social @arcticfox87.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
'The Icebergs' Is One of Frederic Edwin Church's Most Spectacular Paintings. For Decades, No One Knew Where It Was share.google/J6rBs2dCuD8P... @malcolmnance.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social The Arctic is Magnificent
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'The Icebergs' Is One of Frederic Edwin Church's Most Spectacular Paintings. For Decades, No One Knew Where It Was
In the 1970s, the administrator of a boys' home in England wound up finding the missing 19th-century piece and bringing it back into the spotlight
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
@nataliekorach.bsky.social obtained audio from a Business Insider meeting in which the outlet's new boss spoke to staffers in candid terms about the publication's cratering traffic. Read the story in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...
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Business Insider's Traffic Tumult
The digital outlet’s new boss warned staffers that the traffic-driven model that built Business Insider is collapsing, according to an audio recording obtained by Status, revealing internal numbers an...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
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“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so…
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/09/2026
ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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Rabih Alameddine @rabihalameddine.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Léon Spilliaert - Young Man with red Scarf - 1908
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I don’t think there’s really even a colorable argument that this isn’t mass murder. theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...
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The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”
“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.”
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15/08/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Family members share with MeidasTouch that women aboard the USS Boxer have been “begging” for extra pads and tampons as basic feminine hygiene supplies run out at sea.
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"They Were Begging Us to Send Them Extra Pads and Tampons." Family Member Describes Feminine Hygiene Shortage Aboard the USS Boxer
A family member with loved ones serving aboard the USS Boxer reached out to us directly to describe a supply crisis unfolding on the amphibious assault ship,
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Natalie Korach @nataliekorach.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Happy 2nd birthday to Status! Incredibly proud to be a part of this team delivering insightful media coverage to inboxes 7 days a week I’m biased but you should subscribe if you don’t already! www.status.news/p/status-sec...
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Status Turns Two
After two trips around the sun, Status has built an email list 130,000 people strong, a YouTube channel with 109,000 subscribers, and is gearing up to put on an inaugural summit featuring the biggest ...
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Status @status.news · 12/08/2026
The White House Correspondents’ Association confronted the Trump administration, we have learned, after reporters aboard Air Force One learned they were unwitting decoys during Trump’s secret departure from Turkey. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/donald-tru...
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Trump’s Secret Jet Blowback
The White House Correspondents’ Association confronted the Trump administration, Status has learned, after reporters aboard Air Force One learned they were unwitting decoys during Trump’s secret depar...
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Status @status.news · 07/08/2026
The latest episode of Power Lines has dropped: This week, we report how CNN staffers reacted to David Ellison's essay trying to woo them over. Plus, "60 Minutes" tries to plug its leaks and Stephen Colbert's daughter quits the show. Watch on YouTube: youtu.be/oKMBrAyt0V0
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 04/08/2026
A vote to confirm Todd Blanche is a vote “so that the Dobbs decision becomes permanent in every single state.” Those were his own words to anti-abortion extremists. Senators who vote for Blanche are voting for an Attorney General who will attack abortion rights in EVERY state.
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Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’
The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 04/08/2026
“We often associate wonder with the faraway and the exceptional. But some of the planet’s most extraordinary spectacles unfold every day, largely unnoticed,” Rafaela Jinich writes in The Wonder Reader.
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Nature’s Most Extraordinary Stories
The natural world’s marvels are revealed when you look a little closer.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Scoop: New "60 Minutes" boss Nick Bilton sent a memo to staff about leaks, which naturally leaked to @status.news. Details here: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...
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Bilton’s Leak Battle
The new “60 Minutes” executive producer welcomed staff back from their July vacations with a weekend memo in which he delivered a stern message about leaks, a missive that naturally leaked to Status.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
In recent days, The WaPo's opinion editor Adam O'Neal engaged in private convos in which he struck a triumphant and boasted he had moved the section to the right. But now he's out at the Jeff Bezos-owned paper. More from @nataliekorach.bsky.social in @status.news: www.status.news/p/adam-oneal...
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The Post's Opinion Parting
Days before his abrupt exit from The WaPo, Adam O’Neal was privately boasting that he had pushed the Opinion section further to the right—raising new questions about what really drove his departure.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I just signed up to go to @oliverdarcy.bsky.social 's @status.news summit. Early-bird pricing ends tonight. www.statussummit.news
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Status Summit | September 09, 2026
A one-day event that will bring together the industry’s most influential figures for a series of candid conversations about the forces transforming the information landscape.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
A year after top editor Emma Tucker took a sledgehammer to The WSJ's San Francisco bureau, morale on the tech desk is not great—while I'm told friction is also increasing between Tucker and her boss, Robert Thomson. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/wall-stree...
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The WSJ’s Tech Tremors
The newspaper is still feeling the aftershocks of last year’s overhaul of its San Francisco bureau, Status has learned, while tension mounts between top editor Emma Tucker and her boss Robert Thomson.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"Blame Elon Musk and Donald Trump for the Out-of-Control Ebola Crisis" Jeremy Konyndyk, who helped lead the U.S. response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, on the deadly consequences DOGE's dismantling of USAID has had, as Congo struggles to contain the virus.
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Blame Elon Musk and Donald Trump for the Out-of-Control Ebola Crisis
Jeremy Konyndyk, who helped lead the U.S. response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, writes about the deadly consequences DOGE's dismantling of USAID has had, as Congo struggles to contain the virus.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"Morale and trust for many folks is in hell." @nataliekorach.bsky.social goes inside a tense HuffPost all-hands meeting after Byron Allen directed layoffs at the progressive news outlet. Full story in @status.news: www.status.news/p/buzzfeed-h...
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Byron's HuffPost Hatchet
Inside HuffPost’s tense post-layoff town hall on Wednesday, shaken staffers demanded answers about the cuts and questioned Byron Allen’s vision for the BuzzFeed-owned newsroom, Status has learned.
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Natalie Korach @nataliekorach.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Scoop: HuffPost staff grilled leadership in a tense all-hands Wednesday, as Byron Allen has yet to address employees about layoffs that eliminated more than 1/3 of BuzzFeed’s workforce "Morale and trust for many folks is in hell," one staffer told me www.status.news/p/buzzfeed-h...
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Byron's HuffPost Hatchet
Inside HuffPost’s tense post-layoff town hall on Wednesday, shaken staffers demanded answers about the cuts and questioned Byron Allen’s vision for the BuzzFeed-owned newsroom, Status has learned.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Not only am I told that CBS News staffers are alarmed by Ross Douthat being appointed as a "60 Minutes" correspondent, but industry veterans are aghast. "The idea that Ross can be a ‘60’ correspondent is a joke," one TV exec told me. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/60-minutes...
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Bari's New '60' Slate
CBS News’ decision to appoint a conservative opinion columnist as a “60 Minutes” correspondent sparked consternation inside the network, Status has learned, while also drawing sharp criticism from ind...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Another example of why I subscribe to Status and so should you. “The result was a public humiliation for the White House Correspondents’ Association.” www.status.news/p/the-white-...
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The White House Correspondents’ Disgrace
The WHCA sought to reconvene its annual dinner in celebration of press freedom. Instead, it handed Donald Trump a platform to attack the very journalists the organization exists to represent.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Scoop: CNN and Clarissa Ward failed to come to an agreement for a long-term contract earlier this year, resulting in her inking just a one-year extension with the network. Details on what happened, and the Bari Weiss of it all, in @status.news: www.status.news/p/clarissa-w...
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Clarissa Ward’s CNN Crossroads
The star foreign correspondent could not reach a long-term deal with CNN earlier this year amid friction with executives and concerns over Bari Weiss potentially taking editorial control of the networ...
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Have you registered for the Status Summit yet? This week we've announced Brian Williams and Nicolle Wallace as confirmed speakers. Many more still to be announced in the days ahead. Reserve your spot here: www.statussummit.news
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Status Summit | September 09, 2026
A one-day event that will bring together the industry’s most influential figures for a series of candid conversations about the forces transforming the information landscape.
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Natalie Korach @nataliekorach.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
CNN’s Clarissa Ward only inked a one-year extension with the network this spring amid friction with execs and concerns over Bari Weiss potentially taking control of CNN @oliverdarcy.bsky.social scoops www.status.news/p/clarissa-w...
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Clarissa Ward’s CNN Crossroads
The star foreign correspondent could not reach a long-term deal with CNN earlier this year amid friction with executives and concerns over Bari Weiss potentially taking editorial control of the networ...
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Registration for the event is now open: www.statussummit.news
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Status Summit | September 09, 2026
A one-day event that will bring together the industry’s most influential figures for a series of candid conversations about the forces transforming the information landscape.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Big news: We are excited to announce the launch of the Status Summit, our first live event. On Sept. 9 in New York, we’ll bring together the most influential leaders in media for candid, on-the-record conversations about the future of the industry. Details in Variety: variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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‘Status Summit’ Aims to Deliver More Content From Oliver Darcy’s ‘Status’ Media Newsletter
'Status Summit' Aims to Deliver More Content From Oliver Darcy's 'Status' Media Newsletter
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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Some exciting news from us: We’re launching the first-ever Status Summit, bringing together the media’s top leaders and faces for an on-the-record discussion on the forces reshaping our information ecosystem. Our inaugural event is this September in NYC. The details: variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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‘Status Summit’ Aims to Deliver More Content From Oliver Darcy’s ‘Status’ Media Newsletter
'Status Summit' Aims to Deliver More Content From Oliver Darcy's 'Status' Media Newsletter
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Register for the event right here 👇 www.statussummit.news
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Natalie Korach @nataliekorach.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Scoop: MS NOW marked its 30th anniversary with an all-staff town hall detailing its forthcoming subscription product and a private dinner convening generations of network leadership, including Andy Lack, Phil Griffin, Jeff Zucker, Rebecca Kutler, and more www.status.news/p/ms-now-30-...
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MS NOW’s Pivotal Moment
At a swanky dinner in lower Manhattan, MS NOW united its past and present leaders to celebrate the network's 30-year anniversary, Status has learned. But as the network enters a new decade, its bigges...
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Welcome @brettlogiurato.bsky.social to @status.news !
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Status @status.news · 11/07/2026
Three years after Robinhood launched Sherwood News with grand ambitions, the stock trading app has gutted the newsroom and dramatically narrowed its media strategy, Status has learned. The details in @status.news www.status.news/p/robinhood-...
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Robinhood's News Retreat
Three years after Robinhood launched Sherwood News with grand ambitions, the stock trading app has gutted the newsroom and dramatically narrowed its media strategy, Status has learned.
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Status @status.news · 10/07/2026
David Ellison thought he had won the hardest battle for Warner Bros. Discovery. Now, a state-led legal offensive and scrutiny in the U.K. could put the blockbuster deal in jeopardy, experts tell Status. Read the full story in @status.news www.status.news/p/paramount-...
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Ellison’s Merger Danger Zone
David Ellison thought he had won the hardest battle for Warner Bros. Discovery. Now, a state-led legal offensive and scrutiny in the U.K. could put the blockbuster deal in jeopardy, experts tell Statu...
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 07/07/2026
An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Afghan national who fought with U.S. forces died of allergic reaction in ICE custody
Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, suffered “an adverse drug reaction” to an unidentified substance, which triggered anaphylaxis and exacerbated his asthma, the death report shows.
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jessica BONEStown @newfoundgloryhole.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
THE ACKROOMS
Cathy in the backrooms
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Status @status.news · 07/07/2026
Donald Trump has targeted American media companies and corporations with pressure campaigns behind closed doors. At the World Cup, the entire world is now getting a front-row seat. The full story in @status.news www.status.news/p/trump-fifa...
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Trump’s World Cup Foul
Donald Trump has targeted American media companies and corporations with pressure campaigns behind closed doors. At the World Cup, the entire world is now getting a front-row seat.
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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. “You are not numbers or case files. “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV
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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
The devastating effect of voucher programs, especially on rural communities, was known well before Indiana expanded its program. But tax breaks for the wealthy, bigotry and anti-unionism, and the desire to fund religious institutions from public coffers won out.
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Rural areas of the state have few school options • Indiana Capital Chronicle
Indiana’s school choice program leaves its nearly 300,000 rural public school students with fewer choices and fewer resources
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Natalie Korach @nataliekorach.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
New: Just months after the Washington Post gutted its local operation, it’s now restructuring the department and hiring in areas it cut, leaving staff with “whiplash” and questions about the data-driven layoffs www.status.news/p/washington...
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The Post’s Local Backpedal
After slashing much of its local reporting, The Washington Post is quietly rebuilding its coverage, Status has learned, raising fresh questions about the data-driven layoffs.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Just ban the horses! This doesn't seem like a particularly close call! Is there some all powerful carriage lobby in NYC wtf
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Elise Shae @eliseshae.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
“Paramount, — declined to comment when asked multiple times by Status. Indeed, the David Ellison-owned company has not only chosen to stay silent, but as of Monday evening, Hokit’s appalling rant remained available on Paramount+, with the media giant opting not to edit it out”
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 15/06/2026
“If images today have a way of eating up time, keeping our fingers scrolling, Hockney’s works might be said to give it back.” Kelsey Ables on the late artist’s ability to reclaim life’s passing moments:
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The David Hockney Painting That Makes You Look, and Then Look Again
The tireless artist, who died this week, understood how to slow down time.
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On the Media @onthemedia.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
“All hell broke loose at 60 Minutes.” @oliverdarcy.bsky.social on the tattered state of 60 Minutes after CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss fired about half a dozen members of the team: lnk.to/onthemedia/b...
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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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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
> @gettyimages.com
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
It's Friday night baby
Sleepy time bear
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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
David Ellison ostensibly tapped Bari Weiss to run CBS News because of her extraordinary digital skills, paying $150 million to buy The Free Press. But how is The FP actually doing? Last month, the site’s traffic plunged 17% from last year. therighting.com/traffic-repo...
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All Top 20 Right-Wing News Websites Suffer YOY Declines in May Visits – theRighting
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
They came here fleeing persecution; rather than give them refuge, Marco Rubio’s state department will send them to die in countries they’ve never been to. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
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Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
BEHIND THE SCENES: Here is what happened in the lead-up to Scott Pelley's firing—and what insiders at the newsmagazine and TV industry are saying now. A lot of detail in our latest for @status.news: www.status.news/p/scott-pell...
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Clock Strikes Midnight for Pelley
The “60 Minutes” correspondent was fired by email Tuesday night after a dramatic showdown with CBS News leadership, throwing the show into an unprecedented and existential crisis.
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Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The ever-on-it @oliverdarcy.bsky.social's behind-the-scenes report on the firing of Scott Pelley by the odioius enemy of journalism, Bari Weiss, and her new henchman, Nick (Faust) Bilton: www.status.news/p/scott-pell...
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Clock Strikes Midnight for Pelley
The “60 Minutes” correspondent was fired by email Tuesday night after a dramatic showdown with CBS News leadership, throwing the show into an unprecedented and existential crisis.
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
“In the end, this is what Donald Trump wanted,” one television executive remarked to @status.news. “The Ellisons and Bari Weiss have delivered to Trump exactly what he asked them for.” www.status.news/p/scott-pell...
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Clock Strikes Midnight for Pelley
The “60 Minutes” correspondent was fired by email Tuesday night after a dramatic showdown with CBS News leadership, throwing the show into an unprecedented and existential crisis.
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