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jonathan friedman

@jonathanfriedman.com
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Media strategist and producer. Culture, news, and tech nerd. Semafor, Bad Robot, CAA, Obama White House, The Verge alum. USC Marshall, NYU Gallatin grad. Recovering tweeter @jonfriedman

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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 27m
Ynon gets what was going to be the Jeff Shell job, actually operating David's big new Hollywood toy
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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 1h
This was a very good invu for @abdulelsayed.bsky.social — just clearly a smart operator and thoughtful guy Aaaaaand he shouted out one of my must-reads, Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4h
Setting aside the fact that Trump has now singlehandedly mired the United States in a separate quagmire in Iran, it was Joe Biden that struck this withdrawal agreement with Iraq in 2024 and Trump was forced to meet the September 30 deadline. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/w...
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Mark Gurman @markgurman.bsky.social · 10h
NEW: Apple will launch its next big thing on October 13, a major new smart home device with a display. Here’s an in-depth look at its design, features, apps, use cases and more — www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Apple Is Finally Ready to Enter Its Next Big Category: the Smart Home
Apple Inc. plans to make its long-delayed push into the smart-home market on Oct. 13, marking a critical product expansion for the company under new Chief Executive Officer John Ternus.
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CNN @cnn.com · 17h
Two months after Israeli settlers forced them out of their house, a Palestinian family was able to return to their home – only to be attacked again by more than 100 settlers, with some storming the house and setting it on fire. cnn.it/4AEn6BV
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Eric Haywood @erichaywood.bsky.social · 17h
MapQuest has the opportunity to do the funniest thing
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/09/2026
The Talmud teaches that anyone who sustains one soul, has sustained an entire world. For generations, Jewish New Yorkers have sustained our city. Today, we are launching the first-ever municipal Strategy to Combat Antisemitism.
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm not the audience for the Smith hearing, but the main political issue here is that Republicans want the world to know that Smith subpoenaed congressional phone records as he investigated Jan. 6 etc, and nobody outside the Senate can explain to you why that's bad.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The funniest thing about the Schmitt rake stomp is that if it'd been a Dem we'd have a week of think pieces about how Dems lack of hoops literacy was alienating them from real America.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 22h
He had all afternoon and this is the best he could come up with. Great ratio!
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Hunter Dunn @hunterisntdunn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is antisemitism. This isn’t leftism. This isn’t anti-Zionism. This isn’t progressive activism. This is just blatant antisemitism.
Guy Christensen being antisemitic
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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 29/09/2026
I ❤️ @amyklobuchar.com
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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Aaron is not underrating this. It's cinema. The sly smirk when Schmitt thinks he's gotten Smith to perjure himself. The hasty vanishing of the sign. Klobuchar getting Kennedy to hold it up. Schmitt getting LOUD and ANGRY when Klobuchar points out he mixed up the Hawks and Hawkeyes.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A good reminder from Ed that not everyone will be able to afford a personal agent — even as the Internet is re-wired around them. @edmundlee.bsky.social #Muse
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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 29/09/2026
He’s gonna force them to turn off America.gov lol (And fwiw a simple govt website you can actually use to navigate govt agencies / services is a very good thing — Obama made the USDS in 2014 to lead to something like this)
america.gov
America.gov
Find answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov.
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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 29/09/2026
This was crazy
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Can you tell texas republicans are not used to competitive races bsky.app/profile/head...
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is a kind of a thing that happens when you put a fourth-tier podcaster in charge of the FBI.
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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 28/09/2026
A+
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Huge bummer when you’re just innocently trying to join and promote a movement that hates Black people, immigrants, and Jews — but then you discover that they have a dark side. apple.news/A9g-feRPSTme...
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LAist @laist.com · 28/09/2026
The Trump administration announced Monday it's scaling back how fuel efficient American carmakers need to make their fleets. 🔗 More details: vist.ly/5k86w ✍️ Willa Rubin | NPR 📸 Apu Gomes/Getty Images
Busy highway with traffic and news headline about fuel efficiency standards.
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“Why were these men allowed to “pursue their education in a secure and nourishing environment” and she was not? Why was she not informed of the outcome of her own Title IX investigation? Who benefited from the 23 months of elapsed time when the public knew nothing?”
cornellsun.com
EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will
The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.
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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 28/09/2026
Very in favor of rich people throwing cash around to boost efforts for better public transit and biking
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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump's base really is starting to slip from his fingers www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpAH...
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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 27/09/2026
Just as worth it for anyone who cares about LA transit to watch @nickandert.bsky.social’s latest: a deep-dive into the CA transit/rail long-term plan and broken operational system, and a plan for how to fix it Incredibly detailed and informative, and really outlines a better way
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California's Brilliant State Rail Plan
YouTube video by nandert
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Joe Linton @lintonjoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Andert kinda buried the lede - much of this video is about L.A. Metro project planning/delivery dysfunction!
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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 27/09/2026
Episode X. Lfg.
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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 27/09/2026
Insurance as a concept only works because most people pay into it and don’t ever use it
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 26/09/2026
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 26/09/2026
Sources: YouTube, TikTok, and Meta's Instagram and Facebook decline to run paid ads for Alex Gibney's Musk documentary, citing "political content" (Steven Zeitchik/The Hollywood Reporter) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think something to consider here is that Collins voted to confirm Russ Vought as OMB Director despite the fact that he said a billion times that he thought Trump had a constitutional right to illegally impound funds, and now she’s doing shocked Pikachu reactions.
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Without warning or consultation, Congress just received an $810 million package of pocket rescissions from the Administration. This is the most recent attempt by this Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to undermine Congress's Constitutional power of the purse.
This move shows that OMB intentionally withheld these funds for months to execute this unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.Not only is the delay itself an impoundment that was not reported to Congress, but also it is a usurpation of Congress's appropriations powers.
OMB is an agency of the executive branch. It does not get to decide which programs are worth funding.
The independent Government Accountability Office has concluded that pocket rescissions are unlawful and not permitted by the Impoundment Control Act. Any effort to rescind appropriated funds without congressional approval is a clear violation of the law.
I will work with my colleagues to address these illegal actions.
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
why are the midterms any part of this decision might be a question
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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 25/09/2026
Great list
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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 25/09/2026
These + People v OJ + Transparent are the big misses for me
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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
But the show I want to single out—the one on my personal 10-shows ballot that did not make the list at all—is this beautiful, and apparently now largely forgotten, creation. Do yourself a favor and seek it out. (86 Ted Lasso to make room for it.) www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/a...
nytimes.com
In ‘Rectify,’ Life After Prison and the Chance to Be Reborn (Gift Article)
The final season of the SundanceTV series uses deep Christian themes in telling the story of an ex-convict who is unequipped for freedom.
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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 25/09/2026
odd bc the only people who bring up trans people over and over and over again are desperate republicans trying to create a cultural wedge issue to distract from ~ everything ~
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Once again, the Supreme Court prioritizes imaginary harms done to Trump by not allowing him to indulge in his conspiracy theories, as opposed to the very real harm done to citizens who may lose the ability to vote in this case.
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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ok, I'll further add: - The Americans actually does what everyone *says* Breaking Bad does - The Crown is the only thing that feels truly out of place - FNL is underrated because it feels too good to watch; people take it less seriously because of FEELS - US and UK Office swap places
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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are more important things in the world to be irritated by, but Kathryn is completely correct. Netflix's category fraud here is FAR worse than anything the Clippers did with Kwahi Leonard. Rhys should be stripped of his win, Michael Shannon should get the nomination and he should win.
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Alison Herman @aherman2006.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
also MAD MEN is not just quite clearly the best tv show of the 21st century, it's the great american novel. lol
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There are too many people in congress who would be happier doing this, and that's part of why our politics is so stupid bsky.app/profile/avit...
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026
He did it, this is the final boss level of white people going can I say it?
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 25/09/2026
This is the woman who said that Talarico’s in favor of “same sex bathrooms”, and getting that kind of lunatic to stay home is how you win an election in Texas
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is all right-wing politics is now, a guy who's killed tens of thousands of children complaining about podcasters
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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 25/09/2026
“A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you're talking real money”
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 25/09/2026
i want nathan fielder to do undecided voter focus groups
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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 25/09/2026
It feels so good when govt programs succeed like this Less traffic and enough revenue to renovate train stations and do clever shit like give $ to delivery companies to get them to move deliveries to overnight, which will lower traffic even more Congestion pricing, a big win
gothamist.com
Congestion pricing funds $5 million program for overnight truck deliveries in NYC
The city wants to shift 62,000 daily truck trips to off-hour delivery hours by 2040.
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh. Oh my.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nikole Hannah Jones will be interviewed by her daughter for an episode of “This American Life” airing on September 27 at 7pm CT
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The Argument - This American Life
Ten years ago, Nikole Hannah-Jones wrote an essay about her decision to send her daughter to a segregated, low-income school. The essay was influential on parents and policymakers, and Nikole spent a ...
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