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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 4h

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 17h

Reminder: As Kamala Harris weighs whether to run for President again after the midterms, she'll have to deal with Joe Biden's memoir being released on November 17th and whatever he might write about their relationship

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 17h

Aaron Sorkin Becoming Washed is a real tragedy for Millennials everywhere. It's been a long 11 years since his last great project: the criminally unseen and forgotten Steve Jobs biopic letterboxd.com/film/the-soc...

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The Social Reckoning (2026)

Frances Haugen, a young Facebook engineer, enlists the help of Jeff Horwitz, a Wall Street Journal reporter, to go on a dangerous journey that ends up blowing the whistle on the social network's most ...

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 17h

"An overnight White House pool report noted that Jacqui Heinrich, the Fox News correspondent and president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, “went to the front of the plane for a lengthy off-record conversation” with Donald Trump" www.status.news/p/david-elli...

Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 18h

A reminder tonight that a Democratic Congress must find a way to claw back the massive amount of ICE funding from the OBBA. They can't just ignore it because they want to stay focused on the economy instead of immigration

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 20h

"At least two dozen people have been shot at by federal immigration agents involved in President Trump’s deportation campaign since he took office in January 2025. Six people have been fatally shot amid the ICE crackdown, including three U.S. citizens" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/n...

ICE Agent Shoots Man in New York City

The person who was shot had been taken to a nearby hospital and was conscious and receiving medical attention, according to the New York Police Department, which said it was not involved in the shooti...

Pew finding those Republican numbers for Trump are getting soft www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

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"Mr. Milstein is the stepson of the right-wing radio host Mark Levin. That relationship is well known in Washington and the embassy, and has been a factor in how he is treated, officials in both Jerusalem and Washington said" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/w...

How a U.S. Diplomat Suppressed and Altered Reports Critical of Israel

A top aide to Ambassador Mike Huckabee skewed information to portray the Netanyahu government in a favorable light, according to multiple officials and documents obtained by The Times.

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“President Trump has been saying, ‘Vote as if I was on the ballot,’ and that’s exactly what I’m going to do — not vote,” said Brandon Tremaine, 24, a graduate student in Texas who voted for Mr. Trump in 2020" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/u...

How Trump Has Alienated Republican Voters Ahead of the Midterms

Signs are emerging that dispirited Republican voters may stay home in November, bringing a Democratic surge without many conversions.

I like to imagine @marklewisohn.bsky.social pouring over the new George Harrison photo book with a magnifying glass looking for clues and new Beatles puzzle pieces

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At this point, Dems need to win just 4 of 20 toss-up seats to take the House majority centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/...

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Pennsylvania Governor's Debate - October 7, 2026

If you want to watch the Josh Shapiro/Stacy Garrity Pennsylvania Governor's Debate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mf0...

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YouTube video by PHL17 Philadelphia

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Trump’s Shameless Collaborators

"In term two, Bezos decided darkness was a profit center — specifically the darkness of outer space, which he could colonize at a faster pace if Trump favored Blue Origin, his private aerospace company. So he wrecked the Post and cozied up to POTUS" nymag.com/intelligence...

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The cronies of his second term are heading for a harsher comeuppance.

Trump Is Considering a Plan to Strike Iran Before the Midterms

"Trump has been publicly furious about the war’s persistence and is believed by those close to him to feel privately humiliated by his inability to bring the conflict to a successful conclusion" www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

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Pentagon planners are weighing options though no final decision has been made.

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Quinnipiac Pennsylvania Poll AI Data Centers Do More Good 24% Do More Harm 64% poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

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Democrats are finally making a serious push to unseat Brian Fitzpatrick in the Bucks County centric PA-1, with House Majority PAC putting in $6 million while the DCCC chips in $900,000 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...

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‘Verity’ Is Trash. But Is It Good Trash? Plus: ‘Digger’ Flopped and Warner Bros. Is No More. - The Ringer

Classic Sean Fennessey moment on Dakota Johnson: "This is getting out of hand. This is becoming an issue. It's time for an intervention. She's quite a good celebrity but she is weighing down these features films. This is an issue" www.theringer.com/podcasts/the...

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Another year, another Colleen Hoover adaptation. How lucky are we? Before diving into the biggest box office success from the weekend, Sean and Amanda react to the news that Mike DeLuca and Pam Abdy w...

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"As he stood up to leave, he watched as an anti-Fitzpatrick ad played on the television in the corner. He asked the cashier whether the television was tuned to cable or streaming" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/06/u...

Short on Cash, Democrats Weigh Big Bets to Unseat Entrenched Republicans (Gift Article)

With less money than G.O.P., Democrats are torn over where to spend in the final weeks. The party is making its biggest move in years against one of G.O.P.’s biggest blue-district survivors.

Has she proven that? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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A Farewell Message from David Zaslav.mov - A Farewell Message from David Zaslav - Frame.io

David Zaslav's farewell video was temporarily posted on Instagram so Matt Belloni saved it and put a link in his newsletter. Here for a Zaslav hatewatch: next.frame.io/share/6c2611...

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

One for all those in the center of the Film Twitter and U.S. Politics Venn Diagram www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPDO...

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Zodiac: They know who the killer is but they can't prove it (HD CLIP)

YouTube video by Binge Society

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Nick Field @nickfield.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

"This is a case that covers the entire world with co-conspirators and victims spread over millions of miles across decades, would you agree? Jeffrey Epstein was an unknown 21 year-old college dropout. The man who hired him as a school teacher? OSS veteran Donald Barr, that is Bill Barr's father"

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Lindsay Ellis @lindsayellis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

WE ARE BACK BABY I appreciate you being reasonable, Travis, despite our fundamental disagreements on fair use. But we will meet again. youtu.be/zjPRAM0WDgw

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I Tested Every Cruise Line to Find the Least Evil

YouTube video by Lindsay Ellis

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Lindsay walking around the cruise with all her Disney Trivia Medals

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CNN staffers breathed a sigh of relief when Mark Thompson agreed to stay on under Skydance. But Status has learned that he hasn’t yet finalized a new contract—and he’s not the only top CNN executive w...

"While Thompson said he had agreed to stay at the network, there was no indication that he had actually inked a new deal to remain beyond his current contract, which expires in the spring" www.status.news/p/mark-thomp...

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Ellison Leaves His Mark

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Ben Fritz @benfritz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not long ago, Warner Bros. was THE premiere studio in Hollywood. No. 1 at the box office, no. 1 on networks, and the no. 1 place talent wanted to work. On the last day of its independent existence, we made a video about what's been lost and what went wrong www.wsj.com/video/why-ho...

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Why Hollywood’s Most Iconic Studio Is Being Sold—Again

Warner Brothers was once the gold standard for Hollywood – both on the big screen and behind the scenes. Now, it’s being sold for the third time in a decade. WSJ’s Ben Fritz explains what went wrong a...

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"In Alabama, the same state where 30,000 people attended a Trump rally in a 30,000-person stadium in August 2015, there were swaths of empty seats at the 10,000-capacity athletic center where Mr. Trump spoke on Friday" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...

At Trump’s Rallies, a Familiar Mix of Rituals and a Plea to ‘Please Pretend’

President Trump is doggedly lending his support to Republican candidates facing a rough midterm season. He is the same campaigner he has always been, but his crowds have changed.

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“We want them,” Mr. Trump said of data centers. “Look, there’s so much money to be made for Ohio, you can’t just turn them off. They’ll go to China.” In this moment, the crowd was quiet" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...

At Trump’s Rallies, a Familiar Mix of Rituals and a Plea to ‘Please Pretend’

President Trump is doggedly lending his support to Republican candidates facing a rough midterm season. He is the same campaigner he has always been, but his crowds have changed.

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"In Brazil, voting is mandatory for most people between the ages of 18 and 70, though absentees only face a small fine. This year, the number of Brazilians who sat out the first round rose to a record high of 21 percent" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/w...

In a Major Boost for the Right, Another Bolsonaro Nears Brazil’s Presidency

Flávio Bolsonaro’s first round lead leaves President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva three weeks to find the votes to stop Brazil’s, and Latin America’s, rightward shift.

"For Lula to turn the race around, he will have to now win over another group of voters: the millions who stayed home or spoiled their ballots. About 20 percent of voters abstained from casting a ballot on Sunday" www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/w...

Brazil Elections Head to Runoff Between Lula and Bolsonaro

Neither President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva nor Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of a former president, won the first round, but Mr. Bolsonaro took more votes.

"The [$13 million DCCC] ad buy includes some new districts — including, most notably, Pennsylvania’s First District, in suburban Philadelphia, a seat held by Representative Brian Fitzpatrick" www.nytimes.com/live/2026/10...

Midterm Election Updates: Democrats Target More GOP Strongholds as They Fight for Control of Congress

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How Donna Brazile, a former DNC Chair and current Rules and Bylaws Committee Member, is spending her time one month out from the midterms

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Whistleblower Who Exposed Trump Goon’s Ties to Epstein Found Dead

"While speaking to the FBI in 2020-21 during an investigation into some of his allegations about the firm, where Lutnick was CEO until last year, he alleged that Lutnick had undeclared business ties to Epstein. The FBI did not investigate the accusations" www2.thedailybeast.com/whistleblowe...

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A former employee of Howard Lutnick has died months after tipping off Congress on the commerce secretary’s Epstein ties.

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