two top reality TV stars debate socially acceptable levels of racist secret police violence and other tales of modern American exceptionalism [Joe Rogan ‘pushed Trump to bac...](
The Independent
Joe Rogan ‘pushed Trump to back off on mass deportations’ at a private dinner
Podcast host, whose endorsement is credited with helping Trump secure the presidency, reportedly dined with him and UFC boss Dana White on June 30
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Bezos rumored to be buying Condé Nast, which would include Vogue, Teen Vogue, The New Yorker, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired, Architectural Digest, and Ars Technica. Wired and Teen Vogue have done some of the best reporting in the Trump era. Ars Technica one of a handful of good remaining tech pubs. [Bezos to buy Vogue as a gift t...](
The Economic Times
Bezos to buy Vogue as a gift to new wife? Insiders link deal to Sanchez’s cover shoot, could cost him billions
Buzz surrounds Jeff Bezos possibly acquiring Condé Nast. This comes amid Lauren Sanchez
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today the Trump FTC is taking a break from not protecting consumers to hold a workshop demonizing trans people just the sort of "extension of the Line Khan antitrust legacy" guys like Matt Stoller predicted, of course [US FTC workshop criticizing me...](https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/us-ftc-workshop-criticizing-medical-care-transgender-youth-draws-staff-2025-07-02/ )
It's almost as if he's not actually very bright [Musk Is Struggling to Understa...](
Futurism
Musk Is Struggling to Understand What's Happening Around Him, Says Former Tesla Exec
Now that Trump's so-called "big, beautiful bill" has passed through Congress, Tesla's crisis could soon take a major turn for the worse
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"Corporate media institutions are a key part of the pathologies afflicting our society today," writes the always excellent [@victorpickard.bsky.social](
Bluesky Social
Victor Pickard (@victorpickard.bsky.social)
Professor who writes about the history and political economy of media, politics of media policy, and democratic theories of journalism. Author of "...
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I did not like the era of "musicians and actors should never express political opinions and should quietly exist as ideological homogenized mannequins that happen to make art" and I'll be thrilled if our dance with authoritarianism results in an actual counter-culture with teeth [Massive Attack urge BBC and me...](
NME
Massive Attack urge BBC and media to redirect their attention to "what is happening daily to the people of Gaza" rather than Bob Vylan Glastonbury furore
Massive Attack have urged the media to focus on "what is happening daily to the people of Gaza", rather than Bob Vylan’s controversial Glastonbur...
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I still haven't gotten over the concentration camp merch
for as long as I've been alive the GOP "negotiation" strategy is to offer you a giant mountain of shit you then have to negotiate to a slightly less ridiculous mountain of shit, at which point everybody applauds the fact the giant mountain of shit wasn't even bigger
at some point journalism could simply make a choice to stop treating every brain fart this man has as a major story [Elon Musk Wants to Blow Up the...](
Gizmodo
Elon Musk Wants to Blow Up the U.S. Political System
The tech billionaire has had it with the “Porky Pig Party," and he wants to replace it with something new.
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Well that's a tiny bit of good news. A Republican fake consumer group had sued to try and make an $8 billion federal subsidy program to help bring phone and broadband services to lower income homes and schools (USF) unconstitutional. RE:
Bluesky Social
Steve Vladeck (@stevevladeck.bsky.social)
Third #SCOTUS ruling is in the universal service fund (non-delegation) case. For a 6-3 majority (with Justices Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissenti...
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