This piece from @hayesbrown.bsky.social MSNBC is one of the best media analysis I've read this year on the FISA 702 debate
Unpacks the complex political dynamics & policy issues very well. If you want to know why Congress is currently in FISA-chaos this is must-read
msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…

For ⁦Foreign Policy⁩ I wrote about how focus on Netanyahu is a convenient distraction from the fact that the war in Gaza is not Netanyahu’s war, it is Israel’s war.
foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/02/net…

TONIGHT AT 8: It's no debate who takes home tonight's #WorstOfTheWeek ; Donald Trump hawking $60 MAGA-style Bibles. But is it his worst grift yet? Molly Jong-Fast and @hayesbrown.bsky.social join Ayman to discuss.

ive thought about it a lot and i think that if you are the ceo of company that makes airplanes and you are ousted due to safety concerns, you should have to ride down one of the inflatable airplane slides looking sad and embarrassed in your suit while we all watch

Gosh. I didn't think this was very likely on Friday.

While we can parse the redrafting of OP1, my main takeaway is that the U.S. genuinely did want some sort of #UNSC action at this point - even if it abstained -- which will not make Israel very happy.

'Every modern famine — be it an act of subjugation against an obstinate population in an empire, an act of cruel indifference from a colonizer toward its colony, or the decision to forge swords instead of plowshares — is a policy choice.' msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-…

Also joining #TheWeekend today👇 
Rep. Gregory Meeks 
Andrew Desiderio 
Molly Jong-Fast 
@hayesbrown.bsky.social 
NCNW Headquarters Pres. Shavon Arline-Bradley   
Marianna Sotomayor 
Chuck Rosenberg

#UNSC voting on #US draft text on #Gaza :
'Determines the imperative of an immediate & sustained ceasefire'

Boldfaced wording was 1 reason it failed, as it gives Israel leeway. Doesn't 'call for' or 'demand' a ceasefire

I'm sure we've thought of this already, but what if the Princess was a mermaid turned human and she somehow violated the contract that made this possible and her sea witch nemesis has banished her back to the water?

NEWS: Embattled Senator Bob Menendez is now eyeing a run for his New Jersey Senate seat as an INDEPENDENT, two sources who speak with him directly tell Carol Lee Kate Santaliz and me.

One reason? His legal bills are expensive, & Menendez can fundraise as a candidate.

STORY TK

The second sentence of Hur’s report outlining his reasons for not charging Biden is: “We would reach the same conclusion even if Department of Justice policy did not foreclose criminal charges against a sitting president.”

I’m confused about the boy math going on here. Woman + kitchen - job + job / SOTU = housewife?

NEWS: Prosecutors in Arizona have sharply accelerated their investigation into Trump’s 2020 election efforts, using a grand jury and issuing a round of subpoenas in recent weeks. Charging decisions seem close.

Details w/ Betsy Woodruff Swan

politico.com/news/2024/03/0…

Two days ago, Jan Egeland Jan Egeland was in Gaza and warned that “the chaos around the aid… is becoming worse and worse because there's so little aid coming in… I'm pretty shaken actually from what I saw.”

Now, over 100 killed in exactly the circumstances he feared.

We need more celeb gossip that feels like a Nancy Meyers movie

broke this story and still got laid off, the media industry is ruthless

this is such a perfect encapsulation of why media companies are failing right now - they’re looking to vanity metrics divorced from reality to solve immediate business challenges. to suggest that individual reporters be responsible for repeat user site visits is a joke

'The lawyers [incl. Sidney Powell & Lin Wood] were ordered to pay legal fees, undertake new legal training and were referred to their respective state bar associations for any disciplinary procedures.'

nbcnews.com/politics/supre… via @nbcnews

A few weeks ago I looked into why The Hairpin got turned into a weird AI clickbait farm. Turns out, it was the tip of the iceberg—the same guy owns the domains of thousands of other sites, including prominent pro-democracy Hong Kong newspaper Apple Daily: wired.com/story/confessi…