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Media reporter and author of upcoming Rupert Murdoch biography. TheMediaMix.substack.com
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Kind, decent, and compassionate, Pope Francis was badly out of step with contemporary western culture.

Pope Francis lifted the world as he led the Church with his profound moral voice. As he returns to God, may his call to humility and concern for the least among us continue to resound.

The pope was a strong advocate for the poor and the environment and a towering figure on the world stage, addressing not just Catholics but the men and women of our time.

so unbelievably depressed. It was hours and hours of work to calculate the tariff levels by product. Wanted to take my time to get it right. Now it’s all worthless information. “Oh here’s what the fake tariffs fake paused for fake 90 days might do” nobody is going to care and I missed my deadline

We will make national parks and historic sites free for all Canadians this upcoming summer.

nypost.com/2025/04/05/o...

And Printemps just opened in New York

This was….five months ago

GREAT news everyone! The Onion is hiring! For a bunch of new positions. Sports Editor (yes, we're bringing it back): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the... Entertainment Editor (going harder here too): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the... And a Staff Writer (!): jobs.gusto.com/postings/the... Apply or die!

Ossoff: This was a huge a mistake Ratcliffe: No Ossoff: This is an embarrassment. We will get the full transcript of this chain and your testimony will be measured carefully against its content

Gabbard: someone with knowledge of intelligence please help me classify this my family is starving

This is the first time Bluesky has truly felt like old Twitter, in that my entire feed is just increasingly esoteric jokes about a single news event (new phone, houthis?)

There is no money in speaking truth to power.

CBS News pulls job offer from a TV producer over Trump posting. www.themediamix.co/p/cbs-news-p...

CBS News pulls job offer from a TV producer over Trump posting. www.themediamix.co/p/cbs-news-p...

Who is going to die in White Lotus?

Sanders: In our form a government, unless you are a coward, you don’t sue the media because they report on things you don’t like.

Every American has the right to know what DOGE is doing with their personal information. I submitted a Privacy Act request to DOGE, demanding they tell me why they have my Social Security number and direct deposit information.

The UK would now want to rejoin the EU by 55% to 33% Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.

Schoolchildren are routinely slaughtered by AR-15s. Hundreds die. [*crickets* "Thoughts and prayers" *crickets*] A couple unoccupied cars are set on fire. No one is hurt. ["THIS HORROR WILL NOT STAND!!! We MUST act to STOP it from ever happening AGAIN!!!!" We will pass new LAWS BANNING IT!!!]

One Russian newspaper today: “America now has more in common with Russia than Washington does with Brussels or with Kyiv.” #ReadingRussia

"More than 600 Iron Range steelworkers out of work as auto industry cuts orders because of tariffs"

BREAKING: A federal judge in Maryland has just barred DOGE from accessing Social Security, saying the group is on a "fishing expedition" that jeopardizes people's personal data. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Allowing AI companies to steal everything that has ever been produced by the news industry so that they can then compete with publishers using their own stuff is not how capitalism works. open.substack.com/pub/pressgaz...

Thousands and thousands and thousands of people are actually protesting Trump. Everywhere. www.usnews.com/news/nationa...

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AI getting the headline summary wrong

AI headline summaries getting it wrong.

BREAKING: Large Anti-Trump protests in Greenland outside the U.S. embassy in Nuuk.

Capital is flowing from the U.S. to Europe. 🇩🇪 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 @barchart.com

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Are things getting worse by the day or is it just me?https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/technology/elon-musk-x-post-hitler-stalin-mao.html

Matthew Macfadyen to play George Smiley in new John le Carré TV show

We've been reporting on Musk's Digital Coup since its earliest days. We spoke to more than 150 federal employees across to put together this massive feature detailing DOGE's first six weeks: @wired.com www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

Fox Business: "The S&P appears to be about to close in correction territory."

notable that this a topic on Newsmax

Spotify takes down Andrew Tate ‘pimping’ podcast after complaints

“This market is just blatantly sick and tired of the back and forth on trade policy,” Art Hogan, chief market strategist at B. Riley Wealth Management, told CNN’s Matt Egan.

Agencies from Social Security to the IRS store sensitive data on millions of Americans. Here's what the government knows about us – and what's at risk as DOGE seeks access to the data.

There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security. Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."

Happy 94th Birthday Rupert Murdoch. Is Rupert sick of Trump? WSJ’s Gerard Baker pondered today on the Senators who refuse to challenge Trump on “the wanton vandalism to the country they were elected to protect.” More on this below. #Trump #Fox #Murdoch www.themediamix.co/p/happy-94th...

In today’s WSJ scorn on Senators who won’t speak out on Trump. My story on how the relationship is fracturing. open.substack.com/pub/themedia...

* ONTARIO PREMIER SAYS 'IF THE UNITED STATES ESCALATES, I WILL NOT HESITATE TO SHUT THE ELECTRICITY OFF COMPLETELY' @reuters.com

I’ve seen this in TikTok videos from other countries as well. An Australian guy recently went down the drinks aisle to explain which products to avoid because they were American. It’s great to see.

WaPo still turning in great reporting. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...