#NottheOnion: This week, John Bolton claimed—apparently without challenge—that the U.S.’s weakened position on the global stage is due to reduced defense spending. www.dailycamera.com/2026/04/14/c...

Exclusive | Inside Bari Weiss’s shaky, arms-length relationship with the president of CBS News: ‘Odd couple’ CBS News’ viewership is at an all-time low as editor in chief Bari Weiss’ and the network’s president Tom Cibrowski have displayed jarringly different visions for how to revamp th…

"CBS News’ viewership is at an all-time low"

That's the headline 7 months into Bari Weiss' takeover of CBS News. The internal politics are a sideshow.

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4/ while ignoring the mountains of evidence that it has failed, even as it continues to ravage those same communities.

3/ —and make a broader point: the drug war wouldn’t be possible if outlets like Fox News didn’t criminalize and dehumanize Black communities and communities of color across the country,

2/ So I wanted to share a bit of what they missed in their coverage—

1/ Fox News picked up my story in Baltimore Beat about how none of the $35 million Baltimore has received for its cannabis reparations fund has made it into the communities that most need it—the communities it was designed to help.

What Do Authoritarians Fear Most? People Who Stick Up for Each Other. The most reliable form of resilience is not individual wealth or distant institutions, but solidarity.

The most reliable form of resilience is not individual wealth or distant institutions, but solidarity.

Baltimore has received more than $35 million in cannabis reparations money, but none of it has reached residents In the three years since Maryland legalized recreational cannabis, Baltimore has received more than $35 million in tax revenue to reinvest in communities devastated by the War on Drugs. To date, not a...

Read the full @baltimorebeat.bsky.social story here: baltimorebeat.com/baltimore-ha...

Things I didn’t have on my bingo card: Fox News citing my @baltimorebeat.bsky.social reporting on Baltimore’s reparations fund. Their agenda is to tear down a Black city, but they did a decent job educating their readers about the need for reparations for the war on drugs.

Washington Post layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, preliminary Guild data shows "We cannot ignore what this means for equity, representation, and the future of this organization."

The @washingtonpost.com layoffs disproportionately affected union members of color, per data from the @postguild.bsky.social.

50% of Hispanic/Latino guild members,​ 45% of Black members, and​ 43% of Asian members were laid off, compared to 37% of white members.

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These purely defensive weapons are actually deescalatory and it is bigoted to oppose the transfer of them. Do you want more Iranian civilians to die? Do you think more Iranian civilians dying will lead to Iran being less aggressive? Opposing this actually hurts Israelis.

Baltimore has received more than $35 million in cannabis reparations money, but none of it has reached residents In the three years since Maryland legalized recreational cannabis, Baltimore has received more than $35 million in tax revenue to reinvest in communities devastated by the War on Drugs. To date, not…

Baltimore has received more than $35 million in cannabis reparations money, but none of it has reached residents baltimorebeat.com/baltimore-ha...

this #localnewsday, i'm grateful that @objectivejournos.bsky.social can amplify the work of local newsrooms publishing strong accountability reporting that makes journalism better — we recently repubbed this story from @baltimorebeat.bsky.social in that vein: objectivejournalism.org/2026/04/blac...

i think vance’s great asset is that the press likes him and sees him as one of their own

Despite Apocalyptic Warnings, California Fast Food Wage Hike Didn’t Kill Jobs UC Berkeley study finds employment held steady — and only pennies were added to menu prices.

So it turns out paying people a living wage doesn’t collapse the economy; it’s almost like the rich have been lying to us to maintain their power over our lives.

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Black journalists at Baltimore CBS station call for accountability over alleged discrimination Black journalists have been especially impacted by industry shifts, raising concerns about local journalism's future in majority-Black cities like Baltimore.

Grateful to @objectivejournos.bsky.social to sharing this piece in their newsletter. I was on my way to share it with them and saw they already shared on their newsletter!

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CSU lecturer acquitted Government said he assaulted immigration agent

Cal State Channel Islands philosophy lecturer Jonathan Caravello has just been ACQUITTED of assaulting ICE/CBP last summer while protesting a brutal Ventura County cannabis farm raid! His defense argued he threw a tear gas canister away to protect protesters. The jury acquitted him in two hours.

Trump was elected to wipe the trauma of the first black president from American history, a task which included scrapping the nuclear deal that had the US in a much better strategic position than before this needless, unconstitutional war of choice against Iran

Pet your dogs, everyone, and appreciate that they have no idea what is happening in this fucked up world.

Port Washington passes TIF referendum proposed by data center skeptics A Port Washington referendum that sprung from data center pushback, asking whether voters should approve major public financing, succeeded on April 7.

a small town in wisconsin is now one of the first municipalities to pass an anti-data center referendum at the ballot box letting them have the power to stop future projects

Sharing this 2020 project again after a USC student was shot and blinded by Homeland Security agent, according to accounts.

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Fantastic, glad to see your priorities are in the right place, Mr. Speaker, and I hope you’re enjoying your vacation while the President is threatening to kill an entire civilization.

Holy fucking shit it's real lol

Olivia Reingold of the Free Press asks Abdul El-Sayed "does Israel have a right to exist as a Jewish state?"

AES: "What do you mean by a Jewish state?" [...] "If you can't define the question, I'm not gonna answer it.

Boise took its Pride flag down. But new art has popped up at City Hall. What it cost “The flag is not our only form of expression,” a Council Member previously said.

The famous Andor line is that "tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle." Here is a perfect example of that through malicious compliance: Idaho forced the city of Boise to remove its Pride flags. So the city painted rainbows everywhere else.

So...um... I can't be the only person thinking

"He's threatening genocide"

WTF???

Remove him before he kills more people!!!

Thank god. Christ.

But seriously folks. We cannot continue to live like this.

Eyewitness video from the scene of today's ICE shooting in California appears to (you guessed it) contradict officials' claims that the man "weaponized" his vehicle. The car is reversing and the agents appear to be well clear of it.

@aoc.bsky.social spitting truthbombs here.

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Homeland TV show poster features white woman in red hood surrounded by the backs of women in black abayas

homeland TV poster of blonde woman in front of middle eastern mosaic motif in American flag colors, stars and stripes

blonde woman in a blue hijab surrounded by two white men

I keep thinking of how for most Americans, the media they consume depicts the "Middle East" as the enemy