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- I wasn’t going to quote Walter Cronkite twice in one week, but what the heck: “I think cameras ought to be everywhere the reporters are allowed to go. I think, furthermore, reporters and cameras ought to be everywhere that the Constitution says the public can go.” - Walter Cronkite
- DHS Secretary says filming ICE is illegal and amounts to doxxing. They’re absolutely wrong. Recording law enforcement in public spaces is protected by the First Amendment — and courts have affirmed that right time and again. Watch @freedom.press’s @trevortimm.bsky.social explain.
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- Yes, for sure. Because somehow we’re meant to pay for it — with our money, our lives, or both. If we go along with it.
- “A former staffer… said that, under Bezos’s guidance, the opinion section effectively began to mimic the National Review… ‘[It] will absolutely bring in the minimum number of subscribers possible, while also deliberately chasing away the ones who are bringing in the most traffic…’”
- Post layoffs include Caroline O’Donovan, who has covered Amazon; the Middle East bureau; the Ukraine bureau chief and correspondent; the sports dept and books section; Post Reports podcast suspended. Read Amos Barshad and @sidhubaba.bsky.social.
- Please don’t forget the new detention centers. Just thinking outside the box here.
- "This is a case study in near-instant, self-inflicted brand destruction." Former Washington Post editor Marty Baron dismembers Jeff Bezos.
- And not a victimless crime.
- If you can spare 16 minutes, here's a great discussion by @micahloewinger.bsky.social for @onthemedia.bsky.social with Craig Renaud, one of the creators of the "Armed Only With A Camera" documentary, highlighting the immense contribution (and all too often, sacrifice) of journalists in the field:
- "The U.S. is in the middle of a (mostly) self-induced, deliberate polycrisis... multiple, interconnected global crises that amplify each other’s effects... Ten years ago, any one of these crises would have been all people talked about. Now, most of them are being completely ignored" by Dem leaders.
- My latest at Dame. All of this is important. None of it is a distraction. Welcome to the wonderful world of a polycrisis where everyone is mentally and emotionally overwhelmed as our democracy experiences multiple organ failure. www.damemagazine.com/2026/02/04/a...
- "In a July 2019 text exchange between Citi bankers submitted as evidence in the court case, one banker asks the other 'does mgmt know Paul Barrett’s anchor client was Jeffrey Epstein?' The other banker responds: 'Is that important? Epstein seems like a stand up guy,' followed by a laughing emoji."
- ‘We made a lot of money working together’: Epstein’s in-house trader revealed ft.trib.al/5ijxIcK
- "At least 556 people have been killed since the ceasefire took effect on 10 October..."
- Israeli air strikes today in Gaza have killed 21 people, including three children. Despite a US-brokered truce entering its second phase last month, violence has continued in the Gaza Strip - at least 556 people have been killed since the ceasefire took effect on 10 October. jrnl.ie/6946687
- "The art market contains as much market as art, and the Epstein files show how a painting produced by a genius can be involved in a transaction overseen by a sex offender. From an expression of the soul to a line on a balance sheet." (Keywords: Paul Cezanne, Leon Black, Apollo Capital)...
- There's a Cézanne in the Epstein files. @joshspero.ft.com explains why it's there. as.ft.com/r/01fe04cd-e...
