Jessica Beck
Producer @bloomberg
Mishal Husain 🎧 Weekend
Past: 🎧 @guardian 📻 @NPR @BBC Heist w/ Michael Caine 🎧 @audible
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- Reposted by Jessica BeckPresident Trump’s aggressive actions against Fed Chair Jerome Powell might be backfiring. This week, Former Fed chair Janet Yellen joins Everybody’s Business @bloomberg.com to talk about the importance of an independent Central Bank. #jeromepowell #federalreserve #janetyellen #inflation
- Reposted by Jessica BeckPresident Trump is threatening criminal charges against the Fed and Jerome Powell. Why? And what’s really going on? #federalreserve #jeromepowell #fed
- Reposted by Jessica BeckAlso emerging -- X's engagement incentive model means there are currently a lot of pictures of conservatively clothed attractive women being posted clearly as "bait" to get other users to invoke Grok. These are all things Musk could shut off tonight.
- Reposted by Jessica BeckI've watched thousands of videos from the Jan. 6 riot as part of NPR's reporting and archive project on that day. Here are some of the lesser known videos that have really stuck with me. 🧵
- Reposted by Jessica BeckAfter this weekend's racist attacks on the EU, I've written a column about the moral obligation to stop posting on X. Oh no, wait, I wrote it *two years ago* when it was blatantly obvious what was going on and how it would get much much worse. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
- Reposted by Jessica BeckFrom the first @bloomberg.com story in Sept on Jeffrey Epstein's Yahoo emails we obtained A spreadsheet that reveals 2K gifts, luxury items & payments totaling $1.8M. Notations indicated they were intended for Epstein’s friends, biz associates & victims 1/ www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
- Reposted by Jessica BeckThe Motherland author talks about reclaiming Russia’s women, the “demented family heirlooms” of Soviet trauma, and the country’s relationship with its chief decision-maker.
- Reposted by Jessica Beck"We are ready to take over government. We have the teams, we have the plans — the first 100 hours, the first 100 days." María Corina Machado talks to @MishalHusain about life in hiding and fighting for democracy ➡️ Read the latest interview from The Mishal Husain Show here: bloom.bg/4ojMk1S
- Reposted by Jessica BeckCanadian Prime Minister Mark Carney Stands by His Climate Agenda
- Reposted by Jessica BeckThe Canadian prime minister talks about renegotiating trade deals under Trump, balancing climate goals with oil revenue and why Canada can’t afford to let Washington lead.
- Reposted by Jessica BeckIn the final episode, Marc Maron and former President Barack Obama spoke about the legacy of the podcast, politics and moving on. n.pr/3W5QNJ3
- Reposted by Jessica BeckBloomberg has launched The Mishal Husain Show, a new flagship global podcast as part of Bloomberg Weekend, the company’s weekly ideas and culture section. podcastingtoday.co.uk/mishal-husai...
- Reposted by Jessica Beck2025 Romanes Lecture: 'Empire, Identity and the Search' Award-winning journalist Mishal Husain will look at narratives of identity, both historical and contemporary, and portrayals of communities and conflicts, drawing on historical research and her experience of 30 years in the media.
- Reposted by Jessica BeckOn the morning of President Trump’s address to the United Nations General Assembly, Secretary of State Marco Rubio was interviewed back to back to back to back by Ainsley Erhardt, Brian Kilmeade, and Lawrence Jones; Tony Dokoupil; Craig Melvin; and George Stephanopoulos.
- Reposted by Jessica BeckIf Russell Vought had escaped your attention so far, my Businessweek colleague @chafkin.bsky.social wrote a great profile earlier this year that gets into what exactly his whole deal is. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
- Reposted by Jessica Beck"The right is so much better at storytelling." Playwright James Graham talks masculinity, Brexit and why the left keeps losing the narrative.
- Reposted by Jessica BeckBritish-Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah freed from prison www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
- Reposted by Jessica BeckFormer British Vogue editor Edward Enninful says he “never wanted Anna Wintour’s job.” Now he’s starting a new media venture with its own print magazine.
- Reposted by Jessica BeckNEW TEN-PART AUDIO SERIES about #PSYCHEDELICS Out now on BBC Sounds - and other podcast spaces. Co-written & presented by the beautifully curious @timhayward.bsky.social Production, sound design and mix by me. It's been a fascinating and challenging process to get here... I do hope you'll listen.
- Reposted by Jessica Beckwww.britishpodcastawards.com/nominees-2025 So excited that #Movers&Shakers has been shortlisted in the British Podcast Awards impact category
- Reposted by Jessica BeckThis will help you find a public radio or television station that stands to lose 50 percent or more of its revenue:
- Reposted by Jessica BeckNow folks this is good but the rate of signup is a bit slow compared to recent days - can we get to 87500 by 0820? petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
- Reposted by Jessica BeckThis is a super long video, but i'm really proud to have worked on it. It's @worksinprogress.bsky.social's new podcast Hard Drugs - and this episode is all about a potential breakthrough in HIV prevention - the new drug Lenacapavir. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVhi...
- Reposted by Jessica BeckSen. Alex Padilla, who was just forcibly removed from a DHS press conference, is the ranking member of Judiciary’s subcommittee on immigration, citizenship, and border safety, which has “oversight of federal agencies with citizenship, asylum, refugee, and immigration enforcement responsibilities.”
- Reposted by Jessica BeckTwo SCOTUS orders siding with the Trump administration re: DOGE this afternoon: - allowing Social Security Admin. to sharing records - stopping an order that would force the admin to comply with demands for info, docs, testimony on DOGE www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Jessica BeckHow do you run the finances of a country at war? Ukraine Finance Minister Sergii Marchenko is courting donors, reassuring investors and on-call 24/7
- Reposted by Jessica BeckThe bromance is not only over, it seems to be in complete meltdown. As Elon Musk and Donald Trump continue to sling accusations at each other, listen to @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social and @sbg1.bsky.social tells us where it all went wrong... www.theguardian.com/politics/aud...
- Reposted by Jessica BeckJesse Armstrong took on media moguls with ‘Succession.’ In an interview with Mishal Husain, he talks about his new movie ‘Mountainhead’ and why he decided to make a dark comedy about tech bros
- Reposted by Jessica BeckAt the Qatar Economic Forum, Elon Musk and Mishal Husain talk about the Tesla backlash, AI regulation and DOGE’s success rate
- Reposted by Jessica BeckFrom the 2008 Wall Street collapse to today's technofeudalism. Earlier today, in conversation with Bloomberg’s Mishal Husain at the 2025 Qatar Economic Forum www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1tP...
- Reposted by Jessica BeckI want to apologize to Mishal Husain, who apparently only recently came to Bloomberg from BBC, and who I very rudely referred to as simply "the interviewer" in this thread. Her Musk interview was by far the best I've ever seen on Bloomberg, and one of the better ones ever. I'll remember her name!
- Reposted by Jessica BeckListened to an interview of Musk on Bloomberg. The interviewer is fabulous- she knows her stuff and is subtly shaming him! Good news: asked about future political spending, he says he’s going to do a “lot less in the future,” he’s “done enough.”
- Reposted by Jessica BeckA federal judge has declared DOGE's takeover of the USIP—which included gifting itself the agency's $500 million headquarters for free—as "unlawful." Huge loss for DOGE, scathing ruling. www.wired.com/story/usip-d...
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- Reposted by Jessica BeckKashmir deserves a lasting peace, writes novelist Mirza Waheed, whose parents and grandparents lived through skirmishes in the same conflict between India and Pakistan
- Reposted by Jessica BeckRussia is targeting Ukrainian hotels to discourage journalists, report says www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
- Reposted by Jessica BeckFun news: Today Businessweek launched Everybody’s Business, a new weekly (chatty, fun) podcast about what’s going on with the economy. It’s hosted by @chafkin.bsky.social and @svaneksmith.bsky.social, and I’m on our first episode talking about tariffs and Christmas! www.bloomberg.com/podcasts/ser...
- Reposted by Jessica BeckEach time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water. A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
- Reposted by Jessica BeckThis is probably the biggest investigation* ever done on a house in the Omaze prize draw, taking in Napoleon III, odds of winning, manifestation meditations, some influencers, and a councillor buying tickets to win an ex-council house they sold. www.londoncentric.media/p/omaze-lond... *yes, I know
- Reposted by Jessica Beck✨ Behind the Scenes of Circuit 05 ✨ Here's the breakdown for prompt image selection across submissions. Which do you reckon was most popular: office workers, Amelia luggage, Small's nightclub, or ROAD CLOSED?
- Reposted by Jessica BeckHave America’s universities begun the fightback against Donald Trump? I talk to Harvard’s @ryanenos.bsky.social for the latest Politics Weekly America open.spotify.com/episode/6wOr...
- Reposted by Jessica BeckNew ELON, INC.! Featuring @danahull.bsky.social and @makenakelly.bsky.social, plus Bloomberg's Esha Dey and Joel Weber, talking DOGE, Tesla and more metaphorical taxes that are coming due for Elon www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Jessica BeckI'm glad we have this taken from an Australian academic, but I reckon it's far too soon to be definitive about the impact of tariffs on climate action. A thread 🧵 theconversation.com/what-donald-...
- Theatre friends — Calling all migrant artists! Our friends @voilafest are accepting applications for this year's festival from 3-23 November at 8 venues across London! Be part of the border-busting festival presenting panlingual shows! More info & how to apply here www.voilafestival.co.uk
- Reposted by Jessica BeckWe've been combing through the JFK files and talking to experts and in short, there's plenty of fascinating details and newly unredacted documents for those keen on the historical record. But none of them will satisfy the fantasies of conspiracy theorists. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Jessica BeckI have an essay in this week’s @bloomberg.com Weekend Edition about ticket stubs and memory and how the ways we catalog our own pasts have been changed by the internet. I’m really proud of it and I hope you’ll read it. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Jessica Beck"You will make a thousand moral decisions in the course of reporting and writing each story." niemanstoryboard.org/2025/03/07/t... #booksky #journalism #storytelling
- On today’s episode of #BigTake host @sarahholder.bsky.social talks with @akshatrathi.bsky.social about the Trump administration’s key climate actions, how they could impact investment in green energy & what it all means for the global fight to stop the warming of the planet. #Bloomberg 🎧
- Reposted by Jessica Beck🎙 China has set ambitious growth goals for its economy despite a crippling property crisis, mounting debt, weak consumer spending — and a trade war with the US. What's behind Beijing's plan? Find out on the Big Take Asia podcast: link.podtrac.com/73kxj8my
- Happy World Book Day! 📚#LePetitePrince #TheLittlePrince
- Reposted by Jessica Beck“Trump and Vance’s joint dressing down of Zelenskiy will go down in history — indeed, will live in infamy — as a shameful moment of American betrayal.” Read @andreaskluth.bsky.social on today’s Oval Office clash ⬇️
- Reposted by Jessica BeckJaya is right; the consumer system was developed in part to help Gilded Age robber barons divide and conquer the working class by convincing office workers (then a newly developing cohort) that they had more in common with elites than factory workers and more to gain in an alliance with bosses.
