Julia Ioffe
@juliaioffe
Founding Partner and Washington Correspondent, @PuckNews. All views my own. Void where prohibited. Also on the azure heavens app.
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Surprise, surprise! Trump's effort to ostensibly make the State Department leaner, meaner, and more efficient is only sowing chaos—like people getting pink slips addressed to "Dear N/A" and gutting the office responsible for passport supply. My latest. puck.news/inside-the-fal…
Here’s hoping
It would be a little funny if Paramount went through all this trouble and the FCC still didn’t approve the merger
If only Adam Schiff weren't just a random civilian but could actually, you know, help the public find out.
Just finished taping with Stephen Colbert who announced his show was cancelled. If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Show for political reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better.
The thing no one in media wants to say now, is CBS and ABC settling with Trump for stupid and winnable suits helps him in this very moment. He’s saying he’ll sue WSJ, and has “credibility” because he “beat” them all before. Because they settled. Their capitulation THEN makes him…
Racism. It’s called racism.
I’m not even sure how to characterize the mental defect that produces comments like this.
They’re gonna publish the drawing and MAGA’s gonna turn it into hats.
The Revolution always eats its own. Good luck to you, Skyler. (Also, "we have to regain control"? Whatever happened to democracy and the Constitution?)
It's undeniable that conservatives have surrendered aspects of moral clarity due to feeling that we have lost too much ground culturally, politically and socially, and that we have to regain control. We undoubtedly will suffer in the future for devotion to our current princes.
The better Post story's 3rd graf: "The announcement came days after Colbert spoke out against the $16 million paid earlier this month by Paramount, the parent company of CBS News, to settle a lawsuit" by Trump. Necessary journalistic context. washingtonpost.com/style/2025/07/…
In other news, took my son for his 9 month check-up the other day. The pediatrician asked if he had been vaccinated for covid. "We have only one vial left," she said. When I asked if the office would be getting more, she said, "I hope so?"
"Mr Murdoch said he would take care of it."
Trump announces on Truth Social that he will be suing: The Wall Street Journal, NewsCorp, and Rupert Murdoch,
One of the first things Vladimir Putin did on becoming president was take over NTV, the TV channel that hosted a satirical puppet show because he didn't like the Putin doll and how he was portrayed. He arrested NTV's owner and only released him when he signed the channel over.…
A hand-drawn happy 50th birthday greeting to Jeffrey Epstein by the very artistic Donald J. Trump. wsj.com/politics/trump…
The Pentagon will now be using a system that referred to itself as MechaHitler.
The Pentagon has signed on to use Grok, the AI chatbot built by Elon Musk's company xAI, as part of a new $200 million agreement. cbsn.ws/4eYRpbZ