Marcus Baram
@mbaram
Journalist: Capital & Main, Crain Currency + Author: Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man + Skeptic + Dad. (The views expressed here are personal.)
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"Gabbard’s accusations don’t just rewrite the facts—they gaslight an entire nation. They imply the Russian attack on our electoral system was either fabricated or exaggerated, despite overwhelming bipartisan agreement it was real, sustained + effective" mediaite.com/opinion/tulsi-…
Israeli journalist @HavivRettigGur: After 22 months of false or misleading reports, Gaza is now actually approaching catastrophic levels of hunger. “We are very close to real, actual, desperate hunger in Gaza… It's hard to convince Israelis of that because literally everything…
Absolutely pitiful
Breaking News: Columbia University will pay a $200 million fine to settle a dispute with the Trump administration and restore research funding to the school. nyti.ms/4m2WNNE
A Latino family in LA sued over an illegal eviction. The landlord's lawyer, Rod Fehlman, warned that they'd "likely be picked up by ICE and deported prior to trial thanks to all the good work the Trump administration has done." The kicker? Everyone in the family is a US citizen.
.@JoshShapiroPA chides @ZohranKMamdani for not condemning other people’s antisemitism: “He left open far too much space for extremists to either use his words or for him to not condemn the words of extremists that said some blatantly antisemitic things.” jewishinsider.com/2025/07/josh-s…
Sorry, what? x.com/FirstSquawk/st…
U.S. COMMERCE SECRETARY LUTNICK SAID HE BELIEVES THE TIKTOK SALE WILL GO THROUGH AND THAT THE U.S. WILL END UP PURCHASING THE PLATFORM.
“With support from everyday voters hitting historic lows, congressional Democrats are turning more than ever to Washington lobbyists to fund their campaigns.”
New @Sludge: House Dems raked in a record amount of bundled donations from lobbyists for fossil fuels, Big Pharma, crypto, and Trump-tied defense contractors. readsludge.com/2025/07/22/whi…
Jon Stewart torched media executives for bowing to Trump—then handed LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong, one of the worst offenders, an unchallenging interview minutes later, notes @oliverdarcy status.news/p/jon-stewart-…
“Israel’s actions are undeniably criminal, but Hamas’s poor judgment and failure to account for the war’s aftermath have also contributed significantly to this disaster,” Rami said.
Hamas extorted money and directed food aid to cadres while ordinary Gazans went hungry - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/…
“No administration previously has so aggressively rolled back the basic protections that help people who are being harmed in their community,” one HUD official said about the administration’s plans to drop the yearslong housing discrimination cases. propublica.org/article/trump-…
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Today would have been my dad’s 74th birthday. This season carries gravity. Father’s Day, his birthday, and the anniversary of his passing all fall within 60 days. For me, grief has no straight path. It revisits, reshapes, and rises when I least expect it. But alongside it…
Border Patrol agents attacked a skater kid at an anti-ICE protests with dozens of munitions last month. Video of the confrontation went viral, but his take on the event went unshared. Until now. My latest for @capitalandmain
Federal housing officials spent years investigating cities for putting industrial plants and unwanted facilities in poor, nonwhite neighborhoods. Now, under Trump, the agency plans to drop the cases whatimreading.net/p/trump-admini…
"Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs" according to a {Human Rights Watch} report." theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
"We have a newspaper that's printed once a week, so without the radio station, we're kind of in the blind here, locally." NPR's Frank Langfitt's richly observed story on Allegheny Mountain Radio - which relies heavily on federal $. (Not an NPR station) npr.org/2025/07/20/nx-…
"We have to go way beyond empathy in terms of how we respond to the truths in this book. The problem of homelessness is not about a lack of empathy. It's about power and who controls access to the basic necessities we all need." @curaffairs on THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US:
New: I teamed up with @elenalingshao and @nytgraphics to map more than 100 public TV and radio stations that are at risk of closing as a result of tonight's vote: nytimes.com/interactive/20… This is a time bomb that will go off in the fall, when the last federal grants run out.
Of course the wimps at the @nypost didn’t have the guts to run the story from their sister publication, running this BS instead…
Really really curious how Fox News and NY Post will handle this story.