Jeff Daniels broke out the acoustic guitar on MSNBC’s Deadline: White House yesterday to perform an original protest song that was inspired by the “No Kings” protests against Donald Trump. In introducing the track, Daniels said, “This is a song I wrote called ‘Crazy World,’ which is how I cope.” …
Read More »Jen Psaki on Kimmel, Kamala, and Trump's 'Incredibly Fragile Ego'
Few Americans have as comprehensive of a perspective on politics and media as Jen Psaki, the former White House press secretary under Joe Biden who is now the host of the The Briefing with Jen Psaki on MSNBC, as well as The Blueprint, a podcast focused on the rebuild of …
Read More »Kamala Harris Hails Jimmy Kimmel's Return: 'We Saw the Power of the People'
Kamala Harris praised Disney‘s decision to return Jimmy Kimmel to the air during an interview with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC last night. “Talk about the power being with the people and the people making that clear with their checkbooks as it relates to the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel,” Harris told …
Read More »Jen Psaki on Launching a Primetime TV Show During Trump's 'Dangerous' Presidency
Jen Psaki is launching a new MSNBC show Tuesday night, at a dark time: four-and-a-half months into Donald Trump’s second presidency. Some of the headlines leading up to the premiere of The Briefing have been about Joe Biden’s decline — and whether Psaki, who served as Biden’s White House press …
Read More »Right-Wingers Are Fantasizing About Elon Musk Buying MSNBC
In the two years since Elon Musk bought Twitter, he managed to kill its value, hemorrhage huge swaths of revenue, alienated its advertisers, and triggered a user exodus to alternative platforms. Today, users on X — the artist formerly known as Twitter — can expect to encounter a right-wing sinkhole …
Read More »Mehdi Hasan on Leaving MSNBC: 'A Lot of People Seem to Have Come With Me'
“I’ve lost track of all time, hours, days,” says Mehdi Hasan, explaining it has been “a manic six weeks.” The former MSNBC host launched his own media company, Zeteo, on April 15, and things are hectic — in a good way. After Hasan raised $4 million in seed money, Zeteo …
Read More »Ronna McDaniel's NBC News Tenure Is Over After Just Five Days
After just a few short days, and a whole lot of internal uproar, NBC News has backtracked on its decision to hire former RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel as a paid contributor. NBCUniversal News Group Chairman Cesar Conde made the announcement in a memo and said he had made the decision …
Read More »Trump Demands Government Punish MSNBC for Not Being Nice to Him
Former President Donald Trump took to Truth Social late Tuesday night to demand that the government punish MSNBC for their critical coverage of him. Trump wrote that “MSNBC (MSDNC) uses FREE government approved airwaves, and yet it is nothing but a 24 hour hit job on Donald J. Trump and …
Read More »The Afghanistan Girls Soccer Team's Daring Escape From the Taliban
I think the thing I love most about sports is that under the right set of unpredictable and unlikely circumstances, they can give you that ineffable feeling that anything is possible. Watching the Women’s World Cup this summer, I got that feeling a few times. First, there was the night …
Read More »John Leguizamo Calls Out Hollywood: You're Failing Us Latinos
It’s not that we Latin people are silent, it’s that we are muted mostly because there are not enough Latinx journalists to amplify what is happening in our communities. Look at New York City. We are equal to whites in population but you barely see any Latino names on mastheads …
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