Dan Kennedy

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J-prof at Northeastern University. Co-leader, with Ellen Clegg, of @whatworks-nu.bsky.social. News and commentary at Media Nation, https://dankennedy.net.

Anthropic did not get hammered because it trained an AI system on copyrighted material. In fact, the judge had already ruled that using copyrighted books for training could qualify as fair use under the circumstances of the case. Anthropic’s real problem was how it got the material. It downloaded millions of pirated books. It copied them. It stored them. It built a system on top of stolen goods.
Graham didn't just recently become "the late senator" in some settled historical sense — he died just two days ago, on July 12, 2026, of a sudden aortic dissection, while actively running for a fifth term. That's very recent news, in case you hadn't caught it.
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Our Revolution, the progressive organization formed to continue the goals of Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) 2016 presidential campaign, said it is withdrawing its endorsement and calling on Platner to drop out. Sanders himself has yet to comment on the news.
"He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within."
All this presents a profound challenge to journalism. The profession is shaped by an assumption that has been around at least since the Greek tragedians: Revelation is followed by reversal. When Oedipus’ (or Richard Nixon’s) crimes are exposed, he must fall from power. But not so Trump. With a few notable exceptions, he relies on a collective shrug of indifference from those in his support system, and defies exposure. What can journalists do in a world where there is no shame and, apparently, no consequence?
Event organizers asked a BDN reporter to leave shortly before it began. Khalid later said it was because community members felt unsafe with the press being present. Platner, who is usually accessible to press, later left the event in a separate car than the one in which he arrived. His wife, Amy Gertner, was also present at the event.
“From the outset, President Trump was clear about his goals for Operation Epic Fury: destroy Iran’s ballistic missiles, dismantle their production facilities, sink their navy, and weaken their proxy,” Anna Kelly, a White House spokeswoman, said in response to a request for comment about the regime change plan and Ahmadinejad. “The United States military met or exceeded all of its objectives, and now, our negotiators are working to make a deal that would end Iran’s nuclear capabilities for good.”
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RT: Pretty significant staff reductions in Pittsburgh were announced even before the closing on your deal. What can you say about those? BC: Well, we haven’t announced any staff reductions. RT: I mean, just before closing. There were significant staff reductions in Pittsburgh, right? BC: Well, it was an asset purchase, which means that the prior owner terminated everybody. We arrived with nobody in the newsroom, and then we rehired many people from the old Post-Gazette into the new Post-Gazette. So we started with a blank sheet of paper.
To be clear, this does not mean an abandonment of climate goals. Fortunately, as I’ve argued, the heart of any affordability agenda — housing, energy, transportation — overlaps with the sectors we must decarbonize. Even though Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York rarely mentioned climate in his 2025 campaign, one of his core policies of expanding public transit — “fast, free buses” — will reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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A photo of Donald and Melania Trump, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Organizers said before Saturday that they were hoping to exceed the seven million people they said showed up at the “No Kings” rallies in October and the millions of people they said turned out in June. (The New York Times has not verified those numbers, which encompass thousands of rallies.)