@margotsusca
Assistant Professor of Journalism, Accountability & Democracy 📍American University, Washington, D.C. 📘Author “Hedged: How Private Investment Funds Helped Destroy American Newspapers and Undermine Democracy” 📜UMass, Columbia J-School, Florida State
SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.
My report:
Kristi Noem...welcome to Dancing with the Stars!
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ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
Mullin’s real national debut was challenging Teamsters president Sean O’Brien to a back alley brawl.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaRV...
Rural Juror
C’mon NYT! We all could use a break. 🐝
Enjoyed being a guest on @wbai.org’s Frontline Voices show discussing the sweeping democratic implications and cultural impacts of the $110 billion Paramount / Warner Bros. merger. Two of the country’s most important news channels—CBS and CNN—will become tools of the billionaire Ellison family.
My latest piece for @NewRepublic.com is on AI and war. It was painful to write. It might be painful to read.
newrepublic.com/article/2071...
At some point you wonder not just if insiders using information to place bets, but maybe also reshaping their advice to make those bets profitable.
A list of news outlets and social media sites whose billionaire owners, investors or parent companies also have U.S. government defense contracts:
Axios
CBS
NBC
The Washington Post
TikTok
YouTube
X
Soon: CNN
Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
The spiked James Talarico interview CBS corporate doesn’t want Americans to see.
youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A
Wow.
I talked to @aljazeera.com about the FCC. What a time to be finishing a book about media billionaires.
www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026...
All - after two years of transformation at The Washington Post, now is the right time for me to step aside. I want to thank Jeff Bezos for his support and leadership throughout my tenure as CEO and Publisher. The institution could not have a better owner. During my tenure, difficult decisions have been taken in order to ensure the sustainable future of The Post so it can for many years ahead publish high-quality nonpartisan news to millions of customers each day. With gratitude, Will
Breaking — Will Lewis out at the Washington Post. He just sent this email to staff (shared with me by staffer):
2026…so far.
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The morning after mass layoffs, The Washington Post publishes this as their lead editorial. The owner and publisher clearly have no idea why they are losing subscribers. Meanwhile they have destroyed a storied brand.
Support independent media. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
What institutions will?
Washington Post laid off its reporter covering Amazon. From @columjournreview.bsky.social
🎯 I’m finishing a book about this.
Framing Washington Post layoffs as anything other than a billionaire owner killing journalism to curry favor with the government he does business with is journalistic malpractice.
You think the guy who owns Amazon hasn’t figured out digital?
The manuscript is almost finished!
Democracy dies in the bright light of billionaire ownership.
I mean, it's a really weird time to have written a book about all of this but also feel like you just scratched the surface of the terribleness.
In a crushing blow to the Ellisons and Bari Weiss, Kid Rock's alternative Super Bowl halftime show will air on Rumble and OAN, not CBS.
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
W.H.A.T. A. B.U.R.N.!
The city of Minneapolis and its residents were formally nominated for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize.
Important reporting from Minnesota Public Radio which was impacted by Trump’s funding cuts last year.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
