martino mazzonis @minomazz.bsky.social

Giornalista/autore, USA e tutto il resto (Manifesto, Espresso, l'Essenziale, Valigia Blu, Aspenia, ecc). My daughter is from N. Jersey, you don't mess with her

[martino mazzonis @minomazz.bsky.social @minomazz]

Il nostro doc sulla homelessness negli USA è su Raiplay anche in V.O. Ospite Tom Waits

Our Doc on homelessness in the southern states is on the public TV site (need Vpn). Tom Waits as special guest, did not sing in public for a while, he did for us.

https://t.co/LKnLq7ltvk

[martino mazzonis @minomazz.bsky.social @minomazz]

Il controllo degli alleati dell'ammiistrazione in carica sui media è semre più evidente: ieri il terzo conduttore di 60 minutes è stato licenziato per aver protestato contro la censura e il controllo politico dei programmi

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[martino mazzonis @minomazz.bsky.social @minomazz]

@ianbremmer @ezraklein what you describe in the first part where you say "the US middleclass is richer and nonetheless" is the end of what one would call the socialdemocratic pact in Europe in the shape taken in the US after 1929 (FDR): less State, less society, less collective action and actors.

[martino mazzonis @minomazz.bsky.social @minomazz]

@dv_htdcanbf la linea blu però è il mercato azionario senza la AI, entrambi flettono allo stesso modo. La linea blu resta sotto lo 0 tutto il tempo

[martino mazzonis @minomazz.bsky.social @minomazz]

Il mercato azionario, con e senza AI

[Jim Bianco @biancoresearch]

1/2

Yesterday, I posted the chart below, which shows that the entire "war rally" in the stock market has been driven by AI. Take out AI, and the rest of the stock market has done little since gasoline started soaring (blue).

Is this a bubble? Probably. But the more important question, when in the "bubble cycle" are we, rather than just a proclamation that there is one?

Remember that bubbles can be both the best time to make a lot of money and the hardest time to hold on to that money (when they pop).

Using the internet bubble as a benchmark:

Is today more like Dec 5, 1996, when Greenspan warned of "irrational exuberance"? If so, and you were worried about it popping on this date, you missed a nearly 300% rally in the NASDAQ over the next few years.

Or is it like March 2000, and not worrying about it, exposes you to a NASDAQ correction of almost 80% over the next few years?

As I explain in the repost below, it might be closer to 1997. I argue it is NOT overdone and explain why the massive capex spending makes sense.

[martino mazzonis @minomazz.bsky.social @minomazz]

Sul @Corriere intervisto Aldon Morris, sociologo nero che racconta del Mississippi degli anni '50 e di come si rischi di tornare a prima del movimento per i diritti civili

https://t.co/c5wbVNZcWV

[Tom Burgis @tomburgis]

A little-known American company is on the brink of $1bn in Balkans energy contracts including building a new gas pipeline. It has no record of such huge infrastructure projects. What it does have is connections to Donald Trump. https://t.co/ZlsoaTKwua

[Ishaan Tharoor @ishaantharoor]

Wow. @derspiegel has made millions of Nazi party membership cards searchable so Germans can look up their ancestors and get a glimpse of what they were doing under Hitler

[martino mazzonis @minomazz.bsky.social @minomazz]

Vero, ma l'amministrazione Biden non ha riaperto al dialogo, impaurita dalla propria ombra (come con Gaza) e con tutte le energie spese a pensare a Ucraina e Cina

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Jake Sullivan on Iran:

It all just comes back to an imperfect but basically effective nuclear deal.

Every day that Trump doesn't go for that deal is another day we all suffer.

It's another day where America loses, where Iran gains, and it is just putting off, frankly, the inevitable.

[martino mazzonis @minomazz.bsky.social @minomazz]

@murielllo @marioricciard18 di questi elettori del Texas, che però non votano un nazista, ma solo un bandito (cosa che è capitata qui e la anche in Italia)

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Israeli minister Ben Gvir says Trump's deal with Iran is "bad for Israel" and that Israel will not "allow" it.

Let that sink in.

And remember this clip next time someone claims that a factual conversation about the Israeli government's influence in DC is off-limits...

[martino mazzonis @minomazz.bsky.social @minomazz]

Dear @FT a hundred euros more for a subscription is too much (more than one euro a day, almost as if it was on paper) I value your work and quality, but this is really a lot.

[martino mazzonis @minomazz.bsky.social @minomazz]

Peter Thiel moves family to Javier Milei’s libertarian Argentina https://t.co/0RCPbNM9JM via @ft

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Nothing was accomplished by Operation Epic Fury except putting the IRGC in charge of Iran and the Strait of Hormuz.

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

The leaders, especially those of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Pakistan who don't have formal diplomatic relations with Israel, were surprised by Trump's request. "There was silence on the line and Trump joked and asked if they are still there," one of the U.S. officials said

[Mario Ricciardi @marioricciard18]

Da leggere il pezzo segnalato da @AaronBastani (thanks Aaron). Queste politiche scellerate sono il risultato del processo di “cattura” dello Stato di cui scrivo oggi su @ilmanifesto

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

The mystery of Kaja Kallas.
It is almost impossible that somebody would be so much lacking in self-awareness & yet to have come to such an important political position which--however you fashion it--requires some ability.
If Ms Kallas gives the main ideas to her speechwriters, and they follow them, it is remarkable that she would know so little of history. Yet she went through real schools & her family was well-off and educated. Thus even at home she must have learned something.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Amazon is worth $2 trillion. But it didn't deign to pay the millions of dollars it racked up in unpaid fines as its’ trucks illegally polluted our air and forced New Yorkers to breathe in their exhaust. 

We collected every dollar they owe the people of this city — and will continue to hold them accountable. In New York, corporations are held to the same standard as everyone else. 

No company — no matter how large or powerful — is above the law.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the DHS Inspector General just opened an audit into a $38 billion warehouse-to-detention scheme that Kristi Noem and her top adviser Corey Lewandowski rammed through.

ICE bought 11 vacant warehouses in a matter of months, paying 11 to 13 percent above market value.

The properties weren’t even zoned for detention. No working plumbing for thousands of detainees. But Noem and Lewandowski pressured ICE to open them by year’s end anyway.

The result? At least $1 billion already spent on nine facilities. Nearly 50 contractors paid $1.7 billion since Trump took office.

Companies with zero immigration detention experience suddenly winning massive federal contracts.

One firm that didn’t even exist until June 2024 got a $6 million DHS contract this January.

Noem is gone.

Lewandowski is gone.

But the bill is still landing on the taxpayer, and the IG investigation is just getting started.

Accountability cannot end when the perpetrators walk out the door.

Every contract needs scrutiny.

Every dollar needs to be traced.

Every official who steered money to inexperienced contractors needs to answer under oath.
https://t.co/GGvxSniGqM

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Trump deleted this post after Ankara told its counterparts that Erdogan never said any such thing about him.

[Mario Ricciardi @marioricciard18]

Oggi su @ilmanifesto.