Podcast appearances and mentions of Jim VandeHei

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Smart Brevity by Jim VandeHei & Mike Alen - Book Summary

I listened with an open mind to this illuminating interview between Bari Weiss at the Free Press and Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, two of the founders of Axios, about how the public lost trust in the media.As we watch them scramble to explain why they covered up Joe Biden's cognitive decline, what we see instead of an apology is an excuse.There has never been any real reckoning of what happened to them after Trump won in 2016, all through his first term, especially in 2020, when they lost much of the public's trust for good.The legacy media took a side, but worse, they positioned themselves as superior to the other side, which meant that not only weren't they chasing the story, but they weren't paying attention to those who were.The Biden/Trump debate was Toto pulling back the curtain and exposing the Wizard of Oz. There was not much they could do after that. The jig was up.It didn't break news for anyone who got their news outside the bubble, however. There, the media is endlessly mocked for its pandering, weakness, and propaganda.How it StartedHow it's going:The opening paragraphs:The collective post-debate gloating from conservatives is in full swing this week, as Democrats reckon with the ongoing political fallout. But the immediate response on the right has focused less on the fact of Biden's potential mental decline than on alleging that Democrats and the mainstream press colluded to hide it.That's the kinder, gentler explanation. The alternative is that they are SO BAD at their jobs, such terrible reporters, so in the tank for one political party that they couldn't see what was right in front of them for four years. Pick one.It's hard to sympathize when so many of us were left twisting in the wind, dealing with major issues in American life, from COVID to the protests to lockdowns to the woke madness in our schools. We needed a legacy press that would tell us the truth, not do the bidding of one political party.True, they could have lost their jobs for it. That happened everywhere. Reporters lost their jobs for a headline, “Buildings Matter Too.” Donald McNeil lost his job at the New York Times because some overly fragile brat tattled on him and accused him of being a racist. But so what? Someone had to stand up for objectivity and journalism, didn't they?What Happened to MeThe mania around race and racism was on a low simmer after Trump won the first time. Cancel culture was in full swing. We'd already gone through the first wave of a mass hysteria episode around the Me Too movement. But none of that could compare to what happened to us when we were all locked down from COVID and the George Floyd video hit the internet.It was seen by millions all over the world within minutes. Right after the video hit, a fake image of Derek Chauvin wearing a “Make America White Again” MAGA hat also made the rounds, driving up the rage meter just before the largest protest in American history erupted on the streets, breaking lockdowns and forcing the Left to pivot from social distancing to masks.It would be days before the story of the fake photo was corrected. Probably even now, many still believe it was real. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit sashastone.substack.com/subscribe

School Marketing Journal with Brad Entwistle and Andrew Sculthorpe   Parents are overwhelmed. Attention spans are shrinking. Yet schools keep sending newsletters and emails that are long, complex and unclear. At imageseven, we've seen communication cut-through deteriorate across the board. If they don't adapt, schools risk becoming irrelevant to the very families they're trying to engage. This episode, we explore a communication framework that helps Heads lead with clarity.   Get in touch at smj@imageseven.com.au   Episode links:          Smart Brevity – Book          Axios newsletters          Jim VandeHei at TEDxOshkosh

Depending on who you talk to, Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen are either the swampiest of swamp creatures—the epitome of all that is wrong with political journalism—or, alternatively, two of the most interesting, successful entrepreneurs in the new media landscape. In 2006, VandeHei left The Washington Post to co-found Politico, where he was executive editor. His first hire was Mike Allen, then of Time magazine. Politico turned into a massive hit, with Allen as its star writer. During the Obama years, Allen was so well-sourced that he became, in the words of Mark Leibovich at The New York Times, “the man the White House wakes up to.” But then, in 2017, Mike and Jim decided to start something new—a website called Axios, which, in the beginning, was really a newsletter Mike wrote every day. They delivered news straight to your inbox and kept it short, snappy, and heavy on emojis. They called it “smart brevity.” Their emails are filled with invocations to “go deeper” and “be smarter.” And at the end of the day, they send you an email called “Finish Line” that's essentially life advice for young professionals on the make. A recent one advised millennials nearing middle age to begin something new, like ice skating, while another advised readers to ditch Google Maps to keep their brains sharp. It's like MAHA for D.C.'s professional-managerial class. They were, in a sense, pioneers of a new kind of online journalism. Long before seemingly everyone had a Substack, they were using one of the oldest internet applications—email—to get news to subscribers. So Mike and Jim are big deals in journalism and have been for a long time. But in case you haven't noticed, and we don't know how you would have missed this if you listen to this show, journalism is in deep trouble. This is in large part because Americans have lost faith in journalists. According to Gallup, roughly two-thirds of Americans had a great deal of faith in the news media in 1970. Today, only 31 percent of Americans say the same—while 36 percent say they have no faith in the news media at all. How can that trust be rebuilt? Are we destined to live in a world of different realities and alternative facts? Should the mainstream media apologize for all they have ignored or covered up or gotten wrong over the past few years? To boil it all down: Does real, honest journalism have a future in America? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Edelman, CEO of Edelman, hosts Jim VandeHei, CEO and C-Founder of Axios, and interviews him about his book, ‘Just the Good Stuff' and how the media and business leaders can build trust.  First aired in May 2024.

SEASON 3 EPISODE 99: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: There's a small problem (naturally) that Trump overlooked (of course) when he misquoted (evergreen) the probably-apocryphal (saw that coming) Napoleon quote "He who saves his country does not violate any law.” The problem should be obvious. What if I think I'm saving my country FROM Trump? What if you think you are saving your country FROM Trump? Set aside for a moment the implicit stochastic call to terrorism or just law-breaking from Trump to his supporters. What about his message to them? Us? You? Me? Did he just indemnify all of us? Seems kind of dangerous. On the other hand, seems like something that somebody who has slipped fully into a delusion of universal support would say. The implications are, like Trump and Musk, just staggering. ALSO WHY IT'S TIME FOR A NEWS BOYCOTT OF THE WHITE HOUSE: Again, I don't have enough space or words to tell you how much this won't happen, but the response to the White House attempt to dictate what the Associated Press gets to write (and open the path to telling you what YOU get to write) should be obvious and unanimous: don't send any reporters to the White House or Air Force One until the AP is restored. And I'm sure The Washington Vichy Post and The New York Bothsidesist Times and CNN (Certainly Not News) will be right out front. On the other hand, there IS a good media pushback idea: A Democratic Shadow Press Secretary,. B-Block (31:25) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Some Dominican voters in Reading, PA, who according to the Mayor there voted for Trump because they just assumed when he said he'd deport "illegals" he'd give them amnesties because they're good people. Mark Zuckerberg is back, suppressing ads for the ever-controversial (checks notes) Invictus Games. And Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen praise the "masculinity" of Musk and Trump even though the four of them don't have enough masculinity to fill up a thimble. C-Block (40:00) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: A confession. I didn't lie when I said why I discontinued the 2016-17 GQ Series "The Resistance." Nor did I tell the entire truth. I will now. It involves a threat against me, an inadvertent meeting with old SportsCenter friends, a deep hatred of the topic of Trump, and the firing of a loyal colleague.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mediaite editor Aidan McLaughlin speaks with the CEO and co-founder of Axios, Jim VandeHei, about Trump's wild first week, his optimistic take on the future of journalism amidst a fragmenting media industry, and disabusing ourselves of the idea that legacy media is the gatekeeper, without falling victim to Elon Musk's smear-campaign against it. In the second half of the episode, Aidan speaks with Mediaite founding editor Colby Hall about the first White House press briefing.

Jim VandeHei co-founded two highly influential news outlets, Politico and Axios. But as he explains in today's episode, his path to success was far from straightforward.

On this week's episode of Get Hired, LinkedIn Editor at Large Andrew Seaman speaks with Jim VandeHei, a journalist-turned-entrepreneur who defied the odds to achieve remarkable success first as a reporter and then as a founder of two media startups. In 2007, Jim co-founded Politico, revolutionizing the political journalism space; today he leads a team of 500 as the CEO of Axios. Jim's sharing his advice for breaking into competitive fields by using your unique strengths, taking risks and exploiting luck.  Follow Andrew on LinkedIn to join the Get Hired community by clicking here. Follow Jim on LinkedIn by clicking here. Check out Jim's book “Just the Good Stuff” by clicking here.

In today's episode:Jim Vandehei of Axios says no, you are not the media now and Morning Joe makes the case for his own relevanceMs. Potato Head worries that good speech isn't winningNeil DeGrasse Tyson disappoints Bill Maher by being exactly like himThe FCC's Brendan Carr discusses changes in the comms spaceThe Statism is the problem which means that 'better' Statism cannot provide solutionsA hardcore global communist recommends far more communism as the solution, for the good of the people.Connect with Be Reasonable: https://linktr.ee/imyourmoderatorLinks, articles, ideas - follow the info stream at t.me/veryreasonableHear the show when it's released. Become a paid subscriber at imyourmoderator.substack.comVisit the show's sponsors:Diversify your assets into Bitcoin: https://partner.river.com/reasonableDiversify your assets into precious metals: reasonablegold.comJoin the new information infrastructure - get Starlink: https://www.starlink.com/residential?referral=RC-1975306-67744-74Other ways to support the work:ko-fi.com/imyourmoderatorDonate btc via coinbase: 3MEh9J5sRvMfkWd4EWczrFr1iP3DBMcKk5Make life more comfortable: mypillow.com/reasonableMerch site:https://cancelcouture.comor https://riseattireusa.com/intl/cancelcouture/Follow the podcast info stream: t.me/veryreasonableOther social platforms: Truth Social, Gab, Rumble, or Gettr - @imyourmoderator Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/be-reasonable-with-your-moderator-chris-paul. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today's episode:Jim Vandehei of Axios says no, you are not the media now and Morning Joe makes the case for his own relevanceMs. Potato Head worries that good speech isn't winningNeil DeGrasse Tyson disappoints Bill Maher by being exactly like himThe FCC's Brendan Carr discusses changes in the comms spaceThe Statism is the problem which means that 'better' Statism cannot provide solutionsA hardcore global communist recommends far more communism as the solution, for the good of the people.Connect with Be Reasonable: https://linktr.ee/imyourmoderatorLinks, articles, ideas - follow the info stream at t.me/veryreasonableHear the show when it's released. Become a paid subscriber at imyourmoderator.substack.comVisit the show's sponsors:Diversify your assets into Bitcoin: https://partner.river.com/reasonableDiversify your assets into precious metals: reasonablegold.comJoin the new information infrastructure - get Starlink: https://www.starlink.com/residential?referral=RC-1975306-67744-74Other ways to support the work:ko-fi.com/imyourmoderatorDonate btc via coinbase: 3MEh9J5sRvMfkWd4EWczrFr1iP3DBMcKk5Make life more comfortable: mypillow.com/reasonableMerch site:https://cancelcouture.comor https://riseattireusa.com/intl/cancelcouture/Follow the podcast info stream: t.me/veryreasonableOther social platforms: Truth Social, Gab, Rumble, or Gettr - @imyourmoderator Become a member at https://plus.acast.com/s/be-reasonable-with-your-moderator-chris-paul. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  0:00 - Tucson, AZ, Mayor Regina Romero...will defy Trump/ICE   15:13 - Colorado Springs Mayor Yemi Mobolade's Jussie Smollett redux   26:13 -  Axios' CEO Jim Vandehei: you are not the media   50:32 - Ivana Greco, homemaker and homeschooling mom of four from Connecticut who writes on the issues impacting stay-at-home moms and dads, shares her Research Project on Stay-At-Home Parents. For more from Ivana, visit her substack “The Home Front” – thehomefront.substack.com   01:03:24 - In-depth History with Frank from Arlington Heights    01:06:58 - Writer and photographer currently taking a walk around the world, Chris Arnade, has seen it for himself -  The World Is in Love with America. Follow Chris as he walks the globe on X @Chris_arnade and his substack Chris Arnade Walks the World   01:25:51 - President at Wirepoints, Ted Dabrowski, breaks down the “crushing” tax increases in south suburban Cook County. Get Ted's latest at Wirepoints.org   01:40:34 - UATX on 60 Minutes  02:01:48 - Joseph Moreno, former federal prosecutor with the Department of Justice in the National Security Division, a former staff member with the FBI's 9/11 Review Commission and a US Army combat veteran, on Jack Smith's dismissal of charges and  How the lawfare campaign against Trump backfired. Follow Joe on X @JosephMoreno  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Would Kamala Harris win in 2026 if she ran for anything? Jim Vandehei is upset that journalists aren't loved. Maybe it's because people don't like today's journalists twisting the truth Jim. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 3 Segment 1 Tony starts the final hour of the show joined by Susie Moore talking about Jack Smith dropping the January 6th charges against Donald Trump. They also talk about Dan Goldman's reaction to the dropped charges.   Hour 3 Segment 2 Tony talks about Jim VandeHei bashing Elon Musk saying that X is the media now.  Hour 3 Segment 3 Tony talks about a couple jumping off a cliff and saying Midwesterners have a better outlook on life.   Hour 3 Segment 4 Tony wraps up another edition of the show talking about the latest news with Bitcoin and why Trump is involved and embracing it.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hour 1 Segment 1 Tony starts another edition of the show talking about Microsoft and Outlook being down. Tony also talks about a two-year old migrant picked up at the border trying to find her parents, carrying a note with a name and a phone number.  Hour 1 Segment 2 Tony talks about Joe Biden pardoning the last turkeys for Thanksgiving.   Hour 1 Segment 3 Tony talks with Major Mike Lyons to talk about French and British troops going to Ukraine and Russia warning them. They also talk about Israel getting closer to ceasefire with Hezbollah in Lebanon.   Hour 1 Segment 4 Tony wraps up the first hour of the show talking about AMC by putting a trigger warning for “offensive” content before watching Goodfellas.   Hour 2 Segment 1 Tony starts the second hour of the show being sober minded with Donald Trump's cabinet picks. Tony also talks about Pam Bondi and Trump nominating Dr. Marty Makary, who opposed COVID-19 vaccines, to head the FDA.   Hour 2 Segment 2 Tony talks more about the USS Green Bay.  Hour 2 Segment 3 Tony talks about Margaret Brennan's idea of Republicans having a crush on Vladimir Putin. Tony also talks about Marxism.   Hour 2 Segment 4 Tony wraps up the second hour of the show talking about Wicked and Gladiator II box office opening weekend numbers. Tony also talks about there is no more original movie ideas, only remakes and sequels.   Hour 3 Segment 1 Tony starts the final hour of the show joined by Susie Moore talking about Jack Smith dropping the January 6th charges against Donald Trump. They also talk about Dan Goldman's reaction to the dropped charges.   Hour 3 Segment 2 Tony talks about Jim VandeHei bashing Elon Musk saying that X is the media now.  Hour 3 Segment 3 Tony talks about a couple jumping off a cliff and saying Midwesterners have a better outlook on life.   Hour 3 Segment 4 Tony wraps up another edition of the show talking about the latest news with Bitcoin and why Trump is involved and embracing it.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Joe Scarborough had another meltdown Monday morning on MSNBC. Joe Scarborough was animated this morning on the Morning Joe...as he criticized independent content creators. We reveal and react to Joe Scarborough meltdown on MSNBC. We also react to comments from Jim VandeHei from Axios...claiming that morale throughout the media is low. We explain why morale is low at MSNBC and throughout the mainstream media...and explain why the media is concerned about their loss of influence. USE PROMO CODE BTL10 TO SAVE 10% WITH WINGMAN SNACKS: https://wingmansnacks.com

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” talks about Bill Maher getting a huge reaction from the “Real Time with Bill Maher” audience for his brutal message for Democrats for losing the 2024 election to Donald Trump; “Real Time” guest ABC News' Sarah Isgur pointing out that liberal elitists have learned nothing judging by their reaction to Trump's victory; the Axios' Jim VandeHei telling MSNBC's "Morning Joe" why mainstream media are no longer as relevant as legacy media hosts seem to think they are compared to podcast hosts like Joe Rogan and social media platforms like Elon Musk's X; Van Jones telling CNN why Democrats were the idiots because they didn't see Republicans' brilliant use of podcasts and influencers to reach more voters; Megyn Kelly's savage takedown of the failed celebrity endorsements of Taylor Swift, Jennifer Lopez, and Oprah Winfrey; Argentina's Javier Milei's message for politicians who focus on approval polls; and much more. WATCH the MEMBER-EXCLUSIVE segment of the show here: https://rubinreport.locals.com/ Check out the NEW RUBIN REPORT MERCH here: https://daverubin.store/ ---------- Today's Sponsors: The Wellness Company - Get your Medical Emergency Kit with potentially life-saving medications for you to keep on hand in times of need. Rest easy knowing that you have emergency antibiotics, antivirals and anti-parasitics to help keep you and your family safe. Rubin Report viewers save $45 at checkout PLUS free shipping when they use code: RUBIN. Go to: https://TWC.health/RUBIN and use CODE: RUBIN 1775 Coffee - Their new Protein Creamer is a game-changer. With 10 grams of whey protein per serving. Rubin Report viewers get 15% off their order. Go to: https://1775coffee.com/RUBIN and use code RUBIN Rumble Premium - Corporate America is fighting to remove speech, Rumble is fighting to keep it. If you really believe in this fight Rumble is offering $10 off with the promo code RUBIN when you purchase an annual subscription, Go to: https://Rumble.com/premium/RUBIN and use promo code RUBIN Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[SEGMENT 1-1] Democrat alarm bells 1 [X] SB – Jake Tapper on Democrats calling him scared   It's important that we get to work. Hand-ringing is over She's making her points  [SEGMENT 1-2] Democrat alarm bells 2   Kamala Harris masturbation commercial Numbers going down Biden sent a message about Harris not doing well    [SEGMENT 1-3] Democrat alarm bells 3   I don't think I've ever seen a politician who scares the Left as bad as Trump. 78% positive news for Harris, 85% negative for Trump. And that's an improvement for Trump. Democrats are suing to prevent dropbox surveillance Judges are putting non-citizens back on the voter rolls A friend who is politically savvy sent me this note: "Kevin, Roland Martin, Oprah Winfrey, Hakeem Jeffries AND Barack Obama contributed $O to the Harris campaign." Is this true? If so, it's pretty telling.   Per the NY Times: Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign has backed away from President Biden in the final days of the 2024 election, viewing the unpopular incumbent as a liability in her quest to succeed him, according to several White House and Harris campaign officials familiar with the planning. Officials on Ms. Harris's campaign think that holding joint events with Mr. Biden would “only hurt her” at the most crucial stage of the race, as one adviser put it. That leaves Mr. Biden, who has expressed an interest in helping campaign for her in the coming days, left to arrange his own events through trade groups and unions. By all accounts, the vice president has been unflinchingly loyal to the 81-year-old president whose campaign she took over three months ago. She has declined to put much space between her policies and his, and has been careful to show deference, even in moments where she could have broken away. “Vice President Harris is grateful for President Biden's support and appreciates that he is campaigning for her,” said Ian Sams, a campaign spokesman. But personal loyalty is now just one dimension of their complex relationship. In recent weeks, Ms. Harris has quietly added some new questions to her daily round of calls to outside allies and advisers, a regular routine she has kept up for much of her career to make sure she is taking the pulse of what is happening outside her immediate bubble.   (…) Mr. Biden still believes that he could have beaten former President Donald J. Trump, Ms. Harris's Republican rival, but is not saying it as often in his private conversations, according to the two allies. When he is briefed on polling numbers, the president expresses a mix of frustration, disbelief and anger that the race is so close. He believes, as he did in 2022, that Democrats will have a better-than-expected showing on Election Day, but the polls reflecting a dead-heat race are part of the reason he wants to hit the trail to help Ms. Harris. Mr. Biden also understands that the surest way his legacy thrives is if Ms. Harris wins. If she loses to Mr. Trump, one friend said, “it will kill him.” Mr. Biden and his advisers believe that he has a place in the campaign, and that he can still appeal to middle-class white voters and help drive home a character contrast between Ms. Harris and Mr. Trump.     https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-and-harris-campaign-officials-reportedly-believe-she-will-lose-already-starting-to-point-fingers/ar-AA1sVkcB?ocid=BingNewsSerp Top Democrats, including those inside working on Kamala Harris's presidential campaign and in President Joe Biden's administration, reportedly believe Harris “will lose” the fast-approaching election between herself and former President Donald Trump, and “are already starting to point fingers.” According to Axios's Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei, “a growing number of top Democrats tell us privately they feel Vice President Harris will lose” in spite of how close the polls remain. “Our reporting simply reflects scores of conversations with people close to Harris and intimately involved in swing-state races, including officials inside her campaign and top Biden administration officials,” wrote the pair, before citing the “troubling” blame game beginning to play out. “Top Democrats are already starting to point fingers at who'd be more responsible for a Harris loss — President Biden for dragging his feet, or Harris herself,” report Allen and VandeHei, contrasting the dour mood on the left with how “top Republicans, in private conversations, seem shockingly confident.” As reasons for Democrats' pessimism, Allen and VandeHei cited Harris's “struggles to crisply explain why” voters should support her, as well as early voting returns in Nevada and Republican momentum in Pennsylvania.  Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-kevin-jackson-show--2896352/support.

[SEGMENT 1-1] Democrat alarm bells 1 [X] SB – Jake Tapper on Democrats calling him scared   It's important that we get to work. Hand-ringing is over She's making her points  [SEGMENT 1-2] Democrat alarm bells 2   Kamala Harris masturbation commercial Numbers going down Biden sent a message about Harris not doing well    [SEGMENT 1-3] Democrat alarm bells 3   I don't think I've ever seen a politician who scares the Left as bad as Trump. 78% positive news for Harris, 85% negative for Trump. And that's an improvement for Trump. Democrats are suing to prevent dropbox surveillance Judges are putting non-citizens back on the voter rolls A friend who is politically savvy sent me this note: "Kevin, Roland Martin, Oprah Winfrey, Hakeem Jeffries AND Barack Obama contributed $O to the Harris campaign." Is this true? If so, it's pretty telling.   Per the NY Times: Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign has backed away from President Biden in the final days of the 2024 election, viewing the unpopular incumbent as a liability in her quest to succeed him, according to several White House and Harris campaign officials familiar with the planning. Officials on Ms. Harris's campaign think that holding joint events with Mr. Biden would “only hurt her” at the most crucial stage of the race, as one adviser put it. That leaves Mr. Biden, who has expressed an interest in helping campaign for her in the coming days, left to arrange his own events through trade groups and unions. By all accounts, the vice president has been unflinchingly loyal to the 81-year-old president whose campaign she took over three months ago. She has declined to put much space between her policies and his, and has been careful to show deference, even in moments where she could have broken away. “Vice President Harris is grateful for President Biden's support and appreciates that he is campaigning for her,” said Ian Sams, a campaign spokesman. But personal loyalty is now just one dimension of their complex relationship. In recent weeks, Ms. Harris has quietly added some new questions to her daily round of calls to outside allies and advisers, a regular routine she has kept up for much of her career to make sure she is taking the pulse of what is happening outside her immediate bubble.   (…) Mr. Biden still believes that he could have beaten former President Donald J. Trump, Ms. Harris's Republican rival, but is not saying it as often in his private conversations, according to the two allies. When he is briefed on polling numbers, the president expresses a mix of frustration, disbelief and anger that the race is so close. He believes, as he did in 2022, that Democrats will have a better-than-expected showing on Election Day, but the polls reflecting a dead-heat race are part of the reason he wants to hit the trail to help Ms. Harris. Mr. Biden also understands that the surest way his legacy thrives is if Ms. Harris wins. If she loses to Mr. Trump, one friend said, “it will kill him.” Mr. Biden and his advisers believe that he has a place in the campaign, and that he can still appeal to middle-class white voters and help drive home a character contrast between Ms. Harris and Mr. Trump.     https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-and-harris-campaign-officials-reportedly-believe-she-will-lose-already-starting-to-point-fingers/ar-AA1sVkcB?ocid=BingNewsSerp Top Democrats, including those inside working on Kamala Harris's presidential campaign and in President Joe Biden's administration, reportedly believe Harris “will lose” the fast-approaching election between herself and former President Donald Trump, and “are already starting to point fingers.” According to Axios's Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei, “a growing number of top Democrats tell us privately they feel Vice President Harris will lose” in spite of how close the polls remain. “Our reporting simply reflects scores of conversations with people close to Harris and intimately involved in swing-state races, including officials inside her campaign and top Biden administration officials,” wrote the pair, before citing the “troubling” blame game beginning to play out. “Top Democrats are already starting to point fingers at who'd be more responsible for a Harris loss — President Biden for dragging his feet, or Harris herself,” report Allen and VandeHei, contrasting the dour mood on the left with how “top Republicans, in private conversations, seem shockingly confident.” As reasons for Democrats' pessimism, Allen and VandeHei cited Harris's “struggles to crisply explain why” voters should support her, as well as early voting returns in Nevada and Republican momentum in Pennsylvania.    [SEGMENT 1-4] Democrat alarm bells 4   [X] SB – Byron Donalds destroys Andrew Sorkin You don't see the vitriol   [X] SB – Megyn Kelly schools Bill MaherBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-kevin-jackson-show--2896352/support.

Annie Dean is Vice President and Global Head of Team Anywhere at Atlassian. She oversees their Real Estate and Workplace Experience teams and Team Anywhere Lab—dedicated behavioral scientists focused on designing and validating evidence-based ways of working. Annie is responsible for Atlassian's shift to a distributed first company. She highlights core elements of their ongoing research-driven, vetted transition supported by strong cultural values. Annie shares Atlassian's new culture of work practices including rationalizing meetings, pursuing core work, hospitality-focused office operations, and redesigning teams, all facilitated by asynchronous methods and AI.   TAKEAWAYS [02:43] Annie attributes her diverse interests to her liberal arts family upbringing. [03:30] Annie is interested in what society values, how it expresses itself, and how people change it. [04:00] At law school, Annie realizes she doesn't want to be a lawyer while appreciating the educational benefits. [05:05] A busy lawyer and new mother, Annie's set up is not working for her. [06:40] Does the system need to change or Annie? She decides it is the system. [07:15] A seminal article questions assumptions about women not reaching leadership positions. [08:01] Co-founding Werk, Annie helps companies assess non-traditional work opportunities. [08:32] Pre-pandemic there is significant demand for flexible working. [10:26] Annie finds strong interest in disrupting norms to resolve known work-related issues.  [11:05] Data is crucial to try and convince CEOs to align with and adopt new ways of working. [12:39] From 2016 to 2020, office culture peaks, with limited progress on workplace flexibility. [13:25] Research identifies common pain points including commuting, care-giving, and wellness. [14:20] Access to flexibility can address widespread pain felt by ambitious high-performers. [15:32] Pre-pandemic, technology disrupts consumer not working behaviors—resulting in insufficient will to change work practices. [16:16] Annie cowrites an article positing that a pandemic would force adoption of remote work. [20:05] The ease of transitioning to remote work during the pandemic proves the potential of existing technologies. [20:35] Employees are not surprised they could work well remotely—it's a more human way to work. [21:10] Atlassian's shift to distributed-first aligns with its business and the co-founders' long-term expectations about work. [22:04] The modern culture of work at Atlassian focuses on reducing meetings, prioritizing core work, facilitated by asynchronous methods and AI-driven norms. [24:07] Atlassian's values are the backbone of how the company runs and inform how people treat each other. [25:50] Sharing research and vetted practices, Atlassian helps others update their culture of work. [27:22] Key shifts include new ways to connect, operate offices, design teams, and organize work. [28:35] Atlassian emphasizes intentional togetherness and a hospitality approach to office use. [29:00] Designing teams by time zones and capturing organic changes in daily work habits. [30:28] Modern culture of work practices emphasize effective meetings and prioritize core work. [30:50] Asynchronous methods and AI tools enable meeting rationalization and effective working. [32:04] IMMEDIATE ACTION TIP: Create conversations that prompt experimentation new ways of working are addictive. They feel good. People will adopt quickly because once they try, they get it. [33:54] Clear and effective business writing is vital in a distributed work environment. [35:35] The transition to tech-driven, distributed work is inevitable. [36:35] Resistance to using steel in construction mirrors current resistance to work changes. [38:22] Annie notices a technology gap for taking full advantage of modern work opportunities which easy-to-use AI can now fill. [39:40] Annie is optimistic about technology enabling more efficient and flexible working.     RESOURCES   Annie Dean on LinkedIn Atlassian's website Lessons Learned: 1000 days of distributed at Atlassian Smart Brevity by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwarz     QUOTES "Data is the only thing that will convince a CEO that a change needs to happen." “From 2012 to 2020, it was clear that technology was disrupting all our consumer behavior, and yet it wasn't disrupting our working behaviors. It was very clear to me that this different future was possible. It just didn't seem like there was enough will in the executive teams that I was working with to really make the holistic change.” "Because the pandemic was so overwhelming and distracting in many ways, these strategic questions of what a new culture of work should look like were left behind. We are now in 2024 and able to start answering those questions.” “We've adapted a really unique set of practices that helps us manage across time zones and manage in a distributed environment. It's those practices and our products that really carry us forward as a distributed company.” "The office is not required to get work done though they will continue to be great community spaces to work from." "We realize that the modern culture of work is that we replace most meetings, we know what work really matters, and we organize ourselves to pursue core work, not work about work, and each of those things is facilitated by asynchronous behaviors and AI driven norms." "Using new practices, I think we unlock the power of technology and the Internet and AI to build a new culture of work." "Once people try these new ways of working, they adopt them very quickly because they are addictive in that they feel really good."

In the 6 AM Hour: Larry O'Connor and Julie Gunlock discussed: Jim VandeHei on X: "The Harris campaign has been editing news headlines and descriptions within Google search ads that make it appear as if the Guardian, Reuters, CBS News and other major publishers are on her side, Axios has found.   Aishah Hasnie on X: "Quite the flip flop ⬇️ The HARRIS camp tells FOX there will be no push for Medicare for All. per- @pdoocy" Six policies Harris has pivoted on since ascending to top of Democratic ticket  WMAL GUEST: 6:35 AM - INTERVIEW - CAL THOMAS - Syndicated Columnist  Democratic National Convention speakers include Biden, Obama and the Clintons. Vice President Kamala Harris is set to formally accept the Democratic  Party's nomination at the convention, which will kick off in Chicago on  Aug. 19 Harris strategy of avoiding the press is ‘working': Byron York Kaitlan Collins Stunned by ‘Late Show' Audience Laughter When Colbert Calls CNN ‘Objective': ‘Is That Supposed to Be a Laugh Line?' Where to find more about WMAL's morning show:  Follow the Show Podcasts on Apple podcasts, Audible and Spotify. Follow WMAL's "O'Connor and Company" on X: @WMALDC, @LarryOConnor,  @Jgunlock, @patricepinkfile, and @heatherhunterdc.  Facebook: WMALDC and Larry O'Connor Instagram: WMALDC Show Website: https://www.wmal.com/oconnor-company/ How to listen live weekdays from 5 to 9 AM: https://www.wmal.com/listenlive/ Episode: Wednesday, August 14, 2024 / 6 AM Hour  O'Connor and Company is proudly presented by Veritas AcademySee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Megyn Kelly is joined by legendary actor and producer James Woods to discuss Biden's speech to the nation last night after dropping out of the race, how he didn't address his health conditions, the media fawning over "hero" Biden, his incredible career as an actor and producer, why he loves America and how he stays so patriotic, how he stays friends with liberal Hollywood stars like Rob Reiner and Whoopi Goldberg, how conservatives are forced to stay quiet today, how Hollywood silences conservatives today, his personal experience with "Oppenheimer," how he isn't afraid to speak his mind and the second act he's having now, and more. Then Jim VandeHei, co-founder and CEO of Axios and author of “Just the Good Stuff," joins to discuss the state of the media, how political bias seeps into coverage, the past month and coverage of Biden's cognitive decline, the "border czar" controversy, the impact Trump has had on the media over the years, the importance of finding sources and networks that you can trust, the most important states and demographics in the 2024 election, why Harris will likely pick a white male VP, the swift coronation of Harris by the left, and more.  Plus, Megyn addresses the insane antisemitic riots happening in Washington D.C., the ridiculous and dangerous pro-Hamas protestors and their radical views, the brave Americans protecting our flag, and more.  Woods- https://x.com/RealJamesWoodsVandeHei- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/739608/just-the-good-stuff-by-jim-vandehei/ Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms:YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/MegynKellyTwitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShowInstagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShowFacebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow

"Nothing, nothing, can come in the way of saving our democracy. That includes personal ambition." President Biden explained his move to the American people in an address Wednesday night. Now, a new race lies ahead -- one no longer so focused on the past, between two candidates who've already done the job of president. So what is it about? Axios co-founders Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei take us inside their reporting. Guests: Axios co-founders Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei, authors of the Axios "Behind the Curtain" column Credits: 1 big thing is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Alexandra Botti, and Jay Cowit. Music is composed by Alex Sugiura and Jay Cowit. You can reach us at podcasts@axios.com. You can send questions, comments and story ideas as a text or voice memo to Niala at 202-918-4893. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Shawn Wilkie and Dr. Ivan Zak are joined by Candise Goodwin, founder of Outlier Advisors, to discuss her approach to helping companies navigate market complexities and achieve sustainable growth through strategic planning and innovation. She shares insights from her extensive experience in the industry, highlighting the importance of understanding market nuances and tailoring strategies for both startups and large corporations.   Learn more about Outlier Advisors. Candise recommends “Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less” by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz.

Jim VandeHei is the CEO of Axios, the co-founder of Politico and the author of Just the Good Stuff. Mary Long caught up with VandHei for a conversation about:   - The “aha” moment that created Politico. - How AI changes our relationship with information. - Practicing good times paranoia and bad times optimism. - The case for teaching kids how to play poker. Companies mentioned: ABNB, JPM, Host: Mary Long Guest: Jim VandeHei Producer: Ricky Mulvey  Engineers: Desiree Jones, Austin Morgan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roy Schwartz: Smart Brevity Roy Schwartz is co-founder and CEO at Axios HQ, the world's first AI-powered internal communications management platform. He's also the co-founder of Axios, the award-winning news organization known for its Smart Brevity writing style. He's the co-author, along with Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen of Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More With Less*. Most organizations spend way more time and strategy on external communications than internal ones. In this conversation, Roy and I discuss how your internal strategy can reduce email, save time, and create space for innovation and insight. Key Points An effective, internal publication via email reduces the amount of total messaging people receive. Position one, big item in every publication. There should be a hierarchy of what's important, since not everyone will read everything. Keep each topic to 200 words and under 1,000 words for the entire publication. For each topic, start with a strong, first sentence — and then provide context for why it matters. Find a word other than “newsletter” to name a regular, internal publication. Bring personality and smiles into internal publications. People will engage and look forward to reading. Done well, internal publications help inform, recognize, provide accountability, and allow leaders to focus on the human aspects of communication. Resources Mentioned Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More With Less* by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz Axios HQ: AI-powered newsletter software Interview Notes Download my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required). Related Episodes The Way to Make Sense to Others, with Tom Henschel (episode 518) Getting Better at Reading the Room, with Kirstin Ferguson (episode 651) Get People Reading What You're Sending, with Todd Rogers (episode 666) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic. To accelerate your learning, uncover more inside Coaching for Leaders Plus.

Jim VandeHei co-founded two highly influential news outlets, Politico and Axios. But as he explains in today's episode, his path to success was far from straightforward.

How do you bring your personal values to your public life? This question has animated Jim VandeHei's and Mike Allen's long career together; first at Politico and then as they went on to launch Axios. It's not an easy feat to pull off. Jim's new book, Just the Good Stuff: No-BS Secrets to Success (No Matter What Life Throws at You) explains how they did it–and all the mistakes, triumphs, and unexpected breakthroughs along the way.    In this wide-ranging interview, Katie, Jim and Mike talk about media past, present, and future, Trump and the election, and the future of AI. You've heard interviews about all of these things before, of course. But in this extended episode these three keen observers get to dive deeper than usual. The rare space for this added depth brings us to very universal and human questions: amidst all the noise politically, culturally, and digitally, what can we control? Only ourselves. This conversation ponders how we can act individually in a way that leads to more freedom, more transparency, and more opportunity for more people.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Axios Co-Founder and CEO Jim VandeHei joins Edelman CEO Richard Edelman for a conversation about his new book, “Just the Good Stuff,” and the state of trust in the media and business leaders. “People who run companies have a real obligation to understand that people are trusting corporate and business leadership more than ever – … Continue reading "Axios CEO Jim VandeHei on Leading with ‘Just the Good Stuff' "

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“In a given year, you meet (dozens) or more people you spend enough time with to appraise their character. Think about them: How many do you think are decent, normal people who do volunteer work, help shovel after a storm, look out for family and neighbors?” This is a question asked often by Jim VandeHei of Axios when he's speaking to audiences across the country, and it's an important one. Do you think of the real human beings in your personal network as someone who'd chip in when there's a need? I do. Most certainly. How can it be then, that when I think of online personalities and digital acquaintances, I am less certain? Perhaps, it's because I don't know them. Perhaps, all I have to operate on is my impressions of those people. What they look like, how they dress, the way they speak. Is it possible that our media ecosystem is designed to obscure reality? It's not a novel suggestion. In fact, most people understand this. We call this the “echo chamber”, and everyone more or less chooses which one they want to be in. In the echo chambers, America is a deeply divided place with a civic culture broken to pieces by radicalism and distrust. Before you continue….Paid Subscribers to Geeky Stoics should scroll to the very bottom of the post for login information to our monthly First Friday video hangout. This happens tomorrow at 12:30 PM EST, May 3rd. Geeky Stoics' next book club is on C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. Sign up below by clicking the button if you're interested. We'll meet on Sunday evenings in May and discuss this iconic book about good & evil and also be joined by some special guest experts on Lewis and Tolkien. About that division….What if it's not true? What if this thing we feel and experience in our online lives is an illusion? Check out this survey by AP-NORC, which shows the opposite of what so many expect when it comes to public opinion on heated issues of the day. Remember, test your impressions. Your focus determines your reality. If you want to live in a world of distrust, radicalism, and division, then you keep doing what you're doing online and in your news consumption habits. If you don't want that, maybe…as they say…touch grass.“From the very beginning, make it your practice to say to every harsh impression, ‘You are an impression and not at all what you appear to be.' Next, examine and test it by the rules you possess, the first and greatest of which is this—whether it belongs to the things in our control or not in our control, and if the latter, be prepared to respond, ‘It is nothing to me.'”—Epictetus, Enchiridion, 1.5More on Alex Garland's Civil War + video hangout links for Paid Subscribers can be found below. Have a great weekend my friends. I couldn't get this out of my mind while I was sitting in the movie theater for Alex Garland's, Civil War, starring Kirsten Dunst: The disconnect between public perception about the movie and the movie itself. It's a brilliant and beautiful movie that I can't recommend enough. The movie got a rough reaction when the trailers first dropped. Commentators and Twitter-dwellers were suspicious of the political intentions of the movie, which is par for the course for a film premised on America's political divisions devolving into total war. Yes, the movie is about a second American Civil War. No, it has nothing to do with the political headlines of the day. Remarkably, the movie never even addresses the reason for the war. Audiences are just dropped into the final weeks of the conflict, at a time when people don't even remember what is was all for in the first place. First impressions were all about journalists being the main characters. Must be a puff-piece film for pious journos. Must be an anti-Trump January 6th propaganda movie.Texas and California allied in a fictional civil war? Impossible. How can people live like this? Just making baseless assumptions about the message or practicality of a movie on 2-minute trailers? In the end, A24's Civil War was nothing like what the Twitter Class said it would be. I almost let them fool me and set my impression of the movie without seeing it. It's funny. Civil War is about photojournalism in the heat of war. You have characters working film cameras and snapping a hundred shots in any given situation, collecting all sorts of information in incredibly stressful situations and under duress. Then there are quiet moments where they look through the film, knowing that out of every 100 images, only one will maybe be worth publishing. What is that if not the perfect analogy for all the impressions we receive about the world on any given day? We sort through mountains of s**t “photographs” every day, looking hard and with discernment for the one that is true. The one impression or image that is representative of objective reality.Geeky Stoics video hangout for First FridaySave this to your calendar!First Friday Hangout - GSFriday, May 3 · 12:30 – 1:15pm ESTTime zone: America/New_York ESTGoogle Meet joining infoVideo call link: https://meet.google.com/vmq-yesu-soc This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.geekystoics.com/subscribe

Jim VandeHei didn't have an auspicious start in life. His high school guidance counselor told him he wasn't cut out for college, and he went on to confirm her assessment, getting a 1.4 GPA at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and spending more time drinking beer than planning his career.Eventually, though, Jim turned things around for himself, going on to co-found two of the biggest modern media outlets, Politico and Axios.Jim shares how he started moving up the rungs of success and building a better life for himself in his new book Just the Good Stuff: No-BS Secrets to Success (No Matter What Life Throws at You). Today on the show, Jim shares the real-world lessons he's learned in his career. We discuss the importance of matching passion to opportunity, making your own luck, surrounding yourself with the right people, keeping the buckets of your happiness matrix filled, understanding the difference between wartime and peacetime leadership, harnessing the energy of healthy revenge, and more.Connect With Jim VandeHeiJim at Axios 

Overnight, NYPD officers entered Columbia University's campus and made roughly 100 arrests of protesters. Lawyer Jay Edelson filed a lawsuit against the school on behalf of a Jewish student who argues that the university failed to provide a safe learning environment. Edelson discusses the case and the stakes for schools across the country. Axios and Politico co-founder Jim VandeHei looks ahead to the 2024 election and former President Donald Trump's plans for the country, should he win another term. Plus, Starbucks stock took a spill after its latest quarterly report, and cannabis is headed for a downgrade from the FDA.  Jay Edelson - 13:52Jim VandeHei - 26:05 In this episode:Jim VandeHei, @JimVandeHeiJay Edelson, @jayedelsonJoe Kernen,@JoeSquawkBecky Quick,@BeckyQuickAndrew Ross Sorkin,@andrewrsorkinCameron Costa, @CameronCostaNY

The media industry has seen a lot of turbulence in the last several decades, but Jim VandeHei managed to cut through the noise and found not just one but two successful news organizations—Axios, where he still serves as CEO, and Politico. As a student, VandeHei says, he struggled academically, but found his calling as a political journalist before ultimately stepping up to be a media entrepreneur. He speaks with Alan and Michal about his unconventional path to success; lessons he's learned as an industry-disrupting leader; his thoughts on the media landscape at large; how AI will radically shape newsrooms; his turn as a lifestyle and wellness guru; and more. Leadership Next is powered by Deloitte.

Every day we're inundated with news and opinion pieces about America's hopeless division — but is this really true? Axios CEO Jim VandeHei joins Rapid Response host Bob Safian to bust what he sees as myth, plus share his seemingly counterintuitive AI play. VandeHei also makes a case for why the era of business leaders speaking out on political issues may be behind us, and he weighs-in on the state of Buzzfeed, NPR, and where the future of news media is inevitably headed.Read a transcript of this episode: https://mastersofscale.comSubscribe to the Masters of Scale weekly newsletter: https://mastersofscale.com/subscribeSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Every day we're inundated with news and opinion pieces about America's hopeless division — but is this really true? Axios CEO Jim VandeHei joins Rapid Response host Bob Safian to bust what he sees as myth, plus share his seemingly counterintuitive AI play. VandeHei also makes a case for why the era of business leaders speaking out on political issues may be behind us, and he weighs-in on the state of Buzzfeed, NPR, and where the future of news media is inevitably headed.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Landing a job in a competitive industry can feel like an insurmountable challenge if you don't have certain advantages, like family connections, wealth or a degree from a prestigious university. But it doesn't mean it's impossible.  In this episode of Get Hired, LinkedIn News Editor Andrew Seaman is joined by Jim VandeHei, a journalist-turned-entrepreneur who defied the odds to achieve remarkable success, first as a reporter and then as a founder of two media startups. In 2007, Jim co-founded Politico, revolutionizing the political journalism space; today he leads a team of 500 as the CEO of Axios. Jim's sharing his advice for breaking into competitive fields by using your unique strengths, taking risks and exploiting luck.  This episode is for anyone aspiring to break into a field and feels discouraged by their lack of conventional advantage – but remains determined to pursue their passions and carve out their own path to success. Follow Andrew on LinkedIn to join the Get Hired community by clicking here. Follow Jim on LinkedIn by clicking here. Check out Jim's new book, Just the Good Stuff.

In this empowering session of the Personalization Outbreak Podcast, Jim VandeHei, co-founder and CEO of Axios, dives deep into the challenges and transformations facing today's workforce. From embracing change to pioneering media innovation, Jim shares invaluable insights that inspire us to take control and navigate uncertainty with confidence.

189 - Be Brief To Get Readers In our fast-paced digital age, where every second counts, mastering the art of brevity has become crucial for effective communication. The concept, brilliantly explored in the book "Smart Brevity: The Power of Saying More with Less" by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen, and Roy Schwartz, reveals how concise communication can significantly improve how we connect with others. The essence of brevity lies in the ability to be succinct without sacrificing the depth of the message. This is not about reducing the length of communication for the sake of it, but about enhancing clarity and engagement. The book teaches readers to cut through the noise of excessive information and focus on what truly matters. This is particularly valuable in a world where individuals average just 26 seconds on a piece of content. "Smart Brevity" advocates for a structured approach to concise communication. It starts with crafting a "muscular tease" — a compelling headline that grabs attention. The lede follows, a potent sentence encapsulating the core message. Providing context is next, explaining why the message is relevant. Lastly, if the reader's interest is piqued, additional details are offered succinctly. Adopting these strategies can transform mundane emails into impactful messages, long-winded articles into engaging reads, and tedious meetings into sessions of productive exchange. It encourages communicators to respect their audience's time by offering information that is not just easy to consume but also valuable. Implementing brevity in our daily communications doesn't mean oversimplifying complex ideas. Instead, it's about being thoughtful with our word choice, ensuring every word serves a purpose. By practicing the principles of "Smart Brevity," we not only make our communication more effective but also more likely to be read, understood, and appreciated in a world overloaded with words. https://www.axioshq.com/smart-brevity https://startwithsmallsteps.com/189-be-brief-and-get-read/ Jill's Links https://abetterlifeinsmallsteps.com https://affiliate.notion.so/NorthwoodsJill https://affiliate.notion.so/NorthwoodsAI https://www.youtube.com/@startwithsmallstepspodcast https://www.buymeacoffee.com/smallstepspod https://twitter.com/SmallStepsPod Email the podcast at jill@startwithsmallsteps.com

The latest on the Troth Senchul stock disaster. Trump has been kicked out of the billionaires club. The Arizona abortion law. The Arizona law should be permanently tethered to Donald Trump. Republicans are terrified. Kari Lake was for the law before she was against it. Larry Kudlow and a Fisher-Price Man say the Arizona law isn't a big deal. Nicolle Wallace vs John Bolton on the Biden-Trump false equivalence. Molly Jong-Fast destroyed Jim VandeHei. Jesse Watters thinks it's crazy that people make $20/hour at McDonald's. With Jody Hamilton, David Ferguson, music by Basically Nancy, Novelstme, and more!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

In this episode of the Ideas on Stage podcast we spoke with Jack Appleman. Jack Appleman, prominent business writing coach, professor and author of 10 Steps to Successful Business Writing—2nd edition (2018, ATD Press), is driven by the belief that working professionals can dramatically improve their writing by following straightforward techniques. His writing training for organizations including Bayer, Wells Fargo and HBO have helped thousands of individuals achieve better results from their writing. As president of Successful Business Writing, Jack has been a frequent speaker and has published many articles on the importance of good writing and communication. A professor for more than 20 years, he teaches Business Communications at New York University. Jack is also a doctoral candidate at the State University of New York at Albany, exploring the link between employee-manager communication and workplace engagement in pursuit of his Ph.D. in Organizational Communication. In this episode we talked about persuasive business writing. Key takeaways: - The No. 1 Writing Challenge- Driving Action with Email Subject Lines - Active Verbs vs Verbs Hidden in Nouns - The Fast Context Technique for Better Writing - Managing Frustration: Dealing with Rude Messages We hope you enjoy it! ———————Links: - Jack Appleman on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackappleman/- 10 Steps to Successful Business Writing: https://amzn.eu/d/1nenmmE - Successful Business Writing: https://successfulbusinesswriting.com/ Recommended books: - Leading in English by D. Vincent Varallo, Joerg Schmitz, Stephan M. Mardyks- Smart Brevity by Roy Schwartz, Mike Allen, Jim VandeHei ———————IDEAS ON STAGE RESOURCES Want to inspire your audience, increase your influence, and make a bigger impact? - Read the Confident Presenter book: https://amzn.eu/d/bKswMEe - To make the most of the book, take the Confident Presenter Scorecard to assess you presentation skills in less than 3 minutes, for free: https://ideasonstage.com/score - Attend the next Ideas on Stage web class: https://www.ideasonstage.com/uk/masterclass #writing #BusinessWriting #PersuasiveWriting #SuccessfulBusinessWriting #BusinessCommunication #ideasonstagepodcast

As listeners might have noticed, 2024 is a presidential election year, and already the prospect of Donald Trump returning to power is looming over the campaign and the media's coverage of it. In a second term, Trump has promised to weaponize the Justice Department to punish his enemies, deconstruct major portions of the administrative state, and mobilize the largest deportation force in US history — to cleanse the nation of immigrants who, as Trump says, "are poisoning the blood of our country." The key to achieving these goals, conservatives believe, is ensuring that this time — unlike in 2016 — Trump is surrounded by the right people: populist true-believers who are sufficiently loyal and sufficiently competent to implement his extreme agenda. "Personnel is policy" is the watchword. And think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) are busy building rival rosters of ideologically-vetted political appointees. (And pissing each other off in the process.)This episode explores how movement conservatives are refashioning the "conservative pipeline" for an anti-establishment era — through their efforts to recruit, credential, and train political professionals for a second Trump term. The question is: can these initiatives overcome the candidate's own erratic style, his weakness for sycophancy, his preference for hiring devoted courtiers over disciplined ideologues? If push came to shove, would Trump submit to the Heritage Foundation's plans for his presidential transition? Or would he resent being managed by these self-understood "adults in the room?" In other words, can the eggheads of the conservative movement clean up the mess that is MAGA? Or is that just another intellectual fantasy? After all, as we often say on Know Your Enemy: "MAGA is the mess."Sources:Sam Adler-Bell, "The Shadow War to Determine the Next Trump Administration," New York Times, Jan 10, 2024Isaac Arnsdorf, Josh Dawsey, and Devlin Barrett, "Trump and allies plot revenge, Justice Department control in a second term," Washington Post, Nov 6, 2023. Charlie Savage, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, "Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportation: Inside Trump's 2025 Immigration Plans," NYTimes, Nov 11, 2023. Jonathan D. Karl, "The Man Who Made January 6 Possible," Atlantic, Nov 9, 2021.Zachary Petrizzo, "Trumpworld Is Already at War Over Staffing a New Trump White House," Daily Beast, Nov 16, 2023. Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen, "Behind the Curtain — Scoop: The Trump job applications revealed," Axios, Dec 1, 2023.Ian Ward, "The Brash Group of Young Conservatives Getting Ready for the Next Trump Administration," Politico, Nov 3, 2023. Michael Hirsh, "Inside the Next Republican Revolution," Politico, Sept 9, 2023. Dylan Riley, "What Is Trump?" New Left Review, Nov 2018.Timothy Snyder, "Not a Normal Election," Commonweal, Nov 2, 2020...and don't forget to subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon for access to all of our bonus episodes!

As the saying goes, less is more. The same goes for words. This week we're revisiting a talk by Politico and Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei, where he shares what he's learned leading two media companies — and how to radically rethink the way you write to keep people's attention in a distracted digital world. After the talk, our host Modupe dives into how brevity can get you ahead in your work life.

SERIES 2 EPISODE 94: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) BULLETIN: In a historic decision validating the obvious intent of the Disqualification Clause of the 14th Amendment, Colorado's State Supreme Court has ruled Trump is NOT eligible to appear on the state's ballot as a candidate for president next year because he participated in an insurrection against the United States of America. The decision is likely to spawn a wave of copycat cases (and remember previous rulings in Arizona, Michigan and Minnesota did NOT rule the other way; they pertained only to knocking Trump off the Republican PRIMARY ballot) and will of course go to the federal Supreme Court. Where the justices won't have much to decide. Only the future of the nation and the prospect of civil unrest. The rest of this bulletin is a repeat of Tuesday's full 93rd episode of Countdown. (11:51) SPECIAL COMMENT: In his three-day orgy of insults, expanding his list of those who are "poisoning our nation's blood" from Hispanics to Africans and Asians, praising dictators and echoing Hitler, it's understandable that most of us missed it. But Trump also explained the one rug that will really tie his totalitarian room together: he's going to indemnify the police. Translation: under Trump, the cops can kill George Floyd and be certain they will face no legal liability. They can kill YOU and be certain they will face no legal liability. It is literally a license to kill, a license granted to the 700,000 police officers at all state and city levels in this nation. Who already have weapons. Who already have tanks. Who already have affinity to Trump and the fascism and white supremacism he's selling.  And now they will be freed of all restraint. And they'll owe that freedom to Trump. They will become Trump's stormtroopers and his little SS. And if invoking the Insurrection Act to use the National Guard against unarmed civilians is too sharp-edged for some of his under-Fuhrers, Trump can simply dispatch local cops to shoot up a Black Lives Matter protest. Or an anti-Cop City protest. Or just an anti-Trump protest. It may be his most totalitarian revelation since. And naturally, the New York Times follows it with an op-ed titled "The Secret of Trump's Appeal Isn't Authoritarianism” and Axios begins the last full business week of the year with 1,000 words on Trump and not one of them mentions his plan to take over the cops or his quoting Hitler or his praising Xi and Kim. Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen have shown that they - and so many other institutions we think would recoil from authoritarianism - are in fact ready to serve them, just as long as they can continue to make profits. Axios has 1,000 words on Trump and they are all positive and normalizing and praising him fo having "much greater power than in his first term and fewer restraints on carrying out his political agenda.” His political agenda is Totalitarianism, you useless slobs. B-Block (32:29) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Ruby Goodman and Shaye Moss are awarded $148 million from Giuliani. Giuliani re-slanders them. They sue again. He re-re-slanders them against last night. Clarence Thomas wasn't being bought; he was prostituting himself. Congressmen ask him to recuse. Mayor Eric Adams says NYC is the greatest because any day could be 9/11. (38:17 THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Wreaths Across America, Laura Loomer and the Senate staffer who was just, uh, receiving testimony. And the new allegation: that wasn't the first staffer CPAC's Matt Schlapp allegedly groped. C-Block (45:17 THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Tells you something that a week ago somebody who didn't know asked me about the legendary sportscaster for whom I interned in 1978. That means he's been famous for 80 years, the last 10 of them after he passed away. The story of The Amazin' Bill Mazer.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: In his three-day orgy of insults, expanding his list of those who are "poisoning our nation's blood" from Hispanics to Africans and Asians, praising dictators and echoing Hitler, it's understandable that most of us missed it. But Trump also explained the one rug that will really tie his totalitarian room together: he's going to indemnify the police. Translation: under Trump, the cops can kill George Floyd and be certain they will face no legal liability. They can kill YOU and be certain they will face no legal liability. It is literally a license to kill, a license granted to the 700,000 police officers at all state and city levels in this nation. Who already have weapons. Who already have tanks. Who already have affinity to Trump and the fascism and white supremacism he's selling.  And now they will be freed of all restraint. And they'll owe that freedom to Trump. They will become Trump's stormtroopers and his little SS. And if invoking the Insurrection Act to use the National Guard against unarmed civilians is too sharp-edged for some of his under-Fuhrers, Trump can simply dispatch local cops to shoot up a Black Lives Matter protest. Or an anti-Cop City protest. Or just an anti-Trump protest. It may be his most totalitarian revelation since. And naturally, the New York Times follows it with an op-ed titled "The Secret of Trump's Appeal Isn't Authoritarianism” and Axios begins the last full business week of the year with 1,000 words on Trump and not one of them mentions his plan to take over the cops or his quoting Hitler or his praising Xi and Kim. Jim Vandehei and Mike Allen have shown that they - and so many other institutions we think would recoil from authoritarianism - are in fact ready to serve them, just as long as they can continue to make profits. Axios has 1,000 words on Trump and they are all positive and normalizing and praising him fo having "much greater power than in his first term and fewer restraints on carrying out his political agenda.” His political agenda is Totalitarianism, you useless slobs. B-Block (22:22) POSTSCRIPTS TO THE NEWS: Ruby Goodman and Shaye Moss are awarded $148 million from Giuliani. Giuliani re-slanders them. They sue again. He re-re-slanders them against last night. Clarence Thomas wasn't being bought; he was prostituting himself. Congressmen ask him to recuse. Mayor Eric Adams says NYC is the greatest because any day could be 9/11. (28:10) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: Wreaths Across America, Laura Loomer and the Senate staffer who was just, uh, receiving testimony. And the new allegation: that wasn't the first staffer CPAC's Matt Schlapp allegedly groped. C-Block (35:10) THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: Tells you something that a week ago somebody who didn't know asked me about the legendary sportscaster for whom I interned in 1978. That means he's been famous for 80 years, the last 10 of them after he passed away. The story of The Amazin' Bill Mazer.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

SERIES 2 EPISODE 87: COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN A-Block (1:44) SPECIAL COMMENT: Dictator-On-Day-One Trump continues to measure the windows for the new curtains in his White House, and I don't know if that has been PROCESSED on the fascist side or if we have properly done so on the, you know, Non-Dictatorship Side but it is increasingly obvious that Trump is increasingly confident that he will seize power next year. That is the ONLY possible explanation for what he has now done: leaking, to the gullible and willing stenographers from Axios Mike Allen and Jim Vandehei for publication yesterday, a set of choices for his administration that would make Jair Bolsonaro blush: Vice President Tucker Carlson, Chief of Staff Steve Bannon, CIA Director Kash Patel, Attorney General Stephen Miller, or Attorney General Mike Davis, or Attorney General J.D. Vance, Secretary of Defense Tom Cotton, Secretary of Denial Kari Lake, Secretaries-of-to-be-announced Kristi Noem, Byron Donalds, Johnny McEntee, and of course Secretary of Lecterns Sarah Huckabee.  We will never fully now, not even after the autopsy, what PRECISELY is wrong with Trump's brain but it seems clear that whatever it is one of its symptoms is that he must convince himself that he IS winning, WILL win, will ALWAYS win. Jack Smith is right and he IS a serial election denier but it's deeper than that: at his advanced age and with his advanced diseases, if he ever believed he was defeated, he would die – figuratively or maybe literally. So the greatest relief he could possibly have would be to believe, 334 days before it happens, that he has already won the 2024 election and that is how he is behaving and I'm not sure WHAT to do with that but it HAS to make him sloppy and vulnerable and better minds than ours can problem figure out which soft spot on his head to PUSH. What VALUE is there in saying “here's Tucker Carlson: psychopathic white supremacist whose career stability makes Keith Olbermann's look like that of Bob Cratchit – I'm going to put him in government. Along with Kari Lake, whose highest elected office was weekend weather-girl in Rock Island.” It's the kind of things you do NOT to rally your base and NOT to scare your opponents but because you really can't STOP yourself from doing them, and suddenly you are more convinced than ever than you can get away with them. And if that isn't a motto for the entire Trump Nazi Party I don't know what is. PLUS: Matt Gaetz is about to get Robespierred, J.D. Vance wants to get a head start on prosecutor writers. And competing January 6 Truthers fight it out over whose bullshit is true. (17:35) THE WORST PERSONS IN THE WORLD: MAGA Congresswoman McClain makes a fool of herself but not as much as would-be MAGA Congressman Philip Sean Grillo does. The NFL coach who really doesn't have to "hand it to" the 9/11 plotters. Poor Nick Fuentes and Vivek Ramaswamy pushing white supremacy without realizing that if the Trumpers run out of brown immigrants, the next people they'll purge will be... Fuentes and Ramaswamy. B-Block (33:31) FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: Mr. Preble Gets Rid Of His Wife C-Block (43:32) FRIDAYS WITH THURBER: A Box To Hide InSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sam talks with Wendy Via, Co-Founder and President at The Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, about their analysis of the publicly announced plan for "day one" of the next presidential administration (presumably headed by leading Republifascist candidate Donald Trump). Their report The Far-Right Playbook for American Authoritarianism: Project 2023 states in part, "Their aims include “bringing together conservative allies with a common goal: to take back our country from the radical Left by developing a robust governing agenda and the right people to implement it.” And it has been reported, though denied, that internal Project 2025 discussions have centered around the next conservative president invoking the Insurrection Act on the first day in office to allow the military to quell civil unrest." Learn more about Wendy and the GPAHE's work at globalextremism.org and follow them at @globalextremism. Mentioned in this episode: The Republi-Fascist Specter Looms by Paul StreetBiden's Camp Cheers on Trump's CNN Town Hall: An “Opposition” Party that is Worse than Useless by Coco Das (May 13, 2023, still relevant) Behind the Curtain: Trump allies pre-screen loyalists for unprecedented power grab by Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen (Axios)Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump's 2025 Immigration Plans by Charlie Savage, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan (NYT) The “Is Donald Trump a Fascist?” Debate Has Been Ended—by Donald Trump by Chris Lehmann (The Nation) Donald Trump Is A Fascist from Stephen ColbertDonations have surged to groups linked to conservative Project 2025 by Katherine Doyle (NBC) *Patron-Only Event coming up:"Ask Us Anything" Zoom ChatWednesday November 29 8PM ETWith Sam, Coco and Paul; sign up for $5/month at patreon.com/refusefascism for invite How to help the show? Rate and review wherever you get your podcasts; share with your friends! Get involved at RefuseFascism.org. We're still on Twitter (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@RefuseFascism⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠) and other social platforms including Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky. Plus! Sam just joined TikTok, check out ⁠⁠⁠@samgoldmanrf⁠⁠⁠. Send  your comments to samanthagoldman@refusefascism.org or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@SamBGoldman⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Record ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠a voice message for the show here. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Connect with the movement at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠RefuseFascism.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and support: · ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠paypal.me/refusefascism⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ · ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠donate.refusefascism.org⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ · ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/refusefascism⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Music for this episode: Penny the Snitch by Ikebe Shakedown Related Episodes: The Nightmare That Is House Speaker Mike Johnson Ruling Through The Courts When They Don't Have The Votes With Dahlia Lithwick Fascism in America: Past and Present --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/refuse-fascism/message

Before Jim VandeHei co-founded the media company Politico, the only thing he'd managed was the night shift at Little Caesar's pizza in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. An early passion for politics and journalism led him to Washington, D.C., where he became a political reporter for Roll Call, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. But by 2006, he could see how the internet was transforming journalism, so he walked away from the Post to co-found a digital publication—Politico—with the goal of setting the daily agenda for Washington's power elite. With the financial backing of a local media mogul, Politico took off, but Jim eventually grew frustrated managing a company he didn't own. So in 2017, he took another leap and co-founded Axios, a news website that gained a following for its bullet-point brevity, ready-made for the internet. Both companies have landed well: last year Axios was acquired by Cox Enterprises for over $500 million, and in 2021, Politico was purchased by Axel Springer for a reported $1 billion.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

How It Happened: Elon Musk vs. Twitter Part V: Cracks in the Empire explores whether Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter has made his cross-industry empire too big for one billionaire to run. Host Erica Pandey examines Musk's first months as CEO of Twitter and the simultaneous challenges facing his other companies. Reporting from around the Axios newsroom unpacks lawsuits, a federal investigation, and more facing Musk's other companies, including SpaceX, Tesla, and Neuralink. Credits: This series was reported by the Axios newsroom including Erica Pandey, Amy Pedulla, Naomi Shavin, Sara Fischer, Dan Primack, Miriam Kramer, Joann Muller, Javier E. David, Jonathan Swan, Ina Fried, Ashley Gold and Hope King. Fact-checking by Jacob Knutson. Erica Pandey hosts. Amy Pedulla is reporter-producer. Naomi Shavin is senior producer. Scott Rosenberg and Alison Snyder are the series editors. Sara Kehaulani Goo is the Editor-in-Chief and executive producer. Mixing and sound design by Ben O'Brien. Music supervision by Alex Sugiura. Theme music and original score by Michael Hanf. Special thanks to Axios co-founders Mike Allen, Jim VandeHei and Roy Schwartz. Thanks to Zach Basu, Lucia Orejarena, Priyanka Vora, and Brian Westley.