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Matt Rivera retweeted
YES!
Here's the thing: We don't have network numbers...yet
But we built this all from SCRATCH.
Just a small group of people united around the idea that we could cover elections (and politics more broadly) smarter and faster than what's on TV
This is the future. Period.
A few stray media winners and losers after last night (don’t take it personally):
Winners
Online streamers: Hasan Piker, Piers Morgan and Chris Cillizza/Chuck Todd had huge numbers. Still a long way from traditional TV but this will be a space to watch in the next few election cycles.
NewsNation: They were the first national TV news outlet to call the House by a country mile, beating MS NOW by 45 minutes or so. Still have real challenges ahead given the larger linear TV business, but they deserve props.
MS NOW: A year ago MS NOW didn’t even have its own entire news division, it was still building it out post-NBC News split. Now it will reap the rewards of an election night where its viewers were engaged and could highlight its own talent.
Kornacki/Velshi/King/Nerds in general: It was a good night for the data nerds, who all had a chance to shine, many on their own dedicated streams.
Losers
ABC, NBC and CBS: For whatever reason, there was very little chatter about broadcast network coverage last night... what will the TV ratings show?
Fox News: In the medium and long run, the channel will be fine, but past election cycles suggest that their ratings will be depleted for at least a few weeks, and possibly months.
Media CEOs: Congressional Democrats are going to investigate all of the media and tech deals that have taken place over the past couple of years, and those CEOs will be in the spotlight, and may be forced to testify.
Matt Rivera retweeted
A few stray media winners and losers after last night (don’t take it personally):
Winners
Online streamers: Hasan Piker, Piers Morgan and Chris Cillizza/Chuck Todd had huge numbers. Still a long way from traditional TV but this will be a space to watch in the next few election cycles.
NewsNation: They were the first national TV news outlet to call the House by a country mile, beating MS NOW by 45 minutes or so. Still have real challenges ahead given the larger linear TV business, but they deserve props.
MS NOW: A year ago MS NOW didn’t even have its own entire news division, it was still building it out post-NBC News split. Now it will reap the rewards of an election night where its viewers were engaged and could highlight its own talent.
Kornacki/Velshi/King/Nerds in general: It was a good night for the data nerds, who all had a chance to shine, many on their own dedicated streams.
Losers
ABC, NBC and CBS: For whatever reason, there was very little chatter about broadcast network coverage last night... what will the TV ratings show?
Fox News: In the medium and long run, the channel will be fine, but past election cycles suggest that their ratings will be depleted for at least a few weeks, and possibly months.
Media CEOs: Congressional Democrats are going to investigate all of the media and tech deals that have taken place over the past couple of years, and those CEOs will be in the spotlight, and may be forced to testify.
Matt Rivera retweeted
🚨BIG NEWS 🚨
"The Projection" -- the live election night show featuring @chucktodd, @DecisionDeskHQ, @grace_panetta and me! -- totaled almost 1.5 MILLION streams across all social channels on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning.
HUUUUUUUGE
And, yes, there's much more to come. Watch this space.
Matt Rivera retweeted
Chuck Todd, Chris Cillizza to host live election night broadcast axios.com/2026/10/26/chuck-t…
Matt Rivera retweeted
A Mexican environmental group says burned dolphins and turtles are washing up after SpaceX launches.
Fishermen who already pay cartels to work are being pushed farther out, and some have been arrested in U.S. waters.
@yvirgin of @KABBFOX29 on the ripple effects of Starbase along the border: "It's a whole domino effect."
Matt Rivera retweeted
Exclusive @axios: Sinclair is launching a national news brand on @Substack
—Focus is on subscriptions
—Will leverage talent, stories from local networks
—CEO Chris Ripley acknowledges failed efforts, like Circa, in an interview, but says he's mitigating risk this time by launching the venture with New Media, a production upstart from @TheFP alums
axios.com/2026/10/06/sinclai…
Matt Rivera retweeted
Newly launched on Substack!
It’s great to finally be able to share that the @NationalPressHQ is now live!
Local news is national news. It crosses community, county and state lines, and impacts people in real ways.
Sign up now to stay ahead of the conversation on the ground.
axios.com/2026/10/06/sinclai…
Matt Rivera retweeted
Americans are looking for a new type of news. It’s easy to understand why.
Introducing The National Press.
Bringing together 1,200 local reporters from 60+ stations across America—all in one place.
Subscribe today: thenationalpress.link/4ARUog…
It’s great to finally be able to share that the @NationalPressHQ is now live!
Local news is national news. It crosses community, county and state lines, and impacts people in real ways.
Sign up now to stay ahead of the conversation on the ground.
axios.com/2026/10/06/sinclai…
Matt Rivera retweeted
Oscar-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, director of a 2026 documentary about Elon Musk, tells @chucktodd that @elonmusk has already threatened to sue him.
@alexgibneyfilm: “So am I worried that people won't get to see this film? Yes. I'm hopeful. And we keep spreading the word about instances where it may seem that, the powers of censorship were coming down.”
Watch the full conversation on the Noosphere app:
noosphere.app/musk-filmmaker…
Matt Rivera retweeted
This weeks episode of Sunday Night with @chucktodd is now LIVE featuring @AbdulElSayed . Link to watch is here: noosphere.app/abdul-el-sayed…
EXCLUSIVE: Abdul El-Sayed tells @ChuckTodd he would go on Bill Maher’s show despite the “terrible things Bill Maher has said about people like me.”
@AbdulElSayed: “I wanna give people the image of watching him get his ass whooped on his own show by a guy who prays like I do.”
Full quote below.
Watch more on “Sunday Night with Chuck Todd,” only on @noosphereapp.
Matt Rivera retweeted
@AshleyJudd: Well, if we applied to the material and lived reality of women's existence, the 14th amendment, then maybe the First Amendment would do better. And there wouldn't have, you know, rich pornographers who torture women and call that protected speech.
Watch her full conversation with @chucktodd on the Noosphere app
noosphere.app/untitled-165/
Matt Rivera retweeted
@AshleyJudd tells @chucktodd, “AI is not the problem. It’s the consciousness that’s creating it.”
Stay tuned for this week’s episode of #SundayNightwithChuckTodd, airing Sunday night @6 p.m. ET - only on the Noosphere app.
I watched Alex Gibney's epic 4-hour documentary "Musk," which premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
My takeaways:
Ashley St. Clair offers tons of behind-the-scenes detail — including Signal chats with Elon.
She also shares a stunning claim about Election Day 2024 …
(1/7)
This isn't the hit job Musk claims. At times, it bends over backward to be fair.
But it pierces Musk's mythos, playing some stories twice to expose contradictions and posing open questions:
- What's with all the kids?
- What is he doing with all that data?
(6/7)