CNN‘s Brian Seltzer (Reliable Sources, ) talks to three former press secretaries about how normal Jen Psaki is.One arena of US executive power that the media establishment is glad to have return to its pre-Trump mode is White House press relations, embodied in Joe Biden press secretary Jen Psaki. Former President Donald Trump’s press secretaries, like Sean Spicer with his iffy Holocaust history (Vox, ) and mendacious Kayleigh McEnany (Vanity Fair, ), turned any given White House press conference into a fever dream. Any spokesperson for the new administration might seem like a bit of...… CNN‘s Brian Seltzer (Reliable Sources, ) talks to three former press secretaries about how normal Jen Psaki is.One arena of US executive power that the media establishment is glad to have return to its pre-Trump mode is White House press relations, embodied in Joe Biden press secretary Jen Psaki. Former President Donald Trump’s press secretaries, like Sean Spicer with his iffy Holocaust history (Vox, ) and mendacious Kayleigh McEnany (Vanity Fair, ), turned any given White House press conference into a fever dream. Any spokesperson for the new administration might seem like a bit of...WW…

 New York Times (): “The state’s attorney general…accused the Cuomo administration of undercounting coronavirus related deaths connected to nursing homes by the thousands.”New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s moment as the “hero” of the Covid-19 crisis is fading, with revelations (New York Times, ) that his administration covered up the scope of the coronavirus death toll in the state’s nursing homes, as one Cuomo aide “admitted that the state had withheld data because it feared an investigation by the Trump Justice Department.” The anger at the governor is bipartisan; legislators on both...… New York Times (): “The state’s attorney general…accused the Cuomo administration of undercounting coronavirus related deaths connected to nursing homes by the thousands.”New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s moment as the “hero” of the Covid-19 crisis is fading, with revelations (New York Times, ) that his administration covered up the scope of the coronavirus death toll in the state’s nursing homes, as one Cuomo aide “admitted that the state had withheld data because it feared an investigation by the Trump Justice Department.” The anger at the governor is bipartisan; legislators on both...WW…

 Coda () appears to have been the first to break the story of Instagram’s Soleimani censorship, as part of the site’s focus on “authoritarian tech.”Instagram, and its parent company Facebook, took down posts regarded as too sympathetic to Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was January 3 in a controversial US airstrike. The news website Coda () was credited with breaking the news, and Newsweek () also reported thatIranian journalists have reported the censorship of their Instagram accounts. Posts about Soleimani have disappeared from Instagram, which is currently the only operational...… Coda () appears to have been the first to break the story of Instagram’s Soleimani censorship, as part of the site’s focus on “authoritarian tech.”Instagram, and its parent company Facebook, took down posts regarded as too sympathetic to Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, who was January 3 in a controversial US airstrike. The news website Coda () was credited with breaking the news, and Newsweek () also reported thatIranian journalists have reported the censorship of their Instagram accounts. Posts about Soleimani have disappeared from Instagram, which is currently the only operational...WW…