✨ SIG-Marcomms Meeting Recap ✨
Our communications community gathered in Helsinki right before #TNC26 for a day of discussions and shared learning. One question was on everyone's mind: how do we move from communications as a reactive function to communications as a strategic force?
What followed were discussions on crisis communications, strategic influence and a round of Lightning…
Retiring YDS Director of Communications, Tom Krattenmaker, reflects on religion, writing, and the natural world. https://divinity.yale.edu/news/2026-05-26-connection-and-community-retiring-communications-director-masters-the-ar…
Trump has previewed a Republican strategy for the midterm elections,
seizing on a progressive sweep in New York to portray Democrats as
“godless communists” who pose an existential threat to the nation.
The president, who was a child during the “red scare”, seized on wins by democratic socialists backed by the mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, to stoke fears that the Democratic party has embraced extremism that could lead to the violent persecution of Christians.
Trump tries out midterms message that focuses on 'communists' (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/26/trump-tries-out-midterms-message-that-focuses-communists/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260626/p98#a260626p98
Finding the Up-and-Coming Raiders in Klint Kubiak's Offense https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-finding-up-coming-klint-kubiak-offense
Communication directors of 12 Dutch ministries: government should leave X, to stop exposing citizens to desinformation, racism, discrimination, misogyny, and antisemitism.
https://www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/topambtenaren-in-intern…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Black Uhuru:
🎵 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
#BlackUhuru
https://taxitabou1.bandcamp.com/track/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner-extended-mix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1P5POBnYVBVTapPkPWlU9e
Don’t Do Team Meetings
Regular team meetings are often treated as a default part of work. They are seen as a sign of coordination, alignment, and healthy communication. In practice, they often reveal the opposite.
A recurring team meeting where everyone goes around the room to explain what they did last week is usually not a good use of time. It turns communication into a performance instead of a real exchange of useful information. If the team needs a formal meeting just to lear…
Trump rips Mayor Zohran Mamdani, DSA -- proclaims he'd be 'the greatest Communist in history' (Ally Goelz/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/26/us-news/prez-rips-mayor-zohran-mamdani-dsa-proclaims-hed-be-the-greatest-communist-in-history/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260626/p91#a260626p91
OpenAI hopes to make GPT-5.6 generally available in the coming weeks and says "this kind of government access process" should not become the long-term default (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-limits-