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✨ 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…

Benedict Cumberbatch, Alan Cumming and Benedict Wong urge UK to intervene in Paramount-Warner Bros merger
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/ng-interactive/2026/jul/27/tv-cinema-…

A TV and cinema calamity could be disastrous for what you watch and what you know. Act now to stop that
The Paramount-Warner Bros merger is being fought on both sides of the Atlantic. Britain’s culture secretary knows the risks and can intervene. She should, say actors led by Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict Wong

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 attacks Democrats as ‘godless communists’ in test of midterms message
President seizes on wins by Mamdani-backed candidates to warn darkly of threat to ‘traditional American way of life’

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

Source: the Trump administration is close to allowing Anthropic to restore access to Fable 5; limits could be lifted as soon as this coming week (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/27/anthropic-fable-5-return-soon

Scoop: Powerful Anthropic model, Fable 5, on track to return soon
Insiders expect the Trump administration's limits on Fable 5 could be lifted as soon as this coming week.

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…

Topambtenaren in intern memo aan kabinet: Rijksoverheid moet van X
De Rijksoverheid moet zich grotendeels terugtrekken van het socialemediaplatform X. Dat adviseert de Voorlichtingsraad, die bestaat uit de directeuren communicatie van alle twaalf departementen, aan het kabinet-Jetten.

Cowboys Headlines: What's the mindset as 2026 training camp commences? https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/27/cowboys-headlines-whats-the-mindset-as-2026-training…

And actually we gave up a LOT of the things that work to manage a commons — preventing extraction, particularly — by yielding to such distant structures. Good management requires a lot more immediate engagement.
But also what a commons _is_ is a bit weird with information.

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