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A UK High Court judge dismisses green energy industrialist Dale Vince's data protection lawsuit against Daily Mail publisher ANL (Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/dale-vince-legal-claim-against-daily-mail-…

Dale Vince legal claim against Daily Mail publisher thrown out
Green energy industrialist Dale Vince’s High Court claim against the publisher of the Daily Mail has been thrown out by a judge.

On Monday, scores of scientists at the National Institutes of Health sent their Trump-appointed leader a letter titled the "Bethesda Declaration"
challenging “policies that undermine the NIH mission, waste public resources, and harm the health of Americans and people across the globe.”
It says: “We dissent.”
In a capital where insiders often insist on anonymity to say such things publicly,
92 NIH researchers, program directors, branch chiefs and scientific r…

NIH scientists go public with criticism over Trump cuts
President Donald Trump’s National Institutes of Health director says some employees’ critical letter to him has “fundamental misconceptions about the policy directions the NIH has taken.” Monday’s letter from NIH researchers and staffers says the Republican Trump administration’s policies waste public resources and harm people’s health. NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya in his confirmation hearings pledged openness to views that might conflict with his, saying dissent is the “essenc…

Similarweb: Google's AI tools are significantly cutting organic search traffic to news publishers; traffic to BI, HuffPost, and WaPo is down 50% in three years (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/google-ai-news

ABC is too cowed to state the obvious about Stephen Miller (Noah Berlatsky/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/abc-terry-moran-stephen-miller
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p21#a250610p21

Sources: Sony Music has acquired Hipgnosis Songs, three months after it was rebranded as Recognition Music (Kristin Robinson/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/sony-music-publishing-acquires-hipgnosis-songs-group/

Sony Music Publishing Acquires Hipgnosis Songs Group, Including Songs by Sabrina Carpenter, One Direction & More
Sony Music Publishing acquired Hipgnosis Songs Group, with hits by Sabrina Carpenter and more, months after it rebranded as Recognition Music Group.

A felon in the White House is making crime legal (David R. Lurie/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-making-crime-legal
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p17#a250609p17

Rural Republicans used to back NPR. Then MAGA changed everything.
Polarized views of public broadcasting,
along with a splintered and increasingly online media environment,
pose a problem for NPR, PBS and their audiences,
who will need some Republicans to break ranks to prevent the cuts that Trump is demanding
as part of a larger package of budget reductions that the House will consider as soon as Tuesday.

Rural Republicans used to back NPR. Then MAGA changed everything.
Polarized views of public broadcasting, along with a splintered and increasingly online media environment, pose a problem for NPR, PBS and their audiences, who will need some Republicans to break ranks to prevent the cuts that Trump is demanding as part of a larger package of budget reductions that the House will consider as soon as Tuesday.

RFK Jr.: HHS Moves to Restore Public Trust in Vaccines (Robert F. Kennedy Jr/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/rfk-jr-hhs-moves-to-restore-public-trust-in-vaccines-45495112
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p111#a250609p111

WBD says David Zaslav will be CEO of the new Streaming & Studios business, and current WBD CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels will become CEO of the Global Networks business (Jacob Pramuk/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/09/warner-bro

Warner Bros. Discovery to split into two public companies by next year
The move comes as consumers cut cords from their cable plans and companies focus on streaming.

Masked federal agents with military gear have been firing flash-bang grenades, teargas and rubber bullets at civilians in the streets of Los Angeles for the last three days.
On Saturday, Trump federalized the National Guard to help crush protests
— not just there but potentially anywhere in the U.S. where people demonstrate against federal law enforcement.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has threatened to send in the Marines.
They have come for immigrants, as they a…

LA Protests Signal Public’s Readiness to Rebel Against Anti-Immigrant Fascism
Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to crush protests against ICE’s deportation raids has only fueled the uprising.