These declines are MASSIVE. And the comparative silence in media coverage is absolutely DAMNING. “Why are ppl always so afraid of crime?” THIS is why. When crime goes up, media trips over itself to report it. Falls to pre-war (!!) levels? Just CRICKETS.

This is a model for what actual masculinity should be. Men don’t need to spend more time in caves beating their chests with other men; they need to take their daughters to a meaningful thing and talk to them about it. Relatedly I think the biggest cure for toxic masculinity is platonic women friends

Notice how we aren't seeing diner style interviews with Trump supporters now that everything is shit.

Bari Weiss is incompetently debasing herself for her evil boss, and ironically enough so is Kat Rosenfield, the FP's "culture writer"

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.

Global TV is a low-effort conservative-leaning private network, and this wasn’t “treachery” this was “it was the weekend before Christmas and they just broadcast the episode that was sent to them digitally by CBS on Friday”, no one in the office on the weekend even if CBS tried to warn them

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?

oh no Laura shoot I can’t believe no one warned you, a Jewish woman, about this kind of thing, wow dang this must be super upsetting ok byeeeeee

that graeme wood piece on bari weiss might be the worst thing i have read coming out of the atlantic in years

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

I just wrote an article about this and decided not to publish it yet. It is in the DOJ files (file got renamed after originally published and taken down. It’s online now). But too many unknowns about whether the letter itself is real or not. Some additional info though:

""I want people to know what happened to him, a man who lived 30 years here, hardworking, paid taxes, and they treated him like an animal," said Gantchev's wife,"

If you know who is sending out the takedown notices at or for CBS tonight, let me know! Signal: crg.32

one of the critical things here is that 90 percent of journalism has been destroyed, and the remaining 10 percent is what was once the top 10 percent, highly status-driven, highly opinion-driven, and intensely New York/DC centered. there's no ladder to come up as a journeyman left.

If your teen drama was airing episodes in fall 2001, a PA had to find a Troop to stand behind your cutie headliners or everyone would think The WB hated America

Between the TP USA rally, the 60 Minutes CECOT piece and the daily ICE horror show videos, there should be no doubt this regime is 100% capable of genocide, concentration camps, the whole works.

How about you be jamiroquiet

A few years ago there was a woman who posted something along the lines of “so I went on a date with a guy and he just sent me a wheel of cheese???” I think expecting everyone to go wow what a weirdo but instead everyone was like “u should marry the cheese man”

This is the conservative/Bari Weiss vision of free speech: wherein conservatives are free to control all speech

She’s really going to hate it when not a single person says “Actually she’s playing 3-D chess”

it’s really fucking cool to see people working outside the system to expose the hacks running all of our crumbling institutions

"For reasons only you know, you aligned the Heritage Foundation with the rising tide of antisemitism on the right."

Bari Weiss still having the temerity to call herself a "centrist" after openly acting as Trumpworld's highly-placed apparatchik & propagandist is exactly why they gave her the roles of highly-placed apparatchik & propagandist.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.

Weissand Effect

this DOJ is 100 percent unready for what happens when a bunch of Ayn Rand-reading Ivy Leaguers go up against a united front of women raised by The Spice Girls (complimentary)

Censorship is just one of multiple steps before we reach full on fascism folks. Get your head out of your ass.

Objectively funny that Trumpists have used the foregone conclusion that Bill Clinton is implicated in the files as an excuse for not releasing them and then Bill just rolls up like “If I die I die”

BREAKING: Judge James Boasberg rules for those deported under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 — certifying a class, finding the U.S. maintained constructive custody over them at CECOT, finding they were not given due process, and ordering return or that such process be given by Jan. 5, 2026.

The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.

SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

This beautiful child's death and blood is on the hands of every single elected official in this country that has refused to deal with the realities of and strategies to prevent gun violence. He was clearly a blessing in life, and may his memory be a blessing in death. people.com/parkland-sch...

Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

"Babies in the randomized, controlled trial will or will not receive the vaccine at birth... "It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

AI advocates: you really need to learn to stop coming off to subject matter experts in other fields as if you’re Kool-Aid manning into the room and going “you’re dumb not to use these tools for your trivially easy jobs” you may think this is an unfair read on your intentions, but life is unfair.

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

too optimistic?

“‘My most daring idea is to refuse,’ she said to applause.”

why does she look like a marionette in a high-school production of “Moulin Rouge”

will note, neither for the first nor the last time, that this admin from top to bottom has zero message discipline and no coherent communications strategy whatsoever, everyone’s freelancing, all the time

This is right, but it was also starting to be obvious in July and August — which is why Ezra's efforts to kowtow to MAGA with the Charlie Kirk praise and anti-abortion nonsense was not only morally wrong, but silly. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/o...

My first story for @nytimes.com: a profile of Rachel Reid, bestselling author of Heated Rivalry. Still pinching myself!

Around half of San Francisco is without power right now and something like 1/3rd of intersections I drove through had waymos stopped in the middle of them making a dangerous situation even worse. Do not let Waymo into your city.