I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:

Here is the full CECOT torture prison segment that CBS tried to kill to appease Trump. Please spread it far and wide. YouTube: youtu.be/F81WnOyDXD4?... Substack: open.substack.com/pub/qasimras...

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?

Why?

Show us the money! The money for the people in need. Stop using our tax dollars on cosplay. #keystonekash

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The story, where correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi spoke to deportees who had been sent to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison, was held because Bari Weiss sought to add perspective from the White House.

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Curious to learn more about CECOT? Hear Juan, Andry, and Wilmer share firsthand how the Trump administration branded them as gang members without evidence and deported them to the brutal El Salvadoran prison. This @pbsnews.org documentary is available on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lku5...

"A clan of pedophiles wants to destroy our democracy. To keep Epstein's list from coming out, they send warships to kill fishermen and threaten our neighbor with invasion for their oil." - President of Colombia Gustavo Petro.

To be clear, this should be one of the biggest scandals to ever reach the presidency. DOJ - after illegally scrubbing Trump from the Epstein files - is retroactively removing files they missed that would be embarrassing to the President. It’s a complete affront to Justice.

U.S. regulators have the structural integrity of a grade school paper maché project caught in an afternoon thunderstorm

The Heritage Foundation’s road map for a conservative presidency proposed sweeping media reforms. Trump carried out most of them—and he has three years left, by Ivan Nagy. www.cjr.org/analysis/how...

Re-upping the back page of the current @theonion.com print edition in light of Bari’s new explanation below

Big kudos to 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi for blowing the whistle on Bari Weiss, telling her colleagues in an email that Weiss ‘spiked the story’ after ‘the story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices’. www.wsj.com/business/med...

This is Bari Weiss in stonewalling, chin-out, "I won't let the haters get to me" mode. Whether she gets away with it will be determined by whether Sharyn Alfonsi's colleagues at 60 Minutes and CBS News decide to fight back. Pelley, Stahl, Cooper--this decision goes on everyone's permanent record.

🧑‍🌾 SPOTTED in Jackson County, Wisconsin…

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.

If you're a staffer at 60 Minutes who worked on that CECOT segment that got yanked by Bari Weiss at the last minute, figure out a way to leak it. Not saying it's an easy decision or there won't be consequences, but ask yourself why you got into journalism in the first place.

CBS News now has to decide if it's a news organization or a White House propaganda instrument. If it is the former, Bari Weiss should lose her job over this decision, and CBS News staffers should go public and say she does not have their confidence. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Upon review, we found multiple accuracies in the segment and decided the safest course of action was to delay its release.

60 MINUTES CORRESPONDENT: “Our story was screened 5x and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.” #CBSNewsMAX #BariWeiss www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

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ICYMI — thousands protested ICE in MINNEAPOLIS…

‘Slap in the face’: Epstein victims slam release of heavily-redacted files https://aje.io/a0ado4

Great article: “Why Americans are Dying Younger? NIH Is Not the Problem. Our Broken Healthcare Delivery Is” Bhattacharya keeps pointing to US morbidity & mortality as an NIH failure. But his argument quickly falls apart. academic.oup.com/jid/advance-... @gregggonsalves.bsky.social

Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout. With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections. missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...

Wow! And yet, I’m old enough to remember when our government at least tried to take care of everyone in the community.

Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House. If they wanted to lower your health care costs, they would. The truth is: Republicans do not care one bit if your health care premiums explode.

If the coverup makes Trump look this guilty, just imagine what the documents contain.

New from Nick Turse of @theintercept.com who first broke the “double tap” story

This is one of the pictures the Justice Department removed from the Epstein files release: A picture of a table with framed photos of Epstein and famous people. There are two photos of Trump in the picture — including one of him surrounded by women in bathing suits.

From last night from @andrewperez.bsky.social, Melanie Riehl, and me for @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/trump-epst...

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Wrote about the Epstein Files. The redactions,the political point scoring, an administration that has long lost the benefit of the doubt, and why this very real conspiracy (with victims who deserve real accountability and transparency) won’t go away

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.

👀👀👀👀 We knew this already, but shocking to hear a prosecutor say it out loud.

This 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

How MAGA operates: 1. Promise to release Epstein files. 2. Refuse to release Epstein files. 3. Get Mike Johnson to recess House to delay Epstein vote. 4. Finally relent under pressure and approve bill to release Epstein files. 5. Make only a partial release, violating the very law you approved.

Lede buried in paragraph three: “But the release fell short of the comprehensive disclosures required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act, a law passed last month.” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Trump thinks complying with the law means releasing entirely redacted Epstein files like this. This is a brazen cover up and deeply disrespectful to survivors. Pam Bondi must release ALL the files NOW.

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Say it with me: IMPEACH PAM BONDI Every member of Congress voted to release the Epstein files except for one holdout. The DOJ blew the legal deadline because they’re running cover for Trump. Bondi broke the law.