No need to watch “60 Minutes,” as Bari Weiss has made it a tool of the Trump Administration. Luckily, there is Frontline.

‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’ Bari Weiss speaking power to truth. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Requiescat in pace. Christine Choy, Documentarian of Asian American Life, Dies at 76 Christine was bold, brash, unafraid of unaccountable power, and wickedly funny. I miss her. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/m...

"Killing Us Softly" - the RFKJr story. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/h...

Good deep cut!

Good rebuttal to @mattyglesias.bsky.social

The darkening of democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...

ICE is going after people who commit fewer crimes than U.S. born citizens. They're robbing people, hurting people, using racial profiling, violating due process, hurting children, and going after American citizens while they do. This is an illegal criminal enterprise from head to toe.

Powerful

I agree.

Accurate.

Pam Bondi not only runs a pro-crime DOJ (for Trump loyalists), she is systematically trying to put people who disagree with her at mortal risk. Please read this piece by @propublica.bsky.social about vaccine fraud. www.propublica.org/article/pam-...

Lovely memory of Rob Reiner from @stephenking.bsky.social : www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o...

I have a suggestion for David Ellison: Instead of trying to buy WB, why don’t you grow Paramount by hiring talented artists to make great movies? Keep it simple. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/o...

Go Hoosiers! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/u...

Read this great piece by James Ball on the right-wing assault on attempts to identify disinformation. www.theverge.com/features/839...

Worth recalling.

"...the high court in full-on mask off, pants down, throwing in for Trump." rsn.org/001/the-supr... From @dahlialithwick.bsky.social

Good piece on how Hegseth and Trump are trying to normalize casual cruelty, lawlessness and murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

RCFP on the NY Times Lawsuit against DOD. www.rcfp.org/nyt-pentagon...

Clearly stated. Murder.

Important! But will Netflix change its algorithmic approach just to please those pesky viewers who value artistic integrity and social issues?

The administration may be gearing up for an armed attack on Venezuela that is being justified as part of the war on drugs — even as Trump announced he is pardoning former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernández, who is serving a 45-year prison sentence for drug trafficking. wapo.st/49LrEvh

Thank you, RFK, Jr kentuckylantern.com/2025/11/25/t...

Indeed: “Appeals Court Says Alina Habba Is Unlawful U.S. Attorney”https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/nyregion/alina-habba-unlawful.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

Combatting enshittification one click at a time: 1) Spotify is a terrible service which pays artists poorly and engages in algorithms that, over time, limit choice. Consider instead Tidal (better) or Qobuz (best, for now). 2) Want a book? Don't order from Amazon. Instead...

@forbes.com @nytimes.com @democracynow.org @maddow.bsky.social @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social Just saw a great interview with Alex Gibney his new documentary The Bibi Files! WHAO NELLIE & Netanyahu literally playing Trump on his being investigated-he parrots Trump precisely! Why is felon pushing this👇🏻

Good piece on the "hug Bibi" strategy by @benrhodes.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o... To see how petty corruption led to genocide, watch "The Bibi Files."

💯. It's not these patriotic citizens' fault they're being used as performative props by a corrupt, mendacious, and deranged president. They deserve our kindness and respect, and now, devastatingly, our deepest concern and sympathy. 😢

Murder most foul. open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

Good summary.

"Frankenstein" is great! Visually stunning and a wonderful tech bro allegory.

Good headline.

Good piece. Trump as the USA's Mohammed bin Salman. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/22/o...

Yes, for those in Australia, DocPlay!

As Trump pushes for a pardon for Netanyahu, it's a good moment to watch "The Bibi Files." www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9wS... It's available in the US on Amazon Prime and Apple TV.

If he knows so well who they were, let him give us their names.

RIP Tatsuya Nakadai. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/m... I recall his line, as he is about to die at the end of Kurosawa's "Yojimbo": "jigoku no iriguchi de, matteru ze..." "I will be waiting for you at the gates of hell."

Lucy and Charlie Brown. Mike Johnson will always pull away the football. The only option is to aim the foot away from the ball and, bend it like Beckham, toward Mike's teeth.

How many times...?

A peek behind the resignations of the BBC execs. A formerly great institution fails to live up to aspirations and cravenly bows down before MAGA. archive.is/XIerK

What lessons to take away from the sandwich guy's not-guilty verdict. www.rsn.org/001/the-sand...

No taxes for the rich and no food for the poor. Seems fair, right? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

Pete Hegseth: The killer-in-chief.

Run awaaaaay!

You just know someone working for Krisi Noem pushed his deportation so the death would not be on US soil. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

All the pearl-clutching about Zohran Mamdani--by right-wingers who elected a half-senile old TV star president--is very amusing. For once the shoe is on the other foot.

Hope is alive!

Go Maine! mainemorningstar.com/2025/10/30/b... The only way to end political corruption is to regulate contributions.