Money blabbers all the way to Corruption Central Bank and Tryst

What? I’m shocked and scandalized National Guard has done little to reduce violent crime in D.C., a new study finds www.npr.org/2026/06/04/n...

Wrote a little thing about why expanding the number of justices is a time honored tradition* that used to facilitate the Supreme Court’s legitimacy for @inquirer.com (gift link!) *not sure about this headline, though—folks often used “court packing” as an epithet even in the 19th c.

The reason you see the outpouring — print, wire, broadcast — is because 60 Minutes writ large and Scott Pelley, in particular, are the gold standard and the real deal. It’s journalism as we dream of it. Bang on the door, go to the war zone, spend time, get to know the people. Tell *the* story.

The only change is in how loud they are and how openly they sling slurs.

This bill is legitimately the thing we've been waiting for. Forcing AI to reveal it's sources would cripple it, because it literally can't comply with the law, because all of it is stolen- they didn't record it Please sign to hasten the bubble popping

The Owners bought all the outlets to lie and badger ordinary citizens because they don’t like people who challenge their authority.

He's so fucking mad.

Again: Scott Pelley is a real one.

is trump just showing the same posters every press event now

Those in control are incompetent, ineffective, and a liability to the safety of this nation. Republicans are complicit.

“Children were shot in the chest while reaching for food, people were crushed or suffocated in stampedes, and entire crowds were gunned down at distribution points.” www.msf.org/horrors-ghf-...

It is worth noting that the takeover of 60 Minutes, and CBS News, is the culmination of the strategy that was baked into the launch of Substack. This is the thing we were trying to explain was bigger than just "there are nazis on there". www.anildash.com//2024/11/19/...

TV ratings aren't real. It's not like the MPAA where there's a central group that puts ratings on movies. They're self imposed by the networks because the networks didn't want an MPAA-like group to start existing for TV. That's why Y7 on Disney allows different things than Y7 on Cartoon Network.

I'll say this for the Supreme Court they're making it easier for me to convince people of the necessity and urgency of court reform

Sadly a Lot of people do not know this. Hell, a Lot of people talking about this do not know this, they think THE Best Is just liying, which Is isnt not, he Is just doing for PR what he already does to avoid taxes, pretend the money he uses isnt his, make HIMSELF "cash Poor"

What very rich people do is purchase stock or similar assets, then borrow money using them as collateral. It allows them to avoid a whole host of taxes and it's pretty much how every billionaire you've ever heard of currently operates. Elon, Zuckerberg, Bezos, etc. All of them just take out loans.

TPM editor David Kurtz reflects on all that we've lost in a decade of Trumpism: "The losses on any given day come so fast + across such a wide spectrum of civic life that it overwhelms our capacity to mourn. One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic." talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

This. Musk has lied so openly, so often that it somehow gets ignored. But he got into politics to destroy the agencies that were using federal power to investigate him and to ensure the government subsidies that make his business' function continued to flow.

Actions are so divorced from consequences in this era that I am confident Bari Weiss will continue to run CBS incompetently long after that fact has stopped being newsworthy

I’m not sure which of these is funniest in a “laughing so I don’t cry” way: 1. That he clearly used AI to generate this awful shit even by his standards 2. That this awful shit is so clearly for a single audience of Bari Weiss, trying to get her to hire him 3. That it will probably work

<<taps sign>> Bari Weiss is doing exactly what she was hired to do, which is take CBS news out of the ranks of reliable purveyors of information and transform it into a right-wing disinformation machine.

Translation: "WAAAAAHHHHH!!!! WAAAAAHHHHH!!!! I DON'T LIKE IT WHEN PEOPLE SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT ME! WAAAAAHHHHH!!!!" Weiss needs to grow the fuck up and get the fuck out of the newsroom. She doesn't respect journalism and wants everyone working under her to be nothing but professional ass-kissers.

Meanwhile, the US is trying to make the polio vaccine illegal.

The owners of this country have always hated the internet since its inception since anyone could use it to undermine their authority. That’s why purchasing and breaking it down to make it a soulless propaganda machine has been their goal since day 1.

"Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast" whew.

oh my god

many of the faculty that have been fired were critics of the administration - a chilling and shameful episode we should be following, especially those of us in higher ed

This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Also anyone with any actual experience managing a newsroom knows that if you have real reporters in your bullpen they will confront you with real questions about your intentions. If you can’t handle it, you have no business managing a newsroom.

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

American journalism and the American legal establishment are very similar actually; both demand all the rewards and accolades of fulfilling an important role in society while violently rejecting any of the obligations. Both defined by fawning sycophancy that they've defined as courage.

I do enjoy how the Daily Beast has given Bilton the moniker "TV News Virgin"

Bilton is such a crybaby. His feelings were hurt, embarrassed “in front of the staff.” You “hijacked” me, “disparage me,” “my career,” “my new role,” “my intentions” Me, me, me.

FWIW this is why, in The Originalism Trap, I say it's imperative for us to reject the idea that the Court has a monopoly on constitutional interpretation we can push for an emancipatory vision of the Constitution instead of the Supreme Court's neoconfederate nonsense bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

This careful memo leaves the false impression that Pelley chose to quit. Nick can’t even stand behind his choice.

Related lol: defector.com/boring-dunce...

Scott Pelley will be fine. And now everyone in journalism knows exactly who, and what, Nick Bilton is. I don't really believe many of these people will ever face what they deserve, but I deeply believe in the next best thing: Long memories.

"Terminated for cause" has actual legal meaning and Pelley now has the option to sue CBS for A Lot Of Money because Bilton doesn't understand how it works

yes let’s definitely have the white house correspondents dinner, where the first amendment will be celebrated. clearly there’s cause for that. absolutely. yes.

Bari Weis is burning CBS to the ground. I find that odd because I’d assume she would’ve wanted to run an effective business, but who am I to judge?

AI is worse than NFTs because it did everything NFTs did wrong to the environment on an exponential scale

A failed op-ed writer bankrolled by billionaires purging a universally liked and credible straight news journalist from 60 Minutes really has to be the height of the complete slide of American news media into a complete death spiral.

Let CBS News burn to the ground.

Scott Pelley exits with integrity in tact. Well done.

History will be very kind to Pelley. Not so much to CBS News.

This is one of those times when it’s important to recognize the asymmetry of the warfare here. For people like Weiss and Bilton and their backers, they win if they (1) corrupt CBS News OR (2) destroy CBS News and its credibility. Defenders only win by saving and preserving it.

I find it comforting that the widely shared journalism industry experience “being canned by a moron boss brought in from outside by other morons” extends all the way up to 60 Minutes. Media is still a blue collar field after all.

Murrow would be proud.

this is the most pathetic-ass letter i have ever seen