Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair." One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."

She launched her career trying to get professors fired in the name of academic freedom. Her website publishes a firehose of conservative propaganda in the name of open debate. She is now censoring factual information under the guise of journalistic accuracy.

The most impressive thing about Bari is her ability to violate ethical principles while indignantly claiming to defend them.

I think one of the lessons that the huge success of congestion pricing in NYC is that charging a nominal upfront fee- even one far less the the levellized cost you are paying for elsewhere- is very good at cutting off the bottom 5% of bad behavior that makes things worse for everyone.

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

I know some designer at Google is salty about this

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

Watching the spiked 60 Minutes episode on YouTube, thanks to @phillewis.bsky.social. It's not like the Trump admin didn't have its say. At about 4:15 mark, there is footage of Trump saying CECOT was "great facilities, very strong facilities" www.youtube.com/watch?v=lenF...

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

this is how you know bari is incapable of operating at this level. pulling rank on some desperate lackey at the free press does not equip one with the requisite skills to try and fuck over a veteran correspondent who’s been on her network’s flagship program for more than a decade.

the vice president is a klansman

The NY TWU turned opposed congestion pricing as well. Really seems like they're laser-focused on extracting the rents they can from a static or declining system rather than participating in a positive-sum program to expand transit service to more New Yorkers

To all the NYC “natives” who rail about “transplants” I’m going to start saying “your grandparents were transplants, you’re just lazy nepo baby”

Holy shit this guy sucks!

I hate to say it guys - I really want the new turnstiles to be a success but I just watched a few minutes at Broadway-Lafayette and it was kind of a mess 🙈 Backups to enter and exit. Hopefully just learning curve!

Inner Brooklyn needs a congestion pricing zone so bad. Same dysfunctional clusterfuck vibe that Lower Manhattan had until a year ago.

Blows my mind it hasn't even been a full year of congestion pricing in NYC yet. Years of cranks whining about it and then you just DO IT and everything is instantly better and everyone gets used to it and moves on. We should do good things more often! PS - T-minus 12 days to Streets Mayor Mamdani!

Tired of telling my enemies “Don’t let the door hit you on your way out.” I actually want the door to hit them now. Hard!

Gov Hochul will veto a bill to require both a conductor and a driver on every subway train, according to two sources familiar with the decision. Story to follow. Details on the bill here: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/n...

hooray

I really need a long detox from modern life. Just three months in a cabin with no screens. No software updates. No banner ads. No calling to remind you to pick up your prescription. No feedback surveys. No AI summaries. No tracking numbers. No email. No log in with Google popup. Leave me fuck alone.

I know these new stations in Rome took forever and were not cheap, but holy shit the design quality is off the charts. It sucks that on top of our cost issues, the MTA doesn’t seem to have a contemporary design bone in their body GC Madison already feels dated. IBX renders already look dated.

New York Knicks, baby

I’m trying to dispute a Lyft charge and let me just say it’s incredible how bad you have to be at customer service to make Uber look good by comparison, but they are doing it 🫡

Apple Maps already with the Line C extension to Colosseum in Rome ♥️

I say this every time I make the trip but flying from Chicago to NY or vice versa really does feel like a greatest hits tour of American infrastructure failures

I know they’re replacing it, but the decrepitude of the Newark AirTrain is w-i-l-d man

I guess people love Delta but I feel like most miserable airline experiences I’ve had in my life are with them, including two recently, including one right now. Endless rolling delays (just fucking cancel it before we go to the airport you cowards), miserable website & app, miserable service.

O’hare airport is like what if we had no places to buy good coffee but 87 places to buy popcorn??

went to bed with a mass shooting, waking up with a different mass shooting

Convo with my 6yo nephew during the Knicks game: “Why did you make that WOO noise?” Me: “He hit a 3-pointer” “What’s a 3-pointer?” Me: “When you hit a shot from behind the curved line you get 3 points instead of 2” “Do you have any kids?” Me: “No” “Who’s winning right now, white or blue?” 💀

Why is the New York to Chicago flight (and vice versa) always departing from the weirdest little gate at the airport

Not the biggest problem in the world but begging bakeries to have a single savory option (like a goddamn basic croissant) in addition to the ten thousand sweet ones

Zero shame. Worst fuckin people alive.

Never trusted her and was pretty turned off when Riders honored her at the gala a year or two ago 😩 Outer-borough car brain through and through. Next!

I’ve mostly stopped caring about online but it is wild how much stingier reposting is here than 2018-ish heyday-era Twitter

I will never get over the fact that the MTA runs two commuter rail systems, and they hate each other so much that they disagree on how they spell "railroad".

10 new PATH lines pls ma’am!

Brooo you are telling me this freak who’s lecturing us about his superior genes and phrenology can’t even do two pull-ups 😭

I accidentally clicked the AI Mode button, pray for me 🙏🏻

No idea what this group FB is pushing on me is, but the pearl-clutchers of Park Slope are flipping out about a building that is TWO stories taller than the brownstones next to it. How are these people real?? You live in New York City sir not a shire in the Cotswolds.

New York City went 12 days without a murder in November / December. That's tied for the longest stretch in history, according to the NYPD. As someone who was here when there were 6+ murders per day in this town, it continues to amaze me how safe the place is.

If they pretend they haven’t heard about the story of the day, end the interview right there. “I’m sorry, Senator, we wanted to get your perspective on this story, but it seems you’re not fully aware of what’s going on.”

this has become a very important video to me

God I really hope these work. I am ready for MODERN FARE GATES across the system.

I took the 165 NJT bus from PA to Guttenberg today for a holiday party. This was the view. I think if you showed the men who built the NYC subway the city their creation enabled, they’d be overcome w/ emotion. But if you told them how little we’ve expanded it since—they’d beat us to death w/ clubs.

jfc, yeah you gotta send someone to jail for this. the thing that separates a military from a large gang is that you don't do shit like this.

Hyuck hyuck hyuck chuckle chuckle chuckle awwww Mikey boy, what a gem you are

In the aftermath of much well-heeled panic about a potential mass exodus of New York millionaires and billionaires following the election of Zohran Mamdani, the contrary is already happening, and Manhattan luxury apartment buyers are voting with their wallets. fortune.com/2025/12/04/m...