One of the MAJOR PROBLEMS with wealth inequality at this scale is exactly that people amass this much wealth and attendant power and then use it to say, “Policy is what I say it is, I am too powerful to offend.” They become entirely immune to policy. You can’t live that way.

Whatever will we do if billionaires start trying to figure out ways to avoid paying taxes, we should definitely not anger them so that they will continue their long track record of willingly paying their fair share

Don't promise me with a good time.

So you're telling me someone walked up to this white dude and asked, are you black?

The police said she lied about being raped. Then she hit record.

GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.

Tis the season to submit! The Swamp Ape Review is still accepting submissions for our themed zine, Survival until January 1st, which is one week from today. Click the link to submit and learn more: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Merry Christmas from me and this Namor pin-up I did for Marvel Winter Break Special #1.

Today is the day I can happily announce that my book HOW WE PLAY THE GAME is a New York Public Library pick for Best Book of 2025! Thank you YA librarians!

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New: Months before Bari Weiss pulled the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, her outlet The Free Press was joking about the megaprison Trump has lawlessly deported people to. "The hottest campaign spot…the new Jeffrey Epstein jet…the place to see and be seen." @andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social

‘60 Minutes’ Report Yanked by Bari Weiss Leaks Online After It Was Accidentally Streamed on Canadian TV App variety.com/2025/tv/news... via @variety

Jim Beam is pausing production at a Kentucky distillery for at least a year starting in 2026.

The CBS 60 Minutes Doc confirms what we knew: The U.S. is currently using our tax dollars to imprison brown people with no criminal record in torture camps overseas. It’s no wonder administration shill Bari Weiss pulled this off the air: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY7...

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

News stories about the concentration camps we run in foreign countries have to be smuggled to a third country in order to be seen.

“We have effectively handed [the Trump administration] a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient.” CBS News’ editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, pulled a 60 Minutes segment featuring the accounts of Venezuelan men sent by the Trump administration to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.

If you're having trouble watching other versions, here's an Internet Archive link for the 60 Minutes CECOT segment suppressed by Bari Weiss in the U.S.

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-...

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

sometimes technology is amazing, because you can download this. Streisand and be free!

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

Most Americans aren’t making end-of-year charitable giving plans, according to the results of a new AP-NORC poll, despite the many fundraising appeals made by nonprofits that rely on donation surges in the calendar’s final month to reach budget targets. https://to.pbs.org/4prpLIt

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...

Bourbon maker Jim Beam is halting production at one of its distilleries in Kentucky for at least a year as the whiskey industry navigates tariffs from the Trump administration and slumping demand for a product that needs years of aging before it is ready. https://to.pbs.org/4pchY11

Good riddance.

WATCH: Here's the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" last night

Wrong. The First Amendment protects our right to record law enforcement activity in public — full stop.

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

did a video a few days ago making the case for supreme court expansion www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjB_...

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

Just watched ICE creeps smashing their way into a women’s bathroom to grab someone—illegally, of course. But trans people are the danger in bathrooms?

Tyson Foods is closing its beef plant in Lexington, Nebraska, laying off 3,200 workers next month in a town of just 11,000.

Members of my family like to tease me about the fact that I don’t believe in hitting kids, but guess what? Nobody plays that mess in front of me. Every kid I know is safer in my presence. You can make fun of me all you want if you’re still gonna give me what I’m looking for. I’ll take it.

Wind and solar brings down electricity bills.

CBS News’ “60 Minutes” on Sunday didn’t air a planned story on Trump administration deportations of immigrants to El Salvador, pulling it only hours before airtime at the direction of new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss. https://to.pbs.org/3NdOJxd

The real question re: Weiss's future at CBS is whether Ellison views it as an actual business or as a propaganda outlet that will gain him power and influence with the regime. Basically, does CBS stay an actual news network or is it his version of Elon Musk's Twitter? If the latter, she stays.

Asking this seriously: has Bari Weiss ever in her career reported out an investigative story?

Tell me again how schools are biased against boys? "Boys at her school shared AI-generated, nude images of her. After a fight, she was the one expelled" apnews.com/article/scho...

OM's family xmas party in NJ has been cancelled because so many people in her family have COVID rn. Protect yourself and your loved ones. Vaccinate and wear a mask when you can.

CBS News’ editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, pulled a “60 Minutes” segment featuring the accounts of Venezuelan men sent by the Trump administration to a maximum security prison in El Salvador, a last-minute move that has since been condemned as political.

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

A reminder: Bari Weiss signed the Harper's Letter.

Bari Weiss is best understood as an anti-speech activist on behalf of power. This is through line from her start trying to get professors fired for critiquing Israel to running interference for Elon Musk to now working as regime censor for Trump at CBS www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

“I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight … Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct.” - “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi

my chapbook came out five years ago somehow. always grateful to @barrelhouse.bsky.social for putting it out, @livesinpages.bsky.social for his brilliant editing, and @housleydave.bsky.social for asking me the best question - hey, are you working on anything? www.barrelhousemag.com/books/abstin...