this just has me thinking about how so much of this government and the movement around it is purely a matter of aesthetics. is there a strategic reason for produce a new warship? maybe. but my hunch is that this is happening because the president thinks it will look cool.

After what we're seeing at CBS, if today is not the perfect day for everyone to find some independent journalism & nonprofit newsrooms to support... what day could be better?

“Besides Antisemitism, is racism bad?”—Next CBS News TownHall

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

NEW President Clinton’s office is demanding the DOJ release all photos of him from the Epstein files along with any documents that mention him. Statement from his Press Secretary:

“Herr Himmler, our viewers need to know if you have any regrets?”

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Almost every story Weiss greenlit at the Free Press lacked sufficient context. It's kinda their entire schtick.

Incompetent courtiers being put in charge of key technical positions and then totally botching them was a recurring feature and major weakness of historical absolute monarchies and authoritarian regimes. Anyway, Bari Weiss,

Just an update: if you decided to bet against Bari Weiss, you can collect your payout now.

It’s so funny the person who started “The Free Press” is now in charge of state TV.

That’s okay. It’s not like CISA is the security apparatus for our entire digital infrastructure or anything. (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency)

The next reporter to interview vance should ask him to explain what the joke is here. bsky.app/profile/atru...

guys bari lost glem

Where those Harper’s Letter folks at

COLORADO — Trump rejects a federal disaster relief request, because the state is run by Democrats. Sen. Bennet: “Trump continues to use Coloradans for political games; it is malicious and obscene.” www.denver7.com/news/local-n...

I know that nights like tonight can feel frustrating — and they are, in fact, bad — but, I also do think that nights like this show us how many people are still striving to do good journalism with accountability at its core. And how clear it is when there are efforts to stop that journalism.

“the washington post reports that cbs news fucked up!!!” ok and then what? in 6 months jeff bezos replaces the journalist who reported that with AI and buys another one of saturn’s moons.

Trump said he’s nominating Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as US special envoy to Greenland, in the latest signal that the president retains designs on increasing US influence over the island he’s suggested he wants to purchase. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

they are not brilliant. the billionaires and institutions in this country are just more craven than we could have ever imagined, even in our most cynical imaginings. (don't tell me you could imagine. I won't give you a medal.)

So long as holding elected office is a way to get rich, we are doomed to be ruled by con artists and criminals. Among the many, many desperately needed reforms, there should be a mandatory blind trust for all federal officials, both elected and appointed.

it really is something that no one affiliated or allied with trump seems to have any sense of how to use power with subtlety and finesse.

60 Minutes, dead at 57. The murder weapon was Bari Weiss.

We've heard from these Venezuelan CECOT survivors multiple times, in human rights reports and written testimony. The NYTimes version of it got a WH quote. This is the useless kind of thing Bari needed? www.propublica.org/article/vene... www.hrw.org/report/2025/... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

Nicki’s Minaj attends a white supremacy event at TPUSA led by the grieving widow, Erika Kirk — calls Vance “the assassin”, and gushes about Trump. Could have something to with her husband failing to register as a sex offender and her brother being a child rapist vying for a pardon.

Rick Steves 😍

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

I promise you with absolute 100% certainty that we are not going to lose the House because Dan Goldman gets primaried from the left

It is soooo normal for a country to have a TV news report about its gulag system removed from the broadcast

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

baller

No one is going to tune in to CBS because they know it won’t be critical of Trump but lots of people will tune out for that reason. Spiking the CECOT story to curry favor is a terrible moral and journalistic decision — but it’s also a terrible business decision.

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

To clear the air here, because I am getting a lot of questions and feedback on this, we are cooked. Here is why:

It began in the spring, when @repdangoldman.bsky.social went to work and “saw a dozen masked ICE agents in the lobby” of his office building. He responded by turning his office into a "whole triage center" for detainees. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/how-...

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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“I love my country enough to risk its wrath by drawing attention to the negative things we don't always want to see. And that can be risky and you have to pay for that.” Martin Sheen 🇺🇸 (born Ramón Estévez) Son of immigrants Spanish father/Irish mother Lithuania is Europe 🇪🇺 #DEFENDDEMOCRACY 4/5🧵

If the past is any prologue, Bari will find a way to cast herself as the victim here, perniciously reframing running interference for an authoritarian president - spiking a segment critical of his concentration camps- as an act of brave truth-telling amidst attacks by the woke mob

"If the standard for airing a story becomes, 'the government must agree to be interviewed,' then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from being an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state." Sharyn Alfonsi

WHERE ARE THE PEOPLE!? Where is Congress? Where are they? I want to film this for my kids & my grandkids. I want them to see the day democracy died in Washington, D.C. Even George is upset 🦮 & we should all be shocked! No one is here to say this is wrong! I was born here. I'm Andrew Howard. 1/5🧵

The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.

The Ellisons and Bari Weiss killed 60 Minutes and CBS News. It's done. Just a fancier version of Newsmax now. What a sad end. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment. “Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.” wapo.st/3YL4T3D

Weiss’s suggestion to interview Stephen Miller is interesting in the context of this line from Alfonsi: “We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department.”

“One of Ms. Weiss's suggestions was to include an interview with Stephen Miller…” “Ms. Weiss also questioned the use of the term ‘migrants’ to describe the Venezuelan men who were deported, noting that they were in the United States illegally…” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

"effectively unprecedented"

oh the CBS bosses went to dylan byers? then they are definitely lying.