I just explained the entire Nuzzi-Lizza saga to my parents. It took 20 minutes. Merry Christmas.

Can we all shut up about Die Hard and finally proclaim Eyes Wide Shut as the true champion Christmas movie?

“Demotion zone” would be a good band name.

Sometimes, people, criticism isn’t a sign that you’re a brave truth-teller, standing strong in the face of condemnation from the backwards masses who will SOMEDAY see how right you are. Sometimes it just means your take is wrong. Super, super wrong.

Notable that this piece casts the CBS journalists’ reaction as how they “feel” about their piece and what they’re “used to.” Inherently denigrates their concerns. But hey nice try.

A thing that haunts me is that in Father of the Bride it’s a whole thing that Steve Martin taught his daughter how to play basketball and then you see her play and her shot is I’m sorry absolute dogshit. Just two hands, no aim. Nancy Meyers you should have written this lady with some gd game.

Reading these latest Epstein files and my hot take is that this man was a monster.

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

I’m so glad we’re all talking about the 60 Minutes spiked story, and also I’m developing hives by thinking about all the little questionable decisions that must be happening all the time in newsrooms that the world never hears about.

I probably wouldn't have seen that 60 Minutes segment if they had just run it normally!

I’m so glad we’re all talking about the 60 Minutes spiked story, and also I’m developing hives by thinking about all the little questionable decisions that must be happening all the time in newsrooms that the world never hears about.

Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

Two of my main accomplishments of 2025 are (1) introducing my therapist to the phrase “bitch eating crackers” and (2) in doing so, making her *really* laugh.

I have never, once in my career, heard of a news org responding to a decline-to-comment with, “Well, we’ll hold it until you do.” The reason is obvious — it gives the subject of your story a pocket veto.

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

Ok but seriously part 8 pdf

If only there were a critically acclaimed film about whether CBS execs censoring "60 Minutes" ends up bringing more attention to the story they were trying to suppress. Video unrelated: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGOb...

Actually what am I even saying, DO threaten me with a good time, that sounds fun.

FINALLY someone’s gonna settle this once and for all.

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IM GONNA LIVE FOREVER

This poor woman. How isn’t that any amount of publicity earns a woman death threats and harassment?

This is going to trigger another round of abuse for this woman but the basic facts appear to be that she was separated at the time and so was the CEO. She recoiled on the jumbotron because her husband was attending the same concert.

There is a smart and fair and nuanced conversation to be had over discrimination (whether real or perceived) against white men and lol we as a society of course won’t have it

I have so many things I want to write, wild stories, genuinely (IMHO) smart observations, but can’t because — job, no opinions, etc. And like. It makes me wonder what kind of cool shit would be out there if journalists writ large just got to say stuff.

It is ALWAYS time for this. We all need a laugh.

NEW: Humanitarian officials staged a last-minute plea to Trump officials at their fancy hotel to re-start food aid $ for a huge refugee camp in Kenya. The Trumpers blew it off and babies starved. @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy www.propublica.org/article/keny...

Heterosexual marriage is your partner explaining a subwoofer over and over to you while you calmly inform him over and over again that when he watches Great British Bake Off it's cracking the upstairs windows.

ok where's my part 6 pdf asking for a friend

I’m screaming. I’m screaming so hard. I’m screaming until my eyes go bloodshot and I vomit in every direction.

Man that Curious George just never faces consequences for his actions does he

A question for the older-than-me people: Has there been another time you can remember when there was such a persistent feeling among so many people of “holy shit things are bad”?

This entire weekend

Seriously might watch Wake Up Dead Man like weekly for a while. Balm for the soul. (Also probably a double header newsletter coming: (1) movies about faith and (2) that period when I thought I was going to be a pastor)

i don't think this is even a real statistical anomaly anymore. it seems like there's someone in the crowd at every mass shooting who has been through it before. this doesn't have to be our shared cultural experience.

Wait guys is that Santa Baby song sexual?

This is 5000% true.

Watching Wake Up Dead Man and oh my goodness can we please get more smart movies about faith pls thx

Ok but also who the fuck is betting on the next fed chair

Was about to make an “is it possible to die of the flu” joke and then realized it isn’t much of a joke so anyway send ginger ale and heroin

White House reporters can no longer stay silent or supine when Trump attacks a colleague as “piggy,” “nasty” or “obnoxious.” And they can do it by asking, as many times as it takes, another version of the question that triggered him in the first place. My latest via CJR www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

I’m going to scream

🚨New research in SPPS: Call a dish plant-based meat and people think it will taste worse + looks “less manly.” Sexist beliefs made this even stronger. Results of nearly 1400 meat eaters across 2 studies w/ Salmen, @nadirafaber.bsky.social & Krings Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I’m not reading all that, Ryan. I’m happy for you tho. Or sorry that happened.

How millennial am I? I teared up listening to the Dave Matthews Christmas Song on the way to daycare this morning.

My most basic bitch belief is that retail therapy is magic.

I highly recommend having a parent who's a farmer for a lot of reasons (work ethic, etc.)...but a big one is, after the president announces a farm bailout program, you can call said parent and say "so uh...how much will this help you?"

The longer I work and talk to other women the more I realize that wowee zowee blatantly discriminatory shit still happens. Like 1970s-level “nah we want a man for that job” shit. Men, you really have no idea.

Let me just say: I have run more than a dozen marathons and an ultramarathon and I have worked 13-hour days in a cornfield in the scorching-ass sun, and none of those things broke me like breastfeeding. It’s not a question of will. I am a determined person. Sometimes your body just WONT DO IT.

Apropos nothing, the estate tax only applies to the VERY BIGGEST ESTATES.