The numbers are in. More people watched the bootlegged 60 Minutes CECOT segment than watched Trump’s Kennedy Center Honors on CBS.

Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.

Another fascinating read from the folks at @longlead.com @sarahrogers.bsky.social Kate Bennis

If you’re a fan of 1980s hockey, this is the Christmas album for you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b15...

Probably the best Christmas Eve news I've ever reported: The VA is legally required to build homes for unhoused veterans in Los Angeles — and homeless vets nationwide might be able to sue for shelter, too. @longlead.com has been covering this story for 4 years — and we're not stopping here!

Really enjoyed talking to David Herbert about his latest piece for @esquiremag.bsky.social. Hope you do too. And happy whatever you do or don't celebrate.

+1 on this. Tragically under publicized. It's a good surprise binge for anyone kicking back this week.

!! 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)

@rollingstone.com has named LONG SHADOW: BREAKING THE INTERNET one of the Best Podcasts of 2025, calling it "one of the most impressive podcasts to hit the airwaves this year." Start listening today wherever you get your podcasts.

If they don’t get God on the record for this thing I’m gonna be pissed.

Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!

She's running.

This is the best thing you'll read today, whatever day you read it.

Congratulations to @calebgayle.bsky.social, whose new book "Black Moses" was named a best book of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Kirkus, and Publishers Weekly!

You deserve something good tonight. Check this out — It'll make you feel the warm fuzzies on the inside.

I've been a fan of @taberski.bsky.social's podcasts for ages—especially when some of them (9/12, Surviving Y2K) collided with topics that @vermontgmg.bsky.social and @longlead.com covered very differently in our LONG SHADOW podcast (see seasons 1 and 4). There's more than one way to tell a story!

Okay, I admit it. I would watch one of Bari Weiss’s CBS debates — if, and only if, it was about whether “The Last Jedi” was a good Star Wars film.

Do you remember when the broadcast networks declined to air primetime speeches by Obama and Biden they deemed too overtly political? Because I do apnews.com/20ccd7a90e43... www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...

It’s been 12 hours, and I’m surprised that I haven’t seen this dubbed over footage from the Nuremberg rally yet.

On December 17, 1944, the U.S. approved the end to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, declaring that "evacuees" could return to their homes on January 2, 1945.

Following Sunday's Bondi Beach shooting, Australian lawmakers are already working toward creating stronger gun measures to prevent mass shootings in the future. So why aren't gun laws in the U.S. changed so swiftly?

This @longlead.com piece on twins is the tonic for this moment... A lovely, lighthearted journalism feature that asks deeper questions about belonging and unity. What do twins know that the rest of us don't? Take a break from doom-scrolling and check it out here: twins.longlead.com

ngl, but the face-eating leopards being shocked to realize they just spent months being interviewed by face-eating leopards of another stripe, only to realize these other face-eating leopards where planing to eat their faces the whole time... well that's some pretty rich stuff.

You know what rocks? When @rollingstone.com names your podcast one of the year's best. Congratulations to @vermontgmg.bsky.social and my colleagues at @longlead.com who put out this sharp, relevant piece of audio journalism. Listen here—and wherever you get your podcasts: www.longshadowpodcast.com

You know what rocks? When @rollingstone.com names your podcast one of the year's best. Congratulations to @vermontgmg.bsky.social and my colleagues at @longlead.com who put out this sharp, relevant piece of audio journalism. Listen here—and wherever you get your podcasts: www.longshadowpodcast.com

This @parkermolloy.com interview with @seamushughes.bsky.social was probably my favorite issue of DEPTH PERCEPTION this year. Seamus is a scoop machine, and you can read his work at @courtwatch.bsky.social. Read the interview with his fantastic journalistic origin story here:

In a moment ruled by division, when genuine human connection feels like a relic of another time, what do twins know that the rest of us don't? Take a break with DOUBLE MEANING, a pleasant, heartwarming photo feature and documentary short that's the latest feature from @longlead.com.

More simply: Yes. Very much so.

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

Read Long Lead's feature AN UNNATURAL DISASTER to learn more about Canaan and how its citizens built their city by hand only to experience their democracy's fall: haiti.longlead.com

A new group of 230 Kenyan police arrived in Haiti on Monday to fight gangs who have taken over the Caribbean country's capital of Port-au-Prince. 📷: Clarens Siffroy/AFP via Getty

My favorite thing about getting a print copy of The Onion is, after reading it, leaving it in public places like the airport, coffee shops, and doctors' offices for other people to think it's serious.

Important Star Wars question: Palpatine is definitely dead at this point and these Sora Star Wars videos can't bring him back, again, right?

So, a couple months back, I interviewed Nicholas Thompson, the CEO of The Atlantic, for @longlead.com's Depth Perception newsletter. At one point, I asked him about the deal they made with OpenAI, and he explained the thought process behind why they did it. (Link in next post) 1/

Sorry Hallmark, pack it up now and bring your A-game out on Valentines. The Portland Japanese Garden is selling the perfect 2025 Christmas card.

Sorry Hallmark, pack it up now and bring your A-game out on Valentines. The Portland Japanese Garden is selling the perfect 2025 Christmas card.

1. Paramount's hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery exposes Jared Kushner's game Kushner is not running a private equity fund. He's running an influence peddling operation. It's spelled out on page 42 of Paramount's new SEC filing

So, the "Unaffordable Care Act," right?

During WWII, the US incarcerated more than 120,000 Japanese people—most were American citizens. Read the survivors’ testimonies below. As of Nov. 30, the Trump administration has incarcerated 65,753 people of Hispanic descent. You’re living through history—don’t look away.

It's been 6 years—here's what else happened on Jan. FIFTH: • Bannon had a plan to kill Biden's presidency "in its crib" • Oath Keepers stockpiled guns and held secret meetings with Proud Boys • Trump pressured Pence in the Oval • Alex Jones stoked the crowd the night before Kash Patel's 1/6 rally

This @davejorgenson.bsky.social interview by @parkermolloy.com is wonderful — I had no idea he got his start on The Colbert Report! Read and subscribe to DEPTH PERCEPTION for other even juicier... um... bits?

Yes, because we don't want foreign fact checkers coming in and taking fact checking jobs from Americans. Obviously this is a huge problem in need of addressing, immediately.

Lead Post reporter on that story Alex Horton served in the infantry in Iraq.

If it wasn't already busted, @vermontgmg.bsky.social and @longlead.com definitely broke the internet. I mean, this is what LONG SHADOW's listeners enjoyed most:

For the past few months, I've been wearing this t-shirt on all my Costco runs.

Twins have a bond that can’t be understood by “singletons,” or what they call people who aren’t twins. In DOUBLE MEANING, photojournalist Sarah Rogers and filmmaker Kate Bennis made the trek to the annual Twins Days Festival, a gathering to celebrate multiples being the same, but different.

@davejorgenson.bsky.social is betting on himself. The journalist — who launched The Washington Post's TikTok, amassing nearly 2 million followers by making news funny and accessible — has launched his own social-first media company with the goal of making news more palatable for audiences.

John Berman is incredibly under appreciated.