Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way. by Ezra Klein

A huge scandal. Bari Weiss has destroyed the credibility of @cbsnews.com in record time. It’s almost impressive. Almost.

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.

there was a time where the Republican Party would have a total melt down about the idea of a Sec Def purging the Chaplains but of course they don't believe in God

now seems like a good time to remind you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free, and/or reader funded news how and where you can.

when they say "take the country back," they're not talking about winning elections

Republicans control literally every lever of federal power right now.

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It's likely there was meddling in 60 Minutes content before. Remember the executive producer of 60 Minutes stepped down, and then they did a bizarre puff piece on Anduril. May be connected, that the same day the president of CBS News also resigned.

Where is the footage Jeffrey Epstein secretly recorded of people in his houses?! We know Epstein secretly recorded people. We also know the FBI took possession of Epstein's hard drives. This footage could finally lead to justice for survivors. My article deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/where-is-t...

If Trump is right -- and the Epstein Files allegations are all a Democratic hoax -- why is DOJ redacting the files into oblivion?

Wow: Overt, unapologetic Christian nationalism from the Vice President here. Even Trump has stopped short of saying something this explicit on the topic while President.

Bari gets a heavily promoted 60 Minutes story that would be bad for the Trump administration killed:

Right, this line Vance used was a very common line used by segregationists. Here's Rep. Mendel Rivers (D-SC) reacting to the Brown decision, which he said "would bring mongrelization of the Caucasian race. He added that he for one won't apologize for being a white man."

1972. Following a screening of a film depicting violent protests on American streets led by Black people, a "pro-American" Klan leader in a business suit says he will "never apologize for being a white man."

In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."

James Talarico: The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage, but it goes on and on about forgiving debt, liberating the poor, and healing the sick. The closest thing we have to the kingdom of heaven is a multiracial, multicultural democracy where power is truly shared among all people

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.

honestly, “it’s because they’re still mad about the New Deal” is a pretty good guiding hypothesis for a lot of stuff

The Onion is within a hair's breadth of reporting real news apnews.com/video/robert...

Mifepristone is safe, the well-funded effort to persuade people otherwise is as antithetical to the factual record as “climate change is a hoax” — and if Brennan feels willing or obliged to bend the knee to her new corporate management, this seems like a telling sign of that.

Once when we wanted to show the ineffectual dithering of The Good Place Committee, we had one of them say, "There are rules, procedures. This is The Good Place -- we can't just *do stuff.*" We almost didn't include it, because we thought it was a little on the nose.

Out and proud theater kid right here 🙋🏻‍♂️

Todd Blanche’s appearance on Meet the Press was disgraceful but clarifying. The “Department of Justice” is Donald Trump’s defense team. There can be no presumption they’re acting in good faith. One has to approach them as one approached a Soviet “Department of Justice”—as propaganda, not justice.

Between the fact that his heart was two sizes too small and he seemed obsessed with the noise coming from Who-Ville, it's possible the Grinch was simply suffering from migraines caused by his untreated vascular issues.

The time to demand Bondi’s resignation or impeachment is NOW. Press them hard, put them on the defensive, and make this a key issue in the midterms. It highlights everything wrong with the GOP — cult like loyalty to Trump, complete lawlessness, elite entitlement, etc.

So, the answer is yes, he did move her to a Club Fed.

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These are quite clearly not the same photo. Clinton's face is partially obscured by Jackson's in the one from the Epstein archive. 20K reposts for this, but the premise is false, and I suspect the conclusion is as well.

You had a misspent youth if you don’t get this reference. Condolences.

It's Bari Weiss enshittifying CBS News and CBS's Public interest programming; to demonstrate the network is a platform for white supremacy and give white supremacists, Christian nationalists and racist atheist bros (academia & tech) a corroded veneer of credibility. Any other questions?

I wrote about the conservative quest to restore the "true" Constitution, the Antebellum Constitution, shorn of the egalitarian nonsense in the Reconstruction Amendments, a document that replaces equality with a society of dominators and the dominated. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

An immigrant works a dangerous job to protect Americans. It puts him in medical debt. Now he also has to worry about being deported by ICE when he goes to work or takes his kid to a soccer tournament. Feel safer?

Tulsi Gabbard was an open Putin sympathizer (Assad sympathizer too) for years before Trump and the GOP Senate put her in charge of the US intel community. Her apparent eagerness to push Russian govt propaganda, including some that’s transparently absurd, is not incidental. It’s why she got the job.

He's a serial liar. Almost every answer he's given today is clearly a lie. One of the most reprehensible of a terrible, terrible set of people - catering to the whims of a corrupt, felonious, traitorous madman.

This is part of what I mean by “slow civil war.” It’s not coming, it’s here, and there are mounting casualties.

Welker: Why did you take down the picture of Trump with young women? Blanche: We take down any pictures with victims in them. Welker: So those women with Trump were victims? Blanche:

Any reporter talking to Blanche or Bondi should fixate on: "Your redactions indicate that there were crimes and victims. How many predators have you positively identified from the documents and what is the state of the resulting investigations? When can the victims expect to see prosecutions?"

The destruction of Andrew Tate’s reputation among MAGA as an alpha male-which tells you all you need to know about conservatives-could’ve only been better if he took that beating at the hands of a female boxer

The person charged with enforcing the laws is an open lawbreaker, assisted by a team of open lawbreakers, backed by a Congressional majority indifferent to lawbreaking, supported by a Supreme Court that privileges them to break the law. It has no legitimacy whatsoever.

U.S. intelligence reports continue to warn that Putin still aims to take all of Ukraine and parts of Europe that belonged to the former Soviet empire,

Holy shit this paragraph is about the sitting President of the United States of America

It's an older relic from the last Trump era but it has I believe found its time.

This is one part of what it looks like when the government has been taken over by a fascist movement that's trying to push out its reactionary vision of national rebirth—women & racial minorities purged from positions of authority & re-subordinated, etc—through all cultural & professional spaces

I don’t know how anyone can still talk about “the AI revolution” with a straight face. Reuters story about a railroad company that has sunk $300,000 into “developing AI products” and appears to have made…a chatbot that doesn’t work? archive.is/2025.12.17-0...

This is a good reminder that hardened opposition to good ideas can dissipate like … smoke

🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files. Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out. See for yourself.

talk about the Streisand effect