If you needed more evidence that Bari Weiss isn't the sharpest crayon in the box, the fact that she (a) personally spiked the story (b) in a way that left her fingerprints all over the decision (c) at the last possible minute, thus guaranteeing maximal exposure and blowback.

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

This credulous NYTimes article makes exactly one reference, near the end, to what everybody with a brain knows Republicans mean when they say "theater kid." It means gay, effeminate, unmanly. Toxic masculinity isn't subtle or novel (or interesting), it's always the same crap again and again.

In even a barely-functioning system, a president who unilaterally imposed a national sales tax and lied about who would pay it would be removed from office

in AI speak this is what we call an out of distribution event

This is extraordinary, heartbreaking, and a red alert warning sign for our democracy. These people are about to be federal judges, and they refuse to answer whether the U.S. Capitol was attacked on January 6. They say they can't comment because it's "a political controversy".

Among other anti-renewables policies, the residential solar tax credit expires at the end of the month, part of the GOP's Ruin Everything budget. It's pure fanaticism, including from the tech barons who are so deranged they can't understand how their AI dreams require massive solar/wind expansion.

I'm not sure how far we are down the path, but I agree that is the trajectory. Notably, the Silicon Valley ethos of "move fast and break things" served Musk poorly in the X takeover. It was too obvious what he was doing, and it swiftly made the site much worse.

Don't mean to slag Dartmouth specifically, I'm sure many others have thought this, but... ...that's what consulting websites say, so it's what LLMs tell people to do, and the AI will do it for them. Honest high school seniors know it's insincere and won't do it. home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/12...

Domestic oil & gas production both skyrocketed under Obama and stayed high. Did we win everything? Of course not. But this is another pointless messaging-only claim that, if everyone to Yglesias's just left shut up, then Dems would win everything. That's not how it works.

I've been busy and didn't know Trump was giving a primetime address, and it seems Trump didn't know either because what even is this stuff? Standard lies and the absence of real policy to help anyone, same stuff he says by the chopper before going golfing.

I assure you, it is quite easy to find conservative-leaning lawyers who aren't absolute freaks with deeply-held views so creepy most people don't even know such views exist. But this is who they nominate instead.

Some Dems have told themselves only ~1% of the population is trans so they can dip their toe in the anti-trans filth and come out clean. I don't have any trans family members—but it still makes me irate. I see it as a huge red flag, a sign you are unprincipled and untrustworthy. And I'm not alone.

Indeed. Unlike Charlie Kirk, you can describe and quote the Reiners' work in a glowing memorial piece. You can't do that with Kirk—his life's work was advocating for hatred and bigotry—and the NYTimes didn't. Honestly portraying him would have been, as they say, inconceivable.

Since 9/11, the FBI has spent a ton of resources effectively entrapping angry poor people into pretending they were engaging in a terrorist plot and then "stopping" the plot that never had any chance of being carried out. This is almost certainly another such case. www.techdirt.com/tag/own-plot/

I’ve missed the Twitter experience. Over here, when I say hello, nobody responds with “what about black on black crime in Chicago?”

what a confusing time to be a piece of shit

Wake up sweetie, new defense of creedal nationalism just dropped (seriously, what a fucking hero)

If you're feeling down because you were wrong about something, just remember that, no matter how embarrassing it was, at least you didn't sign the Harper's "Letter on Justice and Open Debate" declaring that the greatest threat to free speech was "censoriousness" among liberal academics. 🫶

A whole lot of data-driven popularism pundits lost interest in the data when polls consistently showed a majority thought Trump's immigration and economic policies sucked, so now they're stuck with "data-driven popularism is when politicians say stuff I agree with."

The courtroom scene in "A Few Good Men" is bullshit but the fact that everybody knows that scene from a movie released 33 years ago is evidence enough that it doesn't matter, it's just a damn fine scene.

Love the idea underneath "we have to earn their trust" that X is just some regular ol' company with a banal history. Journalists know who owns it! They know how it was bought to make it a propaganda vehicle! All of that is still true, nobody with a good brain will "trust" your shithole Nazi forum.

"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.

I'm still struck by how Smart Movie Executives looked at Ryan Coogler's vampire delta blues film starring Michael B. Jordan and thought "meh, niche Black film" when basically anybody who actually watches movies would think "that's going to be awesome and it'll print money."

It's a defining feature of the Trump Era: unqualified people in big important jobs who don't want to do them and can't anyway so they spend a lot of time pretending to do it on TV and social media.

Really is a problem that for every Mark Cuban ("omg I can buy sports teams yay") there are, like, 25 billionaires who believe God has chosen them to cleanse the Earth with fire and to seed the future of humanity. It's just too much damn money, brains can't handle it.

Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.

Nate Silver never had his finger on the pulse of anything but it's wild how cooked the dude's brain is. Yeah, sure, Heather Cox Richardson is just as bonkers as the most extremist GOP members of Congress. Totally reasonable point of view there, Nate.

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

repeating “the lady who handcuffed herself to the twitter building has veto power over national security personnel” to myself over and over and slowly going insane

Bush v. Gore was an unambitious declaration of war by Republicans against democracy and the rule of law. Republicans made clear they didn't view those principles merely as malleable concepts they could cynically bend; no, they see those principles as fundamentally incompatible with conservatism.

Add to this that HSI just filed a declaration in our case challenging these policies saying they can’t trust REAL IDs as proof of status. So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.

Trump 22 points underwater on immigration in new AP-NORC poll. No wonder Kristi Noem fled her hearing today.

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

Trump's AI executive order is out, purporting to preempt state law. Legally, only Congress can do that, or at least that's the law until Calvinball federal judges and justices say Trump is the Most Special Boy who can. 🤷‍♂️ www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

This. This was the formative event of my generation & our entire politics in 🇺🇸. The structural break after which we were no longer a full democracy, when 5 Wizards In Robes decided they were a super-legislature & counting all the actual votes didn’t matter. The rest has been 25 years of commentary.

Remember: The average American cannot afford an unexpected $1,000 medical expense. In a country with notably expensive health care, fronting medical expenses because of bad insurance policies and then waiting to do a big tax deduction is not going to be an option for the vast majority of people.

everyone who suspected the admin was trying to hide something by spiriting him far away to a deep dark hole was right

Reminds me of Kurt Vonnegut describing his conversation with Joseph Heller about a billionaire. www.themarginalian.org/2014/01/16/k...

NEW: Clean energy startups that had gov funding cut by the Trump admin are laying off staff and freezing hiring. DOE offices that gave grants to renewables startups are ghost towns that ‘effectively don’t do anything,’ an official says. With @chloeaiello.bsky.social www.inc.com/chloe-aiello...

When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...

The best moment in the History of the Word Caucasian came in a series of Supreme Court cases during the immigration panic of the 1920s. The Naturalization Act of 1790 said that only "white" people could be naturalized as American citizens, but that only raised questions about what counted as white?

Sitting in a car dealership while oil is changed, they're of course playing Christmas music and I recognized the sound as Arcade Fire and so looked it up and apparently they did some Christmas songs in 2001 and this chain of events has delivered the crushing blow to my psyche that I am in my 40s.

Solar/wind power is objectively better on every level—including price, hence even OPEC countries investing in it for their own energy needs—but for reasons best described as "fanaticism," Silicon Valley is hostile to it, even as limited & overpriced electricity drains the blood from their AI dreams.

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's a day, & the president is illegally monetizing the office & stealing the power of the purse. Again.

They see me rollin' They hatin' Patrollin' Tryna catch me Summa Theologica

My son almost died from RSV when he was two

That is patently false: not only do immigrants score better than native-born Americans in tests, the mere presence of immigrants improve test scores for all students, when factoring in white flight sesp.northwestern.edu/news-events/...

A perfect example of how AI boosters want to make people simulacrums so they can charge them a fee to be themselves. Altman wants to replace Dr. Spock's classic sublime advice—"Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do."—with total reliance on his expensive stochastic parrot.