Remember when I said Weiss was stupid and incompetent? Stuff like this. An actual television producer would understand this stuff - if not the exact schedule and procedures for how the episode was distributed, at least who they could ask who would know.

No! No!!

It's the least important element to this, but I find it fascinating on an aesthetic level too. Americans are watching a bootleg broadcast that someone in Canada recorded off their TV. And people are copying it to various platforms (however imperfect visually) to get it out as widely as possible.

‘It’s not a part time job.’ Oof. Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi absolutely leveled Bari Weiss at an emergency 60 Minutes staff meeting today.

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

Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

The video has been taken down from YouTube. You can still download it here: is.gd/paU8Ko

i always look back on this email as predictive of where she was heading

Ya like to be clear Weiss would be incapable of running a "news organization" like Fox News too! bsky.app/profile/john...

Was positive that this was the same actor from that Columbo episode, which it isn’t, because that’s Oskar Werner, but that did lead me to discover that Oskar Werner was Jules in Jules and Jim???

I think it’s pretty likely Bari Weiss quits far sooner than anyone expects because if there’s anything we learned from her tenure at the New York Times it’s that this lady hates working, absolutely despises it, and she probably had to send like four emails today

in ghostbusters, the Leonardo is also the Donatello. Egon is covering two bases. Peter is the Raphael and the Michelangelo. Ray is also the Michelangelo. Winston is present.

It’s the entire point. There’s no plan to make this meaningful for students. No plan to use it administratively. Its design and implementation signals its only real intent. It’s best and easiest use case is for systematic harassment and to scare faculty into complying in advance.

i remember this image from tumblr after obergefell v hedges dropped but i had no idea they put it on the new yorker until yesterday

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

started / going

Wrote up my predictions for 2026. -I think 2025 will have been rock bottom. -The Trump coalition is going to panic and fall to infighting as election day draws closer. -The AI bubble will get even more obviously bubbly. -We'll begin the long road to repair. 🤞 open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

"The project—[Bari Weiss's] and that of her backers—is to establish herself and her cohort not as new-right media, but as the new liberal media, staking out the leftmost acceptable position within the new right-wing paradigm." (This is a gift link, from October) defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

cowboy who stubbed his toe:

I make more money than either of my parents ever did and it all goes to rent, healthcare, and debt

I swear to god if the days don’t start getting longer soon I’m going to lose it

If you think beef prices are high now, wait until this gets to the US

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Underrated funny detail that Ace Rothstein and Phillip Green are eating blueberry muffins in the first place

Trump take power

Just going to make an ongoing thread of my photoshops instead of posting them separately, I think

I feel like Strega Nona would’ve made a good video game in the side scrolling era. The spaghetti’s taking over the countryside and you have to dodge it and leap over long strands of it until you get to the cottage and battle the pot. You’d play it on the Strega Genesis.

this is making me realize that nobody except maybe weird tryhard wikipedia editors actually check cited sources. this realization would have made school a lot easier for me even tho chatgpt didnt exist back then

I don’t know if I know anyone who knows anyone but can someone just suggest to Pope Leo how good it would feel to excommunicate the American Vice President?

“Does discrimination drive alienation?” is a great question and it feels like there are some other groups that might make clearer case studies than white men

Evil

There's really interesting social science on how white people significantly overestimate the number of people of color in a room or in a picture. A room with, like, 20% POC will be perceived as majority POC.

Jesus Christ this thread

Yglesias referring to Senator Van Hollen as a "safe seat clout-chaser" is so despicable. VH took a stand to prevent Abrego García - an innocent man - from being disappeared into CECOT for life.

“If you got it… a sleigh brought it”

This has unfortunately been the political cycle in this country my adult entire life (roughly coinciding w this whole century thus far)—Rs break shit, voters bring in Ds to fix the mess, then kick them out to let Rs break things again—& its hard not to notice that every loop in the cycle gets worse

I like YouTube videos that scorn the idea of reality where the title will be something like “Denzel shares important words from old friend that changed his life” and you’re watching it going this is The Equalizer 2 man

As with all Thursdays, I am busy unto death with day job shit. Lose my health insurance in two weeks. Company in a death spiral. NEVERTHELESS WE SERVE. I could really, REALLY do with a little help before the end of the year, either directly here or please share. I’m fuckin tapped out. See pinned.

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Hell ya

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