Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.

Geez, Ezra, just because Yglesias wrote a dumb piece, doesn't mean you *have* to follow

Yes, let's hear about gun laws from the person who thinks Port Arthur might have been a false flag op.

In case you need to hear it from someone who was raised Hindu: Usha is not a hostage, she is an accomplice. She is culpable. Fuck her and the fascists she colludes with. May she go down with all of them. As Zohran ably demonstrates, our communities do not aspire to whiteness & don’t seek to appease.

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

What. The. Utter. Fuck.

Guns don't kill people; people protesting for peace kill people. Doesn't really roll off the tongue does it

A gentle reminder that the genocide and illegal activity by Israel in Palestine continues barely untroubled by a "ceasefire" www.bbc.com/news/article...

NSW Premier Chris Minns grilled on what ‘intifada’ means & why he’s banning it. Refuses to explain but insists it’s being used ‘here in Sydney’ & is an ‘invitation to violence.’ 🤔 Really? #auspol

PM Albanese calls on the Coalition to get their act together & stop playing politics with the #Bondi tragedy. “My message is that this is not a time for partisanship.” “This is a time for national unity.” “After the Port Arthur massacre, that is what occurred.” #auspol

So Greg, why did you do a PhD in English Lit and not in economics? Well if I had to put my finger on it...

The protests had absolutely zero to do with the killings. The access to guns did.

🤷‍♀️ youtu.be/qNlW_kjBnTY

Petition: We will not be divided after Bondi. Add your name: jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...

Get on board. The @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social is a great and important organisation jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...

What do we want? - "Social cohesion!" When do we want it? - "Just after we finish booing our political opponents at a memorial service!" That one might need a bit more work.

a note from the CBS reporter behind this story to her colleagues tonight

"Equating the hundreds of thousands of people who have protested for a stronger stand against a genocide...with supporting a massacre is just as insane as using the massacre for political point-scoring & to set up a fight about migration" @amyremeikis.bsky.social www.deepcutnews.com/p/massacre-a...

And there it is...

Update - leftovers for lunch was 👩‍🍳💋

Can't wait to see the sequel to The Insider

Julian Leeser "We demand the Prime Minister bring the Parliament back today to do what Chris Minns is doing, to listen to Sussan Ley, to extend the hand of bipartisanship and for once in his life" Bipartisanship, FMD, these hypocrites need another election drubbing

Bridget McKenzie: "To hate Israel is to hate Jews. It is that simple." tbf to McKenzie, she is an expert on being a simpleton.

At some point very soon, all of the people who make 60 Minutes are going to have to decide where their personal line is.

Truly pathetic. The type of performance that has your colleagues start doing the numbers. Not just stupid, but stupid politics - gives Albanese an easy chance to show himself as a leader and take the high road. Most voters don't even know who Ley is. So this will be their first impression

While in Opposition, Albanese backed the Jewish community against the LNP govt who tried to undermine them by weakening hate speech laws. In govt he’s given them the strongest protections a PM has ever implemented. Anyone booing clearly listens to too much of Sky News or the AJA

A rabid Zionist is calling me sick and deranged for journaling truth. My entire year has been getting yelled at by these guys because I dont like kids being bombed. Sure, the ratio is satisfying, but it means nothing if our PM rolls over for their fascistic demands on our democracy, anyway.

I look forward to the updated CECOT piece with additional reporting on the rainbows and puppy dogs that every inmate gets.

Sussan Ley is clearly so far out of her depth that she deserves to be sacked by her party, purely for her own good. This is perhaps the most contemptible thing any political leader has ever said in this country. The sooner she f*cks off to obscurity the better for Australia.

Sussan Ley completely lacks what it takes to be Prime Minister or even lead a political party. What a grubby nothing of a person she has revealed herself to be this past week. I suspect many Jewish Australians would be disgusted by how grossly she has used this tragedy.

There is no credible evidence that the perpetrators of the Bondi terrorist attack had anything to do with recent protests www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Made a cracking Amatriciana for dinner.

He isn’t as smart as he thinks and so actually doesn’t work hard.

3-0 and not once has Australia had their best side #Ashes

Hell Yes!!! #Ashes

That is a catch! OMFG

Australia’s inability to bowl out the tail has been a worry for a while now. #Ashes

Does the Barmy Army know that a draw means England can’t win back the Ashes? #Ashes

“Never has there been a time where politics has been played so blatantly, so openly at the expense of a terrified, traumatised community and the wider nation at large.” @amyremeikis.bsky.social www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...

Why isn’t Boland bowling? This cloud cover would be perfect conditions for him #Ashes

“Politicians should do what wins elections” is asinine for moral reasons but also, no one knows what will win an election! Yglesias et al keep acting like there’s some obvious set of policies or words that will guarantee victory but Harris basically did what they wanted and she lost.

Maria has been accused over the years of fabricating her story that she had gone to the FBI. After finding the document in the trove, I called her. She broke down in tears. “I’ve waited 30 years. I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

@zohrankmamdani is a deeply thoughtful human being and we think he would make the best NYC mayor imaginable. We feel this as New Yorkers, as Jews and as human beings who are desperate for kindness, compassion and empathy to be represented in our politics. GET OUT THE VOTE here bit.ly/4nxYXFp

Do they think this deletes all the downloads?

BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.

Not just shonky AF (illegal?) but it gives Clinton an easy response now to any other mentions/photos

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

There is, "incompetence," level stupid, and then there is, "Oh my god, you must work for the Trump Administration," level stupid.