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harper's letter signatories are all like

May almost be more impactful if not leaked. Bari has managed to Streisand effect what was already known - we are sending people to be tortured in a foreign gulag.

Expect a "revolt" among 60 Minutes staff over Bari Weiss pulling the CECOT segment at the last minute, one network insider told me. Another CBS News reporter added that a Rubicon had been crossed with this decision, which 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi called "political" and not editorial.

My god. From Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues, posted by the NYT Michael Grynbaum:

I know Sharyn Alfonsi, i worked with Sharyn Alfonsi (at ABC News), Bari Weiss you are no Sharyn Alfonsi. Sharyn is as good as a journalist as you will ever find, and she has more integrity in her little toe than Weiss has in her entire body.

"Reached on Sunday evening, Ms. Alfonsi said, 'I refer all questions to Bari Weiss.'" Fuck yeah www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Warning: very disturbing read. It’s a story told by a woman who Trump allegedly raped when she was 13. 13!! It’s not new. She first came forward in 2016 when he began running for president. It was mostly ignored. But it seems increasingly plausible now! katemanne.substack.com/p/the-actual...

Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.

The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.

After gutting CISA, these are the clowns in charge

Make no mistake, this is competitive authoritarianism. The regime is using the power of the state to coerce the press away from critical coverage. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

This is something else. Lots of respect for @60minutes.bsky.social reporter Sharyn Alfonso for defending the integrity of her work. What a disgrace for 60 Minutes. The Trump effect destroys every institution it touches. GIFT LINK: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Wow— “Government silence is a statement…If the standard for airing a story becomes ‘the government must agree to be interviewed,’ then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.”

doomerism is bad, but feel good pablum is also pretty unhelpful. we didn't just drift into cruelty and now we're drifting out. we're facing a vicious fascist movement with deep historical roots, numerous allies, and substantial popular support. 1

Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

I’m curious what she thought was going to happen here. Did it not occur to her that swooping in at the last minute to kill a story on specious grounds might antagonize the journalists who worked on it? That such intervention was likely to blow up in a rather spectacular and embarrassing way?

PBS FRONTLINE's "Surviving CECOT" is incredible, disturbing, moving, and they didn't self censor.

the shitstorm that’s already brewing because of Bari’s decision to spike this story is going to end up being vastly more damaging to her and to the admin than allowing the story to air would have been she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted

How it started. How it's going.

If what we know is this bad, can you imagine what we don’t?

Bari Weiss would have asked Eichmann to sit for a friendly interview before allowing an expose on the Holocaust to air.

tonight the government killed a story on cbs about the slave labor camp in a foreign country theyre illegally sending people to

prescient www.theverge.com/business/793...

Via @liamjscott.bsky.social at the other site here’s the full email from 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. She’s putting her career on the line by fighting here. And she’s fighting for all of us.

Good on 60's Sharyn Alfonsi, who emailed the show's staff and correspondents to say Bari Weiss had "spiked" her story in what she says was a "political" call. With cals like this, "We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,” Alfonsi said. www.wsj.com/business/med...

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

Bari Weiss would rather you not know that we tortured people. That is her version of “fair, fearless, and factual” journalism.

Two days before the show was to air, Weiss suggested revamping it, including adding interviews of Stephen Miller, whose personal contact information she has (of course). Also objected to calling migrants migrants.

The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision. "The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

This is why the Ellisons paid $150 million to acquire a mediocre Substack blog www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/bari...

Thought they’ll gladly ship your money off to Venezuela but only to kill fishermen and the occasional cocaine dealer

It basically impossible for me to accept that they honestly decided it “needed more reporting” literally 2 hours before it was set to air. The only thing that makes any sense is interference from ownership/management.

Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious

Recall that in the 2022 Ohio Senate election, basically a gimme for any semi-charismatic Republican, Vance's rich patrons needed to drag across the finish line.

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How would this be worded any differently if it were issued by the Kremlin?

Bari Weiss and David Ellison have killed a broadcast news story that would have embarrassed Donald Trump

A since-deleted tweet by former KKK grand wizard David Duke is nearly identical to the statement today made by Vice President JD Vance

Yep. I’m sure that was the right news call and not at all something embarrassing and weird

What once was largely limited to Stormfront and the fever swamps of the internet just a few years ago is now accepted discourse from the White House.

“60 Minutes” abruptly dropped a segment about Trump deportees sent to a megaprison in El Salvador Sunday — two hours before it was set to air

oh the CBS bosses went to dylan byers? then they are definitely lying.

On Sunday afternoon? After the promo was cut? And the first stop to try and place this line was Dylan Byers?

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."

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