Oops, they forgot to change the 60 Minutes summary on Comcast/Xfinity. 👀

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.

"There are many disempowered and stigmatized people who are silenced not so much because of what they say as because of who they are. "One important example is prisoners." (from 2020) www.liberalcurrents.com/free-speech-...

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

Bari Weiss spiked a major story at CBS, reporters say it's 'political' www.wsj.com/business/med...

This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.

how bad are things going when Dylan Byers won't even tell the story you want him to

President Donald Trump said he’s nominating Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as US special envoy to Greenland, in the latest signal that the president retains designs on increasing US influence over the island he’s suggested he wants to purchase

(Reminder that when I quote post, I'm not doing it to pile on anyone, and I will be deeply annoyed with you if you do. Never be an asshole on my behalf.)

1. Money and lots of it; 2. I've been clear with Audible I think they should service libraries and remind them of this on a regular basis and have even volunteered to be a test case for them; 3. That said, Audible's gonna Audible and my books are in libraries in print. Borrow them that way.

If you think switching which corporate owned legacy media outlet you consume is the solution, you don't really understand how deep the problem is. It's not just ABS, CBS, WaPo or the LA Times. It's the system in which they work. The only solution is to support pro-democracy independent media.

A Malaysian court rejected former Prime Minister Najib Razak’s bid to serve the remainder of his graft sentence under house arrest. The court ruled that a rare royal order issued by the nation’s former king was not valid and not made in accordance with constitutional requirements.

i think she probably sincerely believes an investigative team at 60 minutes would have a difficult time getting in touch with stephen miller, or that they haven't thought about the language they're using

it's not that you have to be stupid to be an effective regime mouthpiece, but it certainly helps bari weiss that she has a wind tunnel between her ears www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

"For transgender and nonbinary people, these manufactured firestorms are not abstract. A policy meant to ensure they can manage a basic bodily function without shame becomes a spectacle in which their needs are mocked as absurd or illegitimate."

Bari’d the lede

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...

Two Americans fined for illegal bass fishing in northern #Ontario www.ctvnews.ca/northern-ont...

We need to keep pushing that they release the Epstein files. Unredacted. If they fail to do this, the DoJ goes to jail.

2/2 "One of Ms. Weiss’s suggestions was to include an interview with Stephen Miller ... Ms. Weiss provided contact information for Mr. Miller to the '60 Minutes' staff."

If you want to try the recipe as it is currently posted at the Palmer House, which is the Palmer House Hilton, that’s at the link below. I love the Palmer House & always stay there if I have to go to Chicago for business. 12 & end/

Sharyn Alfonsi is an award-winning journalist who has worked for 60 Minutes for 20 years. Before that she reported for ABC, CBS & local news outlets. If Alfonsi says her story was spiked by Bari Weiss political reasons, that’s exactly what happened. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

Why do we even have a Congress at this point? Bill Cassidy laid down and allowed RFK Jr to lie to him and now our whole vaccine regime is completed screwed. Russ Vought is closing government research centers and agencies with impunity. Buildings are being renamed to honor the Dear Leader. Madness.

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

"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...

Some (a decent number of those that produce records from before the 2010s?) of my FOIA requests & reading room scan work result in materials being digitized for the first time which makes me happy. And then I also make them free & publicly accessible.

“the washington post reports that cbs news fucked up!!!” ok and then what? in 6 months jeff bezos replaces the journalist who reported that with AI and buys another one of saturn’s moons.

🧪Why modeling childhood vaccines after Denmark is non-sensical: 1. In Denmark moms are screened for Hep B, part of the free healthcare. At risk babies get vaccinated. 2. In the US 25% of mothers aren't screened. US guidelines are based on redundancy. Its a false equivalence. @acedurrani on IG

My lord, when you’ve lost Josh Blackman

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

cc: @60minutes.bsky.social @cbsnews.com

"...the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship" gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

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

And there it is...

Whoever has his contact info, lock it in a safe for now. You'll want it to chase down the aftermath interview of Miller from The Hague.

“I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight … Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct.” - “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi

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

They 100% asked for comment from the White House; no way in hell they didn't. This means the White House refused to comment, then Weiss used that as an excuse to kill the story.

Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest ranger, has died. She was 104.

yeah I have so many people replying to me like "they don't plan to answer to the voters" I mean of course they don't but their "plan" is, by all appearances, of underpants gnomes level of sophistication. 1) Do crime in public. 2) ??? 3) Never lose power.

i mean compare this with bill barr’s SUCCESSFUL effort to effectively kill the mueller report

Thank goodness! “I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it." Voltaire

Hahaha that Claude ad said "Don't be a problem, solve a problem" which feels so much like a thinly veiled shot at AI critics

“”LLMs allow me to find research for the first time!” My brother in Christ, have you ever heard of a library?

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...

Louise Brooks, Christmas, circa 1925 #Christmas

people are calling these moves at cbs news “state media”, but they’re not gonna out-fox murdoch, and neither weiss nor ellison are talented or experienced enough to make this work, they’re just going to drive ratings and viewership into the ground

May there be peace, justice, and hope.

But what if the summary could be random nonsense without warning