it would actually cost SO MUCH LESS to just do this instead of throwing trillions of dollars at technofascists too, who would've thought

With respect to the folks who worked on the CBS piece, I’d like to share some links to the many outlets who actually published and broadcast this story before CBS did. Please add yours www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

When I teaching the Holocaust I note the Holocaust museum’s definition of a concentration camp is a prison whose inmates are denied due process. These are by definition concentration camps.

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lol at Bari not knowing about the distribution process for foreign markets and not asking and no one volunteering the information.

Alfonsi being the reporter whose story Weiss respectfully killed while refusing to even speak with her

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

This one, I can explain as a form of elite projection. Weiss was more or less an unknown outside of trans folks, extremism researchers, academics, and other folks who knew what the words "Intellectual Dark Web" meant. Right-wing elites saw her winning online culture wars and said, "THAT! DO THAT!"

Therapists Push Back on Anti-Trans Continuing Education Therapy First, a group widely known to discredit trans identities and dissuade trans people from seeking gender-affirming medical care, was offering a continuing education class geared toward therapists. The class was accredited under the APA!

If you are doing year-end giving, please join our campaign for Al Otro Lado: @alotrolado-org.bsky.social . They work on both sides of our southern border helping migrants with everything from “know your rights” training to reuniting deportees with their pets. alotrolado.org/letsdosometh...

Almost every story Weiss greenlit at the Free Press lacked sufficient context. It's kinda their entire schtick.

So disturbing. Almost reminds me of living in China where real news had to be accessed by VPN.

New Forbidden Course at Bari Weiss’s University of Austin: watching bootleg copies of 60 Minutes smuggled in from Canada

GLOBAL TV FOR THE WIN, dropbox link in thread

The American College Theatre Festival has suspended its long-standing affiliation with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, citing a misalignment of values, while confirming its national and regional programs will continue

Great reporting by @veraeikon.bsky.social on this.

i say this with nothing but love for all of you to whom this applies, but the moral rot in elite journalism is because journalism is a trade and it should be done by tradespeople and instead it's been professionalized in a way that makes it cozy to capital instead

The entire american "free speech" panic was about elites being criticized, which is why anyone who ever took it seriously should be ignored forever

a note from @lawdorknews.bsky.social to @npr.org: here is my quick search results on the npr website for the professor you singled out and two other professors carl tobias - 207 results jonathan turley - 434 results josh blackman - 778 results

My absolute favorite holiday tradition is Lampreia de Ovos, a Portuguese Christmas dessert which contains zero (0) actual lamprey but 50 (!) egg yolks, sugar, and almonds - and is shaped to look like a lamprey. Don’t forget cherries for the eyes! #25DaysofFishmas www.atlasobscura.com/foods/lampre...

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

lifting this up. everything aside, "this story is old/the public already knows" is often used to kill pitches or stories when, in truth, the public *doesn't actually* know. one or two stories in an elite paper does not a public consciousness make. it's a constant winnowing of collective knowledge.

It looks like the UK playbook because they're both using the same playbook. An actual conspiracy.

It's truly remarkable how there will be news organizations and journalists who correctly identify that RFK is a menace and that HHS can't e trusted when he pushes stuff about vaccines or Tylenol causing autism... but cover the anti-trans stuff like "Well, HHS says so, and we should trust HHS!"

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

Confirmation bias. They believe anti-trans stuff and therefore don't scrutinize Kennedy/Oz when it comes to their anti-trans stuff.

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

There's a list going around of non-U.S. 'credible' journalism outlets, and I think y'all need to do a better job of vetting here, because Sky News, BBC News, the Guardian U.K., at least, and a couple of others, I'm sure, are no better than their U.S. counterparts at laundering fascist propaganda

hard to overstate how bad this is for discrimination against everyone but white people. I'm saying we are undergoing a wholesale revision of equal protection and anti-discrimination law so that it only protects white people. Let me explain:

The worst part of the 60 Minutes fiasco is that now we get a week of pearl-clutching from hot-take artists at all the other corporate media outlets who are doing the exact same shit on the down-low. The Vichy New York Times, I'm staring directly at you, among many others.

I mean You *know* why media is treating trans health care differently But it is an important rhetorical framing, and I think more people need to use it So why is journalism so susceptible to junk science, especially when it comes to sexual & gender minorities?

The HHS is run by a conspiracy theorist who cherry picks facts to fit his preferred conclusions. The news media has been very clear about that in every case except youth gender medicine. Trans healthcare is a neglected front in RFK Jr's war on science.

Trans youth healthcare is based in decades of research and supported by every major medical organization in the US. Under RFK Jr, a handpicked panel produced a dodgy report claiming otherwise. It's a clear example of Kennedy's war on science. So why aren't news organizations treating it that way?

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

It's incredible they would do this right after everyone got the _explicit documentation_ that Byers is the designated hack for laundering lies that literally no other publication will touch.

This is misinformation. The current problem with the New World Screwworm began in 2023, when the supply of sterile flies used to keep them out of Panama was interrupted. DOGE did not have time machines. asm.org/articles/202...

This article is actually fairly thorough and critical on Youngkin's (bad) record on K-12 education, but you'd never know that from the hed, dek, or photo selection, all of which give his years of chaotic partisan hackery undeserved legitimacy in the eyes of a casual reader.

Why CBS News Hired Cancel Culture's Biggest Grifter (ft. Michael Hobbes) youtu.be/qNlW_kjBnTY

This Christmas, let DILF arrive like a precious baby Jesus into your heart

The nyt’s first story on the Cass report didn’t come out until the next day, when it portrayed the document, falsely, as part of a movement in Europe to restrict care. No such movement existed. France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria were taking positions in opposition to Cass and in line w doctors

The story never ran. Coverage of Cass was taken away from the international desk, per order of top editors in NY, and given to the science desk. That desk had been a leader in promoting anti-trans disinformation throughout 2022-23. (Hundreds of the nyt own contributors had denounced its bias)

[preparing to get screamed at] I think I officially don’t need to know if you’re mad that an article is paywalled. Perhaps that can be an Inside Thought

Fox News (!!) poll showing Climate Change is a top 10 concern for voters — slightly more than illegal immigration. www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...

Think the marriage of convenience between the Israeli right and the historically antisemitic global far-right has been bad for Diaspora Jews? Wait until you see the divorce.

the absolute best thing about my house is that we planted milkweed and we are monarch butterfly central I will never get tired of these beautiful creatures

“You no longer have to apologize for being white” bro Please Don’t that would totally kill vibes & make it weird rn this is a blunt circle

This project is using very big data to show what @jamellebouie.net keeps saying: the yglesias types aren't standing in reporting about some silent majority backlashing against CRT, DEI, and progressive racial ideology. They ARE the backlash.

Hilarious video by The Wall Street Journal newsroom, who ran circles around the chatbot running the vending machine. My favorite part was when they convinced it that it was Soviet Russia in 1962 and it should offer everything for free. m.youtube.com/watch?v=SpPh...

I agree that the LLM makers are at fault for confusion around the term "AI," and I think it's entirely intentional. I think they want to be able to equivocate around the term, and say things like, "We're curing cancer," when their chatbot is clearly not.