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.

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

she's just doing what she was hired to do

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

One of the things I really dislike about living in Wellington is the inability to go to the movies on Christmas day.

the latest episode of Heated Rivalry made me cry 😭😭😭

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

I’m not the biggest fan of boxing as a concept, but I do think we’re at the point where the only thing that’s going to prove to some people that they aren’t the main character with pro level skills at anything they want is to be punched in the face repeatedly.

This is not the first time RFK Jr or his fellow anti-vax travelers conducted a study they knew would harm or kill children in low-income countries. It is a dehumanizing, colonialist model of manufacturing evidence: sacrificing foreign kids for political pseudoscience. www.notus.org/health-scien...

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

settlement after they lost leverage, legal fees for three-month trial, and a bunch of now-public information that mlb (which doesn't have subpoena power) can now use as evidence in potential discipline. and still no one really GAF that a player had a drug problem. another masterclass by the angels.

Does anyone else ever have an issue with listening to a podcast and the podcast would repeat itself at random spots? I don't know if it's an issue with my podcast app or some podcasts doesn't do proper edits (or automated some kind of editing??) It only happens on SOME podcasts though, not all.

fuckin HELL girlfriend, openly telling a subordinate on your official email to hand over confidential & seemingly national security-related investigation details to the Chinese Consulate? That's not even spying, that's a total lack of awareness that you're doing anything wrong by having two bosses.

The reason they're so focused on trans teens is that people who transition younger typically blend into society better. To the extent that they're willing to tolerate our existence in society at all, they'd rather we be easily identified by our appearance/voices/etc.

I saw a post on this and thought someone was making a joke about the Hunger Games?! we live in the stupidest timeline

Come on man

Nancy Pelosi moved heaven and earth to get Henry Cuellar installed and keep Jessica Cisneros out. He was one of the three (D) defectors here. Everyone who ever stuck up for either of them is a dog's dick with a separate, smaller dog's dick for a brain

'New Zealand literature is an active and passionate industry. It keeps on keeping on, and acts as opposition to stupidity as a way of life.' The Readingroom 'best of 2025' includes Damien Wilkins, Joanna Cho (MA20) and this year's Letteri Creative Nonfiction Prize winner Niamh Vaughan.

Oops I would have voted for If I Had Legs I'd Kick You if I knew it played in Aotearoa!! I watched it in Australia and it was just an incredible viewing experience. It was one of the most stressful movies I'd ever seen and just give Rose Byrne her Oscar already.

Again, anti-wokeness is a backlash to integration of white collar work. Only white men are allowed to have prestigious jobs otherwise it's unfair bsky.app/profile/mike...

growing up my parents made this pretty explicit. I was just told I couldn't do xyz 'because I said so'. Like studying in a film degree instead of studying a business degree. Then they spent every opportunity to mock any setback I experienced after 'defying' them.

I said roughly ten percent of the things I could have said about Rob Reiner.

Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.

wait a minute, nowadays in football they have someone LIE BEHIND A WALL?????

honestly the one thing that I know I am an 'old' now is because I am on text based social media platforms and have no appetite for those short form videos.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who tackled one of the Bondi killers, became an Australian citizen 3 years ago. His deed was "his way of conveying his gratitude for staying in Australia, for being granted citizenship." He took 5 bullets, and fears he'll lose his left arm. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

We knew this was coming – not because we were convinced of his guilt, but because GovHK has made it perfectly clear for years that he will never get out of jail, and the presiding judges made it clear that they are happy for collusion and sedition to mean whatever Beijing tells them it means. 1/4

This is what happens when the FBI is run by two right-wing conspiracy theorist podcasters who spent the last 11 months purging almost anyone with institutional knowledge from the bureau. They're going to keep fucking this kind of thing up.

Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008. Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

the category is RANGE

The fuck!??

Oh shit variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Isaac Chotiner speaks with the commissioning editor of the Jewish Independent about the attack at Bondi Beach, in Australia, the history of the country’s Jewish community, and the rise of antisemitism. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

This sucks so much. I feel lucky to have worked with Steve for a time and am so grateful for the experience.

Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

You know the world is in a great place when I put in abc news in Youtube and you get results of ABC news Australia reporting the Bondi beach shooting and ABC news America reporting the Brown University shooting

what the fuck is happening

Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.

Can confirm as others have noted that this is maximum Minnesotan rage.

When you hire a white man because they’re a white man that’s not identity politics. Identity politics is when you get hired and you’re not a white man. The anti wokeness hysteria was always a backlash to integration of white collar jobs bsky.app/profile/jami...

I was incredibly honoured to have written film notes and an essay for Christine's Outstanding Achievement Award and retrospective at Hot Docs a couple of years ago. To be able to watch her work throughout the decades and her conviction was really special. She will be missed.

Mauatua Fa'ara-Reynolds is the winner of the Letteri Family Prize for Creative Nonfiction with her hybrid and poetic work Our Bark-Skinned Bodies, and Stephenjohn Holgate is the winner of this year's Modernletters Fiction Prize with his rich, poignant novel about three generations of Jamaican men

Niamh Vaughan is this year's winner of the Adam Foundation Prize in Creative Writing with her 'hilarious and terrifying' memoir The World Reversed, and the winner of the Biggs Family Prize for Poetry is Will Salmon, with his 'deeply humane' poetry collection, Worm 🧵 www.wgtn.ac.nz/modernletter...

Love love love Niamh and Will's incredible folios!!!!!

I am so grateful for my incredibly talented and wonderful classmates who workshopped my writing all year and will treasure this award from them forever 🥰🥰