Literally every single thing in here was astonishingly evident from the beginning.

The road to redemption: donate money to MAGA, say nice things about the president, and get close to one of his former lawyers. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u...

So the generation that won’t get a pension and for whom Social Security likely won’t exist is now expected to use what retirement savings they do have for housing. Good, cool, how are we all going to eat after turning 65 again?

Anything that inconveniences a right wing populist is censorship, part 1000. This depraved prick uses that term bc it puts his enemies on the defensive. They cower. Fact-checking is censorship. Labeling is censorship. TRANSPARENCY is censorship. Now, “no nonconsensual nudes” is censorship.

"(No one has to admit that — but then, a hallmark of CBS News editor-in-chief and careerlong opinion journalist Weiss’ relentless rhetorical style is to posit that, whatever one’s political commitments, we can all come together to agree that hers are the right ones.)" variety.com/2026/tv/colu...

I’d like to announce that I’ll be accepting Marisa Tomei’s Academy Award for “My Cousin Vinny.” It’s an honor. For me. Thank you for your attention to this matter. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...

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Important stuff here as it underscores what anti-vaxxers described as “European” is actually an outlier in Europe too.

"TheWrap has learned CBS News still wants to get the story on the air. The continued holdup is the Trump administration refusing to discuss the deportations on record — something Weiss requires to advance the story." No kidding, said every reporter ever. www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

Transpo Secretary Sean Duffy: “American manufacturing is back.” @economist.com: Since Trump took office, “the two-year manufacturing contraction is now hitting its third, and factories have continued to shed jobs; employment fell by 0.6% in the year to November.” economist.com/finance-and-...

Every piece of reporting I've seen on this is drastically understating the scale. These are from Grok's replies within a single minute. Time-to-reply is degrading because it has such a backlog of NCII/CSAM requests to fulfill. Conservatively I estimate it is producing more than 5000 of these per day

While slicing an Onion I cut my index finger tip wide open and needed 5 stitches and never got full sensation back in the fingertip. The ridiculous part is the cut happened to the finger that was attached to the hand holding the knife cutting the Onion. 🙄

Third: Seems like the sort of instance where you should throw to your man in Tokyo or Berlin (can't get into Moscow) to break this all down and explain what is what and, uh... Well, bad news, they've all been laid off. nypost.com/2024/04/03/m...

Anyways, I'd read 1500 words on how that 45 seconds ended up in the prompter in what should be the most tightly edited and scripted broadcast on CBS.

There we go. That there’s a headline.

if you didn't immediately clock this as AI within 2 seconds of seeing it out of the corner of your eye you're ngmi

Yiiikes: “The "Evening News" has been ebbing into irrelevance for years... Perhaps sequestering Dokoupil there might contain the damage that might be done by an anchor whose ambitious ability to see which way the wind blows has so far outstripped his broadcasting talent.” apple.news/AatqZr59NTvK...

"Offering no apology for Grok’s functionality, X Safety blamed users..." Shoutout to every news org that ran with some variation of a "xAI's Grok apologizes..." headline, and again to the orgs that went so far as to quote the chatbot claiming it would do something about it. You were all had.

The Trump administration said it was important to change the vaccine schedule to improve public trust, but insisted their answers to questions about the changes should be attributed to anonymous officials. (Kudos to @lenasun.bsky.social who pushed back against this during the press conference)

I really encourage folks to check out the document he sent me. Once you know it's fake, the mistakes are easy to spot. But it still amazes me to think that he likely generated this within a few minutes www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

The author of a viral Reddit thread alleging fraud at a food delivery company tried to back up his claim by sending me AI-generated documents. Today I'm publishing those documents in the hopes that it helps other reporter see what we're up against in the age of AI www.platformer.news/fake-uber-ea...

See a bridge, post a bridge

Since we're doing a discourse on Venezuela and oil: The oil in Venezuela is very heavy and requires a tremendous amount of effort to get it out of the ground and then to refine it to the point where it's useful. The opposite is the 'light/sweet' oil that we get from the North Slope in Alaska.

One thing working on this series helped me realize is how long it can take regulatory failures to manifest in people's lives. In these cases, we're talking decades later. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Until Kari Lake seized control of USAGM and collaborated with Elon Musk's DOGE to dismantle the Voice of America, the VOA Persian Service had a 24/7 satellite TV channel, multimedia website and five social media platforms reaching ~16% of Iranian adults.

Bari on “lost trust in the media” and “old school journalistic values: asking the hard questions, following the facts wherever they made lead” — www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/ton...

Did you know that the US hasn’t had an ambassador in Moscow in 6 months? Or that our chief envoy to Russia won’t take briefings from the CIA? But wait, there’s more. Much more in this 6-byline WSJ piece on the Witkoff-Putin axis. Free link www.wsj.com/world/putin-...

"'You know that I’m old and I’m worthless,” Mr. Olson recalled telling Mr. Sanders, in an interview with The New York Times. “But at least I can spell ‘consistent.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...

The leaked Pentagon report that says DoD is spending its trillion-dollar-budget on, mainly, the wrong things. slate.com/news-and-pol...

lol @lopatto.bsky.social banger alert www.theverge.com/entertainmen...

I’m old enough to remember when Boom was just a supersonic aircraft scheme that was never going to deliver anything, before it was a data center power turbine scheme that was never going to deliver anything.

Not the point but if you’re looking for an example of how ad rates have collapsed and slots are being sold to anyone…

Pluribus going full on Soylent Green was severely disappointing. I expected better from a series that had been so original. Even if this turns out to be some kind of fake out, the fact they even suggested going "there" was the wrong move.

🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/h...

We just published a deep look into David Sacks, the White House's AI and Crypto czar. The story examines how he has been able keep hundreds of stakes in AI-related and crypto companies as he influences gov policy in those very industries. Here's what we found: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...

Unfortunately, in US journalism it is considered neutral to spread a lie, but it is considered "biased" to call out a lie. So, there is a structural asymmetry that rewards colorful lies with virality.

As someone whose spent a decade-plus covering social services in NY and TX, let me say this has nothing to do with immigration — and everything to do with government outsourcing delivery of key services to non-profits it cannot properly supervise and politics: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/u...

PJM is the regional grid serving 67 million customers in 13 states

A highly classified leaked phone-call transcript sheds new light on Trump/Witkoff's cozy ties to the Kremlin--and the real nature of the discarded 28-point "peace" plan. slate.com/news-and-pol...

OPSEC clean strikes again! — www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Really just a staggering story from basically every conceivable angle: Witkoff’s actions, Trump taking the bait, the subsequent fiasco about said peace deal/bait, Witkoff doing it in a way that it could leak, that it did leak.

As a reminder, the US leads high-income nations in traffic deaths. One key factor in that American exceptionalism is the way automobile safety is regulated (or not).

Record labels somewhat famously have never been in the morality business and somewhat more famously have always been in the “squeezing artists for profit until they burn out and die” business

“This is the final post-truthification of a platform that long ago pivoted toward a maxim used by the journalist Peter Pomerantsev to refer to post-Soviet Russia: Nothing is true and everything is possible.” — www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

Amid a deepening ecological crisis and acute water shortage, Tehran can no longer remain the capital of Iran, the country’s president has said. www.scientificamerican.com/article/iran...

It's simply not great that the world's richest person is building an increasingly powerful model that worships him above every other person www.404media.co/elon-musk-co...

One, Two, Three airs tonight on TCM at 6pm EST. My #2 favorite cold war film behind Dr. Strangelove (and both are comedies). Cagney's last film until 1981.

The cost of Trump's immigration surge: Stalled investigations into child sexual abuse, Iranian oil smuggling and human trafficking, among others. My latest piece is a big team effort on how DHS has been transformed into the Department of Deportation. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/16/u...