It’s impossible to overstate what a big deal this is for this legendary Kentucky brand. The last time Jim Beam closed down like this was during Prohibition. Trump’s tariffs & fight with Canada are surely to blame. www.kentucky.com/news/busines...

“Another Cup to Drown the Memory:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:30

This is a very astute observation. I hadn't thought about Keith Kellogg, he just disappeared from the scene. It makes perfect sense that Putin would want to fainthearted guy like Witkoff doing the negotiations. 🗽

60 Minutes is one of only two documentary-style public affairs programs left on the air. The other is Frontline on PBS, which saw its funding gashed by the Trump admin and Congress. They have a matching donation rn. www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli...

You can't invent the lightbulb by improving the candle. You can't create new shit just by reading, regurgitating and rewording old shit. AI would tell you to build an iron lung to treat the symptoms but the human brain discovers penicillin to kill the cause of the symptoms.

Gold futures just reached an all time high of over $4,400 an ounce. (Gold prices typically go up when there is economic uncertainty generally and especially when there uncertainty about the stability of the dollar.)

For Jesus’ birthday this year, he’s asking for affordable housing, universal healthcare, and for people to stop using his name to explain why they’re being cruel to strangers.

“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.”

“Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the stranger and the unwashed child, care for the sick, love your enemies.”

60 Minutes, dead at 57. The murder weapon was Bari Weiss.

Our gut microbiome has a huge influence on our overall health, but we haven't been clear on the specific bacteria with good versus bad effects. Now, a study of more than 34,000 people is shedding light on what a healthy gut microbiome actually consists of

Where those Harper’s Letter folks at

It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now. It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.

So I have a kinky boots mothman tattoo and I want a squonk to go with him but I can't decide if I want it to have something "unique" about it too (like the boots) or just maybe like kawaii style or something

Gold rose to an all-time high, with heightened geopolitical tensions and bets on more Federal Reserve rate cuts adding impetus to the best annual performance in more than four decades. bloom.bg/48SyBde 📷: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg

/1 According to preliminary, unconfirmed, reports, a car was blown up in Moscow carrying Major General Fanil Sarvarov, head of the Operational Training Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Steves purchased the property to prevent it from closing. Many homeless people had come to depend on the Lynnwood Hygiene Center, which had operated rent-free on the property since 2020. n.pr/3MKbmJH

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.

This year for Chanukah I decided to see if I could capture decent photos of candles burning out, and as if to help me out on the final night the shamash decided to collapse in a wax blob, giving me a very fun shot as it went out. A few other photos as well...

it's a mark of how fucked up the world is that this doesn't even phase me. at least he's paying the people he tortured. could be worse. off to read about conditions in our government's latest concentration camp.

This, too, is outrageous -- firing an immigration judge because he granted asylum to six people. Trump's folks have made clear they want "deportation judges." Just rejecting any semblance of due process. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“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.

corporate oligarch media outlets reporting on the malfeasance of other corporate oligarch media outlets isn’t the way out of this btw. give your scoops to independent reporters.

Avatar Fire and Ash is the first Avatar I've seen since the original. In IMAX 3D, what a stupendous showcase for sensuous lithe blue aliens. 5/5 lots of explosions too. 3 hours

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.

Bari Weiss demands that 60 Minutes use Stephen Miller's rhetoric as their own, including references to "illegals."

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

Affordable last minute gift ideas! - mysterious jar of moss - invisible helmet - thrift store goblin bones - fox laughter - map of good burritos - curly fries & kindness

sixty minutes was an absolute staple in my house growing up. my dad would complain about it and my mom would swear by it but it was appointment viewing. they made me watch it as a lad, and i was the better for it. it’s just gonna be another disposable thing now and of course that’s the goal.

"I Am the Walrus" by The Beatles holds a fascinating record: it reached #1 and #2 on the UK singles chart simultaneously in 1967. This was due to its release as the B-side to "Hello, Goodbye" and its inclusion on the Magical Mystery Tour EP.

“”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...

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

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.

Trump says he’s appointing Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as “special envoy” to Greenland. Landry has previously expressed support for Trump’s plan to invade Greenland.

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.

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/

Here’s my version of the chocolate fudge brownie. There’s several different versions of the recipe bouncing around the intertubes. Including on the Palmer House’s website. The brownie itself was invented there. Mrs Palmer wanted a signature desert for the World’s Columbia Exposition 1893. 1/

support independent media. idk what else to say right now.

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

So a lot of people are predicting that cancelling the segment will actually cause a huge uproar and I desperately want that to be true but here's the thing The story has to get off of social media for that to happen. If you know people who aren't incredibly online, tell them about it

This is plenty plausible. Bringing on Weiss is like the scheme from The Producers.

CBS taking a cue from a SpaceX launch: rapid unscheduled disassembly of the CECOT piece.

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...

“Frog is late,” said Toad. Toad looked at his clock. He remembered it was broken. The hands of the clock did not move.

oh i just remembered that Woody Harleson's dad assassinated a federal judge

How is anyone supposed to satirize this