Okay so she just killed a story investigating the concentration camp in a banana republic Trump is sending American residents to

"Volunteer position" is the most lawyerly worked-over description they could come up with to make it sound as far as possible from being an "office."

Landry rushed to clarify he isn't resigning as governor of Louisiana and this will be, like, his side gig I guess. The state constitution explicitly bans state officeholders from simultaneously holding any federal office.

The US government must be in The Hague together with russians. They say it perfectly knowing that russia is preparing to attack even more countries, including NATO countries.

It is crazy that large swaths of news media still argue that Democrats are thr ones with an online constituency problem when its exceedingly clear that several ppl in this admin, but Vance in particular, is only interested in playing to a very narrow slice of extremists who exist primarily online.

Ambassador to Israel under the Obama administration and defense department liaison to Israel under Biden explicitly praising Trump for bombing Iran and hoping he does it again

They're smoking the same Iran Industry crack that convinced the Mossad that the Iranian Army would mutiny in the first hours of bombing (see threatening phone calls to top IRI generals) After that failed, there was no clear strategic goal of the bombing other than hoping the US would finish the job.

You already are seeing some gradual reintroduction of pre Islamic Iranian nationalism in the public sphere, and it isn't translating into talk of acquiescence to Israeli demands. I wonder what these people in DC are smoking.

These people really don't seem to get that a post Ali Khamenei Iranian state that's brought about by internal change will almost certainly be five more secular and also ten times more anti Israel and anti US, and also a nuclear power.

I was listening to bloomberg's credit edge and the credit PM on there said "you can get effective rate of 9% on munis" and it blew my mind

Big FT Investigation - Binance allowed suspicious accounts to operate even after 2023 US plea agreement. Details of the transactions come after Trump pardoned Binance founder Changpeng Zhao in Oct. The Trump family has since expanded business ties with Zhao’s exchange www.ft.com/content/5d8a...

I love living in an era of rotted out old men who dont understand what it means when someone tells them no

Tories call EHRC chair’s comments a ‘disgrace’ after she warns ‘demonisation of migrants’ is bad for UK – politics live

This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!

Looking at Colin McGinn's blog and ever since he was blacklisted by American academia for sexually harassing grad students it appears he's gone insane

I keep thinking of JD Vance's boast at his speech: 2.5 million people have "left" America (forcibly, cruelly, inhumanely, shattering families, invading cities, wrecking labor sectors, all for an evil desire for ethnic purity described as identical with economic success)

One of the wonders of our time that Ted Cruz has found someone less likeable than him to run against www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Arrests and killings of political opponents Natl Assembly shut down State control over media Protests banned Political parties and local councils suspended False accounts of past elections All could have happened in South Korea had the people and the parliament not blocked martial law one year ago.

A special counsel requested a 15-year prison sentence for former South Korean first lady Kim Keon-hee on Wednesday. english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

Agree with all of this, other than "the right will go 'pro-natalist" - I think what will happen is that much of the right will shift from 'blaming our ills on immigration' to 'blaming our ills on ethnic diversity', which is already happening to an extent.

the fact that you have people associated with the Truman project willing to rationalize this administration is bleak same with people at American thinktanks rationalizing the "Western hemisphere" turn

The willingness of so many to discuss Trump's diplomacy as if it is a strategic successor to the linear tradition of Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Reagan rather than the violently incompetent chaos bomb it is in reality will forever baffle me

Presumably Trump's next act of American global master strategy will be to appoint a horse as his chief envoy to Panama

Also admiring the strategic genius of antagonising one of the US' most loyal allies Other states will surely see that and think: yes, this is the country I want to align with Then again, the current US administration probably thinks bullying will forever be the winning foreign policy recipe

Never mind China, with more of this the United States will fall behind the EU

What a difference ten years make: in 2014, the #AfD claimed that the US treated Germany like its doormat. Since 2024, they have been best buddies with the MAGA crowd #Germany #farright

Huh - on a tax-equivalent yield basis US munis yield more than EM corporate bonds. am.jpmorgan.com/us/en/asset-...

Man, the POST is carpetbombing her? The POST?!?

Trump take electron *US SUSPENDS OFFSHORE WIND FARM LEASES OVER SECURITY CONCERNS *BURGUM SAYS OFFSHORE WIND TURBINES MAY CAUSE RADAR INTERFERENCE *US SUSPENDS LEASES FOR 5 OFFSHORE WIND FARM UNDER CONSTRUCTION

The thing is there are racist jokes that work in terms of the joke structure being recognizable as a joke [set up, build up, punchline]. This one is like. Heh. You know what's funny? I'm racist. Delivered by a guy without charisma

Handwaving away your party’s embrace of antisemitic conspiracy theories by saying “at least we’re not controlled by George Soros” is the most ridiculously quiet-part-loud thing I’ve ever seen.

Vance increasingly reminds me of Yoon Suk Yeol, also a cynical opportunist, whose courting of the far right went from a ploy to a brain-rotting self-induced psychosis, brought on by an accelerating addiction to every lunatic conspiracy theory video he could get his hands on.

maintaining the fiction that cbs news would remain relatively objective under her leadership was a *lot* more important — to the admin, to cbs news, to david ellison and to bari weiss — than killing this story was, and it’s incredibly funny she didn’t know that

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

it is just incredible how far bari weiss got without ever having an audience other than the rich men she flatters

My instinct is it only works for Trump because his lifetime of braggart lying has conditioned a lot of people to simply not take his statements seriously, so if you reveal his truth social insanity to Fox viewers, they discount it. 'Locker room talk.' I don't think Vance will get the same benefit.

What strikes me as...curious, I guess...is that Vance is clearly calculating that the Candace wing of the party is the future. I'm wondering if he thinks he can run the same kind of two-tiered message that Trump has succeeded at: sane-washed on Fox, crazy on Truth Social.

There are few things in this world I find more entertaining than smart people making good points in incredibly crude language

i think Vance is telling in this regard: he's not willing to alienate the Candace wing of the GOP

What's seemingly miraculous is that this extends even to ppl who have strong fanatical or mercenary reasons to go along with it all. The bar for how brain-poisoned you have to be to go along with this shit if you have any real ability at all keeps rising. They can't sustain any kind of regime.

The GOP's dire talent shortage is rapidly metastasizing to institutions that associate themselves closely with the GOP. It's like a quiet, uncoordinated general strike of the world's talents & experts against the cretinous fascist insanity that has taken over the Right. It's genuinely remarkable.

What Blackman asserts has happened since the Carlson-Fuentes Incident--which of course he may be exaggerating for rhetorical purposes--but which largely has the sting of truth, is nothing short of the collapse of its ability to get expert input, even from hard right scholars and jurists.

ive met people like this. 2024 was a giant referendum on if anything matters, the result came back 'no', and a lot of people were convinced that nothing would ever matter again

to be charitable, i think that to some people trump is just so obviously viscerally repulsive that if the sight of him isnt enough to deter people, you come to the conclusion that nothing is and hes just invulnerable

not to excuse Weiss who owns this but I’ll be pretty surprised if there wasn’t a nasty call to an Ellison making clear that if this ran they could kiss WB goodbye

ALL SHE COULD COME UP WITH WAS THREE SENTENCES FROM CHATGPT‽‽‽

Full story about what's going on at CBS News: www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/m...

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.

What they're banking on is the same phenomenon that happened with Twitter. Inertia or whatever is going to enable CBS to retain a portion of the already captured audience and corrupt them. It's not a bad bet.

Don’t know why you people are making fun of Sally Jenkins, who has a sterling track record of not being duped by frauds