I think it’s pretty likely Bari Weiss quits far sooner than anyone expects because if there’s anything we learned from her tenure at the New York Times it’s that this lady hates working, absolutely despises it, and she probably had to send like four emails today

Expect a "revolt" among 60 Minutes staff over Bari Weiss pulling the CECOT segment at the last minute, one network insider told me. Another CBS News reporter added that a Rubicon had been crossed with this decision, which 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi called "political" and not editorial.

1. BREAKING Sharyn Alfonsi, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, sent an internal email to colleagues stating that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss “spiked our story” about the Trump administration and the transfer of deportees to a prison in El Salvador.

Amazing how comically bad Trump and his allies are about being authoritarian but don't let that distract you from what horrible authoritarians they are.

All of these links went to promotion of this story earlier today. All these links are dead now — that's how thoroughly they've scrubbed this.

Anyone poll impeaching Trump? I bet it is probably polling at well over 55% right now and will only go up next year.

JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"

Seen some question the “primarily.” In NYC, that was the case. As of June 2024, 79% of the growth in population in shelters since 2022 was due to migrants, thanks in part to NYC’s right to shelter, according to the Department of Homeless Services.

the broad inability to leave a social media platform owned by a white supremacist and prolific manipulator of public perception really is one of the most discouraging data points right now

The message that the law is more a suggestion for power people is basically how we got Epstien and Trump to begin with. Time for Dems to actually embrace swift "law and order" for rich guy pedophiles. Dems have very limited power now BUT tell people what SHOULD happen and why the GOP must lose.

Once when we wanted to show the ineffectual dithering of The Good Place Committee, we had one of them say, "There are rules, procedures. This is The Good Place -- we can't just *do stuff.*" We almost didn't include it, because we thought it was a little on the nose.

“Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. came within hours of publicly promoting Denmark’s childhood vaccine schedule as an option for American parents — before legal &political concerns got in the way…the HHS Office of the General Counsel said it would invite a lawsuit the administration could lose”

WELKER: Why was Ghislaine Maxwell moved just days after you interviewed her? BLANCHE: That's a Bureau of Prisons security issue that I will not talk about WELKER: Did you have anything to do with it? BLANCHE: I am responsible for the Bureau of Prisons, so every decision they make lands on my desk

It is funny that in the rush to attack Matt these critics are the ones that have gone full horseshoe by directly backing rightwing conspiracies (that the asylum seekers were all "faking it" to get government help and plenty of money to afford things)

President Donald Trump came to North Carolina on Friday to talk about the economy. He ended up explaining how his wife organizes her lingerie drawer.

This is an impeachment offense. One of many but this is a very clear red letter violation of the law.

Americans in their 20s and 30s may not feel that they’re richer than their equivalents 60 years ago, but they’re objectively wrong. It’s fascinating how important it is to some people not to say “I’m struggling, it’s hard” or “I need help”—objectively true—but to instead insist they have it worse.

Looks like they're right. Data Set 1 / Photo 468, the image from yesterday's Epstein files release that included photos of Trump in a drawer, was removed.

Tragic how break-ins have become a repeated problem for our local business trying to operate in #Portland, particularly during the holiday. Saw Leikam Brewing was hit hard yesterday www.leikambrewing.com/store

There's an impeachment resolution against this guy in the House but it's not being talked about very much because "This lunatic is trying to kill your children" isn't a compelling enough political message I guess

The “🎶five, five dollar, five dollar footlong🎶” jingle has done genuine political harm to the nation because people anchored $5 as the correct price for a one thousand calorie meal and now no amount of graphs will convince them that the economy is okay when a five dollar footlong now costs $13

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

It is totally possible for data to be wrong. You cannot make definitive conclusions about it’s relative wrongness from your personal experiences when the universe the data is attempting to represent is “an economy composed of 340mn people”. You are not a serious person if you think you can.

I don’t understand the “oh, you have a LINE on a GRAPH, you think that MEANS anything?!” people who also self-id as some kind of socialist/communist. how exactly are you going to run the command economy, dude? macroeconomic policy made on vibes?

The biggest lesson of the past 20 years is that when we let people with even minor power get away with crimes they go on to commit insanely worse crimes feeling they are invincible.

HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files: Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996. The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...

Can't believe AG Garland didn't think the public should know how much candidate Trump was in the files about his best friend pedophile who mysteriously died under Trump's watch.

Trump and RFK Jr. are going to kill so many American children for years to come.

🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. " h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social

So it looks like Trump was probably in like a 1/3rd of the Epstein files. Basically impossible to come up with any other explanation for the insane level of redaction.

It's worth reading through the whole thing, not just these horrific excerpts. Most important: not a single person -- with the exception of a guy who says he'll turn on CNN if he's out of other options -- gets their news from actual journalists. It's all RW podcasts, YouTubers and TikTok.

lmao this is the worst possible way they could have done it, you gotta leave him in some non-terrible stuff so you can argue that's all there is "he wasn't mentioned once" is not gonna fly

Basically this is one of the most important policy divides on the left Some people think the governments focus should be on providing as many good government jobs as possible While others think the government should provide as many efficient quality services as possible.

Unintentional overdoses remained the top cause of death among people experiencing homelessness in Multnomah County last year. But those types of deaths are declining.

Trump's people have completely lost the thread on "triggering the libs!" It made political sense to poke libs for things "normies" found silly (like putting Xs nouns) to get an overreaction Now the goal is just make libs angry even if that means doing something that makes everyone else angry too

From a focus group of Gen Z Republicans. (www.city-journal.org/article/manh...) Tell me again about how Zohran Mamdani is the big threat to Jewish thriving in the US today.

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

In between his political critiques, @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social likes to occasionally comment on pop culture: "I don't even remember Ice Spice. What has she been up? Was she the sexy Spice Girl?"

Data centers create huge electric use concerns but basically no water use concerns in 95% of the country. The water stuff is so stupid I honestly worry it is pushed to discredit real concerns.

Democrats need to promise to remove Trump's name from everything in DC as thoroughly as his DOJ is scrubbing his name from the Epstein files.

> @samsteindc.bsky.social

Sen. Ron Wyden on the Trump DOJ not producing all of the Epstein files, as required by law: "Anything short of a full release today is a violation of the law and a continuation of this administration’s coverup on behalf of a bunch of pedophiles and sex traffickers."

Just imagine how much Trump is in these files if it is taking them this long.

My boomer coworker complained endlessly about no one wanting to work as state unemployment levels hovered around 2.0% because service at the restaurants was slower because everyone with an option got the fuck out of the service industry.

Not to get too "theory of everything" but seems like much of the male loneliness, economic discontent, rise in depression rates, etc. is a byproduct of hyper filtered high production social media. Everyone thinks they are missing out on something that doesn't exist or told to be angry about it.

NEWS: They're adding Trump's name to the Kennedy Center building right now. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

our current system has a strong chance of putting a far-right government in complete power with about a quarter of the vote. electoral reform *must* be a Labour priority. FPTP is simply not set up to deal with a system with five competitive parties.

I've been waiting to find out exactly how Trump was going to personally profit from the AI greed frenzy he has unleashed because there was no way he was *not* going to get a piece. Now we know: a $6-billion merger of his failing media corp with an AI energy corp www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025...

I expected the second Trump admin would be absolutely horrible domestic and foreign policy that would kill thousands if not millions, but I was not expecting how much Trump's dementia combined with no one telling him no would also make it incredibly dumb and embarrassing.