Remember when a year felt like a long time?

In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

People must grasp the idea of “media capture.” It’s when authoritarian regimes and/or their powerful allies take control of media to stifle independent voices holding the government to account. It’s one way Hungary’s Viktor Orbán keeps power. In the U.S., it’s what the Ellisons have done with CBS.

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

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

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

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

I’m not saying I can predict the future, but some futures are awfully predictable.

The networks were afraid not to run Trump because they assumed he would use his office to punish them if they didn’t. The irony is that this is what Biden was warning about, a warning they chose not to share with America.

“Journalists (with a few exceptions) are mostly documenting what’s happening and applying the same old journalistic techniques and traditions to the vastly different situation. There are minor adjustments but very little sense of the five-alarm fire.” margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/america-ha...

Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”. If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.

Why haven’t any flat Earthers found the edge yet? Don’t any of them have access to a boat? 1/2

Immigrants were moments away from pledging allegiance to the United States in Boston — the final step of the long process to becoming a U.S. citizen — when government officials pulled them out of line, according to a new report.

I mean, who takes pride in a stupid made-up award they basically gave to themself? Just so deeply broken and weird.

What kind of loser beams with pride while posing with an unearned trinket he basically bestowed upon himself through the sycophants and notorious humanitarians at FIFA? He is either trying to fool morons (and likely succeeding) into believing he earned something of value or he believes it. 🤷

Has drugs ≠ Making war These are distinctly different things, and it’s important to maintain a grip on reality in the face of fascists trying to destroy it. There is no possible way any of the people on these US-attacked boats could get “back in the fight” because they weren’t ever in one.

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

This nation would be a better place if just one White House reporter had the courage to ask "what the hell are you rambling about, old man?"

The rest of the press looks cowardly when it stands there silently while Trump repeatedly insults female reporters.

Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:

Thanks to his new Tesla pay package, Elon Musk could stand to make $3 billion more per year than all 1.4 million elementary school teachers in the U.S. combined. Still wondering if inequality is out of control?

"Sir, did you just abuse and insult a journalist for asking a question? And did you publicly call a woman a piggie? Is this the way a U.S. President behaves?" A reporter who so spoke loses WH credentials, maybe his job if his agency is gutless. But absent such, the entire WHPC is without honor.

Swastikas and nooses are not “potentially divisive.” They are and (at least since the years before WW2) intentionally divisive and violent. That is their whole point. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

swastikas downgraded to "potentially divisive"

/10 One could argue that this is not a serious discussion, because there is no serious argument that it’s sedition or treason to tell the truth about the Constitution. But this is an unserious time marked by unserious and frankly evil people.

He will release the files as soon as they are done auditing his tax returns.

Trump and RFK Jr's CDC just added a page that is full of disinformation about vaccines and autism.

“I was 14… I was 16… this was me when I met Epstein… there are thousands of us… time to let the secrets out of the shadows” Powerful ad from survivors ahead of a vote to tell us where each House rep stands on protecting kids vs protecting pedophiles.

To be clear, I’m not suggesting the Dems give up the push to keep this issue at the forefront of their efforts. I just don’t understand why anyone in the executive branch would comply. They break all sorts of laws and skirt all sorts of court orders all the time.

Honest question for anyone eager to see the Epstein Files: Assuming there is something damaging or even criminal in these materials, why would this administration release any of it? Regardless of a congressional vote, court order, or burning bush.

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...

CBP shot a woman five times - with bullets, not sandwiches - after they allege she rammed their car (she says they rammed her). Now she is facing charges that could see her in jail for 20 years. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

The Handmaid’s Tale level bullshit. Immigration agents crashed into a U.S. citizen on her way to work—violently dragged her out and arrested her. Her family couldn’t find her for hours. She was later released without charges. Read the Story: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

Journalism has been both indispensable in preserving democracy and complicit in its downfall. margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/trump-just...

What Yglesias has stumbled upon, without realizing it, is that in the modern information environment, Democrats have very poor control over their own identity. Democrats are defined not by their own rhetoric, but by the rhetoric of their enemies. This is not a problem a policy agenda can fix.

"The ‘60 Minutes’ interview with Trump showcased everything that is wrong with US political interviews in general. The deferential tone. The lack of preparation. The failure to ask follow-up questions or dig deep into answers. The inability (unwillingness?) to fact-check in real time."

He lies all the time. But he also openly admits to so much.

O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao? TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him. TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it

"People like Merrick Garland think that they’re eschewing politics. The reality is the opposite: The careful avoidance of anything that appears political is itself a political act. It is a performance, intended to convey to your audience that you are neutral and unbiased. It’s institutional PR."

genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree

An editorial of course belongs in the Opinion Section. This one is filled with facts. Thank you, NYT. I wish your paper had made the stakes of the election clearer when it could have better helped prevent all this. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/interactive/... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It’s like they don’t acknowledge the existence of the word “hypocrisy” because that would require caring about any semblance of integrity.

Still this: "I disliked Biden because [thing Trump did], and I missed Trump because [thing Biden did]. I voted for Trump again because I wanted [thing Harris promised], But I really hope that Trump doesn't [core Trump campaign promise]."

Not a hard question, except for the culture that pretends it's not the answer 1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else 2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles