"Our editor in chief had a different vision for how the piece should be, and it came late in the process... We pushed back, we defended our story, but she wanted changes, and I ultimately had to comply," 60 Minutes EP Tanya Simon said in a meeting today. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all. And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.

The full Weiss memo is dogshit -who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT -who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison —who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison

Indeed

Was told by a CBS News source that Bari Weiss held a "big managers crisis meeting" in the New York offices today in which she tried to assure everyone that the 60 Minutes CECOT story isn't dead. "I think that's what the trades call backpeddling," the source added.

One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself

NEW from me: CBS News staffers are warning that Bari Weiss is sparking a "revolt" at 60 Minutes and the network after she spiked a story on CECOT. "Holy fucking dumpster fire," one staffer told me. Also, I have more details on today's 'angry" editorial call www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

During today's editorial call, Bari Weiss doubled down on pulling the CECOT segment while lashing out at Sharyn Alfonsi: "The only newsroom that I'm interested in running is one where we are able to have contentious disagreements about the thorniest and editorial matters, and do so with respect."

PNC's Christmas Price Index: Up 4.5% YoY... thanks to those 5 Golden Rings JPMAM There has also been notable Partridge in a Pear Tree inflation, as we all know.

Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants

"I think Bari Weiss deserves the benefit of the doubt."

Good on 60's Sharyn Alfonsi, who emailed the show's staff and correspondents to say Bari Weiss had "spiked" her story in what she says was a "political" call. With cals like this, "We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,” Alfonsi said. www.wsj.com/business/med...

"The project—[Bari Weiss's] and that of her backers—is to establish herself and her cohort not as new-right media, but as the new liberal media, staking out the leftmost acceptable position within the new right-wing paradigm." (This is a gift link, from October) defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

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.

And there it is...

CBS News EIC Bari Weiss had concerns about the CECOT piece, I’m told. The network decided to hold the segment pending, among other things, comment or an interview with White House officials next year…

A CBS News source tells me this tonight about 60 Minutes abruptly yanking the CECOT story: "It’s definitely fishy. I don’t think this happens very often. I’m theorizing that perhaps Bari wanted it held, but I don’t know that for certain."

Perhaps we should film a debate between a concentration camp guard and an abandoned toilet over whether CECOT is good. Brought to you by Bank of America.

Meanwhile, this last-minute cancelation comes after Trump has been raging about 60 Minutes segments he doesn't like and complaining that the Ellisons aren't his "friends" anymore -- all while they are banking on Trump to side with their Warner Bros hostile takeover bid.

"We determined it needed additional reporting."

The ending of the Lions-Steelers game was pretty fucked up.

Oh.

What once was largely limited to Stormfront and the fever swamps of the internet just a few years ago is now accepted discourse from the White House.

"the spirit if not the intent" lol

Tulsi Gabbard was an open Putin sympathizer (Assad sympathizer too) for years before Trump and the GOP Senate put her in charge of the US intel community. Her apparent eagerness to push Russian govt propaganda, including some that’s transparently absurd, is not incidental. It’s why she got the job.

So, the answer is yes, he did move her to a Club Fed.

Just walked right into that one.

BRENNAN: What are you going to do to force DOJ to comply? MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.

In case you’re wondering how the Epstein files are going over with the base, here are some recent top headlines on Fox. The AOC one is unusual because there’s no snark or subtext about her. It’s just a straight news headline.

“This is a student who did nothing wrong on a campus that is already in mourning,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on the "enraging" story of right-wing figures falsely claiming with zero evidence the Brown University gunman was a Palestinian student.

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

Garcia: In our initial estimation—It could be that we're only getting about 10% of what the DOJ has. And of that 10%, 5% of that has already been released. And the other 5% is highly redacted. So we're getting very little so far

Lots of pages like this in today's Epstein files release. CSAM stands for "child sexual abuse material."

As others have noted, these redactions appear to be blatantly illegal (assuming Fox News' report is correct). www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Tapper: This is one of the documents the DOJ released. It’s 100 pages. It’s all black. That’s the transparency we’re getting.

I would point out that the search feature doesn't appear to be working for any parameter. I just entered "photo" and nothing came up. Same with "Clinton," and we know they have a bunch of entries for him!

So this is one photo that was released in the Epstein files today...

Extremely obvious combing through this who is redacted and why. It's Epstein, Maxwell, a lot of Bill Clinton, maybe Michael Jackson (?) and basically nobody else. Everybody else's head is in a black rectangle. In practice, they didn't release shit.

Oh yeah, there are more Michael Jackson photos in the Epstein files!

Uhhhhh, is that Michael Jackson???

The Epstein Files, everybody!

Whoa! Not only is Elise Stefanik dropping her bid for NY governor, she's also not going to run for re-election in Congress.

[DJ Khaled voice] Another one!

Lawyers for Mustapha Kharbouch’s legal team slammed people who spread rumors about him being the Brown shooter. "The past few days have been an unimaginable nightmare. I woke up on Tuesday morning to unfounded, vile, Islamophobic, and anti-Palestinian accusations being directed toward me online.

These folks are being so openly and casually antisemitic, it makes me wonder if some other outlets' are sanewashing their focus groups.

Also, notice how he sneaks in the little lie that unemployment is at 4.5%. It's actually 4.6

The MAGA civil war that was on full display at the TPUSA conference last nighy is giving MTG's fiance a sad. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

The Trump Doctrine is, essentially: “Who’s gonna stop you?”

And there will be no apologies given.