Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

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.

If only there were a critically acclaimed film about whether CBS execs censoring "60 Minutes" ends up bringing more attention to the story they were trying to suppress. Video unrelated: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGOb...

Wait until First Amendment champion/"Free Press" founder Bari Weiss hears what CBS News' Bari Weiss is up to.

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

Then again, Bari's tracj record would suggest that "meticulously fact-checked" just as likely counts *against* the segment.

she's just doing what she was hired to do

In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."

Absolutely mystifying why this man's core constituency is rich people with many grievances and few talents.

I like how he pauses and smiles here to be sure everyone caught what a racist piece of shit he is. “Tee hee, I’m such a little stinker, tee hee”

That catch was "Jermaine Kearse in the Super Bowl" bonkers.

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

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...

"Erika Kirk backs JD Vance’s potential 2028 presidential bid at Turning Point USA conference" www.pbs.org/newshour/pol... Picture is unrelated:

suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research: they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.

Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna draft articles of impeachment for AG Bondi www.scrippsnews.com/us-news/crim...

DOJ's Epstein excuses on Xitter and the responding community notes are turning into Matryoshka dolls.

The official death count in South Sudan is nearly 1,600, making it the worst cholera epidemic in the country’s history. But that toll is a dramatic undercount. ProPublica found newly dug, unmarked graves alongside roads and in backyards.

If we treated him like a normal president he’d be in prison right now

I love working at the Department of Justice and participating in a conspiracy to cover up the demented 80 year old president's sex crimes. I spend 18 hours a day redacting documents and there's a putrid husk where my soul used to be

A team of @ms.now reporters + editors have been reviewing the Epstein files drop. Catch up here on what to know... which includes *a lot* of files that still haven't been released. ⤵️ w/ @clarissajanlim.bsky.social

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...

Breaking: Rep. Ro Khanna says the Trump DOJ's production "does not comply with" the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Khanna says he and Rep. Thomas Massie "are exploring all options" — including impeachment of DOJ officials, inherent contempt, or referring individuals for obstruction of justice.

Straight up forgot I wrote this in 2025, but I think it’s my favorite piece. Also it’s fun to say “the business idiot”

Imagine showing Martin Luther this just after he nailed the 95 theses to the church door.

Praise be.

Bill Cassidy, look upon your work: wapo.st/4aXfzn5

New: The Trump administration had a 4-part plan for the labor market in 2025. None of it worked. The administration bet on government cuts, tariffs, deportations, and breadwinners to seal their working-class coalition. The economics didn't pay out. newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/a-year-in-...

This is the energy I need.

For the record, the law states that "No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary." www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

“'They’re going to bring back suffering and death,' said Dr. Sean O’Leary, chair of the infectious disease committee for the American Academy of Pediatrics. 'I don’t say that with any hyperbole, that’s exactly what’s going to happen.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/h...

This is literally one of the most pathetic things I’ve ever seen, anywhere.

Inflation so bad Elise Stefanik thought her soul was worth something.

Elise Stefanik announces she is dropping out of the NY governor’s race and retiring from Congress.

"Jeffries would rather keep the concept of a trading ban alive for campaigning (and maybe protect Democrats who want to keep trading) than take advantage of the ongoing rebellion against House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to make tangible progress." – @ddayen.bsky.social prospect.org/2025/12/19/j...

Brooks wrote this column in 2011, the same year he was pictured with Epstein in the photos released today by Dems Let’s All Feel Superior www.nytimes.com/2011/11/15/o...

"Overall, this data does not really support Savage’s material thesis. Ambitious white men in their thirties have not seen much, if any, decline over this period. Their overall employment is up. Their employment in the arts and media is unchanged. Educational attainment is up."

It gets even more pathetic— x.com/RepBeatty/st...

Within 15 minutes today, I got two back-to-back notifications of deaths at ICE facilities. 28 people have died in ICE custody since Trump took office. These facilities are overcrowded & are putting their own profits over health and safety. We need oversight & accountability NOW.

Just to be clear, 2011 was three years *after* Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting an underage prostitute, and nearly a decade after Trump told NY Mag that Epstein likes women "on the younger side."

“.. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts was named by Congress.” 🤡 @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...

I think about this the way that punt coverage works in football: you don't actually want everyone making a directly line to the ball, you actually want different players occupying different lanes because *the punt returner is going to move!* and you want to have broad coverage of the field.

this is why i keep emphasizing the difference between mass narrative and elite persuasion. they *both* matter, but not in the same way, and they're not identical

Brooks is right: not all of these elites are rapists. Some of them just drink the rapists' champagne, attend their roundtables and laugh at their jokes.

I asked the DNC directly if any key party actors pressed the committee to keep these findings under wraps, and whether the report found that Future Forward failed in major ways. Here's their answer: newrepublic.com/article/2045...

One small way to try to re-establish social trust would be to transparently disclose *in this very column* that you hung out with Jeffrey Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

Shot ---> chaser

the failure to prosecute Trump for seeking to overturn the election is one of the greatest and most consequential bag fumbles in the history of American politics

Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.

Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly.  We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."