Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way. by Ezra Klein

When you're on the right and you've lost Glenn....

How it started. How it's going.

While we stand by the reporting in our 60 Minutes piece about El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison, it was missing crucial information—specifically about how woke campus protestors would benefit from a few weeks there to see how good they have it. by Bari Weiss

Crickets from the free speech bros on this, of course.

The Trump supporter who runs CBS news just killed a story about Trump’s favorite torture prison. Here’s why America has a liberal media bias problem.

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I lost my job, was evicted from my home by by private equity landlord, and am now living under a bridge. But at least now the people walking by aren't saying "Happy Holidays" to me.

Donald Trump is failing cognitive tests and plunging the nation into a recession. But my liberal neighbor's giant Ukrainian flag is so cringe. I have never felt more politically homeless.

Whether it's MAGA influencers saying "Hitler was cool" or suburban liberals putting up signs that say "we believe in science," both sides have made some provocative statements.

I forgot that Tiger Mom convinced JD to write it. www.theatlantic.com/business/arc...

I'm so upset with JD Vance that I'm going to ask my reading group to take Hillbilly Elegy off its list.

Donald Trump's struggle to identify a giraffe raises new questions about Joe Biden's cognitive abilities.

Young Republicans say that "Hitler was fucking cool." The truth is more complicated.

From trashing murdered director Rob Reiner to renaming the Kennedy Center for himself, an uninhibited Donald Trump has impacted the arts in notable, yet unorthodox ways.

Times have been tough in this Ohio town since they closed the old sex crimes redacting factory. So when Trump, Bondi, and Blanche redacted Trump’s name from hundreds of documents describing sex crimes, they finally had something to cheer about. But now the woke mob wants to take that all away.

In this Ohio diner, premium still means the only fuel you should use if you care about your F-150. But they do know this: the rising cost of healthcare can be offset by investing in Trump crypto.

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My wife was born in Thailand and my dad is from southern Italy. Here's why I support the concept of Heritage Americans. by Christopher Rufo

I lost my job, I can’t afford to buy a single Barbie to gift my daughter, and a spiral ham costs 50% more than it did last year. But at least everyone is saying “Merry Christmas” instead of “Happy Holidays” now.

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Democrats are forever “in disarray.” Republicans are “in an uncharacteristic state of discord.”

Liberals are complaining that the Justice Department has left in the faces of the little girls being abused while blacking out the photos of the rich, powerful men abusing them. But the rich, powerful men are the real victims of this investigation.

Whether it’s Pete Buttigieg learning to speak eight languages or Donald Trump successfully identifying a giraffe, there’s plenty of intellectual accomplishments on both sides of the aisle.

Jeffrey Epstein’s sex slaves were giving massages the right way. by Ezra Klein

Donald Trump: “I took cognitive tests. By the way, not easy. The first question is like what is this and they show a lion, giraffe, fish and a hippopotamus. And they say which is the giraffe.” This is an actual quote. He’s bragging about being able to differentiate between animals. Bury me now…

I took my friend with only a high school degree to a fancy party and saw his face freeze up at the terminology being used by the elite. “Hebephile?” “Ephebophile?” I quickly asked him if he wanted to go somewhere else and he anxiously nodded yes and so we went to a Trump rally. By David Brooks

If Jeffrey Epstein did nothing other than procure massages for his friends, then there’s no crime here. by Robert Kraft

On the one hand, they have redacted Trump’s name from the Epstein Files. On the other hand, they have put it on the Kennedy Center.

Donald Trump has destroyed the economy and set American science back 15 years. But I heard my liberal neighbor said "Latinx" yesterday. I have never felt more politically homeless.

At what point does it become Bill Clinton's tariff-laden economic decline?

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's daughter Evita wrote an angry X screed declaring that TSA airport scanners emit radiation—an easily disproven error that makes her the frontrunner to succeed her father in the Trump Administration.

These College Republicans say Hitler was a good leader and Jews are a money-hoarding societal ill. Some College Democrats disagree.

Although the Epstein files are incomplete and heavily redacted, Donald Trump barely appears in any of the documents that his personal lawyer/deputy attorney general released. Case closed. by Marc Thiessen

Please kill me

Kyrie Elise Stealthy Stefanick quit when she learned only mister misters can make it to the top of MAGA world. But can she take these broken wings to a gig on CBS? by Maureen Dowd

(1/2) I think Stefanik's downfall is a bigger deal that ppl think. Casting aside all principles to kiss Trump's ass was the smart move (Tessio was always smarter) and it destroyed her career. Washington Republicans are amoral sociopaths and they notice things like this.

Elise Stefanik to rejoin Harvard Institute of Politics.

Für Elise Stefanick’s campaign proved to be more pathétique than eroica. But if you asked her why she dropped out, she’d probably plead the fifth. by Maureen Dowd

How it started. How it's going.

The Department of Justice's refusal to release photos of Donald Trump with Jeffrey Epstein raises new questions about Joe Biden's commitment to transparency.

The Brown/MIT school shooter was from Portugal—the most egregious example yet of an immigrant doing a job that could that thousands of Americans could have done.

My kids have measles, I can't afford toys, and the Justice Department is illegally refusing to release all the pictures of the president hanging out with a notorious sex trafficker. But at least now the kids at Oberlin aren't getting trigger warnings.

Opinion | Mitt Romney should run for president in 2028. As a Democrat.

I found it. The Bari Weiss/CBS News town hall promo for feminism does indeed use a 1964 photo of Beatles fans.

CBS is planning a series of ideologically diverse, non-partisan town halls treating questions like "How has feminism failed women?", "Why are liberals so smug?", and "What makes poor people so lazy?"

President Trump has every right to change the name of the Kennedy Center. But if a future Democratic president tries to change the name back, that would be completely unconstitutional. by John Roberts

Opinion | Don't blame Donald Trump for the failings of his administration. He has been betrayed by the alcoholics, drug addicts addicts, conspiracy theorists, religious zealots, and neo-Nazis that he put in charge of the government.

We wanted to understand the legality of Trump seizing oil tankers in the Caribbean Sea. So we talked to three retirees scrolling through AI videos at a Social Security office in Joplin.

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