Morning.

"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

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

The legacy media narrative has been unified in claiming that Jeffrey Epstein abused minors. But how can anyone report that without interviewing Jeffrey Epstein? I asked Alan Dershowitz. —Bari Weiss, today in the New York Times

i can't believe they almost came this close to learning from their mistakes

can't stop watching this clip of a tesla Optimus teleoperator taking his headset off before properly logging out the robot

When you've lost Andrew McCarthy... (McCarthy has been a critic of the whole campaign, and correctly holds that none of this is warfare in a legal sense to begin with, but here also correctly holds that even if it *is* warfare, the actions described are illegal.)

You don’t get to pick. That’s the whole damn point of the rule of law.

NPR's Scott Simon explains why The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" is a holiday song for those who have troubles and heartache.

Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...

i feel asleep at like 8 pm last night 😤😤

everything i have learned about this woman's affair with RFK has been against my will and the only reasons people won't be proud of the coverage is because they had to read a bunch of sexts and explain what "feltching" is

i get that writing a book is actually quite difficult and getting it published even more so, but i'd honestly be flattered someone thought my book was important enough to go through the trouble of pirating it

i feel like AI shills openly asserting they're too big to fail is probably a bad sign

fuck sake lmao

NPR giving u the lowdown on dark patterns retailers use on black Friday is a recession indicator

my moratorium on Christmas ends on Friday and I'm thinking of starting the holiday movie marathon by watching Prometheus instead of die hard this year

Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan. And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.

the meme harvest was plentiful today lads

I'm pretty sure that part of the reason Trump is letting the shutdown drag on is the Fed's quarterly financial reports would confirm the economy has started contracting so severely that it would panic the stock market

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Was completely on purpose

OK. It's going to be coming out soon because of the relentless investigations of Pam Bondi and Kash Patel, so I might as well admit it before the news breaks: I am the General Counsel of Antifa.

Execs at Oracle, the likely new owner of TikTok, are VERY outspoken in Israeli media about the company's "mission to support the State of Israel" & "unequivocal support for Israel." Insufficiently pro-Israel Oracle staff receive mental health counseling. responsiblestatecraft.org/oracle-tikto...

Shelters that house unaccompanied minors are bracing for "Freaky Friday," the start of an ICE operation that will first issue letters to children, seeking to pressure them to return to the countries they've fled in exchange for a cash payment. If they decline, their parents will be targeted by ICE.

i have personally despised bari weiss for a long time, her book was incoherent garbage, and to see her rewarded with the plum of the profession while the smartest people i know are scraping for dollars is gross as hell

NEW from me: Several CBS News staffers and insiders told me that the network "is not a good place now" amid the imminent arrival of Bari Weiss as editor-in-chief, who one source likened to Michael Scott of The Office based on her lack of qualifications. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

I'm pretty sure these are mutually inclusive in the eyes of right wingers tbh

reddit occupied government

he's so not mad

It is Cybersecurity Awareness Month Rule 1: Never NEVER abbreviate Cybersecurity Awareness Month as CSAM

Matthew 15:29-31: And great crowds came to him, bringing with them the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and they put them at his feet, and he healed them after verifying their citizenship status.

“The position of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine is to scrap Daylight Saving Time and permanently stick to Standard Time.” Remind your state and federal lawmakers!

it’s really good when “technology of the future” treats you leaving as if you were leaving a cult

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders. I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

“Our study has lessons for public figures and institutions. They, especially politicians, must lead in curbing misinformation, as their misleading statements are quickly amplified by the public”. This was the conclusion of a study of online misinformation, as the U.S. government lies to us daily.

UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2 When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline. 109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

In a Zeteo exclusive, I asked @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social to listen to the death threat he recently got (the man was arrested) and talk about the Islamophobia he faces. He says Trump's rhetoric against him has helped fuel these "kinds of threats." Full interview: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

the next mf that tells me "its who u know" is gonna get shot 😤😤

Sex workers posting wildly incorrect WW2 rage bait to get people to click on their bio instead of thirst traps is the funniest anecdote you can tell about this place

when I'm stressed about the "current political moment" ™️ i pack up bugout bags and practice dry fire drills and I realize how much of a crutch these behaviors are because I've been unemployed the last 6 months and unable to do it and spiraling the whole time lol

one thing that is true for everyone reading this: unless something changes dramatically the number of people who agree with you on what basic facts constitute "reality" will shrink every year for the rest of your life

has there ever been like a mass shooting where someone who knew the perpetrator refuses the label "friend"? like getting printed deacribed as the shooters enemy and talking shit on their name