With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"Something Weiss apparently doesn’t understand is that a newsroom...is a living organism with a culture all its own. That culture doesn’t function based only on commands from above," writes @sulliview.bsky.social.

Uh oh. The head of CBS Entertainment is privately warning that the Bari Weiss train wreck is inflicting significant damage on the broader CBS brand. And shes not alone. Inside Paramount, "some believe she should be relieved of her duties." The scoop in @status.news www.status.news/p/60-minutes...

my dog ate my Phoebe ticket

successfully captured Mikal Bridges and Phoebe Bridgers in the same photo

I was waiting for this. Like no joke, two days ago I thought "I can't wait for Matthew's summer bop playlist, the last one became my musical identity for six months"

new playlist YES GODDD: SUMMER BOPTACULAR 2026, fun new up tempo songs for summer '26. expect updates! ⭐ Spotify: open.spotify.com/playlist/7l0... 💫 Apple: music.apple.com/us/playlist/... 🌟 YouTube: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

"While his bosses look (to varying degrees) like bumblers, cowards or corporate tools, Pelley will be remembered as a beacon of integrity & a symbol of righteous indignation–somebody willing to lose his job in order to speak truth to power." @sulliview.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I had a long, fascinating chat with Ben, Nick, and Jason from Death Cab about their return to the indie ranks, their hard-hitting new LP, coping with divorce during their anniversary tour, thinking like a superfan, being "the dads of indie rock" at festivals, why they'll never do a cruise, and more

Politics can be a team sport on behalf of the city we love. (I’ll leave the no-look passes to the Knicks for the rest of the series).

Seth Meyers takes #ACloserLook at the Trump administration backing down on its January 6th slush fund after national outrage youtu.be/vMk4jlIHPVU?...

Met a young person who can't find a job bc of AI. His elderly mom is sick and needs home care. He drives Uber to pay rent, but is barely getting by. I told him the White House pool is going to be longer than US skyscrapers and he burst out crying. "Thank you sir," he said, "I needed that."

with @mjsdc.bsky.social on the earthquake of yesterday's Alabama order.

Remember when Bari Weiss used to fret about "cancel culture"? "In Weiss's world, some 'forbidden ideas'—trans people are bad, black people are stupid, diversity policies are evil—must be discussed, because free speech. But express[] other ideas…that Bari Weiss dislikes…and you will lose your job."

SCOTUS just cleared an Alabama redistricting map that just 3 years ago a federal court ruled was illegal racial gerrymandering. Even after SCOTUS gutted the VRA, judges still said this map was unconstitutional.   But SCOTUS is allowing it for this election. Corrupt.

An experienced, well-connected investigative reporter with a great reputation, personal loyalty, and nothing but time is a formidable enemy to assign yourself.

As I said, "it was a political hire." We know that because Bari Weiss had no experience in broadcast news, and none as a reporter. That by itself is astounding. Now the people from CBS still fighting have to make sure that the "political hire" story comes out. Variety: variety.com/2026/tv/news...

In a statement to @benmullin.bsky.social, Scott Pelley disputes what Bari Weiss said in this morning's editorial meeting, claiming he was never offered "a way back" as she claimed. "These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to everything we stand for..."

Scott Pelley was ousted from CBS News in the exact manner Bari Weiss *thinks* she was ousted from NYT

i really don't understand how people like Bari Weiss sleep at night

No one ever fired their way into being respected

Fired 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley says CBS told him to inject ‘falsehoods’ into reporting www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Read @dahlialithwick.bsky.social and @mjsdc.bsky.social @slate.com slate.com/news-and-pol...

Roberts Court wants to create world where Dems have no legitimate chance to ever take control of Congress, there are no Black members of Congress from the South & no voting rights violations can ever be proven. Their end goal is permanent white GOP minority rule www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

When our critics panel met for the 30 Songwriters project, we aimed to reflect a breadth of traditions, genres, eras; to include performing & nonperforming writers; to avoid a list of Greatest White Male Boomer Singer-Songwriters. Great artists in these results. Also shows what we were up against.

this guy's 12-year run as a columnist for the (still otherwise very good, at the time) @washingtonpost.com really marked when i started to lose my faith in our journalistic institutions. what a joke

to my mind the most important biographical fact to know about samuel alito is that he was a member of a group that opposed the admission of women and minorities to princeton www.nytimes.com/2005/11/27/p...

mutual respect is when I, a dilettante and a fake, tell you, a serious person and an expert, to snuffle around in the dirt for lies, and you say but of course, it would be my honor

the knicks are in the finals for the first time in 27 years and i'm going to MSG!!!!! (for a Phoebe Bridgers show)

We all complain about headlines on here, so we should be ready to praise this one, which gets it exactly right (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

This may be @jamellebouie.net 's best column ever, which is really saying something. Here's a gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

Scott Pelley tells the NYT: "The collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of ‘60 Minutes’ is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...

Scott Pelley has provided @status.news a statement blasting current CBS News management and even accusing them of having tried (and failed) to "inject falsehoods and bias" into his stories. www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

I find it comforting that the widely shared journalism industry experience “being canned by a moron boss brought in from outside by other morons” extends all the way up to 60 Minutes. Media is still a blue collar field after all.

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

When Analilia Mejia won the #NJ11 primary in the *special election*, in part after AIPAC group went in to destroy Tom Malinowski, some 3D explanation people provided was that AIPAC was thinking ahead to the regular June primary to defeat Mejia there. Mejia has VERY easily won her primary tonight.

First story as an RS staffer extremely on brand(i): a catch up with the Highwomen!

Thread of NYT gift links for primary results for all six states tonight, courtesy The Downballot Discord community! California:

"If these hatreds rise together, feeding on conspiracy theories and the politics of fear, they cannot be defeated apart," writes @open-society.bsky.social's @nowrojeeosf.bsky.social in a must-read op-ed on how anti-Muslim hate and antisemitism are twin crises that must be confronted together.

ICYMI: I wrote yesterday about why Mayor Mamdani was right to skip the Israel Day parade, and why the politicians who showed up are the ones who should be answering the hard questions. forward.com/opinion/8283...

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

someone at CBS needs to leak where the bagels came from. it's completely inconsequential yet very important to me.

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.

“Anti diversity stance” there’s a shorter way to say that www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

It should be much more controversial for American politicians to march with Bezalel Smotrich, a wanted war criminal, than it is for them to protest such an event. Any parade that chooses to feature Smotrich at the head holding the banner has gone far beyond generic celebration of a country.

INSIDE THE MEETING: Scott Pelley aggressively grilled new "60 Minutes" Executive Producer Nick Bilton and accused Bari Weiss of "murdering" the newsmagazine, according to audio obtained by @status.news. Full story here: www.status.news/p/scott-pell...

Hegseth Strikes Female and Black Navy Officers From Promotion List. The net result: a slate of 22 new one-star admiral nominees that bears little resemblance to the broader force these officers will help lead. Of special note: The list has no women. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

I still think they should all resign and just recreate the show on another network. Make it as similar as possible without triggering IP claims.