We could very much be wrong, which is fine, but I truly don't think Republicans would / can sit on any evidence of wrongdoing. And given how blatant the illegality of Epstein's operation was, he'd have some blackmail somewhere. This is separate from victim testimonies which I think matter a lot.

yeh at minimum there's no doubt Bill's a sleaze with some...dodgy ideas about consent, let's say If his tastes don't run to minors and/or he draws an ethical line, good; but him palling around in those circles at all is...not. that said, that PR release was exactly correct & Trump can eat shit

It's bad that the answer isn't a clean and indisputable "no" an the first prong (literal sex criminal) even if it's a strong likelihood he's not. But he's an easy cancel under the broader criteria, and I think we should become comfortable with not needing any information beyond proven association.

I sometimes rotate the timeline where Hillary divorces him in 2001 in my head and wonder where it ended

Kinda funny that the forbidden truths lady is discovering that people get really fucking curious about actual forbidden truths

serious Bond villain shit to gloat about your evil plans before you've actually pulled them off

That would, in fact, be Kevin Roberts who said "The Second American Revolution will be bloodless, if the Left permits." Ask Charlie Kirk how bloodless it was.

They all strutted around with these insufferable smirks. Who's the fucko who had the thing about they're the Second American Revolution and it'll be bloodless if the left just (submits)? How you like it now, asshole Because i think we're just getting warmed up here Actual hate sink the lot of them

The thing about the current iteration of Heritage, it seems to me: the current lot very much including Kevin Roberts are not just right wing nightmares but actual psychopaths Kevin Roberts I'm pretty sure is the other one with a terrible story about someone's dog

they can’t even consolidate their strongest soldiers, like, if you’re tearing the *heritage foundation* apart, it’s over, man

also, reason's using the word, CHECK IT OUT, GANG, IT'S SCHISM TIME! SCHISM SCHISM SCHISM SCHISM SCHISM

And I know today ten people who have decided to not watch CBS and notified advertisers. And they asked their friends to join them. Snowball rolling down a hill.

Please everyone, thank @jasonparis.bsky.social in 🇨🇦 for bringing this to our attention.

deep cut, but the second season of "Slings and Arrows" comes to mind. specifically the marketing for the theatre's new season

and reviving old viewership! i don't think i've watched 60 minutes in at least 9 years

Not that ad revenue money ever mattered to them, but it is funny that this may be highly watched and they won't get a dime.

Selling bootlegged 60 minutes VHS tapes outside of retirement homes and making a fortune

saw someone suggest I should add commentary, and this isn't what was meant, but my commentary is I believe the video depicts major laws being broken by the US federal government and that their attempt to bury the TV segment in favor of a government approved edit reveals awareness of their wrongdoing

60 minutes cecot video 5 of 5 from the Global-TV app in Canada, recording by Jason Paris

60 minutes cecot video 4 of 5 from the Global-TV app in Canada, recording by Jason Paris

60 minutes cecot video 3 of 5 from the Global-TV app in Canada, recording by Jason Paris

60 minutes cecot video 2 of 5 from the Global-TV app in Canada, recording by Jason Paris

so, all that and it was only a 14 minute segment?

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

You might question her methods, but credit to Bari Weiss: her leadership has pushed 60 Minutes into new formats and attracted a bunch of new viewership outside the normal broadcast audience.

a multi-day story about malicious interference at cbs news is likely to draw more attention to it than it would've drawn on it's own

I don't know. This is spreading among people who already know about CECOT, now how about those people who don't?

damn. what an epic maroon. literally the worst of all possible worlds for her.

When you are bad at your job & no one likes you — shit like this has them giggling behind your back

Bari, have you ever been in a Turkish prison? Bari, have you ever killed a story about a Turkish prison?

Bari, have you ever heard of the Star Wars Holiday Special?

Here is the million and one link that still works! archive.org/details/insi...

don't ever listen to imposter syndrome, folks, all of these people are the most grossly incompetent imbeciles of all time, and if you see this, you're not on that list

oh nice

i mean, whomst amongst us *hasn't* killed a story in the most ham-fisted and clumsiest way imaginable with an obviously bullshit excuse only to have a million copies of it pop up all over the internet like mushrooms less than 24 hours later

"The central message of Buddhism is not 'Every man for himself. And the London Underground is not a political movement."

When the Vice President has to be like "I love you all, whether you think the Jews did it or not," you may have some things to work through as a movement.

Now, a few months later, the murder and its aftermath have not only failed to be the galvanizing moment the right thought they had in their hands, it's become an out-of-control engine tearing them apart. You hate to see it!

The histrionics over the reaction to Kirk's murder, including the total failure to crush Jimmy Kimmel and the embarrassing attempt to retroactively make Kirk an admirable public figure and martyr, was I think a signal moment when you could see MAGA's slow decay start to accelerate.

i'm not in favor of putting Trump's name on things that were already named, but i might make an exception for the Streisand Effect

there is something Dickensian about the end of all this still bsky.app/profile/musi...

tired: content-aggregating politics accounts stealing and quote-tweeting content and trying to explain things they don't actually understand wired: under-followed nerds who actually know shit from experience

The Bulwark 8 hours ago We won't shy away from showing the horrors of CECOT. Watch Tim's conversation with Andry on the abuse he faced there: lnk.thebulwark.com/4p6OZLW

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The sweet spot for "I ain't reading that shit, I'm just going to approve" seems to be 8-10 citations

The lessons for heavy DIYers to take from this, btw: If your doctor says your insurance won't approve a newly-released drug you really want to try, don't despair. Ask them if they're willing to do a "peer to peer" if you draft the justification for them to edit to save time.

A long-delayed consequence for one of the most egregious cases of patient abuse I've ever seen, and huge kudos to David, whose reporting brought national attention to it (and, I suspect, directly affected the board's decision to finally act).

The conditions at the Broadview ICE Processing Center are INHUMANE, UNSAFE, INAPPROPRIATE, INADEQUATE.  We will be back. And we will continue the oversight work until we hold Noem, Homan, Bovino, and DHS accountable.