CBS furiously trying to take down the 60 Minutes segment about human rights abuses at the El Salvadoran prison that Bari Weiss spiked

“We have effectively handed [the Trump administration] a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient.” CBS News’ editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, pulled a 60 Minutes segment featuring the accounts of Venezuelan men sent by the Trump administration to a maximum security prison in El Salvador.

1/ By now you've probably watched the 60 Minutes Bari Weiss spiked (archive.org/details/3mam...). It discusses how Venezuelans were sent to CECOT b/c of innocuous tattoos, a story that @nlanard.bsky.social and @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social first broke open: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Anyway, watch for yourself and see what you think of Weiss's defense. To me, it's demonstrably full of shit

Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives. Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.

Spent 6 months in detention waiting on a decision on his asylum application until he was deported to CECOT The detail that they sent out an asylum seeker who presented himself to immigration correctly also seems new. Again, did we know this? Seems like a weird thing for a terrorist to do

Detainee they are interviewing was a college student in Columbia. Waited in Mexico until he had a 2024 immigration interview in CA - a scheduled appointment - where he was told he was a danger to society. Claims he has no criminal record, never even got a traffic ticket. Was immediately detained

If I were a young conservative, I’d consider starting a branch of the movement that tolerates criticism of Israel but isn’t antisemitic!

What it's like to see community activists in Louisiana stand up to a Border Patrol raid, from @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social

been a rough couple months for "gait analysis"

Narrator: It will not remain secret...

whatever you think of these particular topics, this seems like a great idea! i don't know how many people will watch it, but i will

Interesting.

Please enjoy our annual feature in which @motherjones.com staffers attempt to prove that, yeah, we totally read books!

I hope that the well-deserved skepticism about the viability of the the "Turtle Island Liberation Front" "plot" will inspired folks to revisit their credulous coverage of the the Michigan governor "kidnapping" "plot"

It's definitely better if they never succeed in indicting Letitia James again, but I do hope there will be some other mechanism for making Wiles testify about this... www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

I've listened to a couple days of this, because I really did want to give it a fair chance. And maybe it will get better, but oh my God it's the worst thing I've listened to in my entire life

I guess kudos to Biden for not engaging in the corruption necessary to raise the money while in office

Oh. Cool. Just as the President is using every power he can to suppress dissent and stifle speech, @whitehouse.senate.gov and the @judiciarydems.senate.gov are trying to hand Trump a new tool to suppress speech online. What a joke.

I think Tina Peters' sentence was probably excessive. I have no idea if Gov. Polis was considering shortening it, but if he was, Trump just made any commutation politically impossible.

If 10 more US Senate Republicans in 2021 had shown half the courage Indiana Republicans did yesterday, President Nikki Haley would have a 60% approval rating right now and would be preparing to appoint her third Supreme Court justice.

This is awesome. It can and should be what we would expect, but it isn't. Abler deserves deep appreciation for overcoming what apparently ails all of his peers across the country who were raised to be more empathetic than they are.

I hear the Post's AI is considering endorsing Kamala

The Tina Peters "pardon" is a lot like the pardons for fake electors facing state-level investigations, which @dfriedman.bsky.social first reported on, months before they happened. The difference is Peters is actually in prison, and her supporters are definitely gonna notice when she stays there.

Obviously, Trump can still do a lot of damage. But after today, it's going to be a lot harder to justify failing to stand up to him.

Trump pretending to "pardon" Tina Peters really puts an exclamation point on the most ineffectual and powerless day of his presidency

Big day for supposedly pliant institutions—grand juries, GOP-dominated state legislatures—telling Trump to fuck off

Every GOP member of Congress from Indiana needs to spend the next month answering questions about whether they agree Indiana should now be stripped of all federal funding. The House members all supported redistricting, so it's a perfectly logical follow-up question.

Indiana Republicans right now

In which Jerome Powell cuts a campaign ad for Democrats...

Can we clone Allan Sherman and have him turn this into a "Harvey and Sheila" sequel?

These two poll results are entirely consistent

Gavin Newsom—for all his glaring flaws—became the leader of the Democratic Party by actually leading, by accomplishing some things. If Harris "isn't ready to be written off," she should run for governor of California. She could be the de facto leader of the party for the next two years

Incredible quote. I give it an A+++++

Status update on House Republicans and a health care plan, after this morning’s conference meeting: “The consensus is we need to come up with something,” Rep. Ralph Norman says.

Boebert could move home to Rifle without giving up her seat!

Grade inflation at elite institutions is out of control

Incredible new way of destroying the Deep State just dropped

Nothing that we can't fix by shaving some beards, blowing up some speed boats, and invading Chicago...

The liberal media refused to even include "access to pull-up bars" in this fake poll. Trump should sue them in Iowa.

This shit is going to continue until one of these cowardly mega-corporations works up the courage to finally sue the Trump administration. If the ICEblock guy can do it, Netflix and WB surely can too.

Fascinating to listen to the conservative justices just completely rebuild the US government from first principles on the bench

The FTC won’t be the agency reviewing this transaction. But worth noting that Congress created the FTC and insulated the Commissioners BECAUSE the DOJ was too susceptible to political pressure.

The SCOTUS liberals should join Thomas and Gorsuch in arguing that the for-cause removal provisions aren't really severable and that if they aren't constitutional, the entire FTC (and FCC!) needs to be shot into the sun on a SpaceX rocket

Subtle. And on the very morning the administration is convincing SCOTUS to give Trump unfettered control of the FTC...

Vance, unfortunately, is correct www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Is it, tho?

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Perfect.