it must have felt so good to be the digital media manager when the word came down to unschedule the piece from the 60 minutes feed but no one said anything about unscheduling it from the international website

Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.

It's bonkers that the Pentagon attack has largely faded from both cultural and institutional consciousness. I understand why, but it's still odd.

want a job where you’re never under threat of AI taking your paycheck? where technology is adopted very slowly and methodically, even at great cost to productivity? where decisions are made involving everyone’s input and all stakeholders are listened to? my friends, the city is the place for you

The Biden/Harris administration held an extended payments pause, fixed PSLF, forgave billions in debt through one-off actions and tried to forgive more. Tell me again how “both sides are the same”.

‘It’s not a part time job.’ Oof. Scott Pelley and Sharyn Alfonsi absolutely leveled Bari Weiss at an emergency 60 Minutes staff meeting today.

main thing I remember about Philip Rivers

Canadian TV network bravely airs dissidents’ report on U.S. abuses after political commissar orders its suppression

This is infuriating. Thanks to Adam for a wonderfully comprehensive account of how the Roberts court is attacking the Civil War amendments to the constitution 1/

Jesus Christ, this guy did everything so by the book he didn't even cross the border until he had his day in court and they still just black bagged him off to torture prison.

THREAD: While Jews mourn the deadliest antisemitic attack in Australian history, disinformation and justification narratives are spreading on the left, and progressive silence is enabling it.

False flag claims have also spread rapidly. Richmond, CA Mayor Eduardo Martinez, a DSA member, reposted content speculating an Israeli soldier committed the attack, along with a Star of David image claiming "the root cause of antisemitism is the behaviour of Israel."

I suspect that the political failures of Bidenomics (POLITICAL failures, mind you, not ECONOMIC) is pretty conclusive proof that in the 2020s, American voters regard themselves first and foremost as consumers, not as workers.

The thing where Trump names everything after himself isn’t a funny little quirk but an incredibly reliable indicator that a leader is in fact a dictator. It doesn’t happen in any democratic society, no sane leader does it

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

It's rather disheartening that Dame is using a hypothetical go illustrate the tone of the discourse on this platform over the last 24 hours and you know, rather than reading it for what it is people are just responding with “SOURCE!”

Bibliophilic NEET Canadian Politics Nerd vs. The Entire Academic Literature

post-9/11 country music is what white people pretend rap music is to black people but for white people tbh.

(*stares in Morgan Wallen’s “I’m the Problem”*)

Just an observation that culture treats listening to rap as a bad influence on young black men, but does not afford nearly the same disdain for country music on young white men. I WONDER WHY THAT IS (I don’t actually wonder)

It is weird how 9/11 fucked up Dirtville, Alabama more than New York, which actually got attacked.

But it's rapidly approaching the point now where that shit just isn't going to fly anymore. Keep mounting the pressure and we're eventually going to hit the critical moment where it all cascades. "Fuck your liberal tears, go Trump" becomes "I never voted for that pedo, he's as bad as the Dems".

It's deeply clear now that 77 million Americans made the worst mistake of their entire lives last November and straight up voted a man who raped children into office. And no one wants to call them on it because they're afraid to confront what it says about us that so many still support him anyway.

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

this story has been designed in a lab to confuse foreigners

it’s pretty pretty pretty grim to have the vice president literally repeat the rhetoric of white nationalists and then have the most powerful newspaper in the country say “he’s trying to split the difference” because he chose not to enunciate the 14 words.

This just isn’t true. There aren’t enough people who would willingly fix our infrastructure without some sort of incentive or coercion

Bari Weiss literally runs a unaccredited conservative "college" out of a disused apartment store here in Austin containing a marble bust of her own head. Ain't a metaphor in the English language for her whole career that's gonna be more on the nose than that.

Golden fleet, golden dome, gold TrumpCard immigration visa, please stop. This is comic book villain shit where Doctor Giraffe has to make every goddamn thing giraffe themed just in case Spectacular Man didn’t get the message sent by the giraffe suit.

"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.

also that even more than in the past the rich and powerful are looking for sycophants who can tell them they're actually brilliant, a trend that has worsened ever since the rich got mad at ordinary people on social media telling them they were shit.

the anti-semitic Charlie Kirk conspiracy theories spreading like wildfire seems to have sparked a genuine panic among MAGA conservatives that the brand has turned so rancid, combined with, by and large, a complete inability to acknowledge that this was an inevitable result of the movement.

School District leadership is a serious fucking problem rn and needs nationwide rethinking. This story is an excellent example of it. A superintendent more interested in covering his own ass than protecting a girl.

Exhibit #268 as to why you shouldn’t get too attached to “leftists” whose entire worldview is really just unfocused anti-establishment blathering

I keep seeing folks say A LOT of “liberals” are still using “the r word” and “a few” “leftists” do too and I dunno man from my lived experience it seems the inverse is true. Normie wine mom liberals would never while defy podcast leftists gleefully monetize their use of the slur.

For that matter, I would simply not publicly engage in a coverup for the same reason I would not eat a steak sandwich if I became a vegetarian. Like, it defeats the entire point of a coverup if you do it publicly.

Ive been thinking how much a 60 min bit about CECOT wouldnt have gotten much long-term traction airing over the holidays but now that we have a bona-fide Media Scandal and there's blood in the water for others to draw out for days

yglesias doesn't get that the more he kept talking, the less annoyed i got about the people that he goes on about and the more annoyed i got at *him*

When your reasons for spiking a story are definitely journalistic and not political and you’re confident they can withstand scrutiny

Seems worth noting at this point that Weiss's internal critics at the Times were correct and her many apologists among elite pundits were wrong

Something about this story and TCW thinking it was relatable cracks me up

These people are gutter trash.

This Nicki Minaj shit is funny because I remember when the Barbz first tried to come over here and everybody blocked the fuck out of them with the quickness 😭

A few years ago Nicki Minaj was saying that the COVID vaccines were giving people erectile dysfunction and testicle inflammation. She's now saying we should all respect Donald Trump. I think maybe she's just wrong about a lot of stuff.

DMX said Nicki Minaj and Drake were fucked up and fake and he got shit for that. he’s rolling over in his fucking grave right now.

Nicki Minaj embracing MAGA is proof that wealth is the most powerful immigration document in America.

oh i just remembered that Woody Harleson's dad assassinated a federal judge

The policy process this administration feels like when you’re doing an “evil“ playthrough of a video game but you’re not really putting anything into the RP, you’re just selecting all the options in red or with a frowny face by them or whatever.

There needs to be a word for the feeling you get when you recognize the intent of something as bigoted, but it‘s both trying too hard and not hard enough so you end up feeling nonplussed rather than offended.