yup, this is Kimmel redux and thrusts the takeover of CBS into a glaring public spotlight larger than any it’s already faced it’s a stupid move by a stupid person

the shitstorm that’s already brewing because of Bari’s decision to spike this story is going to end up being vastly more damaging to her and to the admin than allowing the story to air would have been she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted

remember how Kimmel went for them? it's going to be even worse

Wonder where the harpers signatories are

so how many of these signatories are in the epstein files? Chomsky, Brooks? A lot are also just morally bankrupt in other ways (lmfao olivia nuzzi signed), also fucking bari weiss is on this list

Live look of all the Harper’s letter signatories:

Respectfully, I don’t think his plans for Greenland are a distraction. He genuinely wants to cement his legacy by conquering more land and making the U.S. larger. The guy tore down 1/3 of the White House, is slapping his name on buildings and plans to put his face on coins by July.

Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.

The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.

The research question is obvious: What tests can I hire these people to perform that will definitely result in failure of the vaccine, so I can falsely claim that the vaccine doesn't work and is harmful?

“It is not clear what the research question is. It seems to be about the safety of the vaccine rather than its effectiveness, but both are already well-established, and to undertake such a study in a population where almost 1/5 of the adult population has a marker of infection seems extremely risky”

Americans & Europeans needlessly exposing African babies to preventable diseases just to see if they can find something that would justify their preexisting antivaccine beliefs is not only unscientific and actually anti-science, it is very much reminiscent of colonialist, racist human rights abuses

🚨 Andrew Tate has been BATTERED and comprehensively beaten by a novice boxer, Chase DeMoor

what's the deal with weiss, anyway? I get the impression that she's spent her whole career being coddled because she's good at flattering the tastes of the rich, but has she ever actually faced sustained reproach for her bullshit? I get the sense that she genuinely thinks she's a respected thinker

Looks like sending it through Byers didn't have the intended result

Current mood:

Recall that Byers is the reporter who, according to Ryan Lizza, was the only one out of a dozen who was willing to print a negative story Nuzzi was trying to plant about him

It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now. It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.

join.theintercept.com/go/83372?t=2... Well we know what he does with children!

New from me: Trump started the year with MAGA on lock but that's no longer the case. Let's look at two events that changed the dynamic, maybe forever. open.substack.com/pub/ctrlaltr...

We occupy a very specific niche when it comes to the public discussion of history, and that niche is serious answers to the question of how bamboozled Hitler would have been by big chungus memes. www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Seems like it's worth posting this one again.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead

Many people tell me I look like a young John Travolta. Younger John Travolta? Okay, John Travolta in “from Paris with love”

It's not polished enough to compete with the really big budget releases from folks like Kobold or Magpie, and not insane enough to compete with the tiny bespoke brainworms releases.

I am not alone in believing that basically the only reason why AI is being pushed in the manner it is due to like 50 guys all in the same group chat telling each other how awesome it is and how everyone else wants it too

drivethru requires that AI-generated content be explicitly marked as such, usefully

It's interesting a) how much AI-generated content I'm seeing on drivethrurpg and b) that nobody seems to be buying it. Basically 'new releases' is spammed with it but it never appears in the 'most popular' or 'bestselling' slots.

“I WILL be next if I allow this to happen to other people. That’s what brings me out here, man.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )

Woke 2, though, is very much alive

I just can’t believe people doubt this ‘to the manor born’ assholes progressive bonafides

Boohoohoohoo

Anybody who is crying about “unity” during a fucking primary should be laughed out of office even before you get to this truly insane level of hypocrisy

“born this way" sometimes functions as a materially useful rhetorical defense. it can pressure cishet people to drop their objections to queerness. a thought-terminating cliche is not a bad thing if the thought being terminated is “i should hate crime this trans woman”.

Federal immigration agencies were involved in at least 33 deaths this year. The full story: lataco.com/33-deaths-fe... By Aisha Wallace-Palomares

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

I promise you with absolute 100% certainty that we are not going to lose the House because Dan Goldman gets primaried from the left

Finally saw the new Benoit Blanc

Streisand effect strikes again. I didn't even know they were going to air this. Now I know.

At the very least, makes me wonder if someone internal who is pissed about this segment being pulled decided to post this note as a sort of alert, knowing it would call extra attention to it. If they had just quietly pulled it and not aired it, a lot of people would have missed it.

I think one of the reasons JD Vance pisses me off so much is because I'm also the white partner in an interracial marriage and the way he treats his wife like garbage because he's a racist piece of shit trying to ingratiate himself to other racist pieces of shit makes me physically ill.

horrifying: teenage cousin told me a classmate will word for word memorize a chatgpt essay as a way to cheat on a blue book exam. im genuinely kind of at a loss for words like the lengths some children are conditioned to "win" to avoid learning anything

this made me so happy

1991. A "pro-White Christian" from Indiana who, like JD Vance, is an admirer of Joe McCarthy, insists that being pro-white does not make her a racist.

Palm Beach, FL. 1990. A Klansman who claims he's not a racist but who refuses to apologize for being white organizes a march. A counter-protest follows the next day.

1986, Salisbury, NC. John Stephenson, a Klan supporter, says he will not apologize for being white. Black people have the NAACP, Jews have the ADL, so what's so bad about white people having the Klan?

At a 1978 Klan gathering in Plant City, FL, leader John Paul Rogers said he wouldn't apologize for being white. He'd had enough of being ignored by the press (as the TV cameras rolled). He acknowledged that his audience was facing tough economic times, and he promised that the Klan would fix it.