Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

Everyone sat around talking about how these people were incredibly stupid and then they managed to successfully implement large swathes of the plan that they all told us they were going to execute and you really have to wonder who is the stupid in this equation

Yes, CECOT is a concentration camp in the guise of a prison. The Venezuelans were the first people to *ever* be released from CECOT since Bukele opened the prison in January 2023. Seriously. The first.

‘How the South Won the Civil War’ 💯🎯 @hcrichardson.bsky.social

I think Weiss’ entire excuse for shelving the CECOT episode was bullshit, but I also think it’s incredibly disturbing to suggest trying to “both sides” the crimes against humanity happening inside a concentration camp

It was hard to convince Americans torture is wrong as a moral principle during Bush's term, and that was with the debate about whether torture makes us safer. I'm afraid for a portion of Trump's base, that calculation matters less. Idea of torturing undocumented immigrants may even bring pleasure.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit

The guy who famously crosses every border in one night without documentation?

UPDATE: Paramount just successfully forced YouTube to block this Canadian video of the censored 60 Minutes CECOT segment on "copyright grounds." Man, the lawyers must've been paid a lot to work overtime

If you're having trouble watching other versions, here's an Internet Archive link for the 60 Minutes CECOT segment suppressed by Bari Weiss in the U.S.

Guys if you're going to upload the bootleg CBS segment to youtube you have to overlay squiggly lines over the video and slightly distort the sound to get around the automatic content detector.

Here is the 60 Minutes segment Bari is trying to keep you from seeing. They keep getting taken down so watch asap

After what we're seeing at CBS, if today is not the perfect day for everyone to find some independent journalism & nonprofit newsrooms to support... what day could be better?

lots of takeaways from the 60 Minutes debacle, but here's one: support investigative journalism, public media and human rights NGOs! with one week left in the year, give now as much as you can, b/c independent voices are more important than ever.

!! 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)

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Bill Clinton urges full transparency on the Epstein files, says the selective release suggests someone is being protected and that he needs no protection, he calls on Trump to order AG Pam Bondi to release all remaining Clinton related materials, including grand jury records & photos. #OpDeathEaters

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

See that’s the kind of talk that gets you buried in an unmarked grave on a second-rate golf course

The Epstein Files, everybody!

They told you they only objected to illegal immigration. They lied.

I asked @aoc.bsky.social about why she posted this tweet, and she said “because JD Vance is a goober, man.”

Venezuela’s government has ordered its Navy to escort ships carrying oil out of port following Trump's blockade announcement. This has the potential to go very badly.

Go home. You're drunk.

FBI deputy director Dan Bongino is out. www.ms.now/news/bongino...

jesus fucking christ

CBS News staffers might want to check into how things are going at their boss’s anti-woke “university” in Austin. Via @ngluckman.bsky.social www.chronicle.com/article/at-t...

Mozilla has a new CEO which: - Has been at Mozilla for less than a year - Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate") - Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma") - Is all-in on AI That’s exactly the kind of profile the whole community has been waiting for.

“He said, ‘I’m going to die – please see my family [and tell them] that I went down to save people’s lives.'" --Jozay Alkanj, who was having coffee with Ahmed when the shooting erupted. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

Don't mistake incompetence for accident. The degradation of your social media feed, the collapse of your news, the defunding of your school—it is all functional. They are happy to rule over the ashes, as long as they are the ones holding the match.

This is the "Viva la Muerte" (Long Live Death) mindset. It is the joy of destruction found in the Spanish fascist hero General Millán Astray, who shouted down the philosopher Unamuno in 1936 at Salamanca. When you cannot win the argument with intelligence, you destroy the intelligentsia.

History tells us where this "co-opt or destroy" scheme leads. In 1945, when it became clear he could not own the future of Germany, Hitler issued the "Nero Decree." He ordered the destruction of his own country's infrastructure. If the nation wouldn't serve him, it didn't deserve to survive him.

And finally, the assault on Section 230. This is the endgame for independent speech. If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.

Same with TikTok. We were told it was a "national security" threat. But the forced divestiture wasn't about data privacy. It was about transfer of ownership. Handing the algorithm to politically safe tech oligarchs ensures that the last algorithmic feed not under their thumb is brought to heel.

Likewise, the "Compact for Academic Excellence" and the attacks on the Ivy League aren't about reform. Nuance and critical theory are enemies to a movement built on myth. Since they can't force Harvard to teach their alternate reality, they will tax, sue, and harass it until it ceases to function.

Now look at CBS. Installing Bari Weiss to run a news division isn’t a "pivot to the center." It is a deliberate hollowing out. Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.

We saw the prototype of the Nero Doctrine with Twitter. The goal wasn't to make it profitable or "free." The goal was to break the one place where news broke faster than the state could spin it. They bought the town square not to speak in it, but to burn it down so we’d have nowhere else to gather.

There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it." It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵

Ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast secured a thumping victory in Chile’s presidential runoff election Sunday, defeating the candidate of the leftist governing coalition and setting the stage for the country’s most right-wing government in 35 years of democracy. https://to.pbs.org/3KHk1vL

Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University. We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish

Kudos to the Brown University students who are posting continuous live updates, spaced just minutes apart, on the campus shooting. A lot of grace and professionalism under immense pressure. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

Breaking News: The Trump administration is sharing all air travelers’ names with ICE officials to find people with deportation orders.

When the winner of the Nobel peace prize smuggled herself over the water and out of Venezuela to attend the ceremony in Oslo this week, her allies called the Pentagon to ask them not to arbitrarily murder her. www.wsj.com/world/americ...