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

This administration is a national security threat.

It turns out Lee Atwater overestimated the American voter.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

And there it is...

How 60 Minutes goes the way of 20/20.

UPDATE: in point of fact there is not an innocent explanation for this.

Donald Trump is the worst human being in America, but in a way JD Vance is worse. Trump was born a monster and has always been one. Vance DECIDED to become this hateful abomination.

AI* has the strong potential to make the problem of law office history even worse.

(standing in the NARA reading room, “feeding” a raft of unpublished government documents into AI somehow, as the archivists are definitely applauding me, telling it to find the important stuff) “Look at me, I’m a historicalian!”

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Sometimes the scroll is startlingly on point.

oh the CBS bosses went to dylan byers? then they are definitely lying.

How far they’ve fallen.

Absolutely right. AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there. Let me illustrate …

Queuing up my favorite production of A Christmas Carol.

In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."

Life can be strange.

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

There’s certainly a legitimate editorial reason for this, right?

Just open segregationists everywhere one looks in this party.

As the ridiculous AI* investment bets get worse (and those investors continue to double down), the AI* sales pitches will only get sweatier, and naive executives will be convinced to force their institutions to embrace it.

Forgers and fraudsters: Get on the AI* train to streamline your business processes, increasing your efficiency and productivity!

Well worth navigating the overcrowded conditions to secure this delicacy

Trying to maintain the holiday spirit while navigating a super crowded Italian grocery filled with entitled local gentry.

This Yglesias piece in the NYT is horrifically bad. Almost every "fact" it cites is provably false. At best it is cocktail party banter from a pundit who knows nothing of energy. At worst, it was cut/paste from oil industry talking points. So, a rebuttal: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/o...

My 14-yo-son has recreated the climax of Back to the Future in gingerbread and I thought you should know.

The datelines on publications should display the absolute date and not something like "47 hours ago."

Compare, for example, the DHS message with that of this Nazi party poster from the 1930s that reads "The NSDAP protects the people. Your fellow comrades need your advice and help, so join the local party organization."

If you’re *really* looking for people with a few drops of old aristocratic blood, you should start with African-Americans. But that would lead to a lot of uncomfortable conversations about the old aristocrats.

That was the best touchdown pass I ever saw.

What it’s like for other nations trying to work with the Trump administration: “It’s like dealing with the mob,” as one diplomat put it. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Imagine how things could be.

I’d be carted off the field on a backboard.

You know who isn’t in the Epstein Files and who doesn’t have to repeatedly redact and delete his name and photo from the Epstein Files? This actual orange leader. MeanCat. The Leader We Deserve

i really think there is legit political space for running on "we are going to dismantle ICE"

DNS and NTP are services most folks haven’t heard of which are crucial to a functioning internet.

Eagles looking weak.

The rule seems to be that if a process is at all corruptible, it will be corrupted by this administration.

I just yelled some very un-Christmaslike language.

Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers Me:

This feels a bit like the early days of the CIA, where countries like Great Britain and the USSR, who had long histories of espionage experience, regularly ate the US's lunch re intelligence.

She's getting pretty close to understanding the social construction of nation states.

Nebuchadnezzar, by William Blake, 1795-1805 (flipped) #NetflixPartner

The redactions are only delaying the inevitable. I just hope Trump lives long enough to see MAGA reject him and destroy his legacy.

If you ever find yourself wondering how our systems of providing health care in this country can be so deeply flawed when we spend so much per capita on those systems, you can start by examining the financial incentives that underlie these systems, as described here:

I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

A storied Wall Street law firm that hemorrhaged talent after bending the knee to President Donald Trump has announced plans to merge with a much larger firm in a bid to save its practice. www.thedailybeast.com/storied-law-...

This is the contemporary version of Aesop's Grasshopper and the Ant story.