obviously the DOJ is chargeable with knowing what the SDNY does or doesnt have, and obviously this is a regime full of incompetent liars, but if you took this as true and pretended this was a normal world, everything said a few months ago about there being nothing to see is now definitionally a lie

The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect

It’s one big grift and you’re not in it

If tech had "created riches on an unprecedented scale" we'd have much bigger productivity increases than in the past. We don't. So it's more accurate to say tech *captured* wealth on an unprecedented scale than created it. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

This is some seriously disgusting and vile rhetoric.

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Don't you know that evangelicals are allowed to just vaguely hand-wave at the Bible to support whatever ridiculous, stupid, and bigoted opinions they want to have? It is the universal get out of jail free card. As in "I have a religious objection to vaccines" Really? Can you articulate it?

one little thing that really rankles about the reporting on this story is how they say she "cited" the bible. no she didn't! she alluded to it at best

It was an unforgivable dereliction of duty that the majority of elected congressional Republican office holders were not in prison for open insurrection by March 2021.

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

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.

"the researchers found that withdrawing support for rapidly advancing mRNA vaccine technology could result in over 49,000 preventable deaths annually among patients diagnosed with four major cancers"

Under the immigration standards embraced by Stephen Miller, Stephen Miller and most of his family would have perished in the Holocaust.

Mystified by Dems worriedly telling everyone to be careful because the letter is probably fake. There's no proof it's fake. Just take the win! Act like Republicans for once and run with it. Assume it's real. Donald Trump is a pedophile. Make headlines. Do TikTok videos. Shove it down their throats.

we, in the United States, through Trump’s mass deportation scheme, have engaged in abductions and torture for the past year, none of it in secret, much of it attested to in legal documents. there is nothing to expose, only to face.

DOJ briefly uploaded this letter from Jeff Epstein to serial child molester Larry Nassar: "Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young beauty walked by he loved to 'grab snatch,' whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system."

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

"Whit" is semi-fossilized in phrases like "I don't give a whit," but it's also lurking in "naught" and "naughty." In Old English, the word for "nothing" was nawiht (na + wiht = "no thing" or "no amount"). (Wiht was used in the same general way we would use "thing" today. More on that in a sec.)

Nawiht became "naught." Naughty, therefore, literally means "nothingy." It originally meant "poor" or "having nothing," which came to describe ill intent/bad behavior thanks to classism (poor people = vagabonds, criminals) plus a dash of the notion as we see in the modern phrase "moral bankruptcy."

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

I don't think Trump should get access to standard medical care, he should have to let RFK Jr treat him

Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.

call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else. unplug the machine.

This is the conservative/Bari Weiss vision of free speech: wherein conservatives are free to control all speech

This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process

I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.

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Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

this is how you know bari is incapable of operating at this level. pulling rank on some desperate lackey at the free press does not equip one with the requisite skills to try and fuck over a veteran correspondent who’s been on her network’s flagship program for more than a decade.

What once was largely limited to Stormfront and the fever swamps of the internet just a few years ago is now accepted discourse from the White House.

im not sure what is more frightening. violent racist dementia grandpa, or pudgy cipher who will do whatever his betters tell him to -- no limits! -- down to selling out his own kids

i don't know if even trump gets this overtly racial. but it's startlingly easy for vance because he's an empty gourd. hell do or say whatever you want. his fucking kids are brown, doesn't matter

It's hard to ignore that this happened just as Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. was slipping away, with Kushner pulling out of the financing and Trump bad-mouthing CBS. Time to please the king again

Fascist activist Bari Weiss, recruited to align CBS News with the goals of American Nazism, again heeds the instructions of her boss.

This is what Bari Weiss et al think "censorship" actually is; when subordinates criticize their superiors. That has been the bedrock of the entire "cancel culture" discourse in elite media; rage at the idea that students, women, journalists, interns, etc might be able to speak against the boss.

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

support independent media. idk what else to say right now.

All I’m saying is some savvy and courageous journalist should upload that shit to YouTube and walk out the front door of CBS HQ with both middle fingers up C’mon man, be BRAVE, the public needs to see this!

Epstein redactions aren't believable, and they are valuable to fascists specifically because they aren't believable. Fascists prefer lies to truth. Believing in a lie is preferable to believing a truth, if what you want is to dominate. Believing lies dominates truth. So they believe lies.

Saying impeaching these fascist is "premature" should itself be impeachable. Impeachment is his sworn constitutional duty. Primary this useless waste of space please.

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Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

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

they had so many chances to spare us this! they could have gone after trump as aggressively as they did the foot soldiers. biden could have not run again given he was medically incapacitated. harris could have made just a handful of noises about changing course in gaza. but nope! terrible admin

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

The person charged with enforcing the laws is an open lawbreaker, assisted by a team of open lawbreakers, backed by a Congressional majority indifferent to lawbreaking, supported by a Supreme Court that privileges them to break the law. It has no legitimacy whatsoever.

This is absolutely fucking bananas the way that these people are *so close* to getting it but still manage to miss it by a fucking mile.

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