The U.S. press isn't capable of admitting this clearly, but Bari Weiss was hired to turn CBS into a right wing propaganda machine and troll operation

If someone starts off talking about the "temperature" of American politics, odds are you're about to hear something incredibly vapid.

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

Last year, CNN ran a “fact check” of Kamala HQ that claimed we were lying for saying Trump’s plan is Project 2025. Now Trump is outright admitting it’s his plan. Legacy media failed the country.

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

One of these is not the same. "Recount familiar partisan complaints"

"Trump has pardons and tanks... What do you have?" storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Today I spoke with Greg Bovino, a top U.S. Border Patrol chief, as he led dozens of feds in military gear through downtown Chicago. He said they were arresting folks based on “how they look.” “How do they look compared to, say, you?” he said, referring to me. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Pennsylvania's Justices also affirmed the state's regulation requiring medical marijuana products go through two independent labs for safety testing, reasoning the law's emphasis on safety lets the state set a higher bar than just "one or more" tests (via @samreisman.bsky.social):

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Dutch late night TV has its take

The fossil fuel industry is behind most of the climate disinformation you see and hear today. Charlie Kirk was no exception.

Such an odd thing to read in the newspaper www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

A new wave of liberal Zionist criticism of the Israeli government rings hollow without accountability for the genocide, @simonerzim.bsky.social writes. In this piece, she explores what real teshuva would look like within the Jewish world.

The Times saw the mayor's people handing out bribes in public last month and refused to write about it till after somebody else broke a related story www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/n...

Just in: The 11th Circuit rules that a policy disarming cannabis users is inconsistent with the nation's history of gun laws because they are not "comparatively similar to either felons or dangerous individuals." media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

The DEA has transmitted a request to loosen federal restrictions on psilocybin, the main compound in psychoactive mushrooms, to federal health officials for a scientific and medical analysis, according to emails reviewed by Law360. My latest: www.law360.com/cannabis/art...

Just in: Housing Works Cannabis Co. and a number of other businesses affected by the New York Office of Cannabis Management's proximity announcement last month today filed a lawsuit against NYS regulators. iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/Documen...

A 2nd Circuit decision, finding that the Constitution's dormant commerce clause applies to the federally illegal marijuana industry, further constricts states' ability to implement social equity programs intended to help those harmed by past cannabis prohibition. www.law360.com/articles/237...

Today in @thenation.com, we have another piece by @mohamhawish.bsky.social that's as beautiful as it is heartbreaking. This one's about the pain of being exiled from your homeland, possibly forever. Anything Mohammed writes is a must-read. So please read this. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

A split Second Circuit panel on Tuesday ruled that, despite marijuana's federal illegality, the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from privileging their own residents when awarding licenses to cannabis businesses. www.law360.com/articles/237...

I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.

Just in: In a split decision, the 2nd Circuit has ruled that the dormant commerce clause applies to marijuana and that NY's licensure program granting special consideration to those with an in-state conviction was likely unconstitutional protectionism. assets.law360news.com/2376000/2376...

A Manhattan federal judge has ruled that New York City public health and safety officials were within their authority to issue shutdown orders to restaurants that served kava, a federally unregulated psychoactive plant derivative. www.law360.com/cannabis/art...

Two weeks ago, CPJ reported on Anas Al-Sharif getting threats from the IDF to cease reporting. He didn’t, and now he’s dead. He’s not the only journalist getting threats from the IDF. We partnered with @theintercept.com to document this horrific practice.

New York cannabis retailers facing the revocation of their licenses due to a recent destabilizing shift in regulatory interpretation are urging Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state Legislature to take immediate action to ensure the continuity of their businesses. www.law360.com/articles/237...

The New York Times clarifies that a starving child in Gaza also needs medical care: defector.com/the-new-york...

Whether it's students at Oberlin asking for trigger warnings or the Department of Justice opening an investigation into George Mason faculty who criticize Trump, both sides have taken brazen steps to limit free speech at universities.

just went to immigration court in Lower Manhattan to see with my own eyes how masked and armed federal agents are apprehending people in the hallways as they walk out of their scheduled hearings.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it recommends placing federal restrictions on 7-Hydroxymitragynine, or 7-OH, an opioid-like alkaloid compound derived from the kratom leaf that the agency said had a strong potential for abuse. www.law360.com/articles/237...

Oklahoma’s culture warrior superintendent accused schools of “pushing pornography” for containing decidedly non-pornographic books like The Kite Runner. Now, he’s under investigation after allegedly playing a pornographic video on a TV in his office. https://trib.al/bzhf9cV

Over a decade ago (!) I wrote an article about labor exploitation in pro wrestling, a sport I knew nothing about. It was supposed to be 1,000 words, but as I dug into it, it became a much longer piece, in which one of the main villains was union-crushing star Hulk Hogan: jacobin.com/2014/08/mone...

A nonprofit planning a safe drug injection site in Philadelphia can qualify for religious freedom protections, the Third Circuit said in a precedential opinion on Thursday, reasoning the organization meets the definition of a "person" practicing religion. www.law360.com/cannabis/art...

Harrowing lead story and image on the Washington Post homepage right now. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

“Aid is distributed by gunpoint by American mercenaries. It is inhumane, degrading, dangerous, and it violates every principle of humanitarian law.”

don't love calling the guy in charge of protecting me from antisemitism the tsar

We have a @lopatto.bsky.social piece on the hacker who breached Columbia and acquired Zohran Mamdani's college application. It's not great for NYT to be using hacked materials originating from an anime Nazi but this part especially stuck out to me. www.theverge.com/cyber-securi...

Today's newsletter: The Wall Street Journal says ChatGPT had a "stunning moment of self reflection." NBC says Grok "issued an apology." This lazy language isn't just bad writing — it's helping tech companies dodge responsibility for real harm. www.readtpa.com/p/stop-prete...

NY Times showing how to both sides the secret police abduction squads story

I note with some interest that the House version of an appropriations rider that bars the DOJ from targeting medical marijuana has not updated the provision's list of medical states to include Nebraska. NE became the 39th state to legalize medical after voters approved ballot initiatives in November

Incredible legal journalism brain on display here, spending 1,000 words pondering a question when both your headline and subheadline supply the howlingly obvious answer www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/u...

"how can we make this about mamdani" framing obliterates the line between the new york times and the new york post

The NYT does an entire article on Benadryl and not one mention of the Hat Man smh. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/w...

The very definition of the word chutzpah. Running the subways, trains and buses is the one huge day-to-day responsibility the governor has. The one. Andrew Cuomo prized big projects over basic maintenance, leading to the Summer of Hell: www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/n...

Worthy rundown on how Cuomo treated the MTA when he was in charge: www.cityandstateny.com/policy/2017/...

Re-upping this vintage Emma Whitford banger gothamist.com/news/cuomo-w...