A CBS News staffer told me this after Tony Dokoupil kicked off his CBS Evening News tenure tonight with a lengthy Pete Hegseth interview: "If this is what Bari and Tony’s CBS Evening News is going to look like, then the we may as well just call ourselves Trump Administration State TV. Pathetic."

I made a playlist

Impeach, convict, remove.

Congressman Thomas Massie’s first reaction to the invasion/abduction of Venezuelan leader.

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

If you need proof that the media is more responsible for Trump than the MAGA zealots, look at it this way: Trump came down that escalator in 2015 and started shouting FAKE NEWS almost immediately. Did the press take him to task and bury him? Nope. They bent over and now they work for him. Losers

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

try to make sense of it

Any media outlet whose diagnosis of what's wrong with corporate media is *this* is about to deliver dogshit coverage the likes of which we've never seen Corporate media lost its way due to cowardice, profit motive, anti-intellectualism, and confusing neutrality with objectivity

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

Not to get vaguely substantive on NYE, but I'd be willing to bet Americans were more inclined to accept voter ID laws before armed masked federal abduction forces started a trend of treating citizens' Real IDs and passports as fakes

My New Year's resolution is not to listen to a single thing that stupid, lying sociopath, Donald Trump, says. Ah, I feel better already.

"What was your biggest impact on the Internet?" Probably the Angry Sondheim account on Twitter (RIP). That was fun!

My 14-year old needed to read one book today to hit her books-read goal for the year. Handed her She-Hul: Vol 1, Jen, Again, by @rainbowrowell.bsky.social Mission accomplished!!

Hot damn, but does Braveheart still play like gangbusters. Barely the slimmest of tethers to history, sure. But great filmmaking in a very specific mold.

As fine an actor as he was, Isiah was an even better spirit and the greatest gentleman.

Do other people have a show where, when actors who were on that show pop up on other shows or in movies, you are always super happy to see them? (Mine’s Deadwood.)

To me, the most boring criticism of art is, “I am an expert in [TOPIC A] and this work of art is is partially about or set in the world or era of [TOPIC A] and I will now explain all of the specific details and nuances about [TOPIC A] it got wrong.” This almost never matters.

“You guys, Hitler wants to see Poland succeed”

A tragedy in real-time.

My favorite thing about Frog and Toad is that it is the story of two men deeply and obviously in love with one another, drawn as a tribute to his lifelong partner by a gay man long before their relationship was socially sanctioned.

shel silverstein was a prophet

Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin were both the sons of Italian parents. Back in that time, the racist Stephen Millers of the time didn't regard Italians as Anglo-Saxon enough to be welcome as immigrants to the United States.

12YO girl signed up to do “stand up comedy” at the talent show. 13YO boy decided to heckle her. Teacher started to tell the boy to leave her alone, but the 12YO comedian said “no, no, let him go, this is the closest he’s ever going to get to having a conversation with a girl.”

Kind of wild how the take that some of Trump's supporters were "deplorable" was some huge scandal, but regularly screaming about "radical left scum" is just a thing he'll say with no media backlash.

I don't know who needs to know this, but Jesus is not everyone's savior in the United States.

“Miss, do you agree with the sign?” “Absolutely not. My great niece was 4 months pregnant and her fetus had no skull. And because of men involving themselves in women’s bodies she was forced to deliver the fetus… there’s a reason God created medicine.”🔥 #ForcedBirthNation

There are only two offenses the Constitution goes out of its way to specifically say merit impeachment, and this is one of them.

A government that can officially declare that Jesus is your savior can just as easily declare the opposite.

Merry Christmas to me! @bcdreyer.social

Look what someone did to the new Avengers trailer dyyyyying www.tiktok.com/t/ZTr3hr2A6/

This year’s Presidential Christmas card.

“The standards of fairness we are holding ourselves to” is of course an insulting and grossly disrespectful insult. As if 60 Minutes has a history of unfairness. As if the story she spiked was “unfair” as opposed to honest about what the current administration is doing. A slap in the face.

NOBODY WANTS THIS

"a.i." is a tool to circumvent the cognitive process. Our job as teachers is to teach cognitive processes. How can the two possibly compatible,

Please comment on why you think it's a good idea to push "A.i." on school kids when these products are being used to create non-consensual porn of children? abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

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

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

this isn't a list of editorial suggestions or improvements, this is a list of derailers intended to kill the story. i doubt they ever air it. the whole thing is also deeply offensive to the veteran investigative reporters who know how to do this job that bari weiss has absolutely no experience in.

What infantilizing garbage every sentence of this is. An assault on every journalist who worked on this piece.

The insinuation that the team of journalists responsible for the piece, “didn’t make enough effort” to get a response from the White House is disgusting. How dare she?

Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

Two problems with this frantic "The story wasn't ready" statement are 1) When a story isn't ready, you know it days, sometimes weeks in advance, not hours and 2) Bari Weiss' idea of how "to do more" has already been made public, and it was to call Stephen Miller. In short, she's lying.

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

Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?

Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious