This is the ballgame for CBS News. Every journalist there now knows that their editorial mission is compromised. They are no longer a press free to report the truth.

This is precisely what it looks like, and anybody who says otherwise is either very naive or lying.

I cannot emphasize enough that the White House has no authority to withhold funds from the Smithsonian. It can, however, try to persuade/threaten Congress to reduce future funding.

Super late to the party here, but I finally saw "One Battle After Another" and I can't be alone in thinking that when they cast the movie of our current era, that this is a slam dunk

Hang it in a museum

Our round-up of some 2025 stories on the news that stuck with us, featuring picks from @hashtagjames.bsky.social, @catachresis.bsky.social, @gabemschneider.bsky.social, and @alexip718.com (plus other anon community members): objectivejournalism.org/2025/12/the-...

The bill would bar immigration authorities from entering nonpublic areas of certain institutions without a judicial warrant, judicial subpoena or court order.

I can see why Bari Weiss, with all of the journalistic resources and talent of CBS News at her fingertips, is focused on this garbage. It's relatively easy and inexpensive to produce and requires no reporting or research. It's a bland slurry, lacking any nutrition, calories or flavor.

Over the last five years, the number of independent bookstores in the U.S. jumped by 70%. In 2025 alone, 422 new bookstores opened, according to the American Booksellers Association. You love to see it. 📚💙

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

OK, I know Adam Duritz is very shy and not an actor, but after watching the Counting Crows doc on HBO, I can't get over the resemblance to the magician Ricky Jay, and I wish there were an alternate world where he was starring in the biopic.

The Epstein Files, everybody!

The delayed CPI (consumer price index, aka inflation) was reported yesterday from BLS. It said inflation shrank to 2.7% from 3.0% in September. But if you hear this admin boasting about, know that almost no experts are taking it at face value.

These CBS debates are all going to be really dumb and terrible television and not journalism, but ... I've seen enough of her content to know that Liz Plank will eat Stuckey's lunch. But if Weiss is the host/moderator, the game is rigged from the start.

I wish all of us regular citizens could just ignore laws whenever they inconvenience us

What's most startling in this story about the Brown shooting and the Reddit post that helped police is that the FBI is a non-entity here. They had no leads. They were nowhere in the investigation. Kash Patel has no idea what he is doing.

Wow. That was something. I bet being at Lumen Field for this win was awesome.

The “$1,776 checks…come from Congressionally-allocated reconciliation funds intended to subsidize housing allowances for service members, a senior administration official confirmed.” This was supposed to increase the military housing allowance. Now they’ve blown their load in a lump sum payment.

it was never about national security and Democrats in the previous Congress handed this to Trump's allies on a silver platter

A veteran classical musician says he’s been performing to rows of empty seats at the Kennedy Center since Trump’s MAGA takeover.

Thank you for putting the proper framing on this, AP

Brooks' column asks, "Why is Epstein the top issue in American life right now?" and dismissed it as QAnon conspiracy mongering about "a guy who has been dead for six years." The fact that he never mentions any association is absolutely damning. I agree with Parker. This is fireable.

How are all three of Patrick Warburton's sons three very different types of "dudes you want to have at your D&D table"

Just want to point out how funny/sad it is that the same people who will refuse to refer to a trans woman as "she" have no problem calling ChatGPT "she."

There's something gross about the NPR mission above this job description for an AI engineer. "Generative AI" and "increasing editorial efficiency" are huge red flags.

"Brought to you by Bank of America" is a hilarious kicker to this nonsense

I met Melissa Hortman in October of 2024. She was smart and kind. I heard about her murder in a LA hotel room and it dropped me to my knees. So I went to Minnesota and talked to her kids, parents, and friends. This is not true crime, this is Melissa in real life. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

weiss does not know how to run a news organization, and so she's doing what she does best: hosting fatuous "debates" involving the people in her group chats www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Low snowpack, leftover burn scars, and abnormally warm temperatures are supercharging the atmospheric rivers hitting the Pacific Northwest.

NEW: A hacker gained control of 1,100 mobile phones powering covert, AI-generated ads on TikTok. Then, he shared details of the operation with 404 Media. A look inside how startup Doublespeed, which is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), is creating AI spam pages on TikTok to promote products.

Was reading this and waiting for there to be some actual journalism or critical analysis from a tech columnist and it just ... doesn't happen. Zero substance to this except fluffing AI image generators.

Trump officials were warned repeatedly that cutting off food aid to refugees in Kenya would lead to violence and death. They did so anyway, and thousands starved.

Democracy vouchers have led to a huge surge in the number of Seattle residents donating to local political candidates—an increase of 350 percent over the first two cycles of the program, according to one study.

This is, literally, why we can't have nice things

incredible stuff over at r/ididnthaveeggs It’s a eggnog recipe

Anyone could have told you that Bari Weiss is ill-equipped for this job. But between this and the former Secretaries of State roundtable she tried to organize, which ended up being just Clinton and was also a flop, it makes it painfully clear, both internally and externally.

I have not read this whole Vanity Fair piece with Susie Wiles, but boy, did VF really squander some credibility right before this came out with the whole Nuzzi nonsense. If I were this admin, I'd be aiming right at that decision-making.

Mick Foley, aka Mankind, aka Dude Love, aka Cactus Jack, is parting ways with WWE based on its associations with President Trump. Wow.

Wiles told Vanity Fair she had read these documents & acknowledged Trump is in them, but claimed “he’s not in the file doing anything awful.” She also said “there is no evidence” that Bill Clinton visited Epstein’s island & that Trump “was wrong” about incriminating info about Clinton in the files.

As @PeterBakerNYT.bsky.social reports, Wiles confirmed to Vanity Fair that Trump is seeking revenge against political enemies, from @jamescomey.bsky.social to career prosecutors who investigated & indicted him for conspiracy & retaining secret presidential records to NYAG James.

jeebus! In the mid-2010s, I put together a whole gaming rig for like $1200. That's crazy.

I disagree that Trump has "managed to make it seem normal." While yes, Trump is making it a regular habit, it is the media (legacy in particular) that is normalizing it. Trump is always going to do whatever he wants to do; it's up to the media framing to show how abnormal these suits are.

NEW: One of the most significant accomplishments of the Trump Admin: Decimating the US's humanitarian aid. We went to S. Sudan to see the effects. Rubio says no one has died from the cuts. Spoiler: That's not true. @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy: www.propublica.org/article/usai...

unreal (but still totally real and believable)

not sure what is scarier: that this is happening in the first place or that the people it is happening to take away from the experience the completely wrong lesson

This is really bad reporting and editing

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. (@propublica.org)

This is embarrassing for everyone involved

America has tragically changed, but journalism is still stuck in old ways, writes @sulliview.bsky.social

Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.