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

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

“If the standard for airing a story becomes ‘the government must agree to be interviewed,’ then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,” Alfonsi wrote.

Yup.

Actually, we’re just giving the report a new title, “Why Dear Leader Is So Wise to Put Brown People Inside CECOT”

Well, isn't THAT interesting!

Worked hard to get this into Guardian Oz & big props to @fiercemum.bsky.social for setting it up & Melissa Davey for publishing it. She will doubtless get loads of hassle from transphobes for it, but it needs to be out there. Puberty Blocker bans harm trans kids, no-one should pretend they don’t.

taking a moment to appreciate the fact that if i my head gets exploded on camera no one in my life will attempt to franchise the scene of my death.

Spotted this little tableau in a tree box on Queen, near Bellwoods. Just in case anyone wondered if Canadians were getting any less pissed off with the US

Gee. That's a shame.

I'm in.

I work for a sign company. Part of my job is creating drawings and filing applications for sign permits, and I can guarantee you that a) these letters were ordered and fabricated at least a week ago, and b) nobody got a permit.

So my husband and I are planning to move to Gabriola Island, BC in the next year to be closer to family and get the hell out of Sprawlville. Apparently they have secret outlaw bike lane builders out there. I knew this was going to be our kind of place 😀 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It would be nice if Metrolinx followed their example and stopped being so scared of e-bikes.

The only things this sad little man is interested in are cars, booze, and gambling. Oh, and Ferris wheels.

This is exactly what I have been fearing all along. Combine this with deepfake videos and the not-so-gradual removal of human journalists from the media landscape, and "truth" becomes whatever those with the most power/money say it is.

OMG www.denvergazette.com/2025/12/14/c...

For tonight's viewing pleasure, possibly my favourite Rob Reiner movie. Wonder if part of Tr**p's vitriol is due to Reiner making a brilliant movie about a president who is smart, erudite, principled, beloved, and in every possible way his polar opposite. www.imdb.com/title/tt0112...

I think it's kind of beautiful that this was Rob Reiner's final line on television

It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.

One reason Rob Reiner’s death was so shocking is that he was a living embodiment of a gentle, righteous, kind humanity. Trump’s reaction, meanwhile, was an embodiment of his inhumanity, vile as it is. We all get to choose which one we would want to be. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

This is beautiful. It's funny to see this after just talking with someone about how annoying it can be that cycling is often so focused on different specialties and types of riding that we lose the big picture of both the joy and efficiency of a simple bike ride.

Some thoughts on the passing of a mensch.

If the New York Times was waiting for a news hook to write a long-overdue story about how Trump is mentally unfit to be president, Trump has provided one today with his post saying Rob Reiner got murdered because he was mean to Trump. Write it, NYT. End the normalization. @nytimes.com

Some of the best movies ever made were by Rob Reiner. They made us laugh and think: The Princess Bride, When Harry Met Sally, A Few Good Men. And he was a force on screen as well in All in the Family and so many films. What a tragic loss. Words fail with news like this.

Thread Oh wow what a thread

Statement from the Lear Family on the death of Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner. Rob Reiner described Norman Lear as his second father.

Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008. Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.

Oh fuck please no....

We really are screwed.

Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.

1) Finding a wee little theatre off Trafalgar Square during a 1979 choir trip to England that was still showing The Goodbye Girl. I had an unhealthy tween obsession with Richard Dreyfuss and had already seen it at least a dozen times, but that was the last time in a theatre.

Looking forward to this one. I've worked in the printing industry for... 35 years I think? So I'm old school enough that I have a special drawer in my desk with my reduction wheel, my pica ruler, and my Pantone books. Coated and uncoated. And if anyone borrows them, I hold their 1st born hostage.

Excellent! Someone fixed it.

And they don't think maybe the reason students don't read in University might be because they didn't read in high school because their high school teachers showed movies in class instead of getting them to, you know, READ??

Well well well! First Democrat Mayor of Miami in nearly 3 decades. That certainly bodes well! 😀

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

Rachel Gilmore on the anti-DEI movement: "I think that to attack these notions is a dog whistle to the worst elements of society that are seeing a slide towards a more fascistic world. And every politician who engages in that should be ashamed of themselves."

It's so funny to watch them periodically half-ass try the "Your body belongs to the Reich and it is your duty to keep it fit for the Fuhrer" stuff to their base of the laziest people in America whose idea of attending a political rally is to drive their trucks around a parking lot.

Should we tell Doug Ford?

I literally cannot say FUCK THIS GUY loud enough. I breastfed my baby for a year. But my milk was seriously delayed coming in due to the TWO LITERS of blood I lost, and my baby was losing weight. Formula saved her life. (Also nobody needs to justify giving formula.)

Oh lord, there are so many...

“Shoutout to the boys in Canada’s overwhelmingly Conservative media who consistently blame immigrants in order to shield our country’s investment class!” thebeaverton.com/2023/08/corp...

It always amazes me that the people who rail against crazy cycling activists pushing their agenda on them are the SAME PEOPLE who apparently long for the Good Old Days. I'm 61 and I lived in those days. I rode the TTC to school on Grade 4, and rode my bike absolutely everywhere.

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

I keep thinking about this 1997 Outer Limits episode where everyone has a brain implant that hooks them into The Stream, except this one guy whose brain won't take it, and then The Stream crashes and he ends up ruling the world because everyone else has forgotten how to open a fucking book.

Very exciting. When the Eglinton Crosstown finally opens, I plan to go to Toronto and spend a day riding that and the Finch West, from end to end. Just like I did when the Spadina line opened way back when. Because I'm that old...