on second thought maybe it was a mistake to put obvious morons in charge of everything

Full story about what's going on at CBS News: www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/m...

I have never, once in my career, heard of a news org responding to a decline-to-comment with, “Well, we’ll hold it until you do.” The reason is obvious — it gives the subject of your story a pocket veto.

Like I do think it’s this. We let this outsized bourgeois conception of what journalism or 60 Minutes is obfuscate the material reality

“It even mentions playfulness, whatever that is, nine times.” You know what kind of people consider “playfulness” (i.e., joy, creativity, connection) a foreign and imcomprehensible concept? Read more at: www.stripes.com/branches/arm... Source - Stars and Stripes

“Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the stranger and the unwashed child, care for the sick, love your enemies.”

Almost every story Weiss greenlit at the Free Press lacked sufficient context. It's kinda their entire schtick.

“You have arrived in hell.” That’s what the CECOT director allegedly told immigrants. Human Rights Watch said “Detainees were subjected to constant beatings and other forms of ill-treatment, including some cases of sexual violence” This is what CBS doesn’t want you to see.

So, is this correct ? It’s now ok to infiltrate a tv channel and pull whatever the administration dislikes and pull possible unfavorable stories. But when another administration “asks” to have misinformation and stolen revenge porn taken down That’s “censorship”?

Bari Weiss spiked the CECOT story because she wanted to have Stephen Miller included and demanded to control the language 60 Minutes used to describe the men who were brutally tortured after being sent to El Salvador without due process.

“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”

The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.

60 Minutes, dead at 57. The murder weapon was Bari Weiss.

These people are gutter trash.

Family holiday gathering tonight. Played Sheriff of Nottingham which is fun. Son remains comically incapable of lying with a straight face. I remain best at the tell-the-truth-unconvincingly gambit.

This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!

"the pre-AI days of junior copywriting roles and freelancers being able making lots of money writing non-AI content seem to be long gone. I think those writers who don’t lean on AI and find a way to make it through will be in high-demand once the AI-illusion starts to lift en masse."

I go away for 28 hours, and this is the reception I get when I get back. #cats

“concerns”

There is a tremendous opportunity for a brand new generation of media outlets to rise up right now because many news outlets that spent decades painstakingly building their credibility are seeing it torched by bootlickers with incredible speed.

I think this is one those things historians understand intuitively and a lot of non-historians struggle with. Research isn’t just about answering a question, it’s about framing a question. This is what we argue about! Wrestle with. Cry over. Drink away. Not how to answer, but what question to ask.

Yes, the TSA's "pat downs" have been unconstitutional for over 20 years. But, sure, if we're going to finally notice...

Whoa

This is not the first time RFK Jr or his fellow anti-vax travelers conducted a study they knew would harm or kill children in low-income countries. It is a dehumanizing, colonialist model of manufacturing evidence: sacrificing foreign kids for political pseudoscience. www.notus.org/health-scien...

This is also the anti-sex worker rights movement play, it’s a classic

That's pretty much what he's saying these days.

Whenever I post about this I get snarky people replying "Who cares? What difference does it make." Well, the whole phenomenon of people not understanding what makes a breed and how rare they are is exactly what enables unethical backyard breeders to do what they do.

Ugh. This morning, I was able to pull up to a gas pump, put in my credit card, fill my tank, and leave. 1/

can’t understand why women hate these guys

DOJ's Epstein excuses on Xitter and the responding community notes are turning into Matryoshka dolls.

In Moscow, they call her “our girl Tulsi” for a reason.

lol when a rich, powerful white man begs for higher taxes, you know that vibes are about to shift towards eating the rich:

Goldman: This guy is so clearly trying to follow the Putin model—using the government to make money, making sure his allies control the most important companies in the country, including our media companies, doling out money by deregulating their industries, and taking money from them in return…

George W. Bush: He is, indeed, the dumbest President we’ve ever had, and I thank God that he is every damned day.

I watched this film a few years ago as much for the cat as for Art Carney.

As the holidays approach, remember that it’s ok to rest. It’s ok to say “no” to social events. It’s ok to unplug. When you’re chronically ill, energy is a precious resource and the holidays can be draining. Set and hold boundaries. You’re allowed to protect your baseline. Let go of the guilt.

Tens of thousands of annual cases of chickenpox, rotavirus, and other vaccine preventable diseases a year - in a country of six million people. Not only will Denmark’s vaccine schedule not work for the US, it already isn’t working for Denmark.

Graphic designers of the world will understand - Pantone just released a new color (satire)

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

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Get ready for the “Trump was a young playboy” propaganda even though he was 50 and the girls were 14.

hi, cis folks! this week, with some democrat votes, 2 anti-trans bills passed the house. one bans medicaid funds for trans youth care, the other proposes jail time for providers. they haven't passed the senate, but dems may need convincing to vote no on both. tap into the 🧵for a quick action.

the King of Christmas awaits your tribute

🚨 The DOJ appears to have redacted Donald Trump’s name from the allegations made in this exhibit in the Epstein files. Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out. See for yourself.