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

1) nobody ever wanted white people to apologize for being white 2) if there's any justice in the world, JD Vance will one day apologize for everything he's enabled

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

the number one requirement for the next Dem president is that they are willing to look back with a flamethrower

Congressman Thomas Massie says that the release today “grossly fails to comply with both the spirit and the letter of the law that [President Trump] signed just 30 days ago.”

1. BREAKING Congressman Ro Khanna — who co-authored the Epstein bill with Congressman Thomas Massie — says the Trump Department of Justice’s Epstein files release today DOES NOT comply with federal law.

The vast majority have or will have something which soulless billionaires like Zuckerberg will never have: enough.

Thanks to all the marks on both sides of the aisle who enabled this by falling for a gobsmackingly stupid manufactured moral panic.

The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.

The most shameless cocksucking sycophants on the planet

Okay, this statement is very lacking in many key details: 1) who organized this "widely-attended dinner"? 2) did Brooks know that Epstein would be there? 3) did he recognize Epstein? 4) what did the "contact" with Epstein consist of?

whoa.

The silver lining to this is he's going to do such a shitty job getting his face on Mt. Rushmore that it'll probably collapse the entire thing.

i hate these people so much. i will never forgive them nor Trump's voters.

Hey, remember when we saw all of those emails where Epstein was practically begging a NYTimes reporter to talk to him about Trump...? Looks like the NYTimes finally decided to do a journalism... after those emails were publicized.

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Subtext: This entire family *is* vaccinated, and the mom got a booster while pregnant. Their child was just 2 weeks old when she contracted whooping cough -- too young to be vaccinated. But experts say if vax rates drop, this kind of infection becomes more common -- bc the disease is just around.

Zohran: "I mean, think about when you fly.  We have made it such a difficult experience to go through TSA that there's now a financial incentive to sign up for a separate program that can move you through it quicker. We have monetized the dysfunction."

wow that was stupid but i guess at least he didn’t declare war with venezuela

Literally LOL'd

I still can't believe they're trying to make a war happen out of thin air. Not just their abrogation of Congress's role in formally declaring a war -- that's been a slippery slope for decades -- but their total unwillingness even to go through the motions of drumming up public support.

I hate these people so fucking much. Like with the heat of a thousand supergiant stars.

It’s obvious that *before this week* Trump had never heard about Venezuela nationalizing its oil industry (in 1976!) but now it’s a casus belli in a shitshow that makes the 2002-03 run-up to invading Iraq look like a model of planning, preparation, and logic.

For anyone worried AI will replace all of us. Courtesy of Gemini for the prompt “create an infographic of all the World Series winners since 1986” I dare you to find 10 things that are right.

The 1976 nationalization by Venezuela of its oil industry is such a minor event that it doesn't even get its own Wikipedia article. It's one three-paragraph section in the article about the history of Venezuela's oil industry.

I love how today they started throwing out "Venezuela stole our oil rights" and nobody in this country has any idea what the fuck they're even referring to.

oh so it's not actually about "narcoterrorism"? weird.

The U.S. is giving dying mall vibes. I can't explain it, but you know I'm right.

Hi All: Don't give your contacts list to social media companies! Thanks for coming to my TED Talk!

That poor hapless victim, the ::squints:: US oil industry.

Old enough to remember when "moderates" were advising Democrats to stop talking about immigration. ::::wait, I'm getting a breaking bulletin::: Moderates are STILL advising this?!?! Weird, maybe these moderates are just bigoted right-wingers?

Oregon chronically underfunds multiple programs and services (namely education). And it's not because Oregon has no money. The state has a constitutional provision requiring tax rebates if the state raises more money than a budget projects. This creates fucked-up incentives.

I, too, would quit a job I was hilariously unqualified for.

IMO, there's a debilitating division on SCOTUS over whether the US Government has to refund the illegally-assessed tariffs.

I believe the Court is communicating ex parte with the White House about this case and has been for months.

"Please do not publish it on your website that I have lost control of the House"

I remember the run-ups to *both* Iraq wars... and, let me tell you, it's wild how they're saying practically nothing to justify the escalations with Venezuela.

DC should be made a state--and no longer be a weird federal-controlled territory--so this shit can't ever happen to it again.

The biggest takeaway I got from this article is that the Altoona police department engages in unconstitutional searches as an unofficial policy.

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

Repeat after me: The Real ID is a scam. Other than at federal security checkpoints, it does nothing more than a regular ID card. Just get a passport, which is much more useful and is ironically easier to get.

🚨 BREAKING: We now have 218 signatures to force a vote to extend the ACA subsidies for 3 years. Healthcare is a human right. Speaker Johnson must bring this to a vote NOW.

Now, we have 217. We just need ONE more to force a vote.

UPDATE: That's three...they need one more...probably Kiggans, I'd imagine...

UPDATE: Welp.

There were other factors but I think churches embracing right-wing politics, typically bigoted and belligerent, is the number one cause of the decline in American religious identification. When I was a kid, church-going was largely non-partisan. So who remained a Christian?

historically, people have answered this with "national economy bad, but i'm doing alright" or such. the fact they're now saying "ii'm going bad" is, uh, not great

Sometimes you wonder how a teeny country which is literally never in the news like Dominica (population ~72,000) makes it on a list like this... and then you see that it's 75% Black.