why it's almost as if billionaires hired Bari Weiss to enflame cultural divides, disorient the public, and undermine journalism in a bid to divide and distract the electorate from the actual causes of most U.S. dysfunction

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

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

This is why the Ellisons paid $150 million to acquire a mediocre Substack blog www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/bari...

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

and we’ll just report this headline without context as if political purges from the Smithsonian are totally normal

I wrote about the cronyistic TikTok deal, and how it once again shows the U.S. is too corrupt to function in the public interest, despite a whole lot of pretense to the contrary

“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of

Funny stuff!

More than 41% air traffic of controllers work 10-hour weekdays, six days a week, while their pay stagnates and morale crashes -- all reasons the U.S. has a shortage of 3,800 of them. So a bunch of them are moving to Australia. www.wsj.com/business/air...

I had missed this Tim Wu piece in the Netflix and Paramount efforts to acquire Warner Brothers and CNN. I feel like he's speaking to me here, because I generally think Netflix, however terrible, would be better than Larry Ellison autocrat state television

This is what's going on. They're keeping it tricking because the second he dies it can all come out and make it seem like, as the biggest crime, it's the only crime & the rest of them pretend they were duped by it all. Khrushchev's Secret Speech strategy (which completely worked)

"It gets presented as a business story with powerful individuals as the protagonists, but there is very little discussion of the public interest."

lol

They'll delay and stall and only when he's dying and rudderless will everything come out all at once, showing he's an even bigger piece of shit than we had ever presumed, at which point MAGA will just pivot to some entirely new soulless piece of shit and memory wipe the last decade

Please kill me

Me: I don’t see the appeal of boxing TV: OK but what if it’s professional boxers savagely brutalizing influencers Me:

67 Senators could remove RFK Jr. today but there aren’t 67 Senators who care about Americans’ lives, health, or wellbeing. Babies will die. Our leaders hate us.

the vast, vast majority of the coverage of this billionaire-funded racist agitprop pseudo-populist convention is just so wildly hackish

It's glowing stories like this that make me feel like I'm living in some surrealistic hellworld an entire story where the author (a minority woman!) can't be bothered to even lightly hint at the sexist and racist disinformation focus of this "movement"

for example some random just told me to "lighten up Francis" and I blocked them immediately it's quite liberating

block early, block often, don't think twice about it First interaction with somebody unpleasant or hostile? Block. Bad vibes? Block. weird engagement clown sending his armies of "well actually" dipshits your way? Block. Tired of me bitching endlessly about corporate power? Block me. do it

oh no all the fake journalists funded by billionaires to divide the electorate and destroy informed consensus are now fighting with each other

billionaire: i have 3 brains. in my skull interviewer: incredible

Woman comes to US at age 6. Graduates nursing school. Work permit. No criminal record. Snatched and imprisoned by ICE for 6 months now. About to be forced back to Honduras. A life destroyed and one less nurse. Merry Christmas. www.nola.com/news/educati...

so much winning

Whipple: Wiles thought she was talking to someone who would give her a fair shake. And I did give her a fair shake. But the problem is, when you’re in that bubble, you wouldn’t recognize fair treatment when you see it—because crazy is crazy when you’re in that bubble.

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

You have to be fucking kidding me...

The Epstein Files, everybody!

loser

show me don't tell me, your words have negative credibility

Not that it will but the willingness of Americans to obey is a very funny contrast with our self-image and should probably prompt some reflection bsky.app/profile/jonf...

So the "most transparent president in history" won't let Jack Smith's testimony become public. He's got them holding back tens of thousands of Epstein documents, haven't seen his taxes, his school records, and no one knows why the East Wing was destroyed before he even had ballroom plans. Yeah.

ICE whistles work.

Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.

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"encouraging electoral division and infighting over foundational civil rights," brought to you by Larry Ellison and his nepobaby son

I like how CBS isn't even bothering with the pretense that this is anything other than an op designed to blow smoke up the ass of the right wing

Always a 🎯 from @karlbode.com

"Brendan Carr spent literally years whining about the propaganda, privacy, and surveillance threats posed by TikTok ... "Now, with the problem made worse, you can easily assume that Carr will probably never mention the threat again."

Larry Ellison and other billionaires want us all fighting over basic dignity and human rights so we don't form a unified consensus that they're a planetary cancer

"Has feminism failed women brought to you by bank of america" is my MKULTRA sleeper agent activation phrase

We're already in a recession because our dim public elected a walnut for president, but the press won't be able to admit it until next July because it might upset a Republican

I wrote about the cronyistic TikTok deal, and how it once again shows the U.S. is too corrupt to function in the public interest, despite a whole lot of pretense to the contrary

I've never said a bad thing about Sam Darnold in my life. no siree