i think it is ok to reiterate that the victim as a us citizen. yes, noncitizens are equally entitled to human rights. but also, it's important to illustrate how ice isn't about immigration at all

Normal people don’t think it’s ok to execute someone bc their kids dad is dead btw.

this is how every outlet should refer to X

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. Don’t. Host. Lying. Liars. On. The. Teevee. Shows. If you’ve messed up & done that anyway, end the interview immediately when they start to lie performatively in public. The old model is broken. It doesn’t work for lying authoritarians. Stop trying.

Yeah, people are fixating on a Cabinet Secretary being given a sovereign country to run because the president waged war without congressional approval and kidnapped the old leader. Weird that they’d get hung up on that.

The hard part about running a dictatorship is that the past changes so quickly you have no idea what will happen yesterday.

New tonight: More surprising than Maduro’s capture was that the White House plans to run Venezuela. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

okay i am sorry to be that bitch but the one word you can't use to describe this is "unprecedented."

“These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.”

“Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices..."“It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

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.

guys bari lost glem

Sharyn Alfonsi is an award-winning journalist who has worked for 60 Minutes for 20 years. Before that she reported for ABC, CBS & local news outlets. If Alfonsi says her story was spiked by Bari Weiss political reasons, that’s exactly what happened. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

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

anyway this is why you don’t turn over an entire news network to a glorified blogger because she’s good at sucking up to you at cocktail parties

Because Bari Weiss is an opportunistic political maneuverer, it probably doesn't get said clearly enough that she is also an astounding clod, in wildly over her head. The fact that she seems to have spiked this story without realizing this would happen tells you all you need to know about her.

CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants. n.pr/4pagOTD

The pedestal we’ve placed “journalism” on will crumble. And that’s brilliant. by Jakob Moll www.niemanlab.org/2025/12/the-...

This is a wild hack. a16z gave a million dollars to startup called Doublespeed. They use a phone farm to flood social media with AI generated influencers and ads. A hacker remotely broke into the phone farm, unmasking the AI influencers/fake accounts, gave us the data www.404media.co/hack-reveals...

i think a (perhaps underappreciated) aspect of this whole situation is the extent to which every elite profession is filled with people who excel at drawing attention and want to be famous more than they want to do the actual job

European reaction to the new American national strategy document

"Hey ChatGPT, can you write me a National Security Strategy?" - Pete Hegseth

The Trump administration released its latest National Security Strategy--and one thing that can be said is that there is no more pretending. It’s a plan to weaken European unity, to make Europe MAGA, to force Europe to take economic dictation by the USA…. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

The new National Security Strategy of the U.S. contains some pretty explicit white nationalism: “We want to support our allies in preserving the freedom and security of Europe, while restoring Europe’s civilizational self-confidence and Western identity.”

The Trump National Security Strategy is an act of vandalism against the things that actually make our country strong, safe, and prosperous.

Turns out the real civilizational erasure was the climate change we kept pretending doesn't exist along the way.

History suggests that things don't go well when white nationalists are warning against "civilizational erasure" in Europe

NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY DROPPED There is a LOT here, but omg NATO allies are going to seethe at this paragraph www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

North Korean-style. A Potemkin village of fake journalists.

This family in Kyiv shares the same sounding videos every damn night. Civilians are being targeted while Russia conducts “human safari” hunting civilians with drones in other parts of the country.

As your Nebraskan Anger Translator I want you to know "I don't think he would be foolish enough to make this decision" is a devastating thing for your high school principal to say to your parents

A🧵 This is profoundly irresponsible by AGSulzberger’s NYT, @by-cjewett.bsky.social +eds. The normalization, “view-from-nowhere”, “born-yesterday”, stenography, “both-sides”, irresponsible headline are disgraceful. THE story is the CDC&FDA are being destroyed by antiscience & Americans will die. 1/n

This whole thing is racist, but take particular note of the threat of denaturalization. That's stripping people of their citizenship, and that's the road to mass murder and atrocity.

Four of Trump's five children have an immigrant mother, and the one who doesn't is married to the son of two immigrants.

Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...

Among other things, the (nebulous but clearly unconstitutional) attack on naturalized US citizens contained in this screed is a significant escalation.

Commented on this @nbcnews story on the chaos of the recent X location product rollout. As tempting as it is to dunk on the "United States" accounts posting from unexpected places, I would caution folks not to jump to conclusions. www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

Although social media was the spark for a revolution across the Middle East, it soon proved to be in journalist David Wolman's words, "a tool and like any tool, it can be used for good or bad, just like a hammer.

This is some lede: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN CONGRESS should be pressed about Trump calling for their colleagues to be killed

mark kelly's wife was literally shot in the head bc of violent political rhetoric & now the president of the united states is calling for him to be executed.... but iTs tHe LeFt

So far this morning, we’ve had an incredible kickoff with on attribution alphabet soup with the one and only @dmitri.silverado.org and then a fascinating meme-ful talk from @activemeasures.bsky.social and @wylienewmark.bsky.social on SVR cyber espionage and Russian analytic battlefields.

@activemeasures.bsky.social (which is a real llc!) and I assume @wylienewmark.bsky.social with a jaw dropping presentation. Best analysis of SVR vs GRU and history of the forgeries in 2016 leaks I’ve ever heard. #cyberwarcon

So much fun to see my @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social students volunteering at @cyberwarcon.bsky.social this year! Come say hi to SAIS students focusing on tech and innovation in the two year MAIR program and one year MASCI program! And @alperovitch.institute professors are all around as well!

Happy @cyberwarcon.bsky.social day to all who celebrate!

For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.

There would not have been enough space on the opinion pages of newspapers or segments on cable news to cover the amount of outrage that the media would have directed at Joe Biden if he did not know the standard duration of a home mortgage, but Trump? Crickets.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment