Some guys think they could get 1 yard in the NFL. Some guys think they could hit MLB pitching. Some guys think they could return a Serena Williams serve. Some guys think they could land a plane. No guys think they could do what Red Panda does.

TikTok is removing clips of the leaked 60 Minutes segment. The Ellison family (which acquired Paramount — CBS’s parent company — and The Free Press, making Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS) is set to co-own TikTok through a Trump-backed deal.

imagine being a youtuber at odysseus house doing a “we partying at this dead old guy’s place” when Shit Goes Down

Y’all know we have a tool for finding exactly these kinds of bad redactions, right? free.law/open-source-...

This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!

Music can be used as a weapon, as energy. The right note or chord can transport you into space using music and energy flow.. (Sun Ra)

Walk around Washington, DC, and you may spot murals and yard signs honoring Sean Dunn, aka "Sandwich Guy." But the 37-year-old rejects the hero label. So I’d like to suggest we salute a different group instead: the grand jurors who declined to indict him. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

But why has nobody asked Pennywise for his side of the story?

Folks, you can’t have Christian Nationalism without the antisemitism. It’s a central tenet of the ideology. The fact some of these Jewish Heritage folks are just realizing this is wild to me.

For years now, moderates have decried the division of identity politics of Democrats, ignoring of course that the Republican Party was defined by identity politics itself — the identity of whiteness. Now that it’s explicit the inability to call it out and to cover it aptly is starkly disappointing.

In case you're unclear on what JD Vance is trying to do here maybe it will help to recall Italian writer Ignazio Silone's 1938 description of what fascism is: “Fascism is a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”

People are rightly disgusted by this speech, but it’s a measure of fascism’s normalization that many see this as more of the awful same rather than what I think most of us who’ve been reporting this beat hear it as: a significant calculated escalation. Full alert stuff.

corporate oligarch media outlets reporting on the malfeasance of other corporate oligarch media outlets isn’t the way out of this btw. give your scoops to independent reporters.

support independent media. idk what else to say right now.

Seems worth noting at this point that Weiss's internal critics at the Times were correct and her many apologists among elite pundits were wrong

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Bari Weiss spikes a much-anticipated segment on CECOT because she thinks Trump won't like it. That apparently is the ultimate test.

An open letter to Representative Vicente Gonzalez: If you don’t want a serious primary challenge, don’t vote to let ICE to strip-search literal children. Until then, stop whining.

"effectively unprecedented"

Maybe I don’t have enough of a sense of history and I should know better, but I have been surprised in my adulthood that: 1. Charlatans are incredibly easy to spot 2. People love charlatans

Current issue of @theonion.com nails it again.

Goldman refused to endorse Mamdani, closed his Brooklyn office on 9th Street, presumably to insulate himself from constituents, and is just... never around. Yes, he's done better on civil rights this year. But Lander would be a MASSIVE trade up. CNN mentions none of this, of course.

Nobody should watch CBS until this airs. Which may be never after Trump threatened them again. He has the ownership and management he wanted who will now obviously do his bidding. Erika Kirk last week, now this. The MAGA News Network.

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.

The Donald J. Trump CBS News

mr stephen miller sir, have you considered taking up boxing

This isn’t a fight between moderates and extremists – it is a struggle over who gets to conduct the extremist train. Those “thought leaders” (Shapiro, Rufo, Dreher…) speaking out on the Right? They would like MAGA to focus all conspiratorial rage on the targets they have chosen and deem safe.

A November YouGov poll had ICE favorability underwater by 14 points among all Americans and 37(!) points among political independents today.yougov.com/politics/art...

He could beat Jake Paul and Andrew Tate

Goldilocks waking up:

Found this elsewhere and I’m passing it along for the Pluribus/David Lynch crew

I had not been notified that we've reached the stage of history where the fascists don't have to be caught by surprise by a punch, but rather just walk right into a ring and volunteer themselves to be punched.

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 candidate who runs against ICE in 28 is going to pop like Obama in 08 against all the Gulf War endorsers.

Jake Paul coming to the ring to honor Hulk Hogan and then getting his jaw punched into his eyeballs by Anthony Joshua has to be one of the best moments in sports this year. Doubly so because I didn’t spend a dime on it.

Nebuchadnezzar, by William Blake, 1795-1805 (flipped) #NetflixPartner

"megachurches are shen yun for white people" is an incredible and damning true statement

Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974

America: the fear that someone, somewhere, might be being treated nicely

To be clear, a standard part of job applications are providing sample syllabi - often a whole portfolio of them - because *your syllabi* are part of the value proposition of hiring *you* and not *someone else.* Now the university wants to steal your materials, then sack and replace you.

I've already been hearing faculty discussion adapting to this policy by basically writing stripped down syllabi that include *only* the required boilerplate and nothing else, with things like course themes, reading schedules and such kept in separate documents to avoid the university owning them.

When Vance says that criticizing Israel is not antisemitism, we should all be clear that he's talking about Nick Fuentes and not, say, immigrant grad students protesting genocide.

Epstein Files search tool...not great!