use your eyes www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

"At Turning Point, she works for the 'Frontlines' division—which, she said, is dedicated to 'neutral,' fact-based reporting, providing the ostensible newsroom of an enterprise otherwise focused vociferously on opinions." www.cjr.org/feature/sava...

Every major free speech org has said the IHRA definition suppresses constitutionally protected speech. Every major human rights group has said it suppresses legitimate advocacy. The scandal is that Adams adopted the definition, not that Mamdani rejected it. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/n...

In his 2019 memoir The Threat, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe quotes first-term Trump saying Venezuela was “the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.” zeteo.com/p/venezuela-...

media criticism lives donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-nyt-re...

beautiful ceremony

CBS News postponed a "60 Minutes" segment Sunday because it lacked a Trump admin interview, per an email we obtained from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who said the decision by EIC Bari Weiss gave the White House a "kill switch." with @liamjscott.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

“It gave people cover — you could send her stuff around even if you wouldn’t be comfortable saying those things yourself." nymag.com/intelligence...

Sources: The opening domino of the 2025 Shamsy selection process has fallen invariably, will spawn numerous pathways for unique news defector.com/nothing-but-...

New: Pregnant immigrant women are showing up to deliver their babies w/ surveillance smart watches on their wrists as part of an ICE monitoring program. They’re too afraid of being detained to have the watch cut off even when it’s medically necessary. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

'Train Dreams' is afraid of its own shadow: defector.com/train-dreams...

"The arbitrator found POLITICO violated the collective bargaining agreement when it launched two AI-driven products [...] without providing required notice, bargaining, or human oversight, as required by the contract." wbng.org/2025/12/01/p...

Questioning if I even know what “abstract” means…

“It’s frankly embarrassing that executives would make baseless claims about a fact-checker.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.

This really feels like we are at the Bored Ape stage

Made for each other! Rooting for those two crazy kids

Hi! I wrote a thing about swimming and trans athletes and [*checks notes*] Santana for @defector.com, would mean a lot if you give it a read

media criticism lives: defector.com/everybody-st...

BREAKING: We won! Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years. pghguild.com/2025/11/10/p...

New with @laurawags.bsky.social >> Bari Weiss was hired to remake CBS News — and she's already doing it. Staffers are weathering a flurry of layoffs, shifting resources and a cultural collision with Weiss’s ideas for the news. Our latest in @washingtonpost.com:

SCOOP (free, as it's FOIA-based!): I obtained 1,665 pgs of documents about "Bicken Ben," a growing private school the Zuckerbergs ran illegally out of their Palo Alto compound Neighbors complained the school for years. Then, in 2024, they reached their breaking point: www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Milk hits different when pie is the vibe

Longtime CBS News journalist John Dickerson, the co-anchor of the CBS Evening News, announced he is leaving the network. He's the first major CBS News on-air talent to resign since David Ellison and Bari Weiss took charge. Latest with @laurawags.bsky.social for @washingtonpost.com:

“My findings were beyond reasonable doubt that this was an intentional killing of Shireen Abu Akleh.” Retired Army Colonel Steve Gabavics tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social that the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, was intentional according to his findings. Watch the episode: zeteo.com/p/breaking-a...

“If Mamdani is elected, the most reactionary voices in the department will have their knives out.” In a new preview from Issue Sixteen, @k80way.bsky.social considers Bill de Blasio’s relationship with the NYPD, and what lies ahead for Zohran Mamdani: www.thedriftmag.com/walking-the-...

Only If You Get Caught S1E1 is about the most infamous basketball conspiracy theory: Did the NBA fix Game 6 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals? Our guest is the great @tcraggs22.bsky.social. Subscribe now, Or Else!!! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

"I announced, in case some camera somewhere was rolling, “I’m a journalist, I’m press.” The woman to my left hissed, 'We don’t give a fuck,' and the other dug her nails into my scalp and pulled me by my hair across the port." jewishcurrents.org/forty-eight-...

NEW: Among the 170+ US citizens detained by immigration agents are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer. Four children were held for weeks with their undocumented mother and without access to the family’s attorney until a congresswoman intervened.

As a U.N.-recognized famine swept Gaza, Google allowed Israel to run YouTube ads claiming “There is food in Gaza.” An internal email reveals the company received many complaints about the ads, but ruled they could remain online. https://wapo.st/43lTav7

NEW: A presentation that has been shared with the Trump administration references Tesla, Ikea, TSMC, and more in its plan to rebuild the region. Some of these companies say they had absolutely no idea they were mentioned.

Media criticism lives: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Really good. Ezra Klein next www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

NEWS: The Congressional Progressive Caucus — which represents nearly 100 members in Congress — has just voted to endorse the Block the Bombs Act, to block weapon sales to Israel. First time any major congressional caucus has backed legislation to end US aid for Israel’s destruction of Gaza.

NBA reporter fired after accurately describing Charlie Kirk's beliefs: defector.com/nba-reporter...

New from @tinanguyen.bsky.social and me: Charlie Kirk's shooter left behind bullet casings with a furry sex meme and a bunch of Helldivers video game references. Subreddits for Helldivers immediately picked up on it. www.theverge.com/politics/777...

If you can track the boat on camera to slaughter everyone aboard then you can track the boat on camera to intercept the boat and arrest them

Not surprisingly, @girinathan.bsky.social's new book about Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz is so rich, observant, and filled with pitch-perfect sentences. I love interviewing my coworkers when their books come out 🥲 and loved this chat about sportswriting with the best in the biz

Every time @thenation.com publishes the writing of Lujayn, a teen in the Gaza Strip, I hold my breath while reading. If you read one thing today, make it this: "Don’t you dare preach “child protection” to our children while they are bombed and starved in front of the whole world."

Baffling page in Night-Night New York

Can we hear the climate crisis? defector.com/how-climate-...

We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death