This week’s main story is about Paramount’s decision to name Bari Weiss Editor-in-Chief of CBS News, the future of U.S. journalism, and why we think she shouldn’t describe her endeavors as “punk.” Bari, look at us: You are not punk. Joe Strummer would’ve hated your fancy Substack, Bari!

The truth about the administration’s threat federal employees won’t get paid when shutdown ends. joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

Were screeching cats in heat not available?

Barron’s upstairs in the White House seeing what stock he can short tomorrow when his old man gets home and posts some more China sh*t. Market manipulation is real.

These *men* showed up at this market and grabbed the owner for no reason dressed in plain clothes with no identification. They threw him to the ground as a Combat Vet shopping there calls the police on them! There was no warrant and he was a citizen.

And they're using bidens framework which was agreed to IN JANUARY! What happened for 10 months? More obliteration so trump and kushner could more easily develop Gaza.

I keep thinking the same thing. 😳 Thank God the remaining hostages are free. And why doesn’t anyone care about the families of those who are no longer living because Netanyahu put staying in power/out of jail above their lives, and Trump put building a hotel in Gaza above everything. What monsters.

“Yeah but there was no final status negotiated under those” There’s no final status agreement now either “Yeah but those were temporary” This one hasn’t even been in force for a week “But this time Bibi promises it’s for real!” [stares]

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump Tells World Leaders He's 'The Only One That Matters'

The so-called peace President has doubled the government expenditure for pepperballs and non-lethal rounds to be used against Americans exercising their First Amendment Rights. #NoKings

Their combined evils will effect generations to come!

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog. www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Nearly all employees within the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS) were dismissed in Friday’s reduction-in-force, leaving only a few senior officials and administrative staff.

Another one of those unanswerable mysteries of the universe.

Virginia I stg y’all better not mess this up… I can’t have this woman running our state. 😭

In LA, DC, and elsewhere, DHS officers are reportedly pulling over work vans without warning and detaining everyone inside.

Cheering for Hamas slaughtering Palestinians? That makes you pro-Hamas, not pro-Palestinian.

Multiple airports are now announcing they will refuse to play Kristi Noem’s government-funded video blaming “Democrats” for the government shutdown. “We believe the Hatch Act clearly prohibits use of public assets for political purposes and messaging,” one airport said.

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

@timemagazine.bsky.social If this is a legit account and assuming further that you retain ANY journalistic ethics - this was President Biden’s plan delayed at the cost of thousands of lives for nothing more than ego. Triumph my ass.

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

Netanyahu refuses to release Marwan Barghouti, the most popular Palestinian leader—and the one most likely to bring about a two-state solution. Hamas refuses to disarm. The two enemies are united in opposition to a two-state solution. That makes lasting peace unlikely. wapo.st/3W5yhAx

Ah yes, air traffic controllers must show up for work without pay, but Congress can take the day off. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he’ll be making “necessary cuts” to the department, because nothing fixes staffing shortages quite like firing more people.

TUR: Have you met with Mike Johnson? JEFFRIES: No TUR: Why not? JEFFRIES: Donald Trump has not given him permission to meet, Katy and we know that until Donald Trump gives them permission to meet, they're going to continue to hide.

Imagine making six figures to not do anything you were entrusted to do. …getting paid to not work while thousands of civil servants around you were getting fired. …betraying those who counted on you to represent them, all to appease a wannabe dictator. The GOP Congress is a helluva thing.

🚨After being tased and beaten by ICE, a man dies in a Chicago hospital. Date and location in following post. These are the horrors of 2025 and we cannot look away. 1/2

'Confused' Trump told to sit back down amid attempt to speak out of turn: report

Pope Leo says that American bishops need to be more vocal and support migrant communities from being abducted by ICE in US cities "Important that we as church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what's going on in some cities in the US" "The church cannot be silent"

⚡️ NATO chief mocks Russia over malfunctioning submarine 'limping home from patrol.' "What a change from the 1984 Tom Clancy novel The Hunt for Red October. Today, it seems more like the hunt for the nearest mechanic," NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said.

The only violence I’ve been seeing in Portland is from the so-called Feds!!! Keep sharing these videos; it’s evidence.

There is absolutely zero chance that a man who took $50,000 in cash in a paper bag from an FBI agent on camera would have been appointed to any position by any other president.

Today, House Republicans will take their 70th day off with pay in the last 82 days.

Red state government declaring open war on blue city governments in Florida. This is the MAGA model: using every tool of the state to punish political opponents, without even a pretense that you are governing "for everyone."

Meritocracy under Trump

Welp now they’re reversing some of the layoffs. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

An HHS source says admin also RIFed entire Office of Population Affairs last night. “Not a single staff person to run our nation's family planning program or the evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program. The Office of Adolescent Health which nested within OPA functionally ceases to exist”

Lots of Epidemic Intelligence Service officers ("disease detectives") gone. In-country staff in Africa (including those helping to manage the current Ebola outbreak) are fired.

Policy, comms, ethics, and science management (the people who clear science docs — determine whether they meet scientific standards) heavily hit. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report staff are gone.

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

Epstein files giving House Republicans over two months paid vacation and counting.

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time. VANCE: No, George, I sai-- STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

This is great. Normally, with U.S. press, when a Republican lies, they go, "well, we'll have to leave it there because I want to move on." In this case, however, Vance lies and Stephanopoulos is immediately, "into the trebuchet, my dude."

Texas is preparing emergency resources for wildfires and floods. The Texas National Guard should be THERE — not in Illinois. We stand ready to support their return home so they are best positioned for helping Texans respond to any natural disasters.

The anti-American terrorists are actively destroying the most valuable parts of our government.

Hey, you idiotic propagandists at the New York Post: God Bless America isn't the national anthem. It's a SHOW TUNE written by Irving Berlin.

My fellow Americans what are we even doing here bruh