Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

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

In the summer of 1950 most US newspapers ran an AP story about how race had become the main issue in the upcoming Georgia governor's race. Segregationist Herman Tallmadge, governor from '47 to '55 and then a Senator until 1981 made a name for himself by refusing to "apologize for being a white man."

Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Love that Apple came up with an iOS update that makes a third of all tasks take 2x as many clicks for no discernible reason

I do not believe there is a person alive in 2025 who wants to hear “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas”

Olivia Nuzzi seeing this and doing awooga noises, hitting herself over the head with a mallet

I’m a little hung up on “it appeared that part of the vessel remained afloat because it still held cocaine”

Again

Dry the Rain is actually not a bad choice

Just saw a Botox commercial where a woman talked of her “moderate to severe lines” like it was diagnosis “This is the worst part of my job. I’m sorry to tell you that you have stage four crows feet”

There is not a single decision made regarding this graphic that makes any sense

I wrote about Rosalía's "Lux," martyrdom, and our collective gastrointestinal health johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/eat-me

@theonion.com please secure the movie rights for American Canto

Democrats love saying “make no mistake”

Had to write about Angus King's declaration that "standing up to Trump didn't work" because I've never heard anything bleaker in my life. badfaithtimes.com/were-not-ask...

Zohran has the juice

Dave Roberts slander is formally abolished, btw. A genuine masterclass for the second consecutive year.

John Smoltz in the 1st inning of game 7 saying he hopes he sees a bunt lol

Best series since 2011

A trick or treater just panic-stomped a rat to death on our front walk. Incredible Halloween vibes. Blood everywhere

Ohtani is seven for seven in his last seven at-bats. Five home runs and two doubles. It's *ludicrous*.

Have Democratic strategists tried poll-testing the question “would you support a political party that stands for whatever the polls tell them will help them win on any given day?”

Next Dem presidential candidate should campaign on demolishing Trump’s White House ballroom, let’s just go back and forth on this until it becomes tradition

The Tame Impala album is bad, but it’s interesting bad

Hope everyone is paying attention to the most important Game 7 hockey attire of the day: that's right, Hartford Whalers batting gloves

however this postseason goes, i think cal raleigh should have to donate his knees to medical science because good lord

I think they should let the announcers swear a little bit when Shohei does stuff like tonight.

Shohei Ohtani is the first player with 3 homers and 10 strikeouts as a pitcher in a game Reg or post !!!

Have an inning Mariners, good god

KEXP just posted this great live performance of 2025’s best 20-minute song

Max Scherzer is an inspiring, terrifying individual

Guy sitting in front me on the Metro-North tonight was typing a long prompt into Gemini starting with “you are an expert New York litigator with decades of experience”

Kirby wtf happened

I will never stop looking at this. A 404 foot GIDP. (This is correct, it is not a data error.)

In answer to your questions ... No, I've never seen that before. No, it didn't happen because I will Strange But True madness to happen. Yes, we just saw a "grounded into double play" on a ball that looked like a possible slam over the CF wall. And the catcher recorded both forceouts. Baseball!

Ah sure, the old 8-6-2 double play

Hard to imagine Antony Blinken could have a worse legacy at this point, huh

How about Red Sox legend Eduard Bazardo?

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

Fox announcers sound downright funereal about Toronto winning

It’s MLB tradition that every postseason must have one uniquely horrible ad that airs 12 times per game and takes a piece of your soul with it each time

Hell yeah, coffee’s on ParkMobile tomorrow! Well, most of coffee

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Oh well. Kid from Walpole did good

Yoshida is the first Red Sox pinch-hitter *ever* to have a swing that turned a deficit into a lead in the postseason.

just guess