Fred Vultee
@fredvultee.bsky.social
Journalism professor, longtime rimrat. Tar Heel by way of Mizzou. Framing, news practice, securitization theory, editing, cats, beer, banjos. Not all those who wander are lost, but TBF quite a few of them are really, really lost.
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"Weiss is planning on chartering a private plane to fly to each location for the “Live From America” tour this month. Besides taking Dokoupil and CBS Evening News executive producer Kim Harvey on the flights, Weiss’ personal security detail of five armed bodyguards will also be on board."
January 3, 2026 at 1:02 AM
"Weiss is planning on chartering a private plane to fly to each location for the “Live From America” tour this month. Besides taking Dokoupil and CBS Evening News executive producer Kim Harvey on the flights, Weiss’ personal security detail of five armed bodyguards will also be on board."
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NEW from me:
Currently on tap for Tony Dokoupil on his first day as CBS Evening News anchor -- taking a private plane to Miami to so he can go jet skiing with DJ Khaled and play soccer with David Beckham.
Take that, elites!
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Currently on tap for Tony Dokoupil on his first day as CBS Evening News anchor -- taking a private plane to Miami to so he can go jet skiing with DJ Khaled and play soccer with David Beckham.
Take that, elites!
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Private jets and ‘Bari pitches’: Inside Weiss’ chaotic CBS Evening News reboot
EXCLUSIVE: The new CBS News editor-in-chief has chartered private flights for her armed security detail, made last-minute logistical changes and fired off ‘Bari Pitches.’ Weiss is once again accused o...
www.independent.co.uk
January 3, 2026 at 12:51 AM
NEW from me:
Currently on tap for Tony Dokoupil on his first day as CBS Evening News anchor -- taking a private plane to Miami to so he can go jet skiing with DJ Khaled and play soccer with David Beckham.
Take that, elites!
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Currently on tap for Tony Dokoupil on his first day as CBS Evening News anchor -- taking a private plane to Miami to so he can go jet skiing with DJ Khaled and play soccer with David Beckham.
Take that, elites!
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Donald Trump, hamberder expert
January 2, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Donald Trump, hamberder expert
Does this mean he’s going to federalize the National Guard again?
January 2, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Does this mean he’s going to federalize the National Guard again?
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Good example of a thing where states need a firm reminder that they have and can enforce their own laws, even if the federal government won't. Every state has its equivalent laws about this stuff. Musk is not cloaked in some federal immunity just because he's off again / on again buddies with Trump.
What Grok/X has done is unprecedented. There are no other instances of a major company affirmatively facilitating the production of child pornography. Treating this as the inevitable result of generative AI and social media is a harrowing mistake.
January 2, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Good example of a thing where states need a firm reminder that they have and can enforce their own laws, even if the federal government won't. Every state has its equivalent laws about this stuff. Musk is not cloaked in some federal immunity just because he's off again / on again buddies with Trump.
This is how it’s done
“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.”
We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:
We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:
“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
www.propublica.org
January 2, 2026 at 1:48 PM
This is how it’s done
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contrarian.substack.com/p/the-worst-... No president has understood less about what makes America great than Donald Trump; none has been more ignorant of the post-WWII international framework that allowed America to remain the premier superpower.
The Worst Foreign Policy Blunders of 2025
And the competition was fierce...
contrarian.substack.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:05 PM
contrarian.substack.com/p/the-worst-... No president has understood less about what makes America great than Donald Trump; none has been more ignorant of the post-WWII international framework that allowed America to remain the premier superpower.
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According to the new rules, if you and a few friends go to a defense contractor’s testing facility and you say “where are the missiles” and they don’t let you in then all federal funds for defense contractors will be frozen
January 1, 2026 at 10:44 PM
According to the new rules, if you and a few friends go to a defense contractor’s testing facility and you say “where are the missiles” and they don’t let you in then all federal funds for defense contractors will be frozen
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I went to all 10 of the daycares Nick Shirley featured in his viral video. I got inside 4 and found children. Lots of children: www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
We went to some of the day cares Nick Shirley did. Here’s what we found.
Some of the 10 day cares the YouTube content creator blasted for having “no children” invited reporters in to see for themselves.
www.startribune.com
January 1, 2026 at 1:22 AM
I went to all 10 of the daycares Nick Shirley featured in his viral video. I got inside 4 and found children. Lots of children: www.startribune.com/day-care-fra...
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JUST IN: Abrego Garcia lawyers press TN fed judge to sanction feds for alleged gag order violations, ding DHS spokesperson for Tweet calling out Abrego Garcia TikTok video. Doc:
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
AbregoGag123125.PDF
www.documentcloud.org
January 1, 2026 at 5:55 PM
JUST IN: Abrego Garcia lawyers press TN fed judge to sanction feds for alleged gag order violations, ding DHS spokesperson for Tweet calling out Abrego Garcia TikTok video. Doc:
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
This #WSJ piece is hilarious:
“I can’t even think of a single time where he said something where I don’t think he understands the issue here,” said Oz. …“He may want you to do something that is, you know, is arguable whether it’s the right path to go, but it’s a very rational approach to it.”
“I can’t even think of a single time where he said something where I don’t think he understands the issue here,” said Oz. …“He may want you to do something that is, you know, is arguable whether it’s the right path to go, but it’s a very rational approach to it.”
January 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM
This #WSJ piece is hilarious:
“I can’t even think of a single time where he said something where I don’t think he understands the issue here,” said Oz. …“He may want you to do something that is, you know, is arguable whether it’s the right path to go, but it’s a very rational approach to it.”
“I can’t even think of a single time where he said something where I don’t think he understands the issue here,” said Oz. …“He may want you to do something that is, you know, is arguable whether it’s the right path to go, but it’s a very rational approach to it.”
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Iranian protesters have taken control of the IRGC base in Asadabad and have set alight a building on the base.
January 1, 2026 at 5:31 AM
Iranian protesters have taken control of the IRGC base in Asadabad and have set alight a building on the base.
Actual top stories at the #FoxNews homepage, 2-minutes-left-in-2025 edition:
"Can you imagine they stole $18 billion," Trump said. "That's just what we're learning about. That's peanuts. And California is worse, Illinois is worse and sadly New York is worse."
"Can you imagine they stole $18 billion," Trump said. "That's just what we're learning about. That's peanuts. And California is worse, Illinois is worse and sadly New York is worse."
January 1, 2026 at 5:37 AM
Actual top stories at the #FoxNews homepage, 2-minutes-left-in-2025 edition:
"Can you imagine they stole $18 billion," Trump said. "That's just what we're learning about. That's peanuts. And California is worse, Illinois is worse and sadly New York is worse."
"Can you imagine they stole $18 billion," Trump said. "That's just what we're learning about. That's peanuts. And California is worse, Illinois is worse and sadly New York is worse."
The casual racism over at the Department of Homeland Security is really getting out of hand. Somebody’s probably getting holiday pay for this.
January 1, 2026 at 1:06 AM
The casual racism over at the Department of Homeland Security is really getting out of hand. Somebody’s probably getting holiday pay for this.
Orders have arrived from the ketchup-smeared bunker (top story at #FoxNews.com Wednesday afternoon). 16 of 17 paragraphs are about Cassidy Hutchinson’s trstimony. Graf 17 begins: “Smith defended his investigative practices, including subpoenaing Senate and House lawmakers' phone data.”
December 31, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Orders have arrived from the ketchup-smeared bunker (top story at #FoxNews.com Wednesday afternoon). 16 of 17 paragraphs are about Cassidy Hutchinson’s trstimony. Graf 17 begins: “Smith defended his investigative practices, including subpoenaing Senate and House lawmakers' phone data.”
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In his veto letter, President Trump blamed the Miccosukee Tribe for having “actively sought to obstruct reasonable immigration policies that the American people decisively voted for when I was elected.”
via @floridaphoenix.com
via @floridaphoenix.com
Trump vetoes Miccosukee flood protection, citing tribe’s opposition to ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
The Miccosukee Tribe’s lawsuit contesting an immigration detention facility in the Everglades cost them federally funded flood protection, at least if President Donald Trump gets his way.
www.newsfromthestates.com
December 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
In his veto letter, President Trump blamed the Miccosukee Tribe for having “actively sought to obstruct reasonable immigration policies that the American people decisively voted for when I was elected.”
via @floridaphoenix.com
via @floridaphoenix.com
Did somebody tell him about the Jack Smith transcripts?
December 31, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Did somebody tell him about the Jack Smith transcripts?
And this update just in (you know what to do, Stan Rogers fans):
When a bloody great tanker hove in sight
But they gave her Russian colors overnight
When a bloody great tanker hove in sight
But they gave her Russian colors overnight
December 31, 2025 at 6:15 PM
And this update just in (you know what to do, Stan Rogers fans):
When a bloody great tanker hove in sight
But they gave her Russian colors overnight
When a bloody great tanker hove in sight
But they gave her Russian colors overnight
December 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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FLASHBACK — per REUTERS Nick Shirley, the guy behind the Minnesota day care *fraud* video, once paid Hispanic day laborers he recruited at Home Depot $20 to hold pro-Biden signs in front of the White House to gin up fears of an “invasion”
www.winnmediaskn.com/pro-trump-in...
www.winnmediaskn.com/pro-trump-in...
December 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM
FLASHBACK — per REUTERS Nick Shirley, the guy behind the Minnesota day care *fraud* video, once paid Hispanic day laborers he recruited at Home Depot $20 to hold pro-Biden signs in front of the White House to gin up fears of an “invasion”
www.winnmediaskn.com/pro-trump-in...
www.winnmediaskn.com/pro-trump-in...
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About 18 seconds into this news story the reporter says the police AI report writing software erroneously wrote that someone turned into a frog. Yet this is the headline they’re going with.
December 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
About 18 seconds into this news story the reporter says the police AI report writing software erroneously wrote that someone turned into a frog. Yet this is the headline they’re going with.
Would somebody just get him a nice juice box, please? (Now with added Spelling®)
#OrangeMonkeyKingANGRY
#OrangeMonkeyKingANGRY
December 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Would somebody just get him a nice juice box, please? (Now with added Spelling®)
#OrangeMonkeyKingANGRY
#OrangeMonkeyKingANGRY
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So I saw that story that DOGE cancelled Adobe Acrobat for DOJ and that's why we could copy/paste to un-redact that one Epstein document. But I did some research and it's not true. The cost cutting package from this past May included Acrobat Premium, which has the redaction/sanitize function. 1/
December 31, 2025 at 4:02 AM
So I saw that story that DOGE cancelled Adobe Acrobat for DOJ and that's why we could copy/paste to un-redact that one Epstein document. But I did some research and it's not true. The cost cutting package from this past May included Acrobat Premium, which has the redaction/sanitize function. 1/