Zack Kopplin
@zackkopplin.bsky.social
Investigative journalist @OCCRP.org
ZackKopplin@Protonmail.com, Zachary.Kopplin@occrp.org Signal: +1-225-715-5946 (Opinions my own)
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As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
December 30, 2025 at 8:06 PM
As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
But he’s not better than Antony according the Guardian 100 lol
Christian Pulisic’s eighth goal of the Serie A season and 10th overall gives AC Milan a 1-0 halftime lead vs Hellas Verona.
He’s tied with Inter’s Lautaro Martinez atop the Serie A scoring chart.
He’s tied with Inter’s Lautaro Martinez atop the Serie A scoring chart.
December 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
But he’s not better than Antony according the Guardian 100 lol
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At some point you must conclude that the NWSL Board of Governors do not watch soccer
So, if you’re an NWSL GM, you are not allowed to decide yourself — using all of the tools of a pro team’s front office — that a Player has a High-enough Impact to warrant a certain salary. But you *are* allowed to vote on a list that would determine that that Player has a High-enough Impact.
Sure.
Sure.
The ESPN FC top 50 is here and we need to talk about the sudden conflict of interest the league has created with the high-impact player rule.
With coaches and GMs weighing in on these lists, they can influence whether or not their players can get a bag.
www.espn.com/soccer/story...
With coaches and GMs weighing in on these lists, they can influence whether or not their players can get a bag.
www.espn.com/soccer/story...
December 24, 2025 at 6:06 PM
At some point you must conclude that the NWSL Board of Governors do not watch soccer
Girlboss Bari Weiss dismantling anti-Semitic tropes (that Jews control the media) by Conor Friedersdork
Bari Weiss was right about how to improve the “60 Minutes” CECOT report, Graeme Wood argues—but her “drama-detector, so refined when seeking out news stories, seems to have failed her when avoiding it in her own newsroom.”
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
bit.ly
December 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Girlboss Bari Weiss dismantling anti-Semitic tropes (that Jews control the media) by Conor Friedersdork
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the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.
jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation
![. . . very cooperative, but the police at that point had to let [redacted] know that what she had done that she could be facing charges.
Q And that was after they had told her earlier that she didn't need an attorney present, correct?
A Exactly.
Q Okay. So this happens to her with the Palm Beach Police Department and did the Palm Beach Police actually present or propose charging [redacted]?
A They did get a probable cause affidavit against [redacted].
Q And is that why Ms. [redacted] and her attorney were concerned about her testimony here?
A Yes.
Q Now was a subpoena issued for Ms. [redacted] on behalf of this grand jury?
A Yes, it was.
Q And before Ms. [redacted] would comply with that, did she -- did her attorney request some sort of order?
A Yes.
Q And what did he ask for?
A He asked for immunity for [redacted].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eoss3vmzem55cm5kuddhdmwn/bafkreiariijffjjrgfh26o22jjr76pwprinvnbpkcho5lyi2sucfbqlooy@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:10 PM
the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.
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one thing that’s become very obvious about jessica berman’s nwsl is that owners would still much rather pay lawyers than players
Statement from the NWSLPA. The union is definitely not on board with the new High Impact Player Rule. #NWSL
December 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
one thing that’s become very obvious about jessica berman’s nwsl is that owners would still much rather pay lawyers than players
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All of these ridiculous contortions are driven by trying to walk a line between owners who want to spend money and owners who think women’s sports are attractive as an owner because you don’t have to spend money on the players.
The NWSL introduces the High Impact Player rule.
Read more for the full list of criteria: bit.ly/4auEpL9
Read more for the full list of criteria: bit.ly/4auEpL9
December 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
All of these ridiculous contortions are driven by trying to walk a line between owners who want to spend money and owners who think women’s sports are attractive as an owner because you don’t have to spend money on the players.
Bari Weiss go on Chotiner
December 23, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Bari Weiss go on Chotiner
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The censored 60 Minutes' segment, Inside CECOT, is now available.
Download from @ddosecrets.com: data.ddosecrets.com/Inside%20CEC...
Download/stream from @archive.org: archive.org/details/insi...
The original video was recorded by @jasonparis.bsky.social, and cleaned up by @emma.best
Download from @ddosecrets.com: data.ddosecrets.com/Inside%20CEC...
Download/stream from @archive.org: archive.org/details/insi...
The original video was recorded by @jasonparis.bsky.social, and cleaned up by @emma.best
December 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The censored 60 Minutes' segment, Inside CECOT, is now available.
Download from @ddosecrets.com: data.ddosecrets.com/Inside%20CEC...
Download/stream from @archive.org: archive.org/details/insi...
The original video was recorded by @jasonparis.bsky.social, and cleaned up by @emma.best
Download from @ddosecrets.com: data.ddosecrets.com/Inside%20CEC...
Download/stream from @archive.org: archive.org/details/insi...
The original video was recorded by @jasonparis.bsky.social, and cleaned up by @emma.best
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yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.
Asking this seriously: has Bari Weiss ever in her career reported out an investigative story?
December 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
yes. she investigated the case of why everyone at the new york times hated her and discovered that it was because she was too smart and too brave.
This shit should get you blacklisted from any leadership position at a news outlet for multiple lifetimes for defamation risk alone
The full Weiss memo is dogshit
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
December 22, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This shit should get you blacklisted from any leadership position at a news outlet for multiple lifetimes for defamation risk alone
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The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
December 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
Aren't the Venezuelans who were tortured at CECOT the principals in the story?
Weiss concluded: “We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera. To me, our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else. And that is my North Star, and I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom.”
December 22, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Aren't the Venezuelans who were tortured at CECOT the principals in the story?
This is the kind of quality you get for $150 million
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This is the kind of quality you get for $150 million
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really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense
Seen at the local library
December 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Seen at the local library
Some people anthropomorphize their pets, others the economy
"is the economy good," the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate
Consumer confidence data is basically useless for markets/econ forecasting at this point. There is just no universe where periods when inflation was 5x as high, real income growth was deeply negative, or unemployment was more than 2x current were better than the current backdrop.
December 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Some people anthropomorphize their pets, others the economy
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The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
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it's extremely hilarious that nwsl leadership scrambled to rush through a half-baked proposal only for fifa to immediately go maximum fifa and expose it as a bad idea
player salaries should definitely be influenced by award lists, what could go wrong
The Fifa Best women's XI for 2025:
Hampton, Bronze, Williamson, Paredes, Batlle, Bonmati, Guijarro, Pina, Caldentey, Russo, Putellas.
#Lionesses
Hampton, Bronze, Williamson, Paredes, Batlle, Bonmati, Guijarro, Pina, Caldentey, Russo, Putellas.
#Lionesses
December 16, 2025 at 7:07 PM
it's extremely hilarious that nwsl leadership scrambled to rush through a half-baked proposal only for fifa to immediately go maximum fifa and expose it as a bad idea
NWSL best IX would beat this team
The Fifa Best women's XI for 2025:
Hampton, Bronze, Williamson, Paredes, Batlle, Bonmati, Guijarro, Pina, Caldentey, Russo, Putellas.
#Lionesses
Hampton, Bronze, Williamson, Paredes, Batlle, Bonmati, Guijarro, Pina, Caldentey, Russo, Putellas.
#Lionesses
December 16, 2025 at 6:42 PM
NWSL best IX would beat this team
Can't fire your chief of staff for shit talking you when you can't remember your chief of staff shit talked you five minutes later vibes
Man if they’re all doing this….i am rapidly updating my priors on the expected It Happening timeline.
this is my surprised face
December 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Can't fire your chief of staff for shit talking you when you can't remember your chief of staff shit talked you five minutes later vibes
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Apropos of nothing I am wondering if anyone else has had a slow, gong-like realization about how many people in positions of tremendous power are absolutely out of their minds on drugs.
And then there’s the story about Alex Karp’s not-at-all-weird interview (for lack of a better word) with Oswald Mosley’s grandson for a senior position at Palantir.
December 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Apropos of nothing I am wondering if anyone else has had a slow, gong-like realization about how many people in positions of tremendous power are absolutely out of their minds on drugs.
Ok now I need to play a pickup game with him
DEVELOPING: Zohran Mamdani’s recreation soccer team was called the Talking Headers.
December 13, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Ok now I need to play a pickup game with him
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remember when Ben Ryan was inexplicably bylined on that Mamdani hit piece in the Times, seemingly because he's in a group chat with Nazis who gave him the hacked documents that formed the basis of the story
December 10, 2025 at 7:50 PM
remember when Ben Ryan was inexplicably bylined on that Mamdani hit piece in the Times, seemingly because he's in a group chat with Nazis who gave him the hacked documents that formed the basis of the story