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This was my approach when trying to get oral interviews with segregationists for my first book.
“I’m writing about you and I’d love to get your input, but I’m writing about you either way.”
“I’m writing about you and I’d love to get your input, but I’m writing about you either way.”
You do everything in your power to get every relevant voice in a story. But as one of my former colleagues told a local official who thought his silence would kill a piece: “I’d like to have you. But the story is being written with or without you.”
Reporter: We have 3 videos, 2 breathalyzers, 4 bartenders, and a minivan full of nuns attesting to how the driver was drunk and reckless when he hit the school bus.
Weiss; What did the driver say.
Reporter: He and his lawyer won’t talk. We asked them 5 times.
Weiss: I’m killing your story.
Weiss; What did the driver say.
Reporter: He and his lawyer won’t talk. We asked them 5 times.
Weiss: I’m killing your story.
December 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
This was my approach when trying to get oral interviews with segregationists for my first book.
“I’m writing about you and I’d love to get your input, but I’m writing about you either way.”
“I’m writing about you and I’d love to get your input, but I’m writing about you either way.”
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Almost every story Weiss greenlit at the Free Press lacked sufficient context. It's kinda their entire schtick.
December 22, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Almost every story Weiss greenlit at the Free Press lacked sufficient context. It's kinda their entire schtick.
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This is Bari Weiss in stonewalling, chin-out, "I won't let the haters get to me" mode. Whether she gets away with it will be determined by whether Sharyn Alfonsi's colleagues at 60 Minutes and CBS News decide to fight back. Pelley, Stahl, Cooper--this decision goes on everyone's permanent record.
Almost every story Weiss greenlit at the Free Press lacked sufficient context. It's kinda their entire schtick.
December 22, 2025 at 5:46 AM
This is Bari Weiss in stonewalling, chin-out, "I won't let the haters get to me" mode. Whether she gets away with it will be determined by whether Sharyn Alfonsi's colleagues at 60 Minutes and CBS News decide to fight back. Pelley, Stahl, Cooper--this decision goes on everyone's permanent record.
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It’s funny when you remember Bari Weiss called her outlet The Free Press
December 22, 2025 at 11:16 AM
It’s funny when you remember Bari Weiss called her outlet The Free Press
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The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing hens and spiking egg prices, the USDA didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne. @propublica.org did. www.propublica.org/article/bird...
What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...
www.propublica.org
November 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing hens and spiking egg prices, the USDA didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne. @propublica.org did. www.propublica.org/article/bird...
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If this picture was of Obama, you know @FoxNews would do three weeks solid on why the flag was on the ground.
At least three weeks
At least three weeks
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
If this picture was of Obama, you know @FoxNews would do three weeks solid on why the flag was on the ground.
At least three weeks
At least three weeks
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Hey Pam Bondi. This is John Mitchell. Gird your loins because you actually work for the people and not the president and you will eventually find out what that means.
November 15, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Hey Pam Bondi. This is John Mitchell. Gird your loins because you actually work for the people and not the president and you will eventually find out what that means.
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Cincinnati’s Democratic Mayor Aftab Pureval has won re-election, defeating creepy racist scumbag JD Vance’s half-brother Cory Bowman by an 80 to 20 margin. How embarrassing and so scrumptious. ☺️
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Cincinnati’s Democratic Mayor Aftab Pureval has won re-election, defeating creepy racist scumbag JD Vance’s half-brother Cory Bowman by an 80 to 20 margin. How embarrassing and so scrumptious. ☺️
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We will be Live-streaming our big book launch for SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND HATE at the 92st Y NYC.
Thursday, September 25, 8pm.
Come be part of the big live launch event, before the book gets banned in Florida.
Tickets for both live & streaming at:
www.92ny.org/event/john-f...
more to come...
Thursday, September 25, 8pm.
Come be part of the big live launch event, before the book gets banned in Florida.
Tickets for both live & streaming at:
www.92ny.org/event/john-f...
more to come...
September 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We will be Live-streaming our big book launch for SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND HATE at the 92st Y NYC.
Thursday, September 25, 8pm.
Come be part of the big live launch event, before the book gets banned in Florida.
Tickets for both live & streaming at:
www.92ny.org/event/john-f...
more to come...
Thursday, September 25, 8pm.
Come be part of the big live launch event, before the book gets banned in Florida.
Tickets for both live & streaming at:
www.92ny.org/event/john-f...
more to come...
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Faith Family Academy is one of eight Texas charter school districts on track to be shut down at the end of the year after receiving an “F” rating.
Board members paid its superintendent a peak annual compensation of $560,000 in recent years.
By @emsimani.bsky.social & Lexi Churchill
Board members paid its superintendent a peak annual compensation of $560,000 in recent years.
By @emsimani.bsky.social & Lexi Churchill
These Charter Superintendents Are Some of the Highest Paid in Texas. Their Districts Are Among the Lowest Performing.
Three charter school districts in Texas underreported the compensation paid to their top leaders. The same three districts have also had failing or near-failing performance ratings in recent years.
www.propublica.org
September 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Faith Family Academy is one of eight Texas charter school districts on track to be shut down at the end of the year after receiving an “F” rating.
Board members paid its superintendent a peak annual compensation of $560,000 in recent years.
By @emsimani.bsky.social & Lexi Churchill
Board members paid its superintendent a peak annual compensation of $560,000 in recent years.
By @emsimani.bsky.social & Lexi Churchill
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That was me yelling on that Chiefs sack, sorry if it scared anyone
September 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
That was me yelling on that Chiefs sack, sorry if it scared anyone
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For all the blame being thrown around about who “radicalized” Robinson, isn’t this ultimately an indictment on the GOP poster-worthy parenting — conservative, nuclear family, gun-loving, religious — that apparently completely ignored that their kid was in an Internet rathole for most of his days?
September 14, 2025 at 5:03 PM
For all the blame being thrown around about who “radicalized” Robinson, isn’t this ultimately an indictment on the GOP poster-worthy parenting — conservative, nuclear family, gun-loving, religious — that apparently completely ignored that their kid was in an Internet rathole for most of his days?
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Meanwhile, we had another shooting the same day that killed *two* people and in this case it's absolutely clear the crime came from the far right.
Really weird to hear all these demands for retribution against the left when they're 0-for-2 in inspiring these events.
Really weird to hear all these demands for retribution against the left when they're 0-for-2 in inspiring these events.
Police say ‘extremist network’ may have influenced Colorado high school shooter
Police suspect the teenage gunman who carried out a school shooting in Colorado this week was “radicalized” before injuring two fellow students.
www.msnbc.com
September 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Meanwhile, we had another shooting the same day that killed *two* people and in this case it's absolutely clear the crime came from the far right.
Really weird to hear all these demands for retribution against the left when they're 0-for-2 in inspiring these events.
Really weird to hear all these demands for retribution against the left when they're 0-for-2 in inspiring these events.
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Last year: Austin Peay State University learns prof is Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally. Admin drags heels, pays him $56k severance to leave
This week: APSU prof posts screenshot of headline - Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment- & is immediately fired
This week: APSU prof posts screenshot of headline - Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment- & is immediately fired
September 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Last year: Austin Peay State University learns prof is Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally. Admin drags heels, pays him $56k severance to leave
This week: APSU prof posts screenshot of headline - Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment- & is immediately fired
This week: APSU prof posts screenshot of headline - Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment- & is immediately fired
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For the past seven months, Trump has demonized those who fight for democracy and weaponized the government against them. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/a-lo...
A Long, Hard Week
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
September 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
For the past seven months, Trump has demonized those who fight for democracy and weaponized the government against them. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/a-lo...
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"Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let's see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face."
— Donald Trump, October 31, 2024
( ht: @luiszanger.bsky.social )
— Donald Trump, October 31, 2024
( ht: @luiszanger.bsky.social )
September 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let's see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face."
— Donald Trump, October 31, 2024
( ht: @luiszanger.bsky.social )
— Donald Trump, October 31, 2024
( ht: @luiszanger.bsky.social )
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We pay more attention to SCOTUS but this decision, especially if they uphold it, and even though it's ostensibly on a mere abstruse statutory technicality, might be the most radically anti-constitutional ruling of the Trump era. Judicial sanction for dictatorship, for Charles I style personal rule.
1/ The court’s decision was 2-1, with Judges Karen Henderson and Gregory Katsas in the majority and Judge Florence Pan dissenting. As Judge Pan notes in dissent, they reframed the issues argued by the government in order to rule in its favor open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Congress may have the spending power, but Trump can usurp it if they won't protect it.
And they haven't
open.substack.com
August 14, 2025 at 11:41 AM
We pay more attention to SCOTUS but this decision, especially if they uphold it, and even though it's ostensibly on a mere abstruse statutory technicality, might be the most radically anti-constitutional ruling of the Trump era. Judicial sanction for dictatorship, for Charles I style personal rule.
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Wow -- the Journal reports that when reporters contacted Trump two days ago about this story👇, he threatened to sue if it was published, then hours later claimed that Obama and Biden "made up" the Epstein files
Exclusive | Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album. One Was From Donald Trump.
The leather-bound book was compiled by Ghislaine Maxwell. The president says the letter ‘is a fake thing.’
www.wsj.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Wow -- the Journal reports that when reporters contacted Trump two days ago about this story👇, he threatened to sue if it was published, then hours later claimed that Obama and Biden "made up" the Epstein files
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Wondering if this shirt is still available
June 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Wondering if this shirt is still available
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The president: "A RAINY DAY PERADE BRINGS GOOD LUCK"
June 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The president: "A RAINY DAY PERADE BRINGS GOOD LUCK"
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Instead of his little I'm a Special Boy Birthday Parade, maybe we could convince Trump to get a little playset like Captain Stillman had in STRIPES?
June 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Instead of his little I'm a Special Boy Birthday Parade, maybe we could convince Trump to get a little playset like Captain Stillman had in STRIPES?
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Republicans will claim Padilla — one of the kindest people I know — is a menacing man who stormed the briefing with smoke coming out of his ears.
But the video doesn't lie.
He didn’t lunge. He announced himself. He just wanted answers.
But the video doesn't lie.
He didn’t lunge. He announced himself. He just wanted answers.
June 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Republicans will claim Padilla — one of the kindest people I know — is a menacing man who stormed the briefing with smoke coming out of his ears.
But the video doesn't lie.
He didn’t lunge. He announced himself. He just wanted answers.
But the video doesn't lie.
He didn’t lunge. He announced himself. He just wanted answers.
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And he happens to be the ranking Democrat on the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety, whose questions you have previously refused to answer?
Fat chance.
Fat chance.
June 12, 2025 at 8:55 PM
And he happens to be the ranking Democrat on the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety, whose questions you have previously refused to answer?
Fat chance.
Fat chance.