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Ann B.
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Law nerd. Lapsed Slavist. Waiting for the end of the world.
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60 Minutes, dead at 57. The murder weapon was Bari Weiss.
December 22, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Censoring a story about the outsourced regime gulag is not consistent with freedom of speech. But it is consistent with the belief that “free speech” is when conservatives can say what they want and when you can say what they want.
December 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Bari Weiss would have asked Eichmann to sit for a friendly interview before allowing an expose on the Holocaust to air.
And here’s a free link to the NYT piece on the 60 Minutes disaster.

Bari Weiss thinks CBS reporters can’t get Stephen Miller to talk to them because they don’t have his phone number.

And she doesn’t know how to use a dictionary.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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I have never, once in my career, heard of a news org responding to a decline-to-comment with, “Well, we’ll hold it until you do.”

The reason is obvious — it gives the subject of your story a pocket veto.
December 22, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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I wrote this before the 60 minutes nightmare. It even hurts more now.
December 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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i know one view is that "they don't intend to lose power" but i honestly think this gives them way too much credit.
December 22, 2025 at 3:52 AM
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it really is something that no one affiliated or allied with trump seems to have any sense of how to use power with subtlety and finesse.
December 22, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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Shout out to all the fools who fell for the free speech grift. You helped this along.
December 22, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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the idea that weiss had journalistic concerns is belied by the fact that she's not a journalist
December 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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a big part of it is that few of them have ever had much real power.
it really is something that no one affiliated or allied with trump seems to have any sense of how to use power with subtlety and finesse.
December 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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I mean...
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 4:25 AM
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Weiss objecting to the word “migrant” so hard that she spiked the piece is a perfect example about how “anti-woke” “free speechism“ ends up being reactionary censorship

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Two days before the show was to air, Weiss suggested revamping it, including adding interviews of Stephen Miller, whose personal contact information she has (of course). Also objected to calling migrants migrants.
December 22, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Spiking a news story the day before publication to protect an authoritarian regime is like stuffing ballot boxes after the polls close to rig an election. It's not how the pros do it; if you waited that long, you're already in trouble; and you're not fooling anyone.
December 22, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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Trump and Stephen Miller kidnapped innocent people of color and just sent them to die in a foreign prison.

Oh American taxpayer dollars - 6 million of them - went to pay Bukele of El Salvador for this dirty work.
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
December 22, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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These people are gutter trash.
JD Vance: "They are not sending their best. Omar Fateh was Ilehan [sic] Omar's candidate for mayor of Mogadishu-- I mean Minneapolis. Little Freudian slip there."
December 22, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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I appreciate folks following the breadcrumb trail and not trying to jump to conclusions, but I’m not bound by those rules and I think “a media toady nuking a story about American concentration camps” is pretty self-explanatory
December 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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If you needed more evidence that Bari Weiss isn't the sharpest crayon in the box, the fact that she (a) personally spiked the story (b) in a way that left her fingerprints all over the decision (c) at the last possible minute, thus guaranteeing maximal exposure and blowback.
December 22, 2025 at 4:35 AM
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So very tired, we, the Jews of the world, are
The faction of the GOP that pretends to like Jews to send them to hell is at war with the faction that wants to skip the "pretends to like" part.
FoxNews: Deepening MAGA rift comes to a head at TPUSA's AmericaFest 2025
www.foxnews.com/media/rift-m...
December 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Anyway Willa Cather is NOT in the Epstein files and anyone in the Epstein class should never be allowed to even speak the name of the Pulitzer-winning national queer treasure of the Great Plains
December 21, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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The person charged with enforcing the laws is an open lawbreaker, assisted by a team of open lawbreakers, backed by a Congressional majority indifferent to lawbreaking, supported by a Supreme Court that privileges them to break the law.

It has no legitimacy whatsoever.
The person charged with enforcing the laws is himself a law breaker. In such a state, do laws even have any legitimacy?
December 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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Jamelle Bouie: “The embrace of the unitary executive theory by both the president and the court has given us the worst of all worlds: an ultrapowerful presidency without an actual president at the helm.”
Opinion | The White House Is a Lost Cause
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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You're assuming he's alive
Usually people who are still alive don't add their own name to a MEMORIAL.
December 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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if we didn't want to speak Spanish we shouldn't have stolen so much land from Mexico
the reality is Spanish is our de facto second language and white people need to sack up and face reality
Cannot believe this version of the Republican Party won a record number of Latino/Hispanic voters, this country is so cooked lol
December 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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I can't believe how stupid everything is now. and how everyone is just letting it all happen
December 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM