Ros Johnson
@rosjohnsonlicsw.bsky.social
Recently retired therapist. Proud fighter for democracy and human rights. Author of novel Minding Therapy (and blog Minding Therapy and screenplay Minding Therapy)(overkill?) https://mindingtherapy.com
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thinking for no reason at all about my very first job, which was at a censored newspaper in Myanmar and seemed very distant from my life and my country
CBS News postponed a "60 Minutes" segment Sunday because it lacked a Trump admin interview, per an email we obtained from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who said the decision by EIC Bari Weiss gave the White House a "kill switch." with @liamjscott.bsky.social
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‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News pulled a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about a prison in El Salvador one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
thinking for no reason at all about my very first job, which was at a censored newspaper in Myanmar and seemed very distant from my life and my country
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
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Don’t forget. Biden’s DoJ was investigating uncharged third parties in the Epstein files up until the last minute. Trump shut down the investigation, sent the files to DC, & fired the prosecutors. They went through them, redacted Trump’s name, then elected not to release them and closed the matter.
December 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Don’t forget. Biden’s DoJ was investigating uncharged third parties in the Epstein files up until the last minute. Trump shut down the investigation, sent the files to DC, & fired the prosecutors. They went through them, redacted Trump’s name, then elected not to release them and closed the matter.
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In an internal memo, seen by CNN, Sharyn Alfonsi predicted that "the public will correctly identify this" as corporate censorship. WaPo has more from Alfonsi here >>>
‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News pulled a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about a prison in El Salvador one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:13 AM
In an internal memo, seen by CNN, Sharyn Alfonsi predicted that "the public will correctly identify this" as corporate censorship. WaPo has more from Alfonsi here >>>
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Overwhelming amount of media world chatter and concern about "60 Minutes" tonight. Why would CBS News promote the story about the Trump admin's deportations to CECOT on Friday, only to shelve it today? Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi says it is "not an editorial decision, it is a political one."
December 22, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Overwhelming amount of media world chatter and concern about "60 Minutes" tonight. Why would CBS News promote the story about the Trump admin's deportations to CECOT on Friday, only to shelve it today? Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi says it is "not an editorial decision, it is a political one."
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Seems worth noting at this point that Weiss's internal critics at the Times were correct and her many apologists among elite pundits were wrong
December 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Seems worth noting at this point that Weiss's internal critics at the Times were correct and her many apologists among elite pundits were wrong
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LOL "Bari killed this meticulous story because it was unfavorable to the Trump administration" is literally the story they're giving to their stenographer
December 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
LOL "Bari killed this meticulous story because it was unfavorable to the Trump administration" is literally the story they're giving to their stenographer
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The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision.
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
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"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision.
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
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Hold them all accountable. At least try. Put their feet to the fire. Make them afraid. Keep it in the news.
Don't be like useless Tim Kaine and offer to do nothing.
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Don't be like useless Tim Kaine and offer to do nothing.
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Two lawmakers seek to find Bondi in contempt over Epstein files
Justice Department explains deletion of documents on agency’s website, including the temporary disappearance of an image that includes a photo of Trump with bikini-clad women.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Hold them all accountable. At least try. Put their feet to the fire. Make them afraid. Keep it in the news.
Don't be like useless Tim Kaine and offer to do nothing.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Don't be like useless Tim Kaine and offer to do nothing.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Good on 60's Sharyn Alfonsi, who emailed the show's staff and correspondents to say Bari Weiss had "spiked" her story in what she says was a "political" call.
With cals like this, "We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,” Alfonsi said.
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With cals like this, "We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,” Alfonsi said.
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CBS News Pulls ‘60 Minutes’ Segment; Correspondent Calls Decision Political
The news organization said the segment about the El Salvador prison where the Trump administration sent deportees needed additional reporting.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Good on 60's Sharyn Alfonsi, who emailed the show's staff and correspondents to say Bari Weiss had "spiked" her story in what she says was a "political" call.
With cals like this, "We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,” Alfonsi said.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
With cals like this, "We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state,” Alfonsi said.
www.wsj.com/business/med...
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I’m old enough to remember when we had a free press. CBS yanks 60 Minutes segment on CECOT prison Trump sends deportees to: www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-s...
'60 Minutes' Suddenly Drops Segment on Major Trump Controversy
The show announced a programming change just before its Sunday night timeslot.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
I’m old enough to remember when we had a free press. CBS yanks 60 Minutes segment on CECOT prison Trump sends deportees to: www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-s...
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the shitstorm that’s already brewing because of Bari’s decision to spike this story is going to end up being vastly more damaging to her and to the admin than allowing the story to air would have been
she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted
she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted
December 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
the shitstorm that’s already brewing because of Bari’s decision to spike this story is going to end up being vastly more damaging to her and to the admin than allowing the story to air would have been
she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted
she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted
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CBS News now has to decide if it's a news organization or a White House propaganda instrument. If it is the former, Bari Weiss should lose her job over this decision, and CBS News staffers should go public and say she does not have their confidence. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
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December 22, 2025 at 3:13 AM
CBS News now has to decide if it's a news organization or a White House propaganda instrument. If it is the former, Bari Weiss should lose her job over this decision, and CBS News staffers should go public and say she does not have their confidence. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
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Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment.
“Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.”
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“Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.”
wapo.st/3YL4T3D
‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News pulled a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about a prison in El Salvador one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
wapo.st
December 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment.
“Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.”
wapo.st/3YL4T3D
“Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.”
wapo.st/3YL4T3D
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Bari Weiss is the Pam Bondi of journalists.
December 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Bari Weiss is the Pam Bondi of journalists.
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The Trump Epstein Cover-up Is Already Failing
The Trump Administration's Cover-up of the Epstein Scandal Cover-up is falling apart, as Deputy AG Todd Blanche offers no plausible or believable explanations for redactions and lack of transparency.
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The Trump Administration's Cover-up of the Epstein Scandal Cover-up is falling apart, as Deputy AG Todd Blanche offers no plausible or believable explanations for redactions and lack of transparency.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
The Trump Epstein Cover-up Is Already Failing
The Trump Administration's Cover-up of the Epstein Scandal Cover-up is falling apart, as Deputy AG Todd Blanche offers no plausible or believable explanations for redactions and lack of transparency.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
The Trump Administration's Cover-up of the Epstein Scandal Cover-up is falling apart, as Deputy AG Todd Blanche offers no plausible or believable explanations for redactions and lack of transparency.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
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Nobody should watch CBS until this airs. Which may be never after Trump threatened them again. He has the ownership and management he wanted who will now obviously do his bidding. Erika Kirk last week, now this. The MAGA News Network.
December 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Nobody should watch CBS until this airs. Which may be never after Trump threatened them again. He has the ownership and management he wanted who will now obviously do his bidding. Erika Kirk last week, now this. The MAGA News Network.
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On MSNOW last night I repeated more than once that unemployment is up 15 PERCENT under Trump. Yes that is correct. It went from 4.0% in Jan to 4.6%. As I joked: I even checked it with Chat GPT and Gemini! But people are hurting and what is Trump focused on? Renaming Kennedy Center and his ballroom!
December 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
On MSNOW last night I repeated more than once that unemployment is up 15 PERCENT under Trump. Yes that is correct. It went from 4.0% in Jan to 4.6%. As I joked: I even checked it with Chat GPT and Gemini! But people are hurting and what is Trump focused on? Renaming Kennedy Center and his ballroom!
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December 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Trump pardoned these criminals. Trump is soft on crime.
December 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Trump pardoned these criminals. Trump is soft on crime.
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he so wants to be the cool, funny guy, but no one has ever had less rizz. zero rizz. negative rizz. active rizz repellent.
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 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
he so wants to be the cool, funny guy, but no one has ever had less rizz. zero rizz. negative rizz. active rizz repellent.
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This lie about left wing violence being the problem is particularly tiresome, but no doubt at least half the country believes it now.
JD Vance: "To honor Charlie, we are working to end the scourge of left-wing violence in the United States"
December 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
This lie about left wing violence being the problem is particularly tiresome, but no doubt at least half the country believes it now.
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Yes because that's been such a huge problem lately.🙄
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Yes because that's been such a huge problem lately.🙄
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endorse
BRENNAN: What are you going to do to force DOJ to comply?
MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.
MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.
December 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
endorse
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Blocking Congress, refusing to seat Grijalva, delaying release of the files, not releasing all the files as required, substantial redactions, evidence tampering by further redacting Trump's name and removing released files. This is the behavior of criminals engaged in a massive cover-up.
December 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Blocking Congress, refusing to seat Grijalva, delaying release of the files, not releasing all the files as required, substantial redactions, evidence tampering by further redacting Trump's name and removing released files. This is the behavior of criminals engaged in a massive cover-up.