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"'If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient,' Ms. Alfonsi wrote."
{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
{gift link} www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:27 PM
"'If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient,' Ms. Alfonsi wrote."
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WY Sen. Barrasso is a physician who specialized in orthopedics.
He voted for Trump’s big ugly bill which set this premium price hike bill on his constituents to pave the way for billionaire tax cuts.
Then he voted against extending ACA tax credits this month.
Do no harm, Senator!
He voted for Trump’s big ugly bill which set this premium price hike bill on his constituents to pave the way for billionaire tax cuts.
Then he voted against extending ACA tax credits this month.
Do no harm, Senator!
December 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
WY Sen. Barrasso is a physician who specialized in orthopedics.
He voted for Trump’s big ugly bill which set this premium price hike bill on his constituents to pave the way for billionaire tax cuts.
Then he voted against extending ACA tax credits this month.
Do no harm, Senator!
He voted for Trump’s big ugly bill which set this premium price hike bill on his constituents to pave the way for billionaire tax cuts.
Then he voted against extending ACA tax credits this month.
Do no harm, Senator!
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JD Vance Goes Full White Nationalist At TPUSA Event
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JD Vance Goes Full White Nationalist At TPUSA Event | Crooks and Liars
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December 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
JD Vance Goes Full White Nationalist At TPUSA Event
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TODAY: Trump is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Kilmar Abrego's lawyers just got documentary evidence that Todd Blanche lied under penalty of perjury and are seeking sanctions, and the Epstein Files debacle. Free to listen and subscribe: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Blatant Cover-Up (feat. Adam Klasfeld)
Podcast Episode · The Daily Beans · 12/22/2025 · 54m
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December 22, 2025 at 6:21 PM
TODAY: Trump is dismantling the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Kilmar Abrego's lawyers just got documentary evidence that Todd Blanche lied under penalty of perjury and are seeking sanctions, and the Epstein Files debacle. Free to listen and subscribe: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
December 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
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John Brennan, the former CIA director, is trying to keep the Trump DOJ from steering its "grand conspiracy" investigation into Trump's political foes to Judge Aileen Cannon, who dismissed Trump's classified documents case. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
Ex-C.I.A. Chief Asks to Keep Justice Dept. From Steering Case to Favored Judge
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
John Brennan, the former CIA director, is trying to keep the Trump DOJ from steering its "grand conspiracy" investigation into Trump's political foes to Judge Aileen Cannon, who dismissed Trump's classified documents case. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/u...
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Bombshell NY Times report links massive donor gifts to Trump favors
Bombshell NY Times report links massive donor gifts to Trump favors
The Trump administration appears to be returning the favor to those who made major donations to groups or projects supported by President Donald Trump in the wake of his 2024 election victory, with nearly 200 top Trump donors scoring huge “benefits” over the past year, a New York Times investigation...
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December 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Bombshell NY Times report links massive donor gifts to Trump favors
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WOW. Trump's approval rating is now 36%. And I don't remember ever seeing him underwater with white people.
December 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
WOW. Trump's approval rating is now 36%. And I don't remember ever seeing him underwater with white people.
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I wrote about Bari Weiss, 60 Minutes, CBS News, and what all of this says about the state of mainstream media. www.readtpa.com/p/the-kill-s...
The Kill Switch
How Bari Weiss handed the Trump administration a veto over CBS News
www.readtpa.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I wrote about Bari Weiss, 60 Minutes, CBS News, and what all of this says about the state of mainstream media. www.readtpa.com/p/the-kill-s...
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This by @parkermolloy.com is worth reading to the end: "The entire history of adversarial journalism depends on the premise that reporters can publish true, well-sourced information even when the subjects of that information would prefer they didn’t. What Weiss has done is abandon that premise."
I wrote about Bari Weiss, 60 Minutes, CBS News, and what all of this says about the state of mainstream media. www.readtpa.com/p/the-kill-s...
The Kill Switch
How Bari Weiss handed the Trump administration a veto over CBS News
www.readtpa.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This by @parkermolloy.com is worth reading to the end: "The entire history of adversarial journalism depends on the premise that reporters can publish true, well-sourced information even when the subjects of that information would prefer they didn’t. What Weiss has done is abandon that premise."
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JUST IN: Betty Reid Soskin, the beloved former park ranger with the National Park Service, has passed away at 104.
December 21, 2025 at 9:21 PM
JUST IN: Betty Reid Soskin, the beloved former park ranger with the National Park Service, has passed away at 104.
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Re-upping the back page of the current @theonion.com print edition in light of Bari’s new explanation below
December 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Re-upping the back page of the current @theonion.com print edition in light of Bari’s new explanation below
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Burgum: "Today we're sending notifications to the 5 large offshore wind projects that are under construction that their leases will be suspended due to national security concerns ... the Dept of War has come back conclusively that these large offshore wind programs create radar interference"
December 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Burgum: "Today we're sending notifications to the 5 large offshore wind projects that are under construction that their leases will be suspended due to national security concerns ... the Dept of War has come back conclusively that these large offshore wind programs create radar interference"
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Here are six ways that Trump is weakening America’s defenses against actual no-kidding terrorists while fixating on faux threats like antifa and Venezuela. wapo.st/4qrV8U5
Opinion | Trump is losing sight of America’s real terrorist threat
ISIS and al-Qaeda thrive as Trump recklessly reallocates scarce security resources.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Here are six ways that Trump is weakening America’s defenses against actual no-kidding terrorists while fixating on faux threats like antifa and Venezuela. wapo.st/4qrV8U5
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Trump's name is redacted from files that we know previously contained it...
December 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Trump's name is redacted from files that we know previously contained it...
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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
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Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls 60 Minutes story
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
Weiss said investigation had to include comments from Trump administration
60M's Sharyn Alfonsi said multiple US agencies refused to comment - and this lets WH veto coverage
My NPR story
www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g...
CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry
CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants.
www.npr.org
December 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Imagine if just by refusing to comment, you could stop any story from running. You would literally never find out anything unflattering about anybody. It amounts to asking people for their blessing to publish your reporting about them.
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Journalism 101: If you give the principals a chance to respond, and they decline, then you've done the due diligence and can run the story. Holding until they respond would just result in principals knowing they can just run the clock out on you.
Suspect Bari Weiss knows this. Or maybe she doesn't.
Suspect Bari Weiss knows this. Or maybe she doesn't.
Bari Weiss this morning on the 60 Minutes segment: "We need to be able to get the principals on the record and on camera."
Of course, most journalists know that oftentimes people who are the subject of negative reporting don't want to speak on camera or on the record.
Of course, most journalists know that oftentimes people who are the subject of negative reporting don't want to speak on camera or on the record.
December 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Journalism 101: If you give the principals a chance to respond, and they decline, then you've done the due diligence and can run the story. Holding until they respond would just result in principals knowing they can just run the clock out on you.
Suspect Bari Weiss knows this. Or maybe she doesn't.
Suspect Bari Weiss knows this. Or maybe she doesn't.
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Expect a "revolt" among 60 Minutes staff over Bari Weiss pulling the CECOT segment at the last minute, one network insider told me.
Another CBS News reporter added that a Rubicon had been crossed with this decision, which 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi called "political" and not editorial.
Another CBS News reporter added that a Rubicon had been crossed with this decision, which 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi called "political" and not editorial.
December 22, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Expect a "revolt" among 60 Minutes staff over Bari Weiss pulling the CECOT segment at the last minute, one network insider told me.
Another CBS News reporter added that a Rubicon had been crossed with this decision, which 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi called "political" and not editorial.
Another CBS News reporter added that a Rubicon had been crossed with this decision, which 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi called "political" and not editorial.
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CNN’s @brianstelter.bsky.social reports that some CBS News employees are now threatening to quit
5. Link to my story bit.ly/3MOBzqv
BREAKING: 60 Minutes Correspondent Says Trump Story Was Spiked For Political Reasons
In an email to her colleagues, Sharyn Alfonsi said that CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss spiked a story about the Trump administration and El Salvador prisons for political reasons.
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December 22, 2025 at 6:13 AM
CNN’s @brianstelter.bsky.social reports that some CBS News employees are now threatening to quit
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🧑🌾 SPOTTED in Jackson County, Wisconsin…
December 21, 2025 at 6:44 PM
🧑🌾 SPOTTED in Jackson County, Wisconsin…
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SPC has been issuing fire weather products for 20 years. And, fire weather is severe weather.
December 22, 2025 at 6:17 AM
SPC has been issuing fire weather products for 20 years. And, fire weather is severe weather.
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By Rubio, Musk… liars, hypocrites, haters of humanity.
USAID was not dismantled by accident. It was a deliberate hit job by the Christian right, backed and financed by Heritage Foundation. Strip the language of charity away and what remains is ideology, power, and control.
‘Trojan horse moment’: anti-rights groups seize chance to fill void left by US aid cuts
Ultra-conservative Christian organisations look to reshape global health landscape as new aid agreements open door to demands restricting family planning services
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:39 AM
By Rubio, Musk… liars, hypocrites, haters of humanity.
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“A Big Phony Schmuck!” 🎶 🕺🏻 💃🏻
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December 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
“A Big Phony Schmuck!” 🎶 🕺🏻 💃🏻
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