Nigel Farage is the party leader.
Content warning: Multiple men violently assault a female protester at Reform's conference at the Birmingham NEC, to the visible delight of Nigel Farage.
— Dave Vetter (@davidrvetter.bsky.social) September 5, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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New from Gaige Davila: Since early July, ICE has arrested people daily in traffic stops throughout the Laguna Madre area of South Texas. On July 14, the agency announced that on just one day in June it had arrested 238 people in the Rio Grande Valley, an apparent record.
— Texas Observer (@texasobserver.org) August 26, 2026 at 12:00 PM
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In this episode of 'what new depth of human decency did ICE sink to today?', they're arresting car crash victims at the hospital. BTW: "neither woman had a criminal history." - not exactly 'worst of the worst' Keep reminding voters: These inhumane goons were unleashed on society by the GOP.
— strea3m.bsky.social (@strea3m.bsky.social) August 26, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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Calls to abolish our carceral state are dangerous and unrealistic? OK, let’s talk about our carceral state. ICE has a quota of 2,000 arrests a day. Over a year, that maths out to 0.2% of the entire U.S. population. www.the-reframe.com/soon-you-too...
— A.R. Moxon (@juliusgoat.bsky.social) August 26, 2026 at 5:51 AM
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I’m aware of recent and increased ICE activity in CT. I understand this can be unnerving for our community especially as kids head back to school and my office will continue to closely monitor. www.ctpublic.org/news/2026-08...
— Rosa DeLauro (@delauro.house.gov) August 26, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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2 Men Were Killed by ICE on Their Way to Work; Every Employer Now Has to Pick a Side: A movement that spent years avoiding a labor identity can’t afford that caution anymore. Neidi Dominguez, Common Dreams, Aug 07, 2026
🚨HUGE: Thanks to a newly released trove of ICE contracting records, we have our clearest view yet it into how ICE will operate massive scale deportation centers and street level arrests — including mobile detention sites. More at projectsaltbox.com
— Project Salt Box (@projectsaltbox.com) August 29, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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September 2, 2026: ICE will have a voting database.
Signs that you might be living in an authoritarian state
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social) September 4, 2026 at 6:40 AM
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A 2016 email from the Humanist Hub at Harvard University said: "Dietrich Strause's songs are a mix of timeless melody, literate lyricism, and a 'virtuosic command of imagery.' His last release Little Stones to Break the Giant's Heart was featured in No Depression, The Bluegrass Situation, CMT's The Edge, and on Starbucks' world wide playlist."
After much time wasted debating these with myself, I have come up with a ranked list of my top 100 favourite songs I am going to start sharing on here from tomorrow (one per artist or band). I hope it will be of some interest. Feel free to comment, question and\or ridicule (politely).
— Kris Vyas-Myall (@krisvm.bsky.social) August 23, 2024 at 10:12 AM
"Sound as Resistance is a Black History Month community-curated playlist uplifting Black trans and queer artists whose work reminds us that music has always been a tool for memory, movement, and possibility. These songs hold our stories. They remind us who we come from. They help us imagine what freedom can feel like." — Transgender Law Center, February 2026
"I've been obsessed with Problem Patterns since 2022. This queer feminist punk band from Belfast, Northern Ireland releases music that is searingly angry and uncompromisingly political.
Their most recent release, a demo of a song called "Bodies," came in direct response to the anti-immigrant riots in Belfast and elsewhere this past June. All proceeds from the sale of "Bodies" go directly to the anaka collective's fundraiser to support people who've been "attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast."" Charlie Jane Anders, August 25, 2026
A court filing contains a prompt injection in tiny white font, asking the court to side with them.
The court noticed:
While reviewing Docket Entry #176.00 (marked "take papers" for August 3, 2026), the Court printed recent pleadings to try to decipher the motion and see what recent pleadings may be related to it. When reviewing the pleadings, Docket Entries ##177.00 & 178.00, seemed to have extra "white space" apart from other pleadings of the plaintiff. Upon close review, the Court has identified in these pleadings, potential text that was formatted so as to be nearly invisible to a human reader while remaining fully legible to software that potentially processes the documents' text.Rob Freund on X: "Pro se plaintiff attempts prompt injection in motion for default in Connecticut superior court. Court revokes plaintiff's ability to e-file, requiring in-person filings going forward."
New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) August 17, 2026 at 10:00 AM
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this story is batshit Here is the full article, which includes all prompts, trial transcripts, the report itself. The firm hired charged more than $80,000 for the report. Also shows that AI transcripts can be discoverable and can be very revealing: www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
— Jason Koebler (@jasonkoebler.bsky.social) August 17, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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While we're here: Don't use AI or LLMs to write your parenting documents for court. There are better, non-AI apps for that.
Two passages from my reading today:
"The freakout among centrist Democrats is an expression of a deep, deep terror at the realization that regular people are starting to understand that the long-reining political paradigm does not represent them or their interest and are rapidly becoming open to alternatives. This is a very large threat to both their political power and their income. The commentators and pundits you’re no doubt seeing lose their minds have made an incredible living off peddling moderate political positions on behalf of the wealth class to anxious liberals and supposed independents. They’re hired constantly by the party and its stakeholders to do everything from give talks to strategize and make advertisements to going on corporate media to offer milquetoast opinions in order to manufacture consent. They get book deals, are invited to the wealth class’s shindigs, and are continually glandhanded into class solidarity. The Democratic Party, as a political representative and partner of the wealth class, is inextricably intertwined with these people and its purpose is their purpose.
Recently I published an article about the problem of the entrenched Democratic machine. An entrenched machine isn’t just reliant on stakeholders, it requires a superstructure that voices the party line and attempts to keep the base in check. This is why you are bombarded with “vote blue no matter who” rhetoric when it’s convenient and why it falls by the wayside when insurgent candidates emerge who better voice the desires of the base. This is why you are consistently fed article after article by corporate media about how “dangerous the Left is” while you’re also bombarded by pieces that normalize things like AI, flock cameras, anti-trans rhetoric, and the need for the party to “reach across the aisle” to fascists. When there aren’t alternatives - say, independent media or social media or insurgent candidates - you’re supposed to be convinced this is just the way things are."
— Jared Yates Sexton, Dispatches Mailbag, August 17, 2026
"We should not bother to treat the arguments seriously. We should not behave as if transphobia is the bitter fruit of benign misunderstanding.
The mainstream, obscene contempt for trans people is no mystery. Americans may be bigoted but we are not imbeciles: we know that people fear what they do not understand, and we know that that fear can be harvested and manipulated for political gain. We know these things because we experience the fear and bigotry ourselves and we see them in our friends. Transphobia has been incubated on the center-left for at least as long as I’ve been reading what it has been printing. It has been proliferated for years by that great mirror of the vast American middle, The Atlantic which has been at the forefront of this “battle” since long before Trump announced his first campaign. And it is no coincidence that that organ continues to hector that Harris lost the election because Biden was too woke. “She talked about trans people too much” When? How I wish she had! “and about protecting immigrants” Did she? Did Biden? Somehow I can’t recall “and both of them bellowed with pride repeatedly that Harris was a black woman running for the highest office in the land” Right?? If we’re going to get slashed for championing the vulnerable I wish we could at least be guilty of the courage.
The Atlantic and its fellows in the middle package anti-trans sentiment in prettier packaging than Trumpites. The center left doesn’t want to be brave, it wants to be seemly. Bigotry is less vile when it is seemly. That is how much of America likes its hates. And we have so many of them. They are what propelled the unseemly hate to high office: Trump did not swell his base, he merely failed to ignite the fury of the opposition. The fat, comfortable middle refused to turn out and vote because the fat, comfortable middle has been fed on seemly hatreds.
The middle does not express its hates the way Trump does but, well, don’t they basically agree? After all, when we press them on it, the thing they most fear from Trump seems to be his unseemly manner. They don’t like a scene, and the scene is what they will spend the next four years screeching about while trans children grow fearful."
— Celeste Marcus, CIS Or Subhuman, Liberties Journal, November 2024
Also:
I wrote this because most journalists facing this pressure can’t. The paper we count on to check authoritarianism spiked an investigation into the Democratic Party because the party’s lawyers threatened to sue. Holding authoritarians accountable starts with holding your own side accountable.
— Adam Bonica (@adambonica.bsky.social) August 17, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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No, Trump isn't popular, but that just makes him more dangerous. If an election is real and fair, he'll lose it. He has to rig the election if he wants to stay in power.
Incredible polling news for Donald Trump: his approval is still above water in 3 states (Idaho, West Virginia, Wyoming). Those states are real and almost 4.4 million people live in them He is underwater in every other state in the country, plus DC (where he is -83) www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
— Amanda Katz (@katzish.bsky.social) August 24, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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"As for the “big tent”, the Democratic Party made it clear in 2024 that they have no room for people forced to live in little tents. Like the GOP, they mock refugees and support a genocidal regime, Israel, that creates them. They supported Israel’s massacre of Palestinians, literally covered their ears when voters begged them to stop it, and refused to take voter demands to Abolish ICE seriously. Their “big tent” does not include ICE captives or the anti-ICE protesters they demonized until recently.
The “big tent” is for DNC consultant glamping. It is pay to play, and pay to prey.
This may sound harsh — but you should be harsh on pedophiles, mafiosos, and genocidaires. You should question those who excuse them. Forming a coalition with people with whom you don’t agree on every policy, but with whom you do agree on basic tenets of freedom, is healthy and productive. Forming a coalition with people who murder and rape children, or with the enablers who protect those people, is not."
— Sarah Kendzior, Midterm Madness: Your questions answered on elections, tech oligarchs, dirty journalists, and more. Aug 29, 2026
"There are many reasons why the immediate response to the threat of a radicalized MAGA movement returning to power was so inadequate. Crucial among them was the fact that the question of how to react was being discussed amidst an engineered intellectual and political climate that actively privileged a position of acquiescence. The major narratives coming out of the 2024 election all strongly suggested that the only reasonable thing to do was to accommodate the incoming MAGA regime: The 2024 election was a referendum that revealed the “will of the people”! America has undergone a major “realignment” and a “rightward shift”! If so many people vote for Trump and his movement, how could they possibly be so bad? Doesn’t MAGA actually have some good ideas? Shouldn’t we seek common ground? Besides, liberal democracy is weak, defeated – you gotta face reality!
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That is precisely the idea that animates the MAGA regime: Trump was installed by a referendum revealing the one true “will of the people.”
We must fight such assertions tooth and nail.
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I want to be very clear: I despise the idea of the noble Trump/AfD voter who cannot – must not! – be blamed for their political choices. I resent the expectation that we all reach for exculpatory explanations, no matter how implausible, to preserve their innocence, to sanitize them as “regular folks” who can do no wrong. Perhaps they didn’t really mean it! They were deceived by cunning demagogues! They are forced to vote for the extremists because of economic desperation and because arrogant liberals were being so mean! Stop it. Have a little respect for these voters. I mean this sincerely: We ought to take them seriously, grant them agency. And that means we can hold them accountable for their political choices.
However, acknowledging this is still not the same as arguing that everyone who voted for Trump is an extremist who is fully on board with what the hardcore MAGA ideologues want to do to America."
Thomas Zimmer, Warnings and Lessons from the Struggle Against Trumpism, Democracy Americana, September 5, 2026
The Guide To Anti-Trans Democrats In The 2026 Elections, By State These are the Democrats that LGBTQ+ people may wish to avoid this election cycle. Erin Reed, Sep 08, 2026
"Imagine building a firewall. The wall remains intact, but the fire behind it keeps growing. At what point do you stop admiring the strength of the wall and start asking why nobody has put out the fire?
German politics has just such a firewall or Brandmauer, designed to keep the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) away from real power since the party emerged in 2013. No matter how many votes the AfD wins, the theory goes, Germany’s democratic parties will refuse to govern with it. After the state election in Saxony-Anhalt, when the AfD, led by Ulrich Siegmund, narrowly missed winning an outright majority, the Brandmauer is still standing, yet the flames beyond it are getting bigger.
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At the same time, Germany’s institutional alertness to the threat of the far right has descended into ritual. Each AfD advance produces shock, condemnation and another firm promise that nobody will work with it. The language reassures Germans, like me, who remain inside the democratic consensus, but does little to reach those who have left it. Worse, it allows the established parties to frame protecting democracy as indistinguishable from the protection of themselves.
Germany’s democratic parties must now do something harder than blocking the AfD out of government. They need to show that pluralism can still produce decisive leadership, that economic change does not require abandoning whole regions and that German identity can mean something beyond ancestry or the colour of one’s skin. They must actively compete with the AfD and defeat its ideas—not merely try to quarantine it."
— Germany’s firewall against the AfD isn’t working As the party’s victory in Saxony-Anhalt shows, blocking the far right from coalition government is not the same as defeating it. Raza Hussain, Prospect, September 09, 2026
Equality Organizations Struggle Over How To Handle Anti-Trans Democrat Endorsements: Equality Ohio gives Amy Acton a B after calling trans women men. HRC endorses multiple Democratic candidates who have taken major anti-trans votes. EITM investigates. Erin Reed, Erin in the Morning, Sep 09, 2026
Elon Musk’s PAC Drops $100 Million On Anti-Trans Ads Targeting Dems Who Already Capitulated Anti-trans capitulations didn’t stop Musk from spending big to attack these Democrats. s. baum, Erin in the Morning, Sep 10, 2026
A few weeks ago, after a 7 year delay, the UK government quietly dropped the results of their 2019 Call for Evidence on variations in sex characteristics The results are striking but will of course seem deeply familiar to anyone working in this field. www.gov.uk/government/c...
— Mitch Travis (@profmitchtravis.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 7:08 AM
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Two years ago:
In progressive Argentina, the LGBTQ+ community says President Milei has turned back the clock, Débora Rey, AP, May 12, 2024
Yesterday, a couple minutes into "The Check-In" with Jared Yates Sexton and Danielle Moodie, Part 1, Danielle says:
"On top of the lettuce, you can't eat. On top of the jalapenos, you can't eat. The guacamole, you can't eat. The salsa, you can't eat. The peppers that you can't eat. The eggs that are recalled. They recalled 30,000 tons of of raw beef from Argentina.
Why did that happen? Oh, oops, because it didn't go through a second inspection when it came into the United States and was distributed to Texas and I forget the other state...you don't have any inspectors anymore because, when Elon Musk came in, you fired all of them because Taylor Farms can pay off Donald Trump with a million dollars. All of these other Big Food, Big Ag can pay off so that they get rid of the inspectors, they get rid of the regulations, and you, you get to sit on a toilet or potentially end up in a fucking ICU for weeks on end. Because this is what it's like to live in an underdeveloped country...to sit down and eat a bowl of lettuce, to sit down and eat a bowl of perfectly ripe tomatoes shouldn't be a fucking luxury.
But now it is, because they're not concerned with what you and I are eating in the U.S. because they have their organic farms. Their kids are getting their vaccinations from private doctors. They're getting all of the things that they need done...You and I, however, unless you have a few bucks, unless you want to roll the dice, you're pretty much fucked...The country that is known for its obesity, hypertension and diabetes, we can't now have fucking salad."
Jared talks about the ICE electric gloves and says he's been saying for a long time:
"whenever fascism comes around, you have three choices: One is to put on the armband and possibly get some spoils.
Second is to close your door and hope that it never knocks on your door and don't say anything.
And third is to fight it and risk being destroyed.
Well, guess what? That question, it's not asked in a vacuum. Eventually, we're going to reach a point where we're not going to have anything. We're not going to have any conditions that are conducive to living a life of dignity and longevity...If you suddenly have...total censorship and criminal of dissident critiques, all of a sudden that question becomes very clear, especially in this new era with digital surveillance, especially now."
"In one extreme case, a 43-year-old man died after allegedly being shocked 40 times by officers with a combination of the gloves and a Taser in a county jail in Kentucky, and the man’s widow is suing authorities."
— Erin Fogg says Free Link (@criminalerin.bsky.social) August 24, 2026 at 11:17 AM
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A couple minutes into Part 2, there's a discussion of how this results from what I call chainsaw conservatism:
Danielle: "You can't, your kids can't get vaccinations. A majority of people are now out of work. Are they connecting the dots back to the cause of this, or is the way that it's being narrated, as if this is all just an anomaly, kind of the way that they talk about wildfires and the fucking climate, it being 100 degrees, like in Europe, it's like, Oh, well, isn't that just weird? No, it's not fucking weird. Like, it's the product of what happens when you deny climate science. Like, it's not just weird that you can't have lettuce and tomatoes and jalapenos and beef. Those things are not just happening. They are the product of what happens when you dismantle agencies, fire inspectors, and have no one minding the fucking store or the health of 330 million Americans...I guess my curiosity is, like, Do people get it? Are they connecting these things or are they just thinking it's like whack-a-mole and it's just coming out of nowhere?"
Jared: "I think the answer is complicated, and I think that there are some people who do understand it. I think there are other people who intuit it, but they lack the information to articulate it, largely because they are consistently given a narrative that doesn't have anything to do with it."
It did not come from nowhere.
"Our society seems to keep surviving equality remarkably well. ... Moral panics end. Queer community doesn't." — Jessica Kellgren-Fozard
Andrea Pitzer writes today:
"At this point, we’re over eighteen months into the second Trump administration. Officials have unleashed countless crises in health, science, medicine, government services, military affairs, foreign affairs, and several other arenas. On top of it all, we’re trapped in a totally unnecessary and unbelievably dangerous war that’s following the plot of Groundhog Day.
In addition to the war, there are, to my mind, three particularly significant horror shows unfolding right now—ones that may be easier for most Americans to ignore or fail to notice than the war. The first, which I try to mention almost every week, is the ongoing death toll of the cuts to USAID. We are on track for millions of deaths to take place before the end of the first Trump administration. The second, which is also easy to miss, despite current conditions, is climate change. The third — which is the focus of this post and the one I write most about on here — is the war on immigrants and the concentration camp system that Trump and Stephen Miller have prioritized expanding exponentially while they are still able to.
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...the same tactics and dynamics that radicalized a significant minority of Americans against immigrants are now in play against trans people. We’re just witnessing an earlier stage of the demonization. A story out this week about U.S. Army Captain Kai Proce traces the Department of Defense’s systematic removal of trans people from service through shameful hearings in which the outcome has been decided by top brass before each session even begins."
War helps no one:
Added Fuel Costs Of Trump's War In Iran Hit Estimated $100 Billion For U.S. Families Higher prices for gasoline and diesel fuel have soured Americans on the war and helped drive Trump’s approval rating into the toilet. Dave Jamieson, HuffPost, Sep 8, 2026
Stoking ‘Trans Panic’?! We Have to Create Other Political Narratives: Andrea Pitzer’s video on ‘Ending Trans Panic’ (my 5-min read on Medium, Apr 2, 2026)
CBS News boss Wendy McMahon exits amid Trump pressure, Brian Stelter, CNN, May 19, 2025
Denny Carter says:
"The Trump regime announced today that it would dispatch a “truth arbiter” who will monitor all CBS coverage to ensure the network does not criticize the regime’s fascist agenda or broadcast stories that might conflict with the push to unravel democratic self governance in the United States. It’s a sickening turn in our drift toward all-out authoritarianism – I’m begging corporate leaders to read one fucking book – and it’s one born out of the right’s bad faith, like every other major accomplishment their movement has secured in its slow-motion coup." ("The Media Bias Wars Are Over," Bad Faith Times, Aug 8, 2025)
As someone said in a deleted Bluesky post: "...at some point you bend the knee so far that you are just kneeling..."
Kennedy Center Board President weighs in on CBS controversy
— I. B. Cole (@ibc.bsky.social) December 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Stephen Miller is Bari Weiss's boss? "White House official Stephen Miller on Tuesday had an extreme response to what he called a “revolt” at CBS: “Fire” everyone who objected to CBS News boss Bari Weiss yanking a “60 Minutes” segment at the last minute." (HuffPost)
Bari Weiss Is Doing Exactly What She Was Installed at CBS to Do: By pulling a “60 Minutes” segment, the new editor-in-chief is torching the network’s credibility to protect the Ellison family’s interests. Adam Johnson, December 22 2025
This is quite a read about the BW attack on 60 Minutes. I'm glad it also highlights the incredibly solid reporting in the piece, a fact that has been largely overlooked in this red hot debate about Weiss' actions. Yes, what Sharyn Alfonsi & her team did here is journalism. Damn good journalism.
— @NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) (@newsjennifer.bsky.social) December 31, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Dan D'Addario’s take on the new CBS Evening News is unflinchingly and deservedly brutal. “… a Weissian willingness to bulldoze past that which might seem too untidy for whatever hypothetical viewer he and his editor have in mind.” Good on him and Variety. variety.com/2026/tv/colu...
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner.bsky.social) January 6, 2026 at 12:06 AM
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Read more: David Letterman Wrecks 'Idiots' At CBS News Over Rightward Shift The former "Late Show" host ripped the leadership at his old network's news division. Ben Blanchet, HuffPost, Jan 10, 2026
Sources: Bari Weiss has privately been deeply frustrated by the negative reaction to her CBS tenure and has blamed subordinates for not stanching the criticism (New York Times) Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
— Mediagazer (@mediagazer.com) January 13, 2026 at 7:50 AM
Tuesday morning: New CBS boss promises “huge emphasis on scoops.” Tuesday evening: CBS Evening News anchor interviews his mom. www.yahoo.com/entertainmen...
— Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) January 28, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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"The White House threatened to take legal action against CBS following anchor Tony Dokoupil's recent interview with the president if their discussion didn't air in full.
"He said, 'If it’s not out in full, we’ll sue your ass off,'" Leavitt told Dokoupil, according to The New York Times.
Trump had also told Dokoupil he owes his job to him during the interview."
— HuffPost, Jan 26, 2026
this email offers no details about what the actual offer is and you have to opt in before you find out lol
— Joshua Erlich (@joshuaerlich.bsky.social) January 28, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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Simply incredible
— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) February 2, 2026 at 7:43 PM
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I'm not saying CBS News is now a pedophile protection racket, just that it wouldn't be doing much differently if it weren't
— Subscribe to Radio Free America (link in bio) (@kleinman.bsky.social) February 2, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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The party against cancel culture loves canceling everyone. deadline.com/2026/02/step...
— Wajahat Ali (@wajali.bsky.social) February 17, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) February 26, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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This is very bad. Handing CNN to Bari Weiss/David Ellison is very, very bad.
— Parker Molloy (@parkermolloy.com) February 26, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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@semafor.com is such a perfect example of softball brunchlord media and the feckless way it normalizes and downplays radical censorial authoritarians reading this you'd barely be aware that Carr is a free speech trampling extremist (who in his free time guts telecom and media consumer protections)
— Karl Bode (@karlbode.com) February 26, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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March 20, 2026: Layoffs at CBS!
March 20, 2026: CBS News Radio Is Shutting Down After Nearly 100 Years Of Operation, Marita Vlachou
Six months into Bari Weiss’ overhaul of CBS News, new ratings data obtained by Status shows its flagship programs are shedding viewers at an alarming rate, collapsing to historic lows and accelerating the network’s decline. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-r...
— Status (@status.news) March 24, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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David Ellison says 70% of Americans are centrist. Surveys tell a different story: Paramount Skydance CEO has repeatedly cited the statistic when laying out the approach that CBS News and potentially CNN would take, Jeremy Barr, Guardian, 6 Apr 2026
CBS News Streaming Staffers To Walk Out Tuesday
Bari Weiss Dialogue, February 17, 2021
Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report, Sarah Rumpf, Mediaite, Oct 2, 2025
CBS News Producer Warns ‘Shifting Set of Ideological Expectations’ In Bombshell Farewell Note: Alicia Hastey wrote that the network’s changes pressure “producers and reporters to self-censor.” Pocharapon Neammanee, HuffPost, Feb 12, 2026
60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley accuses Bari Weiss of ‘murdering’ show: Pelley reportedly rebuked CBS ousting show’s executive producer, executive editor and two top correspondents. Jeremy Barr in Washington, Guardian, 1 Jun 2026
oh no what a terrible and completely unforeseeable thing to happen to one of the leading intellectual lights of her generation
— Anjali Dayal (@anjalikdayal.bsky.social) May 19, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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1. This is an extremely satisfying read. 2. Pelley is going to be replaced by someone who is at least willing to attest that everything Weiss is doing is great. www.status.news/p/scott-pell...
— Matthew Gertz (@mattgertz.bsky.social) June 1, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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Trump’s War On The Free Press Reaches A Terrifying New Milestone We’re watching a journalistic institution crumble in real time — revealing the chilling cost of the president’s war on media. HuffPost Editors Jun 2, 2026
Scott Pelley fired by CBS after ‘60 Minutes’ clash with management Brian Stelter, CNN, June 2, 2026
What's happening to CBS News is what the tech oligarchs call "parallel" strategy. Buy an existing institution, gut it, and convert it into a right-wing zombie version of itself. They are doing this to media, government, education, biotech, defense tech, etc. Some call it the "Network State."
— Gil Durán (@gilduran.com) June 2, 2026 at 9:24 PM
she did warn us
— ryan cooper (@ryanlcooper.com) September 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Experience, Knowledge, and Talent Need Not Apply Trump suck-ups are poisoning America — not just inside the U.S. government Robert Reich, Jun 08, 2026
Veteran '60 Minutes' Star Has 'A Feeling' About Bari Weiss' Future — And She Won't Like It "I hope it’s going to come to an end, but I don’t have a great deal of confidence in Bari Weiss to do what she says that she’s going to do,” the "60 Minute" veteran said of the recent turmoil. Pocharapon Neammanee, HuffPost, Jun 12, 2026
Warner on CBS: I was embarrassed that the president went before our country and networks like yours carried this as news as opposed to a rehash of falsehoods. It is incumbent upon you and any responsible journalist to pushback on this.
— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) July 16, 2026 at 9:04 PM
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CBS claimed “thousands” of 9/11 families wanted Zohran Mamdani banned from the anniversary ceremony. Then a journalist demanded the evidence—and the network quietly rewrote its story. #ZohranMamdani #CBSNews #MediaAccountability
— Moments to Remember | News (@moments2remember.link) July 28, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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Shocked not shocked that Bari Weiss hired yet another right wing opinion writer with no actual news reporting experience. That's her jam. However, I am shocked that Ross is only 46. Wow.
— @NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) (@newsjennifer.bsky.social) July 28, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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While Douthat is a leading authoritarian thinker (he praised Orban for seeking to destroy higher education in Hungary), he -- like Bari Weiss -- is not a journalist.
— davidrlurie (@davidrlurie.com) July 28, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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Had Bari Weiss been hired by CBS-Paramount to secretly run a "Producers" scam and destroy all of "60 Minutes"'s value as quickly as possible it's difficult to imagine what should would've done differently.
— Ken Tremendous (@kentremendous.bsky.social) July 28, 2026 at 4:37 PM
It's fun watch Bari Weiss grasping her way to figuring out what journalism is through her hires at 60 Minutes. Is it when you ask a prominent person a question and nod? Is it when you make sure that something Benny Johnson said on Twitter makes it into a reported story despite it not being true?
— David_j_roth (@davidjroth.bsky.social) July 28, 2026 at 4:02 PM
CBS and Bari Weiss may have created their own biggest competitor. Reports say journalists fired from 60 Minutes are planning to reunite with former exec. producer Bill Owens working bring on Scott Pelley, and other former correspondents/producers. This is how you do it.
— Karly Kingsley (@karlykingsley.bsky.social) August 7, 2026 at 8:53 AM
Bari Weiss’s “60 Minutes” Hires Producer Who Downplayed Gaza Starvation, Justified Killing Journalists: The latest CBS News hire shows that the way to get ahead in journalism is to act as a tool for the powerful. Adam Johnson, The Intercept, August 4 2026
Parker Molloy, Straight Down the Middle, August 6, 2026
I'm not in the habit of suggesting people avoid watching (or reading) the news but it's impossible to trust the new 60 Minutes given everything we've seen happen at CBS over the past year. My latest: jenniferschulze.substack.com/p/dont-watch...
— @NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) (@newsjennifer.bsky.social) September 8, 2026 at 9:30 AM
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Data center to be built on public land.
An Incomplete List of Successful Anti-Data Center Legislation, Matthew Gault, 404 Media, May 25, 2026
Here's a bit of good news www.cleveland.com/news/2026/08...
— John Scalzi (@scalzi.com) August 9, 2026 at 10:18 AM
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AI’s climate problem is worse than we thought A new study reveals that AI’s climate impact extends far beyond its massive data center footprint. Emily Atkin, HEATED, Aug 12, 2026
A new London datacentre will produce as much annual CO2 emissions as 8,480 flights to New York www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
— Greg Jenner (Historian) (@gregjenner.bsky.social) August 22, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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"A new rule proposed by the Trump administration aims to kill public notification for datacenter air pollution, public health advocates warn, and allow emission permits to be issued behind closed doors." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
— Jonathan Cohn (@jonathancohn.bsky.social) August 25, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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New guidance from the EPA about “islanded” power plants — those built to serve a single facility rather than the electricity grid — shows there aren’t as many reliable safeguards against the environmental and climate impacts.
— Truthout (@truthout.org) August 28, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Stunning in scale and speed. @emilypont.bsky.social has a good report on the rush to build new fossil gas plants to power data centers in the US, and massive implications for our climate goals. @heatmap.news
— Ross Macfarlane (@rossmacfarlane.bsky.social) September 2, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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The alternate history novel To Climates Unknown by Arturo Serrano was released on November 25, the 400th anniversary of the mythical First ...
