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This WB shit is just so depressing. RIP CBS and CBS News. Hopefully not RIP my husbands job😀😬

27.02.2026 00:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Across the street from my daughters nursery school, this price is nuts but there def will be buyers!

26.02.2026 19:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Great point. One thing I'd add: in America, we now have an entire media ecosystem devoted to making billionaires feel like they're the oppressed heroes of an Ayn Rand novel.

26.02.2026 13:49 πŸ‘ 382 πŸ” 127 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 2

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

13.02.2026 04:48 πŸ‘ 20082 πŸ” 3855 πŸ’¬ 295 πŸ“Œ 134

A thing that annoys me about the Axios newsletter is that the tone is consistently β€œI am one of the top experts on this thing I learned about five minutes ago.” Also that they have 280 sources in the White House but their only source on the left is Rep. Capitulate Middle (D).

16.02.2026 13:13 πŸ‘ 3806 πŸ” 438 πŸ’¬ 95 πŸ“Œ 35
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Need a mood boost?

Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl

06.02.2026 05:09 πŸ‘ 1280 πŸ” 429 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 70

I sometimes wonder what the world would look like if a generation of tech, science, and business reporters hadn't decided that the press release was the news

08.02.2026 01:23 πŸ‘ 232 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot.

I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

05.02.2026 17:38 πŸ‘ 9564 πŸ” 3241 πŸ’¬ 202 πŸ“Œ 227

Ur an amazing reporter and this stinks, im so so sorry

04.02.2026 19:41 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

would try again in a heartbeat if folks hit me up

04.02.2026 15:57 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

04.02.2026 14:24 πŸ‘ 19464 πŸ” 5624 πŸ’¬ 416 πŸ“Œ 288

the fact that wapo is closing every single part of the newspaper that attracts readers in order to focus on vertical short form video and opinion columns makes it very clear that the bezos takeover isn't about business. it's not even about propaganda. it's about showing off his power and clout

04.02.2026 14:16 πŸ‘ 1161 πŸ” 202 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 5

there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content

30.01.2026 13:54 πŸ‘ 6807 πŸ” 1832 πŸ’¬ 86 πŸ“Œ 94
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After rocky start, Bari Weiss to cut staff, add commentators at CBS News CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss came in with a mandate to reshape coverage. She is set to announce plans for newsroom cuts and the hiring of many new commentators.

The Bari Weiss plan is for CBS News to employ fewer reporters charged with finding things out and more (right-skewing) commentators charged with telling them what to think. Same playbook Wash Post is using. www.npr.org/2026/01/27/n...

27.01.2026 13:38 πŸ‘ 1235 πŸ” 422 πŸ’¬ 101 πŸ“Œ 79

Everything happening at CBS makes me so sad. I loved working there, and am thinking of all my friends still in the BC today.

27.01.2026 18:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Shes been so explicitly awful the past few months-like how do these people live w themselves

25.01.2026 22:45 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

these people never had any intention of battling a tyrannical government, they wanted to be able to accuse minorities at the walmart of shoplifting and then execute them for it

24.01.2026 19:08 πŸ‘ 1388 πŸ” 320 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3
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Scott Olson on Instagram: "Border patrol agents smash out a man’s car window before taking him into custody for failing to present citizenship documentation while at a gas station in St. Paul, MN. #b... 8,138 likes, 402 comments - olsongetty on January 11, 2026: "Border patrol agents smash out a man’s car window before taking him into custody for failing to present citizenship documentation while at ...

I think more of you should be getting your news from photographers. Here’s a thread. Most aren’t here. Sorry, you’ll have to branch out.

Scott Olson, Getty.

24.01.2026 14:19 πŸ‘ 1171 πŸ” 390 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 16

every single goddam crisis happening right now is self imposed

19.01.2026 17:48 πŸ‘ 5489 πŸ” 803 πŸ’¬ 80 πŸ“Œ 51

Just purely in terms of phrasing, β€œit was reportable because of the reporting and the reporters” is an embarrassingly inept explanation, like something Ron Burgundy would yell.

16.01.2026 11:48 πŸ‘ 166 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 4

If you're constantly rewarded for being terrible at your job, you convince yourself that you're not terrible because if you were terrible, why would you keep moving up, the problem here is that some people are terrible in a way that's convenient to those in power, and their ego cannot admit that

13.01.2026 17:18 πŸ‘ 614 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜We Need to Be the News’: Inside Bari Weiss’s Bumpy Revamp at CBS

I cannot emphasize how much β€œbe the news” is the opposite of what I was taught about how to be a good journalist and strikes me as an excellent way to churn out elite solipsism that has nothing to do with the public interest and everything to do with self promotion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...

13.01.2026 13:59 πŸ‘ 3822 πŸ” 689 πŸ’¬ 170 πŸ“Œ 79
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Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

09.01.2026 01:50 πŸ‘ 15484 πŸ” 3654 πŸ’¬ 234 πŸ“Œ 735

Its so good, started in Westport CT!

07.01.2026 14:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Morherhood is so wild, the things ur body does is so weird, no one ever tells you about any of it either!

06.01.2026 02:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A CBS News staffer told me this after Tony Dokoupil kicked off his CBS Evening News tenure tonight with a lengthy Pete Hegseth interview:

"If this is what Bari and Tony’s CBS Evening News is going to look like, then the we may as well just call ourselves Trump Administration State TV. Pathetic."

04.01.2026 01:52 πŸ‘ 6804 πŸ” 1762 πŸ’¬ 196 πŸ“Œ 121

To be fair you have to give Bari Weiss credit for unearthing obscure local characters like a mayor, a Senator, and a Governor.

03.01.2026 01:49 πŸ‘ 89 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

I see this and then i hear 🎢 Dole’s fresh vegetables, it’s good for you! 🎡

02.01.2026 02:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This happened to me during BakersDozen! Was so grateful. I had faith it would get back to u!

01.01.2026 20:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I love Treys jacket so much

01.01.2026 03:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0