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148 people at a girls’ school.
Sorry, Jensen, can't make us stop. Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 will continue on with the #RidiculeAsPraxis
cc @alexhanna.bsky.social
"Telling someone to love literature because reading is good for society is like telling someone to believe in God because religion is good for society." As an avid reader of fiction these days, I support this 💯
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. 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. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.
We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Gun violence is the number-one cause of death for children. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
At a wonderful panel on Judith Weisenfeld’s groundbreaking "Black Religion in the Madhouse"! Highly recommend. #aarsbl25
45 minutes in the exhibit hall and I'm already feeling overwhelmed with all the people! Time to find a place to break in quiet. #conferencing #aarsbl25
Enjoying an espresso and some chess at Faro Cafe near Harvard as I warm up for whole day of eugenics discussions before #AARSBL25! Wonderful little place
Hahaha amazing. Hope to see you in Boston!
Table showing the five richest men in the U.S from Bloombergs billionaire list ., all in technology. Elon Musk tops the list with a net worth of $461B and a year-to-date gain of $28.2B. Larry Ellison is second at $300B with a $107B YTD gain. Jeff Bezos has $268B (+$29.5B YTD), Larry Page $250B (+$81.9B YTD), and Sergey Brin $234B (+$75.5B YTD). Each row also lists last-day change, country (all United States), and industry (all Technology).
Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.
What a senseless killing by the US Government: www.treadbylee.com/p/we-pray-he...
A California teen sought advice from OpenAI's GPT-4o on how to end his life. The chatbot gave him explicit instructions and encouragement. His parents are suing the company and its CEO, Sam Altman, alleging “it was the predictable result of deliberate design choices."
We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death
![@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage.
New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling
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@DHSgov on X: Remember your Homeland’s Heritage. New Life in a New Land - Morgan Weistling [Painting of a family]
![Nazi propaganda: "The Nazi Party secures the national community"
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Nazi propaganda: "The Nazi Party secures the national community" [Painting of a German family]
On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.
New York Times headline: "Is it Time to Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family?" Above the headline a photo of the vampires from Sinners, asking to be let in. The photo has been modified with a downward-facing word balloon to create the effect that the vampires are speaking the headline.
Screen shot of CNN site with a Saturday breaking news alert explaining that Trump launched a strike against Iran atop a CNN story from the same day headlined “Always a peacemaker”: How Trump decided to hold off on striking Iran
really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency
I'm so sorry to hear this Heidi! I look forward to reading your excellent work wherever life takes you next!
Vatican Releases Official Portrait of the New #Pope Leo XIV
www.catholicnewsworld.com/2025/05/vati...
It sounds like one of the American cardinals blabbed to the Wall Street Journal about how the papal conclave voting went down. The details are in the second half of the article.
In a speech to the cardinals today, Pope Leo XIV confirms he chose his name with Pope Leo XIII's contribution to social teaching in mind, noting that we are in another economic transformation not unlike the industrial revolution that prompted Rerum Novarum.
press.vatican.va/content/sala...
Why Leo? "mainly because Pope Leo XIII in his historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum addressed the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution." And, you know, AI!
From his address to the Cardinals this morning, May 10.
Since you're all wondering about Pope Leo, can I interest you in my book? Here I talk a lot about how Leo XIII balanced the influx of new ideas as the first Pope after the fall of the Papal empire, and how he charted a path for a dialogue between science and faith? undpress.nd.edu/978026810609...
everyone's going to be like "oooh he wrote against americanism" which will be great until they realize that americanists were the anti-racist ones LOL
boy did it ever
I like John Allen's overview of the new pope, very helpful and thorough! cruxnow.com/papal-transi...
hahaha