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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 16h

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

Holy shit go off John Oliver youtu.be/gieTx_P6INQ?...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 1d

The funniest thing about defending Bari Weiss being hired to lead CBS and beating back any criticism of that as “cancel culture” is that we are about to enter an era of collusion between the government and media targeting any critique of the state not seen since McCarthyism

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

It's striking that even in the defenses of Bari Weiss's broader thing no one ever says that she or her website does good work. Even the people that admire the success she's had selling lite reactionary shit to rich old guys top out at "people do seem to like it." You could defend Jake Paul that way.

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CNN @cnn.com · 4d

That day has arrived. The paycheck workers receive today will be several hundred dollars lighter than usual, and it will be the last one they receive until a fractured Congress agrees on a spending package for the current fiscal year.
https://cnn.it/3KJ8b40

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Abigail Gardner @abigailgardner.bsky.social · 4d

Vote Yes on retention! Also, Vote! Election day is Nov 4, ballots are in the mail now!

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 5d

A rare poll of Pennsylvania's supreme court races!

Among likely voters, a new F&M poll finds... a lot of uncertainty, though "yes" to retention is ahead for all 3 Dem justices.

The yes leads the no 39/29, 39/22, and 38/25. But that's a ton of voters who say they don't know for each one.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 5d

Scientists may have discovered what’s behind long COVID-related brain fog.

The researchers believe their findings could pave the way to therapeutics treating brain fog in long COVID.

Scientists may have discovered what’s behind long COVID-related brain fog

The researchers believe their findings could pave the way to therapeutics treating brain fog in long COVID.

www.thestar.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4d

"I have trouble with the term 'liberal Zionism'"

Anti-Zionist Jewish Hollywood star Hannah Einbinder on the "settler colonialist ideology" and "apartheid" of Zionism, in the new Zeteo podcast 'Beyond Israelism with Simone Zimmerman'.

Full show: zeteo.com/p/beyond-isr...

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Abigail Gardner @abigailgardner.bsky.social · 4d

Bari Weiss's greatest contribution to journalism is reading this adage: "The job of the newspaper is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable" and convincing billionaires and tech bros they're the afflicted ones deserving of comfort.

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Abigail Gardner @abigailgardner.bsky.social · 4d

Tony Dokoupil who shamelessly attacked a morning show guest for showing empathy for Palestinians? Bari Weiss might want to make him an evening anchor? I'm sure that's a coincidence

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4d

Scoop: Bari Weiss had lunch with Norah O'Donnell this week as CBS News brass re-evaluates how to revamp the "Evening News," a top priority for them. Another name in the mix: Tony Dokoupil. And then, I'm told, there's a mystery outsider.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/bari-weiss...

The Weiss House

As Bari Weiss settles into CBS News, she’s moving fast—taking anchors to lunch, phoning potential hires, and plotting a new “Evening News," with names like Norah O'Donell and Tony Dokoupil in the mix.

www.status.news

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 7d

She’s left us no choice. It’s time for Isaac Chotiner to interview Bari Weiss.

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Abigail Gardner @abigailgardner.bsky.social · 5d

Hot take machine, not a journalist, not charismatic enough to guest host The View, hired her sister and her wife to lead her "news" outlet which produced very little news... leading CBS. Bc she figured out how to cater to tech guys and billionaires.

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 6d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5d

A really weird subplot to the Bari Weiss thing is the degree to which she was able to secure these sort of opportunities for herself even in cases like hosting the view where it makes no sense

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 6d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Abigail Gardner @abigailgardner.bsky.social · 5d

She plays to a crowd of 200 is so accurate

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

have said this before but i am very skeptical about weiss’s vaunted charisma

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 6d

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report.

CBS News' new boss once auditioned for 'The View' — and 'wasn't invited back': report

Bari Weiss, the incoming editor in chief of CBS News, once auditioned for a role on the hit daytime television show "The View," but tested so poorly with audiences that she "wasn't invited back," according to a new report. Variety reported on Tuesday that Weiss auditioned for "The View" when host Me...

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 6d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Abigail Gardner @abigailgardner.bsky.social · 7d

Literally no qualifications to hold the job "oh golly gee, a Pittsburgh girl?! I guess they got one thing right, hard har!"

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Abigail Gardner @abigailgardner.bsky.social · 7d

Oh I believe it

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Abigail Gardner @abigailgardner.bsky.social · 7d

I didn't take Spanish so I can't claim that but how FUCKING STUPID ARE YOU TO THINK WE ARE IN GOOD HANDS?

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Abigail Gardner @abigailgardner.bsky.social · 7d

To clarify, if you see a post thats like "Pittsburgh is rooting for you, Bari!" Or "Shady Side Academy is proud of its alumni, Bari Weiss!" We are not ALL rooting for her or proud of her. That includes some residents of squirrel hill! She certainly doesnt claim us, and we dont claim her.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7d

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor

Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 7d

I have been flummoxed by Bari Weiss heading up CBS news all day. It’s not jealousy. I don’t want that job. I am not qualified to do it. I just don’t understand how this is possible.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 8d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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