New Orleans Wiz
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Only connections with other people matter. They can kidnap our neighbors and friends you can keep them out of the game but you can't take them from our hearts. The best way to fight back is to reach out and invite in. he/him.
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The instrument that one would use to measure this level of failure is called a Bariometer
Bari Weiss is innovating entire new dimensions of failure. She's failing in ways hitherto unconceived of. A pioneer of failology. A faileontologist. Whole career is a Fail Mary. She's beyond the fail. The Daily Fail. She's on the quest for the Holy Fail. Making tomato and Fail Salad.
December 23, 2025 at 12:42 AM
The instrument that one would use to measure this level of failure is called a Bariometer
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My segment on CNBC today
Gottlieb: ‘If We Go to the Danish Model and We Substantially Reduce Vaccination … We’re Going to Have to Build New Pediatric Hospitals’
grabien.com/story?id=562...
Gottlieb: ‘If We Go to the Danish Model and We Substantially Reduce Vaccination … We’re Going to Have to Build New Pediatric Hospitals’
grabien.com/story?id=562...
Gottlieb: ‘If We Go to the Danish Model and We Substantially Reduce Vaccination … We’re Going to Have to Build New Pediatric Hospitals’
‘These aren’t benign diseases’
grabien.com
December 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
My segment on CNBC today
Gottlieb: ‘If We Go to the Danish Model and We Substantially Reduce Vaccination … We’re Going to Have to Build New Pediatric Hospitals’
grabien.com/story?id=562...
Gottlieb: ‘If We Go to the Danish Model and We Substantially Reduce Vaccination … We’re Going to Have to Build New Pediatric Hospitals’
grabien.com/story?id=562...
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i think this is exactly right. she was hired to be a regime censor but that requires a bit of real skill and finesse to pull of successfully and she has neither.
Weiss is simply not talented enough to pull this off.
December 23, 2025 at 2:24 AM
i think this is exactly right. she was hired to be a regime censor but that requires a bit of real skill and finesse to pull of successfully and she has neither.
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rereading Weiss' memo after watching the CECOT segment and her notes are such an infuriating mixture of death-by-a-thousand-cuts quibbles—including the need to inform the audience what the complement of 48.8 percent is—and transparent bad-faith obstructionism
December 23, 2025 at 1:57 AM
rereading Weiss' memo after watching the CECOT segment and her notes are such an infuriating mixture of death-by-a-thousand-cuts quibbles—including the need to inform the audience what the complement of 48.8 percent is—and transparent bad-faith obstructionism
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A reminder that Donald Trump and Larry Ellison don't really care if Barry Weiss falls down on her face and looks like a clown. If she resigns, they'll replace her with another clown. Then another, then another. But that's still a good outcome for them. They just want CBS News defanged.
Wash Post, CBS News, next CNN?, etc are not money makers. The owners give the Trumpists what they want and get favorable treatment for their other businesses in exchange. Owners make money that way. The regime wants quiescence. No one in this exchange cares if the outlets have audience or profits.
December 23, 2025 at 1:26 AM
A reminder that Donald Trump and Larry Ellison don't really care if Barry Weiss falls down on her face and looks like a clown. If she resigns, they'll replace her with another clown. Then another, then another. But that's still a good outcome for them. They just want CBS News defanged.
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Seems worth noting at this point that Weiss's internal critics at the Times were correct and her many apologists among elite pundits were wrong
December 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Seems worth noting at this point that Weiss's internal critics at the Times were correct and her many apologists among elite pundits were wrong
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Yeah, and I mean, I don’t know many other countries where people would happily go on the record saying that they voted for this president because they felt like if he won, they would “be able to say the word ‘r*tard’ in public again”
The very first section of the Canadian Charter states all other rights therein are
"-subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society."
So even the absolutes aren't 'absolute'.
"-subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society."
So even the absolutes aren't 'absolute'.
December 23, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Yeah, and I mean, I don’t know many other countries where people would happily go on the record saying that they voted for this president because they felt like if he won, they would “be able to say the word ‘r*tard’ in public again”
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Some folks seem to think that criticizing Democratic politicians is off-limits because the GOP is "worse." I expect nothing from the GOP; they are obviously a part of racists and Nazis. I DO expect something from the political party purporting to represent the "resistance."
December 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Some folks seem to think that criticizing Democratic politicians is off-limits because the GOP is "worse." I expect nothing from the GOP; they are obviously a part of racists and Nazis. I DO expect something from the political party purporting to represent the "resistance."
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You know ableist language is hurtful because you use it to hurt. It packs powerful violence, & that violence is what society says disabled people deserve.
December 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
You know ableist language is hurtful because you use it to hurt. It packs powerful violence, & that violence is what society says disabled people deserve.
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bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
December 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
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It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
It used to be that the United States would use Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty to transmit truth across the borders of repressive regimes.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
Now the work of American reporters, having been censored, is being smuggled across the border to reach Americans.
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This to me is the biggest issue. These men spoke at grave risks to their own safety about being beaten, raped, and tortured at the order of the President of the United States. All of Weiss's odes to free speech and "dangerous ideas" is and has always been horseshit
December 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This to me is the biggest issue. These men spoke at grave risks to their own safety about being beaten, raped, and tortured at the order of the President of the United States. All of Weiss's odes to free speech and "dangerous ideas" is and has always been horseshit
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The thing where Trump names everything after himself isn’t a funny little quirk but an incredibly reliable indicator that a leader is in fact a dictator. It doesn’t happen in any democratic society, no sane leader does it
December 22, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The thing where Trump names everything after himself isn’t a funny little quirk but an incredibly reliable indicator that a leader is in fact a dictator. It doesn’t happen in any democratic society, no sane leader does it
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Just to be clear, BBC, the right to protest IS part of the right to free speech. If you block protest, you’re blocking free speech.
“University threatened with legal action after protest at academic's talk” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“University threatened with legal action after protest at academic's talk” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
December 22, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Just to be clear, BBC, the right to protest IS part of the right to free speech. If you block protest, you’re blocking free speech.
“University threatened with legal action after protest at academic's talk” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“University threatened with legal action after protest at academic's talk” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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It's hard to ignore that this happened just as Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. was slipping away, with Kushner pulling out of the financing and Trump bad-mouthing CBS. Time to please the king again
Hours before 60 Minutes was set to air a story on deportees who were sent by the Trump administration to prison in El Salvador, describing “brutal and torturous conditions,” 60 Minutes announced that it has pulled the segment and will air it in the future.
December 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
It's hard to ignore that this happened just as Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. was slipping away, with Kushner pulling out of the financing and Trump bad-mouthing CBS. Time to please the king again
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"Not taking sides" about bigotry is definitely taking a side.
This is NYT headline morning after JD’s grotesque hot blast of white supremacist nativism at Turning Point’s hate-fest?!
December 22, 2025 at 4:15 PM
"Not taking sides" about bigotry is definitely taking a side.
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“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”
Perry: The return of the r-word
"These days, the r-word slur has become a staple of the American right wing, uttered with few professional or social consequences," David M. Perry writes.
www.startribune.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
“It turns out that banishing the slur from public discourse was, in fact, important. Because now it’s back and it turns out that it does matter when subtext becomes actual text, when terrible people enable open hatred and bigotry, encouraging others to emulate them, degrading us all.”
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"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.
Weiss concluded: “We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera. To me, our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else. And that is my North Star, and I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom.”
December 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.
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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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Bari Weiss accelerates her dismantling of CBS News with more whacks at 60 Minutes.
Zero minutes, or journalism on the chopping block at CBS News
Bari Weiss's CBS News makes a last-minute decision to pull 60 Minutes CECOT report. Also: The latest on the National Guard. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.
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December 22, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Bari Weiss accelerates her dismantling of CBS News with more whacks at 60 Minutes.
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Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it
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The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision.
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
December 22, 2025 at 3:10 AM
The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision.
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
"The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment."
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
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oh the CBS bosses went to dylan byers? then they are definitely lying.
December 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
oh the CBS bosses went to dylan byers? then they are definitely lying.
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Republicans decided to go home for the holidays, leaving millions of Americans staring down massive health care premium hikes.
They didn’t just clock out. They walked away from people’s lives. NOTE: These are all red or purple districts.
They didn’t just clock out. They walked away from people’s lives. NOTE: These are all red or purple districts.
December 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Republicans decided to go home for the holidays, leaving millions of Americans staring down massive health care premium hikes.
They didn’t just clock out. They walked away from people’s lives. NOTE: These are all red or purple districts.
They didn’t just clock out. They walked away from people’s lives. NOTE: These are all red or purple districts.
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the vice president is a klansman
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
the vice president is a klansman