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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 14h

^ Art is based on Morley Safer’s historic report for CBS News from Cam Ne, Vietnam, on August 5, 1965. Safer’s report, which included footage of US Marines using Zippo lighters to torch villagers’ homes, helped change the way the war was covered in the US:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqAo...

Aug. 5, 1965 | CBS Airs Morley Safer Report From Vietnam

YouTube video by Real Time 1960s

www.youtube.com

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 14h

Bari Weiss, CBS News, 1965

- New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
jewishcurrents.org/bari-weiss-c...

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 15h

!!! Small world (of upward-failing genocide boosters)

Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15h

The Free Press reporter who wrote the piece about how Gazan kids aren’t actually starving that badly because some of them had preexisting conditions was hired directly from Matt Yglesias, fwiw

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 15h

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 15h

Ahh memories! Good piece!!

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 15h

I wrote about Weiss' hypocrisy when it came to @elivalley.bsky.social back in 2019. I think it really says a lot about how little integrity she has. www.mediamatters.org/new-york-tim...

Not all cases of campus censorship are created equal, apparently.
With so much going on right now in the world, you would think that there'd be less focus on a handful of college students at one campus or another protesting a speaker.
At very least, you might expect that instances of conservatives shutting down progressive speakers would be discussed with the same regularity as those about liberals.
Instead, readers are treated to a full-on case of free speech hypocrisy.
One example of this involves progressive Jewish political cartoonist Eli Valley's recent trip to Stanford University.
Days before his scheduled appearance, the Stanford College Republicans posted flyers around campus containing some of Valley's work alongside clippings from Der Stürmer, a Nazi-era German newspaper known for publishing vicious anti-Semitic propaganda. The group acknowledged that it did this in retaliation because posters for one of their events were covered up by posters of the group sponsoring Valley's appearance.
The groups bringing Valley to campus, Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace, took some of the blame for the backlash. In an op-ed for The Stanford Daily, the groups apologized for including Valley's work, which is meant to be a grotesque and provocative political criticism, without the proper context. In response, The Stanford Daily published an opposing op-ed comparing Valley's work to the propaganda of Joseph Goebbels, writing, "To apologize for the flyers but insist on continuing with the event is equal parts absurd and appalling."

This seemed like precisely the kind of campus controversy that would grab the attention of Weiss, Stephens, and the rest of conservative media: Here was a student group trying to intimidate a speaker out of appearing on campus as scheduled. On the principles of free speech and academic freedom, taking a stand for Valley seemed to be the obvious call. Instead, Weiss praised the article calling for Valley's cancellation on Twitter, thanking its author.
"Bari Weiss's attempt to get me de-platformed at Stanford, and her smear that my celebration of non-Zionist Jewish culture, politics, and art is tantamount to Nazism, should put an end to the myth that she is interested in a free exchange of ideas," Valley said in a Twitter direct message.
"She is interested [in] silencing the Left and in mainstreaming far-right ideology."
Valley's view of Weiss is in line with her own history of activism and protest against pro-Palestinian Columbia University professors during her time at the school. Far from a proponent of across-the-board freedom of expression, she and the Times' other columnists have been extremely selective about which stories get heard.
The idea that no-platforming and other efforts to control campus speech are tactics carried out primarily by students on the left is almost undoubtedly the result of outlets like the Times' opinion section giving such incidents excessive amounts of coverage -- while essentially ignoring the many examples of conservatives trying to shut out speech they don't like. You're unlikely to read Bret Stephens' take on the efforts of conservative students to use the court system to cancel a panel discussion about Palestinian rights at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. David Brooks isn't likely to weigh

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 15h

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
https://x.com/mattyglesias/status/1975375120123478491
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna re-up what I reported Friday about the mood in the CBS newsroom:

“It's just like anybody that you think isn't qualified for the job that comes in, there's going to be trepidation... Whether it's Bari Weiss or, you know, Michael Scott from The Office.”

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

CBS News staffers are ‘literally freaking out’ about Bari Weiss taking over newsroom

EXCLUSIVE: ‘People are using words like depressing and doomsday – feels like some sort of doomsday,’ one source told The Independent about the mood inside CBS News right now.

www.the-independent.com

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jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

mencius moldbug is thinking of fleeing the country because he thinks the trump administration's chaotic half-assing of dismantling liberal democracy is going to bite them all in the ass

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 2d

All right time for a walk. Gonna be annoying the next couple days as I try to relocate 3.6K of my closest friends on here. Boosts during the Manu Interregnum are welcome. Down with fascism, down with capitalism, fuck ICE, free Palestine 🇵🇸 and winter is coming

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 2d

The whole empty, centrist Dem scam is collapsing in real time.

This is a leg sweep, followed by a quick boxing of Schatz’s ears. These hacks need to go away. They are killing us in so many ways.

An exchange from Twitter where Brian Schatz is bemoaning ICE and Adam Johnson points out Schatz voted to double their budget just last year.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2d

twitter is owned by the largest individual donor of the 2024 cycle who gave about $300 million to Republican candidates, and people's families ARE being rounded up. none of his objections to these things he's imagining are on principle. they just believe they should be the ones doing it.

👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 2d

it’s funny he thinks he’s that relevant

Cernovich & @Cernovich
X.com
In an alternative timeline, Kamala Harris is in office, by now over 5 million gang members are in the country, Elon is in prison, Trump is dead, X is controlled by the DNC, I'm dead or in a gulag, your family is being rounded up, about to be murdered. We were that close.
5:18 PM • 10/3/25

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Kristina Cooke @kristinacooke.bsky.social · 3d

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Ted Hesson @tedhesson.bsky.social · 3d

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies, w/ @reneehickman.bsky.social @kristinacooke.bsky.social www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US Border Patrol raid sweeps in citizens, families as Chicago crackdown intensifies

U.S. Border Patrol agents deployed to Chicago led a late-night raid on an apartment building this week, rappelling from helicopters onto rooftops and breaking down doors in an operation authorities said targeted gang members but which swept up U.S. citizens and families.

www.reuters.com

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 4d

Anyway here The New Yorker was careful to give him the Remnick treatment rather than the Chotiner treatment. Still Klein found a chance to fawn over Bari Weiss and the "A.I. actresses are better because they're virgins" guy:
archive.ph/e7D51

I think Bari, though, is an insane talent spotter. If you look at what she’s built at The Free Press, she’s very, very good at finding people, at pulling them in, at networking with them. She’s sort of an impresario. Bringing in Tyler Cowen to be a columnist was a very good idea for them.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 4d

The reason every elite institution in the country is propping up pampered millionaire Ezra Klein is that his overarching response to the country’s plunge into tyranny is “Don’t fight the fascists, become a little more like them.”

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 4d

Let us in. Hold ICE accountable. Tear down the fence.

This is what we are demanding from the Broadview ICE facility, and nothing less.

Our leaders can decide whether they stand with the people or with ICE. There is no middle ground.

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 5d

CBS News will now be a megaphone for the country's most vicious crusader against free speech, and the most relentless propagandist of far-right disinformation.

Cancel Paramount Plus, call every CBS advertiser until their only remaining ads are for MyPillow and Daily Stormer.

Media

exclusive
Bari Weiss to lead CBS News as part of major Paramount Skydance shakeup: sources
By Alexandra Steigrad
Published Oct. 2, 2025, 3:24 p.m. ET

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5d

Paramount is about to pay $150 million for this

New article from The Free Press

My Favorite Actress Is Not Human

“Not everyone is happy about this gorgeous innovation,” writes Tyler Cowen.

Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI.
By Tyler Cowen
10.02.25

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 6d

Happy Hanukkah!

NY Assembly GOP tweet a couple hours ago (since deleted):

"As Yom Kippur begins, we wish our colleagues
and others observing this sacred day a time
filled with reflection, healing and renewal. G'Mar
Chatimah Tovah."

- With clip art of a Hanukkah menorah plus apples and honey for the traditional fast day

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 6d

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 6d

The ADL failed to satiate its Nazi allies
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Reuters @reuters.com · 6d

FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League reut.rs/48715Qp

FBI cuts ties with Anti-Defamation League

The FBI has cut ties with advocacy group Anti-Defamation League, Kash Patel, the bureau's director, said on Wednesday.

reut.rs

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 7d

Call the ADL that? He called it a hate group; I don't know if he used the term "terrorists"

Elon Musk

@elonmusk
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@iliketeslas
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@iamyesyouareno
Absolutely.

The
@ADL
has become a far left hate propaganda machine.
Elon Musk

@elonmusk
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Replying to
@RepLuna
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@ADL
Absolutely
Elon Musk

@elonmusk
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@JackPosobiec
ADL sells hate
Elon Musk

@elonmusk
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Replying to
@RepLuna
and
@ADL
ADL sells hate
Elon Musk

@elonmusk
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Replying to
@iamyesyouareno
The ADL hates Christians, therefore it is is a hate group
Elon Musk

@elonmusk
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Sep 28
Replying to
@PerryALPHA
The ADL needs to change this now

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 7d

ADL *AGAIN* bends over backwards for Nazis, erasing a resource and database to appease antisemitic scum:

ADL deletes Glossary of Extremism under pressure from conservatives over Charlie Kirk entry

Under pressure from Elon Musk, Donald Trump Jr. and prominent right-wing activists in the wake of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the Anti-Defamation League is removing from its website the Glossary of Extremism and Hate, one of the organization’s signature anti-hate resources.

The database identifies over 1,000 terms relating to extremist ideologies and groups, and it has faced scrutiny in recent days after viral social media posts revealed that the Glossary of Extremism included an entry about the slain Turning Point USA founder and his organization.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 8d

Some people are framing this whole Cornell cancellation as a ‘MAGA’/right wing thing, how quickly and conveniently they have forgotten the many Democrats and journalists and pundits who wanted to punish, expel, fire, deport and arrest anti-genocide students and professors.

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 8d

This is the culmination of a longstanding demonization campaign against a Jewish professor—advanced almost a year ago by AIPAC Congressman Ritchie Torres, who shared a graphic produced by his friends at the fascist Canary Mission harassment group:

Torres tweet: https://x.com/RitchieTorres/status/1853615622136946909

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 8d

It is important to see this sort of straight talking, precisely because of the executive order last week that conflated criticism of the government with terrorism.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 8d

Lol at the Israeli *military surveillance guy* saying this after secretly recording the students and the professor for the purpose of ruining their lives. CHUTZPAH

Early last semester, Droubi said, students began approaching Cheyfitz with complaints that a graduate student in the “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance” class appeared to be recording them, possibly to “gather their names and comments” and intimidate them. “We believe that a student came to the course for the sole reason of surveilling and potentially harming students in the class,” Droubi said. “That ended up proving itself to be true because multiple students came forward and shared their concerns with Professor Cheyfitz.” Cheyfitz said one Palestinian student quit the class after telling him she felt upset and frightened.

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