John Chu
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John Chu
@johnchu.bsky.social
The writer who won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. Not the movie director. (He/him/his) Mastodon: @[email protected]
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as his mind goes it should be increasingly easy to convince him that he wrote CATS
January 19, 2026 at 6:42 PM
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So now the "Inside CECOT" report has aired.

But there's definitely going to be fallout at CBS.

For one thing, Alfonsi's contract is up in just a few months.

Hard to imagine she'll be staying at "60."

Lots more in my story here:
‘60 Minutes’ is finally airing the shelved ‘Inside CECOT’ segment | CNN Business
Nearly a month after CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss triggered a scandal by shelving a “60 Minutes” story about Venezuelan men deported by the US to a hellish prison in El Salvador, the story is a...
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January 19, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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With the new "tag," plus an updated intro, the finished product "has more context for viewers," a CBS source said.

But keep in mind: These were some of the critiques of the piece that Weiss leveled back in December. She could say the same things now.
January 19, 2026 at 2:02 AM
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He will without any exaggeration destroy America, reduce this country to a lawless mafia state, start a civil war, start a world war, kill us all, or all at once.

And the biggest obstacle to preventing this remains not his objective strength but that OUR LEADERS WILL NOT ACKNOWLEDGE THE THREAT.
January 19, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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The only way the world can be safe in the near term if is Trump is gone from office - because he’s overthrown through some mechanism or because he’s dead. He is a deranged madmen unfit along every imaginable dimension and he is surrounded by evil criminals who exploit him for malignant purposes.
January 19, 2026 at 1:58 PM