Jen Shorten
@ptexpat.bsky.social
Food obsessed traveler. Mountain goat. Professional data nerd. All opinions are mental.
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You do everything in your power to get every relevant voice in a story. But as one of my former colleagues told a local official who thought his silence would kill a piece: “I’d like to have you. But the story is being written with or without you.”
Reporter: We have 3 videos, 2 breathalyzers, 4 bartenders, and a minivan full of nuns attesting to how the driver was drunk and reckless when he hit the school bus.
Weiss; What did the driver say.
Reporter: He and his lawyer won’t talk. We asked them 5 times.
Weiss: I’m killing your story.
Weiss; What did the driver say.
Reporter: He and his lawyer won’t talk. We asked them 5 times.
Weiss: I’m killing your story.
December 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM
You do everything in your power to get every relevant voice in a story. But as one of my former colleagues told a local official who thought his silence would kill a piece: “I’d like to have you. But the story is being written with or without you.”
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I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
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It looks like the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT was accidentally released in Canada. It'll be really interesting to compare this to whatever version Weiss might eventually release.
December 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
It looks like the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT was accidentally released in Canada. It'll be really interesting to compare this to whatever version Weiss might eventually release.
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Re-upping the back page of the current @theonion.com print edition in light of Bari’s new explanation below
December 22, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Re-upping the back page of the current @theonion.com print edition in light of Bari’s new explanation below
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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Perhaps we should film a debate between a concentration camp guard and an abandoned toilet over whether CECOT is good. Brought to you by Bank of America.
December 21, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Perhaps we should film a debate between a concentration camp guard and an abandoned toilet over whether CECOT is good. Brought to you by Bank of America.
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Scotland's forgotten winter foods were humble and rich in folklore
www.scotsman.com/heritage-and...
www.scotsman.com/heritage-and...
Scotland's forgotten winter foods that were humble and rich in folklore
Bannocks made from pea and bean meal were staples of the midwinter diet - and came laced with folklore and tradition.
www.scotsman.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Scotland's forgotten winter foods were humble and rich in folklore
www.scotsman.com/heritage-and...
www.scotsman.com/heritage-and...
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One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.
December 21, 2025 at 7:19 AM
One day something will happen — a wedding, a graduation, a job promotion, Jake Paul getting knocked out, Andrew Tate getting knocked out the next day — and you’ll want the right outfit to celebrate. Buy that special outfit now, so you’re ready when that next unexpected moment arrives.
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*at the dramatic climax of hard-boiled dystopian sci-fi film* FAKE TITS ARE PEOPLE
“Rather than relying on an implant or a patient's own body fat to add volume to hips or augment breasts, alloClae — which can cost as much as $100,000 per procedure — uses donor fat from a cadaver as a first-of-its-kind body filler.”
Corporate types are clamoring for a new kind of plastic surgery — using dead people's fat
Corporate types are waiting weeks for — and spending big on — alloClae, which cuts out the recovery time typically associated with body enhancements.
www.businessinsider.com
December 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
*at the dramatic climax of hard-boiled dystopian sci-fi film* FAKE TITS ARE PEOPLE
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Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
December 20, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year
Peak timeline cleanse
THREAD.
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments.
I've collected his work here...
December 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Peak timeline cleanse
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Pretty much sums up America today.
December 20, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Pretty much sums up America today.
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December 19, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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I mean the ONE TIME AI can make someone with the wrong number of fingers and it STILL gets it wrong
December 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I mean the ONE TIME AI can make someone with the wrong number of fingers and it STILL gets it wrong
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Apropos of nothing: can’t stop rubber necking at Celtic. Will consume any number of podcasts on the subject (probably in an avoidance strategy about the rest of the world)
December 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Apropos of nothing: can’t stop rubber necking at Celtic. Will consume any number of podcasts on the subject (probably in an avoidance strategy about the rest of the world)
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"The United States does have the right to defend herself against Venezuela" - keir starmer, probably
December 18, 2025 at 8:35 AM
"The United States does have the right to defend herself against Venezuela" - keir starmer, probably
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The European Parliament has approved legislation to end imports of Russian gas by the end of 2027.
December 17, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The European Parliament has approved legislation to end imports of Russian gas by the end of 2027.
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The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
December 17, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
Holy. Shit.
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
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Let’s spread the rumor that Bongino is leaving the FBI because he just could not continue to cover up what he now knows about Epstein.
December 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Let’s spread the rumor that Bongino is leaving the FBI because he just could not continue to cover up what he now knows about Epstein.
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Now is a really good time to read @annaleen.bsky.social’s book Stories Are Weapons if you haven’t already.
December 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Now is a really good time to read @annaleen.bsky.social’s book Stories Are Weapons if you haven’t already.
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Michelle Obama talks to Jimmy Kimmel about Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner.
This is from tonight’s episode.
This is from tonight’s episode.
December 16, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Michelle Obama talks to Jimmy Kimmel about Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner.
This is from tonight’s episode.
This is from tonight’s episode.
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When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.
December 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.