Peter Wade

“Newton has nine children with three different women. He has five kids with the woman he was talking about in this conversation.”

Anderson Cooper’s ‘F*ck You’ to Bari Weiss Zeteo's media newsletter, 'Ragebait,' is back with the behind the scenes of Weiss's latest blunder at CBS News, why Stephen Colbert dgaf, and the billionaire eyeing CNN who has staffers there on edge.

Here's my first Ragebait column back with @zeteo.com!

“It really has to sting for Bari. The person she wanted for the Evening News anchor chair is choosing to leave CBS altogether because of her," a CBS source told me, adding that Cooper leaving is “a ‘fuck you’ to Bari.”

zeteo.com/p/anderson-c...

"Sometimes we have to force ourselves upon them."

unfuckin real

'Playing Checkers': Trump's Bid to Revive Coal Is Nonsensical Donald Trump ordered the Department of Defense to purchase coal energy. Experts say the move doesn't make sense, economically or otherwise.

I wrote about Trump's desperate effort to keep coal alive for @rollingstone.com

i often hesitate for the same reasons. but i get over it and bug him anyway lol

i’d ask @ernie.tedium.co about this. but i ask him about almost everything lol

Tennis star, a ‘proud’ American, speaks out: People are ‘dying in the streets’ Tennis star, a 'proud' American, speaks out: People are 'dying in the streets'

Tennis star, a ‘proud’ American, speaks out: People are ‘dying in the streets’

www.nj.com/sports/2026/...

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Even in Australia!

This isn’t a setback. This is deliberately thwarting the research and development of safe and effective medicine.

Lawmakers say some Epstein files remain redacted despite DOJ's pledge Reps. Jamie Raskin and Jared Moskowitz told reporters key documents retained redactions despite the DOJ's pledge that members of Congress could view the full files.

Rep. Jamie Raskin in reviewing the files said he saw a reference to a girl as young as 9 years old, calling it “gruesome and grim.”

by the way, for all you kids watching at home, Santa just is white

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

“the nfl is self-destructing year after year”

Knicks playing Bad Bunny in locker room after beating the Celtics — @sbondynba.bsky.social

💙🧡

“It’s increasingly looking like the confusion around ESPN Unlimited is a feature and not a bug.”

that time when Phil McConkey found a gun on the field at the Super Bowl

Before The Washington Post layoffs came down, a group of wealthy D.C. locals approached CEO Will Lewis with a proposal.

@passantino.bsky.social has the details in his Saturday @status.news column: www.status.news/p/washington...

dude gets way too much credit for this.

an argument can be made that his vp choice of Palin paved the way for Trump.

A red hat, inspired by a symbol of resistance to Nazi occupation, gains traction in Minnesota A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.

that settles it. go hawks!

facts

Bad Bunny's MAGA haters can and will cry hot tears. Too bad for them. They already lost.

Me in @nytopinion.nytimes.com ...

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

“You know who isn’t in the Epstein files? Barack Obama.”

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

MLB players strike deal to be turned into AI characters Major League Baseball players have agreed to let a tech company create AI characters of themselves that can chat and interact with fans.

😕

dammit