David Klion

Wild that Trump is doing viral marketing for @davidklion.bsky.social's book

I don't remember the smell particularly but he's definitely sweaty and has an unsettling aura

His Works Completed, Dick Cheney, Mass Murderer of Iraqis and American Democracy, Dies As much as the Trumpists claim to disavow the War on Terror, they walk a path paved by the most powerful vice president in U.S. history.

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

From Flickr: President Donald Trump participates in a “60 Minutes” interview with Norah O’Donnell, Friday, October 31, 2025, at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Florida.(Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian) https://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/54899379764/

The White House has posted a photo that shows Bari Weiss was in the room for the 60 Minutes interview of Donald Trump.

Weiss is obscured, but she's just to the right of Norah O'Donnell.

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere Is a Biopic Without Mystique Jeremy Allen White plays the Boss as a man haunted by the past and terrified of forming meaningful human connections.

Men would rather release a crudely recorded, willfully anti-commercial album about heartland serial killers than go to therapy.

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

This sounds like something I'd say but I don't remember where I said it. A podcast?

Now in a position of power at the network, Ms. Weiss is the one concerned about leaks. She has complained that her comments at private CBS meetings keep turning up in media reports, asking if the company can identify the leakers, according to three people familiar with her remarks.

so here’s the thing, Bari, you’re running an organization full of weapons-grade gossips who hate you www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

But Ben Collins didn't run the Onion at the time

I'm part of the minority tendency which sees the bald guy as you, the person who is heartbroken, rather than as the worst person. I will die on this hill

Everything’s Coming Up Bari She sure knows her audience.

I slated about Bari

How One Battle After Another Imagines an Armed Left The rebels in Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie resemble the Weather Underground less than the right’s conspiratorial image of “antifa supersoldiers.”

Great @davidklion.bsky.social review of One Battle After Another. The Coates point changed my view of today & tomorrow when I heard it.

“not that things will necessarily be better in my lifetime, but that I will make the contribution that I am supposed to make.”

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How One Battle After Another Imagines an Armed Left The rebels in Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie resemble the Weather Underground less than the right’s conspiratorial image of “antifa supersoldiers.”

"One generation’s failure to defeat fascism becomes the next generation’s shot at redemption, and the next after that, one battle after another. It’s not much consolation, but under our present circumstances it’s the only honest one." Great piece by @davidklion.bsky.social

How One Battle After Another Imagines an Armed Left The rebels in Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie resemble the Weather Underground less than the right’s conspiratorial image of “antifa supersoldiers.”

First reading of @davidklion.bsky.social was his thoughtful review of The Outsider. Have since relished his political writing, now at Nation. Fitting to read here his 5-star review of 5-star One Battle After Another, both a delight: David does sublime movie justice.
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It's so hard to describe this amazing movie, but @davidklion.bsky.social did it. Tho my read of its "when" is that it starts in 2026 & jumps to 2042. The hopeful explosions of the French 75 is where we are; Sensei's careful underground networks is where we're going.

How One Battle After Another Imagines an Armed Left The rebels in Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie resemble the Weather Underground less than the right’s conspiratorial image of “antifa supersoldiers.”

“Most people, after all, aren’t looking to kill or be killed; most people just want to know how to build communities that can defend themselves.”

@davidklion.bsky.social on the durable resistance of OBAA’s Sensei Sergio in @newrepublic.com

How One Battle After Another Imagines an Armed Left The rebels in Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie resemble the Weather Underground less than the right’s conspiratorial image of “antifa supersoldiers.”

newrepublic.com/article/2011... Nice one, @davidklion.bsky.social

YouTube video by funtimes78 Reds - Best Scene

Obviously the Godfathers, obviously Annie Hall and her other stuff with him (with all the caveats, which I’ve written all about). But this is a personal favorite: Diane, Jack, the Elaine May dialogue, the perennial intraleft tensions perfectly captured: youtu.be/JXP5LQx4slc?...

The email from hell

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

YouTube video by Democracy Now! Bari Weiss to Head CBS News as Pro-Trump, Pro-Israel Billionaire Ellison Family Expands Media Empire

Fun to see @davidklion.bsky.social for the first time. Didn't know he went to college with Bari Weiss. Unsure which one is the other's Wario.

Paramount has bought the digital outlet @thefp.com and made its founder Bari Weiss the new editor-in-chief of CBS News.

Journalist @davidklion.bsky.social details how the "anti-woke" crusader and pro-Israel pundit rose to the top of the media industry.

Disgruntled NYT journalist to ‘anti-woke’ power grab: how far can Bari Weiss go? After leaving the New York Times, she turned her Substack into an unshakable pro-Israel voice. Now as Paramount eyes acquisition of her company, Weiss is poised to become Trump’s ally among media elit...

"The pattern is clear: if you work at a liberal institution and you want the Trump-controlled federal government to step in and discipline it, Bari Weiss is there to help."

www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...

As a news nerd I'm always fascinated by org charts, and to me even more telling than who Bari reports to is who will report to her. Troops, territory and budgets are the actual stuff that shapes news coverage. Controlling them is how you control the narrative a news org shapes.

In other words, it doesn't particularly matter whether she knows how to do the boring work of running a TV news network. Her role will be to pick her issues (like, say, Israel) and enforce ideological conformity, with everyone understanding she reports directly to the top.

The notion that Bari will be "running CBS News" is slightly misleading. What the reporting suggests is that Tom Cibrowski, a guy with normal qualifications, will be doing that. Bari will be Emperor Ellison's Vader-esque enforcer, outside the chain of command, intervening at will.

Similarly cynical, less impressive

C.I.A. Deputy Director Has Replaced Agency’s Top Legal Official With Himself

The two most cynical people I've ever known are both in the news today. One of them, you've no doubt heard, is taking over CBS News. The other is this guy: