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Who is Bari Weiss? CBS News' new editor-in-chief is a vocal critic of legacy media Provocative columnist Bari Weiss publicly quit the New York Times in 2020, then cofounded The Free Press as an alternative to legacy media. Here's what to know as she takes the helm of CBS News.

It gets worse apparently.

www.npr.org/2025/10/06/n...

YouTube video by IBW21st Martin Luther King's Last Speech: I've Been to the Mountaintop

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On repeat.

Nice, everything’s going well.

There are some bad people on the right.

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Never forget we have the Tiger Mom to thank for JD Vance.

guy complaining about woke censorship at the riyadh comedy festival

America is eating itself.

If ‘Kakistocracy’ is not word of the year I can only imagine there has been pressure from the top.

A photo of Jane Goodall, in her later days with a quote from her: "The greatest danger to our future is our apathy. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other."

RIP Jane Goodall, who has died at 91.

She was a gentle disrupter who reshaped how we understand our place in nature. Her research with chimpanzees revolutionized science, and her boundless optimism touched the world.

buff.ly/5Hwx3Z7 🌎🩺

photo of paulina borsook

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).

But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Head goon.

Director of the goon squad.

Trump is lying whenever his lips are moving.

New Adventures is underrated. It’s one of my favorites as well.

What are your first and second favorite albums?

Debate is for idiots, but dialogue can be very worthwhile.

This is fascism apparently.

To be alive is special.

Taking a Tylenol this evening, for freedom.

America is young, give us another couple hundred years.

The ones who’ve really been radicalized are the boomers who’ve been watching Fox News for the past 25 years.

And Obama got shit for his tan suit?

Wow the MAGA/Trump cult is bad.

After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

Is there a corporation that we shouldn’t boycott? No, but also we can scarcely live without them so.

Charlie Kirk was unconscionably murdered by someone to the *right* of him, just think about that.

From Yeats, The Second Coming:

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."

Seems pertinent.

Got this in the mail yesterday. Alas rather timely.

Good time to read Montaigne.