Jay Thurber Show

"And they're wonderful people. They don't ... beat ya or anything."

Speaker Johnson continues to stall the swearing in of Rep.-elect Grijalva so as to avoid having to deal with the Epstein discharge petition. Why shouldn’t Dems make support for reopening the government contingent on adding to the funding measure a provision mandating release of the Epstein files?

Also "Christians can discriminate against queer people" is the first time I can recall a modern court sanctioning discrimination against a marginalized group of ppl.
(I'm not saying protected class because thanks to Anthony Kennedy, queer people are not a protected class constitutionally speaking.)

it's called a fleshlight because jack-o-lantern was taken

Can Bari Weiss reinvent CBS News? 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/4nDvRoY That is what Paramount Chief Executive David Ellison is betting on with a $150 million deal to acquire the Free Press, the popular news and opinion site Weiss founded in 2021 as a check on what she saw as the media’s “woke” orthodoxy. He is installing the outspoken journalist as editor in chief of CBS News and empowering her to set the storied news organization’s editorial vision. CBS News plans to launch a debate-style program that Weiss will oversee that is similar to debates the Free Press streams on topics ranging from immigration to the ethics of gene-editing embryos. Weiss will also continue as CEO and editor of the Free Press. In an interview, Weiss said she and Ellison are aligned in their desire for “news that reflects reality” and journalism that “doesn’t seek to demonize, but seeks to understand.”

Can Bari Weiss reinvent CBS News?
Can John Wayne Gacy reinvent party clowns?
Can the Imperial Japanese Air Force reinvent Pearl Harbor?
Can William Tecumseh Sherman reinvent Georgia?

We'll say it too: Fuck authoritarianism

a netflix ad shows a woman touching her face while another woman says why do i even care ALT: a netflix ad shows a woman touching her face while another woman says why do i even care

Am I the only one who doesn't want to use AI to generate content?

If I can't be bothered to make the content, why should other people be bothered to read it or listen to it?

(phew)

Doing some back of the napkin math on the Free Press acquisition, I've determined The Onion is worth $2 trillion.

These sailors have only one day to find Miss Turnstiles, why are they wasting their time on this shit?

AI slop continues to steal my books on Amazon. It has been going on for years now and they will never do anything to stop it.

Fuck AI and fuck you if you use it.

Look at this shit!

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era | Defector On Monday, newly appointed Paramount CEO David Ellison announced that his company had acquired the Free Press, the smirking blood-and-soil blog founded and run by former New York Times hall monitor Ba...

"Brief calls for racial justice were deemed so intolerable ... that they boomeranged into people essentially apologizing for saying George Floyd's murder was bad, and promising a newfound commitment to being more racist."

Patrick Redford in Defector:

defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

anyway, looking forward to bari weiss restoring “trust in news” where “trust in news” means pumping out propaganda for your oligarch boss

Stick your fingers in the script before "60 Minutes" airs
Use your powers on the "Evening News"
We can bitch and moan about it
But you get to choose
Anyway you look at it, we lose

Where have you gone, Mr. Murrow?
A nation turns its lonely eyes to you, woo woo woo
What's that you say, Mr. Ellison?
Edward R. is spinning in his grave
Hey hey hey
Hey hey hey

We want to start to toe our new conservative editorial line
We'd like to learn to help out Bari Weiss
Look around you, all you see are sympathetic lies
Stroll around and tell us who should pack and go

And here's to you, Mr. Ellison
MAGA loves you more than you will know
Whoa-whoa-whoa
Trump bless you please, Mr. Ellison
CBS will soon be on its knees
Hey hey hey
Hey hey hey

Jan Crawford Jan Crawford is CBS News' chief legal correspondent and contributes regularly to the "CBS Evening News," "CBS This Morning," and "Face the Nation," as well as CBS New...

Oh, Jan is buddies with the Federalist Society. I guess her job at CBS is safe.

fedsoc.org/bio/jan-craw...

"Contrarian" is a funny way to say "propagandist," NPR.

You all understand they're trying to shut you down anyway? It doesn't matter how much you kiss their asses, you Nice Polite Republicans.

As justices confront harassment, death threats and an assassination attempt, Barrett declares "I'm not afraid" In an interview with CBS News, Justice Amy Coney Barrett said of the Supreme Court's emergency orders in the Trump cases, "This isn't the final decision."

Jan Crawford of CBS News gives a Supreme Court justice a tongue-bath. I guess everyone's already trying to suck up to the new owners.

See if you can get through this without barfing.

www.cbsnews.com/news/amy-con...

We really need to retire "contrarian" as a descriptor for Weiss immediately.

The reason she is getting this job right now is because of her *non-contrarian* sensibilities.

She espouses views that the US's current power structure likes.

hand job?

"He really is an idiot."

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

'Very difficult situation': Kristi Noem whines locals not letting ICE agents use restrooms Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem complained that her agents were not being permitted to use restrooms in Chicago because of opposition from residents.During a Sunday interview on ...

Wow, it must be terrible being told that you can’t use the bathroom.

Deploying ICE to the Super Bowl doesn't have anything to do with catching illegal immigrants. No one thinks field workers are buying tickets on the 50 yard line.

It's about setting a precedent for Trump to send his goon army anywhere there's someone/thing that irritates him.

And if you think it's gonna stop with brown people, you are sadly mistaken.