Neil Stenhouse

I thought I’d dreamed that Eric Adams’ son competed in the Albanian version of American Idol, so I had to look it up, & it really happened.

I guess Adams isn’t satisfied w having sketchy ties to Turkey, has been working on Albania as a back-up.

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Opinion | Democrats shouldn’t bail out Trump as the shutdown drags on The best time for the opposition to take a stand, rather than settle for untrustworthy promises, is right now.

"The Trump WH is abusing power and hurting people but faces resistance from a deeply ingrained liberal and democratic US culture," says @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social. Small wins "counteract Trump’s intimidation, making him seem smaller."

Yep, shrinking Trump is the key
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If anyone works at CBS News and would like to leak to me about whats unfolding over there, my Signal is ParkerMolloy.86

Survey of 50 high-level federal legal officials (half D, half R): "All but one of the respondents rated Trump’s second term as a greater or much greater threat to the rule of law than his first"
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My New Band Is: Noticeably White Attitudes Reverse racism in the library!

Last time I went back over a Bari Weiss story, it was full of holes. (See below.) I expect that whatever she produces at CBS will also be journalistic Swiss cheese because there will be no one above her vested in checking her work. www.elizabethspiers.com/noticeably-w...

taylor, girl, you're in danger

Megyn Kelly has now made multiple denigrating posts about me across X, YouTube, her podcast so I’m sharing this. Unlike her, I don't perform dislike and disdain in public,then become my real self when the cameras are off. That's the definition of the grift she accuses me of;I find it profoundly sad.

He’s the only Republican there. He sent all the rest of them home again to avoid a vote on the Epstein files. Since Johnson has become Speaker they have probably been in recess at least 3 out of every 4 days. And they’ve done NOTHING on health care for years. bsky.app/profile/atru...

this is a key point that i'm seeing a lot of casual observers miss as they call for boycotting paramount (sure, fine) & note that weiss lacks the skill to run cbs (correct.) the project is to dismantle the news media. traditional business metrics don't really apply when the goal is destruction.

On deplorables, democracy, and coalition politics No matter how I use that Oxford comma, someone's gonna be mad

I finally weighed in on all the Ezra Klein podcasts goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/on-deplora...

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...

I wrote about Bari Weiss as the grim future of mainstream media under billionaire control: defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

The Baristocrats

Here's Karl on the NZ medical soap opera that every NZ actor has been on en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_F...

got a nice email from someone in austria asking me to rotate a Leberkässemmel, an austere meatloaf and mustard sandwich on kaiser roll i was previously unfamiliar with. i figured what the hell, let's rotate it and rotate it fast

MTG

The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences?

This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.

I'm sure in her devotion to reporting the world as it is, she already sent the article author this correction herself

Not to be a pedant but Bari Weiss was a junior editor who occasionally wrote opinion pieces in the opinion section, not a columnist.

Hoping this still applies to the 39-adjacent community lol

everyone says it for a reason: really important to lock in when it comes to fitness and health. just establishing good habits — regular exercise including strength training, eating a balanced diet — will pay huge dividends

i could write a tome about how fucking embarrassing it is for journalism that someone as morally bankrupt as bari weiss has ascended to the highest levels of money and power by tickling trump's balls but instead i'm going to keep covering the people hurt most by his terror and giving them a voice.

gonna go to my grave muttering about how this charlatan unironically cited an "Official Antifa" Twitter account in the NYT bsky.app/profile/jame...

John Roberts’ Constitution: The federal government protecting people’s right to vote or giving them health care violates the sacred principle of state sovereignty but if the deranged POTUS and his bloodthirsty advisers want to use the military to invade other states for being too liberal that’s fine

Related from Pew: bsky.app/profile/pewr...

We wanted to understand Democratic Socialists of America. So we talked to two old guys who voted for Trump. (Yes, this is literally the article.)

This, to me, is so telling. When proven wrong, Bari Weiss invites her critic on a podcast. The rotten fruit of the "debate" tree, the fetishization of debate as a conversation in which one "wins" or "loses," "owns" or is "owned." A side-effect of capitalism's anti-intellectual higher ed arms race.

Bar chart of polling data from Data For Progress. Title: Voters Support the Block the Bombs Act. Description: Some members of Congress have proposed the Block the Bombs Act, which would prohibit the United States from selling large bombs and heavy artillery shells to Israel. Do you support or oppose this legislation? All likely voters — Support: 55%, Oppose: 35% Democrat — Support: 67%, Oppose: 23% Independent / Third party — Support: 57%, Oppose: 33% Republican — Support: 41%, Oppose: 49% September 26–28, 2025 survey of 1,231 U.S. likely voters.

NEW: A majority of voters (55%) support the Block the Bombs Act, which would prohibit the U.S. from selling large bombs and heavy artillery shells to Israel.

New CBS head Bari Weiss' devotion to reporting on "the world as it actually is" is so great that when confronted with multiple large factual errors in one of her site's articles, she... did nothing to change or correct the article radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-retcon...