Celeste Headlee

The House takes 2 months off & finally reports back to work & promptly spends the next week filing censure motions against each other & attending black tie dinners w/Saudis while the clock counts down for 24 million people to have their health insurance premiums spike in 42 days.

There's something kind of sick about this headline. Like they honestly can't see the value of morality in itself, they can only think about things in terms of winning the game.

Yesterday, Trump defended the Saudi Crown Prince in the Oval Office.

He said he had “nothing” to do with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi.

But I reviewed a call while serving on Trump’s NSC that I believe would be of interest to the Khashoggi family and the American people.

Release the transcript.

Short -- and crucial! -- thread.

A former executive of TJX is on the board of the Center for Race Amity with me and the corporation is a frequent major donor. That should tell you something.

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Thank you!

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A convo you’ll want to hear, @celesteheadlee.bsky.social talking to @petedominick.bsky.social about journalism, today’s climate in political commentary, ethics, Trump calling reporters names, & much more. Honest talk.

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As a journalist, I've read a lot of court proceedings and been surprised before, but MY GOD.

HO. LEE. CRAP.

Huge victory!!

By the way, happy International Men's Day.

New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.

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It really is disgusting that Trump can insult, berate, single out, threaten, and demean female reporters on a daily basis for asking fair and legitimate questions and you can’t find a single Republican woman in Congress to say it is inappropriate behavior.

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say According to Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges, officers started the three-day sting on Nov. 5. They used several methods to find people who were attempting to solicit a 17-year-old girl for sex.

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say.
"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

Oh, how awful. He had to endure a phone call later, in privacy.

MISS ME WITH THAT SH*T

I realize that some people will read this thread and think, "Gee, what an angry woman." And, yeah. I'm angry. I've earned this anger. This is my righteous anger and if you care about 51% of the people in this world, you should be angry, too.

Despite enduring all of this, women then have to tolerate headlines like "Did Women Ruin the Workplace?" No, idiots. Misogynistic, abusive bullies like Trump did, abetted by the cowards in the room that stand by like spectators while their female colleague is harassed.

The only time I've been sexually harassed during a meeting and someone spoke up for me, it was a gay woman. The other seven men in the room had joined in on the "hilarious" teasing.

I hope you realize that tolerating this behavior empowers the men who hate women & want to do them harm. By saying nothing, you are communicating that this behavior is okay. You are making the world less safe for your daughters, your partners, & all the women you love.

I was the only female in the room during a news meeting during which my general manager talked about my breasts & "joked" about having sex with me. They looked away & stayed silent; one of them snickered then came up to me hours later & told me how awful it was. MISS ME WITH THAT.

I can almost guarantee that any working man over 35 has been present when a woman was abused, dehumanized, or torn down. How many of you said something in the moment? Your push back matters; hers will get her fired.

Men have more power to push back on bullies. They are more likely to be respected & believed, more likely to be rewarded for speaking up while women are punished. Yet, they almost never do it. Or they wait until they're alone & record a video saying how wrong the bullying was. Miss me with that.

Being insulted & humiliated publicly while trying to do your job is an all-too-common experience for many women. Watching your male colleagues ignore the abuse or even smile & laugh is also common. A man who is strong enough to defend his female colleagues is as rare as a snowman in the desert.

Women don't recognize only the overt hatred & abuse in Trump's actions--shoving his finger in the face of a female professional doing her job & calling her names--we also recognize the cowardice displayed by the other men in the room as they implicitly condone his behavior by saying nothing.

I think this gap will widen.

The Trump administration doesn't seem to have a single care about taxpayer's money, except in terms of how much they can extract while still in power.

Moral rot in elite journalism is killing the whole field The Nuzzi/RFK Jr. mess and the revelation of Esptein's journo pals lay bare a profound moral absence at the heart of our free press.

As the wise @karenho.bsky.social told me for this piece: “Any journalist of color I know with a tough childhood would not be given a book deal to write about blowing up their life and career to sext with a Kennedy and then a job at Vanity Fair.”

Google boss says trillion-dollar AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality' In an exclusive BBC interview, Sundar Pichai hailed artificial intelligence as an "extraordinary moment" but said no company would be immune if bubble burst.

It's wild* how Pichai's takeaway from realizing his bubble's wobbling is "prop up AI!" & not "gosh why do we keep weaving speculative hype through fundamental systems to the almost sole benefit of the already-wealthy, & what does that say about our economic system?"
(*Not wild at all; v predictable)

They both took it as a given that Elon is one of the smartest, most innovative people on earth who could uniquely see through any problem. They did not, even once, consider that he's a monumentally lucky rich guy, who has no fucking clue about some fairly basic concepts.