Bari Weiss built her entire public identity on the proposition that cancel culture was destroying American discourse. She wrote about it. She founded a publication around it. She championed the Intellectual Dark Web as brave thinkers being silenced for saying forbidden things.
Scott Pelley said factually true things, without yelling, without cursing, without threatening anyone, in a staff meeting. He said Bilton had slender qualifications. He said Weiss was murdering 60 Minutes. He said these things because they are true and because saying true things in rooms where powerful people prefer comfortable silence is - per Weiss's own stated philosophy - exactly what journalists are supposed to do.
She fired him.
JVL names what this exposes precisely. They never wanted to end cancel culture. They wanted to control it. Some forbidden ideas - the ones MAGA likes - must be protected and platformed. Other ideas - the ones Bari Weiss dislikes - are genuinely verboten. Say them out loud and you lose your job.
The Pentagon press office is now classified. Tim Miller was threatened with FARA for sharing a public news report. Comey is being prosecuted for seashells on a beach. The federal workforce faces proposed NDAs. Pelley was fired for refusing instructions to broadcast unverified assertions and then saying so in a meeting.
The through line is not chaos. It is a consistent, documented project to determine who gets to speak, about what, to whom, and under whose authority. Cancel culture was never the target. It was always the tactic. Weiss just proved it by doing the thing she built her career opposing, the moment she had the power to do it.
@lfmhpj@neerajadeshp Schumer and Van Hollen are incredibly smart, scholar like senators from a more classic age — just with some modern talking points. They are not Platner-like. I think you just view anyone progressive enough go upset the apple-cart as a douchebag
Billionaire team owners keep getting richer while fans keep getting screwed.
It's why the Bears may leave Chicago.
It's also why @SenSanders and I introduced the Home Team Act — requiring team owners to offer locals the chance to buy a team before moving it away.
honestly one of the most humiliating decisions in professional sports history and proof that there are no adults left in the room trying to advocate for the League, just a bunch of billionaires trying to shake every last quarter out of their piggy banks
Football is comfortably the most popular sport on planet earth, it has held that title for as long as anyone can remember; it doesn’t need these gimmicks.
JUST PLAY THE FUCKING GAMES.
@ettingermentum Even crazier bc it’s already a guaranteed lefty win either we get a 7’4 Marxist goat candidate beginning his journey to the pantheon or we get America’s socialist mayor’s city finally gettin their lick back after decades of on-court pain. It’s beautiful really
An incredible bit of sports journalism by The Guardian here. A short summary of the playing style of all 48 World Cup nations and a short profile of all 1248 World Cup players. Bookmark and refer to the resources when watching the obscure matches: https://t.co/tdLGq8en0o
An utter disgrace that Chicago isn’t hosting any World Cup games.
A complete and utter scam. The entire city should be embarrassed. Embarrassing doesn’t begin to describe how bad that is.
@river_is_nice How is expanding your horizon and depth of understanding of the world (which you literally do everytime you travel as you see more of the world!) possibly able to make one more shallow? With these exception of Disney adults, it’s only a net growth activity
This is what republicans do-
Complain about oversight, get rid of regulations, ONLY to fuck things up because that oversight was there for a reason.
Then of course they never take responsibility for the damage they cause to the American people.
Given that we knew last year that this horrible disease was marching north towards the US,
I'm not sure I would have cut funding @USDA for animal disease control and prevention, including New World screwworm work, and pushed out staff with animal-disease expertise
We have been warning the public on New World Screwworm for over a year now (some much longer than us)
We even had our account on X suspended for a month when we showed a picture of what an infection looks like in a human, shortly before there was a human case confirmed in the US last August
The Secretary of Agriculture continued to assure the public that the Screwworm situation was “under control” and continued to ignore concerns and requests from producers and elected officials from her home state of Texas
This is not something to no longer downplay or brush off
The Agricultural industry is already entering into hellish conditions this summer because of drought and rising fuel and input prices, compounded now with an outbreak of flesh eating maggots
We need serious and dedicated leadership on this
We need a whole of government approach
We need states next to Texas and Mexico to be able access the resources and funding to combat this pest as they will be caught completely off guard when it reaches their states
We have asked before months ago but are asking again for President Trump to declare a National Emergency Declaration TODAY!
Thank you for your attention to this matter