Studs Terkel Stan

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

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.

[Studs Terkel Stan @peejc25]

@JeremiahDJohns Actually this isn’t a “going deep” this is a very clear winner imo. Possibly the funniest non-Trump constructed tweet I’ve ever seen

[𝙃𝙚𝙡𝙢𝙚𝙩 𝘼𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙩 @HelmetAddict]

Yeah let's keep pretending what is basically a 23 year old stadium is some crumbling ruin that the Bears can't possibly keep playing in.

[Studs Terkel Stan @peejc25]

@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

[Studs Terkel Stan @peejc25]

@Chicago_NFL He’s moving it to a superfund site brother

[Chris Williams @ChrisMWilliams]

This will go down as one of the most greed driven, unpopular decisions in the history of sports. Right?

[Congressman Greg Casar @RepCasar]

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.

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

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

[Studs Terkel Stan @peejc25]

@Sayers33 Does blue Curaçao count?

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

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.

[Studs Terkel Stan @peejc25]

@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

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

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

[Lawrence Kreymer @kreyme8]

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.

[Studs Terkel Stan @peejc25]

@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

[Fredrik’s personal @TheEditorDiary]

Gooooorgeus - holy shit. The Guardian, I am standing in my loving room applauding

[Dane Southard @Ohdaneit]

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.

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

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

[Studs Terkel Stan @peejc25]

@badasskachii Then there’s Müller doing both

[Studs Terkel Stan @peejc25]

@SaraForTexLege 4D chess he’s done it again

[Meriwether Farms @MeriwetherFarms]

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