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- When Bari Weiss took over CBS News as editor-in-chief in October, the central question was whether she could save “60 Minutes.” Because, unlike the rest of CBS (sorry), the legendary show still mattered. Since then, Weiss has been accused of watering it down in favor of Trump,
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The pain inside the CBS newsroom is being pinned on the wrong thing (pressures from the billionaire-Trump sphere). What's actually going on, given broadcast journalism is a "melting ice cube," is attempts to regain trust and reach a younger audience, which involves... at a time
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Mamdani wants to take private property and transfer its ownership to nonprofits, even though New York previously spent tens of billions trying a similar approach and got poor results. Read @ManhattanInst's @JKetcham91 in @PirateWires.Zohran Mamdani says he’ll take “aggressive legal action” to seize buildings from negligent private landlords and transfer them to nonprofits and tenant associations. New York tried this 50 years ago — it didn’t work. In the 70s and 80s, NYC seized thousands of abandoned
- Zohran Mamdani says he’ll take “aggressive legal action” to seize buildings from negligent private landlords and transfer them to nonprofits and tenant associations. New York tried this 50 years ago — it didn’t work. In the 70s and 80s, NYC seized thousands of abandoned
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Trae @traestephens may be our last hope to bring back the rational conversant center to American political life.Gwyneth Paltrow just invited Anduril cofounder @traestephens onto the Goop podcast — and, in a wide-ranging conversation about love, war, God, and Gwyneth’s leftist husband who thinks she’s “becoming a Republican”… Trae explains Anduril’s core goal: to engineer lasting peace.
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Goop queen Gwyneth Paltrow interviewed Anduril's @traestephens about: the Sermon on the Mount, love, war, autonomous missiles, and fighting over politics with her husband. A surreal conversation 👇
