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Tom Ley

Politics

Bari Weiss Even Worse At Her Job Than Previously Imagined

Media Meltdowns

Punk-Ass Loser Nick Bilton Fires Scott Pelley For Daring To Ask Him Questions

Boring Dunce Nick Bilton Hounded Out Of First Meeting With ’60 Minutes’ Staffers

Journalismism

Bari Weiss Hires Credulous Dope To Run ’60 Minutes’

Tony Dokoupil at the 2026 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner

Tony Dokoupil Flew 8,000 Miles Just To Eat More Shit

Samer Kalaf

Tony Dokoupil Is Still Eating Shit, Even If No One’s Watching

Is Nellie Bowles The Worst Writer In America?

Peter Attia at the Featured Session "Peter Attia: The Science and Art of Longevity" during SXSW Conference &amp; Festivals in the Hilton Austin Downtown on March 8, 2025 in Austin, Texas. (

Bari Weiss’s Handpicked CBS Contributor Peter Attia Sent Jeffrey Epstein Gross Emails

Albert Burneko

A single bullet hole can be seen on the driver’s side of the windshield of a vehicle that a woman was shot and killed in by federal officers on Portland Ave. in Minneapolis, Minn. on Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026.

CBS News Is The Trump Administration’s New Laundromat

CBS Anchor Tony Dokoupil Is Stuck In An Endless Loop Of Humiliation

Tommy Craggs is an editor and writer, late of Game Theory With Bomani Jones on HBO, Mother Jones (no relation), HuffPost, Slate, Gawker Media, and Deadspin. He&#8217;s part of the <a href="https://flaminghydra.com/">Flaming Hydra</a> cooperative of independent writers and artists, and one of the many founders of the <a href="https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/">Oakland Review of Books</a>.

Tommy Craggs

Bari Weiss seated onstage at a Free Press event in 2024.

Bari Weiss Is The Symptom

Tony Dokoupil Eats Heaps Of Shit In First Week As CBS News Anchor

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Chris Thompson

Bari Weiss Keeps CBS News Groveling At The Feet Of Donald Trump

CBS News Hitches Its Wagon To These Two Duds

Patrick Redford

Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison speaks during the Bloomberg Screentime conference in Los Angeles on October 9, 2025. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP)

Capital

Paramount Is Trying To Bully Its Way Into Acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 18: The Free Press' Honestly with Bari Weiss (pictured) hosts Senator Ted Cruz presented by Uber and X on January 18, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for Uber, X and The Free Press)

Bari Weiss Signs Huge Deal To Usher CBS News Into Its Vichy Era

(L-R) Bari Weiss, The Free Press Founder, Peter Thiel, and Matt Danzeisen attend Inauguration Eve hosted by Uber, X and The Free Press at Cafe Riggs on January 19, 2025 in Washington, DC.

They Should Call It The Free Piss

David Roth

A group of Columbia University students, advocating for Palestinians, access the iconic Hamilton Hall building as they gather to stage a demonstration at the campus in New York, United States on April 30, 2024. Protests are sweeping college campuses across the US following a police attempt to clear a pro-Palestinian encampment at Columbia University, resulting in the arrest of over 100 students. Columbia University asked students on Monday to 'voluntarily disperse' amid stalled talks, threatening the students with suspension.

They Are Insecure For A Reason

Laura Wagner

A Roundtable On The Free Speech Implications Of The New York Times Trans Letter Debate

What Are The Twitter Files, And Do You Need To Care About Them?

Investor Michael Milken at his own institute's annual event in 2017, back when he was still a convicted financial criminal.

Here Are The Seven Best Sentences From The Financial Times’ Story About Michael Milken’s High-Finance Jamboree

Steele dishing her takes on Jay Cutler's podcast.

Sage Steele Stumbles On Path To Lucrative Self-Cancellation

Columnist. Author of many <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drew-Magary/e/B001JS8R52/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">fine works of literature</a>, including Point B. Handsomest man in the world.