a thread for the various endeavors of bari weiss and/or niall ferguson

https://i.postimg.cc/YSk9ZTRw/niall.jpg

squinty = telling hard truths

https://i.postimg.cc/d04qX3Dy/niall2.webp

shoulda been a shakey mo rip thread

smelling own farts

Inside Bari Weiss’s Hostile Takeover of CBS News

“‘If you’ve got an issue with me, take your shot. You’ve never seen the likes of me. I’m so unpredictable, so heterodox.’”

‘We Need to Be the News’: Inside Bari Weiss’s Bumpy Revamp at CBS

They Wanted a University Without Cancel Culture. Then Dissenters Were Ousted.

and most importantly and prescient:

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

the heterodox comment kind of killed me, even divorced from the fact it sounds like she's launching the world's dumbest rap battle

pretty sure if you threw me any random issue I could guess what her opinion would be?

https://bsky.app/profile/justinbaragona.bsky.social/post/3mdg7s5bwr22e

"The new CBS contributors:

Elliot Ackerman, Peter Attia, Masih Alinejad, Arthur Brooks, Caroline Chambers, Clare de Boer, Niall Ferguson, Roland Fryer Jr., Andrew Huberman, Coleman Hughes, Mark Hyman, Janna Levin, Casey Lewis, HR McMaster, Patrick McGee, Reihan Salam, Lauren Sherman, Derek Thompson"

jesus christ

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the original or the mayor pete one

Weiss hires some RFKJ-aligned crackpot quack a news contributor... one of those dudes that does his 'own research'

Bari Weiss’s new CBS hires include ‘germ theory denialist’ doctor
Dr Mark Hyman, who claimed he reduced his biological age by 20 years, brought on as a contributor

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/bari-weiss-cbs-mark-hyman

don't look up any of the contributors on the list, imo. it's a real rogues gallery of that type of guy

if he keeps getting younger he'll be a toddler soon, like Benjamin Button

Derek Thompson

This is the guy who claimed that he couldn't find albums on Spotify anymore because of all the podcasts

this guy sounds fun

“sugar is the main cause of disease”

seems poor timing to start bending towards the regime bit what do I know

does she have any people who insist on phlogiston theory? or that maggots spontaneously breed from rotting meat?

and the Four Humors clearly the cause of autism

Currently on The Free Press - Coleman Hughes: Scott Adams Made Me a Better Thinker

am i correct in assuming that all the new contributors are (certain type of) opinion people rather than reporters?

yeah, these are people to show up and chat about their brain worms

incredible stuff

Neil Stenhouse‬ nstenhouse.bsky.social‬

Looking at the list of 19 new CBS News commentators, the median number of times they appear in the searchable Epstein database is 2 and the mean is 100

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btw nice of Niall to include himself along with the powerful, wealthy and famous.