And they clearly wanted her to share their apprehension about what was happening. She seemed a bit thrown by their doomy mood & laughed when they said they all watched MSNBC. She told us that she’d been thru the Nixon era & none of this was new—after Trump left office, the fever would break…

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Just as it had in DC after Nixon left and things would snap back to normal. I was skeptical of this idea & I remember thinking I should remember it, bc I thought she was being naïve & she clearly thought the room were the naïve ones & I wondered who was right 

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I once did a book event with Leslie Stahl, in the midst of Trump 1 — I was filling in for a friend, and we each did 10-minute segments and answered questions. The audience was full of worried middle-aged white/Jewish lefty Democrats, mostly female, like a lot of similar book events in NY

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I don’t know why she’s staying at 60 Minutes — I imagine she’s decided that it’s the moral, adult choice, to use her star status to keep the institution alive and the reporting aboveboard and wait for the fever to break — but it doesn’t feel like the right move to me, now, either

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A bunch of restaurants in my neighborhood have AI generated signage, but mostly that just means I'm seeing more drippy stuff. But one place has a standee with daily specials that also seem AI-generated. I assume the kitchen loves adding one (1) beef rib to every pho order on Tuesdays (dine in only).

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