Lindsay Beyerstein

My latest for @MSNOWNews: Why the Epstein Suicide Note is Probably Legit: ms.now/opinion/epstei…

On May 4, The Washington Post won two Pulitzers. To stream the announcement live, the paper had to bring back two of the video operators it had laid off in February. Nobody left in the building could run the equipment. They walked past the new opinion studio on their way in. The new opinion studio was built with $80,000 in video gear. Its flagship podcast has 515 YouTube subscribers after 186 videos and more than 20 episodes. Apple Podcasts users have given it 2.3 stars. The most positive review on record: "This is bad and the people making it should feel bad." Dave Jorgenson, the journalist who built WaPo's TikTok presence, left last year. His personal YouTube channel now has 358,000 subscribers. The opinion podcast has 515. A former WaPo journalist working with a small team has built more than 600 times the audience of the flagship new show. Bezos was warned by his own opinion editor that the rightward pivot would cost subscribers. His documented response, per the New York Times: "I don't care." The piece's own summary is the only sentence needed: "Bezos laid off the people who win the Pulitzers. He's funding the people who lose the subscribers."

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — He spent 37 days in a rural Tennessee county jail for posting a meme about President Donald Trump. Now, Lexington, Tenn., resident Larry Bushart — who was finally freed following a NewsChannel 5 investigation — will collect an $835,000 settlement from Perry County, his attorneys announced Wednesday. Details in link below. (Photo by: LadyJay Creations LLC/FIRE)

Congratulations to @stjbs and @kolyn_cheang of @sfchronicle on winning the May Sidney Award for their devastating exposé of deaths in ICE custody from medical neglect. hillmanfoundation.org/sidney-awards/…

Thank you @SidneyHillman! Read the winning story by @stjbs and @kolyn_cheang here: sfchronicle.com/projects/2026/…

Massie promoting a debunked claim about a doctored screenshot purporting to show the DHS X account was located in Tel Aviv. Even if this wasn’t obviously fake what sense does this even make lol

Contrary to popular belief, narcissists are not immune to suicidality. In fact, their high but unstable self-esteem may set them up for periodic emotional crises when their inflated self-concept is threatened by reality in ways they can't deflect, like prison.

The note doesn't prove that Epstein killed himself, but if genuine, it demonstrates conclusively that he considered suicide because he didn't want to be locked up. He wanted to choose his own time to say goodbye. Life in prison was "no fun" and "not worth it," he wrote.

My latest for @MSNOWNews: Why the Epstein Suicide Note is Probably Legit: ms.now/opinion/epstei…

Make Iran Wrong Again:

Screencapped this myself because I had to make sure it was real. A member of Congress claims that Democrats aren't Tennesseans.

wow -- Trump appears to call Rachel Scott a "bitch" as he finishes taking questions from reporters

Trump appears to have called ABC reporter Rachel Scott a “bitch” as he walked away from the press. On camera. The same man who had the FCC open an investigation into ABC over a Jimmy Kimmel joke. The same man whose press secretary lectured America about violent rhetoric after the WHCA shooting.