Such is the state of our world Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor of The New York Times report that Harvey Weinstein and the board of his bankrupt film studio have reached a tentative $25 million settlement agreement with dozens of his alleged sexual misconduct victims, a deal that would not require the Hollywood producer to admit wrongdoing or pay anything to his accusers himself. Rachel Sklar points out, “For the rest of his life, Harvey Weinstein will be known and reviled as a disgusting predator. And all of his enablers will be known and reviled, too.” Although...“Just me or does this not seem like a lot?” wonders Katherine Rosman. Brooks Barnes notes, “Low $ and he pays nothing. Zoe Brock, a former model who has accused Harvey Weinstein of sexually inappropriate behavior, said in an interview that agreeing to the settlement terms made her feel ‘sick and defeated and hopeless.’” “So Weinstein doesn’t have to admit wrongdoing or pay any of his own money. Such is the state of our world today,” tweets Ben Estes. To sum up, “How do women not die of rage aneurysms every single day?” says David Roberts. Well that’s a column 
“USA Today comes out for impeachment, joining editorial boards at the LA Times, WaPo, an Boston Globe.” Michael Calderone links to that editorial from USA Today’s Editorial Board, Impeach President Trump, which includes such lines as “In his thuggish effort to trade American arms for foreign dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, Trump resembles not so much Clinton as he does Richard Nixon, another corrupt president who tried to cheat his way to reelection.” As Walter Isaacson says, “This is an astonishingly strong editorial, especially coming from @USATODAY.” The Philadelphia Enquirer Editorial Board is also calling on Congress to Impeach President Donald Trump and remove him from office. That editorial specifically calls out New Jersey Democrat Jeff Van Drew and Pennsylvania Republican Brian Fitzpatrick, who voted against the impeachment inquiry. “Both need to step up on the impeachment vote – if not to punish abuse of power, then to affirm Congress’ standing as a coequal branch of government,” the Board writes. 
Meanwhile, former U.S. attorney general Eric Holder writes in an op-ed for The Washington Post that William Barr is unfit to be attorney general, and “Wow. You just don’t see this stuff, ever,” tweets Quentin Hardy. As Kara Swisher says, “Well that’s a column.” Douglas Blackmon calls it a “Devastating indictment of our current attorney general, from the AG who had to rebuild DOJ after the last time it was shattered by an administration with no concern for the rules and norms that make our system of government work.” Josh Gerstein thinks, “Holder unloading on Barr: not too surprising. The words of warning for Durham are notable, though.” Shut it down Both the USA Today and Philadelphia Inquirer editorial boards acknowledge that it’s highly unlikely the Senate will vote to remove him from office. Looking ahead to that Senate trial, Seung Min Kim and Paul Kane of The Washington Post report that Senate Republicans are coalescing around a strategy of holding a short impeachment trial that would include no witnesses, a plan that could clash with President Trump’s desire to stage a public defense of his actions. According to what they’re hearing, Mitch McConnell thinks calling witnesses would lead to “mutually assured destruction.” Brits are queuing up As “the most important election in a generation” gets underway in the U.K., Joe Roberts of Metro reports on the ‘Longest queues ever’ as people stand in line around the block to vote (231,000+ shares). Fortunately, writes Roberts, “if there’s one thing us Brits know how to do, it’s form an orderly and polite queue – especially when there are dogs at polling stations to entertain us.” In a column for The Guardian yesterday, Peter Oborne wrote that Boris Johnson wants to destroy the Britain I love. I cannot vote Conservative (66,000+ shares). “Before you vote Tory, read this,” urges Martin Fletcher. As Hugo Dixon says, “Conservatives wouldn't normally vote for Corbyn. But @obornetweets is doing just that. Because Johnson is hell-bent on destroying our country - and because the Labour candidate where he lives is the best tactical choice to beat the Tories.” 
Meanwhile, as only she can, in her Guardian column Marina Hyde captured yesterday’s Fridge-hiding, the final frontier in election WTF-ery. Tweets Robert Peston, “This is my last tweet of a political nature till 10pm tomorrow. Because them’s the rules. But it is an honour to preface the intermission with @MarinaHyde’s breathtakingly hilarious fridge saga. Read and weep.” Andrew Hill admits he is “Happy to have started today crying with laughter at @MarinaHyde’s final column of the #GE2019 campaign.” Adds Rosamund Dean, “In all the madness, thank god, really, for Marina Hyde.” Parnas’ payment 
Back to this madness. New from Christian Berthelsen of Bloomberg News, U.S. prosecutors say Rudy Giuliani’s associate Lev Parnas got $1 million from an account in Russia in September, a month before he was charged with conspiring to funnel foreign money into U.S. political campaigns. “Parnas is getting $1 mil from Russia in September ?!? as he’s in cahoots with Rudy on disrupting US Ukraine policy,” tweets Tim Dickinson. “Cue the plot thickening music…” as Edward Robinson says. Pardons for sale Outgoing Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin has pardoned hundreds of people in his final days, including a convicted killer whose brother hosted a campaign fundraiser for him. Andrew Wolfson and Joe Sonka have that story at The Courier-Journal in what Leela de Kretser calls “Local journalism at its best.” All Glenn Kessler can say about this is “Uh… ‘The beneficiaries include one offender convicted of raping a child, another who hired a hit man to kill his business partner and a third who killed his parents.’” Stop or we’re cooked For a New York Times visual investigation, Jonah M. Kessel and Hiroko Tabuchi went to West Texas oilfields with a camera that can photograph methane, and now they’re Exposing a Hidden Climate Threat: Methane ‘Super Emitters.’ Blair Horner puts it this way: “Stop building new fossil fuel infrastructures. Only allow electrification for new development and ramp up solar, wind and other renewables. Or we’re cooked.” “Amazing and important reporting project HT @HirokoTabuchi and thank you @nytimes for investing in such journalism,” tweets Stephanie Strom. As Dave Levinthal says, “If you've never given much thought to methane, this will change that quickly.” OOOOOOF this 
Michael Luo shares some news: “Over the summer, I approved some expenses from @jiatolentino for plastic surgery consultations.” The result is Jia Tolentino’s latest for The New Yorker on The Age of Instagram Face. As she explains it, “I went to Beverly Hills and posed as a would-be patient at the offices of the top celebrity plastic surgeons to see what I could learn about the arms race between digital and physical improvement that is Instagram Face.” And “OOOOOOF this: ‘How had I been changed by an era in which ordinary humans receive daily metrics that appear to quantify how our personalities and our physical selves are performing on the market?’ @jiatolentino on Instagram Face is obviously a must read,” tweets Joel Pavelski. Audible gasp of delight The Hollywood Reporter’s Lesley Goldberg brings us this exclusive: ‘Succession’ star Nicholas Braun, aka ‘Cousin Greg,’ will play Adam Neumann in a WeWork TV series. “BULLSEYE,” as Daniel Roberts tweets. Sophie Kleeman urges, “whoever tweeted a few months ago that cousin greg should play adam neumann, come collect your prize,” because as Felix Salmon notices, “Wait *this is now a real thing*!!!!” And Erin Griffith emits an “audible gasp of delight.” 
The TV series, based on WeWork, the book, is being written by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell of The Wall Street Journal. Tweets Max Abelson, “Yes I know Nicholas Braun is cool but the real star here is @eliotwb. When we were young Observer reporters he taught me how to wrap party hors d’oeuvres in napkins and stuff them in my pocket for like a week’s worth of dinners.” Now that’s some truly helpful information. Thursday round-up - Claire Atkinson of NBC News got the scoop that Sinclair has dropped Boris Epshteyn and other political analysts. She writes that the network said the move is part of a companywide effort to move away from political commentary in favor of investigative journalism. Brian Stelter offers “Credit to @claireatki — I've been chasing this story but she confirmed it first.”
- Also at NBC News, Courtney Kube and Julia Ainsley have the exclusive that the Defense Department's internal watchdog plans to review the award of a $400M border wall contract to the North Dakota firm touted by Trump.
- Right on cue, Trump mocks 16-year-old Greta Thunberg a day after she is named Time’s Person of the Year. John Wagner has that story at The Washington Post, and as Andrew Freedman notes, “Greta responded in a way we’ve seen her do before to neutralize the criticism from older folks and climate deniers who wish she’d shut up.”
- At HuffPost, Akbar Ahmed points out that Biden Confronted His Legacy On Saudi Arabia. Obama Won’t. Nick Baumann urges, “Read this really hard-hitting @AkbarSAhmed piece on @BarackObama, @JoeBiden, and Saudi Arabia. Also, this Susan Rice quote on Khashoggi is quite something.”
- Charlie Savage observes that “The IG report has primarily been interpreted through a Trump lens. But if we shelve politics for a moment and focus on surveillance policy & civil liberties issues, what it revealed about the FBI’s national-security wiretapping powers is devastating.” To learn more, read his piece for The New York Times, We Just Got a Rare Look at National Security Surveillance. It Was Ugly.
- Take your pick: “This is infuriating!” says Gabrielle Jackson. “This story is staggering,” says Patrick Keneally. “This is insanity,” says Mike Ticher. The point is, it’s bad. At The Guardian, Ben Smee reports that a Queensland school has run out of water as commercial bottlers harvest local supplies. Parents have been told to consider keeping Tamborine Mountain state school students at home, while trucks take local water to bottling plants for companies including Coca-Cola.
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