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Bostonian. Educator. Emo kid. Dad. Soft animal. Baseball guy. One Shirley Temple, please. www.anecdoche.com 🏳️‍🌈
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crit @anecdoche.com · 9d
Junction 18 played their first show in 10 years last weekend. I talked to the band about it.
Junction 18 rides again
An interview with the band as they celebrate 25 years of 'This Vicious Cycle'
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Lots of great bands on this comp by @walteretc.bsky.social (Jeff Rosenstock, Teens in Trouble, Maxwell Stern, Suzie True, etc)
Group Picture Volume 15, by Making New Enemies
50 track album
makingnewenemies.bandcamp.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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Rudolph is Shohei Ohtani, the other eight are 1-2 WAR reindeer. I’m talking Wenceel Pérez. Alec Bohm. Tommy Edman. Nice players but come on.
December 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Don’t forget to leave an edible out for Santa
December 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
anecdoche.com
They should make medicine easier to open. Come on man I already have the flu and now I have to fight this little package to get some Tylenol Severe?
ruthkapelus.bsky.social Ruth Kapelus @ruthkapelus.bsky.social · 3d
Let’s air those grievances. I want to hear your pettiest gripes on this the holiest of days.
December 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Trump take Epstein
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
“Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, told the FBI in 2023 that Epstein was murdered in his jail cell because he was about to ‘name names.’ Mark Epstein, 71, who has long believed that his brother was killed, also alleged in the tip that President Trump ‘authorized’ the late sex trafficker’s murder.”
Latest Epstein files name Trump multiple times
In the more than 10,000 files released Tuesday, Jeffrey Epstein’s brother, Mark Epstein, said the sex trafficker was killed because he was going to name co-conspirators.
www.miamiherald.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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ringworm.bsky.social
(to the tune of "feliz navidad") denis villeneuve
December 23, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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The white supremacist president is -6 with with white people
December 23, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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chadstanton.blacksky.app
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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bubbaprog.xyz
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:

is.gd/paU8Ko

(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Drake Maye said ok fine, I’ll win anyway.
chrisvannini.com Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 5d
Not pass interference
December 22, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Drake Maye.
December 22, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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bgrueskin.bsky.social
Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment.

“Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.”

wapo.st/3YL4T3D
‘60 Minutes’ correspondent says CBS’s Bari Weiss abruptly pulled segment on Trump deportations
CBS News pulled a ‘60 Minutes’ segment about a prison in El Salvador one day before it was set to air because the Trump administration declined to participate.
wapo.st
December 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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maplecocaine.bsky.social
Bari only pulled this program after the promos started airing, which means she probably got a phone call. So she's not just bad at her ostensible job of running CBS news, but she's also bad at her *actual* job of running interference for the Trump admin
maxtani.bsky.social max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 5d
CBS News EIC Bari Weiss had concerns about the CECOT piece, I’m told. The network decided to hold the segment pending, among other things, comment or an interview with White House officials next year…
60minutes.bsky.social 60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 5d
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
December 22, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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Zay Flowers (#4) reaction is perfect
jm539581.bsky.social JM =^) @jm539581.bsky.social · 5d
"What is he doing?"
December 22, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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We’ve got a 3-2 football score in Tennessee. The beautiful game.
December 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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skatunenetwork.bsky.social
HI INTERNET
hate that I need to do this, but calling in my community to help me out!

Square freezing my account and holding my funds was the straw that broke the camels back, tbh. Here’s An incredibly long block of text, but all provides transparency and context behind this
Screenshot of gofund me featuring a picture of the JER band and text reading “help JER cover tour debt & expenses to keep touring in 2026” Hi, my name is JER and I’m calling in my community for help right now. For some background, I am an artist who releases music under my name, JER. In addition to that, I have a YouTube channel called skatune network, where I cover songs in the style of ska. For 9 years, I’ve been doing the YouTube thing, but for the past 5 years, my passion truly lies with the art that i create through the JER project and JER band. It’s been a privilege and honor to see the support of 2 full length records and 104 live shows over this time, and I’m deeply grateful for everybody who has been showing love and support to my craft! Anybody who follows me knows that touring is volatile and expensive. So many factors can make or break a tour financially, and it’s easy for expenses and debt to snowball to a point where it’s near impossible to catch up / continue. That was 2025 for me. With the expecting of a handful of shows, I didn’t really play any shows from spring 2024 to fall of 2025. I got off the road and dedicated the back half of 2024 to working to pay down tour debt. I began 2025 with minimal debt and recorded a record, the record being Death of the Heart. I made a financial plan for the year, which included keeping costs on our first March weekend. The additional cost was going to cover half of the bands flights to Japan, while I was already going to be out there AND all of our expenses in Japan were already covered. At the end of that March weekend, however, I was hit with the news that my merch fulfillment store had accumulated several thousand dollars of debt. All the money we made that weekend immediately went toward paying a portion of that debt off. This left me back home with more debt, and having to work my real life jobs to re-save to fly a portion of my band to Japan for our shows The spring is my slowest time of year, since most of my work is in the summer and fall. It took until the summer for me to save the money to book the flights. Our June tour was a breakeven, but the money we made from merch at shows was immediately taken to cover the online fulfillment debt I didn’t even know existed until March. This put me in a position where every dollar I made from my 5 jobs all summer went toward covering the costs of the last tour, and the next tour booked would start before I could pay off the last. This cycle is why we had to drop off our shows leading into fest. The money that was supposed to rent the van and book the flights instead went toward a previous tour debt. This cycle has culminated to where I’m at now. As of now, Square has frozen my account and is withholding all the merch money I made from my last few December shows. There is *still* a remaining debt on the merch fulfillment that isn’t fully paid down, and every tour has been in the red because of this lingering debt. I’m at a position where I have a lot of cool tours booked for 2026, but I am at a point where I can’t even afford to start the tour. Vans need to be rented. Flights need to be booked. Merch needs to be made. These are all costs that I don’t have, and I can’t afford to go on the road with this much debt again. It would be a huge bummer to drop off some very cool tours, but it’s just not feasible for me to make happen THATS WHERE I’M ASKING FOR Y’ALLS HELP! Between every skatune network page, I have over 1.2 million followers. If less than 1/10th of a % of my following sent me a dollar, I’d be able to cover every expense lost from square locking my merch money, AND the debt lingering over the skatune store. I hate feeling that I’m in a position where I need to ask for this. I’ve been trying my best and working non-stop for over a year. I’ve been applying to jobs all year beyond my current work, and while I’m making enough to do everything I appreciate the love and support deeply. The JER band is the most special project I’ve been a part of and had. The message of this band is so deeply important to me and I hope I can lean into my community to help make this possible. If you ever wanted to say thank you for the thousands of videos, hundreds of covers, all the entertainment, this is the way to do it! I’ve set the gofundme up for 10k. Believe it or not, my debt is higher than that right now, but that will pay off every debt lingering, cover the loss in merch money, pay down remaining tour expenses from this year, and set me up to get on the road next year! And lastly, if you purchased merch from us this past weekend and used a card, expect a refund. I’m also going to honor system this and try to build some sort of forum to contact everybody. Square refuses to release all of our card transactions and is suggesting we refund it all. I know everybody we sold merch to doesn’t follow me. Some saw us for the first time at these shows. Some don’t use social media. I just have to accept that I may be out of some merch money this weekend. Thank you all so much. I appreciate you all 🫶🏾
December 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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The new Counting Crows doc on HBO is really good. It’s all about the first two records and the challenges of a band blowing up out of nowhere. Good 90s nostalgia.
December 20, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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timdickinson.bsky.social
Some of these redactions are almost like modern art
December 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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It’s gotta feel so good to get blown up after 94 years of just standing there
Implosion takes down a nearly century-old Mississippi River bridge
Crews blew up the 94-year-old Black Hawk Bridge over the Mississippi River, making way for a modern replacement.
apnews.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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mikebaker.bsky.social
HUGE NEWS from the new Epstein files:

Records show that Maria Farmer, who worked for Epstein, filed a "child pornography" report to the FBI in 1996.

The FBI has never before acknowledged that complaint. The case went nowhere, and mass abuse followed.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/u...
Epstein Files Include 1996 Child Porn Complaint That F.B.I. Ignored
www.nytimes.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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WHAT’s up guys its Plato welcome back to the cave. Guys we’ve got some CRAZY shadows for you today you are not gonna want to miss this! But first I have to thank our sponsor OnX Backcountry
December 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Gru from Despicable Me and Minions and all that jazz
December 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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From the Boston Globe: "The shootah’s dead — the shootah’s dead!” www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/18/m...
News rippled through the crowd of dozens outside the storage facility in which the suspect was found dead, according to two law enforcement officials. “The shootah’s dead — the shootah’s dead!” someone recording on their phone bellowed in a thick Boston accent as chatter rose around him.
December 19, 2025 at 2:36 AM