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A Wild Lib Appeared

@awildlibappeared.bsky.social

Merry Christmas, BlueSky!

I rejoined only recently, but I am so grateful for the BlueSky community—the political info, the #booksky book recs, the silly jokes that make me laugh.

This platform has been a bright spot that’s helped me through a tough year. Thank you! 🎄 #MerryChristmas #HappyHolidays

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media.tenor.com

December 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM

A Wild Lib Appeared

@awildlibappeared.bsky.social

Two points:

1. It takes a truly deranged person to send out a Christmas work email to the employees you oversee that *criticizes* them.

2. Does it ever occur to Bari Weiss and @bariweiss.skystack.xyz that by being overt Trump enablers, they might cause Americans to trust the media even less?

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss just sent this Christmas Eve email to the CBS News staff about "building trust," which includes her tripling down on spiking the CECOT piece "to make sure it's comprehensive and fair."

One CBS staffer tells me: "She really has no idea how insulting she comes across."

December 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM

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Kyle Griffin

@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel.

"Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."

December 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM

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Andrew Perez

@andrewperez.bsky.social

Bari Weiss praised El Salvador's dictator before spiking '60 Minutes' story on his torture prison.

new w/ @premthakker.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social @zeteo.com

zeteo.com/p/bari-weiss...

Bari Weiss Praised El Salvador’s Dictator Before Spiking '60 Minutes' Story on His Torture Prison

Weiss touted El Salvador’s brutal leader while her blog published jokes about Trump sending immigrants to the CECOT prison.

zeteo.com

December 23, 2025 at 3:36 AM

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Stardust 🌏🎬

@stardustbluepr.com

BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See
Hours before it was set to air last night, CBS News executives pulled the segment, but Canada’s Global TV app received it prior to broadcast.

BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See

Hours before it was set to air last night, CBS News executives pulled the segment, but Canada’s Global TV app received it prior to broadcast.

www.thereset.news

December 23, 2025 at 3:52 AM

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TrumpsTaxes

@trumpstaxes.com

Wut.

Apparently part of the briefly posted tranche of Epstein documents tonight is a disturbing letter - purportedly from Jeffrey Epstein to Larry Nassar days before Epstein’s death in 2019 - in which Epstein says ‘Our President also shares our love of nubile young girls’.

December 23, 2025 at 5:51 AM

A Wild Lib Appeared

@awildlibappeared.bsky.social

Y'all, this is real. Here is the link to the letter on the DOJ website: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

#LockHimUp

December 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM

A Wild Lib Appeared

@awildlibappeared.bsky.social

Folks really need to watch this video. Send it to relatives. Send it to MAGA friends. Send it to everyone you know.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 3d

UPDATE

I have updated my story linked below with a high-quality broadcast version of the 60 Minutes segment that was pulled by Bari Weiss.

Here it is (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5

December 23, 2025 at 5:50 AM

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Yashar Ali 🐘

@yasharali.bsky.social

UPDATE

I have updated my story linked below with a high-quality broadcast version of the 60 Minutes segment that was pulled by Bari Weiss.

Here it is (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5

December 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM

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Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment

I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.

www.muellershewrote.com

December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM

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Tawni Marshall

@tawnimarshall.bsky.social

Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

The Free Press

I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle.

There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling.

by Jamie Reed

Jamie Reed: The Courage to Admit You’re Wrong

When I blew the whistle on a transgender clinic, some suggested I had been ‘brainwashed by the right.’ No. I’m a progressive who follows science.

by Jamie Reed

I Spent 13 Years Living as a Man. But After My Spouse’s Exposé, I’m Detransitioning.

When Jamie Reed revealed the dangers of gender-affirming care for minors, I felt threatened. That’s because she was right.

by Roxanne Reed

Why I Hope the Supreme Court Upholds the Ban on Child Transition

Today, the top legal minds in the country will consider whether there’s a constitutional right to harm children. Jamie Reed asks: How did we get to this point?

by Jamie Reed

December 22, 2025 at 4:39 PM

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Michael Hobbes

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social

The most impressive thing about Bari is her ability to violate ethical principles while indignantly claiming to defend them.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4d

Weiss concluded: “We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera. To me, our viewers come first, not a listing schedule or anything else. And that is my North Star, and I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom.”

December 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM

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Fiona "Fi" Webster 🎄🎄🎄

@fiona-webster22.bsky.social

The key correspondent for the CBS 60 Minutes piece on CECOT said, "Pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.”

No pay wall.

Outrage after CBS pulls 60 Minutes segment on El Salvador’s Cecot prison

Controversially appointed editor-in-chief Bari Weiss says: ‘I held that story and I held it because it wasn’t ready’

www.theguardian.com

December 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM

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Qasim Rashid, Esq.

@qasimrashid.com

Bari Weiss claims she killed the CBS CECOT story because it lacked Trump’s perspective.

1. That’s a lie. Trump has publicly commented supporting CECOT.
2. Refusing to comment is their choice. They are no victim.
3. Killing a story to protect power is State Run Media.

Drop CBS permanently.

December 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM

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The Associated Press

@apnews.com

Hours before airtime on Sunday, CBS News' "60 Minutes" held a planned story on President Donald Trump's deportation policy at the order of the network's new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss.

"60 Minutes" holds off on airing critical piece on Trump deportation policy

Hours before airtime on Sunday, CBS News' “60 Minutes” held a planned story on President Donald Trump's deportation policy at the order of the network's new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss.

bit.ly

December 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM

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A Wild Lib Appeared

@awildlibappeared.bsky.social

It would be such a shame tho if we got #FireBari trending.

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December 22, 2025 at 6:25 AM

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That Fake Lego Thing From The Island Of Misfit Toys

@tmcatee.bsky.social

#firebari

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 4d

how bad are things going when Dylan Byers won't even tell the story you want him to

December 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM

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A Wild Lib Appeared

@awildlibappeared.bsky.social

I understand the hate brewing for Bari Weiss and her flagrant partisanship in canceling the 60 Minutes CECOT report but let's not forget the real problem:

Larry Ellison

David Ellison

Untaxed billionaires

They're the ones who empowered Bari Weiss to destroy the 4th estate.

Regardless, #FireBari!

December 22, 2025 at 6:20 AM

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Rebecca Rauber

@defeatthefascists.bsky.social

@cbsnews.com and @60minutes.bsky.social were already tarnished with capitulations to the criminal Trump regime…but this is egregious and cannot stand if either hope to maintain any journalistic credibility. Weiss should be fired for starters. #FireBari #BoycottCBSNews

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 4d

1. BREAKING

Sharyn Alfonsi, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, sent an internal email to colleagues stating that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss “spiked our story” about the Trump administration and the transfer of deportees to a prison in El Salvador.

News Team,
These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us
with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the
Ilearned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE
most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal
that courtesy/opportunity.
concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS
took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story
attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct.
to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but
In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
for political optics rather than legal ones.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with
We have been promoting this story on social media for days.
DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government
Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a
silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story.
credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as
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.
corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold
Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively
I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled
without a…

December 22, 2025 at 4:06 AM

A Wild Lib Appeared

@awildlibappeared.bsky.social

It would be such a shame tho if we got #FireBari trending.

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December 22, 2025 at 6:25 AM

A Wild Lib Appeared

@awildlibappeared.bsky.social

I understand the hate brewing for Bari Weiss and her flagrant partisanship in canceling the 60 Minutes CECOT report but let's not forget the real problem:

Larry Ellison

David Ellison

Untaxed billionaires

They're the ones who empowered Bari Weiss to destroy the 4th estate.

Regardless, #FireBari!

December 22, 2025 at 6:20 AM