DavidTarrell
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DavidTarrell
@dixiecupdrinker.bsky.social
Public defender, occasional writer, 4000 weeks fan
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CBS has cancelled a story about the Christmas Nigeria bombings because Bari Weiss complained it implied that Nigerians are human beings without seeking an alternative perspective from Steven Miller.
December 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal https://theonion.com/think-tank-called-the-himmler-institute-assures-nation-this-all-legal/
December 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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If you were Nick Fuentes coming up with a mean-spirited and bigoted “satirical” character to mock and belittle Jews or to discredit complaints about antisemitism you would wind up with something very like Eve Barlow, who said it was a “pogrom” to be called Eve Fartlow
What these people are doing to the power of calling out real antisemitism, in an incredibly dangerous time of surging global antisemitism….man, it is just so worrisome
December 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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I borrowed this cabin in the woods with the goal of writing 30,000 words in 9 1/2 days toward my next book, SNOWBLIND. With a day and a half to go, I'm at 25,500 words. I might actually hit my goal before I leave.
December 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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LOL at Cory Booker putting the 60 Minutes story up on his YouTube channel. Paramount won't dare take it down

youtu.be/jiehEMlNiCI?...
The 60 Minutes Story The Trump Administration Doesn't Want You To See
YouTube video by Cory Booker
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation
December 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Gosh. I'm wondering what ruling by which Supreme Court Justice might have previously given CBP and ICE the idea that they could just detain people and throw them behind bars for an extended period of time based on the color of their skin and nothing else?
Kavanaugh in a footnote in today's opinion says "the officers must not make interior immigration stops or arrests based on race or ethnicity."
December 23, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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To show America's commitment to free speech, I, Marco Rubio, am punishing people for their free speech.

The US government is a bunch of performative 🤡s
December 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Holy shit!

On the morning of the Delaney Hall confrontation, an ICE thug who would shove @replamonica.bsky.social later in the day used a racial slur.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
December 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Read @adamserwer.bsky.social on the Roberts' court's attempts to "to turn the guarantees of the Civil War amendments back into what James Madison called "parchment barriers.'"

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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The Storytelling We Need to Rebuild Belief in Government

www.emptywheel.net/2025/12/22/t...
The Storytelling We Need to Rebuild Belief in Government - emptywheel
As we look ahead to the new year, we need to figure out ways to tell the story of the damage Trump caused so we can hold him accountable.
www.emptywheel.net
December 22, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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On left:

Bari Weiss: 60 Minutes segment failed to show Government view that CECOT detainees are due judicial review

On right:

Judge Boasberg Dec 22: "The Government itself has not even contested that the detainees who now make up the CECOT class received inadequate process prior to their removal"
December 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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The banned episode:

youtu.be/VKz9mfHxQlA?...
Inside CECOT (the banned 60 minutes special)
YouTube video by roterote
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.

Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
December 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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These people are gutter trash.
JD Vance: "They are not sending their best. Omar Fateh was Ilehan [sic] Omar's candidate for mayor of Mogadishu-- I mean Minneapolis. Little Freudian slip there."
December 22, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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60 Minutes, dead at 57. The murder weapon was Bari Weiss.
December 22, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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CBS really Bari'd the story huh.
December 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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For those of us warning about democracy's potential disintegration, the decision by CBS to pull an exhaustively researched 60 Minutes piece, critical of Trump, is another red alert moment.

When truth disappears as the media gets coopted by the regime, there's little left.
December 22, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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As long as no one objected to the genocide in Gaza, it’s all good
December 20, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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/2 And people in authority who openly defy the rule of law and encourage contempt of it, who openly use it to help their friends and hinder their enemies, are not morally entitled to its protection, in any way.
December 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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A 17-year-old worker died at a pork producer in Nebraska run by the governor’s family. Two investigations later, the boy’s mother is still searching for answers.
A Mysterious Death of a Teen Worker at a Nebraska Hog Farm
A 17-year-old worker died at a pork producer in Nebraska run by the governor’s family. Two investigations later, the boy’s mother is still searching for answers.
nyti.ms
December 19, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Children are being exploited. Let’s respond by dramatically hindering our ability to point out or criticize children being exploited, using methods we don’t understand because we’re old and incurious.
Children are being exploited and abused because Big Tech consistently prioritizes profits over people.

Enough is enough. Time to sunset Section 230.
December 19, 2025 at 2:16 AM