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jen by. @jenbyers.com · Nov 6
do not trust anyone
who gets too excited
about war.

no,
do not trust anyone
who gets excited
at all.
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kashana.blacksky.app
An industry is 100% white: nothing to see here

An industry becomes 99% white: grab the rocket launchers, file the lawsuits, make up the imaginary white men who are being discriminated against otherwise we will all die
December 26, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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kibblesmith.com
Belle: hey
Scrooge: sup
Belle: left the house again
Scrooge: lol
Scrooge: did they do the song
Belle: 🫠
December 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
jenbyers.com
we need to get the torture camp story right by explaining the politicians', guards' and architects' side, too.
justinbaragona.bsky.social Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2d
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 6:45 PM
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elizabethmay.bsky.social
The thing about Bari Weiss is that she has the unshakeable confidence of someone who has never once been the smartest person in any room she's entered, but has also never noticed.
December 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Every society that has ever existed has had views that are mainstream and views that are fringe. The free-speech frauds who captured the discourse over the past decade understood this, but their true objection was that they did not unilaterally have the power to define which was which. For example, in a 2018 Times column, Weiss complained that “leftists” were engaged in a “concerted attempt to significantly redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” This was meant to sound sinister, menacing. In fact, this is politics. Every faction is always trying to “redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” In a free society, the government allows people to have those arguments. Such disputes are not a threat to free speech; they are free speech. When I say that CBS News’s Bari Weiss understood this, you needn’t take my word for it. In November, shortly after being given the reins to one of the oldest broadcast-news organizations in the country, Weiss used identical language to describe her own project: “I think it’s about redrawing the lines of what falls in the 40-yard lines of acceptable debate and acceptable American politics and culture,” Weiss said at the Jewish Leadership Conference. “And I don’t mean that in, like, a censorious, gatekeeping way.” What’s the difference between her “redrawing the lines” of acceptable speech and other people doing it? What makes one “censorious” and “gatekeeping” and the other not? Well, because she gets to decide. That’s what so much of the free-speech panic was ever about: making sure the right people were in charge of what you see, hear, and read. Notably, this has very little to do with reporting the news, which is supposed to be what CBS News does. But if the point of installing Weiss was to ensure that she would gatekeep on behalf of right-wing interests, that is precisely what she appears to be doing.
December 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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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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chadstanton.blacksky.app
Bringing back Limewire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit
December 23, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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jpmendelson.bsky.social
No money for healthcare, but enough for 20-25 battleships.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d
Trump claims that ultimately he plans to build "20 to 25" new battleships
December 22, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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sardonicus.eu
Goodnight.
graffitti on a brick wall I Want My Life Back
December 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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atherton.bsky.social
Over at @cipolicy.bsky.social, I published two stories on CECOT/El Salvador. In May, @mpaarlberg.bsky.social made the case that CECOT's primary function is a way for the corrupt Trump admin and the corrupt Bukele admin to scratch each other's backs, disappearing political problems out of courts.
El Salvador, Trump, and The Transnational State of Exception - CIP
Emergency rules in El Salvador are helping Trump defy laws in the United States.
internationalpolicy.org
December 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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joshuaerlich.bsky.social
i say this with nothing but love for all of you to whom this applies, but the moral rot in elite journalism is because journalism is a trade and it should be done by tradespeople and instead it's been professionalized in a way that makes it cozy to capital instead
December 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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aclu.org
Wrong.

The First Amendment protects our right to record law enforcement activity in public — full stop.
DHS says recording or following law enforcement 'sure sounds like obstruction of justice'
Seven federal circuit courts have upheld the First Amendment right to record and monitor the police.
reason.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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alexanderfurnas.com
surely the women's bathroom is a sacred space ive been told by conservatives
davidjbier.bsky.social David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 4d
ICE agents illegally break into a woman's bathroom in a NY nutrition bar manufacturing plant. "Pull up your pants," says a male agent. The agents only had a warrant to review employer documents. They didn't have a warrant to search for, detain, or arrest anyone there.
December 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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alexshephard.bsky.social
The full Weiss memo is dogshit
-who cares if administration figures “regret” sending people to CECOT
-who cares about the criminal histories of the people we sent to CECOT, we sent them to a torture prison
—who cares about the “debate” over the legality of sending people to a torture prison
December 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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resnikoff.bsky.social
The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
December 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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jmberger.com
A definitional element of extremism is that harming an out-group is inseparable from the success or survival of the in-group. For extremists, such harm becomes an intrinsic need. They come to believe that denying them the right to harm out-groups is the same thing as denying them the right to exist.
adamserwer.bsky.social Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 4d
The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
When the 18th-century writer Samuel Johnson asked why “we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes,” he was identifying no mere contradiction, but liberty as it was imagined by men who owned other human beings as property. Slaveholders such as John Calhoun saw slavery as inseparable from their own freedom, and they worried that the false doctrine of abolitionism would eliminate that freedom away. “Already it has taken possession of the pulpit, of the schools, and, to a considerable extent, of the press; those great instruments by which the mind of the rising generation will be formed,” Calhoun said. (It seems the “woke mind virus” was telling lies about the great and benevolent institution of American slavery as far back as two centuries ago.) Defending slavery, however, required invasive uses of power, such as banning antislavery literature and returning escaped Black people to bondage. Many white Americans in the 19th century began to understand that the “Slave Power” curtailed their freedoms as well. And this is what many people forget: Systems of domination rarely spread their blessings widely. The Redemption-era revocation of Black freedoms didn’t result in prosperity for white people writ large, but a Gilded Age in which the upper classes gained unfathomable wealth and economic crises left millions destitute. The nation may have held on to white supremacy, but it also got low wages, a threadbare welfare state, and a society dominated by the rich. Everyone else was too divided by race and class to challenge them.
December 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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stephenjudkins.bsky.social
Bari Weiss going from purported brave defender of free speech and open debate to chief censor of reporting about a federal concentration camp is so grimly hilarious
60minutes.bsky.social 60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 5d
An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
The broadcast lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated. Our report “Inside CECOT” will air in a future broadcast.
December 21, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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alexip718.com
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
December 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
jenbyers.com
i can be both non-binary and "just a girl" because gender is fluid & mine travels through brainrot 🥲
December 19, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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motherjones.com
When Customs and Border Protection and Commander Gregory Bovino move into town, so does Whistlemania.

These activists create and distribute thousands of 3D-printed whistles, and their piercing cries are used to signal that immigration agents are nearby. And it's working.
The horns and whistles work
What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.
www.motherjones.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
I love to be told that feminism has failed women by women whose careers and ability to flourish in public life, let alone have a credit card, only exist because of feminism
December 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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wyden.senate.gov
Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet
December 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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kansasreflector.com
Prairie Band Potawatomi leader says tribe has separated from ICE project | via @anna-writes.bsky.social #ksleg
Prairie Band Potawatomi leader says tribe has separated from ICE project  • Kansas Reflector
A Kansas tribe terminated its involvement in a federal contract to design large-scale migrant detention centers, a tribal leader announced Wednesday.
kansasreflector.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
jenbyers.com
if you were a young girl who misunderstood lolita & an elder man goaded on this misinterpretation, you may be entitled to financial compensation.

....or, like, a machete.
December 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
jenbyers.com
the men who told me "trans kids weren't a story" have pulitzers & peabodys, and i have mice in my apartment walls.

the degradation of marginalized journalists & the platforming of bigoted, oppressive ones... is why we are in this mess.
December 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM