Tortured Typewriter
@torturedtypewriter.bsky.social
Knee deep in the hoopla
Anti-corruption, pro-democracy, pragmatic progressive
Anti-corruption, pro-democracy, pragmatic progressive
Fridays and holidays, historically the times to dump the reports and news that you're hoping will get buried in the trash heap.
Whoa! Time to dig in...
BREAKING: The House Judiciary Committee has released Jack Smith's 255-page deposition transcript: judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...
December 31, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Fridays and holidays, historically the times to dump the reports and news that you're hoping will get buried in the trash heap.
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Fantastic piece putting the Bari Weiss Experiment in perspective
As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
December 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Fantastic piece putting the Bari Weiss Experiment in perspective
Memory lane meal from my New England childhood: ham steak, baked beans, and canned brown bread. I had to order the bread online because it's not real popular outside of New England (more Boston, but my CT family ate this occasionally).
December 30, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Memory lane meal from my New England childhood: ham steak, baked beans, and canned brown bread. I had to order the bread online because it's not real popular outside of New England (more Boston, but my CT family ate this occasionally).
I haven't had a mix plate in almost 5 years.
Ordered some Ono Hawaiian tonight, and it's like ... 85% there. Pretty good. I don't know if it's actually not as good or if it's just the lack of ocean air.
Ordered some Ono Hawaiian tonight, and it's like ... 85% there. Pretty good. I don't know if it's actually not as good or if it's just the lack of ocean air.
December 29, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I haven't had a mix plate in almost 5 years.
Ordered some Ono Hawaiian tonight, and it's like ... 85% there. Pretty good. I don't know if it's actually not as good or if it's just the lack of ocean air.
Ordered some Ono Hawaiian tonight, and it's like ... 85% there. Pretty good. I don't know if it's actually not as good or if it's just the lack of ocean air.
When Teen Vogue switches from "How to tell if he's into you" to "How to keep tabs on ICE agents surveilling your neighborhood," does that means we're officially great again?
December 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
When Teen Vogue switches from "How to tell if he's into you" to "How to keep tabs on ICE agents surveilling your neighborhood," does that means we're officially great again?
I remember learning a few years ago that most orange cats are males and I looked it up and it was like 80%. Somehow I didn't catch that about 99.9% of calicos are female, which is even more impressive.
And the reason is connected. Orange is carried on the X, and to get a male calico you need an XXY
And the reason is connected. Orange is carried on the X, and to get a male calico you need an XXY
December 27, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I remember learning a few years ago that most orange cats are males and I looked it up and it was like 80%. Somehow I didn't catch that about 99.9% of calicos are female, which is even more impressive.
And the reason is connected. Orange is carried on the X, and to get a male calico you need an XXY
And the reason is connected. Orange is carried on the X, and to get a male calico you need an XXY
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merry christmas, my gf got us a print sub to @theonion.com and gave it to me like this
December 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
merry christmas, my gf got us a print sub to @theonion.com and gave it to me like this
Your unique Santa traditions?
Santa didn't wrap my presents but did wrap my husband's - I was an only child, he wasn't.
Due to work schedules, both our families did our big celebration on the Eve. His family also did Santa that night but I woke up to my Santa gifts in the morning.
Santa didn't wrap my presents but did wrap my husband's - I was an only child, he wasn't.
Due to work schedules, both our families did our big celebration on the Eve. His family also did Santa that night but I woke up to my Santa gifts in the morning.
December 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Your unique Santa traditions?
Santa didn't wrap my presents but did wrap my husband's - I was an only child, he wasn't.
Due to work schedules, both our families did our big celebration on the Eve. His family also did Santa that night but I woke up to my Santa gifts in the morning.
Santa didn't wrap my presents but did wrap my husband's - I was an only child, he wasn't.
Due to work schedules, both our families did our big celebration on the Eve. His family also did Santa that night but I woke up to my Santa gifts in the morning.
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I’m going to need to see the declination memos from DoJ where they declined to prosecute the Epstein co-conspirators, and I’m gonna need to see them for every single person they declined to prosecute.
December 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
I’m going to need to see the declination memos from DoJ where they declined to prosecute the Epstein co-conspirators, and I’m gonna need to see them for every single person they declined to prosecute.
I cheated on my dogs with my in-law's dog and got to hold a sleeping newborn. It's been a lovely Christmas Eve.
December 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
I cheated on my dogs with my in-law's dog and got to hold a sleeping newborn. It's been a lovely Christmas Eve.
First video I've seen of hers, but I thought this was really well communicated.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Rt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Rt...
Why Working-Class Americans Vote for Billionaires: Shame, Status, and the Arsonist Vote
YouTube video by CarolinaWren | Fierce Humanity
www.youtube.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:37 PM
First video I've seen of hers, but I thought this was really well communicated.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Rt...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Rt...
Going to physical therapy doubles as my Feats of Strength for Festivus, right?
December 23, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Going to physical therapy doubles as my Feats of Strength for Festivus, right?
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Coffeezilla has them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7i9...
doj accidentally leaked new epstein files
YouTube video by voidzilla
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Coffeezilla has them: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7i9...
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Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
December 23, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Ok. Now had a chance to check and, well, at least some docs do appear to be straight up classic redaction fail. And there are some *interesting* bits here.
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
www.justice.gov/multimedia/C...
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There are two kinds of libertarians. The ones who are fascists but think only private companies should be allowed to do fascism. And the ones who genuinely believe in freedom but get the economics badly wrong. The first ones really showed their true colors in 2016.
December 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
There are two kinds of libertarians. The ones who are fascists but think only private companies should be allowed to do fascism. And the ones who genuinely believe in freedom but get the economics badly wrong. The first ones really showed their true colors in 2016.
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The CECOT piece has been posted to the Internet Archive, and there's at least one YouTube recording going around.
archive.org/details/3mam...
archive.org/details/3mam...
Inside Cecot : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://bsky.app/profile/jasonparis.bsky.social/post/3mam565pyes24
archive.org
December 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
The CECOT piece has been posted to the Internet Archive, and there's at least one YouTube recording going around.
archive.org/details/3mam...
archive.org/details/3mam...
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I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
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"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.
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 5:03 PM
"Get the principals on camera" is such a telling phrase here, because it tells us that for Weiss there's no world in which the victims of these horrific actions can actually be seen as the subjects of the story: They're background noise, and the people who matter are the ones sending them.
When he picks that rare issue I agree with him on, he speaks so clearly and I agree so hard.
Rand Paul: "All these designations are steps towards war -- calling drug runners terrorists, saying, 'Oh, if they have a designation'-- Well, how'd they get it? We gave it to them. Why is the former president of Honduras released? So some narcoterrorists are okay & others we're going to blow up"
December 22, 2025 at 1:23 AM
When he picks that rare issue I agree with him on, he speaks so clearly and I agree so hard.
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“One year ago, our country was dead. We were absolutely dead. Our country was ready to fail. Totally fail.”
"A new chart showing month-to-month changes to the job market since November 2020, when Trump lost his reelection bid to Biden.
"The red columns show the months in which Trump was in the White House, while the blue columns reflect Biden’s term."
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
"The red columns show the months in which Trump was in the White House, while the blue columns reflect Biden’s term."
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
December 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
“One year ago, our country was dead. We were absolutely dead. Our country was ready to fail. Totally fail.”
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honestly, “it’s because they’re still mad about the New Deal” is a pretty good guiding hypothesis for a lot of stuff
The standard story was that 1950s religious revivals were about contrasting America with the godless commies of the USSR, but I found material that hinted at an older well funded campaign that reframed the revival as a corporate pushback against the New Deal.
So I followed that unexpected thread!
So I followed that unexpected thread!
December 21, 2025 at 4:55 PM
honestly, “it’s because they’re still mad about the New Deal” is a pretty good guiding hypothesis for a lot of stuff
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HASSETT: If the Supreme Court doesn't find with us, refunds would go to whoever cut the check for the tariff
BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that?
HASSETT: Uhh --
BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that?
HASSETT: Uhh --
December 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
HASSETT: If the Supreme Court doesn't find with us, refunds would go to whoever cut the check for the tariff
BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that?
HASSETT: Uhh --
BRENNAN: Doesn't the administration claim it was the country that paid that?
HASSETT: Uhh --
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"But NPR identified more than a dozen files released by the DOJ on Friday that are no longer available Saturday afternoon, including one that shows President Trump's photo on a desk among several other photographs. The removed files also show various works of art, including those containing nudity."
Available to download Friday, some Epstein files no longer there Saturday afternoon
An NPR analysis of the Epstein files shows some documents, originally available on Friday, are no longer on the Department of Justice's "Epstein Library" website as the DOJ releases more files.
www.npr.org
December 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
"But NPR identified more than a dozen files released by the DOJ on Friday that are no longer available Saturday afternoon, including one that shows President Trump's photo on a desk among several other photographs. The removed files also show various works of art, including those containing nudity."
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How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
December 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
How it started vs. How it’s going NOW 👀
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️
LA tow truck driver who towed ICE’s car found NOT GUILTY 🦸🏽♂️