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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
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
MAGA says “high trust society” but their actions say “gestapo”. All of the GOP that enables them and feigns helplessness are un-american and share the blame.
This is a point I keep coming back to. You cannot defend a high trust society by orchestrating hate campaigns and moral panics against disfavored groups and harassing the populace with masked paramilitary thugs.
Miller's arguments are that "Third World" can't assimilate and that 1965 immigration act unraveled social cohesion.
But these are absurd claims. I took them on here. If you want to talk "social cohesion," Trump/Miller are doing more to erode it than immigrants are.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
But these are absurd claims. I took them on here. If you want to talk "social cohesion," Trump/Miller are doing more to erode it than immigrants are.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
MAGA says “high trust society” but their actions say “gestapo”. All of the GOP that enables them and feigns helplessness are un-american and share the blame.
Reposted by Kyle of Krakoa
This is a point I keep coming back to. You cannot defend a high trust society by orchestrating hate campaigns and moral panics against disfavored groups and harassing the populace with masked paramilitary thugs.
Miller's arguments are that "Third World" can't assimilate and that 1965 immigration act unraveled social cohesion.
But these are absurd claims. I took them on here. If you want to talk "social cohesion," Trump/Miller are doing more to erode it than immigrants are.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
But these are absurd claims. I took them on here. If you want to talk "social cohesion," Trump/Miller are doing more to erode it than immigrants are.
newrepublic.com/article/2041...
December 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This is a point I keep coming back to. You cannot defend a high trust society by orchestrating hate campaigns and moral panics against disfavored groups and harassing the populace with masked paramilitary thugs.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
December 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.
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This is your reminder to
🎮 Replay Zelda WindWaker,
📺Rewatch TaleSpin,
✈️ and Wishlist Lou's Lagoon on Steam 🥰🫶
#louslagoon #indiedev #gamedev
🎮 Replay Zelda WindWaker,
📺Rewatch TaleSpin,
✈️ and Wishlist Lou's Lagoon on Steam 🥰🫶
#louslagoon #indiedev #gamedev
November 27, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This is your reminder to
🎮 Replay Zelda WindWaker,
📺Rewatch TaleSpin,
✈️ and Wishlist Lou's Lagoon on Steam 🥰🫶
#louslagoon #indiedev #gamedev
🎮 Replay Zelda WindWaker,
📺Rewatch TaleSpin,
✈️ and Wishlist Lou's Lagoon on Steam 🥰🫶
#louslagoon #indiedev #gamedev
Reposted by Kyle of Krakoa
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Reposted by Kyle of Krakoa
New York Times social media guidelines prohibit expression suggesting partiality on things like ICE, execution of foreigners in fishing boats, or whether law is a thing.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
Fall 2017: Then-NYT reporter literally warning Epstein that someone is "digging around again."
![From:
Thomas Jr., Landon
Sent:
9/27/2017 2:47:47 PM
To:
Subject:
Got another call from Connelly..
Importance:
High
Jeffrey Epstein [jeevacation@gmail.com]
He is digging around again -- not clear if its another book/or expanded paperback version. Was asking me all sorts of questions about why you hired Ken Starr. I told him I had no idea - I think he is doing some Trump-related digging too.
Anyway, for what its worth...
Landon Thomas, Jr.
Financial Reporter
New York Times
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/t/landon_ir thomas/index.h
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November 13, 2025 at 4:09 AM
New York Times social media guidelines prohibit expression suggesting partiality on things like ICE, execution of foreigners in fishing boats, or whether law is a thing.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
However, tipping off notorious serial pedophiles about other reporters is absolutely fine.
Reposted by Kyle of Krakoa
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
The Republicans already sold off all our social security numbers, so naturally giving away the whole census is next.
Republican plan would make deanonymization of census data trivial
“Differential privacy” algorithm prevents statistical data from being tied to individuals.
arstechnica.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
The Republicans already sold off all our social security numbers, so naturally giving away the whole census is next.
Reposted by Kyle of Krakoa
Hi, folks, a little personal news. In mid-November, I'm getting my aortic valve replaced via open-heart surgery. As scary as that sounds, my prognosis is excellent. This is fairly personal health news, and I'm posting publicly for two reasons.
October 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Hi, folks, a little personal news. In mid-November, I'm getting my aortic valve replaced via open-heart surgery. As scary as that sounds, my prognosis is excellent. This is fairly personal health news, and I'm posting publicly for two reasons.
Reposted by Kyle of Krakoa
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
September 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/
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The issue isn’t that Maxwell lied throughout her entire proffer. She has been lying, deceiving and manipulating people her entire life. I expect it from her.
The issue is that the US Department of Justice gave her very tangible benefits already for those lies with more to come.
The issue is that the US Department of Justice gave her very tangible benefits already for those lies with more to come.
August 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM
The issue isn’t that Maxwell lied throughout her entire proffer. She has been lying, deceiving and manipulating people her entire life. I expect it from her.
The issue is that the US Department of Justice gave her very tangible benefits already for those lies with more to come.
The issue is that the US Department of Justice gave her very tangible benefits already for those lies with more to come.
Yes, we sometimes err taking simplistic moral high ground from a privileged distance, but if one of the biggest companies in the world can't fight back against Trump because of shareholder value, they are not the same company Jobs founded.
But I am agreed the real rot is the US government.
But I am agreed the real rot is the US government.
August 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Yes, we sometimes err taking simplistic moral high ground from a privileged distance, but if one of the biggest companies in the world can't fight back against Trump because of shareholder value, they are not the same company Jobs founded.
But I am agreed the real rot is the US government.
But I am agreed the real rot is the US government.
Reposted by Kyle of Krakoa
★ Gold, Frankincense, and Silicon
Gold, Frankincense, and Silicon
It is disturbing to think that the leader of a beloved, trusted, and widely believed-to-be-ethical company like Apple has succumbed to avarice. That Tim Cook feels no qualms about — or perhaps even delights in — participating in a quid-pro-quo-driven corrupt administration in which flattery, fealty, gifts, and barely-concealed bribes are rewarded. That the United States devolving into kleptocracy suits Tim Cook just fine, because Apple’s pockets are deep enough to pay the vig.
But the alternative is more disturbing.
daringfireball.net
August 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
★ Gold, Frankincense, and Silicon
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In a conversation with the personal lawyer of the man with the ability to pardon her, the convicted child rapist and sex trafficker said that man with the power to pardon her did nothing wrong. Well that’s settled.
The most exhausting thing about this time is being condescended to by dipshits.
The most exhausting thing about this time is being condescended to by dipshits.
August 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
In a conversation with the personal lawyer of the man with the ability to pardon her, the convicted child rapist and sex trafficker said that man with the power to pardon her did nothing wrong. Well that’s settled.
The most exhausting thing about this time is being condescended to by dipshits.
The most exhausting thing about this time is being condescended to by dipshits.
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In a real country this would be a major crime
“.. Within about three minutes of the crash, the Model S uploaded a “collision snapshot”—video, CAN‑bus streams, EDR data, etc.—to Tesla’s servers .. The vehicle then deleted its local copy, resulting in Tesla being the only entity having access.”
@electrek.co $TSLA
electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...
@electrek.co $TSLA
electrek.co/2025/08/04/t...
August 4, 2025 at 5:14 PM
In a real country this would be a major crime
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i have been stuck on JD Vance's claremont speech for almost two weeks now because it is structurally identical to roger taney's opinion for the court in dred scott
July 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
i have been stuck on JD Vance's claremont speech for almost two weeks now because it is structurally identical to roger taney's opinion for the court in dred scott
The sickos cheering on ICE acting as their own little SS need to understand that they are undermining trust with all law enforcement in a way that will echo for decades.
July 9, 2025 at 2:34 PM
The sickos cheering on ICE acting as their own little SS need to understand that they are undermining trust with all law enforcement in a way that will echo for decades.
Reposted by Kyle of Krakoa
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
July 2, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.
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Dear cis people:
I don't feel hopeful that enough of you will fight to preserve trans healthcare and thus preserve trans lives. It seems like most of you are fine with letting us passively die.
Please change my mind.
I don't feel hopeful that enough of you will fight to preserve trans healthcare and thus preserve trans lives. It seems like most of you are fine with letting us passively die.
Please change my mind.
May 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Dear cis people:
I don't feel hopeful that enough of you will fight to preserve trans healthcare and thus preserve trans lives. It seems like most of you are fine with letting us passively die.
Please change my mind.
I don't feel hopeful that enough of you will fight to preserve trans healthcare and thus preserve trans lives. It seems like most of you are fine with letting us passively die.
Please change my mind.
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
April 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
Reposted by Kyle of Krakoa
What’s been hardest for me to understand about the conspiracy prone Right isn’t their willingness to believe almost anything, it’s that the types of things they distrust (research, expertise, harm reduction, not-for-profit objectives) are almost always fundamentally or necessarily decentralized.
April 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
What’s been hardest for me to understand about the conspiracy prone Right isn’t their willingness to believe almost anything, it’s that the types of things they distrust (research, expertise, harm reduction, not-for-profit objectives) are almost always fundamentally or necessarily decentralized.
Reposted by Kyle of Krakoa
Excuse me?
YOU WANT TO MODERNIZE THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
YOU WANT TO MODERNIZE THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”
ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with human beings’ • Michigan Advance
The leader of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said that his dream for the agency is squads of trucks rounding up immigrants for deportation the same way that Amazon trucks crisscross American citi...
michiganadvance.com
April 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Excuse me?
YOU WANT TO MODERNIZE THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
YOU WANT TO MODERNIZE THE MIDDLE PASSAGE