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sethabramson.bsky.social
US media has decided to pretend that the Epstein-Nassar Letter Epstein sent just before he died merely had a "crude reference" to Trump.

NO.

It was a clear, unambiguous allegation by Epstein that Trump *regularly sexually assaulted* "young, nubile girls."

Our media is BROKEN.
December 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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just-jack-1.bsky.social
Since his dime store lawyers suggested he could get away with more authoritarian stuff under the guise of “National Security”, anything he doesn’t like is labeled a threat to national security.
December 23, 2025 at 12:31 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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timhannan.bsky.social
Donald Trump is guilty AF.
December 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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cto1usn.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
DO NOT PAY ATTENTION TO THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN!!!
December 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
December 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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yolo0311.bsky.social
Felon47 is the deranged one...
December 22, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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middlerage.bsky.social
He’s got bigger problems this morning 🤡 bsky.app/profile/midd...
middlerage.bsky.social Middlerage @middlerage.bsky.social · 11h
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This is the letter Epstein wrote to Larry Nassar, yes the same fucker who abused the girls on the U.S. Gymnastics Team, it was uploaded & removed within hours last night.

“Our President Also Shares our love of young, nubile girls…”
Larry Nassar letter
December 23, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Julie has been covering this longer than most. The DOJ is not following the law. #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp
December 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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cidbarret85.bsky.social
tЯump has begun lifting American sanctions on companies that sell weapons to the Russian military.

The Russians have finally offered enough money to the tЯump family and tЯump is 100% on Russia's side now.

This is blatant corruption...
December 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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patriottakes.bsky.social
The 60 minutes CECOT video is awful. Torture conditions of migrants who had legal status.

The end of the episodes alluded to other, less transparent prisons that Trump has used in other countries known for torture.
December 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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davidjbier.bsky.social
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 7:52 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.

And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
December 22, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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chadlehman.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT5t...
LOOK AROUND
Post by OKSOTHICK "It's so bad for America rn and I don't say this in a doom kinda way. But look around..."
December 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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dashannestokes.com
Felon autocrat Trump and his buddies are engineering state-run media, turning the U.S. into the next North Korea or Russia. CBS should be ashamed for making themselves complicit in this destruction of democracy.
December 22, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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ernest33141.bsky.social
This is the promo video than @cbsnews.com cancelled the #Airtime on @60minutes.bsky.social
This is one of the most important evidence than #AbregoGarcia needs to use as a part of evidence against #KristiNoem for kidnapping & violation of the constitutional rights of the detainees @aclu.org
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d
Why did CBS delete this promo and cancel this from airing in full?
December 22, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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gj59.bsky.social
If the evidence in the files prove Clinton is guilty, democrats will reject Clinton.
If the evidence in the files prove trump is guilty, maga will reject the evidence.
December 22, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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adamkinzinger.substack.com
Since I’m getting “what did I miss” from alot, Paramount Plus, owner of CBS spiked the El Salvador CECOT prison story yesterday on 60 minutes because it made the White House look bad. Cancel paramount plus

Censorship. Bari Weiss
December 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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justinbaragona.bsky.social
And there it is...
December 22, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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wajali.bsky.social
The Ellisons and Bari Weiss killed 60 Minutes and CBS News.

It's done.

Just a fancier version of Newsmax now.

What a sad end.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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annabower.bsky.social
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. 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. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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smokecigarettes.bsky.social
Since there seems to be files getting deleted from the Epstein release, I've made all four dataset zip files available for download. These are the files as they were originally released. (Downloaded within minutes of them being made public)

~3GB in size

drive.proton.me/urls/P0XVG30...
Proton Drive
Securely store, share, and access your important files and photos. Anytime, anywhere.
drive.proton.me
December 20, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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apnews.com
BREAKING: At least 16 files from the Epstein release disappeared from DOJ's webpage, including a photo of Trump, with no explanation.
At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein
The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were released.
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December 20, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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marcelias.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING: The Department of Justice will fail to publicly release all of its files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein by a Friday deadline, violating a new federal law explicitly mandating that the trove of documents be turned over for public scrutiny. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Chickens Out on Epstein Files Release in Violation of New Law
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM