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errant-signal.com
I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.
January 2, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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helldude.bsky.social
literally laid the modern groundwork for the imperial presidency. see also bush v gore. see also iraq war. see also "reality-based community." literally the trump blueprint. despicable
votebiue.bsky.social Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 1d
Not a fan of Bush but he was a step up from what we got now.
January 2, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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intense.wiggling.me
Image of Charlton Heston saying "you can pry my gun from my cold dead hands" at the NRA, with a Flipper Zero super-imposed over a gun.
December 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
losing my mind thinking about these people being taken off a sanctions list while even more icc judges get sanctioned
December 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Trump guys are about to Comet Pizza every third daycare center because they think they are all fronts for Somali money laundering. They're only doing this near cities with progressive mayors. This is straight up Government by LibsOfTikTok.
A map of the Boston area showing daycare centers: Almost 4,000 Daycares in a 20-mile radius around Boston, with 1/4 of that being water.
December 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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herohommel.bsky.social
I've waited 3 years to make this post
screenshot of tweet saying "who the fuck is playing pokemon in antarctica" with a trade partner in antarctica photo of me in antarctica playing my switch. adelie penguins are in the background photo of me in antarctica playing my switch, with pokemon legends z-a. adelie penguins are in the background.
December 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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katmabu.bsky.social
I’m extremely concerned by reports the Trump administration destroyed a facility during a covert action in Venezuela.

If this was done without Gang of Eight oversight, it’s a serious violation of federal law and a dangerous escalation that pushes us closer to war: www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Trump says the U.S. took out a 'big facility' in Venezuela amid strikes on alleged drug boats
The president did not provide details about the apparent strike, which NBC News has not independently confirmed.
www.nbcnews.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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cooperlund.online
The biggest input for politics for almost everyone now is their media diet, and you can tell when someone's media diet sucks pretty quickly
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d
i still don't know where conservative zoomers get this from (from the Manhattan Institute voter panel of zoomer voters)
Lauren: I feel like it’s a combination. Some things are worsening . . . the immigrants and the deportation. That just makes me angry: there shouldn’t be women dying because certain people are not put away. And these . . . Democratic judges just freaking, like, letting people off. I’m like, do your freaking job, and actually put people away when they commit a crime. Like, why are you letting them off? Why is this so politically charged? No. Democrat or Republican, do your freaking job . . . There’s talk about cancer research going down, and kind of . . . almost ending, and that really makes me angry. My mom had cancer, my grandma is enduring it right now. But religion’s improving: the percentages of Gen Z seeking out the Lord and starting a relationship . . . with who God truly is.
December 29, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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econberger.bsky.social
Not a comment in favor or against wealth taxation but the “how can we possibly tax illiquid unrealized equity” issue can easily be resolved by accepting equity shares as a form of tax payment
December 29, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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matthewbest.bsky.social
Wait till you read how he was fucking hired
A book page: "As soon as Mosley took a seat, Karp began reciting a fiery speech that Oswald Mosley gave in 1939 demanding that Britain seek peace with Nazi Germany. ("Our generation shall not die like rats in Polish holes. They shall not die but shall live to see above their heads the English sky, to feel beneath their feet the English soil, and to enjoy the fair English countryside....") Karp didn't just repeat a few sentences; he went on for minutes, reproducing the speech from memory. Mosley sat in stunned silence. When Karp finished, he executed a few tai chi moves and walked out of the room without saying goodbye. A shaken Mosley figured that his family's dark past had torpedoed him again. But it hadn't: he was hired and ended up running Palantir's UK business."
December 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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chadloder.bsky.social
The Uncommitted Movement was a movement organized by Democrats, targeting the 2024 Dem primary.

Its leaders, like Alawieh, publicly stated he would vote for Harris to "block Trump," distinguishing between endorsing a candidate and voting strategically to prevent harm. I'm tired of this narrative.
December 29, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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unicornriot.bsky.social
NEW 👉👉 Atlanta Activist’s Arrest Underscores Search, Surveillance Powers of Border Agencies
Samuel Tunick’s story is part of a wider trend of surveillance at border crossings. Legal and security experts weigh in on possible precautions citizens can take.
unicornriot.ninja/2025/sources...
image composition, airport terminal, TSA security line. an airplane taking off, pam bondi, and donald trump staring large in the background. in foreground a phone with message "You better not wipe this phone - or else :)" is held by two hands.
December 28, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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conorsen.bsky.social
End of the print editions of the Minneapolis and Atlanta newspapers, Warner Bros being sold to a streamer or a rich guy, the Oscars moving to YouTube, the last month in media had a real End of Something feeling.
amreports.bsky.social Ashley Miller @amreports.bsky.social · 5d
Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.
December 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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sorenspicknall.bsky.social
They say imitation crab is the sincerest form of crab
December 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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sailorrooscout.bsky.social
GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.
December 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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chadloder.bsky.social
"Why Peter Thiel is leaving Silicon Valley" (2018)
December 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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kenjennings.bsky.social
He was despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.
December 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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gadzooksbazooka.bsky.social
Christmas drawing in my sketchbook, pen and ink on paper.
I hope you are having a happy holidays.
Christmas drawing in my sketchbook, pen and ink on paper. I hope you are having a happy holidays. The drawing is of a cop beating up a person dressed as Santa, beneath the drawing I wrote this… “Residents of the squatter community of Christiana, Denmark, for example, have a Christmastide ritual where they dress in Santa suits, take toys from department stores and distribute them to children on the street, partly just so everyone can relish the images of the cops beating down Santa and snatching the toys back from crying children.” -David Graeber from his book Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
December 22, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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ddosecrets.com
The censored 60 Minutes' segment, Inside CECOT, is now available.

Download from @ddosecrets.com: data.ddosecrets.com/Inside%20CEC...

Download/stream from @archive.org: archive.org/details/insi...

The original video was recorded by @jasonparis.bsky.social, and cleaned up by @emma.best
December 22, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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kendrawrites.com
Shout out to the people who did this and fuck you to everyone who made me feel like shit for saying they should just leak it.
December 23, 2025 at 2:02 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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chadloder.bsky.social
CBS, now under Bari Weiss's control, has pulled their 60 Minutes program "Inside CECOT" episode that was due to air, because "it needed more reporting." The 30-second show promo video has been pulled from YouTube and set to private so nobody can watch it.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 12d
It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now.

It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.
December 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
bpaisano.bsky.social
Very important periodic reminder that the pretense of the data boys that they are 'objective' is a complete sham because that is impossible. The very selection of what data points to measure and what those are meant to be proxies for is itself subjective and colored by ideology
jamellebouie.net jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13d
personally getting very irritated by the unbelievable arrogance of the data boys
reedonly.bsky.social Simpler Times Rememberer @reedonly.bsky.social · 13d
when we said “defer electoral strategy to the actual politicians running for actual offices” we meant “after calculating wins above replacement somehow”
December 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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diplomatofnight.com
Zohran Mamdani scares the ADL more than these guys and I think it's fair to ask why
December 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM