Christopher
@cblittlefield.bsky.social
Eyes on the ground: Observer & notator of Life.
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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:
How have I come so late to appreciate early New Order?
December 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM
How have I come so late to appreciate early New Order?
Re the DOJ partial release of Epstein files: Releasing them all at the same time would prevent the DOJ from managing the embarrassment narrative.
December 20, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Re the DOJ partial release of Epstein files: Releasing them all at the same time would prevent the DOJ from managing the embarrassment narrative.
Why is the feed not chron right now!! Can’t follow comments on this wacky speech in real time. Used to be the charm of this type of app.
December 18, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Why is the feed not chron right now!! Can’t follow comments on this wacky speech in real time. Used to be the charm of this type of app.
I appeal to the Blue Sky admins to please add nuance to your algorithm. How in the world is it ensnaring the person who has been for years lucidly warning us of the folk who made this app necessary?!
I’m just passing through; I posted some Waylon Jennings lyrics a few months back so it’s a matter of time before Bluesky admins claim I killed my cheatin wife in Cedartown Georgia
December 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
I appeal to the Blue Sky admins to please add nuance to your algorithm. How in the world is it ensnaring the person who has been for years lucidly warning us of the folk who made this app necessary?!
Where is the legal justification for attacking Venezuelan boats and the country itself? Media orgs: You're picking over the aftermath of a video by vets reminding troops of their oath, but not insisting on the Trump Admin's sketchy operations? I don't get it.
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Where is the legal justification for attacking Venezuelan boats and the country itself? Media orgs: You're picking over the aftermath of a video by vets reminding troops of their oath, but not insisting on the Trump Admin's sketchy operations? I don't get it.
Really, @npr.org?! In Morning Edition reporting of vote on release of the Epstein files you use the phrase 'underaged women.' There is a more accurate and, in this case, more damning phrase, 'underaged girls.'
November 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Really, @npr.org?! In Morning Edition reporting of vote on release of the Epstein files you use the phrase 'underaged women.' There is a more accurate and, in this case, more damning phrase, 'underaged girls.'
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And I cannot even get into how many people in our community are here because they or their parents or grandparents were being hunted and terrorized in Germany, Eastern Europe, Russia & the Soviet Union.
They know what this is. They know it's happening here.
They know what this is. They know it's happening here.
November 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
And I cannot even get into how many people in our community are here because they or their parents or grandparents were being hunted and terrorized in Germany, Eastern Europe, Russia & the Soviet Union.
They know what this is. They know it's happening here.
They know what this is. They know it's happening here.
An irony prediction: National Guard troops will wind up being denied to San Francisco after an upcoming severe earthquake.
October 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
An irony prediction: National Guard troops will wind up being denied to San Francisco after an upcoming severe earthquake.
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I know I could get into trouble for posting the Antifa battle flag, but I'm gonna do it anyway.
October 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM
I know I could get into trouble for posting the Antifa battle flag, but I'm gonna do it anyway.
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A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.
BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)
Follow @heartlandsignal for more.
Follow @heartlandsignal for more.
October 10, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.
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Keep taking videos of what ICE is doing. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is right, document what’s happening. This is why they hate journalists so much.
October 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Keep taking videos of what ICE is doing. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is right, document what’s happening. This is why they hate journalists so much.
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More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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This is a 9-0 Supreme Court decision from just last year.
September 18, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This is a 9-0 Supreme Court decision from just last year.
Right-wing two-fer: Rail against the so-called liberal media to delegitimize the news, while pushing the orgs’ conservative owners step out into the open and shut down discourse.
September 19, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Right-wing two-fer: Rail against the so-called liberal media to delegitimize the news, while pushing the orgs’ conservative owners step out into the open and shut down discourse.
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Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
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Hussam al-Masri, the Reuters journalist killed by Israeli fire on Monday while operating a live video feed at Gaza's Nasser Hospital, reported on the war's civilian suffering while himself living in a tent and struggling to find food for his family reut.rs/4mW46Hi
Hussam al-Masri, the Reuters journalist killed by Israeli fire in Gaza
Hussam al-Masri, the Reuters journalist killed by Israeli fire on Monday while operating a live video feed at Gaza's Nasser Hospital, reported on the war's civilian suffering while himself living in a tent and struggling to find food for his family.
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August 27, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Hussam al-Masri, the Reuters journalist killed by Israeli fire on Monday while operating a live video feed at Gaza's Nasser Hospital, reported on the war's civilian suffering while himself living in a tent and struggling to find food for his family reut.rs/4mW46Hi
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Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 109 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
No one has heard from you in 109 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
July 2, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.
No one has heard from you in 109 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
No one has heard from you in 109 days.
As vigil, I’m posting a photo or video of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
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If only the GOP could read
May 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
If only the GOP could read
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The $2.99 ebook sale on THEY KNEW continues! From what I understand, today is the last day of the sale. Get your copy while you can: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
May 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
The $2.99 ebook sale on THEY KNEW continues! From what I understand, today is the last day of the sale. Get your copy while you can: us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.
'James' wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.
www.npr.org
May 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.