Chris Weirup
@cweirup.bsky.social
The best part of Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes back in the day was how he said, “But they refused to talk with us!” whenever someone wouldn’t provide a comment on a story. The tone was so completely, “they’re hiding something”.
He must be rolling in his grave right now.
He must be rolling in his grave right now.
One explanation for Bari killing the story is that she did so as a public act of fealty to the administration. But another is that, as an inexperienced journalist, she doesn’t understand that a refusal to go on the record is a kind of comment in and of itself
December 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The best part of Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes back in the day was how he said, “But they refused to talk with us!” whenever someone wouldn’t provide a comment on a story. The tone was so completely, “they’re hiding something”.
He must be rolling in his grave right now.
He must be rolling in his grave right now.
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Dwight Evans.
These players can be voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame today by one of the Hall’s “Era” committees.
Who would get your vote?
- Barry Bonds
- Roger Clemens
- Carlos Delgado
- Jeff Kent
- Don Mattingly
- Dale Murphy
- Gary Sheffield
- Fernando Valenzuela
Who would get your vote?
- Barry Bonds
- Roger Clemens
- Carlos Delgado
- Jeff Kent
- Don Mattingly
- Dale Murphy
- Gary Sheffield
- Fernando Valenzuela
December 7, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Dwight Evans.
I’ve actually been to this Taco Bell. Didn’t need the urgent care, thankfully.
December 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I’ve actually been to this Taco Bell. Didn’t need the urgent care, thankfully.
I … umm…what…?!? There is so much going on here.
NEW: Your "end-to-end encrypted" poop pictures taken by this $599 (+ subscription) smart toilet camera are actually not end-to-end encrypted.
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techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/e...
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techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/e...
‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted | TechCrunch
Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers' data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.
techcrunch.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I … umm…what…?!? There is so much going on here.
So excited for this. The original column by @kphipps3000.bsky.social in The Dissolve was my favorite.
Today at The Reveal: The Laser Age, a new podcast about science fiction films from the second half of the 20th century. I was thrilled to have the great @hodgman.bsky.social join me to discuss SILENT RUNNING, a 1972 film about ecology, robots, cantaloupes, and... murder.
Introducing ‘The Laser Age,’ a New Podcast from The Reveal
New Feature: The Reveal's first podcast takes a close look at science fiction films from the second half of the 20th century. Where did they come from? And what did they say about what was coming next...
thereveal.film
July 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
So excited for this. The original column by @kphipps3000.bsky.social in The Dissolve was my favorite.
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As a former resident of Pittsburgh, it's hilarious to me when Bostonians think that either the "Boston Left" or "parking chairs" are some unique-to-Boston thing that nobody else could ever possibly know about.
Oh, let me guess, you also give directions based on where places used to be? How novel
Oh, let me guess, you also give directions based on where places used to be? How novel
May 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
As a former resident of Pittsburgh, it's hilarious to me when Bostonians think that either the "Boston Left" or "parking chairs" are some unique-to-Boston thing that nobody else could ever possibly know about.
Oh, let me guess, you also give directions based on where places used to be? How novel
Oh, let me guess, you also give directions based on where places used to be? How novel
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The LAPD posts a net loss of $3.3 billion a year every year! But sure, we're gonna talk about the U.S. Postal Service instead
NEW: The U.S. Postal Service posted a net loss of $3.3 billion in this fiscal year’s second quarter mainly due to “significant challenges out of our control,” including workers’ compensation costs, Luke Grossmann, USPS chief financial officer, said at the open session of the governing board meeting
May 11, 2025 at 8:42 PM
The LAPD posts a net loss of $3.3 billion a year every year! But sure, we're gonna talk about the U.S. Postal Service instead
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The whole fucking point of "due process" is that everyone gets it. Everyone. All people. Timothy McVeigh and Mark David Chapman and Ken Lay and Harvey Weinstein and also guys who stole candy bars from 7-11 and ran stop signs. The worst monsters on earth and the most angelic sweeties. Everyone!
The problem with … the two problems with .. AMONG the problems with people like Natalie Jackson is their credulous and sheeplike willingness to accept the government’s narrative about who is a “hero” or a “villain” based on dubious claims,
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April 18, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The whole fucking point of "due process" is that everyone gets it. Everyone. All people. Timothy McVeigh and Mark David Chapman and Ken Lay and Harvey Weinstein and also guys who stole candy bars from 7-11 and ran stop signs. The worst monsters on earth and the most angelic sweeties. Everyone!
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It’s not about saving money.
The U.S. doesn’t have a spending problem, a debt problem, or a deficit problem.
What we have is a wealth inequality problem—and DOGE is designed to make that real issue way worse.
It’s a con. The entire point is to defang government and insulate wealth from democracy.
The U.S. doesn’t have a spending problem, a debt problem, or a deficit problem.
What we have is a wealth inequality problem—and DOGE is designed to make that real issue way worse.
It’s a con. The entire point is to defang government and insulate wealth from democracy.
April 13, 2025 at 11:20 PM
It’s not about saving money.
The U.S. doesn’t have a spending problem, a debt problem, or a deficit problem.
What we have is a wealth inequality problem—and DOGE is designed to make that real issue way worse.
It’s a con. The entire point is to defang government and insulate wealth from democracy.
The U.S. doesn’t have a spending problem, a debt problem, or a deficit problem.
What we have is a wealth inequality problem—and DOGE is designed to make that real issue way worse.
It’s a con. The entire point is to defang government and insulate wealth from democracy.
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🚨BREAKING: North Carolina Supreme Court rejects Republican effort to disqualify more than 60,000 votes in close judicial election. However, GOP dominated court rules 4-2 that several thousand other ballots must be "cured" to be counted.
Democratic candidate will continue legal fight in Fed court.
Democratic candidate will continue legal fight in Fed court.
🚨 Griffin v. North Carolina State Board of Elections (II)
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
April 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
🚨BREAKING: North Carolina Supreme Court rejects Republican effort to disqualify more than 60,000 votes in close judicial election. However, GOP dominated court rules 4-2 that several thousand other ballots must be "cured" to be counted.
Democratic candidate will continue legal fight in Fed court.
Democratic candidate will continue legal fight in Fed court.
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I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Ice director wants to run deportations like ‘Amazon Prime for human beings’
Todd Lyons said he wanted US immigration agency to be ‘like a business’ in its deportation process
www.theguardian.com
April 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Signal chat with war plans = no danger
Student with an opinion that hurt the government’s feelings = immediate threat to national security
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Student with an opinion that hurt the government’s feelings = immediate threat to national security
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March 30, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Signal chat with war plans = no danger
Student with an opinion that hurt the government’s feelings = immediate threat to national security
🤡🤡🤡
Student with an opinion that hurt the government’s feelings = immediate threat to national security
🤡🤡🤡
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Hogan’s Alley published a career retrospective about Hy a while back. www.hoganmag.com/blog/getting...
Getting Hy on Comics: A Profile of Hy Eisman — Hogan's Alley
Comics veteran Hy Eisman has had more ghostly adventures than Casper. Mark Squirek talks to the man who has drawn a who’s who of famous characters.
www.hoganmag.com
March 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Hogan’s Alley published a career retrospective about Hy a while back. www.hoganmag.com/blog/getting...
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"What surprises me most is how the political press generally fails to inform the public that Musk is taking a systematic approach, one that has been outlined in public forums for years." @gilduran.com TheNerdReich
www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...
www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...
'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook
In 2022, one of Peter Thiel's favorite thinkers envisioned a second Trump Administration in which the federal government would be run by a “CEO”
www.thenerdreich.com
March 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
"What surprises me most is how the political press generally fails to inform the public that Musk is taking a systematic approach, one that has been outlined in public forums for years." @gilduran.com TheNerdReich
www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...
www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...
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/3 The truth is, law enforcement will abuse an falsely charged you, and at least a plurality of Americans will applaud them, because being on the side of a bad person or doing anything the cops don’t like makes you bad.
Better to videotape and upload to the cloud immediately.
Better to videotape and upload to the cloud immediately.
March 27, 2025 at 11:51 PM
/3 The truth is, law enforcement will abuse an falsely charged you, and at least a plurality of Americans will applaud them, because being on the side of a bad person or doing anything the cops don’t like makes you bad.
Better to videotape and upload to the cloud immediately.
Better to videotape and upload to the cloud immediately.
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Trump is now arresting Putin's opponents in the U.S. and sending them back to Russia so Putin can imprison or kill them.
Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.
March 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Trump is now arresting Putin's opponents in the U.S. and sending them back to Russia so Putin can imprison or kill them.
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Rubio's family came to America as refugees. How would he feel if the Secretary of State called his family lunatics and sent them back to Castro's Cuba?
RUBIO: We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa
REPORTER: You're saying it could be more than 300?
RUBIO: Sure. At some point I hope we run out because we've gotten rid of all of them.
REPORTER: You're saying it could be more than 300?
RUBIO: Sure. At some point I hope we run out because we've gotten rid of all of them.
March 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Rubio's family came to America as refugees. How would he feel if the Secretary of State called his family lunatics and sent them back to Castro's Cuba?
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I now live in a country where the government kidnaps and disappears people for saying things the government doesn't like.
It's happening here.
Never forgive
Never forget
Never give up
It's happening here.
Never forgive
Never forget
Never give up
March 27, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I now live in a country where the government kidnaps and disappears people for saying things the government doesn't like.
It's happening here.
Never forgive
Never forget
Never give up
It's happening here.
Never forgive
Never forget
Never give up
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multiple issues here:
-it’s unamerican and unconstitutional for the federal govt—and certainly the executive on its own, arbitrarily and in secret—to create a speech code for visa holders
-even if that was permissible, suddenly accosting her in the street and abducting her is wildly disproportionate
-it’s unamerican and unconstitutional for the federal govt—and certainly the executive on its own, arbitrarily and in secret—to create a speech code for visa holders
-even if that was permissible, suddenly accosting her in the street and abducting her is wildly disproportionate
Marco Rubio on Rumeysa Ozturk: "We revoked her visa ... once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States ... if you come into the US as a visitor and create a ruckus for us, we don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country."
March 27, 2025 at 8:32 PM
multiple issues here:
-it’s unamerican and unconstitutional for the federal govt—and certainly the executive on its own, arbitrarily and in secret—to create a speech code for visa holders
-even if that was permissible, suddenly accosting her in the street and abducting her is wildly disproportionate
-it’s unamerican and unconstitutional for the federal govt—and certainly the executive on its own, arbitrarily and in secret—to create a speech code for visa holders
-even if that was permissible, suddenly accosting her in the street and abducting her is wildly disproportionate
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I wrote something about the secret police kidnapping and disappearing students over their op-eds, and wondering what happened to all those people screaming about the "free speech crisis on campus."
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/t...
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/t...
Trump’s Secret Police Are Now Disappearing Students For Their Op-Eds
For years, we’ve been hearing breathless warnings about a “campus free speech crisis” from self-proclaimed free speech warriors. Their evidence? College students doing what colleg…
www.techdirt.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I wrote something about the secret police kidnapping and disappearing students over their op-eds, and wondering what happened to all those people screaming about the "free speech crisis on campus."
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/t...
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/t...
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Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
Exclusive: NIH officials have advised scientists to remove reference to mRNA vaccines from their grant applications, in expectation the Trump administration intends to abandon most research in the field.
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
By @arthurallen202.bsky.social
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Scientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health News
Two senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis...
kffhealthnews.org
March 17, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.
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There is a real, genuine 1st Amendment crisis in the United States right now.
The government is openly retaliating against anyone with a viewpoint it doesn't like: Pro-Palestinian protesters, law schools teaching Black History, pro-immigration public service loan forgiveness seekers.
The government is openly retaliating against anyone with a viewpoint it doesn't like: Pro-Palestinian protesters, law schools teaching Black History, pro-immigration public service loan forgiveness seekers.
March 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
There is a real, genuine 1st Amendment crisis in the United States right now.
The government is openly retaliating against anyone with a viewpoint it doesn't like: Pro-Palestinian protesters, law schools teaching Black History, pro-immigration public service loan forgiveness seekers.
The government is openly retaliating against anyone with a viewpoint it doesn't like: Pro-Palestinian protesters, law schools teaching Black History, pro-immigration public service loan forgiveness seekers.
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If a legal permanent resident can have his green card revoked for exercising his first amendment rights, there’s nothing to stop them from going after citizens, too.
NEWS: Last night, the Department of Homeland Security detained a Palestinian who helped lead the Columbia encampment.
Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.
His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
Agents told him his visa was revoked. He said he had a green card. They were confused—then said that was revoked too.
His attorney demanded a warrant. Agents hung up instead.
BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Says Advocates
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
zeteo.com
March 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
If a legal permanent resident can have his green card revoked for exercising his first amendment rights, there’s nothing to stop them from going after citizens, too.
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Frustrated there's not more I can do directly, but for now I can just try to document reality. Elon is bringing his Twitter destruction playbook to the US government, and it's impossible to explain just how serious and bad this is.
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...
Elon’s Twitter Destruction Playbook Hits The US Government, And It’s Even More Dangerous
Remember how Elon Musk destroyed Twitter by ripping apart its infrastructure without understanding it? Now imagine that same playbook applied to the federal government. It’s happening, and th…
www.techdirt.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Frustrated there's not more I can do directly, but for now I can just try to document reality. Elon is bringing his Twitter destruction playbook to the US government, and it's impossible to explain just how serious and bad this is.
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...
www.techdirt.com/2025/01/31/e...
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The American people spoke, and they wanted Elon Musk to be able to share Americans’ personal information from government databases to whatever 19 year old gamers he’s trying to impress on Discord
February 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
The American people spoke, and they wanted Elon Musk to be able to share Americans’ personal information from government databases to whatever 19 year old gamers he’s trying to impress on Discord