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December 24, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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vodkula.bsky.social
Two lines of pigs doing a zipper merge
December 23, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
The ironclad law of podcasts is that if it was sold to Spotify for 300 million dollars it is unlistenable within the first 15 seconds but if the three people are sharing one meal from Wendy’s you can listen for hours
December 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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mobute.bsky.social
enjoying the quiet but critical work of "former entertainer"
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social
WB: What do you have planned for Batman 2?

Tim Burton: We open on a newborn baby boy

WB: Aww

TB: No. The baby is ugly. He kills and eats a house cat while it's still alive. His parents try to kill him in his crib, but to Gotham's woe, they fail

WB: ...

TB: Also it's a Christmas movie
December 24, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.
princetonupress.bsky.social Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 2d
Congratulations to Stephen Macedo & Frances Lee, whose book In Covid's Wake has been recognized as:

⭐ A @newyorker.com Best Book of the Year
⭐ An @economist.com Book of the Year
⭐ A @wsj.com Best Book of the Year

Learn more about this eye-opening book: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
In Covid's Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us by Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee. A New Yorker Best Book of the Year; An Economist Best Book of the Year; A Wall Street Journal Best Book of the Year
December 24, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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In 2023 I became obsessed with videos of dads in cargo shortswaiting in parking lots during Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. So when she came to town, I grabbed a camera and headed down to talk to them. I thought it'd be funny. It turned out to be something else entirely.
December 23, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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jamellebouie.net
always amazed to see the ways people will debase themselves for free
sallyjenx.bsky.social Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 1d
The Bari Weiss hysteria continues. Exactly what in "this piece isn't ready" and "try harder to get comment from the administration" constitutes the death of American journalism? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
What Bari Weiss Got Right
And what she got wrong
www.theatlantic.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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milesklee.bsky.social
Gerry Adams was posting like Chuck Grassley in 2016 at age 68. he’s now retired and Chuck is 92 and president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate
oddthisday.bsky.social Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1d
Well, happy anniversary to one of the finest of festive exchanges
Twitter screenshot, 23 December 2016 (and god knows we needed a laugh at the end of that year): Gerry Adams, “This house is like Santa's Grotto. Takes half an hour 2 switch off fairy lights and assorted Yule illuminations. Feel like a grinch now.” Reply from ‘Eddielzzard'sBeret’: “Surely you know someone who can fit a timer.”
December 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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mford.bsky.social
Canadian TV network bravely airs dissidents’ report on U.S. abuses after political commissar orders its suppression
andreawoo.bsky.social Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 2d
Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app
December 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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possumacquainter.bsky.social
let's all take a moment to remember that in the 80s Ferris Bueller "Oh Yeah" song by Yello, the singer is canonically a little fat creature who is simply living his best life and chilling
First I did the music and then I invited Dieter to sing along, and he came up with some lines which I thought, 'no Dieter, it's too complicated, we don't need that many lyrics'. I had the idea of just this guy, a fat little monster sits there very relaxed and says, "Oh yeah, oh yeah". So I told him, 'Why don't you try just to sing on and on 'oh yeah'?... Dieter was very angry when I told him this and he said, 'are you crazy, all the time "Oh yeah"? Are you crazy?! I can't do this, no no, come on, come on.' And then he said, 'some lyrics, like "the moon... beautiful", is this too much?!' and I said, 'no, it's OK', and then he did this 'oh yeah' and at the end he thought, 'yeah it's nice', he loved it himself also.
December 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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jonbois.bsky.social
a solid 25% of generative ai responses are "how would tom waits answer this question"
fvehafric.bsky.social Frank Vehafric @fvehafric.bsky.social · 2d
Google Gemini Pro: please generate a map of the western united states showing cities of over 250K population
an AI generated map of the US showing cities in bizarre locations
December 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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papapishu.bsky.social
If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
December 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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jessehawken.bsky.social
So I'm supposed to believe that Bari Weiss, who okayed an FP article about how most children who died in Gaza had pre-existing health conditions, didn't think the CECOT story on 60 Minutes was ready for broadcast
December 22, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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For this week's That's Marvelous newsletter I regrettably wrote a little bit about Bari Weiss (but also I happily wrote a little bit about dogs)! Read it here: www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/163-60-minut...
If you have never heard of Bari Weiss, I envy your blessed existence, and I will catch you up with great regret, like when you have to explain death to a child or Mr. Beast to a parent. Weiss rose to prominence as a beneficiary of the NYT op-ed section's community outreach program, where they provide financial support to Ivy League graduates who believe themselves to be at the vanguard of public thought despite not having (or even really engaging with) a new idea since 2003. She then founded a blog that told rich people who were not ready to come out of the closet as racists and transphobes exactly what they wanted to hear. In a more just world, she would have been put out of business when ChatGPT began offering the same service to our nation's internet-and-wealth-poisoned elites for free.
December 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
Also it is not plausible that weiss standards for rigor are simply high given her enthusiastic publication of george floyd trutherism radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-retcon...
The retconning of George Floyd: a coda
A response to Coleman Hughes and Avak Howsepian
radleybalko.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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owillis.bsky.social
Liberals rehabbing monsters like Jonah Goldberg and George W Bush is one of the things I hate most about liberalism
elongreen.bsky.social Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 3d
I think many people know him as that cheerful guy on NPR. But this paragraph written as Hurricane Katrina made landfall is the essence of Jonah Goldberg.
December 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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elongreen.bsky.social
I think many people know him as that cheerful guy on NPR. But this paragraph written as Hurricane Katrina made landfall is the essence of Jonah Goldberg.
Attn: Superdome Residents I think it’s time to face facts. That place is going to be a Mad Max/thunderdome Waterworld/Lord of the Flies horror show within the next few hours. My advice is to prepare yourself now. Hoard weapons, grow gills and learn to communicate with serpents. While you’re working on that, find the biggest guy you can and when he’s not expecting it beat him senseless. Gather young fighters around you and tell the womenfolk you will feed and protect any female who agrees to participate without question in your plans to repopulate the earth with a race of gilled-supermen. It’s never too soon to be prepared.
December 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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owillis.bsky.social
If CBS censored a piece that hurt the Democrats, every Republican in the house and senate and beyond would be on it, cause the party understands politics in a way that Democrats fundamentally do not
December 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
“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.”
annabower.bsky.social Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 3d
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 3:42 AM
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helldude.bsky.social
rfk jr is an emissary of the plaguelord grandfather nurgle
December 22, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
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December 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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jamellebouie.net
oh the CBS bosses went to dylan byers? then they are definitely lying.
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d
"We determined it needed additional reporting."
Dylan Byers • @DylanByers X.com CBS News spokesperson tells me the 60 Minutes report on "Inside CECOT" will air in a future broadcast. "We determined it needed additional reporting." 60 Minutes 12/21/25 60Minutes • 2h EDITOR'S NOTE The broadcast lineup for tonight's edition of 60 Minutes has been updated. Our report "Inside CECOT" will air in a future broadcast.
December 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM