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doctorallisona.bsky.social
Two pane meme: ‘Merry Christmas’ with a very joyful and happy Gandalf on top. ‘Pippin Christmas’ with a solemn, stoic Gandalf below.
December 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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bumblingbee.bsky.social
Y'all really owe it to yourselves to watch this one. Among Jon's best work, which is really saying something
December 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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elyon113.bsky.social
Your power bill has tripled and you can't afford new PC parts just to create this.
December 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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timplatt.bsky.social
It out now

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December 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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matthewcort.land
The repeal of Section 230 would lead to the kind of regime-controlled internet in which reposting the CECOT torture prison video inside the United States would be impossible

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Leak: 60 Minutes CECOT Piece | Matthew Cortland
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December 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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chadstanton.blacksky.app
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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bubbaprog.xyz
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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jamellebouie.net
bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
akivamcohen.bsky.social AkivaMCohen @akivamcohen.bsky.social · 2d
Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.

Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
December 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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izdaramola.bsky.social
This is an abu graib type story that Weiss just withheld for whatever asinine reason
December 23, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
I highly recommend watching this segment, not just because the CBS News execs and the White House didn’t want you to, but because these men were tortured and they deserved to have their voices heard.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d
!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social:

is.gd/paU8Ko

(It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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taniel.bsky.social
After what we're seeing at CBS, if today is not the perfect day for everyone to find some independent journalism & nonprofit newsrooms to support... what day could be better?
December 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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hrw.org
On Sunday, @60minutes.bsky.social pulled a segment on torture against US deportees in CECOT, El Salvador's mega prison.

Curious what the story said? Read HRW and @cristosal.bsky.social's report: www.hrw.org/news/2025/11...
US/El Salvador: Torture of Venezuelan Deportees
The Venezuelan nationals the US government sent to El Salvador in March and April were tortured and subjected to other abuses, including sexual violence.
www.hrw.org
December 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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minakimes.bsky.social
Here’s Metcalf’s side. If he did report this fan in the past, I’m sure there’s a record of it.
December 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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rudetales.bsky.social
on Tuesday...
it works
December 22, 2025 at 12:47 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 · 2d
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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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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seankuhn.bsky.social
who calls the shots where you get your news? defector.com/products
Who calls the shots where you get your news? Is it the dull, eyebrowless son of one of the richest men in the world? Is it shareholders, for whom it's expedient to roll over in the face of nuisance lawsuits by the gangster state? Is it one of the private equity firms grinding media companies to dust to eke out returns? Is it someone who will fire a journalist for accurately describing Charlie Kirk’s beliefs? Is it a severely confused Brit? Is it the “rogue employee” who reprogrammed their company’s chatbot to urgently inform users about the “white genocide happening in South Africa”? Not if you read Defector. The 27 of us who work here own the company together. We have no outside investors, so we have no mandate to maximize shareholder value. We don’t take money from gambling companies. We aren’t out to fatten up and get acquired. Defector is uncompromised, a rarity in modern media. When we report, criticize, and analyze, it’s coming from us, not someone upstairs. We answer only to our subscribers. Become one!
December 22, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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rodger.bsky.social
This pass got caught in the end zone
Caleb Williams throwing the ball from his own 45 yard line
December 21, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
I mean that was two *all time* throws by Caleb in the highest stakes moments of his career so far. Incredible.
December 21, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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dirtbagqueer.rocks
line up and run a real play on 4th and 1 jesus christ
December 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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coachfinstock.bsky.social
Me: they have EVERYTHING
Buddy: No way. I'm looking for Post on vinyl and a dildo
Me: you're never gonna believe this
Store front with adult novelties bjork albums magic and Pokémon and airsoft guns
August 17, 2024 at 5:09 PM
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kjshepherd.bsky.social
It's your birthday, Duane.
Duane Kearns Puryear, holding his panel for the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It reads, in block letters: "My name is Duane Kearns Puryear. I was born on December 20, 1964. I was diagnosed with AIDS on September 7, 1987 at 4:45 PM. I was 22 old. Sometimes, it makes me very sad. I made this panel myself. If you are reading it, I am dead..." There are several great resources to learn about Duane, his advocacy, his family, his panel, and the politics of memory and re-creation, especially this one by The Dallas Way: http://www.thedallasway.org/stories/written/2021/9/19/duane-puryears-and-the-quilt-panel Duane Puryear died in 1991.
December 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
edragic.bsky.social
A Lord of the Rings cover Band named Ecthelion of the Fountains of Wayne
scalzi.com John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4d
A Lord of the Rings Cover Band called Nick Cave Troll
gwillow.me G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 4d
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Flock of Smeagols
December 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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anildash.com
If this stands, it’s catastrophic in so many ways. therecord.media/google-searc...
Pa. high court rules that police can access Google searches without a warrant
In a decision that only affects Pennsylvanians but could have privacy implications elsewhere, the state's Supreme Court ruled that police did not need a warrant to access a rape suspect's Google searc...
therecord.media
December 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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cronin.xxx
As predicted the online safety act has succeeded only in making us less safe.
Admit your mistake. Repeal it now.
December 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM