@jfehren.bsky.social
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Anyway, watch for yourself and see what you think of Weiss's defense. To me, it's demonstrably full of shit
December 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Anyway, watch for yourself and see what you think of Weiss's defense. To me, it's demonstrably full of shit
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He’s gilded the entire White House, slapped his name on both the Kennedy Center and Institute for Peace, installed a new Trump Gold Card, and now proposing a new “Trump class” of naval vessels.
I know we keep saying this is insane but this is seriously fucking insane.
I know we keep saying this is insane but this is seriously fucking insane.
oh my god its literally Long Beach's wario
December 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
He’s gilded the entire White House, slapped his name on both the Kennedy Center and Institute for Peace, installed a new Trump Gold Card, and now proposing a new “Trump class” of naval vessels.
I know we keep saying this is insane but this is seriously fucking insane.
I know we keep saying this is insane but this is seriously fucking insane.
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Detainee they are interviewing was a college student in Columbia. Waited in Mexico until he had a 2024 immigration interview in CA - a scheduled appointment - where he was told he was a danger to society. Claims he has no criminal record, never even got a traffic ticket. Was immediately detained
December 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Detainee they are interviewing was a college student in Columbia. Waited in Mexico until he had a 2024 immigration interview in CA - a scheduled appointment - where he was told he was a danger to society. Claims he has no criminal record, never even got a traffic ticket. Was immediately detained
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"an unusual strategy that has sparked an ongoing legal battle"
That's one way to put it.
You'll hear from some of those men, describing torture, sexual and physical abuse at CECOT. Four months of hell.
That's one way to put it.
You'll hear from some of those men, describing torture, sexual and physical abuse at CECOT. Four months of hell.
December 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
"an unusual strategy that has sparked an ongoing legal battle"
That's one way to put it.
You'll hear from some of those men, describing torture, sexual and physical abuse at CECOT. Four months of hell.
That's one way to put it.
You'll hear from some of those men, describing torture, sexual and physical abuse at CECOT. Four months of hell.
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Don’t worry, guys. Special envoy to the president Ric Grenell wants you to know that the CBS thing is totally on the up and up, and not to please the admin. He’s proving that by demanding CBS fires people.
December 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Don’t worry, guys. Special envoy to the president Ric Grenell wants you to know that the CBS thing is totally on the up and up, and not to please the admin. He’s proving that by demanding CBS fires people.
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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.
!! 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)
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
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.
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Horrifying that the article cites a teacher who's making their students use "Canva’s AI functions to design ugly holiday sweaters."
This is TERRIBLE thing to do to a child. LET THE KIDS DRAW, for the love of God. LET THEM MAKE THINGS WITH THEIR OWN BRAINS AND HANDS.
God help us all.
This is TERRIBLE thing to do to a child. LET THE KIDS DRAW, for the love of God. LET THEM MAKE THINGS WITH THEIR OWN BRAINS AND HANDS.
God help us all.
December 22, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Horrifying that the article cites a teacher who's making their students use "Canva’s AI functions to design ugly holiday sweaters."
This is TERRIBLE thing to do to a child. LET THE KIDS DRAW, for the love of God. LET THEM MAKE THINGS WITH THEIR OWN BRAINS AND HANDS.
God help us all.
This is TERRIBLE thing to do to a child. LET THE KIDS DRAW, for the love of God. LET THEM MAKE THINGS WITH THEIR OWN BRAINS AND HANDS.
God help us all.
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2011: roblox is the website where you can play a knock-off version of halo if your parents won't buy you an xbox
2025: roblox, the child predator app, has donated money to the president's new ballroom
2025: roblox, the child predator app, has donated money to the president's new ballroom
December 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
2011: roblox is the website where you can play a knock-off version of halo if your parents won't buy you an xbox
2025: roblox, the child predator app, has donated money to the president's new ballroom
2025: roblox, the child predator app, has donated money to the president's new ballroom
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imagine the kind of person you would have to be to watch that 60 Minutes segment and think "I must do everything I can to defend the people in charge of this process of sending people to be tortured."
December 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
imagine the kind of person you would have to be to watch that 60 Minutes segment and think "I must do everything I can to defend the people in charge of this process of sending people to be tortured."
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It’s sickening but this has indeed been the Republican position since W Bush
imagine the kind of person you would have to be to watch that 60 Minutes segment and think "I must do everything I can to defend the people in charge of this process of sending people to be tortured."
December 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
It’s sickening but this has indeed been the Republican position since W Bush
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bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
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.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
December 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
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I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
WATCH: Segment CBS News Pulled From "60 Minutes"
YouTube video by Phil Lewis
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I just uploaded @jasonparis.bsky.social 's recording of the segment CBS News pulled from "60 Minutes" to YouTube:
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Even if you were unaware with how central Hans Von Spakovsky has been to right wing conspiracies about nonexistent “voter fraud,” you would still be right to think it’s a bad sign that someone named Hans Von Spakovsky thinks Heritage has gone too far to the right
This is a pretty shocking mass exodus. Heritage's legal department is basically a ghost ship at this point. And I have to imagine they'll really have to dredge the absolute bottom of the barrel to restaff it at this point. reason.com/volokh/2025/...
Breaking: Cully Stimson and Hans von Spakovsky Resign From Heritage
The Meese Center is basically empty now.
reason.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Even if you were unaware with how central Hans Von Spakovsky has been to right wing conspiracies about nonexistent “voter fraud,” you would still be right to think it’s a bad sign that someone named Hans Von Spakovsky thinks Heritage has gone too far to the right
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Whoa, towards the end, the reporter (Sharyn Alfonsi) says Dept of Homeland Security declined a request for an interview *and referred all questions to El Salvador*
December 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Whoa, towards the end, the reporter (Sharyn Alfonsi) says Dept of Homeland Security declined a request for an interview *and referred all questions to El Salvador*
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i get cancelled for this take a LOT but one of the most important things I think we need to do is start handing out failing grades again. if you can't do algebra, you should not pass algebra. but, of course, for political reasons,,,,
regardless of specific early childhood reading strategies, there's a top to bottom belief in education right now that the most important thing is that no one who's actually good at things should be rewarded very much for it and that deep engagement with the material is for nerds and losers
i've been saying that mid-Millennials are the last generation that will actually be able to read and write fully, and I was thinking that was mostly a problem with phones & chatgpt, but now i think it's also, uh, something that's being engineered deliberately [and for extremely stupid reasons]
December 22, 2025 at 6:05 PM
i get cancelled for this take a LOT but one of the most important things I think we need to do is start handing out failing grades again. if you can't do algebra, you should not pass algebra. but, of course, for political reasons,,,,
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and if you are bari weiss, and you watched this, and you said, "the main problem with this story is it's unfair to steven miller"—the moral deformation there is hard to exaggerate.
December 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
and if you are bari weiss, and you watched this, and you said, "the main problem with this story is it's unfair to steven miller"—the moral deformation there is hard to exaggerate.
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Standing by the story but…
not ascribing motive
or
placing blame
or
objecting
or
Resigning
not ascribing motive
or
placing blame
or
objecting
or
Resigning
December 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Standing by the story but…
not ascribing motive
or
placing blame
or
objecting
or
Resigning
not ascribing motive
or
placing blame
or
objecting
or
Resigning
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JV DJT uses the epithet “globalists” to criticize the right wingers leaving Heritage because the Hitler-curious antisemitism there just got to be too much. I genuinely am undecided as to whether JV DJT is profoundly ignorant, or actively malignant. Could be both I suppose.
December 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
JV DJT uses the epithet “globalists” to criticize the right wingers leaving Heritage because the Hitler-curious antisemitism there just got to be too much. I genuinely am undecided as to whether JV DJT is profoundly ignorant, or actively malignant. Could be both I suppose.
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There is an entire English language available to describe Pete Hegseth’s tenure at the Pentagon
- celebrating massacres like Wounded Knee, honoring Secession, purging women & black officers, military threats to NATO allies, extrajudicial killing in the Caribbean and Pacific -
yet Ben Smith says:
- celebrating massacres like Wounded Knee, honoring Secession, purging women & black officers, military threats to NATO allies, extrajudicial killing in the Caribbean and Pacific -
yet Ben Smith says:
December 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
There is an entire English language available to describe Pete Hegseth’s tenure at the Pentagon
- celebrating massacres like Wounded Knee, honoring Secession, purging women & black officers, military threats to NATO allies, extrajudicial killing in the Caribbean and Pacific -
yet Ben Smith says:
- celebrating massacres like Wounded Knee, honoring Secession, purging women & black officers, military threats to NATO allies, extrajudicial killing in the Caribbean and Pacific -
yet Ben Smith says:
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like, this isn’t a person who you can tell “ummmm as the proprietor of a right wing opinion substack i think i know when a TV news story months in the making about foreign prisons is ready”
December 22, 2025 at 7:32 AM
like, this isn’t a person who you can tell “ummmm as the proprietor of a right wing opinion substack i think i know when a TV news story months in the making about foreign prisons is ready”
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It's important to note for the consultant people: Kat is tied for first place, she's raised more money in this race than anyone else, and she hasn't used Twitter in months.
It's a website filled with racist AI snuff films and it's rigged against you specifically. There's no good reason to use it.
It's a website filled with racist AI snuff films and it's rigged against you specifically. There's no good reason to use it.
This has always been a Bluesky-first campaign. But as of today, we will no longer be using Twitter. At all.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
And I'm calling on other candidates to follow suit.
December 22, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It's important to note for the consultant people: Kat is tied for first place, she's raised more money in this race than anyone else, and she hasn't used Twitter in months.
It's a website filled with racist AI snuff films and it's rigged against you specifically. There's no good reason to use it.
It's a website filled with racist AI snuff films and it's rigged against you specifically. There's no good reason to use it.
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“And what we need to do, of course, is get that graveyard groper Stephen Miller on camera to explain why it’s not that bad.”
Bari Weiss, cont'd: "I held that story because it wasn't ready. The story presented very powerful testimony of abuse in CECOT, but that testimony has already been reported... The public knows that Venezuelans have been subjected to horrific treatment in this prison... we simply need to do more."
December 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
“And what we need to do, of course, is get that graveyard groper Stephen Miller on camera to explain why it’s not that bad.”
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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 22, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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
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the shitstorm that’s already brewing because of Bari’s decision to spike this story is going to end up being vastly more damaging to her and to the admin than allowing the story to air would have been
she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted
she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted
December 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM
the shitstorm that’s already brewing because of Bari’s decision to spike this story is going to end up being vastly more damaging to her and to the admin than allowing the story to air would have been
she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted
she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted
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maintaining the fiction that cbs news would remain relatively objective under her leadership was a *lot* more important — to the admin, to cbs news, to david ellison and to bari weiss — than killing this story was, and it’s incredibly funny she didn’t know that
the shitstorm that’s already brewing because of Bari’s decision to spike this story is going to end up being vastly more damaging to her and to the admin than allowing the story to air would have been
she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted
she’s an evil propagandist hack but she is also very bad at doing it in a way that isn’t hamfisted
December 22, 2025 at 4:47 AM
maintaining the fiction that cbs news would remain relatively objective under her leadership was a *lot* more important — to the admin, to cbs news, to david ellison and to bari weiss — than killing this story was, and it’s incredibly funny she didn’t know that