Saba Saba
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The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
December 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Excellent thread here by Bill of all the times Bari Weiss didn't care when stories she published had additional comment.
This exec, Jennifer Sey, has become an anti-trans activist, currently offering a bounty for any pro women's soccer player to join her and accuse female competitors of being men.
This exec, Jennifer Sey, has become an anti-trans activist, currently offering a bounty for any pro women's soccer player to join her and accuse female competitors of being men.
December 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Excellent thread here by Bill of all the times Bari Weiss didn't care when stories she published had additional comment.
This exec, Jennifer Sey, has become an anti-trans activist, currently offering a bounty for any pro women's soccer player to join her and accuse female competitors of being men.
This exec, Jennifer Sey, has become an anti-trans activist, currently offering a bounty for any pro women's soccer player to join her and accuse female competitors of being men.
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Delivery to CECOT. A detainee describes the warden's welcome speech to them: You'll never see the light of day or night again. Welcome to hell. I'll make sure you'll never leave. Thought they were already the living dead.
December 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Delivery to CECOT. A detainee describes the warden's welcome speech to them: You'll never see the light of day or night again. Welcome to hell. I'll make sure you'll never leave. Thought they were already the living dead.
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This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment.
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
December 22, 2025 at 10:16 PM
This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment.
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process
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Rick Steves 😍
Rick Steves steps in to save Seattle-area hygiene center serving homeless residents
Steves purchased the property to prevent it from closing. Many homeless people had come to depend on the Lynnwood Hygiene Center, which had operated rent-free on the property since 2020.
n.pr
December 22, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Rick Steves 😍
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December 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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The unfolding Bari Weiss scandal is yet another example that we’re living through the Golden Age of people who don’t know shit trying and failing to do things that require people to know shit.
December 22, 2025 at 5:10 AM
The unfolding Bari Weiss scandal is yet another example that we’re living through the Golden Age of people who don’t know shit trying and failing to do things that require people to know shit.
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22 December 1887 | A Pole, Bolesław Kutrowski, was born in Sobótka. A blacksmith.
In #Auschwitz from 6 June 1942.
No. 37534
He perished in the camp on 27 July 1942.
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📖 "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/
In #Auschwitz from 6 June 1942.
No. 37534
He perished in the camp on 27 July 1942.
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📖 "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/
December 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
22 December 1887 | A Pole, Bolesław Kutrowski, was born in Sobótka. A blacksmith.
In #Auschwitz from 6 June 1942.
No. 37534
He perished in the camp on 27 July 1942.
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📖 "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/
In #Auschwitz from 6 June 1942.
No. 37534
He perished in the camp on 27 July 1942.
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📖 "Poles at KL Auschwitz”: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_2020_06_polacy/
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Happy to amplify it here.
Ironic given that the story was already there but not pulling attention. @frontlinepbs.bsky.social and @propublica.org posted their version on the subject three days ago. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lku5...
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
m.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Happy to amplify it here.
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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:
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Historian here Ron DeSantis thinks the Great Depression brought on by miserable Republican Presidents in the 1920s, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, was A okay
There’s like a dozen things that are wrong about this statement.
December 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Historian here Ron DeSantis thinks the Great Depression brought on by miserable Republican Presidents in the 1920s, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, was A okay
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The thing about censorship — I say this as someone with experience living under authoritarianism — is that it’s rarely overt. The state cracks down when people flirt with the line & then folks maintain it. This 60 minutes cancellation of the episode on CECOT sent chills down my spine.
December 22, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The thing about censorship — I say this as someone with experience living under authoritarianism — is that it’s rarely overt. The state cracks down when people flirt with the line & then folks maintain it. This 60 minutes cancellation of the episode on CECOT sent chills down my spine.
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I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days. Note that these sentences were written back when Donald Trump was a NYC playboy libertine who donated to Democrats.
December 21, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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I’m home, which means many hours with my grandfather’s stories, and this visit turned up this gem: the very first IBM computer arriving in Taiwan in 1967 (? the year was a guess)
December 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I’m home, which means many hours with my grandfather’s stories, and this visit turned up this gem: the very first IBM computer arriving in Taiwan in 1967 (? the year was a guess)
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ICE and CBP, among others, have violently retaliated against ICE Watch in part because the agencies correctly understand what many do not: Organized neighbors are mounting an effective defense, and an organized movement is a formidable adversary. My new feature: newrepublic.com/article/2042...
Inside Chicago’s Neighborhood ICE Resistance
Residents have organized a formidable network to protect immigrant communities from Trump’s brutal deportation program. Their efforts are making a genuine difference.
newrepublic.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
ICE and CBP, among others, have violently retaliated against ICE Watch in part because the agencies correctly understand what many do not: Organized neighbors are mounting an effective defense, and an organized movement is a formidable adversary. My new feature: newrepublic.com/article/2042...
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"Maria Farmer is another hero." Amanda Roberts, sister-in-law of Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre salutes Maria Farmer, whose 1996 FBI complaint against Epstein, which was never publicly acknowledged, appeared in the DOJ's release of Epstein files. "She got this day of vindication."
December 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM
"Maria Farmer is another hero." Amanda Roberts, sister-in-law of Epstein survivor Virginia Giuffre salutes Maria Farmer, whose 1996 FBI complaint against Epstein, which was never publicly acknowledged, appeared in the DOJ's release of Epstein files. "She got this day of vindication."
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Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight To End Apartheid talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...
Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight To End Apartheid
As Black activists in South Africa fought against their country’s racist apartheid...
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Trump’s Pick For Ambassador To South Africa Actively Opposed Fight To End Apartheid talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...
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A story I found about Haiti:
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
December 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
A story I found about Haiti:
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."
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vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans
December 18, 2025 at 10:07 PM
vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans
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The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
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From the BLS -- Food at Home (Groceries): +1.9%
SMITH: I see so many great things - gas coming down, oil coming down, groceries coming down. All these good things are happening but consumer confidence has taken a pretty significant hit. Why?
LUTNICK: That's why we have to people watch Fox, so they actually get the truth rather than the fake news
LUTNICK: That's why we have to people watch Fox, so they actually get the truth rather than the fake news
December 18, 2025 at 7:59 PM
From the BLS -- Food at Home (Groceries): +1.9%
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NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
www.usatoday.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources.
Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.
Unbelievable.
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Read this. Then read it again.
December 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Read this. Then read it again.
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I particularly appreciate her (and the Times) taking a moment to remind us for whom this base was renamed, two genuine military heroes and pioneers who did not, unlike Robert E Lee, commit treason or traffic in slaves.
www.npr.org/2023/04/27/1...
www.npr.org/2023/04/27/1...
An Army fort named after Robert E. Lee now honors 2 pioneering Black officers
Fort Lee, named after the leader of Confederate forces during the Civil War, was redesignated on Thursday to honor Lt. Gen. Arthur Gregg and Lt. Col. Charity Adams.
www.npr.org
December 16, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I particularly appreciate her (and the Times) taking a moment to remind us for whom this base was renamed, two genuine military heroes and pioneers who did not, unlike Robert E Lee, commit treason or traffic in slaves.
www.npr.org/2023/04/27/1...
www.npr.org/2023/04/27/1...