@mystytour.bsky.social
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NEW: Russia conducted another large-scale combined missile and drone strike against Ukraine overnight on December 22 and 23, primarily targeting energy infrastructure in western Ukraine. (1/6)
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 23, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar122325
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 23, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar122325
December 24, 2025 at 5:45 AM
NEW: Russia conducted another large-scale combined missile and drone strike against Ukraine overnight on December 22 and 23, primarily targeting energy infrastructure in western Ukraine. (1/6)
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 23, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar122325
Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 23, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar122325
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"Even Putin doesn't name classes of ships after himself. Kim Jong-un doesn't name — I mean this is crazy," Tom Nichols tells Tim Miller. "We're gonna run around in circles because this unhinged old man, you know, wants to have a ship with his name on it."
December 24, 2025 at 6:01 AM
"Even Putin doesn't name classes of ships after himself. Kim Jong-un doesn't name — I mean this is crazy," Tom Nichols tells Tim Miller. "We're gonna run around in circles because this unhinged old man, you know, wants to have a ship with his name on it."
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I may have disagreed with @radiofreetom.bsky.social occasionally during the last Trump admin, but I find I can't disagree with anything he's said during this one:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Trump’s Vanity Fleet
The Trump-class ships are about branding, not strategy.
www.theatlantic.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I may have disagreed with @radiofreetom.bsky.social occasionally during the last Trump admin, but I find I can't disagree with anything he's said during this one:
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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Bari Weiss's memo: "We need to push much harder to get these principals on the record"
Reality: 60 Minutes repeatedly requested interviews from DHS, State, and White House. All of which blew the show off
So, either Weiss didn't know the facts, or she didn't care
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/b...
Reality: 60 Minutes repeatedly requested interviews from DHS, State, and White House. All of which blew the show off
So, either Weiss didn't know the facts, or she didn't care
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/b...
December 24, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Bari Weiss's memo: "We need to push much harder to get these principals on the record"
Reality: 60 Minutes repeatedly requested interviews from DHS, State, and White House. All of which blew the show off
So, either Weiss didn't know the facts, or she didn't care
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/b...
Reality: 60 Minutes repeatedly requested interviews from DHS, State, and White House. All of which blew the show off
So, either Weiss didn't know the facts, or she didn't care
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/b...
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During the holiday season, we all want to spend time with our loved ones.
And yet, just two months after buying Walgreens for $10 billion, the private equity firm Sycamore Partners stripped hourly workers of paid vacation, including Christmas and New Year’s Day.
Shameful.
And yet, just two months after buying Walgreens for $10 billion, the private equity firm Sycamore Partners stripped hourly workers of paid vacation, including Christmas and New Year’s Day.
Shameful.
December 23, 2025 at 5:41 PM
During the holiday season, we all want to spend time with our loved ones.
And yet, just two months after buying Walgreens for $10 billion, the private equity firm Sycamore Partners stripped hourly workers of paid vacation, including Christmas and New Year’s Day.
Shameful.
And yet, just two months after buying Walgreens for $10 billion, the private equity firm Sycamore Partners stripped hourly workers of paid vacation, including Christmas and New Year’s Day.
Shameful.
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Wrong.
The First Amendment protects our right to record law enforcement activity in public — full stop.
The First Amendment protects our right to record law enforcement activity in public — full stop.
DHS says recording or following law enforcement 'sure sounds like obstruction of justice'
Seven federal circuit courts have upheld the First Amendment right to record and monitor the police.
reason.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Wrong.
The First Amendment protects our right to record law enforcement activity in public — full stop.
The First Amendment protects our right to record law enforcement activity in public — full stop.
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The New York Police Department's “mosque-raking” program targeted Muslim communities across NYC. Now, as the city's first Muslim mayor takes office, one man is fighting—again—to fully expose it. www.wired.com/story/nypd-s...
NYPD Sued Over Possible Records Collected Through Muslim Spying Program
The New York Police Department's “mosque-raking” program targeted Muslim communities across NYC. Now, as the city's first Muslim mayor takes office, one man is fighting—again—to fully expose it.
www.wired.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
The New York Police Department's “mosque-raking” program targeted Muslim communities across NYC. Now, as the city's first Muslim mayor takes office, one man is fighting—again—to fully expose it. www.wired.com/story/nypd-s...
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We are not, have never been and never will be a Christian nation.
We're a secular nation where you're free to believe whatever you want.
We're a secular nation where you're free to believe whatever you want.
JD Vance gets the biggest applause of his speech so far when he says "by the grace of God we always will be a Christian nation"
December 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
We are not, have never been and never will be a Christian nation.
We're a secular nation where you're free to believe whatever you want.
We're a secular nation where you're free to believe whatever you want.
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We’re calling for an investigation into DHS Sec. Kristi Noem for misusing government resources to display a video in airports across the country blaming TSA delays on Democrats shutting down the government.
This is in clear violation of the Hatch Act and Sec. Noem must be held accountable.
This is in clear violation of the Hatch Act and Sec. Noem must be held accountable.
December 23, 2025 at 5:43 PM
We’re calling for an investigation into DHS Sec. Kristi Noem for misusing government resources to display a video in airports across the country blaming TSA delays on Democrats shutting down the government.
This is in clear violation of the Hatch Act and Sec. Noem must be held accountable.
This is in clear violation of the Hatch Act and Sec. Noem must be held accountable.
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If you want to understand why election denialism is so important to MAGA, you need to understand that it is the movements foundational myth. I wrote about this today. Become a member today to access this and all Democracy Docket premium content. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
December 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
If you want to understand why election denialism is so important to MAGA, you need to understand that it is the movements foundational myth. I wrote about this today. Become a member today to access this and all Democracy Docket premium content. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0
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CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
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Release the prosecution memoranda. That will explain why DOJ chose not to pursue additional indictments against third parties that it appeared Epstein was coordinating with to traffic the victims.
December 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Release the prosecution memoranda. That will explain why DOJ chose not to pursue additional indictments against third parties that it appeared Epstein was coordinating with to traffic the victims.
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The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
December 23, 2025 at 9:49 AM
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
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This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.
The CBS investigation portrays a modern concentration camp, similar to the Soviet GULAG (like CECOT, an acronym): sadistic guards, 24 hour lighting, isolation cells.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
Americans once opposed this inhumane system.
The Trump administration sent innocent people there to suffer.
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 5:57 PM
This struck me too. As Anne Applebaum doesn’t mention, she wrote a classic history of the Gulag.
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“It is unlikely that any of these ships will ever be built. This is vaporware. No different than the Foxconn mega-plant in Wisconsin, or all of the iPhones that are just about to be made in America, or the addition of Canada as the 51st state...”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Trump-Class Battleships Are the Navy’s Trump Ballroom
Trump Steaks. Trump University. Trump Coins. Why not? Let’s do this and be legends.
open.substack.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM
“It is unlikely that any of these ships will ever be built. This is vaporware. No different than the Foxconn mega-plant in Wisconsin, or all of the iPhones that are just about to be made in America, or the addition of Canada as the 51st state...”
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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!! 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 10:39 PM
!! 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)
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“The American people need to be assured that never again will an agency of the government be permitted to conduct a secret war against those citizens it considers threats to the established order.”
Another quote from 1975 that wrecks me.
Another quote from 1975 that wrecks me.
It's time to read the Church Committee Report! Published by a major press for the first time for it's 50th anniversary, we abridged it to its most jaw-dropping findings chronicling the abuses of the FBI, CIA, and Military from the 1950s to the 1970s.
Order here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Order here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
December 23, 2025 at 2:33 AM
“The American people need to be assured that never again will an agency of the government be permitted to conduct a secret war against those citizens it considers threats to the established order.”
Another quote from 1975 that wrecks me.
Another quote from 1975 that wrecks me.
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Imagine torching any semblance of credibility you are holding onto for this 🤷♂️
December 23, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Imagine torching any semblance of credibility you are holding onto for this 🤷♂️
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anyways, here is the segment in full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIm6...
(it will be really funny if CBS tries to use DMCA requests to get youtube and other sites to take these down)
(it will be really funny if CBS tries to use DMCA requests to get youtube and other sites to take these down)
60 Minutes CECOT Segment Axed by Weiss (Aired in Canada)
YouTube video by JayyRodd
www.youtube.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
anyways, here is the segment in full: www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIm6...
(it will be really funny if CBS tries to use DMCA requests to get youtube and other sites to take these down)
(it will be really funny if CBS tries to use DMCA requests to get youtube and other sites to take these down)
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So Weiss failed to 1) protect her newsroom and reporters 2) understand public perception 3) comprehend the impact of her own actions 4) REALIZE THEY ALREADY SENT THE EPISODE TO CANADA WHERE PEOPLE HAVE THE INTERNET AND CAN BROADCAST IT TO THE REST OF THE WORLD
December 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
So Weiss failed to 1) protect her newsroom and reporters 2) understand public perception 3) comprehend the impact of her own actions 4) REALIZE THEY ALREADY SENT THE EPISODE TO CANADA WHERE PEOPLE HAVE THE INTERNET AND CAN BROADCAST IT TO THE REST OF THE WORLD
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Another thing reporters are aware of isn't just conflict of interest but also *appearance* of a conflict of interest. Many expected her to act this way.
So even if she didn't act this way purposefully, she gave her detractors enough to believe she was doing the exact thing they expected her to do.
So even if she didn't act this way purposefully, she gave her detractors enough to believe she was doing the exact thing they expected her to do.
December 23, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Another thing reporters are aware of isn't just conflict of interest but also *appearance* of a conflict of interest. Many expected her to act this way.
So even if she didn't act this way purposefully, she gave her detractors enough to believe she was doing the exact thing they expected her to do.
So even if she didn't act this way purposefully, she gave her detractors enough to believe she was doing the exact thing they expected her to do.
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Let's take the most charitable interpretation of Weiss here, and believe her when she says it was a call about newsworthiness. (I don't.)
That still shows she's a terrible grasp of how news works. She drew attention to a good, but well-told story and Streisand effected it to the moon.
That still shows she's a terrible grasp of how news works. She drew attention to a good, but well-told story and Streisand effected it to the moon.
December 23, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Let's take the most charitable interpretation of Weiss here, and believe her when she says it was a call about newsworthiness. (I don't.)
That still shows she's a terrible grasp of how news works. She drew attention to a good, but well-told story and Streisand effected it to the moon.
That still shows she's a terrible grasp of how news works. She drew attention to a good, but well-told story and Streisand effected it to the moon.
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Weiss said she didn't air it said because it doesn't break new ground. Plenty of 60 Minutes segments don't break new ground.
And even so, fine, that editing critique is usually incorporated in early drafts of projects, not right before they are about to air.
And even so, fine, that editing critique is usually incorporated in early drafts of projects, not right before they are about to air.
December 23, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Weiss said she didn't air it said because it doesn't break new ground. Plenty of 60 Minutes segments don't break new ground.
And even so, fine, that editing critique is usually incorporated in early drafts of projects, not right before they are about to air.
And even so, fine, that editing critique is usually incorporated in early drafts of projects, not right before they are about to air.