Liam Barnes
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tired: spiked the story
inspired: Bari'ed the story
inspired: Bari'ed the story
In an internal email, 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi said new editor in chief Bari Weiss had “spiked” the story and said the government was using silence to “VETO” stories.
CBS Abruptly Pulls ‘60 Minutes’ Segment On Migrants Sent To El Salvador Prison—What To Know
In an internal email, 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi said new editor in chief Bari Weiss had “spiked” the story and said the government was using silence to “VETO” stories.
www.forbes.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
tired: spiked the story
inspired: Bari'ed the story
inspired: Bari'ed the story
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Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
December 17, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Oh my god y'all I had not seen the rest of the Vanity Fair photos holy shit. Christopher Anderson deserves a medal.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
Look at this. He left the LIGHT SWITCHES in the edited photos! These assholes look like their well-meaning mom took a picture of them on their first day in a grown-up job.
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“Cis” is not a slur.
Saying “Cis is a slur” is an indication that the person saying it is a transphobe however.
Saying “Cis is a slur” is an indication that the person saying it is a transphobe however.
November 30, 2025 at 7:31 AM
“Cis” is not a slur.
Saying “Cis is a slur” is an indication that the person saying it is a transphobe however.
Saying “Cis is a slur” is an indication that the person saying it is a transphobe however.
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🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Woman deported from Maryland shown on video being dragged in Ghana
Rabbiatu Kuyateh was detained this summer at her annual ICE check-in, her son said. She moved to the D.C. area 30 years ago as she fled civil war in Sierra Leone.
www.nbcnews.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
🧵This 58-year-old nurse from Maryland is seen being violently dragged along the ground by officials in Ghana.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
Trump deported her there.
This abhorrent & disgusting abuse of a woman who saved American lives and cared for injured and ill Americans for 30 years.
All the details below are worse.
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The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
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We’re not small business owners, ffs - we’re independent contractors, and we are routinely robbed by the world’s dumbest dingbats.
![A quote-tweet with the profile blocked out because I won’t be accused of sending flying monkeys at this digital turd.
counterpoint: pirate everything all the time. pirate a sandwich. download a car. abscond from from small business owner mindset with your brain
[High Priestess, Low Patie... • @cherie... • 14h
Re: previous post - People who steal art of any kind are assholes, full stop. If *you* deserve to be paid for your labor, so do I - and so does everybody else; this means writers, visual artists, musicians, and every other category of People Who Make Things.]
• • •
every time vulgar leftism pipes in from the sidelines of petit bourgeoisdom i am forced to become 8.75% more marxist](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x2ssvkga34xug334b66hvrje/bafkreigp2f33rtfu62kqjygnsxhg3jxxs6udwuyisipmyqrh5ew4c6kbyi@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
We’re not small business owners, ffs - we’re independent contractors, and we are routinely robbed by the world’s dumbest dingbats.
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Between the insurance companies and hospital administrators, there is little room for health practitioners and patients.
November 17, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Between the insurance companies and hospital administrators, there is little room for health practitioners and patients.
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NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends.
It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
November 14, 2025 at 12:20 PM
NEW: We’ve uncovered the first known example of taxpayer money flowing from DHS to businesses controlled by Kristi Noem’s allies and friends.
It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
It’s part of a money trail that’s been shrouded in secrecy—and involves $220 million, a mysterious Delaware LLC & a horse named Gill.
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Never forget the same people defending pedophilia have spent years trying to convince the public that drag queens and trans people are a threat to children.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
November 14, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Never forget the same people defending pedophilia have spent years trying to convince the public that drag queens and trans people are a threat to children.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.
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Megyn: The law recognizes no difference between raping an 8-year-old and raping a 15-year-old. Both victims are underage and therefore unable to provide consent. And you are an awful person for using that distinction to explain away the rape of underage girls. You wouldn't do that for Bill Clinton.
November 13, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Megyn: The law recognizes no difference between raping an 8-year-old and raping a 15-year-old. Both victims are underage and therefore unable to provide consent. And you are an awful person for using that distinction to explain away the rape of underage girls. You wouldn't do that for Bill Clinton.
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
HEAD'S UP FELLOW #CREATIVES!
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
If you haven't heard, #Grammarly is changing...and one change that doesn't pass the smell test is the incorporation of the ocean-boiling plagiarism machine that is #AI. 😒
I'm ditching Grammarly TONIGHT. #Writing #Writers #NoAI
www.grammarly.com/blog/company...
Grammarly Rebrands Company as Superhuman, Introduces Superhuman Suite and Superhuman Go
Superhuman Platform delivers proactive, context-aware AI agents that work in the flow of work, wherever people work Grammarly today announced it is changing its company…
www.grammarly.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.
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Sergey Brin is even more MAGA than Bezos or Zuckerberg
YouTube publicly decries Biden pressuring it to censor, then quietly does this at Trump's behest: theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
theintercept.com
November 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Sergey Brin is even more MAGA than Bezos or Zuckerberg
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heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.
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"All of these candidates who won last night didn’t shy away from talking about gender equality and LGBTQ rights. They didn’t buy the theory that doing so would alienate young men. And they were right. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr. Carville."
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/what-young...
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/what-young...
What Young Men Problem?
Democrats won clear majorities of this constituency.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 PM
"All of these candidates who won last night didn’t shy away from talking about gender equality and LGBTQ rights. They didn’t buy the theory that doing so would alienate young men. And they were right. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, Mr. Carville."
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/what-young...
charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/what-young...
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I’m gonna suspect that media willl still not be able to find a trend in a 99.8% pattern.
Universal swing in action: "What we saw last night was a directional shift toward Democrats in 99.8% of counties that held partisan elections." www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...
November 5, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I’m gonna suspect that media willl still not be able to find a trend in a 99.8% pattern.
In what grocery store is an ID required to buy food?
Trump: "It's time for Republicans to do what they have to do and that's terminate the filibuster ... we should start tonight with 'the country's open, congratulations,' then we should pass voted ID, we should pass no mail in voting ... you go to a grocery store, you have to give ID."
November 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
In what grocery store is an ID required to buy food?
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Republican bloodbath.
Looks like the Dems will pick up 12 seats in the VA House of Delegates, which will go from 51-49 to 63-37 D-R. That's an honestly shocking result.
November 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Republican bloodbath.
Gross.
NEWS: Mike Bloomberg is back off the sidelines, suggesting he may see some movement in the NYC mayor's race. He just gave $1.5 million to Fix the City, the pro-Cuomo, anti-Mamdani super PAC. W/ Nick Fandos www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/n...
Bloomberg Gives $1.5 Million to Pro-Cuomo Super PAC
www.nytimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Gross.
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Watching a third of the country beclown and degrade themselves in cultish devotion to this stumbling turnip makes me want to puke.
Trump's brain is now incoherently flitting from topic to topic as the UN sits listening him to complete silence
September 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Watching a third of the country beclown and degrade themselves in cultish devotion to this stumbling turnip makes me want to puke.
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As a PSU grad, the wind down of WPSU infuriates me, but also makes me sad. Before it was NPR, the station was student run and called WDFM. My sister worked as a DJ so I knew many of the students involved there.
Anyway, what’s a huge college town going to do without an NPR station? Seems crazy.
Anyway, what’s a huge college town going to do without an NPR station? Seems crazy.
This is the first NPR/PBS station I've seen that's going out of business as a result of the federal rescission:
radio.wpsu.org/2025-09-11/p...
radio.wpsu.org/2025-09-11/p...
Penn State plans to 'wind down' WPSU after board committee rejects plan to transfer it to WHYY
WPSU, which recently celebrated its 60th anniversary of bringing public media to Pennsylvania, is slated to close soon, after a Penn State board of trustees committee voted Thursday against a proposal...
radio.wpsu.org
September 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
As a PSU grad, the wind down of WPSU infuriates me, but also makes me sad. Before it was NPR, the station was student run and called WDFM. My sister worked as a DJ so I knew many of the students involved there.
Anyway, what’s a huge college town going to do without an NPR station? Seems crazy.
Anyway, what’s a huge college town going to do without an NPR station? Seems crazy.
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It’s funny, we never get those anguished “but how will I explain this to my child?” posts when it’s armed goons violently snatching people off the street.
They save that for the real horrors, like someone having two dads.
They save that for the real horrors, like someone having two dads.
August 25, 2025 at 12:08 PM
It’s funny, we never get those anguished “but how will I explain this to my child?” posts when it’s armed goons violently snatching people off the street.
They save that for the real horrors, like someone having two dads.
They save that for the real horrors, like someone having two dads.
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from today’s post, on our narcoleptic fart-factory president sleep-gassing his way through another public event —
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/4ogqkoV
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/4ogqkoV
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
July 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
from today’s post, on our narcoleptic fart-factory president sleep-gassing his way through another public event —
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/4ogqkoV
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/4ogqkoV
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
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"what will we do when video game characters gain sentience?!??!!??" you don't need to fucking worry about it dude. maybe you should worry about a hurricane destroying the place where you live. but not this.
July 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"what will we do when video game characters gain sentience?!??!!??" you don't need to fucking worry about it dude. maybe you should worry about a hurricane destroying the place where you live. but not this.
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