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60 Minutes journalist Sharyn Alfonsi sharply summarizes the appalling decision of Bari Weiss not to run her CECOT 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.”
December 22, 2025 at 2:46 PM
60 Minutes journalist Sharyn Alfonsi sharply summarizes the appalling decision of Bari Weiss not to run her CECOT 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.”
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If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism.
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
CBS Pulled a “60 Minutes” Story Because the White House Refused to Comment — That’s a Veto on Journalism
Pulling a finished investigation because the administration refused to comment isn’t journalism. It’s submission.
open.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
If refusing to comment is enough to kill a story, then the government now has veto power over journalism.
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
That’s what CBS normalized last night — and it should scare everyone.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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I rediscovered this post I wrote in May, about how Trump has shifted the money the US used to spend on curing cancer into snatching your neighbors.
I think I'll keep harping on this point.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/09/s...
I think I'll keep harping on this point.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/09/s...
Stephen Miller's War on Cancer Cures - emptywheel
Stephen Miller is cutting your access to health care and cancer cures to pay to deport your nurse assistant and cancer researchers (and, given the unnecessary bump in DOD spending, to invade Canada to...
www.emptywheel.net
December 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I rediscovered this post I wrote in May, about how Trump has shifted the money the US used to spend on curing cancer into snatching your neighbors.
I think I'll keep harping on this point.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/09/s...
I think I'll keep harping on this point.
www.emptywheel.net/2025/05/09/s...
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The brutal yuletide assaults haven’t come from Atheists, Agnostics, Muslims, the Liberal Media, Progressive Christians, or the mythical Woke Mob.
The very white Conservatives who’ve been loudly sounding the alarm are the incessantly advancing hordes.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-war-on...
The very white Conservatives who’ve been loudly sounding the alarm are the incessantly advancing hordes.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-war-on...
The War on Christmas is Finally Here, America. Conservative Christians are Waging it.
Well, it turns out, the Evangelicals were right.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The brutal yuletide assaults haven’t come from Atheists, Agnostics, Muslims, the Liberal Media, Progressive Christians, or the mythical Woke Mob.
The very white Conservatives who’ve been loudly sounding the alarm are the incessantly advancing hordes.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-war-on...
The very white Conservatives who’ve been loudly sounding the alarm are the incessantly advancing hordes.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-war-on...
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Kristi Noem Mocked for Thanking Trump for Keeping Hurricanes Away: ‘Not a Cabinet, It’s a Cult’ Mediaite
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Kristi Noem Mocked for Thanking Trump for Keeping Hurricanes Away: ‘Not a Cabinet, It’s a Cult’
twp.ai
December 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Kristi Noem Mocked for Thanking Trump for Keeping Hurricanes Away: ‘Not a Cabinet, It’s a Cult’ Mediaite
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I used to think Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly's blunt, dry style wouldn't play well with an entertainment-addled American public. Now it seems like his fearless bluntness is the perfect antidote to push back against the overcooked rhetoric of Trump and Hegseth. They picked the wrong guy to attack.
December 2, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I used to think Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly's blunt, dry style wouldn't play well with an entertainment-addled American public. Now it seems like his fearless bluntness is the perfect antidote to push back against the overcooked rhetoric of Trump and Hegseth. They picked the wrong guy to attack.
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It's been almost two weeks and they still haven't released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."
December 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
It's been almost two weeks and they still haven't released the Epstein files because withholding exculpatory evidence is clearly what you do when you're "innocent."
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Women are the strength that weak men fear.
open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...
open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...
Women Are the Threat Authoritarians Fear Most
They try to shut us up because women lead the movements that bring regimes down.
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Women are the strength that weak men fear.
open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...
open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...
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Trump never proposed a peace plan for Ukraine. Stop calling it that. It's a Russian dinner menu written in Moscow. On the menu is Ukrainian sovereignty, world peace, and American democracy.
November 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Trump never proposed a peace plan for Ukraine. Stop calling it that. It's a Russian dinner menu written in Moscow. On the menu is Ukrainian sovereignty, world peace, and American democracy.
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I’m sure I’m gonna get dragged for this, but I think AI is bad. AI has completely ruined Google search and it’s created a lot more slop that needs to be avoided on the Internet.
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I’m sure I’m gonna get dragged for this, but I think AI is bad. AI has completely ruined Google search and it’s created a lot more slop that needs to be avoided on the Internet.
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Right on!
Alabama finally has someone ready to fight for the Alabama instead of letting Tuberville, a non-resident drifter, run his mouth from Florida.
Doug is stepping in with actual roots, actual plans, and an actual stake in the future of the state.
#DougForAlabama
Alabama finally has someone ready to fight for the Alabama instead of letting Tuberville, a non-resident drifter, run his mouth from Florida.
Doug is stepping in with actual roots, actual plans, and an actual stake in the future of the state.
#DougForAlabama
So I’ve made it official folks: I’ve filed the paperwork to run for Governor of Alabama. It’s time to remind this state of who we are and what we can accomplish together.
#DougForAlabama
#DougForAlabama
November 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Right on!
Alabama finally has someone ready to fight for the Alabama instead of letting Tuberville, a non-resident drifter, run his mouth from Florida.
Doug is stepping in with actual roots, actual plans, and an actual stake in the future of the state.
#DougForAlabama
Alabama finally has someone ready to fight for the Alabama instead of letting Tuberville, a non-resident drifter, run his mouth from Florida.
Doug is stepping in with actual roots, actual plans, and an actual stake in the future of the state.
#DougForAlabama
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DOGE shuts down having not found trillions of dollars of waste or saved any money.
They compromised the security of government systems, fired federal workers and oversaw the dismantling of USAID which has killed 600,000.
By 2030 approx 14 million people will have died.
That’s their legacy
They compromised the security of government systems, fired federal workers and oversaw the dismantling of USAID which has killed 600,000.
By 2030 approx 14 million people will have died.
That’s their legacy
November 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
DOGE shuts down having not found trillions of dollars of waste or saved any money.
They compromised the security of government systems, fired federal workers and oversaw the dismantling of USAID which has killed 600,000.
By 2030 approx 14 million people will have died.
That’s their legacy
They compromised the security of government systems, fired federal workers and oversaw the dismantling of USAID which has killed 600,000.
By 2030 approx 14 million people will have died.
That’s their legacy
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Calls for Pam Bondi to be fired grow as James Comey case collapses
"Bondi has twice submitted affirmations to this court about the propriety of Lindsay Halligan’s grand jury presentation. She lied, or she’s equally incompetent, but more likely she lied."
www.irishstar.com/news/politic...
"Bondi has twice submitted affirmations to this court about the propriety of Lindsay Halligan’s grand jury presentation. She lied, or she’s equally incompetent, but more likely she lied."
www.irishstar.com/news/politic...
Ex-Trump lawyer calls for Pam Bondi to be fired as James Comey case collapses
Ty Cobb, who was part of Donald Trump's legal team during his first administration, called out the DOJ after it admitted that it failed to submit the indictment of Comey to the full grand jury
www.irishstar.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Calls for Pam Bondi to be fired grow as James Comey case collapses
"Bondi has twice submitted affirmations to this court about the propriety of Lindsay Halligan’s grand jury presentation. She lied, or she’s equally incompetent, but more likely she lied."
www.irishstar.com/news/politic...
"Bondi has twice submitted affirmations to this court about the propriety of Lindsay Halligan’s grand jury presentation. She lied, or she’s equally incompetent, but more likely she lied."
www.irishstar.com/news/politic...
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Y’all remember how Doge found so much fraud that not one single person was charged with fraud?
November 24, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Y’all remember how Doge found so much fraud that not one single person was charged with fraud?
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I still can’t figure out why the taxpayers of this country have to pay for FBI security details for the girlfriend of the Director.
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I still can’t figure out why the taxpayers of this country have to pay for FBI security details for the girlfriend of the Director.
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ICEstapo detained 81 people in Charlotte, NC yesterday.
The internet is littered with videos of them using excessive force and ignoring legal documentation provided by the detainees.
Here’s my advice for ICEstapo:
Take a night off.
Go to the movies.
Watch “Nuremberg”.
Your time is coming.
The internet is littered with videos of them using excessive force and ignoring legal documentation provided by the detainees.
Here’s my advice for ICEstapo:
Take a night off.
Go to the movies.
Watch “Nuremberg”.
Your time is coming.
November 17, 2025 at 3:21 PM
ICEstapo detained 81 people in Charlotte, NC yesterday.
The internet is littered with videos of them using excessive force and ignoring legal documentation provided by the detainees.
Here’s my advice for ICEstapo:
Take a night off.
Go to the movies.
Watch “Nuremberg”.
Your time is coming.
The internet is littered with videos of them using excessive force and ignoring legal documentation provided by the detainees.
Here’s my advice for ICEstapo:
Take a night off.
Go to the movies.
Watch “Nuremberg”.
Your time is coming.
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BREAKING: Magistrate orders DOJ to turn over grand jury materials to Comey, finding real prospect that "government misconduct" may have tainted the case.
November 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
BREAKING: Magistrate orders DOJ to turn over grand jury materials to Comey, finding real prospect that "government misconduct" may have tainted the case.
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Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
November 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.
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Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
October 29, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Cost to fund SNAP and keep 42 million people from starving:
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
$100 billion
Cost of lost revenue due to tax cuts for the richest Americans in the top 1%:
$100 billion
One is decried as "welfare." One is not.
Why?
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Republicans are literally letting Trump get away with murder in Venezuela
thehill.com
Republicans are literally letting Trump get away with murder in Venezuela
twp.ai
October 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Republicans are literally letting Trump get away with murder in Venezuela
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Jobs vanishing, SNAP running out, prices climbing, people going hungry, and billionaires building ballrooms. THAT is the “Trump Effect”
October 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Jobs vanishing, SNAP running out, prices climbing, people going hungry, and billionaires building ballrooms. THAT is the “Trump Effect”
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He orders extrajudicial killings. He sent troops into our cities. He terrorizes citizens with ICE raids. He raised taxes without congressional approval. He has ruined American farmers and ranchers. He plans to starve the vulnerable. He demolished our house.
Remove him from office.
Remove him from office.
October 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
He orders extrajudicial killings. He sent troops into our cities. He terrorizes citizens with ICE raids. He raised taxes without congressional approval. He has ruined American farmers and ranchers. He plans to starve the vulnerable. He demolished our house.
Remove him from office.
Remove him from office.
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Posted this last night: Another MAGA Nazi Enters The Chat
For all that MAGA screeches, “How DARE you call us Nazis?!?” they sure seem to have a lot of…what’s the word?
Oh, yes…Nazis.
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
For all that MAGA screeches, “How DARE you call us Nazis?!?” they sure seem to have a lot of…what’s the word?
Oh, yes…Nazis.
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
Another MAGA Nazi Enters The Chat
The Senate GOP Must Kill Paul Ingrassia's Nomination
open.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Posted this last night: Another MAGA Nazi Enters The Chat
For all that MAGA screeches, “How DARE you call us Nazis?!?” they sure seem to have a lot of…what’s the word?
Oh, yes…Nazis.
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
For all that MAGA screeches, “How DARE you call us Nazis?!?” they sure seem to have a lot of…what’s the word?
Oh, yes…Nazis.
open.substack.com/pub/therickw...
Next time somebody says are you part of antifa? Tell them if you mean anti-fascism, hell yes I am!
October 17, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Next time somebody says are you part of antifa? Tell them if you mean anti-fascism, hell yes I am!
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The Republicans attacks on the No Kings protests are sickening.
To them, only pro-Trump speech is protected. If you oppose Trump - you "hate America" or you're a "terrorist".
What they're trying to do is simple: suppress turnout this weekend. Don't let them win.
To them, only pro-Trump speech is protected. If you oppose Trump - you "hate America" or you're a "terrorist".
What they're trying to do is simple: suppress turnout this weekend. Don't let them win.
October 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The Republicans attacks on the No Kings protests are sickening.
To them, only pro-Trump speech is protected. If you oppose Trump - you "hate America" or you're a "terrorist".
What they're trying to do is simple: suppress turnout this weekend. Don't let them win.
To them, only pro-Trump speech is protected. If you oppose Trump - you "hate America" or you're a "terrorist".
What they're trying to do is simple: suppress turnout this weekend. Don't let them win.